Before long, a series of commercial agreements had been reached. Kurd's merchant ships carried weapons, armor, food, and building materials upstream to trade in the middle and lower reaches of the Wan River.
After bartering, the merchant ships returned downstream to the docks inside Dragon Gate Ferry, fully laden with bones.
To facilitate future trade, the area of Dragon Gate Ferry near the northern bank of the Wan River had been specially developed.
There were several locks in the southern wall of Dragon Gate Ferry.
Behind the locks lay a U-shaped inland waterway that ran through four rows of city blocks.
Along both banks of the waterway were numerous inland docks and a number of shipyards.
The docks along Dragon Gate Ferry's waterway and the Wan River could accommodate a great many vessels, and their cargo capacity was astonishing.
The trade routes kept expanding. As time passed, pioneers in the middle reaches—and even the upper reaches—of the Wan River reached trade agreements with Kurd.
With convenient shipping and bones accepted in barter, the pioneers in the middle and upper reaches eagerly exchanged bones for Kurd's fine iron armor and weapons.
Food wasn't shipped to the middle and upper reaches. Kurd's current stockpiles weren't enough to supply the Pioneer Legion, so those regions relied mainly on Winter Canyon for grain deliveries.
Specialties such as Dark Beer and White Liquor, however, sold very well, bringing Kurd a great deal of wealth.
With the Noble Council's envoy acting as mediator, Kurd's Skeleton Engineering Team helped the pioneers in the middle and lower reaches build a series of military castles and military farming outposts along both banks of the Wan River.
The river channels in the middle and lower reaches of the Wan River were completely controlled by the Pioneer Legion of the Gewalt