Lord of Rot

Chapter 288 Letterpress Printing
Steward Litton led the way with a torch in hand.

The location of the treasure house in Iron Wall Fort was similar to that of Longship Fort, but when turning a corner, a spider web suddenly hung on Li Qi's face.

He raised his hand to remove the cobwebs from his face, and said, "It seems that the Black King has never been here."

Li Qi didn't need a torch to illuminate it, and Li Qi could clearly capture the layers of spider webs in the corner, as well as the shriveled moths hanging on the spider webs.

When Li Dun walked by holding the torch, the spider web was instantly melted into a big hole.

The two stopped in front of an iron gate.

Li Dun tilted the torch, lit the torch at the entrance of the treasure house, and handed the torch in his hand to Li Qi: "Yes, my lord, I don't think anyone has been here for at least a year."

Li Qi held the torch in one hand, and raised the other hand to push open the treasure house door.

The jumping light of the torch seized the opportunity to sneak into the treasure house, illuminating the treasure house that had been dusty for at least a year.

Pushing open the door kicked up a cloud of dust.

Li Qi covered his mouth and nose with one hand, squinting at the treasure house.

A small pile of gold sundays, probably hundreds of them.

Gone.

"So poor!"

Li Qi walked in. Although there were no treasures in the treasury, there were quite a lot of things on display.

Among them was a huge blanket, stitched in seven or eight colors, softly covered with dust.

There is a book next to it.

Li Qi picked up the book and shook it, and the dust fell down. Judging by the amount of dust, no one has touched this book for at least five or six years.

Turning a page, Li Qi was shocked: "Hot air balloon?"

The sketch is a hot air balloon, yes.

"Could it be the one who fell to death?"

Li Qi closed the book and slammed it on his boots twice to clean up the dust.

This action also made him cough twice more.

After making sure that most of the dust had been wiped away, he put the book under his arm.

"Save it and find someone to study it later."

Hot air balloons have many functions, such as throwing a magic spell as a fixed eye position, or used to deliver messages. It is still very useful when there are not many ostrich knights.

When there are more people flying on a large scale in the future, hot air balloons will completely lose their military role.

As for large-scale manning, there is no need. It is only slow to move on the ground and in the sea. There is no guarantee in the sky, and it will die.

Li Qi is obviously not the first person to come to the treasure house, and he didn't find many useful things here. Apart from books recording the method of making hot air balloons, which cost hundreds of gold days, there are also a few sets of armor, and some More precious coral emerald.

"It's not a loss if you can sell it for money."

When leaving the treasure house, Li Qi emphasized: "Don't let people approach without authorization."

"Yes, my lord!"

It's best to have someone guard it, but the Iron Wall is understaffed, so the idea is useless, and it's better to take the money with you.

So the current treasury actually doesn't even have a Bronze Star.

Not long after walking out, a head looking around in front attracted Li Qi's attention.

"What are you doing?" Li Qi saw the girl who was rescued from the mercenaries. She was standing at the intersection with a cup, as if she had lost her way.

The girl who heard the voice turned her head: "Master, sir!"

"Miss Allie" Li Dun quickly walked two steps over: "I think you must have lost your way, turn back and go forward along the road ahead."

"But, I..." Allie stammered.

"Nothing but" Li Dun was a little nervous.

"Don't be too nervous, Liton." Li Qi said, "I think Miss Allie must have something important."

He understood why the butler was nervous.

Unless allowed, servants and maids can only act within a certain range within a certain time. For example, laundry maids are not allowed to enter the upstairs, cooks are not allowed to leave the kitchen, etc. Only the butler and the personal servant have the greatest rights in the castle. .

Like this road leading to the treasure house, no one is allowed to be approached, even if there is nothing in it now.

"My lord, please forgive Ms. Allie." Litton said, "She has never worked as a maid before. Today is her first day after applying for the job. She still has a lot of things she doesn't understand."

"Okay, Litton, I told you not to be too nervous," Li Qi said, and then he asked the girl, "Then Miss Ally, what are you looking for in the castle?"

