black wizard Zhu Peng

"Why, are you afraid? Oh, then I'll take it back." Zhu Peng called back the mutant skeleton soldiers beside him. At this moment, the young man in front of him suddenly raised the crossbow and pulled the trigger.

With a wave of Zhu Peng's right hand, the bone claws covering the back of his hand that were stronger than steel bounced off the crossbow bolt, and then the man on horseback smiled and ordered: "Kill them all."

She is neither a beauty, nor even a good-looking boy, yet she dares to be sexually congested in front of me?Young man, you really do not understand the preciousness of life.

"Senior Victor, is there really no problem with this? After all, they are also citizens of the empire. This kind of thing..."

"Why do you think I let him shoot me with an arrow? This is a memory crystal ball. If I commit the following crime, even if I go to the Supreme Court of the Empire, I will be acquitted. If I take a step back, I will only lose some money." Playing with the memory crystal ball with one hand, this thing is a relatively expensive alchemy product, usually used by the nobles to increase the fun, the market price can only buy one thousand gold coins, but a caravan of more than 50 people, in the high-risk area on the border of the empire For transportation, no one would take this trip without the profit of [-] gold coins. As long as all these businessmen Zhu Peng are killed, this wave will be pure profit.

Of course, if the young man just now chose to let go and not attack, Zhu Peng would not be greedy for the money and deliberately make things difficult for him. Please also prepare for being killed by others.

At this moment, Danny is actually pleading for the group of businessmen in a disguised form, but Zhu Peng's memory crystal ball blocked all his remaining words, and the possibility of being discovered is very small, no cost, no risk It is really unreasonable not to do this business if you earn tens of thousands or even 10,000+ profits.

Regardless of whether they drew their knives to resist, cry, run away or beg for mercy, all the remaining people in the caravan were killed. In fact, if the father of the young man was in charge, such a thing would not have happened at all. .

The two parties will go to Venice together amicably, and maybe they can become business partners in the future, but the father died first in order to save his son, and his son threw himself to vent his grief and anger. The caravan that my father ran all his life led to destruction... It's a pity, but when an adult enters the society, he must learn to control his emotions, because it's not like parents are everywhere, there are people spoiling you everywhere.

In some extreme cases, the people you provoke can be scarier than you can imagine!

Killing all the people in the caravan who had already suffered heavy losses without damage, receiving the property and counting the goods, Zhu Peng announced that everyone would get a share, which completely mobilized the morale of the veterans. They felt that the boss they followed this time not only It's just that he is cruel and powerful, and he is not stingy at all.

In the process of inventorying the goods, some jewelry and luxury goods were found, which made Zhu Peng's estimate of the profit of this caravan increase again, but the goods worth 10,000+ gold coins were transported, and only about 20 guards were hired .

It may also be that this business road has been very familiar, but it was unlucky to encounter a group of ogres that had just migrated here. This time, I saved my life and saved my life.

Zhu Peng took a box of jewelry to old Victor, and asked him to share it with the female relatives. Even the blood-stained gold and silver jewelry is full of temptation, no, it should be more attractive, because there are still Accompanied by a sense of power to do whatever you want and get what you want.

Compared with jewelry and gemstones, this power is even more fascinating for women.Old Victor's two wives and Daxiu's two younger sisters suddenly saw that a powerful Victor family was forming and prospering, and most of them fell asleep around the fire with good expectations for tomorrow.

That night, Zhu Peng took Danny and five veterans to the ogre's lair to search, because they had just migrated here, and they didn't have much accumulated property. On the contrary, there was a strong female ogre and five blue-headed ogres. Chubby cubs.

After the female ogre found out that she was no match for the invaders, she actually wanted to kill all the cubs, but Zhu Peng directly killed her the moment she turned back.

If the five-headed ogre is well cultivated, the five-headed ogre will have a strong third-tier combat power in the future. It is really the best for guarding the family and deterring the people.

When most creatures are young, because they have no other ability to survive, most of them are very chubby and cute. The same is true for the five blue fat cubs crawling around. They are easy to feed and will eat almost anything. Everyone It is enough to eat the leftovers and leave them a little soup base.

