Liu Xing nodded, but he was complaining in his heart how deep Bahamut's followers were hidden. It was because the background story had not been made up yet.
"Now we are in the light and the enemy is in the dark, so in order to reverse the passive situation, I think we should go to the blacksmith village and look around later to see if there is any chance to confirm that those people are Bahamut believers." Zhang Jingxu said seriously.
said.
Of course Liu Xing and others nodded in agreement.
As a result, Liu Xing and others were divided into several groups by Zhang Jingxu.
With the choice of close combat and long-range cooperation, Liu Xing and Yin En formed a team and were assigned to go to the largest blacksmith shop in the blacksmith village to collect intelligence.
So ten minutes later, Liu Xing and others arrived at Youjian Blacksmith Shop, the largest blacksmith shop in the blacksmith village.
Liu Xing and Yin En looked at the signboard of a blacksmith shop and didn't know what to say for a moment.
To be honest, Liu Xing now wants to pry open Zhang Jingxu's head to see how big this guy's brain is, so he would arrange such a Chinese martial arts style store name in the background world of Dragon Quest.
But then again, Liu Xing suddenly remembered that he seemed to be staying in an inn, not a hotel...
It seems that this is a world view that merges China and the West.
Due to the nature of the work in the blacksmith shop, Liu Xing and Yin En could clearly feel the heat coming from the blacksmith shop, so Liu Xing looked at the standard priest robes on his body and began to think about whether he should go in.
As for Yin En, the knight leather armor on his body is even more "hot".
"How about we go back and change clothes first?" Yin En said.
Just as Liu Xing was about to nod, he saw Shen Aotian walking out of a blacksmith shop with a depressed look on his face.
"Master Liu Xing, Master Yin En, why are you here?" Shen Aotian said in surprise.
Fortunately, Liu Xing and Yin En had prepared the draft before they came, so Liu Xing said with a smile: "Shen Aotian, didn't your father say that those materials were stolen from a blacksmith shop? So we planned to come over and take a look.
It depends on what the situation is and whether there is any chance to remedy it."
Shen Aotian nodded and said helplessly: "That's what I thought just now, that's why I'm here now, but the current situation is indeed not good. I'm afraid we can only go to those goblins to get back the money."
My own things... By the way, Mr. Liu Xing, do you want to go in and take a look?"
Of course.
Liu Xing and Yin En nodded in unison.
So, Shen Aotian brought Liu Xing and Yin En into Youjian Blacksmith Shop.
I have to say that in one blacksmith shop it is really like summer all year round... and it is also the height of the Chinese Double Celebration.
However, Shen Aotian also realized this, so he first took Liu Xing and Yin En to the locker room of Youjian Blacksmith Shop, and changed Liu Xing and others into the work uniforms of Youjian Blacksmith Shop - short vests.
Of course, this work uniform feels a bit shameful in the eyes of Liu Xing and Yin En, because the only function of this work uniform is to cover up those two important points.
However, as the Romans do, Liu Xing and Yin En ended up wearing short vests.
It was indeed a lot cooler.
"These work uniforms in a blacksmith shop are made of ice silk, so they can maintain a lower temperature in high temperature environments. However, because the price of ice silk is really high, it can only be made into short lengths. The style of the vest." Shen Aotian gave Liu Xing and the other two popular science tips.
Although this is just useless cold knowledge for Liu Xing and the two of them.
Then, Shen Aotian took Liu Xing and two people to the warehouse of Youjian Blacksmith Shop, while continuing to introduce the situation of Youjian Blacksmith Shop to Liu Xing and two people.
Youjian Blacksmith Shop was the first blacksmith shop in the Blacksmith Village. It can also be said that it was because of Youjian Blacksmith Shop that the later Blacksmith Village came into existence. But the most important point is that Youjian Blacksmith Shop was originally owned by Shen Ao. The Tian family's family property was later handed over to the state by Shen Aotian's grandfather, Shen Liangchen, and Shen Aotian's father, Shen Kuanglong, became the head of the Blacksmith Village.
Well, when he heard Shen Aotian's name last night, Liu Xing knew that Shen Aotian's family should have equally cool names, so Liu Xing won't complain here.
