I asked the housekeepers Godard and Buhe to take people to Old Man Zhou's "Black Heart Store" to buy some food and daily necessities, and then purchased some steel materials, covered the surface of the vehicle, pulled it back to show off, and put on a complete show.
Repairing the deck of the "Castle" will also take a long time, but it must send a signal to the outside world that the armored city is being repaired.
“What are the specialties of the town of Manbach?”
Li Yinguang looked at the housekeeper Goda.
"Wildland cod!"
"fish?"
Butler Golda nodded: "Yes, it is a fish, a carnivorous fish that lives in the snowy wasteland. Although it is a fish, it is an amphibious reptile. It has feet for running, gills for breathing, and sharp teeth for biting.
Adult wildland cod can grow to three to five meters in length and live in groups.
The brains of some cod fish in the wilderness secrete a special substance, which is an extremely expensive alchemy material. It is called "cod dragon marrow" and can be sold at any price.
Its meat is delicious, and its bones can be ground into powder to strengthen bones. Its blood is cold and milky white, and it can be soaked in wine to nourish it."
After listening to the butler's words, Li Yinguang scratched his head: "Where can I catch something like wilderness cod?"
Butler Godar raised his hand and pointed towards the north: "Go north out of Manbach Town, about a hundred kilometers away, and you will see a snow-white peak. There is the 'Holy Dragon Snow Mountain', where the dragon tribe is said to live.
It's a place, but it's very far away. People from the past have almost never come back. Separated from the Shenglong Snow Mountain is the snowy wasteland, which is huge. On the edge of the snowy wasteland, there are wasteland cod fish."
After a slight pause, he continued: "Even if there is no 'Iron Armored City', the explorer's convoy will go there to hunt for cod in the wilderness."
Li Yinguang nodded: "Is this kind of cod expensive?"
The housekeeper Godar nodded first, then shook his head and said: "It's quite cheap in Manbach town, but I heard it's very expensive outside. Ordinary cod meat in the town costs about thirty or forty copper ox coins per pound, and the bones are cheaper.
It's about ten or twenty copper ox coins, blood is a bit expensive, about half a silver ox coin per kilogram."
"Where's the cod dragon marrow?"
"Twenty silver oxen per gram!"
Looking at Li Yinguang's shocked eyes, the housekeeper Goda explained with a wry smile: "There is a chance that the cod dragon marrow will appear. Not all cod fish in the wilderness will produce 'cod dragon marrow'. Sometimes, even if you hunt hundreds of them, you won't be able to find them."
, so the price is so expensive, even if you meet one, there will only be a few grams of 'Cod Dragon Marrow' in its body."
The large population in the Manbach Town area is mostly due to the Snowy Wasteland and Wasteland Cod, which can be hunted by ordinary people driving modified vehicles and using ordinary weapons.
As long as you don't go deep into the snowy wilderness, the risk factor is not high compared to other places.
For a while, the "Castle" armored city nestled in the port, even if it coveted wasteland cod, was in vain, all that was left was a "Z3 type" smelting furnace that was about to be scrapped, and there was no fuel reserve. Where could it go?
?
If you go out and fail to catch any prey, you will be hunted by others first.
But just lying around in the port of Manbach Town like this all the time is not an option. A mountain like this will not last long if it is empty.
The armored city of the 'Castle' needs maintenance, people need to eat, and even the 'mysterious gem' stitched on Li Yinguang's heart needs to be replenished with energy.
You have to find a way to make money!
Li Yinguang asked thoughtfully: "Do the people in Manbach Town have any daily entertainment activities?"
"Entertainment?"
The housekeeper Goda thought for a while and said with a dry smile: "Going to a gambling house to make money, going to a pimp inn to find girls, going to a bloody mob hall to watch or play games, are these considered entertainment activities?"
Li Yinguang nodded seriously: "Forget it!"
The housekeeper Goda said: "Then these are the daily entertainment activities of people in Manbach!"
"Do you have any small newspapers with gossipy news?"
"Master, what is gossip?"
Li Yinguang shook his head and did not answer, but began to think in his heart. In the steampunk world, many things in his mind can be realized. You must know that he is a time traveler. In addition to being lucky, this is his biggest golden finger.
In Manbach Town, as long as you don't kill someone on the street, there are not many other prohibited penalties.
For example, if two people are yelling at each other, even if they spit in each other's face, or use fists and kicks, as long as they don't take out weapons and beat the person, they will be fined at most.
It's not illegal to curse people, and you don't have to pay for it with your life if you piss them off!
Newspapers exist in the steampunk world, but small newspapers with gossipy news don't seem to exist yet. At least the butler Golda in Manbach Town has never heard of them.
It didn't cost much to try. After making up his mind, Li Yinguang asked the master to leave the "Castle" and go to the town.
Renting a house in Manbach Town is not very expensive, and renting a house in the slums is even cheaper. As long as the fist is strong enough, there is no need to rent.
In order to facilitate purchasing, Li Yinguang directly spent six silver bulls to buy the house next to Old Zhou's Heixindian street.
Don't think that six silver ox coins are too little. One silver ox coin is equivalent to one thousand copper ox coins. For the basic monthly expenses of a family of three, only a handful of silver ox coins are enough.
"Mechanical typesetting printer?"
Old man Zhou squinted his eyes and asked doubtfully: "Why do you want that thing?"
Li Yinguang said with a playful smile: "I want to start a newspaper!"
"Newspaper office?"
Old man Zhou was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said nothing, but he got a 'mechanical printer' for Li Yinguang. It was as big as a piano, weighed several hundred kilograms, and required several strong men to lift it.
"Fourteen silver oxen, settled in cash, no credit allowed!"
Li Yinguang muttered something stingy in a low voice. His 'newspaper office' was right next to Black Heart's Store. How could he still run away? He figured it out. Old Man Zhou was always a small favor to the people in the slums, but if he wanted to beat the credit value of Black Heart's grocery store,
The more expensive thing, let alone a door, doesn't even have a window.
With a mechanical printer, other things can be easily solved. A newspaper and a piece of paper, the size of a newspaper, cost about ten copper niu.
"The name of the newspaper is 'Manbach Town Daily'!"
"Boss, no."
Butler Goldar shook his head.
Li Yinguang frowned and looked at him and asked, "Why not?"
The housekeeper Goda smiled bitterly and whispered: "The Manbach Town Daily is the official newspaper of Manbach Town and is the property of the lord of Manbach Town, so we cannot use this name!"
The lord still publishes newspapers?
Come on, since the name 'Manbach Town Daily' cannot be used, then let's just call it 'Manbach Town Tabloid'. At least it doesn't have the same name and can be used.
You don't even need to register to set up a 'newspaper office'. You just need to go to the tax official and pay the fee. No matter what you do, as long as you want to operate it in 'Manbach Town', you have to pay anywhere from 200 copper bulls to hundreds of silver bulls every year.
Business tax' is enough.
A newly established small newspaper like this only costs 200 copper bulls, but if it becomes famous later, you won't need to go to the tax collector. The town tax collector will take the initiative to come to you to discuss tax issues.
Generally speaking, the lord of Manbach Town is quite understanding of people's hearts and knows how to handle them. This chapter has been completed!