Chapter 281 The Song of Triumph

The cement road on the West Malaysia Highway is 7 kilometers long. Although the construction is more difficult as it moves forward, the more people it hires in the Shuizhai. Yu Weichao claims to be a "rich butler" and pays his salary with copper coins. Where can he find workers?

After all, the beast is a product of the Western Continent. He is very energetic when walking on the hard cement road. Damas also looked up and sat up straight, thinking: The road without bumps is really good.

The muse came over and smiled and said, "Sir, this place is better than Raj City State."

He is the knight who is most familiar with the water village. He intentionally or unintentionally wants to raise the water village - this is to raise himself in disguise.

Damas nodded as he heard the title of "jazz". Now he really needed a little aristocratic status to suppress his shock. He fell a little behind and smiled and said, "It's better than Raj City State. Their roads must be not smooth."

It seems that he thought the leveling of the cement road was due to the new construction.

The Muse also had the same suspicion, so he shouted: "Knight She Lei, if there is a passing beast like that, it will break the road."

"Large beasts with more than 10 tons of transported beasts must pass by the roadside." She Lei pointed to the pioneering land on both sides.

Only then did everyone notice that, except for some big trees that were obviously sentries or used to cover tree hills, even the grass was pulled out within 100 meters on the left and right sides of the "highway".

The roads on both sides are relatively softer, but they have also been reinforced. The maximum weight of the beast is 40 tons, and it carries 10 tons of cargo. With its foot width, although it does not immediately crush the road surface, it is at least equivalent to an overloaded heavy truck, so naturally it cannot be easily started.

Damas frowned undetectablely.

Muse hurriedly smiled and said, "You may not know that every time the temple war is war, the army and equipment pass through this road, so it must not be idle."

She Lei nodded without notice and smiled: "It's not that you can't leave."

"oh?"

"In the future, the road will be used as a first-level section. Anyone or mount who uses it needs to register and pay the toll. We will use the money we paid to repair the road."

The West Malaysia Highway is actually not long, with a total distance of 40 kilometers. However, the road conditions in the past were too poor, and if you don’t have a mount, you may not be able to reach Yuncun in a day. However, judging from the standards of the western continent, its cost is really not low, and it must be higher than that of the early railways.

In other words, the current Xima Highway has been treated like a railway in the upper floor of the Shuizhai. Thinking about the strong demeanor of the Tie Boss, who is not fascinated by the strong demeanor of the Mi.

Damas didn't like She Lei's statement, but there was no saying in the city-state era that "can the shores of the land be the king's land" now that the matter of the 3,000 heavy infantrymen has not been handled completely, and he didn't want to make any more troubles, so he was speechless all the way, just looking at the nearby posts and the inexplicable isolation net, slowly entering the Xijiang River Village.

With the leadership of She Lei and others, no one asked them to show a good citizen certificate, which made Muse feel relieved.

The water village now should be called a town.

The indigenous people hired on the road just now have more than 2,000 people, and their food and wine need to be purchased from other places.

People in the Western Mainland are all standard big-bellied men. Moreover, because of the vast land and sparse population and abundant food, even ordinary people are used to eating meat. Radish, leaves and grains of plants are relatively rare. But in general, the price of food is very low in the sunny local area, and the purchase price of water villages is very high. In addition to requiring quality and type control, all people who come to the Western Mainland to do business have made money.

At the beginning, some natives happily went home after taking the money, and on the second or third day, they sent their meat and vegetables to earn some hard-earned money. Some clever ones began to buy other people's grain and send them to the Shuizhai. Now, almost stupid natives know that they buy good things in the Shuizhai and then go home to sell them. As they come and go, the price difference between dozens of copper coins.

As a result, the entire water village was bustling, and in part, it was much more lively than Mara City, which surprised the group of knights.

How long has it been

Especially when Muse saw the hawkers hanging on the roadside, and saw a villager handing over 10 strings of copper coins to the other party, his eyes were straight.

A knight entourage in front of Damas could hardly help saying, "They are all using copper coins?"

They usually use thin coins. A string of 10 thin coins is the amount of an iron coin. Usually enough for a day to sell, and only when they go out to treat the guests to sell, would they use copper coins. Who would have thought that villagers who should have never touched copper coins in their lifetime would trade in strings of copper coins there.

An indigenous soldier held his head up and said with depression: "I spent 7 days working outside the city and there were 2 copper coins. Many people came to our Xijiang City to work, and then they made money to buy the guys back."

A group of knights were startled and their eyes were straightened.

Obtaining 2 copper coins in 7 days may not be more income than theirs, but it is really a lot, especially the knights have to take care of their mounts and repair their equipment.

Seeing that the proud knight was shocked, the indigenous soldiers almost rushed to the sky.

Of course they knew the knights’ contempt for themselves and the contempt they had been years and years. The villagers had long wanted to change, but there was no opportunity to change.

