Am, often called the "trade of merchants", is the youngest kingdom in the southern part of the Sword Coast. Most Ammen believe in Wokin, the "god of trade and wealth", and money is not valued and circulated in any other country as it is in Ammen.

Every merchant in the Feren continent is more or less connected with Am. Do they want to trade directly with Am? How many times a year do they want to pass Am?

Amm's geographical location also makes it unique on the mainland trade highway. It is located in the middle section of the entire mainland trade, connecting the north and south of Jianwan. The products produced by the two powerful countries Kalinshan and Taser need to be sold northward through this place, and the rich natural resources in the north also need to be transported to the southern Steam Lake Industrial Zone through Amm.

This gave Am the same status in trade as "Sambiya" and "Deep Water City". These three regions also launched a long and continuous competition around "who can become the trade center of the entire continent".

Amm's supreme leader was not the king, but a six-person council composed of six large merchant groups. Due to his background, the six-person council set extremely low commercial taxes for Amm, revoked most domestic checkpoints, and achieved trade freedom to a large extent. This is also the most fundamental reason why Amm was able to become the southern trade center of Jianwan.

However, due to the interests of their respective business groups, the six-person councils were unable to unite more often and were not very binding on other chambers of commerce and organizations in China, which caused a chaotic situation in Am's other government orders besides trade.

According to inaccurate statistics from the administrative agencies of the six-person council, Am now has a population of about three million, and most of them live in the two rivers between the Sword Coast and Lake Aesmo.

The vast majority of Amm's population is human, and the other small part is halfling. Dwarves and elves rarely appear publicly in Amm. The former lives in Amm's mountainous areas, while the latter lives in the poisonous snake forest.

In fact, most of Am's dwarves were gray dwarves. They were expelled from the Sannata dwarves in ancient times. Their status in the dwarves was the same as the dwarves of the elves. The elves in the Viper Forest were some scattered elves, with few people and no elves' court of their own. Even Millas did not intend to visit them officially.

Am’s social atmosphere is “money-powerful”, and the variety of expensive social parties is the habit of Am’s people to demonstrate their status and power. They will give potential customers generous gifts and give service providers a lot of tips with extremely arrogant attitude.

The capital Askatala is the center of all activities in Am. The city has a well-equipped Am Guard. In addition to an elite fleet that has been sailing in the Sea of ​​Swords for many years, they also have three small fleets stationed in the Aesmire River and Lake Wind, escorting merchant ships on the river.

The Ammen people have a relatively open concept of race and belief, and can tolerate other intelligent races and any religious beliefs. In fact, this is also the nature of merchants. For them, as long as the customer opposite has gold coins in his pocket, it has nothing to do with even the green face and fangs.

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"Philal, why haven't they come back yet?" Milleras paced around the tent with his hands behind his back, making Qin Lun dazzled.

"Millerlas, Stark and Captain Robin have only been there for two hours. If there is no suitable target, I guess I may not be able to come back tonight. You should sit down first!" Qin Lun rubbed his nose and said helplessly.

"Philal, can your idea succeed?" Milleras said with some concern.

"It's not my idea, it's a plan we discussed together!" Qin Lun stood up and lifted the curtain of the tent, watching the small camp on the lakeside.

The waterways in the Aismeer Lake area are densely packed, a bit like the Jiangnan water town in the Huaxia area of ​​the Earth. Looking far away from the camp, the rice on both sides of the road is like waves of golden wheat swaying in the warm spring breeze. At noon, smoke from cooking smoke slowly rose from the sky above the village in the distance.

There are endless streams of flat-bottomed merchant ships sailing on the boundless surface of Aesmire Lake. These merchant ships have wide cabins, but are not suitable for sailing on strong winds and waves, and only adapt to the calm inland rivers.

After the Viper Forest was blocked, everyone had to choose to go to Ascatra. However, due to the threat from the Santalin Society, they could not enter the Da Shangdu, which coexisted with chaos and opportunities. For this reason, everyone discussed a lot of solutions, and finally Qin Lun gave everyone an idea.

Most of their envoys are mercenaries, at least in their costumes, they are plot mercenaries. After this period of travel, not to mention the apostles, even the original elves such as Milleras and Ilistin have become accustomed to the mercenary life.

Qin Lun's idea was to pretend to be an ordinary mercenary group, and then accept the employment of certain caravans near Lake Aesmire, and enter Ascatra under the cover of local caravans.

The method is simple, but it is also very effective. As long as they do not reveal flaws, Santalin will not recognize them even if it notices this caravan. The best way to slim down in the city and dissolve in water is to turn itself into water.

