Chapter 248: The Trade Winds from the North (1)
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Looking at the minotaur who appeared under the city wall in front of him, the first two words that came to Chen Kai's mind were refugees. шщ138 Reading the book clams138 Looking at the book crickets, because the appearance of these minotaurs is really difficult to connect with the previous minotaur warriors, they look skinny, except for the larger skeleton, the fur on their bodies looks like a layer of skin that has lost its breath of life.
The black fur that was supposed to be shiny now looked like a mess of hair, dry and branched, and seemed to be tangled together to form a ball of hair. There were still some blood clots on those dry hairs, and even Chen Kai could see that there were still many scars on those minotaurs. These scars are undoubtedly not there from sword injuries to whip marks, and it can be seen that the lives of these minotaurs are not as good as Chen Kai thought in the past.
Of course, they could never be those black-horned minotaur soldiers that Chen Kai saw at the beginning, because the aura on these minotaurs made people feel as if they were corpses about to enter the grave, and there was no trace of life in the eyes of those minotaurs. If it weren't for the fact that the chests of these minotaurs were still rising and falling, and the nostrils were still panting, Chen Kai would have thought that these minotaurs were already corpses.
However, even if he felt that these minotaurs were very weak, Chen Kai still did not directly open the gate of Berkner Town to let these minotaurs enter the city, after all, the number of these minotaurs was a little too much, more than 1,700 minotaurs stood under the city wall, even if they were very weak, they were also minotaurs. In the eyes of the residents of Burkner Town, the Minotaur is sometimes synonymous with terror, even if there are nearly a thousand Minotaurs in Burkner Town as a buffer so that some residents have learned that the Minotaurs are not necessarily bad people, but it will take a long time for all the Minotaurs to integrate into the society of Burkner Town, and then the addition of nearly two thousand Minotaurs is a little too much for the digestion ability of Burkner Town.
The most important thing is that Chen Kai is afraid of the spies who are mixed with Zhuoer among these minotaurs, after all, even the old minotaurs can act as the source of news, and spies are not only young and strong minotaurs can act as spies.
So Chen Kai didn't directly ask the soldiers to open the gates of Burkner. Let those minotaurs into the city. Instead, he lowered himself first with a hanging basket on the wall. Of course, if there were Drow spies among the minotaurs. Chen Kai's move is also very dangerous, after all, he is the lord of Burkner Town, if he is caught, then the Drow can use his life to threaten the soldiers on the city wall, open the city gate and surrender. Of course, if Chen Kai is an aboriginal nobleman, he really needs to worry about this, but he is not. If he really gets caught. There is only one thing you need to do, and that is to wipe your neck and kill yourself, and you will be resurrected in the city three hours later. The only thing you have to worry about is that you might lose some gold or some equipment on your body.
With the sound of the rope squeaking and swaying, the hanging basket containing Chen Kai slowly landed on the ground under the gaze of those minotaurs, and then a human being taller than these minotaurs appeared in front of them. At the moment when I saw Chen Kai. Many Minotaurs' eyes flickered with a sentiment called fear. The Minotaurs themselves are already very tall, and their height of more than two meters allows them to be proud of many races in the game, but in the face of Chen Kai, who is nearly three meters and a half tall, they are like short men locked in a house.
Chen Kai's body is not very wide, but even such a huge height still makes Chen Kai look like a high wall. Of course, if Chen Kai had just been purified before, then he would have become the long bamboo pole that Arnault shouted in his mouth. But after nearly three or four months of exercise, Chen Kai's body became strong again, and his strong muscles made his body look thin no matter how thin the bamboo pole was concerned, so Chen Kai standing there seemed to be a huge iron tower. The armor worn on Chen Kai's body made Chen Kai more powerful, and Arnault, who saw Chen Kai's appearance, kept looking at Chen Kai's armor with saliva.
He had heard about Chen Kai's armor from the black dwarf Elder Mithera. It was a collection of armor made by several master blacksmiths of the black dwarves. Not only is the defense amazing, but the appearance is very gorgeous. But this was the first time Arno had seen a real thing.
However, although he was very envious of the armor on Chen Kai's body, if he was given a choice, it was the iron ring armor from the Elder Mithera on his own body that would be more suitable for him. After all, a good armor, in addition to the appearance of good looking, the most important thing is to fit the user's own situation. Most of the armor of the strong was tailored according to their own clothing habits and defense habits, and for Chen Kai, the armor that suited him did not necessarily suit others. In fact, Chen Kai's current armor may not be completely suitable for himself, after all, it is still difficult for him to control the two pairs of huge metal wings behind him. Although these two pairs of wings are very handsome and extremely powerful, he has not been able to use them as well as his fingers so far. At the critical moment, Chen Kai's chances of relying on the pair of wings behind him to save his life were not as good as believing that he could use the giant sword in his hand to block the opponent's attack.
