Chapter 95: All for Food (I)
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Chen Kai, who had stayed up on the high platform all night, walked off the high platform with red eyes and a yawn, of course, there were other people who also didn't sleep well all night. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the Wèn Aishang Novel Network biquge.info) because the houses in the entire castle have just been built, and there is basically no decoration. Except for the ornate marble carvings on the floor, there are no decorations in the corridors of the entire castle.
Therefore, when it was dawn the next day, Xu Fei and the others began to decorate the castle according to the drawings that had been planned overnight. The decoration of most rooms is very simple, that is, laying out the carpet and hanging oil paintings. In fact, by the time they left Berkner Manor, they had basically removed all the contents of the manor's rooms, except for the immovable beds.
Because the system did not remind them that these items could not be moved, and before Chen Kai and the others left the imperial capital, the Berkner Manor was Chen Kai's private property, so they could be tossed wantonly. Except for those large items that can't be moved, such as beds, cabinets, etc. Paintings, carpets, tapestries, and armor ornaments that could have been removed were all looted by Chen Kai and the others, and now they are placed all over the castle.
Of course, in addition to the items looted from the Burkner Manor, there were also delicate items that Chen Kai and the others had brought back from the Rohan Empire that they had not sold. For example, gold and silver vessels produced in the north of the Rohan Empire were fired with a special glaze to create unique patterns. In this way, gold and silver vessels were also difficult to buy in the Rohan Empire, because it was much more difficult to depict the firing patterns with glaze on gold and silver vessels than to inlay gold and silver on other materials. Therefore, the price of utensils like Hansting is nearly twice as high as that of the Rohan Empire, and some of the fine products are even more difficult to buy, and the things that Chen Kai put out cannot be said to be unique, but they are also extremely rare boutiques. If it wasn't a boutique, Chen Kai would have sold them for money a long time ago, and only those rare things Chen Kai would put away, and now serve as decorations for the castle.
In order to completely decorate the entire castle, not only Chen Kai and the others did to help, but also Su Xinghe's friends and Huang Dao's classmates were also busy all day, and it took a whole day to finish the decoration of the entire castle. However, the problem of the beds in the castle is still not solved, because the Imperial Civil Mage Corps does not care about this. As a result, the first commercial project in the whole town of Burkner to flourish was not the grain merchant. It's a carpenter. Because there is no furniture seller in the whole town, and there is no bed, everyone can only make a bunk on the floor sadly, which is why Chen Kai did not sleep all night. It's not that he doesn't want to sleep because he is excited, but when he opens the door and goes in, he finds that there is only a platform for a bed in the room, but there is no bed, let alone a quilt. In this case, Chen Kai couldn't think of any other solution to sleep than sleeping on the floor.
However, Berkner's commercial development was destined to be tortuous, because there were not many qualified carpenters among the players. Of the nearly 3,000 players in the city, only about 40 have a side job as carpentry. And there are only three qualified carpenters. There is only one carpenter who can make wooden bed furniture, and he himself is a worker in a furniture factory.
As a result, in reality, this is just a low-level technician who struggles to earn less than 100 yuan a day, and he earns more than 3,000 gold coins in three days in the game world. This is still just a deposit, and basically every player who has slept enough on a hard floor in order to sleep in a good big bed is not stingy with gold. Of course, in order to keep those militiamen in the territory safely, Chen Kai also had to take out gold coins to order a bed from that player.
But this player only has one pair of hands and feet, and making zuò items in this game is not as simple as in other games, just a few clicks to read a note. An ordinary wooden bed would take hours to come out. And it's the kind that hasn't been planed, painted, or even the wood has dried. The worst thing is that you don't dislike this kind of wooden bed, it's good to have it. As for the cabinet, it is even worse, even the latch is simple. If you want to work finely, you need to wait, or you can only continue to sleep on the floor.
