Chapter 117: Respect and Hate (1)
Today's common people! What a pleasure! Chen Kai happily shook the money bag full of crystal coins in his hand, and the sound of crystal coins colliding inside attracted the attention of those three hands on the street. But when they saw the career mark on Chen Kai's body and the terrifying height, they all chose to give up Chen Kai, a fat sheep.
The most important thing is that Chen Kai is followed by two Cun Zài who are like humming and humming, Xuehaifeng who is carrying a heavy sword, and Su Xinghe who is carrying a giant sword. Guan Yu also wanted to come to the imperial capital to hang around, but when he stepped into the teleportation array, the system prompted him that he could not leave the territory of Hu Gedi. As a result, Guan Yu, who was depressed, could only run to find trouble with the demons and the demonized cavalry, and it was estimated that only with the blade of the holy weapon of judgment would he not be afraid of the scattered demonized cavalry wandering in the Great Rift.
For Su Xinghe and Xuehaifeng, they didn't mind acting as Chen Kai's bodyguards or the thugs who stood behind him to show their muscles, in fact, they had been holding back in Berkner for nearly two months, and they couldn't wait to run out for a walk. After all, the market in Burkner Town is so bad, and the food is okay, at least you can eat enough, but it is definitely a fool's dream to eat well. Even if it is the lord Chen Kai, the daily meal is potato broth with bread or bread with potato soup.
I have eaten potato stewed broth with bread for nearly two months in a row, even if a half-giant like Chen Kai has a good stomach enough, smelling the broth is like vomiting, and his face is green when he sees bread. But soon Su Wan, who was in charge of the kitchen of the lord's mansion, changed the recipe, and the potato patty with dough pancakes became the staple dish of Chen Kai and them recently. Although the ingredients are still the same, I finally don't want to vomit after eating. Occasionally, I can eat some fast-growing vegetables such as turnips and greens, but the amount is pitiful. Every day, Su Wan had to take a stick of girls from the Lord's Mansion to the vegetable market to fight, the purpose was to compete for the small number of vegetables. In the face of a shortage of vegetables, the commoners will also be a little wary of the lord's quarters. But the players won't give Chen Kai a good look.
In their eyes, they are all players, why should I give it to you where I eat, I can afford to pay for it, why can you buy it, I can't buy it. Naturally, the last vegetables were basically bought first by whoever bought them, and a skirmish broke out every morning in the vegetable market in Burkner Town in order to grab the vegetables. Of course, the so-called weapon fight basically ended with Su Wan, who was wielding a stick, and the women's army of the lord's mansion won the victory, but it was not excluded that reinforcements would be called after being besieged. Although Chen Kai worked hard to collect vegetable seeds, as the number of residents in Burkner increased, the supply of vegetables became his biggest headache. It's even more of a headache than the demonic soldiers who harass the Southern Castle every day.
In fact, Chen Kai took Su Xinghe and Xuehaifeng to the imperial capital, in addition to handing over the poor Broken Knife Black Jack to Grand Duke Anrosas to get some bounty, he also had the idea of buying some vegetables that were stored and transported back to the city. You must know that as a low-level town, the teleportation array can be used a limited number of times per month. In addition to the City Return Scroll, teleporting to other places requires a lot of spell crystals and energy, as well as opening up the opponent's waypoint. For now, the town of Burkna can only teleport to the Imperial Capital, and for a year. Although Chen Kai felt very depressed like this, at least this teleportation array was much better than the teleportation array in other players' territories that could only be bound to the return city scroll. It doesn't mean that the player lord's teleportation circle can't teleport to the designated city at all. But you have to get into it at the risk of being squeezed into noodles by the spatial passage. After all, without a full-time space protection circle, it is impossible to teleport over long distances, and of course, the most important thing is that the resources and spell crystals consumed by teleportation at one time are not affordable for ordinary players. If it wasn't for the purpose of handing Blackjack over to the Grand Duke of Anrosas this time, and also for the purpose of purchasing some vegetables and fruits around the imperial capital to return to Berkna Town, how could Chen Kai spend nearly 100,000 gold coins of spell crystals to teleport to the imperial capital. This doesn't include the cost of his return trip after stepping on the Divine Capital Teleportation Array. The price of a round trip is enough for an ordinary aboriginal civilian to live well for more than a dozen lifetimes. 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 good as big fish and meat every day. But it is still possible to buy a few hectares of land and become a landlord, and it is possible to build a small two-story garden house. In other words, Chen Kai: The cost of their teleportation this time is cheaper even if they return to the road. It is equivalent to the gold coins that more than a dozen civilians may not be able to spend in their lifetime. …,
It's a pity that Chen Kai and the others still need to spend more money to buy vegetables, not only to supply the soldiers in the castle, but also to supply the market, and most importantly, to improve their own food. No matter how virtuous Su Wan is, she can't turn a few ingredients into a variety of meals out of thin air, unless she becomes a kitchen god. Therefore, now Chen Kai shook the money bag in his hand and went straight to the bazaar in the imperial capital, that is, the vegetable market, of course, not the retail kind, but the wholesale market located outside the imperial capital.
