Chapter 155 Signing a Contract
Yang Yi got more than a dozen architectural drawings from Bain, and he looked through them.
He found that two of them were town level 1 architectural drawings, namely the city wall and the arrow tower.
The rest were village level 3 architectural drawings, including drawings of common buildings such as walls, houses, warehouses, and hotels.
Yang Yi first asked the fishmen builders below level 3 to build fishmen huts, so that the fishmen sent to the Dead Water Oasis could be settled, so as to avoid the decline of fishmen morale.
Then Yang Yi found a level 3 fishmen builder, and he handed the construction drawings of the hotel to the fishmen builder. This is a construction drawing of a village level 3 hotel, and Yang Yi ordered the fishmen builder to build the hotel quickly.
"Those developers who want people to pay for houses always have to build a beautiful sales office first, and this hotel will be used as a sales office first." Yang Yi thought to himself that he would always bring investors to see the site at that time, and build a large building first as an on-site advertisement.
Yang Yi called the remaining level 3 Murloc builders together. Yang Yi gave two level 3 builders a construction blueprint of a level 3 village wall and asked them to start building the wall immediately. The other builders were asked to start building living buildings such as warehouses and Murloc huts to ensure the logistics of the fighting Murlocs and Murloc builders.
One of the two construction blueprints of the level 3 village wall was purchased by the Goblin Merchants in Ratchet Town for the purpose of building the wall, and the other was brought by Bain.
The wall is an important building to defend against the attack of the Centaurs. With the wall, the Murlocs inside the wall can at least be protected to a certain extent, and there is no need to worry about the Centaurs sending small teams to harass them all the time.
Yang Yi hopes that the wall can be completed as soon as possible, but he currently has only two construction blueprints of the level 3 village wall, so this is the only arrangement for the time being.
Yang Yi also has a construction blueprint of the city wall, but he ruled out the possibility of building such a basic city wall for a small town from the beginning. It takes nearly ten days to build a 100-meter-long village level 3 wall. It is estimated that it takes at least twice as long to build a 100-meter-long city wall as a village level 3 wall.
The key is that there are only two level 4 fishmen builders, Gulu and Hulu, in Ratchet Town, which means that they can only rely on these two level 4 fishmen builders to build the wall section by section.
The terrain of Dead Water Oasis is open, unlike Ratchet Town, which only needs to build walls at the entrance and exit.
Yang Yi made a rough calculation.
With the current talent conditions of Ratchet Town, even if the terrain is used reasonably, even if it is estimated that other fishmen builders will be upgraded to level 4 in the future. If you want to use a town-level wall to surround the future fishmen village of Dead Water Oasis, it will definitely not be completed within a year.
The fishmen can wait for a year, but the centaurs will not wait, so they can only settle for the second best and build a village level 3 wall first.
Yang Yi planned to take advantage of this period to buy the architectural drawings of the village's level 3 wall and let all the level 3 fishmen builders devote themselves to the construction of the village's level 3 wall, which would greatly speed up the construction.
News always spreads quickly among adventurers. Knowing that the fishmen and tauren were going to build a base in the Dead Water Oasis, many adventurers active near the Dead Water Oasis rushed over.
Yang Yi found that in a short period of time, dozens of adventurers came to the Dead Water Oasis, which had just been burned to ashes. Most of these people came to see if they could get benefits from it.
Yang Yi was naturally happier to see more adventurers coming, but he ignored those adventurers for the time being and went directly to Brak.
Brak was directing the fishmen to dig trenches, set up barbs and chevaux de frise, and behind the trenches was a wall that was being built in a hurry. Before the wall was built, this fortification would be the main defensive barrier of the new base.
Yang Yi walked over and said to Brak, "Brak, this lord plans to build a large village here."
Brak said happily, "Lord, will this also be the territory of our Thorntooth Fishmen in the future?"
Yang Yi said, "Yes, but this place will not only belong to us Thorntooth Fishmen in the future. Send a small team of fighting fishmen back to Ratchet Town, and ask the old blind deputy mayor to send more fishmen to work hard and deliver more materials."
Brak nodded.
Yang Yi took out a piece of parchment that he had prepared long ago and handed it to Brak, "Tell them to take this letter back to the old blind deputy mayor."
"Yes, lord."
After Brak took the parchment, he hurried away to make arrangements.
Yang Yi watched Brak leave. He inspected the construction site, and then he went to find the minotaur Bain and others.
A small team of fighting fishmen was sent back to Ratchet Town by Brak. The Dead Water Oasis was still a long way from Ratchet Town, and this team of fishmen did not return to Ratchet Town until midnight.