On the way forward, the two girls, Lisa and Ilia, had a great time with the five fat blue cubs. The teenage girl hugged the extremely fat and heavy blue meat balls, and even gave them Make beautiful clothes and tie them with bows... Fortunately, Fatty Lan has low intelligence, so he should not be able to remember things from his childhood. Otherwise, these future war monsters and murderous weapons will recall their lives today, and I don’t know if they will be ashamed and indignant. Give yourself a mace.

The rest of the journey went smoothly, and the group arrived in Venice, the important city of the empire.

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After coming to this seaside city, the first thing is to find a place to live, and the second thing is to deal with the goods.

Because Zhu Peng and his party did not have a familiar channel, the goods in hand were only sold for a total of [-] gold coins. If Zhu Peng's identity as a high-level necromancer was not suppressing, this number would be even lower, [-] to [-] The price of gold coin goods will be reduced by at least half.

Originally, he only planned to start the business slowly after going to the island, but now that he had money, Zhu Peng took Danny and others to the slave market to buy slaves.

People, people, people!

If you want to develop, this is the most basic and important prerequisite. Sometimes too much population is indeed a social burden. The collapse of feudal dynasties in ancient China was often because the social structure and productivity at that time could no longer support the large number of people. s population.

However, if there is a lack of population, economic development and overall volume will be impossible to talk about. After all, the advantages of a large population for economic development far outweigh the disadvantages. Of course, what is needed is a social structure that can liberate social productivity.

There are at most 200 people in the small fishing village on Anstan Island, which is not enough for Zhu Peng to spread out. Although it is said that there are some natives on the island, these natives cannot be domesticated without one or two generations of domestication. Integrating into the main body of civilization, even as a slave, you can only be the most low-level slave, without craftsmanship, wild and unruly, and even ugly in appearance.

I brought my subordinates to the slave market, and there were human slaves showing their bodies like livestock to be sold everywhere. If I were a simple earthling who came here from the civilization era of the 21st century, I’m afraid it would be very uncomfortable to see this scene... ...Zhu Peng is very adaptable, because the wizarding world also has a slave market, and the scale is much larger than this.

Slave, this term sounds very humble, but in fact it is not cheap, and it is not something that ordinary people can easily consume.

An adult mainland male needs [-] gold coins, while an adult mainland woman also needs [-] gold coins. This world is different from the wizard world. The slave trade in the wizard world only sells the conquered natives of the heavens. But in this world, as long as they make money, they even sell their own people.

While walking, Zhu Peng saw a slave owner selling the wife of an undead imperial prison officer. Although she was old and her skin was sagging, her status as an official's wife gave her a lot of points.

Zhu Peng didn't growl at the sight of injustice. The Chinese Samurai Association was selling their sons and daughters to beg for work at the worst time. The samurai society gradually became stronger, and the Zongmen began to buy slaves in large quantities.

Some ordinary families save for 30 to [-] years, and finally buy a fox girl or a cat girl as a wife for their children. They are young, beautiful, obedient, filial to their parents-in-law and take care of their husbands. High living model.

"First come two thousand slaves, two-thirds of which are male slaves, and then a few stonemasons and simple tools..." Zhu Peng had a plan in mind, so the money was spent like running water, and he even wanted to buy a big ship. Recruit experienced captains and sailors, because a lifeline like this cannot but be in your own hands.

Anstern Island hangs alone overseas. If you don't have a boat that really belongs to you, what's the difference from being exiled?

"Danny, you should serve as the captain for a while first. Because it is a fixed route, you don't need much navigation knowledge. This is a very fatal point. I don't feel so relieved if I hand it over to others."

After hearing the words, Danny agreed very happily, but even so, Zhu Peng did not intend to let him do this for a long time. A landlubber wearing heavy armor on the ship, especially the combat power of the heavy armored swordsman on the ship was damaged If it is in the open sea, I am afraid that any wild pirate captain can clean up Danny. Fortunately, Anstein Island is not too far away from the mainland, and the pirates are not too rampant.

