I draw a card first

Chapter 54 Twilight Chamber of Commerce
Of course, in addition to dealing with the relationship with the two temples, Aiwen also took a day off to visit Deep Water City this month.

Take a look, the small chamber of commerce that belongs to its own industry.

After all, this is their own channel, not only the current magic equipment, but also many new products of Xiongshiling in the future may go through this trading network.

Ai Wen was a little worried if he didn't find out for himself.

Still sneaking around alone, and riding the little Pegasus pony, which had grown another half a meter, Aiwen soon came to Deep Water City for the third time.

He wandered around for a long time at the corner of the commercial area in the west of the city, and finally found this chamber of commerce called Twilight House.

Although the location here is not very conspicuous, it is already at the edge of the central area, but in terms of the area, the chamber of commerce is really not small at all, almost catching up to two-thirds of the Protoss chamber of commerce!
This is simply taking advantage of coming early.

When Deepwater City was newly established, the land was cheap, but now, just selling this piece of land would cost a lot of money!

"It seems that no matter which world you are in, real estate is very interesting."

Aiwen complained silently in his heart, and then walked into the black stone-based building in a low-key manner surrounded by a group of well-dressed beautiful girls.

Because of the greeting in advance, it is obvious that the preparations here have been made early.

Entering the spacious hall from the gate, a total of 120 three people including those beautiful girls who were welcoming guests, have appeared neatly in front of Aiwen at this moment.

When the gate was closed, everyone in the hall without outsiders knelt neatly on the ground, and greeted the arrival of their "king" with a look of fear.

In various senses, they are all slaves in Aiwen's hands, an "item" that can control life and death at any time.

Because they carry the contract with the Canyon of the Dead from their blood.

Ai Wen, who sensed the vague connection between himself and these people, and could even vaguely perceive their inner thoughts, chuckled.

He took the seat of honor unceremoniously, and then glanced at these servants who belonged to him.

Among the managers of these chambers of commerce, it can be said that there are all races except the undead.

Humans, half-elves, dwarves, etc., basically the common races are all included.

They are the descendants of those who have been captured by the old lich through various channels for hundreds of years, and based on the special effects of the undead shackles in the canyon of the dead, they have been extended to produce mandatory blood contracts.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the dozen or so people controlled by the old lich have continued to multiply, and now they have turned into many small families, large and small.

Under the control of the contract, these families have served the Chamber of Commerce and the Canyon of the Dead behind it for generations.

Of course, because the lich doesn't really care about them, most of the time these people are still very free and have a good time.

Many of these small families are doing well. With the help of the materials and resources supported by the canyon, they even obtained some low-level empty titles and became one of the nobles.

Of course, these more than 100 people can't be all the people in these families. They can only be regarded as "experience" drawn out by each family according to the custom, or simply young people who have been discharged to show loyalty in a certain sense.

It is usually led by several experienced seniors.

At the same time, there are a large number of members scattered all over the place, running shops and some mobile caravans.

Because of the special background behind him, the entire Twilight House Chamber of Commerce has no people outside the contract family at all.

After all, once the secret is leaked, no one can escape the end of being besieged and purified by the Temple of Justice.

Even taking the initiative to inform and surrender, there is no way to escape death.

Because according to the teachings of the gods, they were born with an unforgivable evil original sin in their blood.
Well, it's that hard.

So for someone, in general, it's a group of people who can be completely assured of reliability.

It is this kind of complicated birth environment that makes these slaves who have been instilled with history in their heads since childhood have very complicated feelings about the new "slave master" Aiwen who suddenly appeared and controls their life and death.

Awe, confusion, but mostly fear in general.

After all, the undead is really not something that can make people feel good.

And this is not entirely wronging the undead.

Because every undead, disregard and even hostility towards life is almost engraved in instinct.

This has led to the fact that every family is terrified whenever someone (undead) comes to the Canyon of the Dead, and basically people will die every time.

Fortunately, because of the slow time concept of the undead, the frequency of sending people from the canyon is not high.

In the decades of life of many human beings, it is estimated that they can meet at most once in a lifetime, or everyone will collapse and go crazy!

It is precisely because of these circumstances that after these people knelt down in front of Ivan, none of them dared to raise their heads, and they generally shook like a sieve.

