CHAPTER XXIII
"What? 1,000 gold coins, why don't you grab it!"
Wang Ming almost shouted by pulling the other party's collar.
"Little ...... Miss, robbery is illegal. ”
The boss straightened his clothes and looked at Wang Ming with a shrewd look.
Wang Ming squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Damn, isn't it illegal to trade slaves?"
"At least not in Jerusalem. ”
“…… Robbery is still a heroic act in the southern tribes!"
The merchant twisted his beard and sneered, "Of course you can go to the south, thousands of miles away, to buy slaves." ”
Wang Ming was almost half angry, and pointed at the two and a half tall horned giants: "No matter how outrageous you are, it is impossible to sell the Boer Niu Clan for a thousand gold coins, right?"
"We need a lot of money to buy the orc empire and various orc tribes every year, and these cattle tribes eat a lot of food, and they spend a lot of supplies on the way here, so the price is ......."
…… Do you feed them Dunton ginseng or what?
"Damn! 1,000 gold, I'm enough to buy a team of elven archers!"
The merchant remained unmoved: "You can go buy elven archers, there is no need to waste time on the villain's stall." ”
“…… You!"
The merchant turned his face and beckoned to another mysterious middle-aged man wrapped in a cloak.
In a voice that he thought Wang Ming couldn't hear, the merchant complained in a low voice: "It's really illiterate, the prime-aged Boer Niu clan who was born with stone skin and a durable aura is already cheap for you for a thousand gold......
One thousand gold, that's ten years of income for the common class, eh!
Although Wang Ming, a local tyrant, has long since left the civilian class, there is still a big difference between him and those real rich people. Wang Ming is an upstart. And there is no source of funding. It belongs to the sitting and eating mountain empty type. If all the money is spent now, then after the army is operational, Wang Ming may have to lead the troops to Rainbow City to eat the green belt.
Therefore, Cangyang came to the conclusion that 10,000 gold coins must be left as logistics expenses, and the money that can be used for conscription is only 20,000 gold.
Now that more than 6,000 gold has been spent, the slaves have only bought more than 70, and the equipment has not been purchased, which makes Wang Ming have a headache.
"No matter what. These Boer cattle must be bought. ”
Cangyang gave strong instructions to Wang Ming.
"Hey, hey, it's too expensive, anyway, and the mountain people you bought before have already spent too much budget, and now we don't have ...... money."
Cang Yang stared at Wang Ming with eyes as empty as an abyss, and stuffed the rest of his words back into his mouth.
"Do we have to buy it anyway? What the hell are we buying it for? It's just ......."
Wang Ming cautiously glanced at the slave behind him, lowering his voice so as not to be heard.
"It's just bought to be cannon fodder, so you don't need it at all, right?"
A weird smile hooked up at the corner of Cangyang's mouth, which made goosebumps crawl all over Wang Ming's back.
"You're laughing!"
Cangyang smoothed his expression: "It's just a muscle near your lips, but it looks like a terrible expression, so don't try it in the future." ”
To be honest, it's really worse to laugh than to cry......
"Anyway. If you don't buy it, I'll laugh at you. ”
Let Sanwuxiao be thundered by the sky......
Wang Ming took out a slender platinum bar from his arms. Buckled heavily onto the bar.
"Boss, bring me ten ......"
The platinum bar of 10,000 gold coins was gone, and Wang Ming was about to cry.
Loss, the Boer Bull Clan is definitely not worth the price!
"It's a loss, the Boer Bull Clan is not worth the price at all. ”
Someone on the side said Wang Ming's heart.
"Hello, Miss Mia, I'm a good friend of Scarlet Moon, and Miss Scarlet Moon asked me to pick out the goods for you. You can call me Silver Balance, I'm a little younger than Scarlet Moon's generation!"
It turned out to be an ancient dragon again.
The hierarchy of dragons is completely based on age, after all, the older you are, the stronger you are, except for those ancient dragons who only exist in legends, the ancient dragons who are almost demigods form the ruling class of the dragon council, and they are the dragons who really have real power.
Corresponding to its power, there is also the strength of terror, and many miscellaneous abilities.
Dragons have a long life, except for those martial arts idiots, and those who play with magic and become arcane addiction syndrome, all dragons are people who think their lives are long.
So like elves, most dragons have a lot of hobbies, but unlike the elves of the crepe, not all dragons are quiet to learn poetry and history, although there are many dragons who do so.
Some dragons spend decades or hundreds of years studying alchemy, selling cost-priced alchemy potions and magic items to the human world just for fun.
Some dragons learn all kinds of side history, hold books all day and night, and finally become nerds, soaking in various libraries throughout the year, and the most dragon does is turn the pages.
Some dragons take on human form to participate in the politics of the civilized world, using their own powerful strength and almost endless lifespan and resources to play with the political situation of a country.