After Yang Yi left, Old Blind Eye was in charge of looking after the Thorntooth Town. He met with the returning murlocs as soon as he received the report from the patrolling murlocs.
The murlocs returning from Dead Water Oasis conveyed Yang Yi's instructions to Old Blind Eye, and then they handed Yang Yi's parchment letter to Old Blind Eye.
Old Blind Eye opened the parchment and found that there was a lot of content written on it.
The main content of this parchment was to ask Old Blind Eye to send another battalion of combat murlocs to Dead Water Oasis, and also about raising funds to build a Dead Water Oasis stronghold.
Yang Yi thought about it, and as the first aboriginal village to raise funds from adventurers, the Dead Water Oasis stronghold still had a large market. Therefore, Yang Yi set a threshold for investors, which would make people feel that it was a rare opportunity.
Detailed records were made on the parchment. Those who can enter Ratchet Town's friendly list can invest 10 gold coins, those who can enter the respected list can invest 100 gold coins, and those who can enter the revered list can invest 1,000 gold coins.
It is actually not difficult to enter Ratchet Town's reputation list. The easiest way is to make a deal with Ratchet Town or complete Ratchet Town's bounty announcement. According to the rules set by Yang Yi, as long as you complete a monetary transaction with the fishmen in Ratchet Town for a total of 1 gold coin, you can enter the friendly list, followed by the respected list of 10 gold coins and the respected list of 100 gold coins.
Those adventurers who often interact with the murlocs of Ratchet Town have made more or less money by trading with Ratchet Town or completing the content in the announcement, so building the reputation of Ratchet Town is very valuable to them. Good things.
That night, the old blind man wrote a large announcement according to the instructions in Yang Yi's letter and nailed it to the bulletin board outside the west gate of Ratchet Town.
Early the next morning, the news that the murlocs of Ratchet Town wanted to jointly build a village in the backwater oasis and openly raise funds from the outside world quickly spread, and even the contents of the newly posted announcement outside the west gate of Ratchet Town were revealed. It was completely posted on the forum.
All major adventurer factions began to discuss the matter of the aboriginal fishmen raising funds to build a village, and the forum suddenly exploded.
So far, there are not many forces that can establish a solid stronghold in the world of Azeroth, and most of them are established in remote and ownerless areas.
Like the Backwater Oasis, it faces the Northern Golden Road near the Barrens to the west, and the road leading to the crossroads to the north. The geographical conditions are very advantageous. If the adventurers' forces can take root here, it will be very conducive to their activities in the Northern Barrens. .
As alien humans, adventurers were rootless when they first came to the world of Azeroth. The attitude of the indigenous people towards adventurers was also lukewarm. Everything required adventurers to start from scratch.
Many adventurers in the Barrens have worked hard to establish some relationship with the indigenous people at the crossroads, but they are only allowed to enter the town, and they are not allowed to stay inside at night.
This is the first time that indigenous people like Backwater Oasis have taken the initiative to seek investment from outsiders to jointly build villages and towns.
Yang Yi went offline and browsed around the forum. When he saw that the Backwater Oasis' plan to raise funds to build a village became a hot topic on the forum, he was so happy that he couldn't help but smile.
Back in the world of Azeroth, Yang Yi thought that the news had become so popular that a large group of leaders of various forces, large and small, would be rushing to invest. However, he did not expect that after waiting for a day, there was no movement at all.
At this time, most of the adventurer forces operating near the Barrens still had a wait-and-see attitude. They just sent more people to investigate the situation.
"How could this happen? Shouldn't the leaders of the major forces come to this lord with gold coins in their hands? Could it be that I set the investment threshold too high, so they don't come?"
Yang Yi stood in front of the hotel being built and kept thinking that if no one was willing to invest, then his statement in front of the tauren that he would directly build a large village would be like firing a cannon.
At this time, a Holy Sword Knight came over with several members of the Holy Sword Knights.
"Brother, Mayor Poseidon, our Holy Sword Knights have decided to invest in the construction of a backwater oasis." The leader, a Holy Sword Knight, said.
Because Yang Yi did not deliberately keep it secret, many people knew his new name in just a few days, including all well-informed adventurers.
"Have you decided to invest?" Yang Yi suddenly became happy when he heard that he was going to invest. The Holy Sword Knight tried his best to make his expression and tone look stable, but he couldn't hide his mean eyes. betrayed him, Yang Yi knew that this guy was not an absolutely unstable person.
Yang Yi looked at the other members of the Knights of the Holy Sword. These teenagers were nodding their heads like chickens pecking at rice. It seemed that they had made a decision.
