Chapter 178: Ratche's Means

Rather than worrying about the loss of population and wealth, forcibly integrating the thousands of blacksmiths in Thumb City was undoubtedly a greater challenge for Retche. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Originally, the military industry in Thumb City was a scattered model of family workshops, and there were more than 800 blacksmiths in the ring finger area alone, but now Leitch wants to forcibly include these thousands of blacksmiths in his chamber of commerce, which is really not much different from smashing the jobs of these blacksmiths, and the challenges he faces can be imagined.

However, the Turner clan has been in charge of Thumb City for thousands of years, and its tentacles have already touched all walks of life in Thumb City, and the blacksmith industry is the pillar industry of Thumb City, and the Turner clan will not let go of this piece of fat -- half of these more than 800 blacksmith shops have Turner's name! Of course, the Turner clan has accumulated over the past thousand years, and now they are all cheaper than Richie.

However, the blacksmith is just an empty house, and the blacksmith is the key, and if these blacksmiths are not willing to work for Leitch, our viscount will have to be a charter man.

In fact, perhaps because of Reich's pardon of the Turners and the newly issued regulations, the gray goblins felt as if the new ruler was merciful, so under some ill-intentioned instigation, nearly half of the blacksmiths either explicitly or implicitly expressed their desire to resist Reich's integration.

Subsequently, Leitch showed the 100,000 demons of Thumb City through practical actions that in addition to mercy, he also has an iron-blooded side - those who do not obey the integrator will be imprisoned, and the whole family will be involved, and those who maliciously instigate will be hanged for public display.

As for the definition of this so-called "malicious incitement", the edict issued by Reich does not say it explicitly;

On the second day after the decree was issued, the demons of Thumb City, who had gradually come out of the smoke of war, were shocked to find more than a dozen corpses hanging on the street! These hideous corpses made these demons realize that this new lord did not come here to enjoy the mountains and rivers, he was a real colonist, and even the first two city lords died at his hands!

Immediately, the integration of the hundreds of blacksmith shops in the city began, and a large number of black-armored warriors divided into countless squads, knocked on the doors of one subway smith shop after another, and then quickly walked out of it, but came out with the blacksmith of the blacksmith shop.

But on closer inspection, one can still see that there is a difference - some of the gray goblin blacksmiths who came out with these black-armored warriors were handcuffed like prisoners, and his blacksmith shop was sealed. Obviously, these were undoubtedly the blacksmiths who did not want to be integrated by Leitch, and according to the decree, they would be imprisoned, even with their families!

Although Leitch had imprisoned the blacksmiths, he had no intention of forcing them to submit to the law - not only did he mercifully imprison them with his own family, but he even provided them with food and drink free of charge. Of course, the free food and drink are far from being tasteful and smelly, and the fact that they only provide one meal a day barely guarantees that they will not starve to death.

Before these stubborn blacksmiths were officially imprisoned, Reich also graciously allowed them to participate in the "Establishment of the Abyss Chapter of the Black Wind Chamber of Commerce and the Inauguration Ceremony of the City Patrol" along with those blacksmiths who were willing to submit.

Because someone deliberately made this ritual very large, not only thousands of blacksmiths, but almost half of the demons of Thumb City gathered in Robinson Square, where the stone statue of the Nine-Fingered Demon City was erected in front of the Thumb District.

As a ritual, its procedures are quite cumbersome, and although this ritual has little to do with Leitch in terms of its name, as the new lord of Thumb City, the tens of thousands of demons in the square can't ignore him as a well-deserved protagonist.

Standing on the temporarily erected high platform, looking down at the tens of thousands of demons with different expressions on the stage, Lei Qi smiled handsomely, and said loudly: "I have brought war here, but believe me, for you, it does not mean that darkness has fallen, but that the dawn is about to shine on this land!"

"There's a natural harbor, there's thousands of good blacksmiths, and I have to say it's a blessed land. Seeing the proud expressions of many demons in the audience, especially the gray goblins, Retch suddenly sneered, "But look what I see here? chaotic neighborhoods, ruined harbors, blacksmiths making good weapons and armor that can barely make ends meet for their families, and lavish palaces - I have to regret to say that this is really a sad place." ”

Seeing that many demons in the audience were glaring at him, Lei Qi turned a blind eye to him, and continued expressionlessly: "There is nothing wrong with the lord's enjoyment, this is the right of a lord, but here, what I see is a lord who can only enjoy himself, forgetting the duty of leading the people under his rule to a better place. Please believe me, I will do my best to transform this place, so that you can live a worthwhile life, and let your children and grandchildren live in glory!"