Back to the topic, although Youjian Blacksmith Shop is now nominally a state-owned enterprise, actually Youjian Blacksmith Shop is still under the control of Shen Aotian's family, because the blacksmiths at Youjian Blacksmith Shop are basically Shen Liangchen or Shen Kuanglong's disciples and subsequent disciples, so Shen Aotian's family is still responsible for all the affairs of Youjian Blacksmith Shop, and 60% of the income of Youjian Blacksmith Shop belongs to Shen Aotian's family.
But how could the empire let this old hen that only lays golden eggs be under the control of others, so recently the empire sent many blacksmiths and managers into Youjian Blacksmith Shop, and also directly sent people to control Youjian Blacksmith Shen Kuanglong was so angry that he had not been to a blacksmith shop for a long time.
Seeing Shen Aotian who dared to say anything, Liu Xing and Yin En didn't know whether to call him short-minded or big-minded.
Of course, it is possible that Shen Aotian is telling lies.
However, it is not difficult to see from what Shen Aotian said that there is a lot of conflict between Shen Aotian's family and the empire.
"By the way, Shen Aotian, what are the origins of the other blacksmith shops in the blacksmith village?" Yin En suddenly asked.
Shen Aotian thought for a while and said: "The reason why our Shen family chose to build a blacksmith village here is because there are a lot of mineral resources near the blacksmith village, and it is not far from the capital of the empire, so here Not only can we obtain a large amount of raw materials, but we can also sell the goods easily. The most important thing is that we can sell them at a higher price in the capital. Therefore, after seeing us making money, many blacksmith shops in the capital have My own shop moved here, and later blacksmith shops from other areas also moved here. In addition, some apprentice blacksmiths from the blacksmith shops set up their own businesses after they left their apprenticeships, so the blacksmith village formed its current scale."
This is similar to what Liu Xing imagined.
Yin En nodded and continued to ask: "So have these blacksmith shops been absorbed by the empire?"
Upon hearing Yin En's question, Liu Xing immediately focused his attention on Shen Aotian, because the answer to this question was quite important.
More importantly, Liu Xing wanted to see if Shen Aotian would lie at this time.
This time Shen Aotian thought for a longer time before he said with some hesitation: "Actually, I don't know much about this situation, because I joined the largest restaurant in the blacksmith village as an apprentice since I was a child, so in addition to having a blacksmith Apart from the situation of the blacksmith shop, I don’t know much about the situation of other blacksmith shops, but I have heard that some well-known blacksmith shops have received acquisition applications from the empire, because the scale of the blacksmith village is getting larger and larger. , the empire’s supervision is also becoming more difficult, especially after the incident a few years ago, the empire’s management of the blacksmith villages has become more and more strict, so those blacksmith shops can only choose to accept the empire’s acquisition.”
That thing?
Liu Xing quickly checked his memory, and sure enough he saw the incident that he had just "compiled" - three years ago, the empire had a war with another human kingdom next door, and as a result, the imperial troops seized a batch of weapons during the battle. The ordnance of the empire, and these ordnance were actually made by a blacksmith shop in the empire, and judging from the appearance of this batch of ordnance, it should have been made after the war.
Obviously, this blacksmith shop is in contact with the enemy.
The module also adds a setting here, that is, the mineral resources of this continent are not too rich, so an excellent blacksmith has a pretty good status on the continent, and the local blacksmith shop is qualified to manufacture ordnance. Star enterprise.
So this can be regarded as one of the reasons why Shen Kuanglong can serve as the head of the Blacksmith Village.
After learning that there was a blacksmith shop collaborating with the enemy, the empire quickly made that blacksmith shop history and planned to take back the weapons manufacturing rights of all blacksmith shops in the country.
However, the profit of weapons is definitely higher than that of farm tools, so the blacksmith shops within the empire objected one after another, so the empire had to withdraw its orders. On the surface, it strengthened control, but in fact it was forcing those blacksmith shops to become state-owned enterprises. To ensure that the same thing does not happen again.
As an activist, Shen Kuanglong also became a propaganda material for the empire at that time.
But having said that, Liu Xing suddenly felt that the style of this module was getting weirder and weirder. Why did it suddenly shift from combat to business?