Compared to the clean and tidy bazaars in the Hansting Imperial Capital, the wholesale market outside the city is definitely where most players or most nobles and even commoners stop. Because under the glossy exterior of the imperial capital, the wholesale market can be said to be the dirtiest and messies, and it can be said that it can be said to be a place where rats walk everywhere and thieves slip everywhere. With the exception of merchants who traded in large quantities of goods, it was estimated that only servants of the great noble families or the poorest of the commoners would come here. The former is to buy and sell goods, the middle is to buy daily necessities for the large family members of the great nobles, and the last is to pick up some leftover rotten ingredients to survive.
Chen Kai and the others went to this place called the Dawn Night Market to buy a small amount of things, in order to be able to transport a large number of vegetables back, Chen Kai rented a large number of space bags from those players. It's just that Chen Kai, who was walking towards the market, suddenly stopped, and Xuehaifeng, who was following his head around behind him, didn't stop the car for a while, and directly crashed into Chen Kai's back.
"What's wrong! Boss Chen, don't stop if you're fine! "Rubbing his nose that hurt from being hit. It's just that after he finished speaking, he saw Chen Kai quickly turn around, and then bypassed him and ran directly in the direction he came.
"Stop! Baron Kaichen! Don't go! Wait for me! Following the source of the voice, the eyes of Xuehaifeng and Su Xinghe instantly saw a fat man in the costume of a high-ranking nobleman chasing after him out of breath, and Xuehaifeng, who was familiar with the appearance of the nobles of the imperial capital, quickly matched the other party's appearance into the seat. Then he was surprised to find that the fat man who chased after him was officially Prime Minister Capello. It's just that he didn't understand why the other party chased after him, and why Chen Kai wanted to run when he saw the other party.
But no matter what, Xuehaifeng and Su Xinghe still stood in the middle of the road very dutifully and wanted to block each other, but there was often a very big gap between reality and ideals. Originally, they thought that Prime Minister Capello was just a civilian official, but when they stopped in the middle of the road, they suddenly realized that this was not the case. At the moment when they were hit by the other party, Xuehaifeng and Su Xinghe both had a feeling of being hit by a big truck, they almost instantly took off into the air and flew out upside down, and when they fell to the ground, they even saw the disdainful expression on Prime Minister Capello's face.
"I'm rubbing! Did Lao Tzu just be hit by a bison! It was a long time before Xuehaifeng struggled to get up from the ground, and Su Xinghe also struggled to get up from the ground. Visible impact marks were left on their shoulder armor. The spikes on the sturdy metal shoulder armor were almost directly shattered, and if it weren't for their habit of putting a thick sponge under the armor, it is estimated that now the entire shoulder would have been shattered not by bone but directly by now.
