Chapter 117 Respect and Hate (1)
"Today, ordinary people! So happy!" Chen Kai happily shook the wallet full of magic crystal coins in his hand. The sound of the clinking crystal coins hitting attracted the attention of the three hands on the street. But when they saw the professional marks on Chen Kai and the terrifying height, they chose to give up Chen Kai, a fat sheep.
The most important thing is that Chen Kai was following two people like Huh and Generals, Xue Hai Peak carrying heavy swords and Su Xinghe carrying giant swords. Guan Yu also hoped to come to the imperial capital to wander, but when he stepped into the teleportation array, the system prompted him not to leave the territory of Hu Ge. As a result, Guan Yu was depressed and could only run to find trouble for monsters and demonized cavalry. It is estimated that only he, who was carrying the Holy Artifact Judgment Blade, would not be afraid of the scattered demonized cavalry wandering in the Great Rift Valley.
For Su Xinghe and Xue Haifeng, they didn't mind being Chen Kai's bodyguard or the thug standing behind him to shine their muscles. In fact, they had been in Berkner Town for nearly two months and were eager to run out for a walk. After all, the market in Berkner Town is too bad, and the food is easy to say, at least you can eat enough, but it is absolutely a dream to eat well. Even if Chen Kai, the lord, has the daily meals of potato broth with bread or bread with potato soup.
I have eaten potato stewed soup with bread for nearly two months. Even if a half-giant like Chen Kai has a good stomach, it will smell the soup and it will turn green when I see the bread. But soon Su Wan, who is in charge of the lord's kitchen, changed the recipe. Potato meatloaf with dough pancakes has become the main dishes of Chen Kai and his friends in recent times. Although the ingredients are still the same, I will not even feel like vomiting. Occasionally, I can eat some fast-growing vegetables such as radish and green vegetables, but the quantity is pitiful. Every day, Su Wan must take a stick of girls from the lord's house to go to the vegetable market to fight for the small number of vegetables. When facing the shortage of supply of vegetables, the civilians will also be a little concerned about the lord's kitchen. However, players will not give Chen Kai a good look.
In their opinion, they are all players. Why do I have to give you the place to eat? I can still afford to pay. Why can you buy them? I can't buy them? Naturally, whoever bought the vegetables first will basically have a small-scale fight in the end. In order to grab the vegetables, a small-scale fight broke out in the vegetable market in Berkner Town every morning. Of course, the so-called fight basically ended up Su Wan, who was waving a stick, and the female troops of the Lord's Mansion won the victory. However, it is not ruled out that they were called reinforcements after being besieged. Although Chen Kai worked hard to collect vegetable seeds, as the number of residents in Berkner Town increased, the supply of vegetables became his most headache. It was even more troublesome than the demonized soldiers who harassed the southern castle every day.
In fact, Chen Kai brought Su Xinghe and Xue Haifeng to the imperial capital. In addition to handing over the poor Black Jack with the Bounty of the Sword to Grand Duke Anlosas to get some bounty, he also wanted to buy some vegetables that were stored and transported back to the city. You should know that as a low-level town, the number of times the teleportation array can be used per month is limited. In addition to the return scroll, it takes a lot of spell crystals and energy to teleport to other places, and at the same time, it has to be opened to the other party's teleportation point. At present, Berkner Town can only teleport to the imperial capital, and
This is true in a year. Although Chen Kai felt depressed, at least this teleportation array is much better than the teleportation array in other players' territories that can only be bound to the city scroll. The teleportation arrays of those player lords do not mean that they cannot be teleported to designated cities at all. But you must enter it with the risk of being squeezed into noodles by the space channel. After all, without a full-time space protection array, you cannot teleport at all. Of course, the most important resource and spell crystals consumed in one teleportation are not something that ordinary players can afford.
