Chapter VII The Ducal Palace

Although it was sunset, the city was still busy.

Despite being a border city, the city's huge population base and relatively peaceful environment still make the city very prosperous in commerce. Merchants of various races such as minotaurs, goblins, leonins, and humans can be found everywhere, and some specialties of the Orc Empire are popular in other countries.

The night will be dark.

Barr plans to find a place to stay and visit his cheap cousin tomorrow.

After wandering the streets for half an hour, Barr finally found an inn. The name of the store is called the Niuniu United Hotel, and the owner is a kind Minotaur aunt, and after paying 10 silver coins, Barr gets a room of his own. 1 gold coin can be exchanged for 100 silver coins, and both gold and silver coins can be used throughout the Rand world.

Niuniu United Hotel is a two-storey building. The first floor is the equivalent of a hotel with alcohol service, and the second floor is an area for accommodation.

"Guest, please."

Peal pedal, pedal, pedal.

Led by the innkeeper and up to the second floor, Barr found his room.

When I opened the door, there was a bed on the right side of the room, and in the middle was a round wooden table with two chairs on either side of the table. The room was simple but clean and tidy.

Dinner is bread and barbecue from the innkeeper, and the cost is included in the accommodation fee. Barr, who had been tormented by the basah, was very satisfied with this meal.

Lying in bed after dinner, Barr's head was recalling about DeWitt in his previous life? Information on Thunder's Fury.

Devitt Thunder's Fury is also a popular figure in the game. Level 200 lord, Archon of Raging City, and the leader of the Minotaur clan. In the game's second major event, the Awakening of the Ancient Red Dragon, he appeared as the commander of the Orc Legion. Brave in battle, resolute in character, and extremely strategic, he is a real powerhouse in the Orc Empire.

The follow-up plan requires a lot of money to start, and with Baal's current strength, there are very few channels to safely obtain a large amount of gold.

After thinking about it, he can only rely on his own prescient advantage to obtain a large amount of money by selling the information in his hands. After all, no matter what world you are in, intelligence is always the most valuable. This time, Barr was going to sell a large gold vein that had yet to be discovered.

The ore veins of the RAND World are roughly divided into small, medium, large, and super large, and of course, there is also a big gap in reserves between the same grade of ore veins.

Gold ore is a very valuable mineral in the world of Rand, and gold is a hard currency that can be exchanged for gold coins directly, and there is no possibility of depreciation. A large gold mine has gold reserves of about 30 million to 100 million units, and according to the ratio of gold to gold coins at 1:1, at least 30 million gold coins can be obtained from full mining. Generally, a large-scale gold mine can be fully mined in about 100 years, and the net income of a year must be at least 250,000 gold coins, excluding the mining cost.

The reason for the sale of this mine is that there is a shortage of funds in the early stage. On the other hand, the mine is located in the plains at the foot of the western side of the Oran Mountains, close to the border between the two countries, and Barr has no intention of developing here. Moreover, the target of a large gold mine is too big, and Baal does not have the strength to defend it, so selling the news is the best option.

Selling news is a technical job, and it is naturally very happy to sell well. If you don't sell it well, I'm afraid that not only will you not be able to get the money, but you will also have to lose your life.

DeWitt Thunder's Fury was Barr's final choice after careful consideration. After all, he is the patriarch of the Minotaur and is still related to Baal, and if he is not of my race, his heart will be different, and I believe everyone understands it. And this person had an excellent reputation in his previous life, he should not be a treacherous person, in fact, most of the Minotaur clan have an upright temperament, and the human race is more talented in terms of scheming.

What's more important is that he is a real strong man, and strong people are dignified, even if he is really entrusted to him this time, Barr can have no worries about his life.

......

When Barr woke up, it was 7 o'clock in the morning. After eating the breakfast brought by the waiter, and washing his face, Barr departed.

DeWitt was the consul of the city of Fury and held the title of Duke of the Empire. As one of the few lord-level powerhouses in the Orc Empire, if he was a tiger or a lion clan, I am afraid that the position of city lord would have been his. The Duke's Palace is located in the aristocratic gathering area on the northwest side of Fury City, and DeWitt is a well-known local figure, and Barr casually inquired and found the location of the Duke's Palace.