"I have prepared tea soup for you."

Ai Li said in a low voice: "This is a kind of tea soup that will make people feel better after drinking. I think you seem to be very tired today, so..."

"Thank you." Li Qi nodded: "Maybe you can help me deliver the tea soup to the conference hall. By the way, please send me another glass of beer. Mr. Litton will tell you where there is wine."

"Yes." The housekeeper Li Dun quickly nodded: "Come with me, rash Miss Allie."

Allie nodded quickly, and followed the housekeeper to leave.

Li Qi communicated with his ghoul directly, the black king's body had already been put into the coffin, and it would be fresh out of the coffin tomorrow.

Back in the meeting room, Li Qi flipped through the hot air balloon manufacturing manual, and could tell that he was still in the groping period.

But the basic idea is ripe.

"My lord" Lacey stood at the door and knocked lightly.

"Please come in." Li Qi put down the book and asked, "How is it?"

"The situation is not optimistic." Lacey opened the chair and sat down, shaking her head and said, "The food in the castle can support up to 3000 people for half a month."

"They don't have food in stock?"

"Part of it," says Lacey, "but it's going to last a month at best if you save."

The Iron Wall Fortress has been closed for a long time, and it is expected that every household will eat empty food reserves, otherwise Li Qi would not have asked Lacey to confirm the issue of food storage.

If people are willing to go out, food is not a problem.

But now everyone thinks that there are resurrected dead outside, and even Li Qi himself believes in the existence of such things, so he didn't think about forcing people out.

"I'll figure out a way to get the food," Li Qi said.

He was going to write a letter to Longship Fort, asking Mrs. Jielin to support some of the food. With the abundance of supplies in Shuijian Land, it would not be difficult to support 3000 people with food and drink.

Then he emphasized: "But food must not be distributed for free!"

There is a saying that Sheng Mien fights Mi Qiu.

If Li Qi sincerely wanted to develop the Iron Wall Fort, he must establish the concept of working to eat, these people were not refugees, they just wanted to hide behind the towering city walls.

Lacey also nodded approvingly, and said, "You can let them work."

There are only more than 2000 people in the porcupine collar, and now suddenly there are 3000 people in addition to the porcupine collar, Lacey also feels a headache.

Lacey's proposal coincides with Li Qi's idea.

But work requires money. Li Qi doesn't have a lot of money now, and it's impossible to send money to ordinary people.

Because sending money to the people in Iron Wall Fortress, and then waiting for the money in their hands to slowly flow back into Li Qi's hands, this period of time is enough to drag him down.

The porcupine collar is far from being able to quench thirst.

Li Qi didn't plan to draw the blood of the porcupine collar to replenish the Iron Wall Fort. If the Iron Wall Fort didn't develop well, it would be a big deal to pat his ass and ignore it. Anyway, his goal was oil in the first place.

Anyway, the porcupine collar can still develop normally, which is the way out.

If the porcupine collar is also involved, it will undoubtedly slow down the development speed.

"It's not a problem for them to work. There are always suitable jobs for them in the Iron Wall Fortress, but we can't pay with money. We have to buy food from outside..." Li Qi thought about it and said, "Well, I have an idea. Residents of the Iron Fortress in the environment may agree with this economic approach."

Looking at Lacey's probing eyes, he didn't keep it.

"Food stamps!" Li Qi said, "We make a commodity note ourselves, and treat it as money to pay people in Iron Wall Fortress. They can use these food stamps to buy food."

"My lord, can this work?" Lacey asked uncertainly.

Golden sun, silver moon, and copper star, most people don’t know when the economic system composed of these three types of coins became mainstream, but except for a small part of barter, the entire Lurea continent has unified currency .

The king changed one after another, and what they did most was to replace the pattern on the golden sun with their own family crest, but they didn't dare to change the general style.

Li Qi launched a brand new currency directly, and it is impossible for anyone to agree.

