Chapter 104 Visiting Ding Yuan (2/2)

Furthermore, Jinyang City surrounded by mountains with stone, coal, and iron mines. Tong did not forget to strike a deal with Ding Yuan.

”500 Gold for a ton of iron ore, and 100 gold for a ton of coal or stone. How is that sound?”

”You are very kind, Lord Ding Yuan. We'll buy you with that price. Also, we would like to make a reservation for the trade right away. How many stones, irons, and coals you have right now?”

”About 100 tons each. Unfortunately, it's in the middle of planting season right now. We don't have many miners at the moment.”

”We'll take all of them. I also have enough gold with me here. We can finish our transaction today.”

”What!?”

Hearing that Tong had enough gold for the 100 tons of each rare resources, Ding Yuan was shocked speechless. If it was true, then Tong had more than 70,000 gold with him!

If the deal was successful, Ding Yuan would acquire this large sum of gold. He would not worry about the taxes or the food problem in this city as he would have plenty of ways out.

Thus, Ding Yuan agreed to form both trade alliance and army protection alliance. The documents and signature were signed by both parties.

Because it was late today, Tong's men were guided to guest houses while Tong himself was treated as VIP.

Meanwhile, Tong had been grinning from ear to ear since he had heard that this city had several mines. Another project aspired in his mind.

'With a steady supply of coal and iron ores, I should build a steel factory soon.'

'Then I'll upgrade our armors and weapons with the steel!'

…

The 70,000 taels of gold from Tong was delivered to the city hall of Jinyang the next day. Tong used the same tactic as yesterday by unloaded his gold into carriage beforehand and had Zhou Cang led the servants to bring them to the city hall.

Ding Yuan was also efficient in his job. All resources were loaded in well-prepared carts and were on standby to be delivered to Julu.

Today, Ding Yuan's adopted son, Lu Bu, was also present. He was summoned back from the front line to guard Tong's gold caravan and the ore caravan.

When Lu Bu heard the summon order, he was frustrated. He was having a good time with his wife in a temporary house on a mountain, which was his personal holiday resort.

Most importantly, his wife had just given birth to his daughter, Lu Lingqi, a few months ago. She needed extra care from her husband and servants. Therefore, Lu Bu was not in the mood to go to work at the moment.

Despite his discontentment with the summon, after he heard that he had to guard a caravan which carried over 70,000 gold, Lu Bu rushed here to see it.

The sight of a massive pile of gold bullion nuggets and gold ingots astonished Lu Bu. He was born in a farmer family and was adopted by Ding Yuan after his father died, so he had never seen such a large amount of gold before in his life.

”Father, this?”

Lu Bu looked at Ding Yuan while he still had a surprised look on this face.

”It's from our new friend. Be sure to treat him with courtesy.”

Ding Yuan gestured Lu Bu in the direction where Tong and his men were. At the direction of his gesture, Tong was giving orders to his subordinates.

Lu Bu turned and looked at the direction, then he found Tong.

”It's that man?”

”Yes, it's him.”

Lu Bu squinted his eyes as he gazed at Tong. He had detected a faint sinister aura coming from Tong. From his perspective, only someone who had been through many battlefields would have it.

Lu Bu thought of this aura as a warrior aura. His subordinates, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, had it as well because they had been through thick and thin with him on the mountain battlefields for years. However, the aura they had was still not as thick as Tong.

'I've heard he had fought with Guo Dian. But it was just one battlefield. How can he has that aura?'

As Lu Bu was puzzled and unable to come up with any explanation for this event, he walked up to Tong and …

”Hey, brat. Spar with me!”