Chapter 243 Not so good
In Xingfeng King City, the slums here are empty, replaced by a brand new urban area called the Forging Area.
It's always hot here, with jingling sounds.
The most common here is the Blacksmith's Workshop, which can cast various weapons and accessories, armor, refined iron ore, forge refined iron, and produce various pots, railings, hoes, sickles and other things that require iron.
This place never rests. Many craftsmen and apprentices work day and night, so they emit a large amount of smoke and steam, and there is no need for lights around them, because the darkness is illuminated by a furnace, and the cast products cannot be considered very good. Few people commented on their products being well-made, but they are all durable and very illusioned by the middle and lower levels of the city, because these people need something that can be used for a long time without repair or replacement, rather than exquisite works of art, which are patents of the nobles.
Because of this foundry, this section is full of smoke, wastewater flows, and the foul-stenched industrial waste gas makes people's throat dry, and their eyes are crying. If they live here for too long, the accumulation of dirt may not be washed away.
The blocks around the foundry seem to be a chaotic spider web woven by various echoes and working-class taverns. The alleys are interspersed everywhere. Next to the neat and orderly blocks of Xingfeng Royal City, is a secret chaotic casting area! The streets are circling and twisted, and there are countless hidden residences. Because there is no municipal planning, it is simply a complex network of passages, secret rooms, rooms and even streets.
But it was said to be chaotic, but it was actually in order and not at all, because a Knight of the Empire named Livia, who led an organization called the Federation, managed the entire area in great order.
This order is very necessary, especially among fellow craftsmen who are fiercely territorial disputes. If management is chaotic, it will undoubtedly cause bloodshed.
For example, sword-casting craftsmen only need to make swords, and hoe craftsmen only need to make hoes. However, if the sword-casting craftsmen suddenly want to cast hoes one day, they may rob the original hoe craftsmen of the business. This will become the fuse of disputes, forcing hoe craftsmen to face the end of less revenue and unable to live, and bloody conflicts will break out.
Therefore, it is necessary to coordinate the development of what kind of work content each craftsman should be responsible for and to what extent it should be responsible for, so as to reduce disputes and chaos.
Awl maker, sickle maker, iron nail maker, trotter, bell maker, chain maker, metalworker, file maker, etc. are clearly distinguishable and cannot be surpassed at all.
This is called order.
At least this seems to be the case to the people in the city hall of StarFeng King City.
"Oh, Lord Livia, I feel relieved to see that this place is still peaceful, because you, the prices of iron artifacts in the entire royal city have dropped a lot! The people above are very satisfied. By the way, even in this kind of place, the messengers of God are still willing to favor the glory. Soon two pastors and a knight will come here to build a church. At that time, Lord, please help with the convenience and get a good land out." An official wearing formal clothes, holding a cane, followed by four or five servants and servants stood at the door of the forging area, touching his beard, and said to Livia singly.
Livia stood straight, with awesome temperament, wearing men's clothes and neatly combed her hair, and was a little confused: "Will there be a Templar? This is a bit strange. I am so urgent here that I need a Knight to stay?"
The pastor and the Templar are one of the two most classic images of the church. According to the church, they are both singers of God. However, the pastor praises God in a quiet church, while the Knights praises God on the battlefield where blood splatters and roars are intertwined.
Just like the scenes represented by these two images, generally peaceful territory requires priests, while dangerous territory requires knights.
Livia doesn't think she needs a knight to station here, as that will make it inconvenient in all aspects.
The business of Xingfeng King City has become an important financial pillar of the workshop. After all, it is the capital of Xingfeng Kingdom. Livia needs to develop the Federation under the nose of a warrior of level 9, a priest alone, but if there is a knight... it is not easy to deal with.
"There's no way... After all, sir, you made a big fuss last time, and the church was not at ease." The official said helplessly.
Just over a month ago, something big happened in Xingfeng Royal City.
