Chapter 97 I'm too lazy to think of names for transitional chapters
Unlike other cities in the Doron Empire, Ironforge has no inner city.
This first-tier city, which has developed from wasteland 500 years ago to the present day, covers an area of over 100 square kilometers within the walls of the city. It has lived in a large number of creatures of various races of nearly 800,000. In addition to countless migrant populations, it ranks among the top in the provincial main cities of the entire Doron Empire.
Ironforge is divided into five urban areas, southeast, west, north, and middle, among which the urban areas in the first four directions are similar in size. The west and north urban areas are mainly residential and commercial areas, and the east and south urban areas are mainly high-tech industrial areas; the central urban areas are the smallest, which is the initial area of Ironforge when the city was first built, and may not be as large as a town, but it is now the core of the entire city. A clerk composed of goblins, dwarves and officials sent by the Doron Empire is in power. The city lord is Pushkin Worila, who is a purebred goblin.
However, this is just an obvious phenomenon. As long as the official of the Doron Empire is not stupid, the so-called clerk must have the highest voice in the so-called clerk, and the city lord is just a pretext for the goblins to be the master. Moreover, since the empire delegated military power to the goblins, and all the violent institutions in the entire province are composed of such alien races, then there is no idea how many top combat forces are in this small central city. At least there must be three or five magicians, otherwise, if something happens, it will be impossible to suppress the place.
If this is the case, then apart from historical issues, there is no big difference between Iron Fortress and other cities. But the reason why it is particularly stated that it does not have an inner city is that when Su Wen came to the central city, there was no barrier on the road here. Except for the 500-year-old primitive wall that had been demolished, anyone could enter and exit the central city at will. Even this is the most luxurious area of the entire Iron Fortress, where all kinds of goblin academies, concert halls, museums, luxury shops, administrative agencies, luxury houses and sky-high real estate projects are gathered here. People entering and leaving here are usually tourists and rich people. The extra spacious streets are full of luxury horse carriages, and there are even rare goblin full magic power sports cars. In comparison, Su Wen's brand new Woking carriage is nothing but everyone, and can only be done not to look too shabby.
Although it is full of copper smell, this style of city makes Su Wen quite fond of it.
You should know that in a standard imperial city like Trides, you cannot get permission to enter the inner city without aristocratic status or aristocratic servant, so that Su Wen lived there for more than half a year and could not enter the small city wall to see the specific appearance of the inner city. Although this is the norm in the glorious continent, it finally makes people feel a little uncomfortable.
Today is the sixth day of entering Ironforge. Su Wen originally planned to visit the famous Tower of Wealth, located in the central city last night, but when he learned that this tower is the financial center of the entire city, almost all large chambers of commerce and companies use it as an office building, thus rejecting foreign tourists' visits, this interest was basically extinguished.
After all, Su Wen really doesn't have this kind of hobby for pure tourism.
On the contrary, Liticia has been very interested these days. Compared with her slightly silent personality before, she smiled more and more after entering the Iron Fortress, and she showed great interest in all the arrangements of Su Wen, and she never talked back. Su Wen was not sure whether the cause of this situation was the squeeze for several consecutive days or the inexplicable high fever, but in short, this is definitely not a bad thing. As long as Liticia becomes more listened to her, it means that Su Wen's favorability strategy has achieved outstanding results.
Shortly after training, while it was still early, Su Wen sat in the hotel lobby and had breakfast.
The staple food on the plate is a grey bread called "Blacksmith Gold". Its origin is said to be in the founding period of the Iron Fort 500 years ago. The land at that time was full of scars left by the war. Only the most tenacious black wild wheat in the southern continent could grow. This variety of wheat was used to feed livestock in its origin, which shows how inferior its product quality was. However, under such arduous conditions, the dwarves actually played out the chef's talent that had been covered by their blacksmith's halo for a long time. In short, in their hands, this worst-quality but easiest-to-survival wheat in the continent accompanied two short races through the most difficult years. After that, not only was it not abandoned, it became a very famous specialty food in the Iron Fortress Province. It had to spend a high price to eat authentic taste...
Su Wen picked up this food full of alien style, and the dwarf's special spicy sauce spread on it highlighted a nose-filled. After taking a bite, the rough texture of the bread made Su Wen feel that he was gnawing hard biscuits. It was very expensive to chew, and there was a faint sweet and fishy smell. This unique taste from wheat could not be covered even by the hot sauce on the bread, or it was unintentionally covered. The two complement each other, which made Su Wen feel a unique enjoyment called sentiment. I really want to say whether it tastes delicious... Although I don't know the taste of other races, for Su Wen, it is just a degree that he can barely eat.
Who asked him to order "authentic"? It was really hard for the dwarf to make this kind of food at that time. Look at Liticia's luxurious supplement version of "Blacksmith Gold". The double-layer bread was filled with crispy and tender pork chops on the outside. The oily soup was almost overflowing with the delicious sauce. With the green vegetables, it was mouth-watering. Not only that, there were various high-end sauces on her plate like a palette. Su Wen couldn't help but snatch some and finished her portion.
Oh, speaking of it, Liticia's appetite has been getting bigger and bigger recently, almost surpassing herself.