"Bang! bang!"

As Leitch's words fell, sparse applause rang out, and some people habitually applauded after hearing the applause, while many people were slightly stunned for a moment, secretly looked to the left and right, and finally applauded - in the end, more than half of the people applauded for Leitch!

Even if it was only half, there were tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of people applauded together, it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a wave of applause, not to mention that although many of these abyss demons were not awakened, their physique was far stronger than that of humans on the earth, so they applauded loudly and abnormally.

Hearing the wave of applause, Leitch also smiled with satisfaction - at first, those who applauded him were almost all the ones he secretly asked Leo to find, and now it seems that this kind of thing, no matter what world or occasion, can always play an unexpected role.

Leqi stretched out his hands to signal to stop the applause, and continued: "Under your witness, the Abyss Branch of the Black Wind Chamber of Commerce will be officially established at this moment! Its establishment means that many new things will flow into this city, even new things from the other world that you have never heard of-- delicious food, sweet wine, practical alchemical objects, etc., your life will reach a new level!"

"Lift it up!"

At this time, with the wave of Leqi's right hand, one by one black-armored warriors with food boxes and wine boxes came forward from behind the scenes. If the creatures of the Dawson Federation were here, it would not be difficult for them to recognize that what these black-armored warriors were carefully holding was nothing more than ordinary food—mead, wine, donuts, preserves, and so on.

On this expedition to the Abyss, Leitch came on the Black Wind, so he carried a lot of things, in addition to some goods ready for trade, as well as a large amount of food for himself. After all, no one was sure when the war would progress in the first place, and it was always a good idea to prepare more food. But Leitch did not expect that this expedition to the abyss had been surprisingly smooth so far, and in a short period of time, he had even occupied a piece of territory! With a stable territory, food was naturally no longer a problem.

The reason why Leqi wants to push these things to these demons in Thumb City is not to make any profit from them, he just wants to spread the name of the Black Wind Chamber of Commerce through tens of thousands of mouths, and at the same time, it is to invisibly get closer to these demons - when these demons find that Leitch's arrival is not just to plunder, but also to improve their lives, their attitude towards Leqi will also improve, which is the so-called "brush favorability". Why not have cheap food and drinks to get a good feeling?

Of course, the abyss and Andrew's world are different after all, and it is not clear whether these demons will have the same tastes as them, and if they are not, not only will they make jokes if they take these things out rashly, but even these demons will think that Ricky is maliciously insulting them, and it will be really self-defeating. So before that, Leo secretly sent Leo to do a sample survey, and the subject of the survey was the demon's opinion of the diet of the humans in front of him.

What reassures Leqi is that although it is difficult to find the similarities between these demons and humans in terms of appearance, they are surprisingly fond of these human foods! That's why now, Rage is so confident in pushing these things in front of these tens of thousands of demons.

However, for these completely unfamiliar things in front of them, although many demons were ready to move, they never dared to take the lead. But there will always be the first to eat crabs, and not one, but many—under the gaze of tens of thousands of eyes, a few demons grab food from the food box, or take the wine bottle, and start eating.

“￥#%amp;*！”

Although the black-armored warriors couldn't understand what these demons were saying, they could guess what they meant by looking at their movements and expressions of enjoyment. In this regard, they can only secretly despise in their hearts - a group of dirt buns who have never seen the world, no, they are demon buns******

Looking at the exaggerated expressions of these "eating crabs", Leitch is also secretly happy - these are undoubtedly the trusts that Leo found, and he still has acting talent, but the current level is not enough, which makes people feel a little fake at first glance, and it seems that he still needs to practice. Maybe I should do an Alec Academy Award or something in the future? Well, I deserve to be the final judge for the selection of actresses. But what should I do when those succubi, fox girls, and mermaids want unspoken rules? I've never been good at rejecting beautiful women, and when the time comes, should I accept it or accept it******

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