There were also dragons, picking the most inconspicuous-looking silver coin from their own treasures, and began to do business on the continent, where hundreds of years of capital accumulation could raise their wealth to terrifying levels.
Silver Scales are such a dragon.
In terms of strength alone, he ranked very low among the twelve epic ancient dragons, but with the help of thousands of years of operation, the money in his account was already in the top three of the entire Longkong Mountain.
It is said that he was sold as gems by a curious dealer before hatching, but his shell broke during transportation.
Then, within thirty minutes of the shell, he sold the Strange Merchant and all other goods.
"Lord Silver Scales, can you give me a little start-up capital for the next one?"
Silver Balance shook his head and said, "All I can give you is skill." It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. ”
Wang Ming turned around and walked away: "Cut, another miser who is reluctant to pay." ”
The silver balance wiped the sweat from the corners of his forehead: "Ugh. Mia. Although I can't give you money directly. But I've brought you the council's subsidy. ”
Wang Ming hurriedly turned his face back and looked at this beautiful woman dressed as a merchant.
"Beautiful Silver Balance Big Sister, please ignore my previous rude remarks!"
"If you want to praise me for being rich, I don't believe in anything that is beautiful or not. ”
The silver balance covers its mouth and chuckles, exuding the charm of a ripe apple.
A small dragon skin bag was thrown in front of Wang Ming: "Now, here is the council's support for you, and half of it has already helped you exchange huàn into worldly currency." ”
Wang Ming opened the bag excitedly, and there were colorful gems inside. Inside the compartment are several coins with dragon motifs.
"Diamonds worth 50,000 gold coins, and 500 dragon coins, this is the subsidy that the Dragon Council will give you. ”
Wang Ming excitedly took out a blood-red gem, and the surrounding firelight shone with blood-like light and shadow on the stone.
"And this, a check for one hundred thousand dragon coins. ”
One dragon coin is about the purchasing power of one hundred gold coins, and one hundred thousand dragon coins is equivalent to ten million gold coins, which is the gross domestic product of a small country in a year.
"What! 100,000 dragon coins!"
Of course, Wang Ming didn't dare to accept it, and he definitely couldn't ask for money from unknown sources.
"This is a dowry from a prime-aged male black dragon to Miss Mia, if you agree, according to traditional etiquette. As your master, Scarlet Moon wants to give back a dowry of 100,000 gold coins......"
Wang Ming's head was full of black lines: "Uh." Sue him, in fact, I am a male ......"
Silver Balance smiled all over his face.
"Sister, just spare me...... Okay, okay, I'm Lily, this is going down, right?"
Satisfied, he withdrew the check, and the silver balance took out another one from his other pocket.
"Here's 200,000 dragon coins. ”
Wang Ming clearly felt that the check exuded an endless sense of trouble.
"This is my personal dowry for you, and if you agree to my courtship, you can ...... without a dowry."
Wang Ming stared at the silver dragon disguised as a beauty in front of him, his face was very ugly.
"I don't control the royal sister. He swore by it.
"Oh, but I heard that you like that girl very much, isn't she also a royal sister?"
The corners of Wang Ming's mouth began to twitch, and his crush was so secret that everyone knew what level it was!
"This, that, the eldest sister is just an overage girl......"
Bai Yinping bent the tall figure of one meter eight, put his mature face in front of Wang Ming, and the height difference fiercely mocked Wang Ming's height of one meter and six.
didn't care about the spring light on her chest, a beautiful rich woman said: "I'm still a girl~"
Just when Wang Ming's face was red and he was at a loss, Cangyang rushed out from the side: "A thousand-year-old girl?"
The rich woman who was scarred turned into a haze with a smile on her face: "...... Children who can't say good things will be eaten by demons!"
Cangyang still retorted expressionlessly: "I'm really sorry, I'm a demon." ”
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"You two! If you don't buy it, it's going to be dark!"
Wang Ming reminded the two female creatures who were sarcastically teasing each other.
"You're lucky today, I won't be able to kill you if you meet me in the future!"
Silver Balance left a sentence indignantly, turned around and walked into the portal behind him, stretched out his hand and slammed the door shut, shattering into space debris all over the ground.
"Mia, the nouveau riche was driven away by me, let's continue. ”
Wang Ming squinted his eyes with black lines: "Hehe, Cangyang, you don't need to spray her with such a poisonous snake, right?"
Cangyang ignored Wang Ming, raised his feet and walked to another stall selling otherworldly creatures, with money, he naturally had to buy better goods.
However, after walking for a while, the girl turned her stiff face to Wang Ming, trying to soften her expression: "I don't know, but I roughly understand what annoyance is." ”
“…… Hate?"
"Well, I might still think it's a little ...... Interesting, right?"