Buying slaves, buying big ships, recruiting sailors and even captains, in fact, even the caravan that was completely wiped out does not have such financial resources, because they have huge costs themselves, the cost of goods, the cost of manpower, and the final benefit must be Many people share dividends, but not too many actually fall into the hands of everyone.

However, Zhu Peng and the others removed all expenditure items, and turned the original long-term flow into a costless one-shot transaction, so they were able to have such a fortune in a short period of time.

It took more than 6 gold coins to buy slaves and add tools, and more than 3 gold coins to buy sea ships and recruit captains and sailors. In a flash, Zhu Peng would have no money on hand, even if he could not earn money quickly In terms of money, it won't be long before just feeding these people in hand is a huge problem.

Zhu Peng is not the only one who knows this. Old Victor also expressed his anxiety with concern after he basically understood the situation on Anstein Island in Venice City. In the eyes of this old man, his son is really too eager for quick success. He was eager for success, but how could he understand Zhu Peng's mentality.

Day and night are far away, seize the day and night!

Zhu Peng has no interest in playing small business games slowly, and quickly builds a big framework. He has too many means in his mind to make money in the current social background, and he is not a high-level life form in this world. They are not smart enough to be wise enough, but the civilization form of this high-magic world is like this. The higher-level life forms are more concerned about their own survival and advancement, and the same is true for their attachments.

As for thinking about the people at the bottom...is there any point in wasting time and energy for those untouchables?

In the eyes of many people, Anstein Island is a large and barren island, but in Zhu Peng's eyes, the sea water surrounding this island is inexhaustible money.

While sea ships were sending slaves to the island in large numbers, Zhu Peng had already found a suitable place to open up salt fields.

It may seem incredible to many people, but in the Middle Ages, salt and sugar were both scarce and expensive items.

The ancient Chinese salt merchants in the earth plane were wealthy, and the central government even specialized in salt and iron, using it as a strategic material.

Because salt is a necessity for the human body, without salt intake, people will gradually become weak, and diseases will eventually lead to death. However, the main way to obtain salt on the mainland is to rely on naturally formed salt ponds. In short supply.

After Zhu Peng bought enough slaves, he quarried stones in Pingdao, Anstan Island, and built large areas of salt mining factories and salt pans. Stone slabs were made by stonemasons. The magic of the slate is formed into a material similar to the cement floor, and then a certain amount of seawater is poured in and then exposed to the sun. The seawater does not dry, and the salt fields are endless.

In particular, Zhu Peng also knows the method of Zhonghe filtration, which can easily make rough sea salt into refined salt. Maybe the exclusive business of drying salt method will not last long, because the technical content is too low, but the refined salt method only needs to be kept secret. If it is in place, it will not be a problem to earn this money for more than a hundred years.

In fact, it is really difficult for those high-level life forms from the Undead Continent to use such a shoddy method of wantonly swiping money?

It can be said that there is no difficulty at all, but those high-level life forms of the fourth and fifth levels are neither short of sugar nor salt, and almost not even short of money. , How could he move his mind in this direction.

What's more, cross-professional thinking disorder seems to be as thin as a piece of paper that can be broken with a light touch, but in fact it is so solid that most people can't get rid of its shackles for a lifetime. This is the so-called thinking disorder. The comfort zone is like an invisible steel barrier.

Because it is completely well-thought-out, following the classic development tutorial of Spy Shadow Wizard, the development of Anstein Island has already begun to take shape in just two months, and sea-boat fishing provides meat supplements for the slaves. , even because of Zhu Peng's development of Anstein Island, even the originally remote fishing village on this island has gradually prospered.

It's not just a salt factory, setting fire to forests, planting crops, food, and animal husbandry. Even if the income of these industries is not very high, how can the lifeline of food be held in the hands of others, at least to ensure a minimum level of self-sufficiency, This base will be solid.

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Time passed by quickly.

