The lord was still riding on the horse, looking down at Lord Aldarian who was lying thirty meters away.
An explosion so far away would not affect Alice, and the little mare was very calm.
Li Ang knows that Lord Aldarian will not harm him - although this Noldor lord is irritable and brainless, he does care about the Noldor people.
There are two hundred young rangers living in White Deer Fortress, all of them are the young seeds of the next generation of Noldor. As long as those rangers are still in the territory of Li Ang, Lord Aldarian will definitely not attack the Lord. This is also an important reason why the Lord is trying every means to let the Noldor live in White Deer Fortress.
"How is it possible... how is it possible for you to Lightning Magic!"
Lord Aldarian turned over and got up, touched himself, and his tone was no longer so arrogant.
From declaration of war to defeat, it only took less than half a minute...
He was not injured, and the horse should not be injured either - it could jump and jump, but now it was almost out of sight. It was running very fast, so it was obvious that it was not injured, it was just frightened.
Lord Aldarian probably thought that Li Ang was being merciful and made such a big noise as Heavenly Lightning's ground fire, but it didn't hurt anyone... He was looking at Li Ang with quite complicated eyes.
But in fact, the grenade was originally an experimental product. There was no shrapnel in the shell. The iron shell itself would usually only be blown into three or five pieces. Of course, it would not be able to harm Lord Aldarian, who was wearing Nodo Rune Armor.
"Hmph... you know how powerful it is? Do you think I was protecting Lord Li Ang just now? I don't know what is good and what is wrong..."
Wendilf rolled his eyes and took the opportunity to bluff again.
"Sindar? This is impossible...Lord Li Ang, who are you?"
Lord Aldarian looked at Wendy in surprise, then at Li Ang, then cautiously faced Li Ang and began to back away slowly, but his attitude had obviously changed, and even his name had changed.
"Lord Aldarian, leave here and don't let your troops appear in my territory again, otherwise it won't be a warning like this... Of course, if your tribe is willing to trade equally, you can also go to the market in the forest. At least I will not discriminate against your tribe."
Li Ang still looks like a calm master, still holding his hands behind his back. If the injury on his forehead hadn't ruined his image, he would have looked a bit like a master.
After saying that, he drove Alice and drove away. As soon as he turned around, he started shaking his hands that were behind his back.
I just hid my hand behind my back and clicked the lead with one hand. As a result, my hand was blackened by the smoke, and it looked like the skin was burned. I had to go back quickly and let Ansen treat it...
"Humans who can use magic... you are the Pendor royal family? You are the Pendor royal family! Only the blood of Kavala has magic power... You want to restore the country? No! You will drag the Noldor into the war between humans! Even if you die, I will stop you!"
Lord Aldarian stood behind Li Ang with an uncertain expression, as if he remembered something, his tone gradually became more urgent.
The bow in his hand was raised again and the arrow was nocked.
There is just some hesitation in the movements.
Why did he react this way?
Lord Aldarian has a grudge against the Pendor royal family?
Oh, probably indeed. The war between the Noldor and humans three hundred years ago was fought with Kingdom of Pendor. At that time, Lord Aldarian was the leader of the Noldor...
Li Ang felt a little panicked, but still pretended to be calm and turned around. "What are you talking about? What is the restoration of the country?"
"Hmph...Isildur told me that you have one-eighth of the Noldor bloodline, so you can only be her descendant... I must kill you..."
There was a hint of sadness in Lord Aldarian's eyes, but there was no warmth at all, only a sharp edge and a hint of fierceness.
This is definitely not a good memory, but more like thinking of an enemy.
"Lord Aldarian, what are you talking about? Do you know the consequences of doing this? If you so easily ruin the hope of the Noldor people to come out of the forest, the three major families will become your enemies! You will start a civil war!"
Wendy drew his sword and rushed directly in front of Lord Aldarian.