In the end, Chen Kai was forced to have no choice, he had to send people to the player's territory on the side to buy furniture, and furniture trading became the earliest foreign trade business activity in Burkner Town. It's just that the development of the surrounding players is not very good, after all, the players in the Hugodi territory are only able to gain a firm foothold, and the business development can be said to be a toddler. It's just that their luck is better than Chen Kai's, because they directly obtained a large number of people who have been relocated from the city of Hugodi. Although the largest number of aboriginal nobles are still occupied by the alliance of the aboriginal nobility. But in the end, it is better than Chen Kai, who is poor and white, and does not have a single aboriginal civilian, if Chen Kai has thousands of aboriginal civilians who are not soldiers, then the commercial activities in the city will be more prosperous. At least you won't see people shopping at night, and you won't see a ghost in some urban areas during the day.
However, there are also advantages of fewer people, at least in the early stage of urban development, Chen Kai does not have to worry about the occurrence of chickens and dogs in the city. Because in the entire city, except for Chen Kai's troops, there are only those players who have been forced to leave the original place to beg for a living. Although these players took over the task of attacking Chen Kai's troops, they have now become Chen Kai's helpers. At least for the sake of gold and experience, these players are very dedicated to helping Chen Kai patrol the neighborhood, cleaning up the rats and flying monsters that sneak into the city from outside. The so-called flying monsters are endemic creatures of the Great Rift Valley not far from the town of Burkner, and are giant bats from the dark world underground.
When these bats are in the Underworld, they are the enemies of ordinary Underworld residents. Because they not only suck blood, but also devour the brain. As for why the giant bats living in the underground world appeared in Chen Kai's territory. The reason is simple: it was all the sins of the former lord. Because the former Hugodi lord completely opened the passage to the underworld in the Great Rift Valley, and then fled inside. Then the trade routes of the entire Rift Valley became what they are now. Not only do you have to face terrible natural dangers, but you also have to watch out for the attacks of the monsters of the underworld, as well as the troops of the former lords who fled into the underworld and wandered out.
Of course, the player's advantage in attacking flying creatures is not obvious, because bats can fly very fast, even giant bats. Far from slowing them down, their sheer size increases their impact when diving. Coupled with their thick skin, a crossbow bolt with a normal strength of less than 100 pounds could not penetrate their skin for ten meters. If Chen Kai was allowed to turn the heavy crossbow on the city wall, he could easily shoot those bats, but only if the crossbow arrows could hit the target. In fact, the best way to deal with these bats is fishing nets or arachnios, so when Chen Kai sent people to other territories to buy furniture, those player lords first hoped to exchange a large number of arachnican scrolls from Chen Kai.
It's just that compared to the bats in those players' territories, Chen Kai's Burkna town is much safer. Because in the past, the civil mage group stationed here to build the city had no mercy on these bats. Many of the players and indigenous civilians who wander around rely on the bat corpses killed by the mages to earn their living resources, and many of them fight each other for some of the corpses. It's just that with the departure of the mage group, Chen Kai and his team have to take on the heavy responsibility of destroying the bats themselves. Thankfully, under the slaughter of those spellcasters, only a small number of bats dared to enter the city to attack humans, and these bats could not even make a splash under the player's slaughter.
In fact, the main force to kill bats is not the player with crossbow arrows and torches fishing nets, but the two little flying dragons of Chen Kai and Su Wan. Already growing to more than three meters in length, they are now learning to fly, and every night is their time to practice flying, and their opponents are giant bats flapping their wings in the sky.
It's just that the first night the two little guys were basically caught by bats. If it's not thick enough on the scales on the body, there are other players below to help. It is estimated that Donnie and Kim will be directly sucked into wyvern jerky by the giant bats, but by the next day, as they gradually become familiar with the flying attitude, they will start chasing the giant bats in the air. But the final result is that the crash ends, fortunately, their skin is rough and thick, even if they fall from a height of more than ten meters, the skin will not break, and the bone roots will not be broken.
By the time Chen Kai and the others began to completely master the third night of Burkner Town, the two little guys had already thoroughly mastered the skills of high-speed flight pursuit after suffering all the hardships. Jumping and flying, he used his tail to knock the first bat out of mid-air. After that, the entire sky of Berkner became a paradise for the two juvenile wyverns. Although they are only level 4, the two-headed wyvern with the elite template can easily defeat ordinary giant bats with the particularity of dragon creatures and special bloodlines. Even though some of the giant bats were as elite as sixth-order creatures, they were still just prey in the eyes of the even larger wyverns.