If this time it was not to hand over Black Jack to Grand Duke Anlosas, and to buy some fruits and vegetables around the imperial capital and return to Berkner Town, how could Chen Kai spend nearly 100,000 gold coins of magic crystals to teleport to the imperial capital? This does not include the return cost he had to pay after stepping on the God Capital teleportation array. The price of a round trip was enough to allow an ordinary indigenous civilian to live a good life for more than ten years. After all, in the game world, 10,000 gold coins can make a family of three rich for a hundred years. Although it is not as big as fish, meat and delicacies every day. However, buying a few hectares of land to become a landlord can still be done, and a two-story garden villa can be built. In other words, even if the teleportation cost of Chen Kai and his friends this time is cheaper, it will be equivalent to gold coins that more than a dozen civilians can spend in their entire lives.
Unfortunately, Chen Kai and the others have to spend more money to buy vegetables. They not only have to supply the soldiers in the castle, but also have to supply them on the market. The most important thing is to improve their own food. Even if Su Wan is a girl, she cannot turn several ingredients into various foods out of thin air, unless she becomes the chef god. Therefore, Chen Kai now shook his wallet in his hand and headed straight to the market in the imperial capital, which is the vegetable market. Of course, it is not the type of retail, but the wholesale market located outside the imperial capital.
Compared with the clean and tidy markets in the Hansting imperial capital, the wholesale market outside the city is definitely a place where most players stop, or most nobles and even civilians stop. Because under the glamorous appearance of the imperial capital, the wholesale market can be said to be the most dirty and messy place. Generally speaking, it can be said that a place where mice walk around and thieves wander around. In addition to commodity trading merchants, it is estimated that only servants who serve the great noble families or the poorest civilians will come here. The first is to buy and sell goods, the middle is to buy daily needs for the huge family members of the great nobles, and the last is to pick up some decayed ingredients to live.
Chen Kai and his friends went to this place called Xiaoye Market to buy a small amount of things. In order to transport a large amount of vegetables and vegetables, Chen Kai rented a large number of space bags from the players. However, Chen Kai, who was walking towards the market, suddenly stopped, and Xue Haifeng, who was following his head, did not stop and directly hit Chen Kai's back without stopping the car for a while.
"What's wrong! Boss Chen, don't stop in a hurry if you're fine!" Rubbing his nose that was hit so much that he was hit. However, after he finished speaking, he saw Chen Kai turn around quickly, then bypass him and run wildly in the direction he came.
"Stop! Baron Kaichen! Don't leave! Wait for me!" Following the source of the sound, Xue Haifeng and Su Xinghe's eyes instantly saw a fat man wearing high-ranking noble clothes chasing over. Xue Haifeng, who was familiar with the appearance of the nobles in the imperial capital, quickly took the other person's appearance. Then he was surprised to find that the fat man chasing over was officially Prime Minister Capello. But he didn't understand why the other person was chasing over, and why Chen Kai saw that the other person wanted to run away.
But no matter what, Xue Haifeng and Su Xinghe stood in the middle of the road very conscientiously to block each other, but reality often had a very big gap with ideals. Originally, they thought Prime Minister Capello was just a civil servant, but when they were blocking the road, they suddenly realized that reality was not like this. The moment they were hit by the other party, Xue Haifeng and Su Xinghe felt like they were hit by a big truck. They almost instantly flew up and flew backwards. When they fell to the ground, they even saw the disdainful expression flashing across Prime Minister Capello's face.
"Damn it! Did I be hit by a wild buffalo just now?" Xue Haifeng struggled to get up from the ground, and Su Xinghe also struggled to get up from the ground. There were obvious impact marks on their shoulder armor. The nails on the solid metal shoulder armor were almost shattered directly. If they were not used to placing thick sponges under the armor, they would probably have been shattered directly now.
"It's not a wild buffalo! This power is stronger than a wild boar in the abyss! I didn't expect that the prime minister was so terrifying! But why did he chase Chen Kai?" Su Xinghe rubbed his shoulders. He knew very well that if it weren't for the prime minister's strength, he hadn't restrained a little. Their shoulders were definitely not just swollen, but were completely crushed into meat paste. At that moment, Su Xinghe found that the prime minister's strength was at least above the Great Knight, and a strong man who might be a holy realm became the prime minister of an empire.