It is said to be a big event, but in fact the cause is that this official looks ordinary, and it is considered the lowest-level trivial matter. It was originally because of a madam and the owner of a brothel.
As a madam, it is normal and common to lend usury to the "staff" below. There are times when prostitutes cannot turn around. Even if they don't, the madams will definitely deduct money, then fine them, or lure them to absorb medicinal powder, hallucination drugs, etc. Anyway, they are forced to shortage of money. At this time, they need to borrow money. If they borrow money, the profit will be overwhelmed. They will definitely not be paid back. If they cannot be paid back, they will never leave in their lifetime.
There are too many such things, and even the sheriff is too lazy to care about it. Anyway, the madams have their own dividends to them, and what kind of storm can prostitutes cause?
This time, this kind of ordinary thing usually seems to be common. As usual, a prostitute got sick with a sore and a ulcer, and her lower body was ulcerated. She begged the madam to give her a few days off. The madam refused, so she kept her door closed. When the customer came, she rolled around or ignored her, just not doing business.
So the boss thought of a way and told her that as long as you burn the sores with a soldering iron, you can cure the willows. The prostitute believed it and endured the pain. It suddenly fell down. The flesh smelled odor, the pus and blood were burned dry, the skin burst out, and she fainted directly on the ground. After waking up, she couldn't get sick and could no longer receive customers.
Now, the madam was able to drive her away with a legitimate reputation and let a new prostitute live in her room. She was picked up by the madam with a knife and said she wanted to "bury her well." In fact, she was buried alive before she died.
This kind of thing is nothing in normal times. Such things happen every day, and everyone is used to it. After all, if you want to be a brothel owner, you have to at least have two ways.
One way to go, you can get along with the lower-ranking gangsters, human traffickers, bandits, and get goods. Every time, new people have joined this industry.
One way to go is to have a backstage boss who can set up a magistrate, or even directly contact the nobles. Most of the income of the brothel owners is provided to them and money is given. When such a thing happens on the spot, you just need to say hello.
When the brothel owner went to say hello as usual, the knight named Livia was next to her and she learned about it.
So... overnight, all the brothel owners in the entire red light district were killed suddenly without leaving any of them.
Now Xingfang Royal City is in a big way. The nobles have lost one way of wealth and many people have died. So they are furious and want to let the new imperial nobles give an explanation and compensate for the losses.
Everyone understands that this knight named Livia is familiar with Sidwald, the daughter of the Duke of the Empire. When Sid was here, he was with the other party, and the entire newly built workshop area over there is the other party's territory and is worth a lot of money.
Although this time, it was not a big loss, but it was not a big loss. I just wanted to find someone to rebuild it later. It was not a big trouble. The nobles believed that Livia must have understood this, but because she was a woman, she couldn't accept such a thing and was just angry for a moment.
But who knew that Livia ignored her and didn't care about any compensation, and she was completely fearless.
Moreover, this was just the first wave. After she came into contact with the matter here, she went to the red light district and met a human girl named Lissi. Her father was a tenant farmer and her mother was washing clothes for others, but she didn't have enough food and couldn't afford to pay the rent. The landlord came to collect debts and couldn't afford it, so she sold her to the landlord. Poor, the farmer exchanged real dolls for five silver coins, but a rich man could sell more than ten dolls.
The landlord sent her and a dozen other girls to the royal city and sold it to the brothel owner. A year later, her belly became bigger and was aborted by the madam with medicine. Then she continued to pick up customers, but she had just had an abortion and was weak. How could she get the customer?
So the madam forced her and others to absorb the meringue powder to refresh her mind and relieve pain, and then fucked.
The other sisters all sucked the hemp powder and couldn't get rid of it. Only she was brave and stubborn, and she refused to suck it and was punished to kneel down to pieces of glass.
The madam left in anger and asked her to kneel until she was willing, because she was still young, healthy, and had no illness. At least two or three years left to live, how could she easily kill her?
