Chapter 922: [One Is Indispensable]
The city lord of Jinyang City, named Fengji, is a strong man of the Hua clan with quasi-heaven-level strength.
If this strength is placed in other places besides Tianhuayu, it is estimated that the leader of the bandits will kill him instantly. But in dozens of nearby cities, his strength can be said to be among the top five. In Tianhua Territory, the closer the city lords and country lords are to the formal battle zone, the stronger they are. The city lords in the second and third tiers outside who do not directly participate in the war are mostly below the sky rank, and very few are even at the sixth rank of the earth rank.
Feng Ji, he was not the city lord of Jinyang City.
He was an adventurer who came to Tianhuayu to practice. Because the former city lord of Jinyang City died in battle, the captain of the guard and the butler who succeeded him died in battle one after another. There was really no one who could take on the role of city lord, so he took the initiative to take over Jinyang City.
It is not uncommon for an adventurer like him to succeed the city lord in Tianhuayu.
Although the strength and qualifications of the city lords in the outer reaches of Tianhuayu are not high, there are still relatively few city lords who are vacant, and no one is willing to take over the mess. For example, there is a Yotei City not too far from Jinyang City. Because of the lack of minerals, poor land, and natural disasters, the civilians who have been heavily taxed are all in a state of starvation, so no one wants to take over there. A small garrison was dispatched by the managing ruler to manage it, barely maintaining law and order. If it is a large-scale business group outside, sending a representative to be the city lord is more popular in Tianhuayu, and strength is not important, but it must complete the combat preparation tasks assigned by the above. Other than that, the upper level does not interfere with any actions of the city lord below.
It can be said that places like Jinyang City and Yangtei City, which are located on the periphery and lack special products and low income, have long been forgotten by the higher-ups.
"Where do you want me to produce so much food? I can't help it!" Fengji was angrily yelling at his housekeeper Shatong at the moment: "It's not that I don't want to care about those civilians, it's just that there is no way! The last seeds have been handed over to They went to plant, how do I know that those seeds were fried by profiteers, I don't know "I don't understand agriculture at all, and I don't know how to breed. I used to be just a mercenary who fed himself and had no weapons...he came here to take over , I don’t want to be a city lord, it’s just that the chaos here is really unsightly.” I just want to contribute to her hometown of wormwood! Now you let me change food and seeds, you think I’m a god Do you know how much money I have in the treasury? The last funds have all been handed over to profiteers to buy those damned seeds. Now the seeds are cooked by profiteers and can’t sprout. Can you blame me for this? You can do what you like, I've had enough! "
"My lord, if there is no greed for food, I dare say that within a month at the latest, half of the people in Jinyang City will be killed!" The housekeeper Shatong had a bitter face. Of course he knew the difficulties of the city lord, but besides reaching out to him, What can be done? After all, Fengji is the lord of the city, and he is the strongest person!
"I don't know what to do!" Feng Zhi yelled, "I've been frugal and greedy myself, and I've spent three months, and I haven't had a full meal in the past three months. There is no way to go on.
You should be another city lord, "Whoever wants to do it, I really have no ability to feed hundreds of thousands of people!"
"This...,..." the butler Shatong sighed.
He knows the difficulty of Fengji, because he also has no ability to feed hundreds of thousands of people.
The shortage of food is not a problem in Jinyang City, but a problem in Huayu today. Except for some rich places in Tianhuayu, other places are poor and empty.
In the war, too many hardworking men fell to their deaths on the battlefield, and now most of the people left in the peripheral areas are old, weak, women and children. Except for the necessary garrison personnel and the seriously injured and disabled, "any adult, regardless of gender, regardless of race, as long as he has a certain combat effectiveness, will be transferred to the barracks in the war area for training, and then sent to the battlefield to fight that unknown battle." The battle of the domain emperor can end in time.
Grain greed is almost over. There are no seeds and no crops, which means that the next harvest will be zero.
After about a month, all the grass roots, bark and livestock will be eaten up. In the end, hundreds of thousands of starving people with green eyes will step into the same tragedy as those in the hardest-hit areas of Yotei City.
Changing children and being greedy...
It was not the first time that Shatong saw such a horrific situation.
Could it be that Jinyang City will also become a dead place with many bones and thousands of miles of corpses?
"My lord, there is good news, there is good news!" Ouba, the poorest grain merchant in the world, rushed in with a blushing face, and directly knocked Shatong, a skinny butler, to the ground.