In just half a year or so, the Victor family of the "Longbow Family" became famous in the mainland for their refined white snow salt. If someone looks at the history of the rise of the Victor family in the past six months, they will find that the arrangement of this family is like a gear tightly Just like a pocket watch with accurate minutes and seconds, every investment is made with all the effort, and then the benefits will be generated at the moment before the power is exhausted, and the new power will be regenerated.

This kind of family management is of course extremely dangerous like walking a tightrope, but once the success continues, the family's power will expand at an extremely fast speed.

Because we paid attention to limiting the production at the beginning, we did not mass-produce refined Baixue salt, but sold it as a luxury product together with ordinary rough bitter sea salt. Therefore, refined Baixue salt was gradually regarded as a high-end luxury item, and its value became higher and higher. .In the end, the price is comparable to gold, and it is not affordable or even available for non-big nobles and sanctuary powerhouses.

At the same time, Victor also produced and sold a large number of salted fish for dumping. For the common people, this is a very cost-effective product. It is not expensive, easy to store, and one bite is salt and meat, which can be said to be extremely beneficial. civil.

With the three products of refined white snow salt, coarse bitter sea salt and salted fish, the Victor family has completely broken through the upper, middle and lower social classes in the mainland. Refined white snow salt is aimed at the upper class, salted fish is aimed at the middle class, and coarse bitter sea salt is aimed at the bottom As a result, the people and the whole family are making a lot of money, and their power is rapidly expanding.

Because there is a large amount of income and profit, the family naturally does not have to squeeze those slaves to death. It only took half a year to pick out the most docile and hardworking slaves to be promoted to the commoner class. Danny even selected a few slaves from the continuous acquisitions An infantry regiment of 200 men.

Their lovers, families, property and even everything are on this thriving island, so the infantry regiment has a very high will to fight, and the lord Daxiu Victor is rich and never stingy, the infantry regiment's equipment can even be compared with that of the Empire. The first-line regiments are comparable. The 25 veterans who followed at the beginning were all mixed into the infantry regiment as non-commissioned officers and captains. Most of them directly took their families to Anstein Island.

On the one hand, he is really optimistic about the development prospects of Anstein Island and the Victor family, and on the other hand, he is making a silent but sincere allegiance to the lord.

Half a year after the Victor family entered Anstein Island.

Wearing an exquisite gauze dress and stepping into the carriage, lying on her back among the pillows as soft as clouds, Ilya only felt that she had had an extremely sweet dream in the past six months.So much so that the girl didn't dare to open her eyes many times. She was worried that after a night of deep sleep, when she woke up again, she found that she was still the daughter of a prostitute in a small town, and she had to do all kinds of heavy labor every day. Facing the icy nominal father and his equally icy mother.

The cold and painful life in the past is entangled with the beautiful life at this moment. Like two boa constrictors, 15-year-old Yilia can hardly breathe.

Now, I eat the most delicious food every day, and I can read purely entertaining books. Even the most distinguished noble lady and wife dare not not be decent and respectful to me, because my surname is: Victor, Ilia Victor , the second young lady of the Longbow family.

"Ilia Victor...Ilia Victor." With her eyes closed, she read the name in a low voice. She had never hated her mother so much, but also never loved her so much, because she had the name of Victor herself. Surname, however, almost everyone knows that this surname does not actually belong to them.

Ilia is three years younger than Lisa. People in this world have a relatively long life expectancy, and because the old Victor originally planned to squeeze the labor of his eldest daughter for a few more years, Lisa is almost 20 years old, and she is still unmarried. .At this moment, there is no need to rush to get married. With the passage of half a year, the number of suitors has almost broken the threshold of Victor's house, and the name of the earl's heir has even appeared.

However, the elder brother seems to spoil his younger sister too much. No matter how superior the conditions of the proposer are, as long as Lisa says he doesn't like her, the elder brother will immediately drive her away... Thinking of Daxiu's various intimacy and love for Lisa, Yi The flame in Leah's heart was about to ignite her whole body.

Although Brother Daxiu's material provision to everyone is basically the same, but Yi Liya knows in her heart that it is different.