Su Xinghe suddenly realized that he couldn't understand. In his opinion, the prime minister was just weak civil officials, but now a prime minister has no power than ordinary knights. However, neither Su Xinghe nor Xuehai Peak understood why Prime Minister Capello wanted to chase Chen Kai. Chen Kai wanted to turn around and run away the moment he saw the other party. If it was just to open up the Great Rift Valley trade route, Chen Kai would not have run away when he saw the other party, as if he was going to lose something.
Su Xinghe didn't understand why, but Chen Kai understood very well. He turned around and ran away not because Prime Minister Capello was causing trouble for him. But because he was worried about his own money. Chen Kai knew very well how much the prime minister was short of money, and he almost wanted to catch a rich man to ask the other party if he wanted his calligraphy and paintings. In order to restore the Golden Plain as soon as possible for His Majesty the Emperor, Prime Minister Capello tried every means, but the input and output were completely disproportionate. Although he had once fought the idea of buying and selling the Golden Plain without a master territory, the place was already stinky. Basically, no fool Aboriginal noble would run to take over, and even Chen Kai's senior brother and Prime Minister Capello's own son could not hold on.
Poverty is second to the point. The most terrifying thing is the power of death everywhere and the polluted and uncultivated land. Although with the efforts of the temple priests and spellcasters, the two lords' land slightly restored some cultivation ability, the barren land is almost inseparable from the golden plains that can be oiled by the fat ones in the past. If you want to restore the land of the past, you will need more gold coins in addition to investing a larger scale of strength. Therefore, the prime minister needs money very much, and he wants to raise the restoration.
The money from the Great Plain Land has been used by players, but the player is not a fool when facing a territory that is almost a land of death, but the player is not willing to invest a large amount of gold coins to buy. Of course, they also want to buy old territory with urban buildings, but a few player guilds spent a large amount of gold coins to buy and lost money after buying it. Some useful things were found inside, but more were hidden ghouls. As a result, after the players entered, they turned into corpses and never came out again.
It is precisely this situation that Prime Minister Capello was unable to carry out such a deal that many nobles criticized after only gaining less than three million gold coins. He also did not tell those players that these towns had been swept away by the valuable things inside. Therefore, except for a leveling point, these players' guilds bought them back, they were basically a big burden.
However, Prime Minister Capello, who had not received a large amount of gold coins for a long time, suddenly heard his subordinates report that Chen Kai had returned to the imperial capital. He also obtained a large amount of gold coins from Grand Duke Anlosas, which means that Chen Kai completed the task of Black Jack. Although the slaughter was very dissatisfied with Chen Kai's acquisition of the dark flowers and did not pay taxes, he also saw the opportunity to sell items to Chen Kai, so he almost rushed out of the official residence and ran towards Chen Kai directly.
"Baron Kaichen! What are you running? I won't eat you again, and I won't charge you taxes, so why run away!" Prime Minister Capello looked at the Baron of the Empire who was thrown to the ground by him. He didn't understand why the other party turned around and ran away when he saw him. If it weren't for his strong enough power, he might have let the other party escape directly, wasting this opportunity to earn gold coins.
"Sorry! But can the Prime Minister come down first? At worst, can I not run away?" Chen Kai looked at the imperial prime minister who was pounced on him and felt that he was too unlucky. He knew very well that the other party came over and was definitely aiming at his own wallet.
"Okay! Baron Kaichen! I heard that you retreated from the attack of a group of horse thieves not long ago. This is a contribution to the empire. I will ask you for merit from His Majesty the Emperor!" In a hotel, Prime Minister Capello and Chen Kai were sitting together, of course, doing the opposite. Not far away, the hotel owner came over with some exquisite food and fine wine, and placed it on the table to invite Chen Kai and Prime Minister to eat.
"Thank you, Lord Prime Minister!" Looking at the exquisite food on the plate, Chen Kai's stomach was rumbled but he had no appetite at all, because he didn't know what medicine the prime minister sold in his stomach.
"No need to thank you! You eat it! The dishes in this hotel are very good. Especially this! Roasted lamb chops, top-quality Andean little goat meat!" Prime Minister Capello eliminated the food at a speed that Chen Kai could not even reach, but this gave Chen Kai the feeling that the other party seemed to have not eaten good things for a long time.