It's just that the bat meat is too thick and poisonous, and Donnie and Kim basically don't touch the corpse, and they never use their teeth to bite but use their claws and tails to attack. But after all, the two little guys are alone, if they encounter a large giant bat, they still turn around and run, fortunately, there are almost no large bat colonies around the entire town of Berkner, and the largest number is only a dozen small troops. The large swarms of bats had been slaughtered by the spellcasters who had built the city, and all that was left was a few fragile crooked melons and cracked dates.
Because the town of Burkner is not infested by giant bats. As a result, the original Hugodi residents scattered in the surrounding fields began to slowly move to live in the town, and the arrival of these residents finally made the city a little more popular. But the total number of inhabitants scattered in the wilderness around Berkna was less than 3,000, and they were all poor peasants with no property or poor people who had lived in the city of Hugodi. These people have little craft, and they don't have much ability to make a living, so they are abandoned by the aboriginal nobles or not accepted by the player lords. Only Chen Kai, a hungry lord, will absorb them, and then allocate land for them to cultivate, of course, if they can't even farm, then Chen Kai can only let themselves perish. Fortunately, although these poor people did not have much ability, they were at least relatively industrious, and the day after Chen Kai allocated the land to them, they began to reclaim the ground and prepare for farming. The land that Chen Kai gave them was farmland less than two kilometers from the city. Somewhere north of the city, of course. The area to the west was the land that was to be given to the families of the soldiers in the future, while the area to the east and south was near the Great Rift Valley, and basically no one wanted it.
In fact, Chen Kai's strategic location is very important. Because it is five kilometers southeast is the northern exit of the Great Rift Valley, where Chen Kai spent a full 200,000 gold coins to rebuild the original old bunker. Then more than a thousand players were sent here by Chen Kai, except for sending Su Xinghe's friends and Huang Dao's classmates to collect tolls, Chen Kai didn't care much about other things. In fact, he didn't have the energy to do it, because there were so many places in the city that needed him to be busy. In addition to arranging patrols, he also had to run with people to clear out the monsters that appeared in the territory and the rebels left behind by the former lord. The most important thing was that he had to deal with the soldiers of the noble alliance who had surrendered, but to his annoyance, Baron Kemdal and his party were clearly not interested in offering ransom money to ransom their own soldiers. As a result, Chen Kai had to take on the problem of food and accommodation for more than 1,000 soldiers, which made him, who originally wanted to rely on the ransom to earn some pocket money, angrily want to cut people.
In the end, Chen Kai still didn't cut down the surrendered soldiers. Instead, they were sent home with a little money to pay for the journey. It's just that Chen Kai didn't expect that his behavior of wanting to get rid of his burden brought him huge prestige, and by the way, many civilians in the territory of the Noble Alliance fled to his territory. Of course, it was a matter of a month before such a thing happened, and for Chen Kai, who had just dealt with those surrendered soldiers, he now had only two headaches, the first was the problem of food, and then the problem of housing.
For the player, or for every living creature in the game, the world eats the most. There is no need to talk about life without filling your stomach, and it is very difficult to feed the nearly 10,000 mouths of Burkner Town. Although Chen Kai had already purchased a huge amount of grain on the way to his territory, the grain in the northern region had problems due to the ghoul disaster in the Golden Great Plains, and the grain in the south could not be delivered because the trade route in the Great Rift Valley was blocked. As a result, Chen Kai spent a huge amount of money to buy food, which could only last 10,000 people for less than a month. After a month, everyone will have to go hungry and eat the northwest wind.
