Chapter Twenty-Five: The City of the Black Wind

"Dragon Blood Divine Soldier: Third-Order Blood Dragon Sword;

Activation Status: First Order;

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It turned out that after Leki's arm was bruised, his blood unknowingly flowed into the Blood Dragon Sword. The Dragon's Blood Divine Weapon is a divine weapon refined by an ancient dragon, which needs to be activated with the blood of a dragon, and although Thunder is not a dragon, he has the talent of a three-headed golden dragon, which makes his blood also have the characteristics of dragon blood.

The activation of the Blood Dragon Sword is undoubtedly a surprise for Leqi, especially its attributes are simply a bug in Leqi's opinion - when you hit the enemy, you can not only absorb the enemy's vitality, but also give back to yourself! In addition to the amazing hardness of the Blood Dragon Sword, the lethality is similar to that of ordinary whiteboard black iron level weapons, and an ordinary sword causes 5 points of damage, then the blood return is 3 points, and the Blood Dragon Sword does not need to be like an enchanted weapon, and it must be recharged after the energy is exhausted!

Lei Qi guessed that this so-called third order should refer to the maximum activation state of the Blood Dragon Sword should be equivalent to a silver weapon. Although it can't be upgraded indefinitely, Leitch is also very satisfied, you must know that a tabula rasa silver weapon costs 1,000 gold coins, and if you attach a bloodsucking and blood recovery enchantment at the same time, it will definitely cost thousands of gold coins!

With the Blood Dragon Sword in his sheath, Raidy led the Knights towards the Black Wind City. Along the way, Luau carefully explained the current situation in Blackwind to Leech.

Except for Baron Locke, who died mysteriously, all the elite forces of the Locke family have been wiped out in the Battle of Windy Valley, and now there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the city.

The second is taxation, the taxes set by the Locke family are extremely strict -- in the Lei Man Territory, ordinary people need to pay one silver coin every year for the Grand Duke, one gold coin for the first-order awakened, and ten gold coins for the second-order awakened; and the commercial tax is 10 percent****** but the tax rate in the Black Wind Territory is twice that of the Lei Man Territory! Although this will not arouse public anger, it is relatively high.

So, before entering the Black Wind City, Leitch formulated his first law - halving the tax! At the same time, Leitch also secretly ordered Niu 1, Niu 2, and Niu 3 to take four knights to take a step forward, and be sure to intercept all the remnants of the Locke family!

Leitch didn't do this to kill them all, although what the Locke family did was completely the crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, but he didn't want to leave a brutal impression on the people under his control, especially the other lords, and even let the corpses of the Locke family members be collected, he did this just for the wealth of the Locke family - the Locke family has controlled the Black Wind Territory for more than 300 years, and I believe that the harvest should not disappoint him.

Before Leitch entered the city, three pieces of news had spread at an astonishing speed -- the Locke family dispatched more than fifty awakened people to attack eight people, but in the end, it was the Locke family's awakened people who were completely lost! The territorial tax will be halved in the future! The current baron is the great hero who saved the Obsidian Temple, a comrade-in-arms from the Thor Guild!

In a short period of time, Leitch has erected his image in the hearts of the people of Black Wind - powerful, the fall of the Locke family is the best witness, mercy, although the Locke family attacked the baron, but the merciful baron did not kill them all, did not even hang the dead for public display, and the most important thing is that the future tax is only half of the past!

At the same time, Ricky's heroic act of saving the Obsidian Temple and the identities of the two Thor's Guilds also made the people of the Black Wind Territory feel more cordial, and the shadow of the Locke family over the Black Wind City is rapidly dissipating.

The walls of Black Wind City are about ten meters high, blue-gray in color, the walls are large pieces of blue rock, and the circumference of the city wall is about twelve kilometers. There are two gates in Blackwind City, the east gate is by the sea, and Richie is now entering through the other west gate facing the mainland. The gate is five meters high and about six meters wide, and the two dark black iron doors are at least 20 centimeters thick.

Unlike most of the exquisite and luxurious stone attics in Thunderman City, most of the black wind cities are small wooden attics, and the highest is only two floors. At this time, it was drizzling in the sky, and the thin rain and fog seemed to cast a light veil on Black Wind City, which made Leqi involuntarily think of the smoke and rain in his previous life.