"Ouba, are the merchants here? It's a miracle, there are still merchants willing to come to a poor area like ours?" Shatong asked, grabbing Ouba's legs before he got up in time.
"Where is the merchant?" Feng Ji was also very welcoming, but after asking this sentence, he showed a bitter face: "We have no money."
"No money, they don't want money!" Oppa excitedly shook his head and waved his hands.
"There are still businessmen in the world who don't need money?" Feng Ji couldn't believe it. If businessmen don't love money, then all the sows in the world will climb trees!
"Yes, that's right, they don't want us a gold coin, no, they don't want magic crystals either, to be honest, our low-quality magic crystals are given to others for nothing, and they don't want them."..., you can't even think of it What kind of business group came to us, a total of fifty grain boats, and ten boats full of fine wine. My God, if those goods can enter the war zone, I dare say, even the kings will be beaten to death... I'm done talking, yes, back to the deal, they don't need our money, As long as all kinds of weapons recovered on the battlefield! "Ouba was so happy that he talked a little upside down.
"Are you stupid? We are on the outskirts, not a war zone. Where are the weapons? Besides, they are contraband, and all traders will be beheaded!" Shatong denied the possibility of such a transaction.
"That's right, you're right, but what I want to say is, what do they want for weapons? Electrohua ore, ordinary weapons, it's impossible for them to look at them. We use electrohua ore, In exchange for a large amount of food! The city lord, and Steward Sha, think about it, fifty boats, each with a length of 100 meters, as long as we take it down, it will be no problem to support the entire city to death!" Ou Ba quickly explained clearly.
"I said Ouba, please keep your voice down, the ore of Dianhua was forbidden by the Emperor Yu himself... Only Shatong felt that his heartbeat was like a drum at this time, but he did not deny that his heart was beating.
Is there anything more terrifying in the world than mechanical death?
No!
Rather than grabbing the head and beheading it, it is better to fill the stomach first and be a full ghost!
Ouba saw that the loyalist Shatong was a little bit relieved, and hurriedly hit the iron: "We are not a transaction, the city lord, we go to the VIP to express our heart, as a witness of friendship." We gave each other a small gift, and the other party And generously return the food we desperately need. Even if the higher-ups knew the news, I believe they would not be severely questioned. After all, there is a shortage of food everywhere now, and the Lord is also a headache! "
Feng Ji thinks this is not a bad idea.
I'm just worried about how much food can be exchanged for such a small amount of electric ore in Jinyang City?
In any case, stabilize the other party first." If the other party sails away, then everything will be over.
The three of them decided to take a risk, and they invited several other merchants in the city who were also as poor as skins to visit the head of the merchant group. Anyway, this transaction is a decapitation transaction. If you want to live, everyone will live together, if you want to die together, no one will be left behind!
When he saw the fifty grain boats, even Feng Ji, the city lord of Jinyang, couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, shit, it would be great if it wasn't for the city lord.
If you are still a thief before, just grab a fat sheep.
No business.
Better than risking your head to trade.
When he saw that the other party's guards had five heavenly ranks, his body went limp from fright. Good guy, if he really robs, he won't even keep his cat's skin! Fifty grain ships, few heavenly ranks would not be able to enter the central battle area even with the protection of the domain emperor's order. However, where did this Titan Merchant Group come from? Five heaven-level powerhouses are the guards. Such a big deal is not inferior to the top ten business groups!
"You are the city lord? Let's not talk about the unnecessary things. Our request is very simple, just take out the Dianhua ore, and we can provide you with seeds besides food greed!" Bao Gu made his position clear, that is, as long as Dianhua ore is not rare .
"Seed?" Feng Zhi heard it, and his heartbeat increased suddenly. In Tianhua Domain, seeds are definitely the lifeblood, and there is nothing but seeds!
"The purity of our electric hua mine is not high, and every three months, the owner of the country collects it once, and the stock is insufficient." Sha Tong, the butler, lowered his head.
He had to bow his head.
Because he has now seen that the other party is a luxurious and large business group, and he probably won't care about the small inventory in Jinyang City.
As long as the grain ship is driven into the war zone, the country lords will compete to trade ore with electricity.
Although it is forbidden by the Emperor of the Territory, there are exceptions to everything, isn't it?
Such a luxurious and rich super business group can usually get the special approval terms of the domain emperor "...
"We really don't like the small inventory. We need a lot of Dianhua ore, a lot!" Fatty Judd said that Fengji, Ouba and Shatong almost despaired. They were pleading, and Fat Judd waved his hand and proposed a plan: "Otherwise, we invest in mining here, you are responsible for providing labor, we provide grain and poultry, and allow you to exchange wages for grain. At the same time, we can Aid you with some seeds, in return, you send as many people as possible to drive electric ore, as for the purity, you don't need to worry about those."