Although she looks like an innocent little girl in some aspects, she does understand everything.
At this time, Risadiran finally rushed to Li Ang and drew his bow at Lord Aldarian.
"Hmph... It was like that back then, and it is like that now! He is just a human who can use Noldor enchanted items! He is no different from that woman back then! Felgornsal His Majesty still hasn't learned his lesson... Putting the hope of Noldor on humans? Ha... you will regret it!"
Lord Aldarian looked at Wendy who looked nervous, then looked at Risadiran who was pointing his bow at him, put down the bow in his hand, shook his head and slowly backed away.
There was a look of pain on his face, but he still remained polite to Wendy.
"Lord Aldarian! What on earth are you talking about? What happened back then?"
Wendilf I don't understand, what year was it? Who was that woman?
"Wendilf, go ask His Majesty Felgornsal about his big plan back then... Ask him where his son is now?!"
Lord Aldarian gritted his teeth and said, looked at Li Ang fiercely, then turned around and left quickly.
Obviously, he knew that what Wendy said was right. If Li Ang died in his hands, the three major Noldor families would all be enemies with him.
Noldo Elves really cannot afford a civil war.
Wendilf was stunned for a while, until Lord Aldarian disappeared with his troops, then he turned around, only to find that the lord was also in a daze.
"Lord Li Ang, get out of here... he might still be around."
Risadiran reminded him loudly.
"Lord Aldarian will not come again..."
The Lord Lord shook his head and exhaled.
Li Ang was a little scared. He could feel that his vest was soaked with cold sweat.
The so-called magic did not scare Lord Aldarian, or that brave Noldor lord didn't care about this, he dared to shoot his own arrows at any enemy.
Lord Aldarian didn't seem to have as much awe of 'magic' as other Noldor. He was just surprised, but not afraid, and didn't take it for granted what Li Ang was Archmage.
Maybe he is indeed a bellicose man, but he is obviously not too obsessed with the tradition of the Noldor, which makes him more sober than most Noldo Elvess - no wonder he would ignore the decisions of the Elf Kings and create a separate tribe.
If Wendilf hadn't blocked Lord Aldarian in time, Lord Aldarian might have really wanted his own life just now.
"I actually can't stop Lord Aldarian, but he seems..."
Wendy frowned in confusion.
"He seems unwilling to hurt you...Wendy, is there anyone in your family who is related to Lord Aldarian? I haven't heard you mention it..."
Li Ang looked at Wendy thoughtfully.
"Sir... my parents passed away many years ago, at the hands of Gatu people. Maybe they were very familiar with Lord Aldarian, I don't know."
Wendy shook his head. "Lord Aldarian was originally from the Fenway Family. He must know my parents."
This is true. The Noldor have a small population and a long lifespan. Most people in a clan must know each other, so they cannot be viewed based on the logic of human kinship.
"But how to solve the problem here Lord Aldarian? Sir, he probably won't attack you again, but there is no guarantee that he won't attack the caravan... With his fighting power, no one can stop him in the forest."
Risadiran asked worriedly.
"Those things Lord Aldarian said, what big plan? And His Majesty Felgornsal's son... It seems that we really need to ask His Majesty Felgornsal. Maybe this is the reason why he has always been so hostile to humans."
Li Ang looked at Wendilf.
"Sir, I'm going to ask."
Wendy turned around and walked into the forest. She never did things sloppily.
Perhaps the grenade thrown by Li Ang had some effect. In the next few days, Lord Aldarian and his troops did not appear again.
The first group of merchants also successfully arrived at the market in the forest, and the humans who built the road were not attacked.
But Li Ang still felt uneasy, because Noel sent news that Lord Aldarian's troops still had not returned to his territory.
He seemed to have completely disappeared, and no one knew where he had gone.
However, it is a good thing that no one is causing trouble. The first transaction between White Deer Fortress and Nodo has begun to operate on a small scale.
