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When Yan Xing first agreed to Duan’er’s request, allowing the grain exchanged by Red Mud Wetland for agarwood to be stored in Eternal Domain, he had been considering the feasibility of establishing a grain bank.
If all the Werewolf Tribes on the southern edge of Thunderous Swamp stored the grain they obtained from Eternal Domain here, then anyone who dared to covet Eternal Domain would undoubtedly be provoking these thirty-plus Werewolf Tribes.
This metaphor might not be entirely appropriate, but the meaning is roughly the same.
The werewolves would definitely fight desperately for their own grain.
Looking further into the future, Yan Xing’s decision to permit the werewolves to use their stored grain to purchase goods from Eternal Domain also solidified the role of Eternal Domain’s grain as a common equivalent, effectively becoming a "currency" that could circulate within the Werewolf Tribes.
Currently, this "currency" could be used to buy resources in Eternal Domain, and naturally, it would circulate among the Werewolf Tribes in the future.
Once the werewolves accepted this "currency," an economic system would be established among them.
These thirty-plus Werewolf Tribes would also become a community of shared interests due to these economic ties.
At that point, as the issuer of the "currency," Eternal Domain would naturally become the treasury for this werewolf community.
Moreover, since grain was difficult to store in the swamp and transportation would result in losses, trading activities between the Werewolf Tribes would inevitably take place within Eternal Domain.
Eternal Domain would become the most important economic center for the Werewolf Tribes, then the cultural center, and eventually an irreplaceable political center.