After entering from the east gate, you will find the commercial street of Black Wind City, and the closest to the city gate are a hotel and a grocery store, the Three Sisters Hotel and the Five Bucket Rice Store. Listen to Luau's introduction, the three sisters hotel only opened last year, the owner is the three sisters, and it is also three beautiful cat women, good service, delicious wine, so the business of the three sisters hotel has been good. As for the five-bucket rice store, it is also quite legendary, it has been nearly a hundred years since it opened, and the first generation of shop owners was only a poor egg when they first came to Black Wind City, but with their excellent business talent, they finally established this store, and his first pot of gold was to sell five buckets of rice.

In addition to grocery stores and inns, there are also bookstores, blacksmith shops, and barber shops in the shopping street. It is worth mentioning that the only blacksmith shop in Blackwind City was originally the property of the Locke family, but now it has been seized by Ricky, well, in other words, it has now changed its surname to Alec.

Walking out of the mall, there is a white statue of a goddess - none other than one of Dawson's five holy spirits, Caroline, the lucky goddess. Caroline's idol is about three meters tall, her right hand rests on her forehead, and her left hand holds a deck of cards, the legendary Lucky Maiden's most powerful artifact, the Lucky Card.

At this time, the distance of hundreds of meters from the commercial street to the statue of the goddess was already full of people in Black Wind City who were full of expectations, and even the second floor of each attic was crowded with people, and when Leqi rode into the city on a big black horse, Black Wind City suddenly burst into warm cheers. Richie, on the other hand, smiled and waved to everyone.

The members of the Black Wind Knights behind Leitch felt the enthusiasm of the people, and they were all proud, Niu Si and a few of them whistled at the beauties in the crowd, while Fern and the others tried to straighten their chests as much as possible-when they were the servants of the Locke family before, they only felt fear, but they had never felt such heartfelt joy and welcome as now.

After the statue of the goddess, the whole city of Black Wind is cut into three parts by a three-forked river - the business district to the west, the city lord's mansion to the northeast, and the residential area to the southeast, which are organically connected by two wooden suspension bridges.

After crossing the suspension bridge to the northwest, Leitch and his party approached the City Lord's Mansion.

The city lord's mansion is located by the walls built along the two forks of the river, which is equivalent to a city within a city, and was built three hundred years ago when the Locke family was canonized as a baron. Passing through the thick wooden gate, Ray finally saw his own castle - the original Rock Castle, now Alec Castle.

It is said to be a castle, but it is actually a large two-story wooden pavilion. Unlike the roofs in White Creek Village, where the roofs are covered with dried wheat straw, the roofs of the pavilions in Blackwind City are all planked wood. Of course, this kind of plank is specially treated to protect it from rain.

Entering the castle, there is a long dining table ten meters long, with ten chairs on each side of the table, except for a separate chair far from the doorway. At this time, only a few bottles of wine and a few silver wine glasses were placed in the center of the table. A comparison between Locke Castle and the Duke of Princeton's palace shows that there is undoubtedly a huge difference between the minor lord and the big lord, with the small lord's main hall and dining room mixed together, while the big lord is not.

After the dining table, it is the chair that represents the symbol of the baron's power. The wooden steps on which the chair sits are one step higher than the entire hall symbolize the baron's supreme position here. The Baron's chair is made of silver, so it is bright silver, with two handles and a pair of dragon wings on the back.

The more Leitch looked at this white dragon chair, the more satisfied he became, and felt that it was simply tailor-made for him, there are so many good people in the Locke family*******

The main hall is also flanked by two floors, each with two rooms. Larry's room is on the upper left floor, the lower level is the enchantment room and the alchemy room, and Baron Locke's room is on the upper right level. Of course, the Locke family was not the only one with Larry and his son, but only the Barons lived in the Lord's Mansion, and the rest lived in residential areas - so Leitch had more than twenty more properties in his possession.

After Leqi learned about it, he immediately sent a set to each of the Niu brothers. Although Niu Yi didn't say much, he was grateful to Dade in his heart, and in their opinion, I am afraid that they would never find such a considerate and generous nobleman as Leitch. Not to mention newcomers like Niu and the brothers, Leitch even asked Luau to pick a set himself.