The Noldor actually had a great need for human commodities, especially cloth, grain, spices and household utensils.
These things are so missing in Noldo Forest.
Books are also in short supply - the Noldor are intellectuals, but it's hard for them to get hold of human books.
When Wendilf asked Li Ang about his salary, it was because he wanted to buy books about human society. Wendy likes to read all kinds of novels.
But although the demand is very strong, a new problem has arisen - the Noldor have no money.
To be precise, they don't use money. They usually don't use dinars, a common currency.
In fact, from a human perspective, Noldo Elves are all very wealthy. Each of them can produce a large amount of high-quality leather, precious medicinal materials, exquisite handicrafts, and even some enchanted equipment.
The lifespan is long, and the reserves over the years are really quite a lot. If we look at the value of these reserves, every Noldor can be called a rich man.
But the problem is that they have not used gold and silver currency for hundreds of years, and have no habit of using money or saving money - dinars are not used in Noldo Forest, and transactions between Noldor basically do not require the use of currency.
After all, they are very familiar with each other. Transactions between Noldo Elves are like discussing with friends. They rely entirely on reputation and do not need to spend money at all.
Of course, the Noldor all realize that transactions with humans actually require dinars. They all have culture and can understand the meaning of currency, but they really don't have money in their hands.
Occasionally, I encounter Noldo Elves who can bring out a few Dirham, but they are just trophies obtained from the slave-catching team that entered the forest... not many can find dinars.
This necessitated bartering at first.
But in this way, the transaction volume seems to be relatively bleak, because the road has not yet been repaired, and the food and cloth that the Noldor need most cannot be sent in on a large scale for the time being.
At present, entering the forest requires climbing over mountains and ridges in the virgin forest, so the merchants who enter the trade market bring very few goods, and most of them only bring high-value spices or glass products.
There is no problem in bartering for these things, but the problem is that there are too few, and they are used up in half a day...
At the same time, the merchants did not bring many dinars and could not purchase many Noldor artifacts and enchanted weapons.
This is not just because the road is difficult to walk, but because businessmen are worried about unsafe conditions on the road.
In fact, the Noldor are also willing to exchange their goods for currency, but since neither party brings much money, the transaction volume is naturally not large.
As a result, the first large-scale transaction between humans and the Noldor did not take shape at all, and seemed a little bleak.
In fact, the merchants and the Noldor can all understand. After all, the road has not been built yet and the quantity of goods is not much.
But the lord is quite disappointed - if the initial trading volume of the market has been relatively low, demand inertia cannot be formed in the hearts of the Nordos.
This is not a good sign...
The environment will affect people's judgment. The first batch of human merchants took risks. Now the market looks a bit bleak, and the next batch of merchants may not be so motivated.
And if the enthusiasm of human merchants is not high enough, the Noldor will not care too much about this market... If there is a diminishing effect, this market will be meaningless.
This is also the reason why the lord has no intention of running the business directly by himself.
Of course, direct operation can obtain the maximum profit, but at the beginning, I did not have so much funds and materials, so I could not achieve scale.
If you want to build a platform, don't think about taking all the benefits. Only an open platform can create an exponentially increasing scale effect.
If a market can only operate on a small scale for a long period of time, then the market will appear less important and will be difficult to make up for in the future.
The various trade centers built in many cities actually have good policies and methods, but often because the initial investment attraction effect is not good, the occupancy rate is dismal at the beginning, and as a result, no one comes later.
This kind of business platform cannot be operated with the basic transaction logic of "slowly growing from small to large".
It is necessary to attract more people from the beginning and bring a large amount of goods, so that the Noldor can continue to make money and the merchants can get high profits. Only then will more merchants join and bring higher returns to the lord - and this return is not just money.
If you cannot quickly establish large-scale trading habits, you will not be able to achieve the Lord's ultimate intention.
What Li Ang wants is to promote trade between the two groups, so that the Noldor will become dependent on trade and turn it into life dependence.
