Chapter Sixty-Nine: Making You Extraordinary
After verifying that Bai Yuanguo was a white radish, Xiao Yu was not so excited at first.
He began to pay attention to the other gains after this capture of the royal capital.
First of all, those remnants of the defeated army, for the small country and the widowed kingdom of steel, they are all valuable manpower.
It just so happened that the aristocratic families who survived the Great Purge in the Kingdom of Steel wanted to curry favor with the protector of the kingdom, so they contributed money and technology, and these remnants of the army were defeated to build a road from the royal capital to the Valley of the Gods.
The avenue does not require that it is cut into stone slabs like the double horse road in the royal capital, but it must be smooth, which is also a big project for Lilliputia.
Even with the help of the nobles and the assistance of extraordinary people, the calculation of the entire amount of work is enough to make ordinary people dumbfounded.
However, in order to win the favor of the protector of the kingdom, this difficulty is nothing to the people of the Steelland Kingdom!
Don't you see, those nobles who stood in the wrong line were all raided and wiped out, and their corpses were still hanging in rows at the gate of the city?
As soon as Xiao Yu nodded in agreement, a group of nobles over there competed for the right to build various road sections.
It seems that currying favor with Xiao Yu has become a profitable business.
After deciding to build the avenue, Xiao Yu listened to Ainodia's report on the special talents harvested by the royal capital.
Naturally, all the craftsmen were included in Xiao Yu's direct camp, with a total of more than 1,500 people, and the artisan industry in Wangdu can be said to be almost wiped out, leaving only a few apprentices to support the façade of Wangdu, so that the local residents could not even find anyone to repair a thatched toilet.
In addition to craftsmen, some people with special abilities are also on Xiao Yu's list.
For example, the old director of the library, who is very knowledgeable, although he kept the library this time, he did not dare not come to work in the face of Xiao Yu's invitation.
After all, Xiao Yu's current prestige is much greater than that of Grand Duke Yanan! With Xiao Yu destroying the entire Feilan Kingdom legion in an instant! His story is getting more and more widespread and bizarre.
There are even rumors in the market that I saw with my own eyes that Xiao Yu's giant likes to eat human flesh and drink human blood, especially when he likes to eat it raw, so the legions of the Filan Kingdom were all eaten alive by the giants and flayed to death, so they lost their complete bodies.
Such rumors, I don't want to think about whether the villains' few catties of meat are enough for Xiao Yu to stuff his teeth.
But the common people just like to listen and believe! It can be said that the more outrageous these rumors are, the more widely they spread, and the more people believe them.
It also made Xiao Yu's prestige spread throughout the steel capital kingdom in a short period of time, and many small cities and towns announced their submission in advance without seeing the banner of the king of steel capital.
In addition to these intellectuals, what interests Xiao Yu is those artistic talents remains.
There are not many artists in the royal capital, only two painters, a bard and a song and dance troupe.
Xiao Yu also took the portraits of the two painters, similar to oil paintings, the style is biased towards realism, and they belong to the group of people who forgot to add artistic talent, and they can understand and understand.
It's a pity that Zhongzhengguo's painting market is a deep pit, and many times it's not that your painting is worth it if you paint well, but you are mostly touting each other and raising prices.
Xiao Yu just accepted them for backup, and by the way, let them refer to a few world-famous paintings to create.
Naturally, this new painting must be at least the size of a normal drawing board, and such a large-scale painting is unprecedented for the painters of the Steel Kingdom!
The two artists raised a little doubt about their physical strength and future life expectancy to finish this masterpiece.
Xiao Yu asked Enodia to tell these artistic talents not to worry, they would give them a surprise when they returned to the camp.
All of them won't regret their choice!
Then Xiao Yu met with the bard.
This is a cream kid who made Xiao Yu doubt his gender at first glance.
With short light blue hair and ice-blue eyes, as well as snow-like delicate skin and a slender figure, Xiao Yu suspects that if he was born in Zhongzhengguo, he will definitely become the second Oba to influence the gender concept of a large number of fans.
At Xiao Yu's request, the bard sang a poem in praise of the great hero.
He has a good voice, but unfortunately Xiao Yu wants to doze off when he hears it.
But Ainodia, General Babu and others were intoxicated, is it really because of different cultures and can't be understood?
Xiao Yu shook his head secretly in his heart, and the song and dance troupe behind him didn't receive him, so he directly asked people to take them in the car, and packed them away with other craftsmen and various materials harvested.
