These goods, the Xiawei Territory itself could not digest all of them, so they were resold to the Alchemy Workshops surrounding Nauman City to get cash, and then continued with infrastructure and commercial activities.
Of course, Ian wasn't simply exploiting the Mountain People; he was also planning for their development.
The strategy was simple: take advantage of the geographical location to develop distinctive industries.
Inside the Bison Mountain Range, it really was not suitable for farming, even with three mountain basin areas that had good farming land like riverbanks, self-sufficiency in food for the Mountain People could only rely on new technology.
Therefore, there were only minerals.
In this era, territories with a large uneducated, low-end population that wanted to develop could only rely on selling resources to raise capital.
And it was indeed fortunate that the Mountain People had a wealth of mines in the Bison Mountain Range.