Infrastructure Throne

From Shen Qingze, at a price lower than the market price, and two boats of worthless food, Tia bought a batch of high-quality weapons to arm her guards, not to mention solving the hidden dangers of her body.

He felt that he had earned, and even took advantage of Shen Qingze.

Shen Qingze started with less than 200 gold coins. Relying on the first batch of "free" ore raw materials allocated to him by Yan Zui, the empty-handed white wolf earned back [-] times the gold coins, which were used for primitive accumulation and enough for the entire Yuanliu City. food for the poor in the winter.

In addition, the goblin orc craftsmen, the substitute alchemist Mavsera, and the two ships that were obtained in vain were really valuable.

With money, food, and people, after returning home, the various ideas and projects he wrote in the plan can be launched one after another.

According to the main city system, this foreign trade representing Yuanliu City, Shen Qingze can get a certain percentage of extra currency from each subsequent order, and deposit it in his system backpack, just like interest.

Over the years, sooner or later, he will become richer than a country.

Thinking about so many treasures in the system store, Shen Qingze felt that he had made a lot of money!

Looking at the construction system of the main city, those infrastructure upgrades costing tens of thousands at every turn, he finally straightened his back and had the courage to look straight.

"Then, I won't see you off." Hei Ying stood upright on the steps, not intending to move any further.

Shen Qingze took a roll of parchment from Jin Da's hands, on it was a brief map of the inner city of Mingzhu City, and the side of the main road, Mingzhu Avenue, was circled with a pen, which was one of the most prosperous commercial areas of Mingzhu City.

He handed over the parchment: "I bought a new two-story shop here, and I will send people to stay there in the future. If you have other needs, Your Excellency Tia, you can send someone to look for it. Our shop, what? sell them all."

Hei Ying motioned for the servant to take it, and nodded slightly, but he didn't think so in his heart—a mere arms dealer in a small country town dared to say that he sold everything, and he was not ashamed.

"What's the name of your shop? After the food and gold coins are ready, I will send someone to deliver them to you."

Shen Qingze said without hesitation, "Yuanliu Ginza."

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With 2 gold coins, Shen Qingze is rich and powerful, and bought a shop located in the center of Mingzhu Avenue without blinking an eye.

Teng Er moved here from the cramped farmer's shop in the outer city, and officially became Yuanliu City's business agent in Pearl City, as well as intelligence leader.

"What does silver seat mean?" Yan Zuili looked around, "There is no silver seat?"

"It doesn't have any special meaning." Shen Qingze pursed her lips reservedly, and took the duck from Teng's second hand that she hadn't seen for a few days.

The little yellow chicken was left out in the cold for a few days, shook its fur, turned its chubby body, pointed its butt at Shen Qingze, and refused to eat even the dried earthworms that its owner had personally fed to his mouth.

The big white dog still obediently squatted at Shen Qingze's feet, flicking its tail high and low.

"Ignore me?" Shen Qingze raised his eyebrows, then stuffed the poor duck back into Teng's second hand, squatted down to hug A Bai, and the excited big white dog threw himself into his arms and rubbed his hair all over his body.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp!!" Yaya became impatient, flapped its little wings vigorously, threw itself into the arms of its owner, and screamed aggrievedly.

Shen Qingze stretched his brows, fingered the duck's soft yellow fur, and the end of his eyes curved into a gentle arc.

Suddenly, a palm was stretched out in front of his eyes and spread out.

"Where's my duckling?"

He raised his eyes, and met the amber pupils with a drunken face and two rows of thick eyelashes, blinking lightly like feathers.

Shen Qingze silently put the mummified duck that had been hidden for a long time in the opponent's palm, and specially made the duck's head in a bow tie face him.

In an instant, Yan Zui's eyes widened.

"...You just show me this?"

"What's wrong?" Shen Qingze looked offended, pointed at the duckling's bow tie, and emphasized in a straight voice: "I cut it myself, high-end, beautiful, and upscale."

Yan Zui: "..."

After finishing speaking, Shen Qingze tore off the gauze wrapping the duck's body, and a frosted and polished bamboo duckling appeared in front of Yan Zui's eyes.

A layer of wax was applied all over the body, polished to a smooth finish, and the duck's beak was painted red with cinnabar.

At the broken part of the duck's head, Shen Qingze inserted a small piece of thick and short log into it, and used a dagger to polish the concave and convex spiral patterns little by little, and screwed it into the duck's body to fix it.