Only Lisa can disturb him at any time, only Lisa can lose her temper for no reason but still be spoiled by her brother, only Lisa dares to say to herself secretly: "My brother has changed, my brother doesn't love me as much as before ..."

Oh my god, you were only five or six years old when Brother Daxiu went to St. Martin to study. How could Brother Daxiu pamper you at that time?For you, at the expense of offending a real earl?

Almost everyone felt that Baron Victor's love for his younger sister had reached the point of being responsive to every request. He even offered a million gold coins as his younger sister's dowry, as long as anyone could make her smile and win her heart.

Elijah knew very well that when she was about to marry, she would definitely not be treated like this. No, there was actually a clear difference now. All the people who proposed to Lisa were real nobles, and those like herself A suitor...the steward's son, a certain promising knight, and a bunch of Victor's relatives who popped up out of nowhere.

What's even more frightening is that both the old Victor and his own mother expressed acquiescence and even approval. How do those trash fish compare with Daxiu brother?

Standing up, he looked at himself in the bronze mirror in the carriage.

White skin, black hair like Daxiu's brother, pretty face and fiery red lips, the veil skirt on her body is unbuttoned a little, and the young body is already very attractive.

Ilia knew in her heart that she was beautiful, and she had inherited her mother's beauty, and beauty was a woman's greatest weapon.

"...except Brother Daxiu, I will not follow anyone, I will not marry anyone." When the carriage stopped slowly and Ilia descended slowly from above, she became an extremely dignified and perfect woman again. lady.

In terms of aristocratic manners, Lisa is far inferior to Ilia. In half a year, Ilia almost completed ten years of study to become a noble lady with self-tortured hard work. In contrast, Lisa often still Will bounce around like a wild girl.

"Miss Ilia, the baron is discussing matters with Captain Plank and Mr. Danny, but he allows you to go in directly after he knows your arrival, but please try to keep quiet." The family butler in front of him is old Victor once Relatives who are relatively close friends, although these relatives who disappear when the family declines and swarm up like flies when the family prospers do not like to see them, Ilya still bows gracefully to show that she understands.

This is the relationship between the big family and the vassal relatives. Victor’s family business is too large and the manpower is tight in all aspects. It is beneficial to accept some vassal relatives appropriately, and these vassal relatives receive relatively higher treatment, although some People need to change their names and surnames because of this.

Walking into the living room of the small castle, a waiter soon served a drink, and Ilia sipped it lightly with a dignified manner. From here, she could directly see her brother's office.

There was a long crimson table, and a young baron who didn't look much older than Ilia herself was frowning and listening intently... Of course, this was her brother, the man who made a name for himself in the entire Undead Empire with his outstanding business skills , the person I love to the core.

"Although I expected today to come, I didn't expect it to come so soon." Looking at the documents in his hand, according to the secret report of the informant, the rise of Anstein Island has attracted the attention of several big pirates because of its huge commercial profits.

The sea is so huge and vast that it seems to be able to hold all the evils in this world, so the thieves on the sea are almost unscrupulous. Anyway, even if they commit a crime, if they dive into the sea, even the strong in the sanctuary can How many years to search?

At this moment, they set their sights on the Longbow family again.

It's a pity that Zhu Peng thought of today when he was running Anstein Island. It's not just the family's own power arrangement, but even the pirates have been inserted into some people by him.

Chapter 12 Sanctuary

According to the information provided by the informant, the leader of the great pirate, Qiao Sen, has contacted the other six great pirates and plans to form a coalition force to attack Anstein Island in half a month.

If this wave cannot be stopped, no matter how prosperous Daxiu manages the Victor family, it will eventually be wiped out in front of the fire and the long knife.

Including Qiao Sen, there are a total of seven thieves, which means that there are seven third-tier powerhouses, ten ships, and a pirate army size of nearly a thousand people. There may even be some nobles who are contributing to the flames, intending to obtain the secret recipe for purification from the increasingly prosperous Anstein Island and the Victor family.