"Hey, hey! What the hell! Why don't you open the door? Arnault obviously didn't have much respect for Chen Kai, and he looked like two people when he left Burkner Town nearly ten days ago. The hairs on his body that had become shiny and black under He Liwen's medicine were all tangled together at the moment, and they looked no different from those other minotaurs. The only thing that was slightly better than the minotaurs around him was probably that he still had vitality in him, and at the same time he was much stronger than those minotaurs.
"Arnault! Where did you fool these minotaurs from! It looks like it's dying! I'm worried that they're sick, so I don't dare to open the door, if your people all get the plague, don't talk about the inhabitants of my city, even if your sister doesn't get it, she will catch it!" Chen Kai pulled Arno aside and whispered in his ear in a very low voice, of course, while Chen Kai's eyes kept sweeping over the surrounding minotaurs, who wanted to look like spies from among them.
"They bought it all from the refugee camp in Drow!" After a long time, Arno told Chen Kai a shocking news, these minotaurs were not fooled by him, but the refugees he bought back from the refugee camp where the Drow took care of the blackhorn minotaurs after paying off a few Blackhorn Minotaur soldiers. Of course, it is absolutely impossible to buy so many refugees with the gold coins given by Chen Kai, and Arno took Chen Kai's banner and borrowed money from the hands of those player leaders in the north to buy these minotaurs.
When Chen Kai saw the white stripes in Arnault's hand, he felt the urge to vomit blood. Because the amount of borrowing indicated on the white slip is as high as one million gold coins. The monthly interest rate is as high as 10%. At that moment, Chen Kai had a kind of throwing the white stripe in Arnault's face. Then press the other party to the ground and slam the urge to beat him. Because Arnault shamelessly signed Chen Kai's name on the borrower's name, of course, it was not his real name, but the name of Kaichen St. Lapston in the game. What's even more shameless is that Arnault, the second goods, even imitated Chen Kai's handwriting, if it weren't for Chen Kai hearing Arnault's words. It is estimated that the moment he saw the IOU, he thought that he had signed it.
Chen Kai, who was saddled with nearly one million debts for no reason, had the urge to stab Arno with a white knife and bleed him at this moment. When he asked the guards to open the gate and let the minotaurs into the city, he was eager to open a dozen holes in Arno's body. Because these more than 1,000 minotaurs are not worth the million gold coins in Chen Kai's opinion. Moreover, five days have passed since the IOU was made today, and Chen Kai had to pay at least nearly 17,000 gold coins to those bastards.
In the end, Chen Kai handed the IOU to Xu Fei and asked him to deal with this matter, because Chen Kai himself was worried that when he saw those guys who borrowed money, he would choose to pull out his giant sword and cut the other party. Of course, the moment he saw the IOU, Xu Fei also had the same impulse as Chen Kai to go crazy in an instant, if it weren't for Alyssa sitting not far away, he would almost stand up directly and raise his hand to give Arno, who was sitting in the seat, an arcane cannonball.
Of course, as for why it is estimated that Alyssa is present, it is because Xu Fei is worried that the power of his arcane cannonball will accidentally affect Alyssa's fragile clothes. When the time comes, if he accidentally shreds the other party's clothes, then Su Wan, who is cutting potatoes with a knife not far away, will definitely throw the paring knife in his hand towards him.
So even if Xu Fei and Chen Kai are as extremely painful as they are, they still have to pay for Arnault's bastard in the end. "Etia Chapter 248 Trade Wind One from the North" Of course, Chen Kai's action of throwing the IOU to Xu Fei was seen by Alyssa at that moment. Naturally, she learned from her younger brother how the more than 1,700 people arrived. At the same time, he also understands very well that his younger brother borrowed money in Chen Kai's name, and the most important thing is that it is a very huge wealth. It was so big that he almost died of exhaustion in order to carry those gold coins. Such a huge fortune, but Chen Kai handed it over to Xu Fei with such a fluttering attitude, and in Alyssa's eyes, Chen Kai, the husband who had to be grabbed, had his score increased by several points again.
If Chen Kai knew that his actions would lead to such consequences, then he would definitely directly expose his iron rooster side first, and then ask Arnault to sign more than a dozen unequal treaties before dealing with these debts. Of course, these treaties must include the content that Arno should take care of his sister and not let the other party harass him again. It's a pity that Chen Kai didn't think of this, although they still used this IOU to let Arnault work for Berkner Town for at least one year, but the treaty was at least equal, and the most important thing was that Arnault, a wage earner, made Chen Kai bear a heavy grain debt. The Minotaur refugees who were brought back were all old, weak, sick and disabled, but their appetite was not much smaller.
Originally, the nearly 1,000 members of the Tonghuan tribe had made Chen Kai's food supply relatively tight, but now that there were nearly 2,000 mouths, the food that had finally become abundant in Burkna Town fell into a supply crisis again. Almost on the day that these minotaurs entered the town of Burkner, the price of the lowest black bread in the whole town of Berkna rose by at least five coppers, while the price of the better white bread rose by fifteen copper coins, and the price of refined flour rose from one silver coin per kilogram to one and a half silver coins. The soaring price of grain in an instant made Chen Kai's face turn from red to green at night, and finally Chen Kai had to send Zhao Tiezhu and Hu Lansi to the south of Altinis with nearly three million gold coins to buy grain.