"Not a bison! This power is stronger than the abyssal boar! I didn't think that prime minister was so terrifying! But why is he chasing Chen Kai? Su Xinghe rubbed his shoulder, he knew very well that if it weren't for the prime minister's strength, he would have been a little more restrained. The shoulders of the two of them were definitely not swollen now, but completely shattered into flesh. At that moment, Su Xinghe found that the strength of the prime minister was at least above the great knight, and a powerhouse who might have been a holy domain had become the prime minister of the empire, and at this moment, Su Xinghe suddenly found that he was a little confused. In his opinion, prime ministers are all weak civil officials, but now a prime minister has more power than ordinary knights. It's just that neither Su Xinghe nor Xuehaifeng can understand why this Prime Minister Capello is chasing Chen Kai. And 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 fled for his life 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 and fled, not because Prime Minister Capello was in trouble with him. It's because he's worried about his money bag. Chen Kaike knew very well what Cheng dù the prime minister was short of, and he was almost eager to catch a rich man to find the other party and ask the other party if he wanted his calligraphy and painting. In order to restore the golden plain for His Majesty the emperor. Prime Minister Capello tried his best, but the input and output were completely disproportionate. Although he once had the idea of buying and selling the unclaimed territories of the Great Plains of Gold. But the place stinks anymore. Basically, no fool aboriginal nobleman would run to take over, even Chen Kai's senior brother and Prime Minister Capello's own son couldn't hold on.
Poverty is secondary, and the most terrible thing is the pervasive power of death and the pollution of the uncultivable land. Although the two lords' lands had recovered some of their cultivation capacity thanks to the efforts of the temple priests and spellcasters, the barren land was barely touched by the golden plains that used to be able to grab oil with a handful of fat. If you want to restore the kind of land that used to be, you need more gold coins in addition to investing more forces. Therefore, the prime minister was in need of money, and he beat the player's idea in order to raise money to restore the land of the Great Plains, but the player is not a fool to face a territory that is almost a land of death, and no player is willing to invest a large amount of gold to buy it. Of course, they also wanted to buy old territories with urban buildings, but a few player guilds spent a lot of gold to buy them and lost all their money. There were some useful things found inside, but more often than not, ghouls were hidden, and as a result, the players turned into corpses and never came out.
It was in this situation that Prime Minister Capello was no longer able to carry out this kind of trade, which many nobles felt criticized for, after only receiving less than three million gold coins, and he did not tell the players that in fact, these towns were all swept away, and the valuable things in them were basically swept away by the Hansting army. Therefore, these player guilds buy back except for a leveling point, which is basically a big burden.
However, Prime Minister Capello, who had not received a large amount of gold coins for a long time, suddenly heard a report from his subordinates that Chen Kai had returned to the imperial capital. And obtained a large amount of gold coins from the Grand Duke of Anlothas, that is, Chen Kai completed the task of Blackjack. Although Zai was very dissatisfied with the fact that Chen Kai had obtained the dark flower and did not pay taxes, he also saw the opportunity to sell goods to Chen Kai, so he almost rushed out of the official residence. Rushed directly towards Chen Kai.
"Baron Kaichen! What do you run? I won't eat you, and I won't collect your taxes, why run away! Prime Minister Capello looked at the imperial baron who was thrown to the ground by himself, he was very helpless, he didn't understand why the other party turned around and ran away when he saw him, if it wasn't for his strength enough, maybe he would let the other party run away directly, wasting this opportunity to earn gold coins.
"Sorry! But can the Prime Minister come down first! Big deal, won't I run away? Chen Kai looked at the imperial prime minister who pounced on him, he felt that he was too unlucky, and he knew very well that the other party was definitely aiming at his money bag.
"That's it! Baron Kaichen! I heard that you recently retreated from the attack of a gang of horse thieves, which is a contribution to the empire, and I will ask the emperor for credit! "In a hotel, Prime Minister Capello and Chen Kai sat together, of course, facing each other. Not far away, the innkeeper personally came over with some exquisite food and fine wine, and put it on the table for Chen Kai and the prime minister to eat. …,
"Thank you, Prime Minister!" Looking at the delicate food on the plate, although Chen Kai's stomach was growling, he had no appetite at all, because he didn't know what medicine the prime minister was selling in his stomach.