The Knights of the Holy Sword have grown rapidly since they cooperated with the fishmen in Ratchet Town. Yang Yi found that these people were all familiar faces. They should all be the backbone of the Knights of the Holy Sword.
"Yes, we, the Knights of the Holy Sword, have decided to invest."
"Well, how much do you plan to invest?" Yang Yi calmed down and asked.
"50 gold coins." A holy sword knight said one word at a time.
"50 gold coins?." Yang Yi was slightly disappointed. He needed to raise 10,000 gold coins, and these 50 gold coins were just a drop in the bucket.
"Fifty gold coins are fine, I'll accept it."
Yang Yi finally stretched out the fishman's big hand. This was the first investment after all.
In fact, 50 gold coins can be exchanged for a lot of money. This is a huge amount of money for most people, let alone investing in the fish people in the world of Azeroth.
The Knights of the Holy Sword are no better than those big forces. All this money was earned from Ratchet Town before, otherwise they would not be able to get so many gold coins.
Taking out 50 gold coins was already a decisive decision for the Knights of the Holy Sword. They had seized the opportunity of the development of Ratchet Town and made several profits, which could be said to be one step ahead of the adventurers.
This time the Knights of the Holy Sword followed the murlocs of Ratchet Town to the Backwater Oasis. A Knight of the Holy Sword was the first to know that the murlocs of Ratchet Town were going to build a village in the Backwater Oasis. At the same time, he also learned about this village. There will be tauren from Thunder Bluff staying.
"Take it?" A Holy Sword Knight looked at Yang Yi's extended fish-man hand and was very confused. 50 gold coins was a huge sum of money for him and the Holy Sword Knights. How could such a large sum of money be invested? I can just accept it.
"Brother Mayor Poseidon, our Holy Sword Knights have conditions." A Holy Sword Knight said.
"Conditions? What conditions?" Yang Yi asked. He didn't expect that even "a mere 50 gold coins" would require negotiation.
A Knight of the Holy Sword made eye contact with several key members of the group and then said: "As for the big room allocated to us, we, the Knights of the Holy Sword, hope that it can be a room that can be used as a store."
"Okay, I'll leave you a big house with a good location that can be used as a store." Yang Yi thought about it and decided.
After all, this is also the first investment, which shows that the Knights of the Holy Sword can trust the Ratchet Fishman. And we also need to set an example to those who are waiting and watching, and we should give more benefits.
The big houses mentioned by a Holy Sword Knight are actually several level 3 village houses that the murlocs of Ratchet Town have just built in the backwater oasis. The village level 3 houses with this kind of general-purpose construction look square in appearance. Each private house occupies about fifty square meters, which is quite adequate for living.
In Yang Yi's plan, the large villages in the backwater oasis will be able to accommodate almost 5,000 permanent indigenous people. In order to accommodate these indigenous people, about 100 houses of various sizes will be needed. Then he plans to build another 100 houses for investment adventurers. In this way, the village will need 200 houses of various types.
In addition to housing, a large village also has hotels, shops, warehouses and other buildings. The total price of the entire building materials for this large village is about 10,000 gold coins, so as the first person willing to invest, it is acceptable for the Knights of the Holy Sword to give them a large house that can be used as a store.
"This..." A holy sword knight looked at Yang Yi and hesitated. He hesitated for a moment and then said, "Should we sign a contract?"
"Sign a contract?" Yang Yi was stunned. He had never thought about signing a contract, but he immediately said: "Sign, you have to sign, but the contract still needs to wait."
Without seeing the contract, the people of the Knights of the Holy Sword would not hand over a huge sum of 50 gold coins to Yang Yi just because of their "trust". They said a few more words to Yang Yi and left.
"Captain, do you think this murloc understands what a contract is? Can the murloc abide by the spirit of the contract?" When leaving, a man asked worriedly in Earth Star Language.
"Poseidon is different from other fishmen. I just discussed with him and he at least knows what a contract is." A Holy Sword Knight was not too sure. "Also, there are Baine Bloodhoof and the other tauren in Thunder Bluff."
A holy sword knight just didn't make it clear to Yang Yi, the murloc mayor. In fact, he mainly learned that this large village in the backwater oasis in the future has a close relationship with the tauren of Thunder Bluff, so he dared to take a chance and make a bold investment. .
Among adventurers, the tauren Bain Bloodhoof is more popular than Yang Yi, a murloc. If Yang Yi hadn't joined Rabaine and his Thunder Bluff tauren in the beginning, he wouldn't have been able to find anyone willing to invest in the construction of the backwater oasis for the murlocs.
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Of course, Yang Yi also knew that people from the Knights of the Holy Sword were willing to invest only when they saw the Minotaur. This was one of the reasons why he would rather give half of the built village to the Minotaur than work hard to win the Minotaur banner.
