15. In the pub, you can always get all kinds of news
Lulutis was suppressing a smile, but it was meaningless.
The conversation between the two was conducted through spiritual magic. As long as Lulutis did not interrupt the magic, her uncontrollable laughter would echo in Lu Yu's mind.
"You haven't laughed enough yet."
"No, I want to laugh again."
Lu Yu was slapped in the face.
He was ready to buy a house, and he analyzed and answered all the previous questions about why Lulutis did not rent a house.
However, after arriving at the Royal City and asking passers-by, they learned that the sale and purchase of houses and land in the Royal City and even surrounding areas required strict approval procedures.
Unwilling to give up, he came to a nearby lively tavern, a place where asking for information often only requires wine.
After wandering around the bustling tavern for a while, Lu Yu confirmed the person he wanted to get the information from.
In the corner of the tavern, a middle-aged man with black hair and green eyes, a face resembling a donkey, and a black iron-level adventurer brand hanging on his chest was drinking alone.
There was not even a single dish on his small table to go with the wine.
Lu Yu walked over and sat down directly.
The donkey-faced adventurer was already slightly drunk, and his dark face was slightly red.
Seeing Lu Yu sitting down, he glanced up, burped and was about to get up and leave.
"Would you be interested in having a few drinks with me? I'll treat you."
The blunt and awkward words made the donkey-faced adventurer turn around curiously, looking at Lu Yu up and down with a pair of glowing green eyes.
Lu Yu didn't say much, but waved to the waiter in the tavern, telling him to order a few glasses of wine that the donkey-faced adventurer drank just now, and a plate of cold dishes that were available on almost every table.
The donkey-faced adventurer's curiosity aroused when he saw that Lu Yu couldn't even pronounce the names of the dishes and wines, but just pointed at the wines and dishes on other people's tables.
He didn't hesitate and sat back down in his seat.
When the food and drinks were served, the donkey-faced adventurer was about to pick up the wine glass filled with golden liquid and take a swig. He suddenly saw Lu Yu tilting his head slightly and looking at him with an unpredictable look...
"Let me introduce myself...Daka, adventurers here usually call me, green-eyed Daka."
Based on the knowledge provided by Lulutis, Lu Yu knew that many people at the bottom of the class did not have complete names.
One is that their level of knowledge prevents them from coming up with good names with meaningful meanings.
Second, the names of local upper-class nobles often need to be avoided.
If you accidentally take a name that offends the upper-class nobles, it may not be a big deal at ordinary times, but if something happens, you may be in endless trouble.
In order to avoid these problems, most people at the bottom often only have one surname, and then use various weird names as their first name.
For example, Blue Fire John, Water Mark George.
Some even took an indifferent attitude towards the arrangement of the names and simply called him John Bluefire.
Some simply call themselves by nicknames, such as the green-eyed Daka.
Others will come up with names that are so strange that there is no precedent for them.
Therefore, Lu Yu did not need to hide his name at all, because people here are very accepting of strange names.
Sure enough, when Lu Yu said his name, Dhaka had no reaction at all.
The name Lu Yu was not even as strange to Dhaka as inviting him to drink.
"I know you have something to ask me... hiccup, uh... hiccup!"
After burping several times, Daka continued with a smile: "Mr. Lu Yu, you are not from the Kingdom of Yas, right?"
"Indeed not."
"If you want to know anything, just let me drink for you, and I'll be willing to answer you a question or two."
"Of course, I'm just an adventurer who makes a living in the Kingdom of Yas. I can't answer things that are too secretive for you."
Lu Yu liked Dakar's straight-to-the-point approach, which saved him a lot of trouble.
The first thing he wanted to know was whether it was really impossible to buy a house in the royal city of Yasi.
"If you have this idea, give it up as soon as possible. Land and real estate around Yas Royal City are now in short supply."
Dhaka knew that Lu Yu was confused, so he explained it to Lu Yu in detail.
In recent years, Yas Royal City has basically regarded land and real estate as a means of reward, specifically used to reward adventurers who have made outstanding contributions and knights who have made great achievements in battle.
This decision is based on a helpless reality.
Monsters are raging in the east of the Kingdom of Yas, among which goblins are the most numerous.
These goblins built a large number of underground labyrinths in the mountains, forests, plains, and swamps of the eastern border and thrived.
About fifty years ago, Yas I, the first king who established the Kingdom of Yas, passed away.
Yas I is a very skillful person.
He integrated several small countries in the surrounding area and issued an order not to allow these enfeoffed nobles to build city walls in their territories.
To be fair, this is a correct order to maintain the rule of the Kingdom of Yas.
The internal forces in the newly unified kingdom are complex, so allowing these people to have new territories is a comfort strategy.
But what if this kind of comfort makes these nobles want to entangle the army, build high walls, accumulate grain, and resist the rule?
