Horsens' original idea was simple, he came here for the purpose of exchanging iron ore for corpse residue, and iron ingots for corpse oil.The blacksmith workshop in the quarry needed a lot of coke and wood, but more than half a month ago, Horsens discovered that his orc overseers had brought back a fuel called corpse residue from outside, which was very resistant to burning and could reach temperatures higher than coke.According to the orc overseers who had returned from the Raytu tribe, the materials extracted from the swamp zombies were thrown everywhere in the Laytu tribe, and were like poor iron ore in the quarries, which could only be discarded as garbage on the side of the road.Horsens who got the news immediately couldn't be calm, with those new fuels, the logging teams that went to the depths of Yelian Mountain could be withdrawn, and this could be a very cost-effective business, Horsens knew that after the Laitu tribe returned to their homeland, they would definitely rebuild their homeland, and since everything was in ruins, then there must be business opportunities.With these thoughts in his heart, he prepared to come and see the Raytu tribe, and then he came!
The beautiful dividing line did not expect that the transaction between us and Horsens was actually negotiated by sitting at the door of the corpse oil warehouse, boiling boiling water on the lit oil stove, and his plan to exchange iron ingots for corpse oil did not come to fruition as he wished, but in the end he completed his original idea, that is, to find a market for his mountain of iron ore and iron ingots, obviously working with us is a win-win thing.After Horsens left, Kurtz said, "Jia, why do you think Horsens would take such a small business into account?"
Why are you exchanging corpses for poor iron ore that you don't have?
Even if we want to make our own iron, shouldn't we also change some iron-rich ore?
And aren't you still going to buy iron ingots?
”I crossed my fingers and calculated with him and said: "The business of the oil stove must be tied to the corpse fire oil before it can be sold, this business is not small, we now have nearly 800 barrels of corpse fire oil, which can fill more than 2,000 sets of oil stoves, how long will we refine these corpse fire oil?"
If these corpse fire oils alone are sold with oil stoves, we will have eighty gold coins in our account this month, and this thing can definitely be done for a long time.Although these corpse fire oils are not worth more than those magic cores, but these money are exchanged for black flour, which is enough for everyone in our tribe to eat for four months in a row, and I have to say which gray dwarf slaves are included. ”"Besides.These corpse fire oils are also not easy to transport, and they will not allow you to run back and forth between Drowning and Gurudin, and in a little more than a month, it will be your coming-of-age ceremony, and then you will officially become the great lord of this generation on the edge of the Death Swamp.You can't always run these small businesses, in the future, you just need to take those well-equipped orc warriors, regularly go to the Death Swamp every month to hunt those swamp zombies, drag them back to make corpse fire oil, and let Horsens do the rest, he is a shrewd businessman who knows how to make money, but in this catastrophe, his luck is not very good. ”I leaned over to Kuz's side and whispered to him."
Let's go a little later, not to sell those vermicelli to Steward Le Pas.Az.You have to remember that you must keep the secret of the vermicelli, there are not many things we can sell to the Grimm Empire, we orcs can't always exchange rare magic ores and rare magic herbs for their goods, so that after a long time, the foundation of the orcs will be hollowed out little by little, now that there are vermicelli, there may be meat floss in the future, maybe when the orcs and the Grimm Empire sign a peace agreement again, we can still sell them corpse fire oil!