Then, as the commercial output controller, I can obtain greater benefits in this transaction process-not money, but allowing the Noldor to change their lifestyle and no longer rely on the output of the forest, but rely on the trading market.
--To be precise, I rely on the lord.
Because this trading market is actually built on Li Ang, the Lord himself is now a platform.
He wants the Noldor to never be able to do without this convenient material trading channel built at home, thereby kidnapping this ethnic group into his own business platform, and ultimately can only become his true subjects.
This is the true intention of so-called trade.
Including Dark Falcon Fortress, which previously requested Raven Territory, it is the closest place to Misty Mountain people and Gatu people - Li Ang also plans to do this.
If you want to control a relatively small ethnic group like the Noldor, you only need to make them rich.
Yes, make them rich.
First, supply food, cloth and other daily necessities in large quantities at low prices, and purchase weapons and crafts in large quantities at high prices, making the Noldor realize that they only need to do what they are best at to live a comfortable life.
Subsequently, the supply of food and various daily necessities continued to increase, causing the Noldor to lose their desire to produce these materials independently - it was not profitable, and the goods supplied by the lord were not of high quality, so it was more convenient to buy them directly.
Exchanging low-priced materials for high-value weapons and equipment will make the Noldor feel like it's a good deal from top to bottom, and it will also make the Noldor trapped in this kind of deal unable to turn back.
After they gradually develop this trading habit, it will automatically prompt most Noldo Elves to engage in the manufacture of weapons and handicrafts, or transform from hunters into scholars or professional warriors - this is something they are good at and can export to the outside world, and will be purchased by Li Ang at a high price.
There will also be many Noldo Elves who will start to purchase goods from the market, engage in retail business, and bring supplies to their various ethnic groups. Because this can not only facilitate the tribesmen, but also make profits...
Just like those retail vendors White Deer Fortress.
In this way, their output of daily necessities will gradually be controlled, and their lifestyles will undergo huge changes, but at least they will appear to be better and more convenient changes.
When the lives of the Noldor are controlled by Li Ang, they will not be able to escape from the ship. In order not to interrupt the supply, the Noldor must accept the Lord's various demands - including fully fighting for him.
These processes actually do not take too long. If done well, they can be achieved in one or two years.
Kidnapping with commercial supplies is easier than cultural infiltration and has faster results.
Especially when faced with a party that has a small number of people and is unable to export daily necessities in the market.
In fact, even modern people cannot escape this kind of commercial penetration, especially in some small countries, where all the people have become dependent on the material supplies of certain big countries.
Especially in some small countries that seem very wealthy, it seems that people live a good life, but the prerequisite is that they must be obedient.
Once you disobey, you will be sanctioned by business...
If the leaders of small countries dare to refuse to accept this, they will often be overthrown and dismissed by their own citizens. Maybe the leaders have backbone, but the people do not want to suffer under commercial sanctions, let alone be transformed from rich to poor under commercial sanctions.
After all, all it takes to go from millionaire to penniless is a burst of inflation...
In fact, Bacchus Empire did exactly this to Meitengheim, but it was not done thoroughly.
If Bacchus Empire can fully acquire the weapons and equipment manufactured by Meitengheim people at all costs, use dinars to directly attract the vast majority of Meitengheim people to become blacksmiths, and supply a large amount of low-priced food, so that the farmers have no income but can only blacksmith or sell weapons - then in just a few years, Meitengheim will be forced to become Barkley's arsenal, and there is no way it can be independent for too long.
But Barkley couldn't wait to suppress the war, which aroused Meitengheim people's full-scale resistance and directly cut off the transactions between the two parties. This is the thinking habit of traditional feudal countries - always thinking that traitors must be exterminated, but never thought that there is a more suitable way.
Now the trading platform in Noldo Forest is not working properly. Li Ang thinks it is best to take a moment and try again.