Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Butcher of the Homeless
Half a month has passed since the hunting day, and with the construction of the three-story castle in Connors, the reconstruction of the Seaweed Division is officially over.
Calling a few merfolk to move everything in, Connors finally swam into his castle.
I have to say that the few stonemasons sent by Robel are very good, basically doing everything Connors wants, the first floor is the hall, a place for dining or meetings, the second floor is the residence of the magicians, and Connors's study, the third floor is his own bedroom, and the room for storing potion seeds.
In addition, a basement was dug at the bottom.,It's specifically used for magic experiments.,A lot of things like the Demon Source Array can't be seen by others at all.,It's too troublesome to deliberately avoid other merfolk every time.,And the ruins have just just begun to be excavated.,There will be more and more things that can't see merfolk in the future.,A secret room is definitely needed.γ
That's all there is to it.
Although it is only three floors, the cost is not small, counting the food and drink of the entire tribe during this time, the entire reconstruction work, Connors not only used up all his savings, but also borrowed five or six hundred gold scales from the Sea Crape Myrtle Trading Bank, and the interest alone is one hundred gold scales every year.
However, looking at the neatly planned tribe from a high place, Connors Jue's deal is definitely not a loss, a commercial street, a central theater, and a residential area that can accommodate two or three thousand mermaids, plus some ancillary facilities, has begun to take shape The scale of a small town, feeding three thousand mermaids is not a problem, and the internal circulation of goods can also stimulate the generation of consumption.
Like before, it was not a tribe at all, it was just a larger village.
Sighing a little, Connors swam down, his bedroom has been cleaned up, no different from the previous one, there is one more bookshelf than before, Bull and Aveline and little Jasmine are on the second floor, there are many rooms on the second floor of the castle, enough for them to choose, as for the first floor, there are also a few rooms in addition to the hall, and a few servants will be invited to clean and prepare food in the future, etc., as for the entrance to the basement, it is on the second floor, dozens of square meters, and it can be opened up in the future, how to arrange it depends on Avriline's wishesγ
After arranging their lives safely, the whole tribe is operational, the commercial street needs merchants, and it is rented to two sea crape myrtle trading houses for free, and the rest are also ready for merchants these days, and the theater also needs performers, police departments, schools and even cleaning up garbage mermaids.
After three days, everything was arranged and the new seaweed section was unfolding.
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Lituma is in a bad mood now, but to be sure, he has been in a bad mood since the outbreak of the beast tide, and the source of his bad is the homeless people who have been looking down on him before!
That's right, it's the wanderers, in the middle of the kelp, in order to disperse the demon group, he ordered the inferior people to use themselves as bait, and there were three or four thousand mermaids who died, although it was a lure, but then it was not enough, so he directly drove away the wanderers who came to take refuge.
Although this action reduced the tribe's losses to an extremely low value, it made the reputation of the middle kelp among the homeless people to a terrible level.
Originally, the reputation of the middle part of the kelp was not very good, but it was not to this extent, and he didn't care about these anymore, but now the inferior people of the tribe were almost dead, and a lot of rough work was no longer done by mermaids, so he let go of the news that the middle part of the kelp was planning to recruit displaced people.
I thought that the population would recover in a month, but now it's been three months, and only less than six hundred mermaids have been recruited, most of whom have come from other places, and for a while I didn't know that he drove the inferior people to disperse the demons, and after knowing the news, he actually wanted to sneak away.
Fortunately, this was suppressed after killing a few of them, but then the reputation was even worse.
If there are no inferior people, there will be no sufficient coolies, especially a few large farmers in the tribe, they have this large area of sea fields, grow seafood, and now they need to plant it by hand, and they constantly complain to themselves that they need inferior people to work, while ordinary tribal residents, who wants to bear high wages?
Send servants to drive these big farmers away, but Lituma himself is also annoyed, it is easy to send these big farmers, but in the end it is his own loss.
Lituma thought for a moment and spoke loudly
"Blue! β
Call in a mermaid officer, Blue, who is in charge of managing the affairs of the homeless.
This chubby little mermaid, his face was a little hasty at this time, his pressure was too great these days, and in the past, as long as he opened an opening, countless homeless people would flock to him.