"No problem, the most important thing we need here is manpower!" Afraid of Fengji and Shatong's hesitation, Ouba first agreed on his own initiative.
"Golden Sun City is simply given to you. I am an incompetent city lord. Besides, any of you are stronger than me. You can send someone to be the Golden Sun City lord. You can do whatever you want... ...Feng Ji felt that he was quite useless. For a majestic city lord, it would be fine if he didn't have the gold-level armor on the guards of the other party, and he would still suffer.
He took off the ring of the castellan, a token of identity, and forced it into Judd's hands.
Hold Bao Gu's hand again: "Leader, can I protect you now?"
Bao Gu and Judd were stunned by this guy's shocking behavior.
There is such a thing?
Shatong and Ouba also cried out anxiously like resentful women: "City Lord, you can't abandon us. If you leave, what will we do in the future?"
Feng Zhi waved his hand: "Stop, stop, I'm not your city lord anymore. Seriously, I'm fed up with this damned city lord! I don't have that ability, and I don't like to worry about the food and drink of hundreds of thousands of people. I have never been happy when I became the city lord! Even when I was the most downcast, I was never as poor or as weak as I am now. If the current city lord would have to die, why would I want to be the city lord? ? Why don’t I become a guard, or simply become a mercenary like before, at least that way, I can still eat enough!”
"Boy, you are not qualified to be a guard!" Chong Guan and the others laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt. How many people want to be a city lord, but now, as a strong man who is the lord of a city, he is worried about dying in office. A big joke today.
"My strength is not good, but I have good specialties and talents. Although I can't grow food greedily, I am good at scouting and tracking!" Feng Ji hurriedly fought for it.
"The problem is, although I am the leader, there is a master on top of me." Bao Gu said with a smile: "Unless you can get the master's permission, it is useless for you to be strong. How many strong people break their heads and want to drill To come in as guards, there are strong people at the fourth level of the heavenly rank, but they are not qualified.
Here, in addition to ability, but also pay attention to loyalty. To be honest, I doubt your loyalty, because you can leave a city because of hunger! "
"You still have a master above you?" Feng Ji was going to be stupid, what is the origin of this business group? The master of the heavenly powerhouse, is that the king? Or something more powerful?
"Master said, if you can find a way to cross Zhifeng Swamp, then you can temporarily hire a guard for a three-month trial period."
Yue Yang was on the side of the luxury yacht, and sent a female dragon from today's world to spread the word.
Although Feng Ji doesn't want to be the city lord of the armor, it seems that there is a problem with his loyalty.
But if you look at the matter from two sides, you will find that this guy from the cat tribe is actually not bad. If you want to change to another city lord, even in a poor city, will he endure hunger and torture? At the very least, it can be proven that the unruly regime exploits civilians to gain wealth. He may not be qualified as a city lord, but he shouldn't have any problem being a pathfinder guard and using his special skills.
Moreover, letting people like Bao Gu and Judd take over Jinyang City is indeed better than going through everything.
In the mountains near Jinyang City, there is a good amount of Dianhua mines, but mining is difficult.
The problem here is that there is not enough manpower and technology to mine, and the production capacity will be low. If there is Leibao's technology to drive Hulei ore, coupled with a large number of manpower, Dianhua ore will become a sharp weapon for elite soldiers on the battlefield. Maybe it's not enough, but it's enough for Yue Yang to refine the Beast Bracelet.
"Zhifeng Swamp, that's a place of death!" Feng Ji's face changed greatly when he heard that.
"We don't want cowards!" Fat Judd said aggressively.
"Whoever said I was a coward, you have found the right person. If you want to change to another person, you really can't pass Zhifeng Swamp. Even if I escaped in Zhifeng Swamp, I am only 30% sure... You don't know , It’s too scary there, it’s a dead place that cannot be passed. To walk through the Zhifeng Swamp, besides strength and experience, the most important thing is luck!” Feng Zhi bowed to the female dragon woman in the sky who was still waiting for an accurate reply. Her eyesight is not bad, and she knows that the status of the female dragon in today's world is actually higher, at least higher than the few genuine guards with the strength of the sky. Fengzhi's attitude is very respectful, and his words are also very sincere: "If you want to cross Zhifeng Swamp, besides me, you need to find someone else in another place. The two of us are indispensable."! ~!