"Esteemed guest, Xipan City has quite a few good things besides Ceylon Incense—ores, creatures, pelts, and much more. I'm sure you'll be satisfied."
After everyone else had left, Beilin smiled as he introduced all kinds of goods to Zhao Fu.
On the surface, Zhao Fu listened somewhat attentively, but he did not truly care about these things. His main purpose was to unload equipment and pills into Xipan City.
After listening to Beilin's introduction, Zhao Fu took the opportunity to bring out pills and equipment for exchange.
Beilin had not expected this. He picked up the equipment and examined it again and again, then held the pills to his nose and sniffed them repeatedly. His face immediately lit up with delight. Zhao Fu was actually willing to trade such fine equipment and pills; this would greatly boost Xipan City's strength.
If all future exchanges used such good equipment and pills, it would be an enormous gain. And this was meant to be a long-term trade—Beilin was even somewhat uncertain whether Zhao Fu had that much equipment and so many pills. What if he only traded once and then had nothing left?
"Esteemed guest, will you be using equipment and pills for all future exchanges?"
Beilin asked for confirmation. Having gained such a huge benefit, his tone toward Zhao Fu was exceptionally friendly and courteous.
Zhao Fu understood what Beilin meant. He reined in his previous forcefulness and calmly answered that he would use equipment and pills for all future exchanges.
With that confirmed, Beilin was overjoyed. If he could acquire such vast quantities of equipment and pills, his standing in Xipan City would steadily rise, because both were extremely important to the city.
At present, he was merely Xipan City's internal affairs officer. With this equipment and these pills, he