But now is not the time for a bumper grain harvest, so the grain that can be purchased with these more than 3 million gold coins may only be four-fifths of the past grain harvest stage. Up to one-fifth of the difference will be paid for by Chen Kai with his own private money, and whoever makes those Minotaurs who arrive will be residents of Burkner. However, even if Zhao Tiezhu and the others went to Altinis in the south overnight, it would take at least seven days for the grain to be transported to Burkner Town, during which time Chen Kai had to open the grain depot and release grain to calm the soaring grain prices in Burkner Town. The most important thing was to satisfy the appetites of the minotaurs, who ate almost three adults, and the town of Burkner now had about 50,000 inhabitants. And the nearly 3,000 minotaurs instantly increased the consumption of food by 10,000. The worst thing is that these minotaurs have just recovered from starvation. The appetite is even greater, almost reaching the appetite of four or five adults. That's why the price of food in the town of Böckner has risen so fast. Because their existence is equivalent to giving the town more than 10,000 mouths at once. "Etiah" In fact, Chen Kai finally wondered if these minotaur refugees were those who Zhuoer deliberately asked Arno to bring back to him, so that they could consume Chen Kai's food ruthlessly. But even if it was really intentional, Chen Kai could only swallow this very bitter fruit, because it was impossible for him to drive these minotaurs out. Let's not talk about what Alyssa and Arnault will think of Chen Kai when these minotaurs are driven out. The danger that these minotaurs, who had finally eaten well, might explode when they were faced with the situation of being driven away, made Chen Kai dare not give this order.
By the time the minotaurs had finally settled down, the population of Burkner had increased by about 3,000 people. However, Chen Kai still has a long way to go in order to digest these minotaurs and turn them from refugee residents to real residents of Burkner. Of course, the most important thing for him at the moment is to mobilize some people to treat the wounds on these minotaurs. At the same time, wash them well. In fact, in Chen Kai's opinion, the latter is more important than the former, because he is worried that these minotaur refugees will have a lot of germs on them, which may lead to the implosion of the plague in the city.
The price of this order, of course, was that for the next three days the entire river outside Berkner was largely stinking, and it was not until after a shower that the stench that surrounded Berkner slowly dissipated, and the farmers now had little need to fertilize their fields. The sewage washed from the minotaur is simply more fertile than the best fertilizer.
It was not easy for Chen Kai to select enough soldiers from those minotaurs, and for the minotaurs who entered the town of Burkna, they had a very strict thing to face, first of all, to join Arno's Copperring Clan and become a Minotaur of the Copperring Tribe. The minotaurs would not object to this, and for them it was just a matter of wearing a brass ring representing the tribe on their ears or nose or arms.
What made these minotaurs unacceptable was that Chen Kai demanded that their horns be painted in order to distinguish them from the black-horned minotaurs who were wreaking havoc on the Hugodi territory. It was a very helpless move. After all, these new minotaurs are not like the original Copperring tribe, and the fur on their bodies has been changed by the magic dye that Arno has picked up. The fur on these minotaurs, including the horns, is not much different from the original black horned minotaur. To the inhabitants of Burkner, they are not much different from the legendary Blackhorn monsters outside the city.
So in order for these Blackhorned Minotaurs to fit in better with the town of Burkner, they had to make changes. Of course, this change is very reluctant for these minotaurs, because such a thing as painting their own race logo would make them feel ashamed of their ancestors.
However, Chen Kai is not fighting alone, in addition to Arno, the patriarch of the Copper Ring Clan who is not satisfied with the image of the Blackhorn Minotaur, there is also Alyssa, a cow who can really talk in the "entertainment show" of the Copper Ring Clan. With the cooperation of the two of them, the move that would have caused a big backlash was finally carried out, of course, the minotaur horns were not all painted with paint, but only with brass paint to give them a few brass colors representing the symbol of the copper ring tribe, and it was a picture similar to the copper ring.
The addition of a few brass rings on the horns made the Minotaur in Berkner look much more pleasing to the eye than the original black appearance, and even Arnault, a second-hand cow, thought that the brass rings painted on the horns were more beautiful than the black ones in the past.
In the days that followed, the minotaurs with brass rings on their horns became special residents of Burkner, and of course only the natives and players who stayed in Burkna knew that these minotaurs were actually blackhorned minotaurs, and were not a strange new race.
When Zhao Tiezhu and Hu Lansi returned to Berkner Town with more than three million gold coins worth of grain, the Minotaurs in the entire town had already begun to slowly adapt to the new life here. Of course, compared to Beihu Town, which is under the control of Zhuoer, these new copper ring tribe minotaurs are undoubtedly much happier. At least they weren't hungry, and of course, under Arno's suppression, their bad habits gradually changed, but some habits still couldn't be changed, such as tickling their backs in front of others. To be continued.
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