The Kovo Mutual Market is one of the larger mutual markets among the many mutual markets opened on the far eastern border of the Holy Hiran Empire.

As a third-class quartermaster, El's task today is to patrol and monitor the Kovo Mutual Market to check whether any businessmen from their country are smuggling strategic materials in the mutual market.

As a third-class general, the lowest rank among generals, Gabriel's mission today is to serve as El's bodyguard and help El in arresting the smugglers.

In the past, when quartermasters patrolled and monitored trade, there were no generals as escorts.

Since several vicious incidents occurred in which quartermasters were injured or even killed by smugglers trying to escape when smugglers were discovered and arrested, the quartermasters who were monitoring and patrolling the exchanges were equipped with weapons with strong combat skills.

The general is responsible for protecting the quartermaster and helping the quartermaster arrest smugglers.

This time, Kamil, who is white and does not hold any official position, does not need to come to the Kovo Exchange Market.

But Camille has always been interested in the exchange market, a market filled with exotic goods, so Camille followed Gabriel and El to come to monitor the Kovo Exchange Market.

After entering the Kovo Exchange Market, a familiar and unpleasant fishy smell hit my face instantly.

"I regret tearing up that bastard Shubin's handkerchief just now..." Gabriel pinched his nose and complained to Camille and El in a low voice, "These stinky maggots living on the grassland.

It can be so smelly..."

"Shh..." Camille put a finger to her lips, "Just say less. If such rude words are heard by the prairie people, it will be troublesome..."

"It is indeed one of the largest exchanges." After entering the Kovo Exchange, El looked at the prosperous scene in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, the Kovo Mutual Market was crowded with people, and merchants from the prairie and the Holy Hiran Empire were walking around everywhere.

Everywhere merchants from the steppes and the Holy Shiran Empire were exchanging goods with each other.

It's not just the merchants of the Holy Hiran Empire who are exchanging goods with the merchants of the prairie.

The prairie people and the prairie people, as well as the Xilan people and the Xilan people, also exchanged each other's commodities.

A peaceful and harmonious scene.

Looking at the peaceful and harmonious scene around him, a faint smile slowly appeared on El's face, and then he sighed again:

"I really hope there won't be any more wars between us and the Huns, so that this peaceful scene can continue forever."

"impossible."

As soon as El finished speaking, Camille immediately retorted mercilessly.

"The prairie people live a nomadic life with extremely fragile productivity. This characteristic of the prairie people alone means that we cannot live in peace forever. As long as the prairie people encounter a slightly more serious disaster, they will face the desperate situation of starving to death. In order to

If they don't starve to death, they can only send troops to us and the Frank Empire."

"In other words, fighting is a necessary way for them to survive, so they have to fight with us."

"The relationship between us and the grassland people is destined to be a life-or-death relationship. Either we will annihilate the grassland people, or the grassland people will annihilate us."

After hearing Camille's ruthless words, El smiled bitterly and did not say anything to refute.

Because what Kamil just said was the truth, he had no room for refutation at all.

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El led Gabriel and Camille to patrol around the Covo Market.

To put it nicely, it’s just patrolling; to put it harshly, it’s just wandering around.

Because the Kovo Market is very large, it is impossible for only El to monitor and patrol such a large market.

Therefore, in the Kovo Exchange Market, there are many people like El who are low-level quartermasters wandering around in the exchange market.

At this moment, El met an acquaintance.

However, this acquaintance of El's was not his colleague.

Rather, he is a plain man businessman with an ordinary appearance.

"Good morning, Lord Ullihan." El greeted his old acquaintance warmly as he walked towards him.

When the grassland merchant whom El called Ulihan saw who was coming, he immediately smiled enthusiastically and responded in very fluent and standard Hiran:

"Oh! It turns out to be Lord Bernard, Lord Gueran and the beautiful Miss Yang are also here. You three are really inseparable."

Wulihan's Xilan language is quite fluent and standard. Judging from his voice alone, you might not be able to tell that he is a grassland person.

"The three of us are family after all." El responded with a somewhat proud tone.

And Gabriel, who always makes people look bad when he talks, said very dissatisfied: "Why do you add 'beautiful' when you call Camille... Why don't you add 'handsome' when you call me?"

What about..."

"Because Gabriel, you are not handsome at all. Sir Ullihan doesn't call you 'stupid Lord Galan', which is already a favor to you."

…

Just as Gabriel and Camille were exchanging insults in their daily life, El, who was smiling, was chatting with Ullihan, an old acquaintance whom he had reunited with after a long absence.

"How is it? Mr. Wulihan, are the goods selling well this time?"

"Hahaha! That's great! My goods are almost all gone!"

Ulihan is a very famous capable person in both the steppe and the Holy Hiran Empire.

The reason why he is praised as a capable person is because he is a smuggler who has never been caught.

Every time he came to trade, he would smuggle a large amount of strategic materials from the prairie to the Holy Hiran Empire. He was one of the oldest smugglers on the prairie. He had been smuggling, but had never been caught.

Although the Holy Hiran Empire severely cracks down on smugglers who smuggle strategic resources in its own country, the Holy Hiran Empire is still very welcoming to smugglers from other countries who can sell strategic resources.

By chance a few years ago, El and Ulihan, who were monitoring the exchange market at the time, met.

El has a good impression of Ullihan, a cheerful middle-aged uncle, and Ullihan also likes El, a young man with a gentle personality.

The two of them admired each other very much and gradually became familiar with each other.

Big businessmen like Wulihan will have their own stalls in the mutual market.

After looking at Ullihan's almost empty stall, El sighed to Ullihan:

"Your Excellency Wulihan, you are still so awesome, you can actually sell out so many products."

"Hahahaha, thank you for the compliment! But this time I just got lucky! Not every business can be so good!"

…

After a few casual chats with Wulihan, El apologized slightly and said goodbye to Wulihan: "Your Excellency Wulihan, I still have work to do, so I can't chat with you for too long, so I will take my leave first.

Yes. If I finish working later and you are free, how about having a cup of tea together?"

"Hahaha! I'm so happy!" Wulihan laughed heartily several times.

Just when El was about to turn around and leave, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a large group of things covered with black cloth in a corner of Ullihan's stall.

"Your Excellency Wulihan." El pouted towards the large group of things covered with black cloth, "What is this?"

"Oh, that's it."

Looking at this large group of things covered with black cloth, Wulihan let out a helpless sigh.

"Sir Bernard, this is the latest new weapon developed by Qingguo. My useless dog bought it from Qingguo, but this so-called new weapon is just a piece of broken copper that cannot even compare with a crossbow.

It’s just scrap iron. This time I brought this pile of scrap iron to the mutual market purely to try my luck and see if anyone is willing to buy this pile of scrap iron.”

"Qingguo's...new weapons?" El said hesitantly.
Chapter completed!