Chapter 10 Regional Specialties
asked the housekeepers Goda and Buhe to take people to Old Man Zhou's 'black-hearted shop', bought some food and daily necessities, and then purchased some steel materials, covered the surface of the vehicle, pulled them back and pretended to be a full set.
It will also take a long time to repair the deck of the 'Castle', but it will send a signal to the outside world that the Ironclad City is being repaired.
"What are the specialties of the town of Manbach?"
Li Yinguang looked at the housekeeper Goda.
"Wasteland Cod!"
"Fish?"
The housekeeper Goda nodded: "Yes, it is a fish, a carnivorous fish living in the snowy wasteland, although it is a fish, it is an amphibian and reptilian creeping, with feet to run, gills to breathe, sharp teeth to bite, adult wasteland cod body length can grow to three to five meters in size, living in groups."
Some wasteland cod will secrete a special substance in the cerebral marrow, which is an extremely expensive alchemy material, called 'cod dragon marrow', and is sold in grams.
Its flesh is delicious, the bones are ground into powder to strengthen the bones, and the blood is cold and milky, and it can be eaten to soak in wine to nourish. ”
Listening to the housekeeper's words, Li Yinguang scratched his head: "Where to catch such a thing as a wasteland cod?" ”
The butler Goda raised his hand and pointed to the north: "Out of the town of Mambach to the north, about a hundred and ten kilometers out, you will see a snow-white peak, there is the 'Holy Dragon Snow Mountain', the legend of the dragon inhabited the place, but far away, the past people have hardly ever returned, and the Holy Dragon Snow Mountain is separated by the snowy wasteland, which is very large, and at the edge of the snowy wasteland, there are wasteland cod infested." ”
After a slight pause, he continued: "Even if there is no 'Iron City', the explorer's convoy will go there to hunt for wasteland cod. ”
Li Yinguang nodded: "Is this kind of cod expensive?" ”
The butler Goda nodded first, then shook his head and said, "It's quite cheap in Mambach Town, and I heard that it's expensive outside." The ordinary cod meat in the town is about thirty or forty copper bull coins a catty, and the bones are relatively cheap, ten or twenty copper ox coins, and the blood is a bit expensive, about half a silver cow coin. ”
"Where's the cod dragon marrow?"
"Twenty silver bull coins a gram!"
Looking at Li Yinguang's shocked eyes, the housekeeper Goda explained with a wry smile: "There is a chance that the cod dragon pith will appear, not all wasteland cod will produce 'cod dragon marrow' in their bodies, and sometimes they can't be touched by hunting hundreds, so the price will be so expensive, even if they meet one, there will be a few grams of 'cod dragon marrow' in the body at most." ”
The large population of the town of Manbach owes much of it to the snowy wasteland and heath cod, which can be hunted by ordinary people in modified vehicles with ordinary weapons.
As long as you don't go to the depths of the snowy wasteland, the risk factor is not high compared to other places.
For a while, the 'Ancient Castle' ironclad city nested in the harbor, even if it was useless to covet the desolate region, there was only a 'Z3 type' smelting furnace left that was about to be scrapped, and there was no fuel reserve, where could it go?
When you go out and don't catch your prey, you are hunted by others first.
But it's not a way to stay in the port of Manbach Town like this, and it won't last long for a mountain like this to be empty.
The 'Ancient Castle' ironclad city needs to be maintained, people need to eat, and even the 'mysterious gem' sewn in Li Yinguang's heart needs to replenish energy.
You have to find a way to make money!
Li Yinguang asked thoughtfully: "Do the people in Mambach have any daily entertainment activities?" ”
"Entertainment?"
The butler Goda thought for a while and said with a dry smile: "Going to the gambling house to play money, going to the pimp inn to find the girls, going to the bloody thug hall to watch or play games, are these considered entertainment?" ”
Li Yinguang nodded very seriously: "Count!" ”
Goda, the butler, said: "Then these are the daily entertainment of the people of Mambach!" ”
"Is there a little newspaper for lace news?"
"Master, what's the lace news?"
Li Yinguang shook his head and didn't answer, but began to think in his heart, many things in his mind can be realized in the steampunk world, you must know that he is a traverser, in addition to his luck, this is his biggest golden finger.
In the town of Mambach, as long as you don't kill people in the street, there are not many other prohibited punishments.
For example, if two people scold each other, even if they spit on each other's faces, and add their fists and feet, as long as they don't take out their weapons and start drying, and injure and maim people, they will be fined at most.
Scolding people is not illegal, and angry people don't have to pay for their lives!
Newspapers are found in the steampunk world, and the little newspapers don't seem to have any, at least in Mambach Town, where Godda, the butler, has never heard of it.
It didn't cost much to try, and after making up his mind, Li Yinguang asked the Venerable Master to leave the 'Castle' and go to the town.
Renting a house in the town of Manbach is not very expensive, but renting a house in a slum is even cheaper, and even if you have a hard fist, you don't need to rent it.
In order to facilitate procurement, Li Yinguang directly spent six silver cows to buy the house next to the street of Old Man Zhou's black-hearted shop.
Don't think that six silver bull coins are less, one silver cow coin is equivalent to one thousand copper bull coins, and the basic expenses of a family of three every month are enough for one silver bull coin.
"Mechanical typesetting printers?"
Old man Zhou squinted his eyes and wondered, "What do you kid want that thing for?" ”
Li Yinguang said with a hippie smile: "I want to start a newspaper!" ”
"Newspaper?"
Old man Zhou was stunned, shook his head and didn't say anything, but he got Li Yinguang a 'mechanical printer', which was as big as a piano and weighed hundreds of pounds, and it took a few strong men to lift it.
"Fourteen silver cows, cash settlement, no credit!"
Li Yinguang muttered in a low voice, his 'newspaper' is next to the black-hearted store, can he still run away? He can see that it is a small favor to the people in the slums, Old Man Zhou, but if he wants to hit the black-hearted grocery store with more expensive things on credit, let alone a door, there is not even a window.
With a mechanical printer, the rest is easy to solve. A piece of paper, the size of a newspaper, the price of ten copper bulls.
"The name of the newspaper is 'Mambach Town Daily'!"
"Boss, no."
Butler Goda shook his head.
Li Yinguang frowned and looked at him and asked, "Why not?" ”
The housekeeper Goda smiled bitterly and whispered: "The Mambach Town Daily is the official newspaper of Mambach Town, and it is the property of the lord of Mambach Town, so we can't use this name!" ”
The lord still does newspapers?
Deaf, since the name 'Manbach Town Daily' can't be used, then let's simply call it 'Mambach Town Tabloid Newspaper', at least it is not the same name, and it can be used.
No matter what you do, as long as you want to operate in the town of Mambach, you have to pay a 'business tax' ranging from 200 copper cattle to hundreds of silver cattle every year.
A small newspaper like this kind of newly established newspaper costs only 200 copper bulls, but if it becomes famous in the later period, you don't need to go to the tax officer, and the tax officer in the town will take the initiative to find you and discuss the tax issue.
In general, the lord of Manbach Town still understands people's hearts quite well and will pinch it.