"Ding! Trade Market upgraded to level five. Prosperity +1,500. Trade functions unlocked."
After the notification sounded, Fang Yuan quickly opened the building panel to inspect it.
Name: Trade Market
Level: Level Five
Quality: Blue
Function: Unlocks trade functions
Merchant Caravans Hosted: 0/5
Goods Displayed: 0/5
Trade Tax: 0/1 (Current tax rate: 0.05.)
Trade Array: 0/5 (Can be used five times per day to teleport into other lords' Trade Markets. Restores the next day.)
Production: Fifth-Tier Traveling Merchant Caravan: Consumes 500 population, 50,000 gold coins, and resources to produce a blue-quality traveling merchant caravan. It can carry a maximum of 5,000 units of goods outside for trade. The more valuable the goods carried, the higher the value of the items exchanged. Maximum caravans produced: 0/5.
Fifth-Tier Stationary Merchant Caravan: Consumes 50 population, 5,000 gold coins, and resources to produce a blue-quality stationary merchant caravan. It can carry a maximum of 500 units of supplies to other lords' Trade Markets for transactions. The more valuable the goods carried, the more prosperous the Trade Market it enters. Maximum caravans produced: 0/5.
Note: The number of merchant caravans hosted by the Trade Market increases with its level. Lords can set an entry threshold for the Trade Market and expel caravans carrying low-grade goods. Displaying goods can quickly attract merchant caravans to settle.
"The traveling merchant caravan should be a trade caravan that can go to Monster Nests to conduct transactions."
"The population and supplies required to build this caravan are truly enormous."
"Just one requires 500 population and 50,000 supplies."
"And it can only carry 5,000 units of goods. If it carries gold coins and resources, that amount is far too low."
"This should only apply to some high-value items."
"But these caravans mainly trade with Monster Nests. Of course, they can also trade