Twenty kilometers south of Rainbow City ――――――――――――, the Knights of the Blue Moon are stationed.
Because it was night, the early autumn breeze cooled down the sweltering woods, and the cries of unknown insects came and went.
"Look, there's fireflies there!"
Ignoring Yu Huang's shouting, Wang Ming just sat quietly on the stump and read the book.
Dissatisfied with his indifference to his cuteness, Yu Huang snatched the huge volume in Wang Ming's hand: "Mia, even if you study hard, no one will praise you." Hurry up and catch fireflies with me!"
Wang Ming looked at Yu Huang very calmly. Said earnestly: "Little Phoenix." We are the future of the motherland, and we must study hard, make our own contributions to the cause of liberating all mankind, and be a useful person. ”
Yu Huang looked at Wang Ming in astonishment, with an expression full of "You're stupid to read, aren't you?"
"It's not that I'm stupid to read, it's just that I was brainwashed by Cangyang all day today and invaded by her way of thinking...... I now feel that every qiē is a floating cloud, and only knowledge is the only meaning of life. ”
During the day, he went to the Holy City to buy slaves. Brought back a lot of good goods, for example, those mountain people, who were originally a race that had used hunting crossbows for generations, quickly became familiar with the sniper crossbows purchased together, but their arm strength was not enough, and they could not give full play to the potential of bows and crossbows.
After all, those Boer Niu clans still didn't buy it, because Wang Ming and Yue Ying both felt that it was unlucky to place the Minotaur in the army.
“…… What are you afraid of, you're still single anyway. ”
Wang Ming pointed to Yueying, who was drinking tea on the side, and the latter seemed glad that he had prevented the tragedy.
"Legend has it that when you meet a minotaur, your wife will [beep--] with someone else. This is just a legend!"
Yu Huang pointed at Wang Ming's nose and scolded.
Wang Ming scratched his head and smirked, "But the dragon clan has better goods to sell." And give me a discount......"
As he spoke, Wang Ming pointed to the half-dragon warriors who were silently wielding weapons and practicing.
The bloodline of the dragon is above all living beings, once a creature has the blood of a half-dragon, it is actually equivalent to becoming half of the power, and the dragon veins pulsating in the veins will give endless power, accept the dragon veins, and one day be able to surpass all living beings.
So a half-dragon man, all are powerful warriors.
Wang Ming purchased thirteen dragonmen this time, led by a girl with black dragon blood, and after arriving here, she applied for a giant sword.
"Mia, you won't buy these to be cannon fodder, will you?"
"How is it possible, these are more than 2,000 gold coins each! And they are not slaves, they are regular employees. ”
Those were half-dragons who sold themselves to the dragon clan as debt payers for the dirty trade of exchanging dragon veins.
The bloodline of dragons is very precious, after all, it is a species above all living beings. Some families will marry dragons and give birth to mixed-race babies, and if the dragon's bloodline is suppressed by the original family bloodline, then the family will take these children away and let them unleash the endless potential of the dragon vein under the careful education of the family.
But if the bloodline of the dragon is dominant, that is, it has lost the appearance of the original family, such as the growth of dragon horns and claws, then those families will abandon these children.
The dragons would raise them, but as part of the price of the trade, the children would serve the dragons as appendages.
The raising of dragons is just to promise not to eat them, but what these half-dragons have to do is no different from slaves.
Ember Night, female, twenty years old, black dragon subspecies, the original family is a human warlock family, because of the obvious wings and horns, abandoned on the spot after hatching.
Now the battalion commander of the Dragon's Tooth Battalion.
"From this day on, you are no longer the servants of Lord So-and-so, you are my subordinates of Mia Scarlet, so do not call yourself slaves anymore, especially since we have the same blood in our bodies. Well, I'm also a dragon vein, although my dragon vein is only nominal, but we are all compatriots of the dragon clan!"
Wang Ming brainwashed the group of half-dragons, but the effect was obviously average.
Xinglian put down the eleventh plate and pulled Wang Ming away with his greasy hand: "Let me come, you waste wood while watching." ”
The crystal ball floated above Xinglian's head, scattering colorful light, and the girl began her own political work.
"Good evening, comrades. I know you've suffered a lot at the hands of your lords, but I'm sure they didn't mean to make you suffer. I don't want to accuse the dragon clan of the injustice of the law, now that you have signed a contract with Cangyue, then I can guarantee that you will definitely not be slaves like before. ”
"You work here, the Knights of the Blue Moon will pay your salary, if you don't like it, you can leave at any time, we will not pursue it, if you are injured, there is work-related injury insurance, even if you die, there is a death allowance and a tombstone that belongs to you. ”
"So, please have faith in the Knights, we are a righteous organization. We guarantee it. As long as the cloud crescent moon flag is still in one day. We guarantee your rights and freedoms. ”
"That's all I said, thank you. ”
The dragons looked at her expressionlessly.