Seven great pirates, seven third-tier or even strong third-tier existences, of course, the sanctuary will never appear. The only sanctuary powerhouse among the pirates, "Pirate King" Nakato Velen, was originally from a declining nobleman. Inheriting the family's fighting spirit, "Ba Haitao" has just had a foundation and was promoted to the sanctuary after several life and death and adventures. This is almost a living legend.

After killing all his enemies and defeating all his opponents, the Pirate King has retired in the pirate kingdom deep in the sea. The little money from the Victor family is still not in the eyes of this old man.

However, it is still difficult for the Victor family to resist just the Seven Thieves joining forces.Even counting the hidden elite troops of 50 people, there is still too much disparity in the comparison of total troop strength.

I can arrange informants on my side, and of course the pirates can. Although the Victor family treats slaves very well, they have set up a promotion mechanism similar to the ten-level military merit system. As long as they work hard, they will never be enslaved for a lifetime.

But this level is impossible to satisfy everyone, or no matter what you do, it is impossible to satisfy everyone.

The two sides are very cautious to intervene in each other's informants. Spying on this kind of thing is relative, but only when the fight really starts will some cards be really revealed.

"The boys on the ship can also go into battle, they are good boys..."

"There's no need to let these good guys get caught in a fight with the debris of the sea. Defending the territory and protecting the people are the duties of soldiers. Am I right, Danny?"

"... Baron, everyone in the infantry regiment is willing to fight and die for you." The very honest Danny thought for a while, and finally he could only say this.

The infantry regiment, which was formed just half a year ago, is fully staffed with 200 people, and the pirates who came ashore this time are in the size of a thousand. Captain Planck also knows that a naval battle is impossible to fight with a ship, so he proposed to let the sailors Go ashore to assist in the defense, so that the infantry regiment will have more than 300 sailors. Depending on the location of the bunker, this battle may not be impossible to fight.

Of course, the whole army shrunk back to the earthen fortress, property, fields, slaves and even the people, all of which are temporarily ignored. It may be a huge trauma to the prestige of the lord, but it seems that this is the only way to do it at this time. decided.

However, Zhu Peng directly dismissed Captain Planck's suggestion.

Next, Zhu Peng wrote a long list and handed it to the captain in front of him, asking him to continue dumping goods to buy slaves. The crew members are far away from those who cannot participate in the battle at all.

This in itself is very much in the interests of Captain Planck himself, so after hesitating for a moment, he took the baron's warrant and left. When he passed by the second lady, Ilia, the rough bearded man bowed his head gently, and then raised his head. step away.

"Planck has been wandering in this sea all his life, do you believe that he doesn't know a few big pirates?"

"You mean, you suspect Planck to be unfaithful?" Danny was taken aback when he heard the words. Sudden rebellion at a critical juncture, already at an absolute disadvantage, will be doomed.

"It's not about doubting him, but Mr. Plank has been working hard for the family. I don't want to give him an inappropriate opportunity, and then I have to kill him with my own hands." Being close to a person is not about exposing one's weakness Give the other party a test, but don't give the other party any chance to betray.

When the war was in danger and the situation was extremely harsh, even if Planck had not colluded with the pirates, under tremendous psychological pressure, when he felt that Anstein Island could not be defended at all, he had no choice but to survive. Can choose to turn back.

"Let's not talk about this, how is the contact with the local natives? Is that old stubborn still not allowed to open the exchange market?" That's enough. Contacts among the natives of Stein Island.

"Elder Hattu still didn't let go. He was afraid of the punishment of his ancestors, but he was also very greedy for our iron, cloth and various utensils, and this guy knew very well that his tribe could not compete with the Victor family, so Elder Hattu finally let go. Said that as long as the baron is willing to go to the ancestral land of the tribe to stay for three days and accept the test of the ancestors, he will accept all our conditions."

When low-level civilizations meet high-level civilizations, the low-level civilizations are often assimilated or destroyed, but the time for running this place is too short, so that every ounce of strength must be used wisely, so Zhu Peng chooses to assimilate native.