When the madam left, she stood up and ran away with her blood-flowing knees. Of course she didn't run away, but her loud shouting attracted Sid, so Sid beat all the brothel guards to death, and then she realized that a new madam was coming.
Livia was furious at that time. This time, the red light area was filled with blood. Not only did the madam die clean, but there were also hundreds of people, gangsters, and gangsters.
This is her character. Compared to Lu En, she is much more violent. She didn't hesitate to stab the usurper to death.
The nobles were also furious and took out their own guards, hoping that Livia would pay some price.
But Livia punched and killed all of them. In the end, he directly exploded the royal city's city moat array, showing his horror as a combat professional of level 8, and things were completely thwarted.
Finally, a level 9 came forward to stop the dispute in the Pillar of the Star Maple Kingdom, but Livia took out her seal as an imperial officer and forced her to retreat.
No one dared to offend an imperial officer of a certain level to die, unless Xing Feng wanted to be destroyed.
For the time being, the entire red light district was banned, and the prostitutes were also incorporated by Livia. Of course, this could not be forever. They would definitely move their positions after being settled for a while, but that was what happened later.
In the first month of the enrollment, many of these prostitutes died, most of whom were helpless. Some were already addicted to medicinal powder and were confused, while others were terminally ill and the medicine was useless.
In fact, it was the same before. After all, prostitutes are a profession that has been renewed very quickly. It is difficult to keep all young women. However, no one cared about death before. Only after Livia took over, did she realize how scary the mortality rate of such a group of women was. Nearly one third of them died in less than a month.
The deceased were basically... not basic, not basic, without exception, all with infectious diseases, and Livia had to burn them and all their clothes and bury the ashes.
It is said that it is all clothing, but in fact... some people don't have clothing at all. After all, as the bottom-level prostitute, they may not be able to leave that small black room for a month, although it is full of musty smells and inferior powdery smells.
They are consumables.
The rest are some who have just entered the industry, are still in training, or... noisy.
It's very noisy. This group of people only accounts for 5% of the total number of people, and there are only a dozen or twenty people in total, but they are spoiled...
Yes, they are the courtesans.
The clothes and cosmetics used by these people are extremely high-end, and they usually have special people and cars to pick them up and drop off when traveling. They are all famous and powerful. They are generally trained since childhood and are not inconsistent with selling themselves. After two years of training, they usually only serve a noble person. If they want to become a guest of the slogan, the guests also need a complete set of bids and competitions. After the final success, the etiquette when entering the slogan is like marrying a bride.
To be honest, "oppressed" is not the characteristic of these courtesans. Compared with the prostitutes who are almost consumables in the lower class, their characteristics are "parasiticity". They are accustomed to living a life that is almost for nothing, as if a noble lady has been fooling and depraved for a long time. If she tells them about liberation, she will not only not be sympathized with them, but she will even be ridiculed. They think that their current life is very free and does not feel oppressed.
So when they took these courtesans over, they cried and shouted, hanged themselves, and looked ugly everywhere. Some even took off naked and rolled around in front of Livia. They were very stubborn and noisy. Then they gathered together, and some people set up ladders and climbed through the walls, some people digging holes to get out of the walls, and even some people seeking death. They not only looked down on low-class prostitutes who ate and lived together, but also couldn't get used to simple food, but even asked Livia to provide them with hemp powder to "hide".
In the end, Livia was so tired that she really wanted to kill them all to the scum, and to save only those who were willing to be saved.
But she thought about it... her father said that such talents are the most pitiful. They are in the mud without knowing it, but they are content to death. So as long as they can save them, they still have to help them, which suppresses the murderous intention.
Thinking of this, Livia rubbed her eyes tiredly: "I understand, I will not object to the entry of the church knights, I will arrange the place."
"Thank you for your cooperation." The bureaucrat bowed slightly and left here.
Chapter completed!