"Jiujiu!" Yaya flapped its small wings and climbed to Yan Zui's palm, grabbing the corner of the ribbon in one bite, I want this too!

Yan Zui stretched out a finger, flicked the duck away, looked at the changed duckling toy left and right, and chuckled softly: "For the sake of your careful grooming, this city lord will not be able to accept it."

He paused for a while, and drew out his voice slowly: "I didn't expect you to be quite good at making handicrafts. It seems that you are usually very good at pleasing your wife? Huh?"

Shen Qingze's eyes wandered, and he began to study the patterns on the beams: "...that, I just said it casually."

"Oh~" Yan Zui was playing with the bamboo and wooden duckling, approaching him step by step, the narrow and long eye tails that were slightly raised were filtered out by the hazy light, making them more lazy and seductive.

"The officiant is young and promising, and he must have many admirers. I don't know when he plans to start a family?"

Shen Qingze stared intently at the lantern hanging from the beam, as if it was something rare, only from the corner of his eye could he catch a glimpse of the other party's red lips slightly hooked, revealing a little bit of white teeth between opening and closing.

The scorching breath brushed against the earlobe, and the airflow aroused a little itchiness. Shen Qingze's ear tip moved slightly, but his face was serious: "Don't think about this before your career is established."

Yan Zui followed his gaze slowly and turned to look over: "Is that lantern so beautiful?"

Shen Qingze was a little uncomfortable with the sudden change of topic: "What?"

Yan Zui fluttered his eyelashes, and a stroke came from the sky: "Is it prettier than me?"

"..." Shen Qingze's breath got stuck in his throat, he opened his mouth, but didn't say a word, Gao Leng's face was about to crack.

"Hahaha!" Yan Zui was amused by him and laughed a few times, causing several guards outside to poke their heads in and look at them.

Shen Qingze was speechless for a while, and slowly straightened the skirt and cuffs, and twitched the corners of her mouth coolly: "The city lord is so free, why don't you go and do some work?"

Yan Zui seemed to be in a very good mood, his stretched brows were full of excitement, he held up the bamboo and wooden duck in his hand, and poked the duck's head: "What a ruthless supervisor, and even ordered the city master to do some work, Tsk..."

Shen Qingze remained expressionless: "...don't complain about me in person."

[System: Players gain mysterious favorability +1]

Shen Qingze breathed a sigh of relief silently, the duck with the severed head had been meticulously polished for more than a dozen nights, and he was still a little bit reluctant to return it just like that.

Yan Zui noticed the eyes of the other party following the duckling, raised an eyebrow, and put the bamboo duck into his arms, emphatically saying: "This is mine."

He took Yaya's neck skin and stuffed it to Shen Qingze: "This is yours."

"Chirp!" Obviously she is cuter!Yaya feels wronged, but Yaya doesn't say anything.

Shen Qingze held Yaya in his arms, watching Yan Zui's back as he walked away from the corner of the eye, touched the yellow hair on Yaya's head, and said silently: "Do you want a bow tie too? Make you a green one."

Duck: "???"

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The transaction with Tia involved complex follow-up procedures such as weapon inspection, remuneration counting, grain weighing, and ship water transportation. Out of caution, Shen Qingze arranged Jin Da and Teng Er to be responsible for the follow-up matters together.

The matter of inspecting the ships and sailors was handed over to Els, the goblin orc, and handed over to him, along with the shipbuilding blueprints presented by the system.

"This...is a detailed ship structure diagram." When Ayers took the parchment from Shen Qingze, he was still a little puzzled. When he unfolded it, he was only surprised and admired, "Master, oh no, boss , Do you want to build a big ship?"

"Not bad." Shen Qingze leaned back in the high-backed chair, gently combing the white fur of the big white dog in his arms, Ah Bai snorted a few times comfortably, and slapped down the duck that was trying to get close to him with one paw, grunting Rolled around.

"In the future, when the business starts, our cargo volume will increase, and we will not only trade with Mingzhu City. Of course, the bigger the ship, the better."

It's a pity that only wooden boats can be built, and steel flat-bottomed boats are still far away.

Fortunately, the Chiyuan River is an inland river, and there are no storms and waves like the sea. The only threat is the orcs from the Grand Canyon...

Shen Qingze carelessly rubbed the skin of the nape of A Bai's neck, and said lightly:

"In addition, I plan to find some honest and reliable sailors from this group of sailors, and train new sailors for our Abyss City. These sailors must not only be good at sailing, but also have a certain amount of force. Get rid of it."