However, Su Wen felt that this was related to the sudden increase in training volume by twice.
The service in the goblin's restaurant was really thoughtful. When Su Wen was almost finished eating, a green waiter soon brought exquisite desserts and napkins, plus a newspaper for the day.
Su Wen looked down and found that there were several bold big words on the cover: "The Principality of Revana announced that it would send troops to the Barsala Mine, becoming the seventh participant in the battle. The final ownership of the huge wealth is still full of fog."
The subtitle below is shocking.
"As of the date of publication, 47,000 people have died in the conflict in the three-month period of conflict in the mines and hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced. The empire called on all parties to negotiate peacefully and crack down on terrorism and illegal mercenary organizations."
Let’s not talk about the nonsense in the second half. The reason why Panyin Mountains is constantly in war is inevitable. The great powers like the Doron Empire are driven behind the scenes. As the agents of those principalities, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as pleasant and comfortable. Su Wen felt a little strange. The Panyin Mountains area has been in chaos for more than three hundred years, and there are so many civilians in this cesspool?
Are those people not afraid of death?
Tsk, I couldn't help myself, so I shouldn't stand and talk without any pain. Su Wen was not unfamiliar with the kind of life that was in danger. Although he had never experienced that horror in person, he would still light a candle for the civilians who insisted on staying in the Panyin Mountains.
As the main channel for obtaining information in the non-information era, newspapers are of great value to Su Wen. Although they have no close relationship with his plan, it is always a good thing to understand the practical things around them. Of course, this kind of strictly controlled media is only the part that can be known to the common people, so it would be better to refer to it, and there would not be too much practical information.
If you want to make some money, you still have to find an intelligence businessman.
But Su Wen was too lazy to do something that was not pleasing to spend so much effort.
Su Wen briefly read through the newspaper. The first two pages mainly talked about how Pan Yin Mountains were so bloody and the recent diplomatic incidents of the Doron Empire. Later, it introduces the recent major events of the Iron Fort and the Iron Fort. The storm of the giant dragon crossing has not disappeared for a week, and it still firmly occupies half of the land. It is said that several villages were almost burned by the dragon breath spitting out from the sky, and the direct and indirect property losses reached hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and more than a thousand casualties. The special envoy sent by the Iron Fortress to negotiate with the crime has never come back. Now things are getting bigger and bigger, but the main energy of the Doron Empire is all focused on the outbreak of the Warcraft in the northern wasteland. So far, only a few mouths have been used to strongly condemn it, and no substantial action has been taken at all.
In today's report, several famous large mercenary groups were jointly discussing the matter of forming a team to go to the San Carlo Mountains to "seek justice". It is said that they also invited powerful men of the magician level. Su Wen suddenly saw the name of the "Black Beast Mercenary Group" in the list of more than a dozen mercenary groups, and suddenly missed James and his two brothers who were laughing and jokingly.
I don't know how I'm doing now.
As for the contents left in the newspaper, they are basically not very nutritious. Business news is mainly for buyers to see, which is full of soft and hard advertisements of various mechanical products and weapons. Entertainment news is nothing more than poems published by bards, previews and live broadcasts of concert hall art exhibitions and celebrations. Of course, various messy lottery draw information in each issue are indispensable.
After leaving the newspaper and casually scrutinizing the information and data recorded these days, Su Wen felt that the biggest gain from coming to Tielu Castle this time had already been obtained.
The maximum profit coefficient of gold coins and exchange points has been calculated. It is neither a Terra steel weapon that is both valuable and high-quality, nor the cheapest pig iron weapon. It is generally a miscellaneous weapon, but a second-level high-quality steel that looks not surprisingly good. After calculation, each kilogram of second-level high-quality steel is not worth any points, but after processing it as a finished weapon and protective gear, once a systematic evaluation is obtained, it can be exchanged for an average of 14 exchange points. The total amount of finished products in Su Wen statistics and their large weight are divided, and the average price per kilogram obtained is 18 gold coins. Among them, parameters such as the degree of advantages, shape, and size of the weapon will have an impact on its value, but the impact is not large and can even be omitted.
This means that the conversion from gold coins to exchange points is about 4:3. As for more advanced enchantments, since they do not have the nature of large quantities and the price of gold coins is inflated, Su Wen still did not conduct a survey.
Su Wen currently has 15,000 gold coins. If all of them are used to purchase equipment made of this material, he can basically pay off the system's debt. As for the first-generation nano armor that has been preserved in the daily recommendation, it still needs less than 20,000 gold coins to be taken. Su Wen is confident of getting this money, because the Three Fireball Ring, which has become the second Fireball Ring, can be worth tens of thousands of gold coins, but he has no intention of taking action for a long time. In the past few days, he has not even entered the door of the auction house. The reason is that he is concerned about the consequences of acting rashly.
Su Wen was indeed a little ready to move, but he did not lose his mind. After a few days of careful thinking, Su Wen finally did not decide to do a big deal - without a real trump card, if it was not a risk that had to be done, then the harm would outweigh the benefits.
At least now, Su Wen still thinks so.
Chapter completed!