"Under normal circumstances, you are right. No one will pay attention to our new currency," Li Qi said, "But the current situation is that these people are unwilling to leave the Iron Wall Fort. We haven't investigated what happened but we can't." Watching this group of people starve to death, do you think they have enough savings to buy food?"

Lacey shook her head.

You can't let people eat and drink for free, and you can't give them food and drink.

The money on my side needs to trade with the outside world. Without currency as support, all labor and transactions will stagnate, so temporarily launching an alternative currency that is used on a small scale may temporarily alleviate the immediate predicament.

The only question is whether the people of Iron Wall will accept this economic system.

"You find a good carpenter tomorrow." Li Qi said, "Then go and recruit a few people. I'll teach them how to make paper first."

Then the two began to discuss the purchasing power of food stamps, the value of the workload, as well as the pattern of food stamps, anti-counterfeiting and so on.

After discussing for a while, Lacey turned and left.

"Yawn~"

The exhausted Li Qi yawned.

"My lord," the little maid, Allie, came with a glass of beer and put it gently on the table.

"Thank you."

She suddenly covered her mouth, covering her screams.

"What's wrong?" Li Qi raised his head in doubt.

"No, no, nothing!" Ellie shook her head.

Li Qi followed her gaze and looked towards the corner.

It was Ina, the ghoul who had taken off his helmet.

"You know her?" Li Qi asked.

"I don't know." Ai Li shook her head: "But... she has black hair."

"What's wrong with the black hair?" Li Qi felt that Aili's focus was a bit strange.

However, Ai Li seemed afraid to speak because of Aina's presence, for fear of being hated by the black-haired noblewoman.

"The king... the black king said that the black-haired witch brought disaster." Allie whispered: "This disaster comes from the black-haired witch."

Li Qi asked, "What will happen to the black-haired witch?"

"Hanged," Allie said in fear.

He thought that in this magical world, people would not be so "ignorant", but now it seems that he is thinking too much.

"Don't worry," Li Qi said, "In my territory, no innocent person will be hanged, no matter if she is black-haired or red-haired, and all of this has nothing to do with witches, and the disaster will end soon. Alright, go back and rest."

"Yes" Ellie nodded and left with small steps.

Li Qi turned to look at Aina, and the other party noticed Li Qi's gaze and looked over.

Although ghouls have their own thoughts, they are rarely willing to think about them. Only ghouls above the extraordinary, such as the water fairy, are willing to think, but they have much less desire than ordinary people.

Maybe when Li Qi can create a legendary ghoul, he can get a life that can communicate smoothly.

"By the way, the preservatives have to be prepared first."

After Li Qi finished his work, let the two ghouls soak in the antiseptic.

The bedroom has been tidied up, the cobwebs on the walls have been cleaned, the furniture inside has been wiped, all the bedding on the bed has been replaced, and there is even a goose down quilt.

He took off his clothes and tried to contact the ghoul in Shuijiandi to no avail, so he didn't waste any time and went straight to sleep.

The next day, when the sky was slightly cooler, Li Qi opened his eyes.

Two figures swayed and walked in front of his window.

Li Qi rubbed his eyes and asked, "Aina? Ayame? What are you doing?"

The two ghouls were wandering aimlessly and stopped when they heard Li Qi's voice.

"I don't know," Ina said.

"Okay." Li Qi said helplessly, "But when you come out, remember to put on your clothes first."

Obviously there are two corpses, but one is better than the other, which is provocative.

When the two ghouls went to get dressed, Li Qi consciously contacted the Black King.

He didn't intend to make the Black King into a ghoul, he just needed the memory in the opponent's mind.

In a blink of an eye, Li Qi has already entered the memory.

He learned the name of the Black King, Calvin, but he was not the king at the beginning of the memory.

"This is outside the Iron Wall Castle?" Li Qi witnessed it from the first perspective, and he found himself standing in front of a church.

Turning his head and looking out, the building with the size of a fingernail in the distance is the Iron Wall Fortress, which shows that the distance here is extremely far.

The Black King in the memory had already started to act, and Li Qi followed the memory into the interior of the church. Under the huge portraits of the four gods, there was a long table with a female corpse lying on it.