"Both you and your brother were the head of the goblin orc patriarch. Although I don't know why you were exiled and became slaves, you should know more than artisan skills."

Ayres blinked, and resisted the excitement surging in his heart: "You mean...let me be in charge of the ship's affairs?"

Shen Qingze nodded: "That's right, you are smarter than your brother, I don't have many people under my command now, I hope you don't let me down."

Ayers simply knelt down on one knee, put one hand on his chest, and raised his two pointed ears: "Ayrs will definitely live up to your expectations!"

"As for you..." Shen Qingze's eyes moved to the groom Sera who was kneeling quietly at the side.

Sera buried her head deeply, as if she had noticed the gaze of the new owner, her back tensed up like a drawn bow, and said in an incomparably respectful voice, "Please order."

"Head up."

Sera took a deep breath, raised her head, and met Shang Shen's appreciative eyes.His appearance is ordinary, at most he can only be considered handsome.

"What do you want?" Shen Qingze asked softly.

Sera was taken aback, and said with flickering eyes: "You saved my life, I have nothing to ask for, I just want to be a cow and a horse for you."

Shen Qingze let out a laugh from his chest: "You only have one chance to tell the truth."

He stood up from the chair, came to stand in front of him, slowly squatted down, and kept his eyes at the same level: "Actually, you know that the pills made of heavy metals are poisonous, right? At that time, the alchemist named Erfa scared me." Out of courage, you are not surprised at all."

Sera moved his lips, without saying a word, his fingers on the carpet tightened little by little, turning white.

"You're taking revenge on him."

When being watched by Shen Qingze's deep eyes, there is a trembling feeling that the secret in the bottom of my heart has been seen through.

"You want him dead."

His palms were cold, but his back was wet with sweat.

After a long silence, Sera restrained his flattering and humble smile, and the flickering candlelight shone into his eyes, lighting up two blazing flames:

"My name is Sera Paro, not 'Master Alpha Alchemist's Groom'." Seraho raised his head, twitching the corners of his mouth, whether he was laughing at himself or sneering.

"I'm not afraid of adults' jokes. I hate Alpha and the Paro family like I hate the night. I know that adults want to use me and my talents. It doesn't matter. I don't mind at all."

Sera spoke more and more fluently. He was still kneeling on the ground, but he seemed to be standing upright.

"I have been in the alchemy laboratory of Erfa since I was a child, secretly looking through ancient classics, but he has always only known to play and ask for flowers. When I was a child, I even did his homework for me."

"Obviously you have huge wealth and resources, why don't you cherish them!" Sera stared at Shen Qingze's eyes with burning eyes, the corners of the eyes twitched with excitement, and the cheekbones clearly stretched out in the shape of bones.

"He can go to school and have the best teachers! But I can only hide out the window and eavesdrop! I don't even have a pen, I can only use sticks, straw, and mud and horse manure as paper!"

"He doesn't want it, you can give it to me! I only need a little bit that leaks through my fingers!"

"I only sleep for four hours a day, and I get up before dawn to clean the mangers and dirty latrines, boil water for them, clean the stables, and work with horse manure every day. I do experiments for him at night and develop new alchemy techniques. But what have I got?"

"Why is fate treating me so unfairly?" Sera clenched her hands into fists, her neck was red with veins protruding, "Why do you have wealth, fame and wealth, and a background like mine, you can only humblely let others step on your feet ?!"

There was silence all around.

Shen Qingze lowered his eyes and sighed silently.

Sera calmed down slowly, and knelt down again like Shen Qingze, begging for mercy just like she did in the Paro family:

"I would like to be an adult's dog. As long as the adult is willing to give me knowledge, wealth, fame, and status, I would like to dedicate everything to him, no matter my dignity, talent, or even my soul!"

After a long time without hearing an answer, Sera's heart beat like a drum, like a naked prisoner about to be sent to the judgment stand.

Apart from the dark red carpet, Sera couldn't see anything, and there was the sound of cloth rubbing against her ear, as if Shen Qingze stood up.

"Get up." His voice was light and ethereal, as if it came from the clouds.

"Fate has not been unfair to you."

Serra was stunned for a moment.

"I am your destiny."

The voice was very soft, but thunderous, and it ran over his heart mercilessly. Sera's mouth grew wide, his pupils were out of focus, and his brain went blank. When he recovered, Shen Qingze had already gone far.

There was only one contract, which fell silently in his hand.