Xiao Yu's direct camp is still in the old place, near the Iron Castle, with Xiao Yu's return this time, there is no doubt that this camp will continue to expand and become an important foundation in Xiao Yu's hands.
Xiao Yu put the craftsmen here, in addition to the important reason of being close to home, but also because this iron melting fort has ready-made iron mines, and there are also channels to obtain a large amount of coal and coke.
In addition, there are abundant groundwater resources here, and there is also a river flowing through many countries in the south, so when the foundation is bigger, it can also save a lot of effort.
Xiao Yu returned to the camp with the harvest, and after some tossing, even if Xiao Yu helped out personally, it was only when the moon hung high in the sky that he was busy.
Bonfires were lit here and there between the tents.
In the few brick and stone houses where the rice is cooked, the chefs work hard to process the delicious food provided by the great protectors of the kingdom.
Ham sausages, luncheon meats, plus local grilled meats and vegetables, make up the dishes on today's dinner.
As for the staple food, it is naturally rice.
However, there was no need for the cooks to do it, Xiao Yu lit the gas stove and began to cook rice with a gas-type rice cooker.
Including Xiao Yu's own food, it is only the size of a bowl and a half of rice...... Of course, it is undeniable that most of these rice will eventually fall into Xiao Yu's stomach.
The stomach of a villain who can't handle it is still not as good as Xiao Yu's.
Not to mention that after entering the knight, Xiao Yu also became a big stomach!
The Hoovers were a couple of craftsmen who made a good living in the royal capital and raised five children who were also good at crafts.
The Hoovers thought that they would die like their father and grandfather in this life, and then watched their son continue on the path of craftsmen.
Unexpectedly, their family was first recruited by Grand Duke Yanan to build the terrifying armor-piercing crossbow arrows, and then they were captured and became prisoners.
Fortunately, the Hoovers learned that the protector of the kingdom, who likes to eat human flesh, was looking for craftsmen, and thinking that no matter how greedy the monster was, they would not eat their own people, and the Hoovers and their family took the initiative to join Xiao Yu's artisan camp.
The ensuing day, the giant's gigantic figure, the three-legged monster of steel that could emit a deafening roar, all made the Hoovers terrify to the present.
Then we worked together to set up tents and level the road.
Finally...... I was able to enjoy a dinner for a while.
The Hoovers set up their tents, went outside to the open space, and waited around the campfire with the rest of the group.
Everyone around me was here for the first time, and there was anxiety, but there was also something to look forward to.
During this time of contact, the giant didn't seem to be as terrible as they thought, and they had heard that the food here was terrifying!
Not to mention meat, there is also delicious food that nobles can't eat!
The Hoovers were very skeptical of this, they were just small craftsmen, how could they compare with the aristocracy?
Eating delicious food that even nobles can't eat, you will be killed in the royal capital!
Soon as today's dinner was served, the Hoovers suddenly screamed excitedly and joined the army of food grabbers.
Ham sausage, the taste of luncheon meat, conquers the tongue and stomach of these artisans.
It also relieved their fatigue and mental exhaustion throughout the day.
"Is this what Wizard Enodia told us about?" The Hoovers muttered as they ate:
"The adults are so good to us, even if we only eat this meal a week, it is enough for us to serve him."
"Yes, I'm still a little worried about the shop in the royal capital, I don't know if I can hold it without us......" Mrs. Hoover nodded in agreement, but still remembered the situation at home.
At this moment, a voice reached the air over the entire camp, causing every artisan to stop eating.
"My craftsmen, my men!" Xiao Yu finished dinner, stood behind the high platform about one meter high that he had built, and shone his headlights on himself.
"I, protector of the Steelcapital Kingdom, am glad you have made a decision!"
"I'm sure you'll never regret the choices you made today in the future!" Xiao Yu paused for a moment, and waited until Enodia nodded slightly, and then continued:
"Because I can not only give you money, but also status......"
"It's okay to ......"
"Make you extraordinary!"
As soon as Xiao Yu's voice fell, the entire camp suddenly boiled after a short silence!
"What!"
"O God! I, I heard you right! ”
"Impossible, I don't have the talent of knighthood to be extraordinary?"
"Liar...... Let's lie, we craftsmen are just pariahs who can be beaten and killed, how can he be willing to treat us like this! ”