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Chapter 11 - Making allies,gathering strength (2)

Max immediately got to a smith he had bought near his place and melted 7,000 of the gold coins.

He then teleported back to earth changed clothes and went to a company to sell his gold.

This time he sold his gold about two different places so as not to attract attention and earned more than 2 million alliance dollars. Seeing so much money in his account max couldn't help but have a high spirit.

First he searched on the internet and found a company that dealt in making leather and steel products.

This company was on the bring of bankruptcy and was about to close down. The boss was heavily in debt and had no where else to turn to.

Max visited the factory and saw that it was old but could still produce the weapons he needed.

He asked for the owner's number and called him. He was an oriental man named Zao Lin who had migrated from the alliance state of Xin to the Eagle state where max resided.

When he heard that someone was interested in doing business at his factory he hurried up and came to the factory where max was already waiting for him.

"Hello Mr max am Zao Lin nice to meet you" Zao Lin eagerly greeted max.

"Name's max Mr. Zao " max replied back.

To ensure that he dealt with someone honest and trustworthy he had investigated Zao to learn more about him.

This guy went broke because he spent most of his money including his factory's money on his wife who is having a rare congenital disease.

But even with all that he did his best to always pay his workers on time. This is one reason why max choose him as the person he wanted to work with. He felt a kind of resonance with him because they both had people who had rare diseases close to them.

"Mr. Zao I'll be honest with you am going to invest in your factory and I want you to work for me. I'll give you a million alliance dollars to start paying off your debts and buy materials to start the factory"max gave his proposal at once.

Zao had a look of surprise and disbelief on his face and then he was suddenly happy.with a million alliance dollars he could rejuvenate his factor and get back in business.

"But the kind of orders I will give to you must be made secret so those you chose for the work must be people you can trust" max added before the guy could accept his proposal.

"Alright boss you can count on me as long as it's not too dangerous we will do it. I have a hundred and fifty workers who are still with me" Zao still agreed he was on the brink of loosing his factory. As long as max didn't order them to do anything too dangerous they'll work for him.

"Good I want you to make 10,000 leather chest armors,10,000 swords, 11,000 spears, 6,000 shields and 3,000 sets of steel armor. I want it done before the next 4 days".

Hearing the number of things needed to be made Zao agreed without hesitation.

"Boss your order is large and the time given is short but if we work hard during day and night with the machines available we should be able to provide what you want".

Max nodded in satisfaction seeing how much effort he was willing to make and gave him a promise " if you are able to finish on time I'll add an extra 2,000 dollars to their normal salaries and I'll give you another million for expansion".

Hearing this Zao agreed without hesitation full of motivation he began to immediately call his workers and told them the good news.

Max saw his work there was done so he left and went to retail stores to buy another five thousand large bags of sugar. He also bought large amounts spice,salt and jewelry for the noble women to buy and went home.

He called his mother and then sent her another 20,000 dollars using the excuse of working with a friend and earning big.

Now there was another problem. He couldn't keep selling his gold outside like that.People would realize he's selling too much gold and be curious about his source of gold and that's going to get him trouble and other things which he has yet to sell.

'I'll take care of that problem when am less busy on the other side'.max mused to himself.

Max then went to to a large retail company and bought about four thousand varieties of canned foods. He did this because war was coming and food was going to be one of the most needed commodities on the market. He gave them the address of a warehouse used by Zao Lins factory and once it was delivered he would come for it later.

Max spent the rest of the day and night transporting all the bags of sugar and others with the help of his storage space into his shop. He only finished when daybreak was approaching.

He stayed in the shop until Grace and the other five workers who had been hired came there.

He excused himself and went to sleep in his office on the first floor he had slept about an hour and thirty minutes when he heard someone knocking the door.

"Yes come in" max yawned for a bit before giving permission.

"Boss miss Grace want's me to tell you that the merchant's men are here for the sugar they ordered" a young man over twenty five years came in to inform him.

"Alright tell them I'll be right down" max instructed the man who then bowed and left.

Max washed his face straightened his long coat a bit before leaving.

Downstairs he saw four large groups each with about a hundred men including some dressed as guards.Outside the store he could see many wagons lining up.

He reminded himself of the fact that it was time he had his own men around to protect the store and do other tasks for him.

He greeted the representatives of each group and then had them move the things their bosses bought into the wagons they brought before sending it back to their various territories.

After they had left the people outside who were curious to know why there were several armed escorts out transportation goods came into the large store to look around.

They were amazed by the new products around especially the sugar which went for 20 gold coins a large bag but could be bought in smaller quantities ranging from 50 copper coins going.Which made it possible for commoners to buy.

They also saw the canned foods and were shocked to find out that it could last a year or more without spoiling.

This was good news especially for the mercenaries who stayed out for long.They also found the salt here cheaper and better than the local ones.

There was also some camping tents and and other outdoor stuff. The spices too looked authentic and many could not wait to try it out.

Max had brought a few some swords,spears and full leather and steel armor from Zao Lin and sold them on the second floor.They were only about 200 of them but they informed the customers that the store also sold weapons.