Gejill felt that he saw a lunatic.
If planning to build a city on a swamp is already a dream, then transforming all the wetlands into plains is something that only a lunatic would do.
The area of the wetland is about a thousand square kilometers. Even for a powerful spellcaster, it is almost impossible to transform such a large swamp into a plain. If there are only a few spellcasters to do this, it will take at least a hundred years. If a large number of spellcasters are hired to help, then the cost of gold coins must be calculated in tens of thousands.
Unless we gather the power of the whole country, we want to completely transform the wetland into a plain, unless there is a miracle.
And a young nobleman actually said that he wanted to turn the swamp into a plain, which is really too exaggerated.
Gejir finally calmed down his mentality, and he asked: "Since you want to build a city, you must need a lot of stone materials. I don't know if you are interested in cooperating with me. The price, a large supply of high-quality stone for you."
This is Gejir's real intention to invite Beta over. It turned out that Gegil thought that after a nobleman like Beta got a territory, even in an environment like a wetland, using magic to solidify a small piece of land and build a castle, there is still no problem.
Since the castle is going to be built, it needs a lot of stone materials. There are not many things in the city of Harvey, but there are many stone materials.
Although the Gangti family can be regarded as extremely wealthy nobles in the city of Harvey, Gejir does not dislike making more money. No one would ever think too much of money.
But he didn't expect that Beta actually intended to build a city on the swamp.
Regardless of whether the other party's idea is feasible or not, crazy or not, Gejir saw a big deal from it. Even if the city cannot be built, as long as the construction starts, it will definitely require a lot of stone materials, which represent gold coins one by one.
When Beta heard this, he was also very interested. Although it was only a discount of 10% off the market price, if the quantity was large, a lot of gold coins could be saved. Besides, there are only half of the gold bricks in the beta space now, which is far from enough to build a city. He not only needs to increase revenue, but also has to save money, otherwise he will definitely become a pauper if the city is not built.
"About this matter, I can talk about it in detail after my caravan is established." Beta agreed, and then asked curiously: "I just found out that the city owner doesn't seem to be very comfortable with this banquet. .”
"He has always been like this. This person has nothing to say." Gejir smiled slightly.
Seeing Gejill's expression was a bit strange, Beta knew that he didn't want to say more about this matter, so she didn't pursue it further. Then Gergil introduced a few nobles to him, and after Beta chatted with them for a while, he took Shirley and Jessica back to the hotel.
In the carriage, Jessica patted her swollen belly with a satisfied face.
As a former beggar, Jessica is very interested in what she eats. In the past, she ate less because she was afraid that she would make her master poor, so she kept suppressing her appetite. Now that someone invites her to eat at a banquet, she herself will not miss such an opportunity to eat extravagantly.
Shirley, on the other hand, was sitting next to Beta, and said strangely: "I chatted with those ladies for a long time just now, and then found that they despised the city lord very much, and said bad things about him from time to time, but I couldn't ask The reason is that they seem to be tight-lipped about the city lord's affairs, and they don't know what's going on."
"I found out too." Beta nodded: "Gejir is the same."
Xue Li was a little worried: "It can be seen that the division of power in this city seems a bit strange, and I don't know if it will affect our plan."
"We can ask someone about the city owner." Beta smiled slightly: "For example, Amanda."
At noon the next day, Amanda routinely came to the hotel to report the progress of the caravan recruitment to Beta.
She was wearing a white cotton padded jacket. Although she could no longer see the curves of her body, she also had a charming and charming taste.
After listening to the report, Beta invited her to sit down and said, "I went to the banquet last night, and then I discovered a very strange thing. Harvey, who was supposed to be the most powerful city lord, seemed to be unable to do so at the banquet." People. No one wants to talk to him, no ladies ask him to dance. People have a kind of disdainful hostility towards him. I wonder if you know something."
Amanda shook her head: "How can a small businessman like me know about things among nobles?"
Beta smiled at the corner of her mouth, looked at her quietly for a while, and then said, "One gold coin for information."
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the saying that businessmen seek profit. Just as Beta finished speaking, the face of Oman's family changed slightly, and she shook her head again and said, "Your Excellency, I really don't know."
"Five gold coins." Beta raised the information fee.