It wasn't until Aiwen ordered that they all stood cautiously on both sides, not daring to look at him.

A certain undead king surnamed Ai even saw a few little girls who should be from the elves, with cute little faces full of fear, just like little white rabbits who have encountered the big bad wolf.

I was so scared that tears almost came down
"Are you afraid that I, the king of the undead, will bite her?"

Ai Wen made complaints in his heart, and was not interested in scaring these people much. Next, he listened to the report of the old man who was the general manager, and got a general understanding of the current situation of the chamber of commerce.

Since it is a chamber of commerce, it naturally has two main aspects: caravans and shops.

There are currently seven caravans sent by the chamber of commerce for long-distance trade.

The main activity area is in the western part of the kingdom and the range of the royal city.

But the farthest area involved is actually beyond the kingdom, and the border cities of neighboring countries are also barely connected.

It's just that because of the time, the foundation is still shallow, and these few trade lines are not enough to provide too many benefits.

In this regard, Aiwen asked them to increase their inclination towards the outside world, and strive to cover all five human countries.

In terms of shops, although the Twilight House, which has existed for a long time, is only limited to the layout of the kingdom, its coverage has covered all major cities in the kingdom.

Among them, there are [-] magic shops mainly engaged in magic equipment, props, materials and other related industries;

25 antique shops operating regular antique business;

Seven tailor shops dealing in cloth and ready-made garments;

As well as a store that specializes in collecting all kinds of jewelry and other women's products, and a store that specializes in managing and collecting all kinds of dragon-like Warcraft companion toys...

Alvin: Huh?Wait, are the last two not quite right?

Think about the other two unreliable banshees and dragons among the Big Three, and then think about the things these two people often go to extort the caravans of the Temple of Fortune...

Someone suddenly seemed to understand something.
Of course, because a large number of high-quality mid-to-low-end magic equipment has been produced in the canyon recently, the main business of the chamber of commerce is now tilting towards the end of the magic equipment.

It has even begun to engage in behaviors similar to wholesale.

Many chambers of commerce in Deepwater City and in more urgent areas have given up their original limited procurement channels and started to purchase goods from Twilight House in bulk.

It's just that Twilight House is also worried that selling too much at one go will affect the market price, and it is also easy to attract the attention of too many forces, so the current overall release volume is not very large.

It can only be said that it is in a preliminary development stage.

After getting a general understanding of the situation, Aiwen then ignored the accounts that were moved out like a hill.

Under the frightened eyes of all the servants, while meditating, he knocked on the table at hand, as if knocking on their hearts.

Soon these responsible persons felt it was difficult to breathe, rolling their eyes like a fish about to suffocate
That's right, Aiwen was just scaring them and beating them by the way to let them know what fear is.

After all, he didn't come to check the accounts today, and he couldn't understand these things, which were more than the territorial documents, or he would have brought others here.

And he knew better in his heart that it was actually useless to look at the accounts. With such a large-scale chamber of commerce that had been in operation for hundreds of years, it would be a joke that the undead would not believe it if there was no question!
As for commercial behavior, some small actions and the like are definitely unavoidable.

However, with the blood bound, and the old lich staring and beating from time to time, Ivan believes that there should be no big gaps.

As for petty corruption, it should be regarded as a reward for these poor people who are doomed to a miserable fate by birth.

Anyway, everyone belongs to the canyon from birth to death, so what is yours and mine?

In the end, isn't it all his undead king-Ivan's?

Yes, it is like that.

The big deal is that it's too much to cross the line, so let him go to the canyon to report in advance. Bring your soul and body together!
Aiwen's purpose this time, the first is to learn about the situation of the Chamber of Commerce, and at the same time, he also wants to see the situation of these families.

After all, the identity of the undead is more sensitive and inconvenient.

Therefore, he plans to select a group of suitable personnel among these people to train and become his own spies, and even build a complete intelligence network in the future.

Jin Yiwei, spies, etc. are still very useful after all.

Although it may be unacceptable in the local area, and it cannot resist bugs such as prophecy spells, but it must be there anyway.

Otherwise, Ai Wen always felt like he was short of something...

(End of this chapter)