Although Liu Xing was confused about this, Yin En, his professional counterpart, already had an opinion on the matter, "It is understandable that the empire wants to control the blacksmith shop. After all, the products that the blacksmith shop can produce can not only be used for civilian use, but also It is used for military purposes, not to mention that various minerals are also important resources for the empire, and if I were the administrator of the empire, I would not want just anyone to be able to buy a complete set of weapons from the blacksmith shop."
Yin En's words reminded Liu Xing of the American lighthouse state and civilian guns in the real world.
Although these civilian guns are castrated versions when they leave the factory, the power of these guns cannot be underestimated. The shootings that occur every three to five times in the American Lighthouse Country are the best proof. What's more, these civilian guns can become more powerful as long as they are appropriately modified. will be greatly strengthened, so Liu Xing once heard that some illegal armed forces in Latin America would smuggle in a batch of civilian firearms from the American lighthouse country. After being magically modified, these civilian firearms are even more powerful than the weapons used by the local regular army.
So Liu Xing estimates that this plot is probably adapted from the civil gun debate in the American Lighthouse Country. The blacksmith shops in the empire are the weapons dealers in the American Lighthouse Country. They don’t want to lose the opportunity to make money, but this module
The empire in the game is more powerful than the American Lighthouse State in the real world.
After all, in the real world, arms dealers in the American lighthouse country provide campaign funds to the president.
It is impossible to ban guns. It is impossible to ban guns in this life.
Back to the topic, Liu Xing now felt that he had reason to suspect that the Shen family was dissatisfied with the empire because the empire had cut off their financial resources. However, the Shen family did not have the ability to go against the empire, so the Shen family simply turned to evil.
Bian Sheng became greedy for those precious materials.
Based on the newly updated content in his memory, Liu Xing knew that the total value of that batch of materials was likely to exceed the wealth accumulated by the Shen family over the years.
So as long as this period of limelight is over, the Shen family can take this batch of materials and fly away. Anyway, there are many human countries on this continent, and many of them are at odds with the empire.
In this case, the biggest suspect now is the Shen family, but it is not yet known whether the Shen family has any relationship with the followers of Bahamut.
Liu Xing thought like this and found that his group had arrived at a warehouse with a blacksmith shop.
As the largest blacksmith shop in the blacksmith village, there is a blacksmith shop that covers an area as large as more than ten football fields, and the warehouse is naturally not much smaller.
So what is now in front of Liu Xing and others is a wooden door that may be ten meters high.
Liu Xing looked at this door that was three stories high, and couldn't help but wonder how those Goblins with an average height of about one meter could open this wooden door that might weigh a thousand kilograms, and then enter it and steal those things.
material.
Yin En and Liu Xing are thinking exactly the same thing now.
But at this moment, Shen Aotian gave the answer, "This wooden door is made of extremely high-density ironwood, so the weight of this wooden door reaches 2,500 kilograms, which is also the maximum weight of our blacksmith shop.
We are proud of our anti-theft measures, and our blacksmith shop had never been robbed before, but I didn’t expect those goblins to dig tunnels to get into the warehouse.”
Because opening the wooden door requires a lot of manpower and time, Liu Xing and others entered the warehouse through the administrator's channel.
The so-called administrator's passage, to put it bluntly, is a locked secret door at the top of the warehouse, and only some members of the Shen family know about this locked secret door.
Then, Liu Xing and others saw a hole less than twenty centimeters in diameter in the middle of the warehouse.
Judging from the soil around the entrance of the cave, this tunnel was indeed dug out today, and various traces of friction can be found within the visible range.
Of course, there are also some strange paw prints mixed in.
"The shoulder width of an average adult is generally about 37 centimeters, so unless you are a child, this tunnel should only be able to accommodate short goblins." Liu Xing said with a frown.
"That's right, after we discovered the cave today, we arranged for a child to enter the tunnel, and finally found that the entrance to the tunnel was in the wilderness outside the Blacksmith Village." Shen Aotian said seriously.
Liu Xing nodded, but he was a little confused - was this really the material stolen by the goblins?
After all, such a long and narrow hole is not something ordinary people can dig.