Amanda's expression at this time was already very exciting, and there was a clear hesitation on her face. After a while, she said, "Your Excellency, I still don't know."
Beta said with admiration: "You are indeed a trustworthy businessman, keeping your mouth shut. But I believe that there are many people in this city who know the news, and I don't know if they are the same as you. I will decide to go to the mercenary union soon. Let’s go, maybe they know something.”
"Wait. You don't have to go." Amanda slapped the table heavily, and then said helplessly: "Your Excellency, Beta, you are really my nemesis. You know that I have no resistance to gold coins, but you actually use such a method, too Despicable... Now you can give me five gold coins."
Five gold coins is a small amount of money for many small nobles, let alone a businessman like Amanda.
Beta took out five gold coins and put them on the table, then said: "If you have other more valuable information in your words, I will add one or two more gold coins to you."
"Okay." Amanda's eyes sparkled.
Shirley, who was on the side, also came over, and she was also very interested in this matter.
Amanda took a deep breath and said, "The castellan you saw last night was only a castellan in name. We, Harvey City, have actually had no castellan for more than three hundred years."
"What do you mean by that?" Beta was a little puzzled when he heard this: "This is the land of Hollevin. If a city owner does not have a city owner, the royal family will appoint another one. How could there be no city owner, and it is still more than three hundred years old."
"I knew your Excellency would ask this question. Our family has been here for more than four hundred years, and we just know about it." Amanda smiled and said, "Please listen to the words, and then you can ask questions as you like."
Beta made a please gesture.
Amanda immediately told the story.
It turned out that more than 300 years ago, Harvey had a city lord, but for some reason, suddenly one day, all the men in the lord's family died suddenly. And the way of death is terrible, cut in half by an unknown force, or standing up on the spot, as if being attacked by an invisible.
Within a day, all the male members of the city lord's family at that time died, leaving only women and children. But those women and children were quickly 'swallowed' by other nobles, and within five days, the castellan's family was all dead.
Hearing this, Beta frowned. At this time more than three hundred years ago, and the way the male of the castellan's family died, he thought of an extremely bad possibility.
Then the nobles of Harvey City, in order to permanently control this stone-rich city, united and made a good show. They found a poor man in the city who was very similar to the successor of the city lord at that time, and helped him to the position of the city lord, and then they controlled him behind the scenes. Because of this relationship, Wangcheng has never known that the city lord of Harvey City has changed, so the city lord has not been reassigned.
In this way, several big noble families controlled Harvey City for more than three hundred years. In Harvey, this is already a semi-open secret, and only outsiders will not know it.
"It really is an interesting story." Beta took out seven gold coins from the space and put them on the table: "You deserve it."
"What a generous noble sir."
After Amanda complimented Beta, she hurried away with the gold coins.
Then Beta leaned back on the back of the chair and let out a long sigh.
Xue Li was on the side, and asked with some concern: "Master, you don't seem very happy."
"Indeed." Beta smiled wryly, "If my guess is correct, the person who killed the male members of the castellan's family was most likely me."
Shirley's eyes widened: "How is it possible? Master, although your behavior and etiquette are very good, and you appear to be relatively mature, but I can be sure that your body is still very young, and you cannot be more than three hundred years old. old man."
"Really. I ordered the killing of all the adult males in the Santo's family." Beta thought for a while, and then said frankly: "The reason why they have such a tragedy involves a strange thing that I can't explain to you."
Shirley put her arms around Beta's neck from behind, and said softly, "So what if you killed it? I believe Master, you will definitely not kill people for no reason."
It's not for nothing. Beta remembered that in the game back then, he had a serious conflict with the lord of Harvey City, even to the point of life and death. In the end, he led the knights and broke through the city of Harvey... He personally ordered the execution of all adult males in the castellan's family, and then exiled all the female members.
He didn't expect that things in the game would be so faithfully reflected in reality.
What he didn't expect was that in reality Harvey, the female family members of the city lord, were all killed by other nobles, leaving no one left.
Beta's mood was a little gloomy, he didn't regret what happened in the game, he just didn't expect that the reality would become so cruel because of the game, it was almost like fate.
Although he does not believe in fate, nor is he at the mercy of fate.
Just when he was sad, the waiter outside the door came to report and said:
The mayor is visiting!