The second is the problem of housing, although Chen Kai had asked the empire's civil mage group to build many houses before, but as the number of residents in the entire city increased, the number of houses began to run out. However, the new houses will certainly not be able to keep up with the increase in residents, because there is no professional house builder in the city, that is, a secondary job of earth elemental mage. Chen Kai really hopes that the zodiac or other earth elemental mages in the city can get this sub-job sooner, but it is obvious that it is still difficult for players to obtain this sub-job, because the house builder, also known as the earth caster, is a mage who specializes in earth elemental mimetic spells. The attack power is not very high, so it is not very popular with players. Although Zodiac is now also specializing in spell mimesis, he specializes in destructive spells, not construction spells, and even if the end result is almost the same, he doesn't have the magic power to support the entire construction of a house.
However, for now, the houses are still sufficient, so Chen Kai can let those earth elemental mages slowly build houses. That is, using spells to assemble pieces of rocks and combine them into simple houses. Of course, if you want to build the same houses as those civil mages around, it is estimated that the difficulty will be very high, and you need to accumulate experience continuously. Thankfully, they still have time, and before they solve the food problem. Chen Kai also doesn't want to increase the population quickly. In fact, even if he wanted to, there was no one around.
"Food! Where to get the whole grain! Chen Kai scratched his ears and thought that while he was thinking about food, the others were busy with other things. Xu Fei was busy forming Berkner's local spell association, of course, just hanging a sign and then using a special magic array to notify the Imperial Spell Association headquarters. In other words, he is now hanging a sign and making a report, and when the report is cleared, then the Mage Guild in Berkner will be incorporated into the Imperial Mage Guild, and then there will be a fixed number of aboriginal spellcasters in the city who will be assigned to set up a teleportation array. But if the application can't be passed, then Chen Kai will have to pay for the teleportation array himself.
Of course, Xu Fei is not the only one doing this. The same goes for others. Fei Yun also wanted to report it to the Thieves Association. Preparing to establish a burglars' guild in Burkner, of course this idea was sustained by him. Because the Society of Thieves is not a good organization. In fact, the Thieves' Guild is a neutral and evil-leaning organization in the game, after all, thieves are professionals who live in the shadows. When Berkner's security system was not yet fully established, Fei Yun didn't want to attract a gang of thieves to his leader's territory. Therefore, the Thieves' Guild established by Fei Yun is a thorough player organization, and it is only a small exchange organization limited to local intelligence sharing and then issuing some low-level mercenary missions or exchanging thieves' items with each other.
It can be said that in the whole city, various organizations that are basically similar to big cities are slowly being established, and the first ones to be established are the Mercenary Guild and the Adventurer Guild. The two organizations were established on the third day after the establishment of Chen Kai's territory, but there were not many high-level mercenaries and adventurers coming, and the mercenary association and adventurer guild of the entire city were just responsible for issuing tasks.
As for the temple, there is only one temple of Hades that has appeared with the city, and it is also the lowest church-level temple. This is where most of the players are resurrected, but Chen Kai has carved out the temple area, and first built the Temple of Dawn and the Temple of Life. But there is only a temple and no priests, and the current priests of the Dawn Temple are Chen Kai and Su Wan, who are just presiding over the usual prayers. Compared to Chen Yi's genuine sacrifice, Chen Kai and Su Wan are a little unqualified, although the entire Hansting Dawn Temple has the most believers, but there are too few qualified priests among the players. What made Chen Kai depressed was that most of the priests were priests of the Temple of Life, and as a result, the Temple of Life in Berkner Town was the first to be established and slowly emitted the divine light of the temple.
If it is not surprising, the Temple of Life in Berkner will become a temple that attracts the attention of the gods, which makes Chen Kai, who is a believer of the Temple of Dawn and a part-time lord and a knight of divine grace, feel embarrassed. However, there are very few priest players in the Temple of Dawn, and most of them are mainly Knights of the Dawn Temple, especially after the appearance of Chen Kai, the Divine Knight, most of the players who joined the Temple of Dawn are mainly Knights. Basically, it would be good to be able to find a priest professional among the hundred Dawn Temple players in the entire Hansting, and the priests are scarce, in addition to the lack of healing skills in the Dawn Temple, another important reason is that the priests of the Dawn Temple are mainly combat priests, and there are fewer magicians and part-time combat priests, which makes it difficult for many players to accept.
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