She Lei could only shruggle and said nothing. As a simple street, Hunhun, he was quite dissatisfied with Yu Weichao's exploitation policy. Because the so-called workmanship of the natives on the road was to work 20 hours a day and only rest for 5 hours. The reason for doing this was that the number of labor was small, and on the other hand, it was also to improve work efficiency. Compared with the workers who had 16 hours of rest every day, the effect of working 20 hours was obviously better. The people in the Western Mainland seemed to be able to adapt to such a life. Their physical conditions were very good. Even if they had heavy physical labor, as long as they had enough food and appropriate amount of salt, they would still be energetic the next day. The 2 copper coins of sè were only 2 taels and 7 yuan, which was equivalent to paying only 1 yuan a day.

Compared to She Lei, some students have greater opinions. The methods used by people in the Western Mainland are not necessarily those that people on earth think are reasonable and moral. In particular, most of the people in Jiangbei are simple and deceptive state-owned enterprise workers. They have a natural tendency to enjoy welfare and are afraid of all reforms to increase workload. In those days when eating big pots and equal pay is not paid with equal pay, the workers in the state-owned enterprise rely on the welfare of their own factory and the sneaky increase of salary ratio. Obviously, they are worried that the enthusiastic work spirit of the Western Mainland people will change their lives. Some people have been changed, such as gentlemen in the basic construction team, must work three shifts or two shifts to participate in the night shift, which is a very unhappy moment.

The knights didn't know the circles inside, and they only stared at the popular copper coins on the street.

In fact, this is already a manifestation of inflation.

Yu Weichao has tried his best to control prices and reduce the inflation, such as selling more textiles, weapons and swords, but the results are very little. 2,000 native workers, about 500 indigenous soldiers, and about 200 alien mercenaries, they have a salary of 1 to 10 copper coins every week, which is the income of ordinary villagers for half a year. So much money is basically sold within the water village, so how can the prices not rise? On the other hand, all the heavy machine gun bullets fired on that day have to be recovered, which is equivalent to at least 100,000 copper coins being left out.

At the helplessness, Yu Weichao even wanted to convert the way coins paid their wages into physical form, but was rejected by Chen Yi.

He didn't care about such local financial issues at all. Even if the currency system of Xijiang Shuizhai collapsed, it would be okay. It would be rebuilt next time. In his opinion, the local copper price represents the increase in income from working in Xijiang Shuizhai in disguise, just like people are willing to go to the expensive New York to get a high salary. This has no impact on the upper class of the Shuizhai, but has changed it to a physical system, increasing the workload of the Shuizhai and increasing the costs.

Damas, Muse and others did not know much about finance. They only saw red-faced civilians trading with copper coins on both sides of the road, which was a scene that was not easy to see in Mara City.

Damas couldn't help but say to Muse: "They must have known that we are coming, pretending to act."

"It must be." Muse said firmly and disagreed. The Jazz is a nobleman, and he is just a broken knight, so he can't contradict others.

When he arrived at the Water Village Office, Yu Weichao barely came out and said with a smile: "Hello, sir, welcome to Xijiang Water Village."

"Hello, Lord Yu." Muse's natural fake noble appearance, his humble actions and smiling tone made Damas shake his head.

"Do you want to get the body back this time?" Yu Weichao was very busy with work and had no time to have mushrooms with them.

But Muse was a little uncomfortable, coughed twice, and said with a sneer: "You are really anxious. We still want to have a good time in the water village and then talk."

"Mr. Chen has delegated his rights to me." Yu Weichao said lightly.

The muse's attitude immediately changed, and he handed the reins of the beast to another "knight" and said, "Then can we see the captured people first?"

Yu Weichao said with a hilarious cry: "There are no ones that survived. 3,000 corpses, walking eastward, are all in the pit. Remember to pay the money."

Damas immediately changed. He was a man who had fought a war, so he didn't know the loss rate on the battlefield. If 10,000 soldiers were surrounded and 3,000 were killed without surrendering, it would be good. The army that fought to the last man had the troops, but most of them were honorary troops of pure knights, and the third infantry battalion was not qualified.

He wanted to say "massacre", but he gritted his teeth and didn't say it out, his whole face was dark.

Muse knew that this trip would not be able to complete the mission. The people of the Western Continental care about their funerals. Before going to the battlefield, the soldiers often combed their beards to show their determination to die - because when entering the tomb, they must combed their beards well. However, the veterans would care about living people. They hoped that there would be about 70% of the prisoners in the heavy infantry battalion, plus the 1,000 soldiers left by Kaman, just add 1,000 more people.

"Paytu, Fraus, go east and clean up the remains." Muse said with great pleasure, and said again: "Your Excellency, if there were no prisoners, we would not be able to pay so much of the remains as you request. How about 200 snail shells in total?"

Yu Weichao was shaking his head, and suddenly bursts of cheers came from outside.

"The city lord is back, the city lord is back." The natives have long regarded Xijiang Shuizhai as a city.

Damas turned over the horse and looked into the distance while stepping on his saddle. He saw only two teams of light armored soldiers escorting at least 400 big beasts and nearly a thousand prisoners.

"Lufu" Damas recognized a prisoner wearing half-leather armor. Sir Lufu, a member of the Mara City Senate, who had conspicuous red hair and was extremely tall.

Has Mala City been captured?

Damas's face that had just passed by blackened suddenly turned pale.

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