How safe and fixed food is for the homeless.
But now no homeless people want to join the middle kelp, but he has always dealt with the homeless people and knows what they call the middle kelp now.
"Exile Butcher!"
As soon as the name is known, the outcasts will come closer
"Is there anything you can do? If you don't solve this matter, you won't be this official anymore."
Lituma's tone was serious, and Blue wiped his forehead and spoke in trepidation.
"Chief, there is only one way now, to buy the others from the Kuquhua caravan. β
The homeless people do not belong to any tribe and cannot trade, but the inferior people can, the Kurahua caravan is the main object of the trade in the middle of the kelp, and behind it is also a powerful middle tribe, a magician family, and it is known for its wealth, and there are also extremely many homeless people in that area, and it is too simple to transport some over, and it will be made up soon.
But the middle part of the kelp is not a small amount, three or five thousand, even if an inferior person only needs five silver scales, it is a huge amount of money, not to mention the cost of the journey.
"You can't arrest the homeless directly, these guys are all soft bones, and they will work honestly after two hits"
Lituma said that he didn't like to take money out of his pocket.
"Chief, it is not allowed to arrest a large number of homeless people, most of the sea whales will take care of it, and it will be even more troublesome when the time comes"
Blue replied in a low voice, the characteristics of most of the sea whales are clear, although the homeless people are low, there is no problem with killing, but that is only a small number, once there are hundreds or thousands, the sea whales will take care of it, and the beast tide is excusable, plus the middle of the kelp is a big thing to be fine, otherwise most of the sea whales would have come to the door a long time ago
"The homeless people are all sluts, what's there to manage"
Muttering, Lituma also knew that this was the general situation of the sea world, and the homeless people were the supplementary mermaids of all tribes, and a certain number of them must be guaranteed.
"Okay, buy two thousand inferior people from the Kukohua caravan."
Most of the sea whales cannot provoke, nor can they be left without inferior people, so they can only buy.
"Wouldn't two thousand be a little less?"
Blue whispered that this time there were more than 4,000 fewer homeless, and only 2,060 was really a little less.
"Almost, some small farmers let them figure it out on their own, the tribe has already spent a lot of money this time"
"Yes!"
Now that the chief has spoken, it is natural that Blue will not have any other opinions and will leave.
"By the way, you ask people to prepare some food, and spread it out and say that the middle part of the kelp will give free food to the homeless, and each homeless person can get a portion"
The chieftain of the middle tribe of Lituma finally remembered to brush up on the outcasts, but Blue opened his mouth and hesitated to say something
"What's wrong, is there anything else?"
"Chief, it would have had a great effect if you had done it in the first place, but I don't think it would be of much use right now. β
"Useless?"
"Chief, do you know that the seaweed department doesn't know what went crazy and hired more than 2,000 people to rebuild the tribe in one go, will it still give to the outside world, in addition, the small part of the purple sunflower lost the potion and became the sea rice planting point for most of the sea whales, and also hired a thousand homeless people, plus the number of homeless people around is not much at all, but there is plenty of food"
"It's a small part of seaweed again, and it's this stinky kid again"
Lituma slapped the table suddenly, and suddenly felt that he had a toothache, since Connors took over as chief, he always brought some extremely disgusting things to himself, the most important thing is that he is only sixteen years old this year, sixteen years old, and ten years before he becomes an adult, how did he do this, he was sixteen years old and was not cared for by his parents, and as a result, he led the tribe to develop like this in less than a year.
This is really a bit strange, could it be the favor of the god of the sea? Lituma was silent, and the atmosphere was a little sluggish for a while.
Blue stole a glance at Lituma, whose anger had subsided for the time being, and he opened his mouth again
"Of course, if you prepare high-quality food or sea rice, it will definitely attract displaced people, but then the cost will increase a lot."
"Then forget it, anyway, we spent money to buy the homeless, and we will talk about it after this potion harvest"
Lituma is a strange mermaid, he has brains and is ruthless enough, but none of this can be about money, he loves money to the extreme.
"Yes"
Blue exited the hall, and in the empty room was Lituma, a mermaid sitting in a chair, grim and unaware of what he was thinking.