After the Knights of the Holy Sword left, Yang Yi's head began to spin, thinking about the contract.
"My current identity is a fish-man, how can I get a formal contract? The most they can do is write a brief document, and I can't sign it. It would be bad if someone finds that the handwriting is the same as that of the 'Erutologist'. "
Not long after the Knights of the Holy Sword left, Mu Xiaolan came over with her people. In recent days, Mu Xiaolan and the others have been working as assistants for the Tauren Tujia. They have been working hard to restore the backwater oasis.
"Mayor Poseidon, we want to invest in a new village in the backwater oasis." Mu Xiaolan said.
"Welcome, I wonder how much you want to invest?" Yang Yi nodded immediately after hearing this. There is still a lot of money left to build the village.
Yang Yi has now guessed that Mu Xiaolan and the others are actually coming to Ratchet Town for the Tauren. After all, Mu Xiaolan and the others have been working hard to establish a relationship with the Tauren for a long time.
"3,000 gold coins." Mu Xiaolan replied.
"Okay." Yang Yi thought to himself that Mu Xiaolan's ambition is really quite big, and this is a lot of money. Since she dares to invest, of course I dare to accept it.
Yang Yi now welcomed him warmly, and these 3,000 gold coins suddenly filled nearly one-third of the funding gap.
In recent times, Mu Xiaolan and the others have worked harder than any other adventurer to improve Ratchet's reputation as a fisherman. Now Mu Xiaolan and Ajie are on the respected list of Ratchet Town, and others from the Qin Kun Society are also on the respected list, so they are eligible to invest 3,000 gold coins.
Mu Xiaolan and the others also had their own investment requirements. Yang Yi chatted with them for a while, but because there was no contract, Yang Yi could not get the 3,000 gold coins for the time being.
"This is not okay. When you see the money, but you can't get it because there is no contract, you have to ask someone to write a contract immediately."
Both investment funds passed by in front of his eyes because there was no contract, and Yang Yi hurried to solve the problem.
The defensive buildings in the backwater oasis are being built in a hurry.
The next day, the second group of murlocs sent by Ratchet Town arrived at Deadwater Oasis with materials and food, and they immediately started construction.
Not long after, the follow-up team of tauren also arrived at Deadwater Oasis.
Yang Yi and Bain welcomed the arrival of this group of tauren. This time, there were more than 300 tauren. Yang Yi found that the group of tauren following the team did not look like combatants from their clothes.
"Poseidon, these are the villagers who fled from Stoneclaw Mountains. They will settle here in the future." Bain pointed to the tauren behind the team and said.
"Well, welcome." Yang Yi nodded.
Yang Yi had agreed with the tauren at the beginning that they did not need to provide manpower and material resources, but Bain arranged for these tauren to build the tauren village by themselves before coming to Deadwater Oasis.
Yang Yi and Bain had discussed these days that the new base of Deadwater Oasis would not be a place where people of different races live together. After all, most of the Taurens were unwilling to live together with the Murlocs, so Bain chose the top of several small peaks several tens of meters high to the west of the oasis lake to build their Tauren camp according to the Taurens' living habits, while the Murlocs of Ratchet Town would build a Murloc Village near the Thunder Peak near the lake.
The middle line of the lake is used as the boundary between the two, so that not only the boundary is clear, but also the precious lake water can be used together.
In fact, such a division also has its own considerations. In addition to the Taurens' habit of building settlements on high places, the place they chose is also close to the crossroads, and the location of the Murloc Village is also close to Ratchet Town.
Yang Yi has been staying in the Dead Water Oasis. When he has nothing to do, he will inspect the construction site.
After inspecting the construction site, Yang Yi walked to the lake. When he came to the lake, Yang Yi accidentally found a group of people standing between the two small peaks to the west of the Dead Water Oasis.
"Where are these people gathering and doing?"
Yang Yi used the Eagle Eye Technique to look over and found that it was Lu Xiaoming and his men.
"Lu Xiaoming, this kid, is sneaking around. Is he planning something bad again?"
Yang Yi felt that something was wrong. It seemed that Lu Xiaoming and his team had really established a connection with the top leaders of the Kokar Centaurs, and they always reported the news to the Kokar Centaurs.
"In the past, those Kokar Centaurs dealt with the tribal coalition forces, so I didn't care. This time, I can't let you come and sabotage again."
Yang Yi looked around and found that no one was paying attention to him, so he activated the skill of the Murloc Ambusher.
[Stealth].
Yang Yi's figure gradually became blurred, and he quietly sneaked in the direction of Lu Xiaoming and his team. .