Originally, Robin wanted to take a step closer and directly control a small caravan, but in the end he was rejected by everyone. With their force, it would be easy to control the caravan. The problem is that the caravan is different from the mercenary group. They have to deal with all kinds of people along the way. Any flaws may attract the suspicion of the Santalin Club, so it is best to let it go.

In this way, finding a suitable target as an employer is particularly important. The words of the Dazhuang Group are definitely not suitable. Not only do they have fixed guard mercenaries, but their intelligence sources are also complex. It is hard to say whether they will doubt the foreign mercenary group that takes the initiative to come to their door.

As for small caravans, it is not so easy to find. The sources of small merchants are not as wide as those of big merchants, but since they can gain a foothold in the chaotic place of Am, the ability to observe words and expressions will not be too weak. It will be at least one week to travel from here to Ascatra. It is hard to guarantee that the doubts will not be seen in this mercenary group with numerous elves and strong strength.

What Qin Lun and the others need is a small caravan with a small scale and a leader cannot be too smart. Seriously, this selection task is indeed not easy to do. Fortunately, Qin Lun doesn't have to take action by himself.

Stark, Robin and others may not be as good as him in terms of IQ, but they far surpass him in terms of adventure and experience. Some matters that make him feel a headache can be successfully solved by both of them, but he only needs to come up with ideas.

During this period, Qin Lun has benefited a lot from the apostles of the two major teams. Whether it is Stark, Robin, or the first-level apostles who are far less powerful than him, he often shows that it makes him feel the importance of a mature team more and more.

In fact, Robin and the others returned before night time and brought good news that they had found a suitable employer.

The Hulan Chamber of Commerce, a small chamber of commerce belonging to Taser, was just established a few years ago. With Robin and Stark back, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Sever Hulan, is a young gentleman with a fine dress and a beautiful beard.

He was originally a little nobleman of Taesel, but his family was in decline. He did not have the talent to practice martial arts and magic, so he had to learn business before going bankrupt, hoping to revive the family one day.

This time, Hu Lan sold all the property except the ancestral home, collected a batch of alchemy items of Taser's specialty, and planned to ship it to the Baldur Gate for sale. Like Qin Lun and the others, due to the blockade of the Viper Forest, they had to turn to Ascatra to go to Baldur Gate.

This small caravan was very consistent with Robin and Stark's requirements, and the final destination of the Baldur Gate also had a secret relationship with the envoys. However, when they came into contact with Sever Hulan, they were puzzled by the caravan's previous route.

You should know that the caravan is different from them. The Japanese elves envoys have enough force to deal with the thieves and monsters in the eastern border area of ​​Am, while the caravan of Sivo is different.

Through inquiry, they realized that out of his own experience, Sifu believed that there would be layers of exploitation by the Taser nobles in Am. In order to avoid the numerous tariffs, he rashly decided to go to the sparsely populated eastern border before leaving, rather than traveling along the Mesopotamian Basin to Ascatra like other caravans.

For this reason, the Hulan Chamber of Commerce, which was built, also hired a team of famous domestic mercenaries, but they walked all the way from Taesel to here. These mercenaries died and were injured. Although they avoided the false tariffs and the goods were not swallowed up by the thieves group along the way, the pension for the dead and injured mercenaries was also large, which made the little nobles who lacked experience regret it.

If the goods carried by the Hulan Chamber of Commerce cannot be sold at a good price at the Baldur Gate, then Sifu is afraid that he will have to pay a loss. After arriving here, Sifu no longer intends to spend money to hire other mercenaries, but fortunately he has a smart butler. The old butler advises him not to take risks and rather spend a little to ensure the safety of the goods.

For this reason, the caravan of Severe stayed at the Brothers Tavern on the shore of Lake Esmere for two days and happened to meet Robin and Stark who came to find their employer.

Hearing that there were many elves and dwarves in Robin's team, the old housekeeper of Sivo persuaded the family owner to hire this mixed mercenary group. Although this old housekeeper also lacked adventure experience and has been in charge of internal affairs in the Hulan family, the old man with rich life experience understood that most of the mercenary groups with a large number of elves and dwarves mercenaries would abide by the professional ethics of mercenaries, and at least he would not have any intention of his employer's wealth.

After watching the camp, Sever Hulan and the old housekeeper beside him were both satisfied. He felt that Robin and Stark had not hidden anything. This mercenary group not only had elves and dwarf mercenaries, but also although the mercenaries looked dusty, they were all refined and powerful, which was very consistent with their requirements.

The two employers were satisfied, and Qin Lun and others were of course even more satisfied. The Hulan Chamber of Commerce from Taesel also concealed their last flaw. At least no one would be surprised by their dress and faces that were different from those of the mercenaries in Amm.
Chapter completed!