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Chapter 223 Queuing Transactions
Hope City, outside the city, the original site of Labor Village.

Due to the drought, the reserve grain plantation site originally planned to be built outside Hope City was turned into a trading post, and the refugees were arranged to stay in the temporary shelter five kilometers behind Hope City, and had to walk back home every day. Go to cultivate farmland outside the working village and grow their food.

Although bitter, but they all expressed satisfaction.

Since the front of City of Hope is an alluvial land, the fertile soil is very suitable for planting after digging out the thick radiation soil.However, because Hope City has been attacked before, especially when it provoked tens of thousands of looters a while ago, although they won, they may come back one day, so the refugees who cherish their lives naturally dare not block the door When cannon fodder.

It’s good to be far away, so that you can have farms and don’t have to worry too much.

In order to prevent other refugees from stealing the fruits of their labor, the people in Laodong Village even set up a labor guard team to defend the fruits of their labor.

Although due to the primitive weapons, if there is any trouble, they will just go to Hope City to complain, but at least they have a look, and it is still possible to deter some Xiaoxiao who are also refugees.

Li Tianhuang, the lord of Tianhuang City, is sitting in a temporary rest shed in the trading station, drinking the barley tea handed over by Xiao Er, watching the group of ragged refugees with sticks and hoes lined up crookedly , patrolling the farmland that had just been planted, staring at everyone who approached.

"This City of Hope uses things that these slave traders don't even want, what a luxury!"

On Li Tianhuang's left, a black-faced man with his chest open and fanning the wind cursed,

"Xiaoer, have another cup of tea! I want it cold! Ma Dan, are you vampires? Such a small cup costs fifty metropolitan coins!"

Li Tianhuang raised the two or two cups, shook them lightly on the tip of his nose, and as the light yellow liquid dissipated, he nodded in satisfaction, and brought his lips closer...

“Good tea!”

Gum!

The black-faced man gulped, and licked his lips unhappily.

"What's the matter, brother Li, I said you're just too particular, isn't it just a glass of water, which is so little and doesn't quench your thirst, that you still drink hot water on such a hot day, I really don't understand you!"

Li Tianhuang smiled and waved his hands. This dark-faced man was not on the same side as him. He didn't want to explain more, but the other party was a lord anyway, so naturally he didn't dare to face him coldly.

"Brother Tian, ​​you're laughing at me. It's a bad habit and I can't change it. But the water in Hope City is really a little deep, and the more I look at it, the more I don't understand it."

"Water depth? I think there is a lot of water? Look, tsk tsk, this third-level purified water is actually used for irrigation by these garbage? What a waste! Do you really think they can grow something? Hmph!"

The big man looked at the hard-working refugees in the distance, limping and slowly watering the dry land, and became more and more unhappy.

Li Tianhuang shook his head: "I think this just proves the strength of City of Hope. If they can't keep it, why are they putting on such a big show in front of us? Let's just talk about this trading post. It was built in just one day. This speed is not ordinary. It can be done!"

Li Tianhuang didn't know that the land here had already been compacted long ago, which enabled the construction to go so fast, but the skilled civil engineering construction team in Hope City really contributed a lot.

The black-faced man became more and more annoyed as he watched, wishing he could immediately draw his gun to blow up the garbage that wasted water in front of him, but due to the incident a while ago, he had to hold back, and simply turned his head away, out of sight and out of mind .

When they arrived on the first day, a few short-sighted guys came forward to make troubles, and inexplicably, they suddenly spurted blood from the seven orifices on the spot, and died without exception.

This suddenly reminded the lords of the rumors that Hope City poisoned six cities, and they had to be a little more honest.

But the forces behind those dead guys will naturally not be easily convinced. They gathered together and wanted to find an explanation from Hope City, but they were told that their purchase price would be twice that of others, and they would not sell it if they made trouble. Even other people don't sell it together, so let's give up.

Li Tianhuang admired this very much.

Those territories with water that were wiped out before were unable to deal with this troublesome situation, and were wiped out after arousing public anger.

But Hope City actually used such a trick. Not only will the troublemakers not be able to please them, but they will also violate the interests of other people. If they continue to do evil by force, the first people who will not let them go will be those lords who cannot buy water .

Of course, this is also related to the 30 soldiers placed on the city wall of Hope City, the [-] cannons, and the [-]-meter-high city wall.

Just when their impression of City of Hope was still that of a lucky upstart cook, their fists were so big!
Although their fifty territories are united, they are sure to be able to fight, but judging from their battle, it is clear that they want to consume you. Once they enter the defensive battle, they, as the attacking party, cannot support so much The soldiers had water and food, their morale was low, and it was useless no matter how many people they had.

Since the price of fighting is too high, and the benefits are evenly divided, there is not much at all, so it is better to honestly pay for it.

Fortunately, the price of Hope City is still fair. Although it is much higher than the original market price, compared with Metropolis and other territories, it is like a living Bodhisattva. Otherwise, some people will definitely not be able to bear this tone.

Who isn't a bad-tempered lord?

"This City of Hope actually made it clear that it doesn't accept Metropolitan Coins, and only accepts materials, technology, and talents. That's interesting."

Taking another sip of tea lightly, Li Tianhuang looked at the long queue at the sales point, took another look at the towering city walls of Hope City, and smiled.

As the lords, they didn't have to come in person, but the water and food matter was related to the survival of the territory, so they had to provide refreshments, but the queuing had to be done by their subordinates.

In fact, this queuing is superfluous, because everyone has issued the queuing number, and those younger brothers are sweating profusely, but they also want to stand there, just because they are afraid that there will be some inside story in Hope City, or someone will jump in line or something like that.

"No. 96, please go to the water sales point to trade on No. 96! Less than 3 minutes will be considered as giving up!"

A man stood on a high table and shouted loudly with a cylindrical horn. Since the voices of the people around him were lowered after several times of "education", this primitive loudspeaker tool can also be used. Make it easy for anyone close by to hear you.

Looking at the small wooden sign with 96 written on his fingertips, and the younger brother who was queuing up in the distance also hurried back, probably to report the letter, Li Tianhuang cupped his hands and saluted the black-faced man,
"Brother Tian, ​​it's my turn. I'll go first. I hope my second round of negotiations can yield some good results!"

"Go, go, you can only buy five tons in one round, it's really troublesome." The big man shook his head with a dark face.

(End of this chapter)