”I whispered to Kuz.I dragged Kuz up the dirt road, up the eastern dirt slope from the col to the top, but it wasn't too far.Standing on the top of the slope nearly 200 meters high and looking down, the col where the entire Laytu tribe is located looks like a bagel that has been bitten by someone from a distance, and the village of the Laitu tribe is in the center of the bagel.It can also be imagined as a giant with outstretched hands.Hold the baby-like Raitu tribe in your arms.But the only fly in the ointment is that the terrain is not as steep as imagined, and the surrounding soil is very gentle.We stood stupidly on the top of the bare slope under the scorching sun, and in the distance we could see the bottom of the hillside, and the maid Asakusa was still looking at us with concern.Geril had already chosen the path up the mountain and was climbing up quickly.Looking south, you can see the death swamp in the fog more than ten kilometers away, where there is constantly water mist flying into the sky with the wind, like a beautiful fairyland on earth, those thick fog in the south wind blowing, showing a variety of wonderful postures, sometimes like thousands of horses galloping, sometimes like hundreds of beautiful elves flying in the air, sometimes like a raging flame burning, these scenes are indescribably beautiful.The further south you go, the more puddles you will see, those weedy swamps, buried a large number of sweet potatoes, a group of beast women of the Raitu tribe in a swamp pond, covered with black silt, like a flexible loach, constantly turning up and down in the mud pond, is trying to find out the sweet potatoes inside, to the shore.Only orcs who live on the edge of the swamp all year round have the ability to swim in the mud, and I envy this, because I think they don't worry about stepping into the air when they walk in the swamp, and it's a big deal to get out of another exit.I pointed to the huge col that was five or six kilometers away in a straight line, and the bare dirt slope that looked like a bagel and said to Kuz: "Drowning Pond is the eastern gateway to the edge of the entire Death Swamp, it is sandwiched between the Death Swamp and the fault zone, and at the same time it is blocked by the Yelian Mountain branch, and the orcs of other tribes, if they want to enter the Death Swamp, there are only two ways, one is through the swamp in front of Drowned, and the other is through the pass of Nightwolf Cliff, Travel through the Cursed Desert into the Swamp of Death.If" I mean, if in the future, after you become the lord of the edge of the Death Swamp, as long as you guard this place and build a fortress at the pass of the Night Wolf Cliff, then the entire Cursed Desert and Qinghai Lake and Death Swamp will be in your pocket, although these things are also nominally yours now, but you can't control them now, only after slowly accumulating your own strength, those powerful beast tribes will surrender to you, otherwise, it will only be yang and yin, and your warrant is just empty talk, If they do not listen to you.It will also damage your prestige!
”"So my idea was to build a mountain town, a real castle, and nail it here like a wedge!
Az.Look," I pointed to the col and drew a huge circle in the air, and the pale blue mana condensed into blue light in the air, and the lines were quickly drawn by me into a castle made of boulders, and the whole castle towered into the sky.The walls of the castle were built on a circular earthen slope, and the gap was the huge gate of the wall.This castle, under my planning, is even bigger than the town of Yemen.In particular, this huge stone wall in the shape of a ring on the earthen slope is more than 30 meters high, and the bottom foundation is more than 10 meters wide, and the entire city wall is made of stones.It's a very ordinary trick to draw illusions with magic, but I've thought about this castle for a long time, and Kuz is stupid when he stands next to me.If someone else saw my castle, they would think I'd gone crazy.For a young orc like Kuz, who has no family background and has not even been issued with a lord's codex, how can he be able to build such a century-old castle?
I have also roughly calculated how many gold coins this castle has to be built on, it is a huge amount of money, even if Kuz has more than a hundred magic crystals in his pocket, after throwing them into this castle, it will only be a drop in the ocean."
Jia, you want me to build a city here?
This city is so big!
”Kutz said, staring blankly at the castle I had drawn."
So!
Azi, you still have to work hard to make money.Someday you're going to build this castle, and at the beginning, we can start with this huge circular wall, and we have a wall like this.Why be afraid of the tide of corpses in the swamp!
Don't be discouraged, don't forget that we have vermicelli, meat floss, fine salt, corpse fire oil, we have so many means to make money, I have already thought of it for you" "I think that in a few days, when this side settles down, we will return to Gurudin."
The orc warriors in our tribe can now expand to about four hundred, we have to buy back some demon antelope horns, now the spring hunt is coming to an end, and the materials in the depths of the wasteland are about to be transported back to Gurudin, we need to give the beast female warriors as much as possible to prepare the short spear of the demon antelope horn, only the short spear made of the horn of the demon antelope can penetrate the skin of those swamp zombies. ”"As long as we build the mountain city, the entire Death Swamp is the back garden of your home, and when the time comes, lead the orc warrior to kill the swamp zombies in the Death Swamp, the swamp zombies have a lot of valuable things, and the magic core and corpse fire oil can be exchanged for money" Before I finished speaking, Kuzi's originally excited face slowly collapsed, he looked down at his leather boots in frustration, and whispered: "Jia, can't you stay and help me?"
Without your scrolls, I wouldn't be able to deal with those swamp corpse kings!
