The second trade fair of the Merchant Alliance was still organized by Yang Rui and held within the large auction house. That was because apart from Yang Rui, there was no one else in the Merchant Alliance who could organize a trade fair of this kind.
The most important thing wasn't the cost, venue, or personnel. These were all temporarily handled by the organizer. No other member of the Merchant Alliance could come up with a proper product list, so there was no profit to be had.
Under such circumstances, the other members of the Merchant Alliance had even less interest in organizing a trade fair.
The trade fair of the Merchant Alliance, on the other hand, was a means of control for Yang Rui. There was no need to talk too much about investment and cost. Moreover, Yang Rui had once again increased the product list for this trade fair to increase its appeal.
On top of the original list of food, large transport ships, medium transport ships, divine crossbows, and divine mechanical puppets, Yang Rui had also brought out the hunting bow and added it to the product list of the trade fair.
"Hunting Bow: Common Grade Weapon. Attack Power: 1030. Mainly used for hunting. Can be used when a Martial Strength of over 50 points."
The attack power of the hunting bow wasn't high. It had no advantage over the most ordinary bow and arrow. However, there was only one condition to use it – a Martial Strength of over 50 points. In other words, all soldiers of Third Grade and above could use this equipment.
In fact, most Second Grade soldiers could reach 50 points of Martial Strength and equip themselves with a hunting bow. As long as there were enough hunting bows, this equipment could change the class of soldiers!
When used appropriately, the small hunting bow was no less than a piece of strategic equipment.
The crafting of the hunting bow was also very simple. It only required an intermediate carpenter and an intermediate carpenter. At the same time, the cost of crafting a hunting bow was also very low. It only required ten units of ordinary wood, one unit of soft animal tendon, or other materials for making bowstrings.
With Yang Rui's constant support, most of his subordinates had already been equipped with this small piece of equipment. Moreover, it had played an important role in numerous battles, especially in the defense of cities.
The leaders of large player organizations such as Trace the Dragon Soul had long seen the great use of the hunting bow. They had also proposed to Yang Rui many times to purchase this item, but Yang Rui had always restricted them from taking it out.
This time, Yang Rui took it out because the School of Mohism had recently installed various mechanical equipment. Regardless of whether it was the various crossbows on the ships or the mechanical puppets and crossbows that could be set up on the city walls, their offensive and defensive capabilities were incomparable to the hunting bow.
Moreover, these equipment replaced the hunting bow to a certain extent. It was time for Yang Rui to upgrade the hunting bow. That was why Yang Rui took out the hunting bow to further increase the attractiveness of the merchant alliance.
The hunting bow could be said to be a weapon with both offensive and defensive capabilities. Although its attack power wasn't high, once it reached a certain number, its strategic significance wouldn't be low. Moreover, Yang Rui had taken out one million pieces this time, so it was necessary to control who he sold them to.
Otherwise, if this batch of hunting bows were to fall into the hands of his opponents, it would be a considerable threat to Yang Rui. At the very least, it would increase the strength of his opponents.
However, it seemed that Yang Rui had only given the right to purchase the hunting bow to the members of the merchant alliance with A-Grade aptitude and didn't seem to have any restrictions.
In actual fact, Yang Rui definitely wouldn't be so careless. In fact, Yang Rui had already verified that although the number of members of the merchant alliance had increased greatly and the total number had exceeded 2000, the number of A-Grade aptitude members remained at the initial four.
The four A-Grade aptitude members were Gongsun Zan, Zhang Rang, Yuan Shu, and the representatives of the player organizations. Therefore, no matter who the hunting bow fell into, it wouldn't pose much of a threat to Yang Rui's forces.
Even though Zhang Rang, Yuan Shu, and the player organizations weren't so close to Yang Rui that he didn't need to be on guard against them, Yang Rui judged that any of the three parties wouldn't pose a threat to him.
Although the other vassals had also sent their representatives to register their businesses, they seemed to be more low-key and didn't use their names to register and grade their businesses.
Among the members of the merchant alliance, Yang Rui was familiar with Liu Bei, Ma Teng, and many others. However, for some unknown reason, these representatives had registered in their own names and gave up the right to be graded as A-Grade aptitude.
Moreover, the representatives of the vassals were still holding back and only managed to get B-Grade and C-Grade aptitude. They didn't display too much wealth.
Yang Rui naturally knew what everyone was thinking, especially after the internal trade fair of the merchant alliance. There seemed to be no restrictions on participation and purchase of items. Most people didn't want to stand out and expose their wealth, identity, and other information.
However, it was different this time. Not only did Yang Rui restrict the hunting bow to A-Grade aptitude members, he also introduced a product that only A-Grade aptitude members could trade.
This product was the biography of the Lingnan Secret Region, 'Lingnan Immortal'. The content recorded was about Mount Luofu, one of the ten grotto-heavens. Yang Rui had spent a lot of effort to explore it for a long time but didn't find much.
Originally, Yang Rui thought that he had found some clues. However, the two Loulan Princesses of the Western Region took the initiative to explore again. Yang Rui couldn't leave and handed this matter over to them.
Not only that, Yang Rui also sent more than ten bandit leaders and a team of soldiers to follow the two Loulan Princesses and listen to their orders.
The two Loulan Princesses, one was a scholar and one was a martial artist. Their forces were extraordinary, but there were many old forests in Lingnan, so it was reasonable to send some people.
Moreover, the fact that the two Princesses took the initiative to do this meant that their relationship with Yang Rui was already close to a certain extent. Yang Rui already had plans to keep the two Princesses for his own use, so he naturally had to take care of them.
Not long ago, the two Loulan Princesses returned and used practice to prove that Yang Rui's speculation was unreliable. Originally, Yang Rui still felt that he had a lot of confidence. This caused the exploration of Mount Luofu to once again fall into a state of stagnation.
Yang Rui already had the Taishan Realm and the Penglai Realm in his hands. Moreover, these two secret realms had not been fully explored. Investing a large amount of time, manpower, and material resources into the Luofu Mountain secret realms was not worth it.
Thus, Yang Rui took out the biography of Mount Luofu Secret Region and set the price at 20,000,000 Eastern Sea gold coins. He also stipulated that only Class A members of the merchant alliance could buy it.
With such a high price, whether a lousy book like 'Lingnan Immortal' could be sold was one thing. Yang Rui's intention was to use this to send a message to all the members of the merchant alliance. Some transactions required a certain rating to be carried out!
/(To be continued.)
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