"Hurry up! I can't find my way back!" The spirit boat was released, and Ma Yue patted the spirit horse's butt. This guy's shoulder height was almost three meters, much taller than Ma Yue.
"Tsk!" The spirit horse seemed quite interested in the large spirit boat. It approached and felt around. Nothing. Ma Yue found the hole where the spirit stone was inserted. It was usually near the control lever and was easy to find.
The spirit stones Ma Yue took out were… mid-grade fire spirit stones. It was a bit of a waste. Okay, I'll stuff them all in.
"Whoosh!" Wangcai was steering the wheel. Okay, you're all spirit beasts with good memories, so you're better than a road blind like me.
This speed is more than three times faster than the previous water-type spirit boat. This spirit boat is obviously of a very high grade. Not bad. Driving a spirit boat like this to patrol the branch in the future will save a lot of time.
After consuming less than ten mid-grade Fire Spirit Stones, I returned to Haifan City. Not bad, the consumption wasn't too great. I don't go out to sea very often, do I? Ma Yue is lazy to begin with, so it's unrealistic to expect him to go out to sea often.
Ma Yue had landed, and the spirit horse seemed still excited, rushing into the sea again. Wangcai was still on the horse's back. Okay, a demon beast, it can't stay in its nest all the time, so go out and play.
They are all martial artist-level monsters, so they won’t have too many natural enemies.
On the beach, many people were drooling at the sight of the spirit horse. The problem was that the huge spirit horse was running so fast on the sea that you wouldn't have a chance even if you wanted to catch it, right?
"What should we do?" Two people in the trade zone were confused. Not only was the spirit horse much bigger, but its speed was also several times faster. How could they catch it?
"What's the point of catching it? The spirit horse has obviously advanced to a mid-grade spirit horse. We can't defeat it." Another cultivator said unhappily.
"Can the Lord God come by himself?" The speaker was Qiu Min, the Phoenix Mountain envoy who was scared away by the archers from Haifan City last time.
"Stop it! If the Divine Master has to do everything, what do we, his subordinates, need?" Huo Hai, another Divine Cultivator from Phoenix Mountain, had a good relationship with Qiu Min and was Qiu Min's hired help. He hoped to capture these rare spirit horses and present them to the Divine Master, a great achievement.
"If we don't find the Lord God, I'm afraid we two really can't do it. Middle-grade spirit beasts are very powerful. But I heard that the fighting ability of that spirit horse is also quite strong." Is it very powerful? Qiu Min has never seen it, but generally speaking, monsters of the same level are stronger than human cultivators.
"Then... let's go borrow a 'Dragon Binding Rope', then we'll have a better chance of success." Huo Hai said.
"Okay, I have a good relationship with Senior Brother Wang."
"Then you go borrow the 'Dragon Binding Rope'. I'll track down the spirit horse and we'll meet up here."
Track? How could a spirit horse be tracked when it ran so fast? A spirit horse wasn't a ship, undeterred by wind or rain. Its general route was a straight line. All he needed to do was roughly know the direction the spirit horse ran.
Huo Hai found a secluded corner, released the spirit boat, and rushed into the sea.
Someone was plotting against the spirit horse, but Ma Yue didn't know it. They were all at the martial arts master level, so how could it be so easy to detect?
Although the trade zone is crowded, the main road from Haifan City to the beach must be unobstructed. On both sides of the main road are the trade zones with several rows of timber houses. It can be considered well-planned.
Just don't delay the normal operation of Haifan City.
The north side of the main road was the business district, while the south was the labor district. The Sea Tribe employed a large number of laborers from the tribes to the south. Of course, these tribes also had their own boats and fished, so they couldn't survive solely by laboring for the Sea Tribe.
When the sea tribe needs to transport limestone or coal, they sometimes hire sea vessels from these labor areas. In short, as long as everyone thinks the price is right, the deal is done.
Not only did the Sea Tribe employ people from this labor zone, but hundreds of other tribes that came to trade often hired people from the labor zone as well. This new labor relationship, hiring, was gradually gaining popularity in the trade zone of Haifan City. Often, hiring was cheaper than working or going out to sea, so why wouldn't they want to?
The Dragon Scale Tribe had struck a significant bargain. Their sailing vessels were incredibly advanced, at least more advanced than those in Ghost Town and the Ghost Mountain Peninsula. The White Ghost Tribe of the Ghost Mountain Peninsula was willing to trade them for horses. With hundreds of horses traded, the Dragon Scale Tribe was thrilled to have secured such a large livestock herd.
As for the sailing ships, if they were gone, they could just build more. With these hundreds of horses, the Dragon Scale Tribe could cultivate a lot of farmland and harvest a lot of food.
Currently, only the tribes of Donghai Island and the Hai Tribe possess sailing technology; those in Ghost City and the Guishan Peninsula area don't yet have it. The Qinghai Tribe of Wuji Island paid a huge price to acquire forty captive sailors from Donghai Island, wasn't it simply for sailing technology? Once they mastered sailing technology, wouldn't they no longer be restricted by ocean currents?
When Baipi first arrived at the Sea Tribe, the sails on the ships were barely decorative, and the ships were only a dozen meters long.
Nowadays, the sailing ships of the Sea Tribe and the East Sea Island are roughly 30 to 40 meters long, which greatly increases the capacity of sea transportation. In this regard, the Ghost City and Ghost Mountain Peninsula areas are far behind.
So, no tribe has everything; you'll always have your needs. There are many trades like the Dragon Scale Tribe, which has its weaknesses, such as a lack of large livestock. Similarly, with its advanced seafaring vessels, it can also trade in large quantities.
While the Hai tribe's demand for dried salted fish wasn't high, there were many tribes in the trade zone. If you bought some, I'd buy some, and that meant there was plenty. In fact, as long as there was salt, there was no shortage of food. Of course, the Donghai Island tribes' salt production was limited, so naturally, the supply of dried salted fish was even more limited.
The Sea Tribe's major needs weren't many, but their spiritual needs were considerable. Onions, garlic, salted radish, even pottery and some bronzeware produced by the Sea Tribe were exchanged in the trade zone. Given the size of the Sea Tribe, there were many things it lacked. Bone needles, stone axes, bone shovels, food, and even rope were all in short supply.
The Third Priest thought twenty thousand men were barely enough. If things got really busy, there wouldn't even be enough people to weave ropes. That thing looks simple, but it's time-consuming. If it runs out, just exchange it. We can't afford to leave this urgent need unsolved. Rope, while seemingly inexpensive, is in high demand for everyday work.
The labor and trade zones here are thriving, adjacent to the wealthy Sea Tribe, where demand is high. As long as you're willing to work, you'll always have something to eat. A refined division of labor is gradually taking shape in Haifan City's trade zone.
Once everyone forms the habit of trading in Haifan City's trade zone, your place will truly become a commercial center.
Why hasn't Ma Yue been collecting taxes in the East City Commercial District yet? There's no need for that at the moment. The commercial district is right here in Haifan City, which, to a certain extent, saves Haifan City's transportation capacity. In other words, Haifan City doesn't have to travel far to trade anything anymore; it can be done right here at home, which is certainly much more convenient.
The most important thing is that the transaction price is similar.
In the past, if the sea tribe wanted to trade anything, they had to go out to the ghost town. Wasn't that troublesome? With so many ships and sailors, the wasted time and energy was a huge loss.
Whether it is cost-effective or not is not as simple as it seems.
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