"Eh, don't you have anything to say?"
Xing Lian was very surprised, his spiritual energy was used to brainwash, and it had always been a wash.
"We are all warriors, as long as we fight well, you don't have to say so much empty talk. ”
Ember replied lightly.
Wang Ming looked at this group of cold fighters and knew very well what their situation was.
Although the strength of the half-dragon people is not as good as that of the dragon. However, the original is stronger than the average race of humanoids, so there will always be half-dragons in the dragon's army, and in all battles, half-dragons are the main combat force.
So these half-dragons have already experienced a hundred battles and are suffering from war syndrome.
Xing Lian and Wang Ming glanced at each other, and suddenly grabbed Night Ash's collar.
Do you think that the sea of corpses and blood you have experienced is an excuse for you to escape from reality? Wake up, war can make you enjoy the excitement and forget your troubles, but can you escape the reality of blood pollution by relying on the stimulation of life and death?"
"Cangyue won't buy a bunch of humanoid weapons that only know how to kill. You'd better learn how to live. ”
Ember said indifferently, "Cut, you know something. Do you understand the tragic situation of corpses lying on a mountain? Have you seen ...... in the blood-stained sky?"
Star Ripple interrupted her nonsense, "Of course I understand, the battlefields I have experienced are far more tragic than yours. ”
"Oh?"
"Please call me 'the goddess of war in the West Sea', little girl, when you are not born, my name will be able to stop the night cry of children in the West Sea!"
The psychology of the half-dragon people has been distorted in the impure blood and years of war, to put it bluntly, they have become ruffians, psychopaths, psychopaths and humanoid weapons, and the only thing that can make them submit is more powerful force.
Knowing this, Xinglian used his name to suppress this group of guys.
The goddess of war in the West Sea, the name of the bones piled up.
Wang Ming bought a team of bear slaves, and after the twenty bear people got the steel shields and axe guns equipped with them, they all competed excitedly for a long time, and then they were not finished, and began to compete with their strength.
At first, they wrestled their wrists, and at first, those mountain people didn't know whether they were alive or dead, but they were defeated by these big men with thick chest hair, and it looked easier than breaking bananas.
But soon those mountain people pointed out that the bear clan used height to cheat, and to use weightlifting to compete.
There's no way to cheat now, right?
But human beings try to compete with the beasts, and the end is always miserable.
Even the few barbarian warriors from the Northland couldn't move the wheel-sized stones, but the bears moved them with a little effort.
At least two hundred kilograms of huge rock was lifted lightly, lifted up to the waist, and then let go, slamming heavily on the ground.
"Boom-"
The huge tremor could even be felt by Wang Ming, who was sitting in the distance reading a novel.
Ember walked over and glanced at a red dragon dragonborn beside him, the half-dragon orc warmed up, bent down, and grabbed a thick log with his calloused hands from using a giant battle axe, and lifted the log steadily.
"This log is about 500 kilograms, which of you dares to challenge?"
The bears looked at each other, and they still had such a little self-knowledge.
It is impossible to move a 500-kilogram log of flesh and blood, unless it is an inhuman flesh and blood.
Looking at the huge log block that one person was hugging, those people began to feel that bloodline was really important.
Ember rubbed her hands together and lifted another, larger log next to her, her foot sinking into the dead leaves due to its massive weight.
The expressions of the crowd were like ordinary people watching Godzilla's landing.
"Good...... It's amazing!"
"Sister Nightember, you are so strong, let's mess with you in the future!"
"You are really the reincarnation of the goddess of war!"
Wang Ming was reading the novel when he saw the critical moment, when he heard a group of people over there making a noise, he couldn't read a word, closed the book, and walked straight towards the training ground.
Seeing the two logs on the ground, Wang Ming knew that this group of idle guys were playing weightlifting again.
"Hey, hey, don't play such a dangerous game, in case you break your body, it will be difficult to treat. ”
While blaming everyone, Wang Ming picked up the two logs one in each hand and carried them on his shoulders easily.
After taking two steps, he saw a two-hundred-kilogram stone still on the ground, picked it up on his tiptoes, threw it on the log, and walked away into the distance.
“……”
The silence on the field lasted for more than ten minutes.
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"What do you think of these soldiers?"
Tsukizakura sat on the treetops with her knees folded and whispered to Xinglian, who was lying next to her drinking.
"The quality of the goods picked by Sister Cangyang will naturally not be bad. The group of dragonborns that Mia brought back also seemed to have great potential, and they needed to be cultivated well. ”
Yueying looked at the soldiers who were laughing and playing in confusion: "These guys ...... How many will come back alive?" (To be continued......)