You must know that although the housing prices in Black Wind City are not as good as those in Lei Man City, a house like the Locke family will definitely not be bad, and a set will be nearly 100 gold coins, and this time Lei Qi is missing 800 gold coins.

On either side of the hall, in addition to some decorations, there are four crystal display cases. The significance of this kind of display case is similar to that of a weapon rack, which is mainly used to show the family heritage and strength. These four display cases are all high-grade locks, and each cost 100 gold coins. However, there was only one thing in the four display cases - an enchanted ebony greatsword - the Dragon's Flame.

This Dragonflame was the weapon of the first Baron of the Black Wind, and the sword was a meter and a half meters long. Dragon's Flame is a silver-level enchanted weapon with a high-level burning enchantment, which is black overall, with a hint of red looming in the black. Lei Qi wanted to pick it up and take a closer look, but to his surprise, he couldn't pick it up with his strength of **100 catties! So he asked Niu Yi to try it again, but although Niu Yi said that he picked it up, he was also tired and sweating, you must know that Niu Yi's strength is more than 1,200 catties!

It would be more than enough to sell the Dragonflame for four or five thousand gold at auction, but Retch had no intention of doing so - his intention was to let it sit as quietly as it used to be. Not to mention that Lei Qi dances without moving, but without the strength of the Demon Sealer, even the lethality of a silver-level weapon may not be comparable to that of an ordinary black iron-level weapon, let alone the Blood Dragon Sword.

In addition to the main hall, the Castle Lord's Mansion also includes a guardhouse, a blacksmith's room, a basement, a stable, a dungeon, and more. Once he had seen the entire Lord's Mansion, Retch returned to his room to study Skagen's spellbook. Leitch's room was the same as the original Baron Locke's, but he asked Luau to replace all the furniture inside.

When it was time for dinner, Lu Ao, who had not been seen for a long time, sat at the lord's long table at this time, dined with the brothers Leitch and Niu, and at the same time reported in detail the wealth confiscated from the Locke family.

about 53,259 gold coins in cash;

23 sets of real estate;

a blacksmith's shop;

Black Wind Iron Ore Mountains;

30 cubic meters of finished iron ingots in the basement;

and some jewelry, precious stones, weapons and armor equivalent to about 20,000 gold coins.

There is no doubt that Leitch suddenly became a rich man with 70,000 cash. In fact, except for the Black Wind Vein, these riches could not reach Leitch in the first place, and although Duke Princeton deprived the Locke family of their titles and territories, he still allowed them to retain their existing wealth. But the Locke family died, and now all their savings for three hundred years are in the hands of Leitch.

But this 70,000 gold coins is really a lot?

First of all, taxes, two silver coins a year for one person, and one thousand taels a year for sixty thousand people. 1,200 * 300 = 360,000 gold coins. This does not include business taxes and income from the veins. As far as Lu Au knows, the income brought by the ore vein to the Locke family is still above the taxes, that is to say, the wealth handled by the Locke family in the past 300 years is at least more than 800,000! But now in the hands of Leitch, it is only 70,000, and Leitch's depression can be imagined.

Less is a little less, but the 70,000 gold coins are also considered to be picked up for nothing, so Leitch was a little depressed and left it behind. He was now thinking about the future of the realm. Well, in other words, how to get the money.

There is no need to think much about taxation, unless it is the expansion of the territory, it will still be like that in another hundred years. The biggest source of income for the Black Wind Territory is undoubtedly the Black Wind Vein, but Leitch learned that although the Locke family also opened a blacksmith shop, in fact, most of the iron ore was cast into iron ingots for export, simply put, to export raw materials.

Exporting raw materials has always been the lowest business model, and Leitch can't continue to do so. Ryche's plan is to expand the size of the blacksmith shop, and even form a completed weapon armor production line, although the iron ingot can only make black iron level weapons, but the income is also doubled!

But the question is, where does the blacksmith come from?

Even if they are apprentice blacksmiths, most of them prefer to work on their own rather than for others. Unless the income is much more than what they do on their own. But a blacksmith apprentice can probably make one or two black iron weapons in a month, so how much are you going to spend on hiring? Ten gold coins? It's better to do it yourself, and if it's higher, it's a loss****** which is why even those big blacksmith shops are mostly family models.

It seems a bit difficult to do******

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