Chapter 1224: Profit from Both Ends
During this period, Zhou Xu had already ordered people to arrange the transit station in the northeast region, which was the trading station that had been previously discussed with Yalvet.
There's actually not much to arrange here. Basically, we just need to arrange a group of people to estimate the value and pay for the things sent over by the female warrior tribe.
As for subsequent purchases, the female warriors can simply take the train to Oil City, Grassland City, or even directly to Black Moon City for procurement.
Of course, they need to pay for the fare themselves.
At the same time, if they want to use steam locomotives to transport the goods they purchased to the border, they will definitely have to pay the freight. After all, in this case, they will have to occupy at least several carriages, which will affect their internal transportation work in the Great Zhou.
Zhou Xu had already discussed these matters with Yalvette.
If it were an ordinary force, they would definitely bring a small amount of supplies to test the waters for the first transaction, but their Great Zhou and the female warrior tribe have always gotten along well. After the trading station was established, the female warrior tribe also showed great generosity and came over with truckloads of supplies.
Yalvette knew that although Zhou Xu had told him that their trading station could accept all kinds of things, what Zhou Xu wanted was definitely not some worthless things, but various resources! This was the hard currency between the various forces here.
Their female warrior tribe had done many deals with various forces within the coalition in the early years, so they were very clear about this.
This time, they took out some copper ore and iron ore as hard currency right from the start, and then sold some less popular or even unknown ores together.
They didn't even know what some of the ores were used for, but who knows if Da Zhou would find them useful? They could just sell them, and there would be no loss for them.
From this it is not difficult to see that the female warriors still have some business acumen, and the inexperienced wood elves at that time could not compare with them.
At the trading station, there are experts transferred from the Mineral Research Institute who are specifically responsible for identifying the various ores sent by the female warriors.
But even so, when the staff received the ore sent by the female warriors, they still asked one question...
"What is the use of this ore?"
On the one hand, if the female warriors had the answer directly, it would save them a lot of research energy.
On the other hand, if the female warriors have no idea what the ore is used for, then they obviously cannot pay a high price to purchase a batch of ore that they don't even know what it can be used for.
As a result, the prices of these ores will be kept very low.
After all, this is essentially a transaction, and they, the Great Zhou, are not going to be sucked in.
The female warriors had undoubtedly already prepared themselves mentally, and they agreed very readily to Da Zhou's offer.
From their perspective, it would be best if these minerals, which they don’t know what they can be used for, can be sold, but it doesn’t matter if they can’t.
Since both parties were very happy, the transaction went very smoothly throughout the process without any wrangling.
The two parties exchanged money and goods, and the payment and goods were quickly settled.
After picking up the box full of gold and silver coins, the female warriors led by Campbell did not return directly to the city of Mistila. Instead, they took the money and prepared to carry out the first round of purchases.
As the captain of the first team of the Pegasus Knights, Campbell followed Alvet when she lived in the Great Zhou, and he had a relatively good understanding of the situation in the Great Zhou.
Now that they have established a trading cooperation, Campbell has transformed himself into the purchasing director of the female warrior tribe, fully responsible for leading the team in all matters related to purchasing.
Considering the distance, Campbell thought about it and decided to go to the market in Oil City first.
Compared with the Black Moon City which was the capital, the Oil City was indeed a little simple, but they had to admit that it was still better built than their Mistira City, and the market had basically all the goods they needed.
After Campbell and his team arrived, the entire procurement work was carried out in the form of a sweep.
Considering the entire ethnic group, that box of money was not enough and was soon squandered by them.
In the end, if they had to use steam trains to transport the goods, the little money they had left would not be enough to cover the shipping costs.
In the end, the trading station readily wrote them an IOU and borrowed money, so that all the things could be shipped away.
During this period, relevant reports surrounding the transaction with the female warrior tribe were delivered to Zhou Xu as quickly as possible.
As Zhou Xu was not a relevant practitioner, he had basically no research on minerals. He asked Zhang Xuemei to confirm and research those unknown minerals, and he just waited for the results.
In comparison, this wave also allowed them to make a lot of money from copper and iron resources, which made Zhou Xu in a very good mood.
Taking into account the transaction with Tonglu Fort, their Great Zhou can be said to have made money on both ends this year.
Although copper and iron resources are common, and there is no shortage of these resources within the Great Zhou, those who understand know that for important metals like these, more is always better.
At the same time, if they can obtain these metals in large quantities and stably through external transactions, then they can appropriately reduce the number of relevant mining workers in the mines within the Great Zhou, thereby transferring the freed-up labor force to positions that are more needed.
To sum it up in one sentence, make money from outside first if you can, and when the outside is gone, then start to tap into your own resource reserves. This is a very normal approach if you want long-term development.
As for the Great Zhou, although there have been many military operations in the past two years, thanks to the resources obtained from the transactions between Copperlube Fort and the Female Warrior Clan, the internal development has been going quite well.
"Bo Wen, the construction of the southern railway should be basically completed next year, right?"
"Yes, sire."
This is considered an important project within their Great Zhou, and Li Bowen from the Qinzheng Palace has been keeping a close eye on its progress.
Now that their Majesty asked, Li Bowen answered quickly.
"The engineering team estimates that, based on the current construction efficiency, if nothing unexpected happens, the first railway in the southern border will be completely completed by the early autumn of next year, or at the latest by the end of autumn. By then, you can get on the train from the factory train station in the southern border and go directly to the southern border."
After confirming the information, Zhou Xu nodded.
"Next autumn."
Zhou Xu pondered it for a moment.
"Well, you can ask the Railway Bureau to make some arrangements. The route from Green Forest City, through Anling City, to the New North District Plain Fortress can be slowly confirmed. When the time comes, make a plan and send it to me."
"yes!"
(End of this chapter)
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