"Master Prime Minister! You should just say something is wrong! Otherwise I really can't eat it!" Chen Kai still didn't use a knife and fork after a long time. He couldn't help but put down the fork in his hand and looked at Prime Minister Capello. The chair under his butt made a creaking sound under his movements. The largest chair the hotel owner finally found was tenaciously bearing unbearable weight. But it was still firm and not broken.
"Okay! I heard that you were attacked by the former lord's demonized troops some time ago, and you almost broke the castle, right?" Prime Minister Capello slowly put down his knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and he didn't speak until he swallowed his last bite of food.
"Yes!" Chen Kai was not surprised that the prime minister in front of him knew these things, because in his opinion, it was strange that the other party didn't know.
"Now I'll give you a chance! An opportunity to quickly improve your strength! There are not many opportunities like this. I won't give him ordinary people!" Hearing Chen Kai's answer, Prime Minister Capello quickly threw out his prepared words. Then he slowly took out a pampered roll from his pocket and spread it in front of Chen Kai.
Chen Kai immediately leaned out to check the parchment scroll, and saw words like this written on it, "Eighteen ways to fool travelers!" When Chen Kai saw the fonts clearly, his face turned funny, and the Prime Minister himself also had a funny face.
"Ahem! Sorry, I took it wrong! I took it wrong! This is the right one! Put it down, we are old friends, I will not fool you!" Although Prime Minister Capello said this, he still felt worried when he took out the thing and confirmed it carefully before he completely spread out the parchment.
"Are you sure the things on it are not illegal?" Chen Kai was stunned at the first sight when he picked up the parchment paper, and then a trace of cold sweat spread from his head in an instant. There were a line of black characters written on the first row of the parchment paper, with one thousand black armored cavalry in Hugodi, and then three thousand regular black armored soldiers in Hugodi, etc. If Chen Kai guessed correctly, the prime minister would definitely pack up the rebels who were former lords in the territory surrounding Hugodi to sell them to Chen Kai.
"Of course it's not a violation! As long as you can suppress them! By the way, I heard that some of their families are still in Hugodi territory, and the rest are controlled by the lords and packaged and sold to you! Don't worry, it's not the first time to do a business with me, so I will definitely help you get everything done! As long as you sign, you'll give the money, everything will be OK!" Prime Minister Capello patted his chest and promised, but Chen Kai felt extremely scared at the amount under the parchment. If he signs this word, two million gold coins will be gone.
"Where is their equipment? There is no written on it, and whether these soldiers are disabled or have become idiots, you have not said how many of their families are! The most important thing is that you are sure that Baron Kemal Dahl and others will let these soldiers into my territory? Dear Prime Minister, I think you are very clear that if they hadn't dragged me down, I might have started to attack the Rift Valley now!" Chen Kai was not a complete business idiot, so every word he said made Prime Minister look ugly.
Listening to Chen Kai's questions, the prime minister couldn't help but take out the napkin on the table and wipe the sweat on his forehead. He didn't know whether the sweat was anxious by Chen Kai's words or the spicy spices in the lamb chops. However, Chen Kai estimated that the former was more likely than the latter, but when he ate the lamb chops, he suddenly realized that perhaps the possibility of the latter was greater. At this time, Chen Kai suddenly remembered that when he walked into the store, he seemed to see the words "spicy" written on the sign outside.
Finally, under Chen Kai's argument or nonsense, Prime Minister Capello agreed to issue an order to let Baron Kemal and his party release the surrendered soldiers and their families bought by Chen Kai. At the same time, Prime Minister Capello also tried his best to ensure that the weapons and equipment they carried, including the war horses. Of course, Chen Kai had to pay 2.1 million gold coins for this. In addition to providing the nearly 5,000 troops and horses, Prime Minister Capello also had to ensure that they had food for nearly a month. This was something Chen Kai paid more than 100,000 gold coins. Because Chen Kai was also mixed with his own private goods, after all, relying on the transportation of the three of them, it was impossible to transport vegetables that could be eaten by more than 20,000 mouths in the city in one trip.
Chapter completed!