Chapter 15 15 In the Tavern, You Can Always Get All Kinds of News

Chapter 15 15. You can always get all kinds of news in the tavern

Lulutis was trying to hold back her laughter, but it was meaningless.

The conversation between the two was conducted through mental magic. As long as Lulutis did not interrupt the magic, her irrepressible laughter would echo in Lu Yu's mind.

"You haven't laughed enough."

"No, I want to laugh for a while."

Lu Yu was slapped in the face.

He was ready to buy a house, and he had analyzed and answered the question about why Lulutis did not rent a house before.

However, after arriving in the royal city and asking passers-by, they learned that the sale of houses and land in the royal city and even the surrounding areas required a strict approval process.

He did not give up and came to a busy tavern nearby. In such places, you only need wine to inquire about news.

After wandering around the bustling tavern for a while, Lu Yu confirmed the person he was getting the information from.

In the corner of the tavern, a middle-aged man with black hair and green eyes, a face like a donkey, and a black iron-level adventurer badge on his chest was drinking alone.

There was not a single snack on his small table.

Lu Yu walked over and sat down.

The donkey-faced adventurer was already slightly tipsy, his dark face slightly flushed.

Seeing Lu Yu sitting down, he looked up and glanced at him, burped and was about to get up and leave.

"Are you interested in drinking a few glasses with me? I'll treat you."

The stiff and awkward voice made the donkey-faced adventurer turn around curiously, and his pair of green eyes looked up and down at Lu Yu.

Lu Yu didn't say much, but waved to the waiter in the tavern, told him to serve a few glasses of the wine that the donkey-faced adventurer had just drunk, and asked for a plate of cold dishes that were on almost every table.

The donkey-faced adventurer saw that Lu Yu couldn't even pronounce the names of the dishes and wine, but just pointed at the wine and food on other people's tables and imitated him, and his curiosity was aroused.

He didn't hesitate, and sat back in his seat generously.

When the food and wine were served, the donkey-faced adventurer was about to take the golden wine glass and drink it. He suddenly saw Lu Yu tilting his head slightly and looking at him with an unfathomable look...

"Let me introduce myself... Daka, the adventurers here usually call me Green-eyed Daka."

According to the knowledge provided by Lulutis, Lu Yu knew that many people at the bottom of society did not have complete names.

First, their knowledge level prevented them from coming up with good names with good meanings.

Second, the names of the local upper-class nobles often need to be avoided.

If you accidentally take a name that offends the upper-class nobles, it may not be a big deal at ordinary times, but if something goes wrong, there will be endless trouble.

In order to avoid these problems, most people at the bottom of society often have only one surname, and then use various strange names as their names.

For example, Blue Flame John, Water Pattern George.

Some even don't care about the arrangement of the names, and just call themselves John Blue Flame.

Some simply call themselves by nicknames, such as the Green-eyed Daka in front of them.

Others will give themselves some strange names that have never had precedents.

Therefore, Lu Yu did not need to hide his name at all, because people here are very accepting of strange names.

Sure enough, when Lu Yu said his name, Dhaka had no reaction at all.

The name Lu Yu was not even as strange to Dhaka as inviting him to drink.

"I know you have something to ask me... burp, uh... burp!"

After several consecutive burps, Dhaka continued with a smile: "Mr. Lu Yu, you are not from the Kingdom of Yas, right?"

"Indeed not."

"What do you want to know? Just because you let me drink, I am willing to answer you one or two."

"Of course, I am just an adventurer who makes a living in the Kingdom of Yas. I am not capable of answering you for too secret things."

Lu Yu liked Dhaka's straightforwardness, which saved him a lot of trouble.

The first thing he wanted to know was whether it was really impossible to buy a house in the capital of the Kingdom of Yas.

"If you have this idea, give it up as soon as possible. The land and real estate around the Royal City of Yas are in short supply now."

Dhaka knew that Lu Yu was confused, so he explained it to Lu Yu in detail.

In recent years, the Royal City of Yas has basically used land and real estate as a means of reward, specifically to reward adventurers with outstanding contributions and knights with outstanding military achievements.

This decision is based on a helpless reality.

Monsters are rampant in the East of the Kingdom of Yas, among which goblins are the largest.

These goblins have built a large number of underground mazes in the mountains, plains, and swamps of the East, and have multiplied and grown.

About fifty years ago, Yas I, the first king who founded the Kingdom of Yas, died.

Yas I was a very skillful person.

He integrated several small countries in the surrounding areas and issued an order not to allow these nobles who were granted fiefs to build walls in their own territories.

To be fair, this is a correct order to maintain the rule of the Kingdom of Yas.

The internal forces of the newly unified kingdom are complicated, and allowing these people to have new territories is already a consolation policy.

But what if this consolation makes these nobles want to entangle the army, build high walls, store grain, and resist the rule?