For those who were conquered and annexed and became the nobles of the first generation Yas Kingdom, this new dynasty was very disgusting.
It should be noted that they are also facing attacks from monsters in their own territory.
Without city wall protection, they need to be careful of monsters attacking the city at all times, and they must be careful when storing supplies. If they are not careful, they may be attacked.
But at that time, Yas I had great authority, the force in his hands, and the number of adventurers he attracted were beyond what they could compare to when they had just been conquered.
So they had no choice but to obey this rule.
However, times have changed, and after the death of Yas I, Yas II has far less power to intimidate the surrounding nobles than Yas I.
By the time of Yas III, the surrounding vassals had actually turned against their will and were only maintaining the territory of the kingdom in a friendly manner on the surface.
Lulutis couldn't understand what Dhaka said had anything to do with buying a house.
Lu Yu had already guessed it.
The decision of King Yas I actually weakened the vassal's protection of farmers in the territory, forcing farmers to move to the royal city where they felt more secure.
After all, without city wall protection, monster plundering is common.
The nobles are certainly unlikely to protect the people's property. The most likely approach is to build complete fortifications in their own manor to guard their wealth.
With this coming and going, people will continue to gather in the royal city, strengthening the core strength of the kingdom.
However, as the population increases, the royal city's accommodation capacity is gradually approaching saturation, and it is inevitable that all the land within the sanctuary cannot be used for ordinary people to live and cultivate.
After all, the royal family also needs to leave a certain amount of free space for trading.
Restrictions on buying and selling also appeared.
Under this set of logic, Lu Yu felt that Yas I was a man in power with a good mind.
However, it is impossible for the Royal City to be unaware of the shortage of land after the population explosion.
Will the Kingdom of Yas, whose core control has been strengthened, not relocate its people to open up wasteland?
"Of course it's land reclamation." Dakar sighed after taking a bite of the cold dish that looked like Houttuynia Cordata and smashing it into his mouth.
"You may not know much about the Kingdom of Yas just now. Originally, there were large city-states in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Yas in the Lotan Mountains and plains."
"The lords of these city-states are the strongest supporters of the Kingdom of Yas."
"However, in the past ten years, city-states have fallen one after another, and now there is no city to defend in the eastern border of the Kingdom of Yas."
"The land there is fertile and the products are rich. Two generations of hard-working farmers from the Kingdom of Yas have cultivated and settled there."
"I went there once when I was a kid, and God, what a beautiful scenery it was."
"On the endless plains, ripe wheat swayed in the wind in the fields..."
“…”
Lu Yu didn't hear Daka's subsequent words. Looking carefully, there were tears in his eyes.
Lu Yu picked up the wine glass, clinked it with Dakar, and took a sip with him.
I don’t know whether it’s due to the brewing process or the brewing materials, but the wine is very astringent and bitter, and it’s not even soft and refreshing at all.
But thinking that this was bad wine bought by ordinary adventurers to get drunk, Lu Yu felt relieved.
"The fall of the city-state was due to the invasion of monsters and the constraints of the nobles. In the end, several sincere lords were defeated one after another and were forced to evacuate."
"After the defeat, the Kingdom of Yas has been unable to take back the areas occupied by monsters. The several sieges it organized have had little effect. After all, neither the Kingdom's Knights nor the Kingdom's direct army has the absolute force to protect the areas that have been recovered."
"The existence of the goblin underground labyrinth makes it extremely dangerous. Even re-cultivation and grazing are a luxury."
"And...and..." Daka looked confused, smiled coquettishly, and pointed to the top of his head with his finger.
Lu Yu understood.
If the army goes all out to regain the lost territory, then if the vassals have their thoughts, who will guarantee the interests of the royal family when the country is empty?
Or, if during the process of recovering the lost territory, the vassals had some thoughts, causing the front line to collapse, causing turmoil, and then they all started to stand on their own...
If you want to make various attempts to break the situation, you must be careful whether such a decision will worsen the situation, not to mention that there are many interests entangled in it.
Therefore, the Yasi Kingdom officially chose another plan.
Post bounties through the Adventurer's Guild, and use good bounties to attract adventurers from all over the world to come here to work here, destroy all kinds of monsters in the East, and give good treatment to the best among them, and win them over to become your helpers.
Generally speaking, the land and properties in the royal city are reserved for powerful adventurers and those who can assist the royal family, and there is no way for others to obtain them.
"If Mr. Lu Yu is good, you can go for it."
Daka took a big gulp of wine and his tongue was so big.
Lu Yu, who was across the table, ignored the shouts around him while they were having a drink and fell into deep thought.
I am just a mortal without any power at all, and I am powerless even if I want to fight for it.
It seems that the plan to buy a house to live temporarily is really not feasible.
I don't know what the process of renting a house is. I hope it won't be too complicated, otherwise I will really have a headache.