"No thanks! You eat! The food at this inn is very good. Especially this one! Grilled lamb chops, the best Andean baby goat meat! Prime Minister Capello wiped out the food at a speed that was difficult for Chen Kai to achieve, but this gave Chen Kai the feeling that the other party had not eaten anything good for a long time.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister! You might as well just say what's wrong! Otherwise, I really can't eat it! After a long time, Chen Kai still didn't move the knife and fork, he couldn't help but put down the fork in his hand and looked at Prime Minister Capello, the chair under his ass made a creaking sound under his movements. The largest chair that the innkeeper had managed to find was stubbornly bearing the unbearable weight. But it was still strong and not broken.
"Alright! I heard that you were attacked by the demonic forces of the former lord some time ago, and you almost didn't break the castle, right? Prime Minister Capello slowly put down his knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and did not speak until he had swallowed the last bite of food.
"Yes!" For the prime minister in front of him to know these things. Chen Kai didn't feel strange at all, because in his opinion, the other party didn't know that it was strange.
"Now for your chance! An opportunity to quickly improve your strength! There aren't many opportunities like that. I wouldn't give it to an ordinary person! Hearing Chen Kai's answer, Prime Minister Capello quickly threw out the words that had been prepared. Then he slowly took out a sheepskin roll from his pocket and spread it out in front of Chen Kai.
Chen Kai immediately leaned out to check the parchment scroll, only to see the words written on it: "Eighteen ways to fool travelers!" When Chen Kai saw those fonts clearly, his face became very funny, and the prime minister himself also had a funny face.
"Ahem! Sorry, I got the wrong one! Got it wrong! That's right! Down, we're old friends, and I won't fool you! Although Prime Minister Capello said this, he still felt uneasy when he took out the things, and only after carefully confirming it did he completely spread out the parchment.
"Are you sure this stuff isn't in violation?" Chen Kai was stunned at the first glance when he picked up the parchment, and then a trace of cold sweat instantly spread from the top of his head. On the first row of the parchment, there is a line of big black characters, 1,000 black-armored cavalry of Hugodi, and then 3,000 black-armored soldiers of Hugodi, etc. If Chen Kai's guess was correct, the prime minister was definitely packing up the rebels of the former lords in the territory around Hugodi and planning to sell them to Chen Kai.
"Of course not! As long as you can suppress them! By the way, I heard that some of their family members are still in Hugodi's territory, and the rest are accused of being packaged and sold to you in the hands of those lords! Don't worry, it's not the first time to do business with me, I'll help you get it all done! As long as you sign it and give the money, you're good to go! Prime Minister Capello patted his chest and promised, but Chen Kai looked at the amount of money under the parchment and felt extremely frightened, this one word will be gone after signing two million gold coins.
"What about their gear? It is not written on it, and you don't say how many of those families there are because these soldiers are disabled or have become idiots! And most importantly, are you sure that Baron Kemdal will let these soldiers into my territory? Dear Prime Minister, I think you know very well that if they hadn't dragged me back, I might have started attacking the Rift Valley by now! Chen Kai is not a complete business idiot, so every word he says makes the prime minister's face 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, and he didn't know whether the sweat was rushed out by Chen Kai's words or spicy by the spicy spices in the lamb chops. But Chen Kai estimated that the probability of the former was greater than that of the latter, but when he ate the lamb chop, he suddenly found that maybe the latter would be more likely, and at this time, Chen Kai suddenly remembered that when he walked into this shop, he seemed to see the word "extra spicy" written on the signboard outside.
In the end, under the circumstance of Chen Kai's arguments or nonsense, Prime Minister Capello agreed to issue an order for Baron Kemdahl and his entourage to let go of the surrendered soldiers and their families bought by Chen Kai, and at the same time, Prime Minister Capello also tried his best to ensure the integrity of the weapons and equipment they carried, including the war horses. Of course, Chen Kai had to pay 2.1 million gold coins for this, and Prime Minister Capello had to ensure that in addition to providing the equipment and horses of the nearly 5,000 troops, he also had to ensure that they had food for nearly a month, and this was what Chen Kai paid for an extra 100,000 gold coins. Because Chen Kai also mixed his own private belongings in it, after all, relying on the three of them to transport such a trip, it is impossible to transport vegetables that can feed more than 20,000 mouths in the city in one trip. (To be continued......)