Chapter 238
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Chapter 238: It’s Quite Exciting to Think About
“Are you really going to trade all 13 repeating crossbows?”
“Yeah, they’re useless to me. Instead of gathering dust in the warehouse, I might as well trade them.”
Luo Ji replied quite straightforwardly.
He had enough three-bow repeating crossbows in his warehouse and had no interest in these early models whatsoever.
Upon seeing this message, Ye Qingxuan began to show her true merchant colors.
She immediately proposed.
“How about this, for these 13 repeating crossbows, I’ll help you resell them.’
“You take 80% of the resources or points earned from the resale, and I’ll take 20%.”
“How does that sound, Boss Luo?”
She even added a mischievous smiling emoji at the end of the message, making Luo Ji both exasperated and amused.
He then quite indifferently replied.
“I think it’s okay, Boss Ye. But you should also be careful yourself, don’t overplay your hand.”
“Don’t worry, Boss Luo, I know what I’m doing. Oh, right, don’t forget to trade over some matching crossbow bolts too.”
Ye Qingxuan, suddenly remembering this detail, quickly sent another message as a reminder.
“Got it, Boss Ye. Do I look like someone unreliable?”
After sending this message, Luo Ji, as if suddenly remembering something else, quickly sent another one.
“However, the arrowheads of these heavy crossbow bolts are bronze. Will that accidentally make you cross into a Bronze Civilization?”
“Relax, I have special trade clauses (mischievous smile). As long as the traded items are marked as ‘goods’ and not actively used, those ‘goods’ will transform into special item units and won’t trigger any effects, Boss Luo~”
“That’s really convenient…”
“Hehehe, indeed~”
And so, the two, with friendly banter of “Boss Luo” and “Boss Ye,” opened the trade window.
Then, Ye Qingxuan was startled when she saw the quantity of heavy crossbow bolts Luo Ji put up for trade.
“231? So many? You didn’t trade all of them, did you?”
“They’re useless to me, and the size of these heavy crossbow bolts doesn’t match the repeating crossbows I’m currently using.”
Luo Ji quickly replied.
“As for the price, you can set it yourself.”
“No problem.”
The trade was quickly completed.
Ye Qingxuan, who received the 13 repeating crossbows and 231 heavy crossbow bolts, was now eagerly contemplating who to sell these repeating crossbows to.
She wasn’t worried about them posing a threat to herself if sold to unranked players.
The reason was simple.
How could they possibly push these bulky contraptions up the mountain?
At her current stage of development, there wasn’t even a decent road on the mountain.
Trying to push these siege engines up the mountain was simply wishful thinking.
Moreover, to ensure her own safety and secrecy, she would definitely sign a series of corresponding terms with the player at the same time as completing the transaction.
So, she had no psychological burden whatsoever in selling these repeating crossbows.
On Luo Ji’s side, after selling all 13 repeating crossbows and heavy crossbow bolts, he had also dealt with a somewhat troublesome matter.
For the next month, he could concentrate on integrating Wang Luzong’s five cities.
It must be said that Luo Ji’s annexation of Wang Luzong’s civilization brought about a population boom for his own civilization!
The population of five cities was not to be underestimated.
Fortunately, before being promoted to the Bronze tier, Luo Ji had diligently developed for nearly 2 years by adjusting the time difference.
And in these nearly 2 years, Guo Jia and Guo Zhen, along with Bai Ze and Burigud’s cavalry units, had been fighting on both fronts, constantly annexing other tribes from east to west.
This caused the population of Luo Ji’s civilization to skyrocket like a rocket, allowing his civilization to have a sufficient population base before being promoted to the Bronze tier.
Otherwise, he really wouldn’t have been able to handle such a population explosion.
But conversely, there are gains and losses.
The explosive growth of the population meant that his advantage of checking the attribute panel began to gradually diminish.
There was no alternative, the population was simply too large, completely exceeding the limits of interviewing each person individually.
So Luo Ji had to actively make concessions, simply gathering the ministers and commanders personally appointed by Wang Luzong to conduct some simple panel checks.
Then he discovered that the opponent had few truly outstanding fierce generals.
There were many good generals whose single attribute limit reached 4-stars, but this still didn’t change the fact that the opponent’s general lineup was very weak.
Perhaps to compensate for the lack of top-tier generals, Wang Luzong had always paid particular attention to military expansion.
In other words, if quality wasn’t good, he would win by quantity.
The number of soldiers in his civilization almost accounted for one-fifth of his total population, which was a very exaggerated proportion.
It was no wonder he casually used hundreds of people as cannon fodder before, it turns out he simply didn’t lack this much military strength.
At the same time, Luo Ji couldn’t help but feel fortunate that the opponent’s first battle was a probing one.
If it had been a single-minded guy who didn’t care about military losses and just sent a large army to push over, that previous battle would have been truly difficult to predict.
To digest this massive military force, Luo Ji clearly went through a lot of trouble.
Coupled with the increasing number of troops, he had to further improve the entire military system.
Mirror City, which was currently the largest, accepted 40% of the surrendered soldiers.
The remaining 60% were disbanded and distributed among the various branch cities.
As for the subsequent matters, those were for the generals guarding each branch city to worry about.
However, even by acting as a hands-off manager like this, his workload for the foreseeable future remained astonishingly large.
In reality, large-scale personnel transfers were not an easy task.
Even with secretaries helping him share the workload, he was still overwhelmed and busy.
Then, when he came to his senses, time had quietly entered the end of the month.
Setting down the report in his hand, Luo Ji, slumped in his chair, let out a long sigh.
In this short period, the new population had remained relatively stable, and no incidents had arisen.
Especially in Mirror City, when he had previously inspected the city’s situation, he casually checked the attribute panels of a few newcomers and found that their loyalty increased quite rapidly, probably because Mirror City was next to a natural wonder and had a sufficiently high livability rating.
Luo Ji himself hadn’t paid much attention, but their loyalty had already generally reached 75 points or more.
Now that it was the end of the month again, it was time to adjust the troop deployment in various branch cities.
Just as Luo Ji was pondering whether to recall Guo Jia and Guo Zhen to Mirror City, a tea fragrance wafted into his nose, invigorating him slightly.
He looked up and saw Liu Ye carefully approaching, holding his small teapot.
These tea leaves were given to him by Ye Qingxuan some time ago.
She said she found some tea trees in the mountains and told him that drinking more tea could refresh his mind and body, so he started drinking it.
For this, he even specifically had his subordinates make a small teapot, making it quite authentic.
After drinking a couple of sips of tea and catching his breath, he remembered that there had been too many miscellaneous things before, and the Gold Treasure Chest and Wang Luzong’s relics had been completely forgotten.
Upon remembering, Luo Ji quickly opened his backpack.
He had no expectations for the relic bag, because valuable rare items were usually stored in the warehouse, this was common knowledge for players.
After opening it, as expected, there was nothing good inside.
While receiving the civilization points, he casually tossed aside the large pile of not-so-valuable Black Iron and Bronze-grade items, intending to deal with them slowly when he had time later.
Then he focused all his attention on that Gold Treasure Chest.
It was truly a long-awaited Gold Treasure Chest.
Hahaha, it was quite exciting to think about.
