NOVEL NEXT Chapter 11 - Alibaba, Where Everything Exists! Buy, Buy, Buy!
After forming the territory army, Richard could finally get busy.
He didn’t have to worry about safety issues anymore, as he did last time when he was afraid to sell too many glass cups at once.
There were quite a few bandits nearby. The reason why these bandits didn’t visit Richard’s territory much was because Ted’s poverty was well known.
Even so, according to residents in the territory, there were still some bandits who tried to steal or rob crops every time they matured.
Once Richard’s territory became wealthy, there would probably be bandits eyeing it.
“Let’s arm them first.”
Richard thought.
On the online marketplace, you could buy decent bows and arrows for a few hundred yuan, although they were training bows, their lethality was actually quite good, and their range was also tens of meters away.
Considering that bows and arrows required considerable arm strength, Richard decided to use bows and arrows together with some crossbows.
These crossbows were also training crossbows, not military crossbows, and… crossbow arrows… couldn’t be bought!
The restrictions on this online marketplace were quite strict.
The arrows for the bow couldn’t be bought either, but they could be made by oneself.
With some time left for browsing the internet today, Richard decided to buy some weapons.
After searching for a while, he actually found a shop that was said to be the manufacturer.
After chatting with the shop owner, he asked the shop owner to make a batch of crossbows with longer range, and then provide him with arrows for the bow and crossbow.
The shop owner refused directly, saying it was prohibited, and there was no way to transport them.
Richard had to resort to a killer move.
Increase the price!
And let the shop owner not worry about transportation.
Under the temptation of high profits, the shop owner finally agreed. However, he still dared not make the crossbows too powerful, and with their factory’s technology, they couldn’t make them too powerful either.
In the end, Richard bought the low-end versions of the crossbow for two thousand yuan each.
Although it was a low-end version, its power was not bad at all.
The effective killing distance exceeds fifty meters, and the loading speed is not slow either.
Richard bought five crossbows and five bows at once.
Then, he searched around and actually found some artisan knives!
Artisan knives, which are collectible knives, and they are unsharpened.
When searching, Richard discovered that the e-commerce platform really had everything.
There were some shops specifically selling knives, as well as some shops specializing in selling swords and spears.
Of course, what these shops sold were unsharpened knives and swords, sold as works of art.
Such knives, swords, and spears, if it were before crossing over, could only be collected and could not be brought to public places!
However, the prices were not cheap, costing over a thousand yuan each.
The quality was still quite good.
They were made of pretty good steel.
In this world, they were top-notch weapons.
Richard checked his account balance. After buying a lot of things in the past few days and now buying five bows and five crossbows, he only had a few thousand yuan left.
Because of the livestream these days, especially today, after dealing with several hooligans, the viewers went crazy with donations, and he had over three hundred thousand on Douyin, but it would still take a few days to withdraw it all.
“Oh right, why not use Huabei?” ( Huabei : Alipay issued Virtual credit card )
Richard thought.
Although other apps on his phone couldn’t be used after crossing over, the functions on Taobao (online marketplace) were still normal, and Alipay provided with it could also be used.
Richard’s Huabei limit was quite high, with tens of thousands in credit limit. This was because when he was in college, he often used Huabei for capital turnover when working part-time outside.
So, Richard decisively used Huabei and bought fifty unsharpened knives in one go.
The reason why he chose knives instead of swords was because knives had a lower threshold for ordinary people.
You just needed to chop.
The knives Richard bought were similar to Tang knives, somewhat similar to the knives in this world.
Moreover, because they were works of art, the quality was even higher.
In addition to the knives, Richard also bought fifty stainless steel shields. These shields were cheaper, costing a few hundred yuan each.
When buying the shields, Richard had an idea and asked the shopkeeper to design a logo to put on them.
The logo was a design of Bauhinia, looking noble and elegant.
The reason why it was Bauhinia was because Richard had planted Bauhinia before, and he had a good impression of it.
After buying them, Richard also bought a lot of porcelain, glass cups, crystals, tea, and so on.
These were prepared for trading.
He didn’t have much money from this world on hand now, especially gold coins, he only had a few, that’s it.
You could also buy gold on Taobao.
But was it worth it?
A glass cup costing a dozen yuan could sell for a few gold coins. Unless Richard’s brain was broken, he wouldn’t spend hundreds of yuan per gram buying gold on Taobao.
After buying everything, considering that he needed to sharpen the knives himself, Richard also bought dozens of 320-grit, 800-grit, and 1500-grit sharpening stones, as well as a large amount of sandpaper above 1500-grit.