Imperial Duke's Palace, Study.

A tall, burly minotaur was sitting in a chair, his fingers tapping lightly on the table in front of him, looking down in deep thought. The minotaur is sturdy, resolute, and his body is like a cast of copper and iron, and just sitting there gives people the feeling of not moving like a mountain.

A middle-aged man of the fox clan stood on his right hand, looking like he should be a housekeeper.

Looking at the information that had just been sent in front of him, Devit Furui Wubo's face rarely leaked a trace of exhaustion.

Since taking over the position of patriarch, he can be said to be walking on thin ice all these years. In fact, the situation of the Minotaur is not optimistic, most of the Minotaurs have no connection with politics due to their racial nature, and they do not have the talent for management, and most of the territorial development is not satisfactory. And although the Minotaur nominally has a very high status as the superior race of the Orc Empire and the Lion and Tiger races, in fact, they have been suppressed and used by the Lion People and the Tiger People, and most of the clansmen have died on the battlefield.

It has been almost twenty years since DeWitt inherited the position of patriarch, and in the past twenty years, DeWitt can be said to have worked hard for the development of the race, but still has little success.

The orc empire itself is also full of contradictions, and most of the various races are dissatisfied with the oppression of the lion and tiger races, and they are ready to move. The contradictions within the empire have reached a critical point, and if they continue to develop, they may only be able to alleviate internal contradictions by launching foreign wars.

"This bastard!"

Duke DeWitt slammed the table in annoyance. "In the past, it was just a matter of doing nonsense, I thought that finding him something serious to do would be somewhat restrained, but who would have thought that this time he would dare to mortgage the three iron mines in Red Maple City. Who gave him the guts!! ”

"My lord, he is your own brother after all, and Count Harlan was also designed this time." Fawkes hesitated for a moment and whispered.

He is also very helpless about this younger brother of his own adult.

It's just a bad brain, and he knows all day long that he relies on his brother's power to do nonsense, and he is good at gambling. In order to let him take care of himself, his own lord handed over the territory of Red Maple City under his name to him to manage, and he wanted to train him. It's only been a few days, and he went to gamble again, gambling and losing millions of gold coins, and in order to repay the debt, he actually mortgaged the three iron mines in Red Maple City, which is really rotten wood and cannot be carved.

Located directly east of Fury City, Red Maple is nominally the private domain of Duke DeWitt, but in fact it is the common property of the Minotaur clan. The Minotaur have an internal electoral system, and whoever becomes the patriarch will also have the right to manage all the territories within the clan. But even as a patriarch, he has no right to mortgage three iron mines without notifying the Council of Elders, and one of them is a large iron mine of great value.

The Minotaur clan is notoriously poor, and the minerals are even poorer, and the demand for iron in the clan is very large, and these three iron mines are not mere gold coins for the Minotaur clan.

"People can be stupid, but they can't help but know that even if it's my brother, I won't spare it this time!" DeWitt took a deep breath, "Fawkes, inform the guards, arrest this bastard for me and put him in prison, in addition, remove him from all his positions, and leave the affairs of Red Maple City to the deputy city lord for the time being." Also, secretly check whose hand it is this time, some people's hands are too long. ”

"Understood."

Fawkes nodded

"By the way, how many gold coins do we have left on our books?" DeWitt turned his head to look at Fawkes.

Fox thought for a moment.

"There are more than 2 million more, but considering next month's military spending and the expenditure on other things in the government, there are about 1.23 million that can be used."

"Well, go to the treasury and take out a million gold coins, and get back the iron ore that Harlan mortgaged first."

DeWitt habitually knocked on the table, the iron ore must be taken back. No matter who made the trouble this time, at least on the surface, this person did not leak, and it was not clear that he would not be able to make a move. There are too many places to spend money to manage the entire clan, and a million gold coins is not a small amount for oneself. In fact, no one else knows that he who seems to be beautiful on the surface is the real poor.

DeWitt is short of money, very short of money.