For those who were conquered and annexed and became the first generation of Yas Kingdom nobles, this new dynasty's elegant politics was very disgusting.

You must know that they also faced monster attacks in their own territory.

Without the protection of the city walls, they need to be careful about monsters attacking the city at all times, and they must be careful to store supplies. If they are not careful, they may be wiped out.

But at that time, Yas I had great authority, and the military force in his hands and the number of adventurers he attracted were not comparable to those who had just been conquered.

So they could only obey this rule.

However, as time passed, after Yas I passed away, Yas II's deterrence on the nobles who were enfeoffed in the surrounding areas was far less than that of Yas I.

By the time of Yas III, the vassals around him had actually turned their backs on their loyalty, and they only maintained the kingdom's territory in harmony on the surface.

Lulutis simply couldn't understand what Daka said about buying a house.

But Lu Yu had already guessed it.

Yas I's decision was actually to weaken the vassal's protection of the peasants in the territory, forcing the peasants to go to the more secure royal city.

After all, without the protection of the city walls, monster looting was common.

The nobles are unlikely to protect the people's property. The most likely approach is to build a complete defense in their own manor to guard their wealth.

With this back and forth, the people will continue to gather in the royal city and strengthen the core strength of the kingdom.

However, as the population increases, the capacity of the royal city is gradually approaching saturation, and the land within the protection range cannot be used for ordinary people to live and cultivate.

After all, the royal family also needs to leave a certain amount of vacant land for trading.

Restrictions on buying and selling also appeared.

Under this logic, Lu Yu thinks that this Yas I is a person in power with a good brain.

However, the royal city cannot be unaware of the shortage of land after the population explosion.

Doesn't the Yas Kingdom, with its enhanced core control, relocate people to open up wasteland?

"Of course it is open up wasteland." Dhaka took a bite of the salad that looked like Houttuynia cordata, smacked his lips, and sighed.

"You may not know much about this because you just came to the Kingdom of Yas. Originally, there were large city-states in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Yas in the Luotan Mountains and the plains."

"The lords of these city-states are the most staunch supporters of the Kingdom of Yas."

"However, in the past ten years, the city-states have fallen one after another, and now there is no city to defend in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Yas."

"The land there is fertile and the products are abundant. Two generations of hardworking farmers in the Kingdom of Yas have cultivated and settled there."

"I went there once when I was a child. God, what a beautiful scenery it is."

"On the endless plains, the ripe wheat sways in the fields with the wind..."

"..."

Lu Yu did not hear what Daka said next. When he looked carefully, he saw tears in his eyes.

Lu Yu picked up the wine glass, clinked it with Daka, and drank a sip with him.

I don't know if it's because of the brewing process or the brewing materials, the wine is very astringent, the bitterness is obvious, and it's not even soft and refreshing at all.

But thinking that this is a bad wine for ordinary adventurers to get drunk, Lu Yu was relieved.

"The fall of the city-state was caused by the invasion of monsters, and the nobles also hindered it. In the end, several loyal lords were defeated and forced to evacuate."

"After the defeat, the Kingdom of Yas has been unable to recover the areas occupied by monsters. The several encirclements organized have had little effect. After all, the Kingdom Knights and the Kingdom's direct army do not have absolute force to protect the recovered areas."

"The existence of the Goblin Underground Labyrinth makes it extremely dangerous there. Even re-cultivating and grazing are a luxury."

"And...and..." Dhaka looked embarrassed, smiled awkwardly, and pointed his finger at the top of his head.

Lu Yu understood.

If the army fully recovered the lost land, then if the vassals had thoughts, who would guarantee the interests of the royal family when the country was empty?

Or, if the vassals had small thoughts in the process of recovering the lost land, causing the front line to collapse, causing turmoil, and then they became independent...

If you want to make various attempts to break the situation, you must be careful to guard against whether this decision will worsen the situation, not to mention that there are many interests entangled here.

So, the official Kingdom of Yas chose another plan.

Through the Adventurer's Guild, a bounty is issued, and adventurers from all over the world are attracted to come here to serve with good bounties, and all kinds of monsters in the East Territory are eliminated. The best ones are given good treatment to attract them to become their helpers.

In general, the land and real estate in the royal city are reserved for powerful adventurers and those who can assist the royal family. Others have no channels to obtain them.

"If Mr. Lu Yu is strong, he can fight for it."

Dhaka's tongue is swollen after gulping down a big mouthful of wine.

Lu Yu, who was sitting across the table, ignored the shouts from the people around him when they were drinking, and fell into deep thought.

He was just a mortal without any power, and he was powerless to fight for it.

It seems that the plan to buy a house for temporary residence is really not feasible.

I don't know what the process of renting a house is. I hope it's not too complicated, otherwise it will be a headache for me.