If you don't tell me the location of those death scythes, I and those orc warriors can't find those death scythes in the dark. ”I exhaled a long breath and looked out into the sky against the scorching midday sun, where the clouds on the Pai Plateau were so low that I could reach out my hand, and in the clear blue sky an eagle was flying with its wings outstretched, searching for wild mice in the wasteland.I pointed to the eagle and said to Kuz, "Az, look!
Everyone has a sky of their own.As big as the heart, the heavens and the earth are as big as they are, just like the eagle flying freely in the sky, I really want to see the outside world, I want to see the Grimm Empire, I want to see the magic academy there!
”I patted him on the shoulder and smiled at him, "Maybe one day, I don't think there's what I want, I'll come back to you, hunt in the wasteland with you, well!"
And adventure. ”Kutz smiled reluctantly.I wanted to change the subject to a lighter subject, so I took out the wolf's tooth dagger from my bosom and bent down to draw two long, long parallel lines on the top of the slope, then stood up straight and said to Kuz: "Look, this is the wall that our mountain city is going to build, it must be high and thick, and it must be made of stone, only such a strong wall can resist a large tide of corpses."
Well, then again, these walls really require a lot of stone, and stone is a real problem. ”Kuzi's thoughts immediately followed my train of thought, he scratched his head and frowned and pondered for a long time before he said, "Then I will take the tribesmen to Yelian Mountain to collect stones, and then use argali to camel all the stones back!"
”"If you do that, even if you build it in a hundred years, you won't be able to complete this section of the city wall under my feet!"
I said with a dark face."
So what to do?"
Kutz was a little embarrassed and looked very silly.I winked at him, patted the money bag on his belt, and said to him, "Use this!"
”Kutz glanced down and asked me dumbly, "Magic crystal?"
”"Let's learn to be good at using the advantages in our hands!"
I didn't think I had what I was trying to say, so I continued to explain to Kutz: "This is a cataclysmic year, and there is no food in the whole Wild West, and I don't know how many poor orcs are starving!"
Many tribal chiefs must have racked their brains to fill their people's bellies, just like Horsens.If this is in normal times, maybe a spring hunt, the cataclysm will be hit by those mountains of demon antelope raw jerky, but this year is different, because last year there was a war between gray dwarves and orcs, not only killed a lot of gray dwarf robbers, but also young orc warriors died a lot, there must be many tribes and the Raitu tribe in the same predicament, even if there are countless raw meat jerky injected into the entire orc tribe, they can't afford it at all. ”I felt the need to break things down and carefully say to Kuz: "It's like they can't afford black bread, and after the spring hunt, those tribes who can't afford to catch it still can't afford black bread!"
But we are different, the magic crystals in our hands are hard currency, these magic crystals are not only liked by magicians, not only can buy magic items, I believe that those merchants of Guruding also like it, we can exchange the magic crystals for a large amount of food, the cheapest black flour, wheat bran, rice bran these are all fine, as long as you transport them back to the drowning berth, the more the better!
”"Then, just gather the wandering tribes that wander around the wilderness and don't have enough to eat all day long.Well!
Right!
Let them carry the stones, and we will exchange the black bread for those stones, and maybe there will be a master of a large mine like Horsens, and we will also face a dilemma, and we will hire dwarven slaves with them, and those gray dwarf slaves are natural craftsmen, and they should be very good at building walls!
”I stared into Kuz's eyes and asked him, "But then again, Azi, old Kuru has always been holding your ears and letting you learn math, so I'm asking you now, do you know how much black flour you can exchange for this bag of magic crystals on your belt?"
”Kutz looked a little embarrassed and said, "I think I can buy a lot!"
”I pressed my forehead with some distress, and now I can finally understand why old Kuru always frowned so deeply when he talked about Kuz's reluctance to learn, as a lord, without some knowledge of arithmetic, it would definitely not work.I asked him tentatively, "How many gold coins can you exchange for a magic crystal?"
”Kutz glared at me dissatisfied, lowered his voice and said hatefully, "Jia, I'm just not very good at math, but I'm not stupid!"
”I was speechless for a moment and smiled awkwardly at him.The two of us didn't speak, sitting back to back on the grass at the top of the slope, facing the moist wind blowing from the south, looking at the whole village, and we already had our own thoughts in our hearts, maybe we had grown up.To be continued.