"Where's the thing?" Black King Calvin turned around and shouted.

"My lord, it can indeed bring strong vitality, but it comes from an evil witch." The priest holding a small flower in his hands said tremblingly, trying to persuade the black king to give up his thoughts.

"Bring it here!" the Black King growled.

The priest tremblingly sent the flower to the black king Cavin.

He took the flower, pinched open the mouth of the female corpse, and put the flower in.

"Dong dong!"

Calvin turned his head and put his ear on the chest of the female corpse, and he successfully heard the sound of the heart!

"Really useful!"

The priest on the side also raised his sleeves to wipe his sweat, thankful that he had saved his life.

"Boom boom boom!" The heart beat faster and faster, and the fingers of the female corpse moved slightly.

Calvin grabbed the female corpse's hand excitedly.

"hiss!"

Suddenly he took a deep breath and looked down at his hands, but he didn't expect that there were several blood holes in his palms.

"what happened?"

Things get a little weird.

Calvin tried to grab the female corpse's hand again, only to find that there were spikes growing from the pores of the female corpse.

The female corpse's eyelids began to blink.

"Could it be that you're waking up?" Calvin was pleasantly surprised.

As long as the one I love can wake up, it doesn't matter even if I can't touch her.

The eyelids opened, and two eyeballs jumped out!
Just when Calvin was stunned, two flower bones twisted and grew out of the eye sockets of the blood hole.

They tentatively touch the world.

It seems to be very scared.

Both Calvin and the scholar held their breaths. They had never seen such a strange scene, so they didn't know how to react at this time.

As if confirming that there was no danger in the outside world, the two flower buds slowly stretched out their bodies, blooming into small red flowers that just covered the eye sockets of the female corpse's blood hole.

The well-informed Li Qi was also terrified at this moment, and he could understand all of Calvin's subsequent reactions.

I regard it as a life-saving treasure, hoping to use it to save my loved one, but in the end, even the corpse turns into a weird thing.

Next, Calvin's memory became very confused.

He calls himself the Black King.

Then kill people crazily, regardless of gender.

Li Qi opened his eyes.

"The problem should be the flower, but where did the flower come from? Why doesn't Cavin have this memory?"

There are only two possibilities for Li Qi to be unable to read the memory. One is that the other party has only so many memories, and the other is that his mental strength is too weak to read more memories.

"Forget it, let's deal with the Iron Wall Fort first."

He got up, and the two ghouls were dressed and armored.

Leaving the room and going downstairs, Li Qi felt weird every time he passed the huge throne.

"If this throne is transformed into thousands of swords, it should be more majestic."

After a simple breakfast, Li Qi immediately started his work.

The first is to let the carpenter make the tools. With the production experience of the porcupine collar, it is not difficult to reproduce the tools.

At the same time, bring artificial paper.

After a lot of work, it will soon be noon, but the first batch of paper has also been successfully dried, and it will probably be used successfully the day after tomorrow.

"Don't know what sculpture is?"

Li Qi was holding a wooden board at the side, and said to the carpenter: "The picture I drew this time is concave and convex, yes, it is completely according to what I said."

Although the carpenter was confused, he still carved with a knife according to Li Qi's order.

It took a while to finish carving.

"Come on, bring the ink!"

The ink was brought quickly, and Li Qi poured some ink into the plate, then took the wooden board made by the carpenter, dipped it in the ink, then filtered the ink, made sure that the ink would not drip, and set it aside for preparation on the paper.

This is the simplest form of letterpress printing.

How could printing be missing from the four great inventions? It's just that Li Qi didn't expect that the opportunity for printing to appear in this world was because of food stamps.

The carpenter looked at the pattern printed on the paper in astonishment.

"Understood?" Li Qi asked.

The carpenter nodded.

"Then let's make this copy." Li Qi gave another copy.

There are currently five editions of food stamps, all of which must be produced.

Of course, it is not enough to just print and make food stamps, there must be anti-counterfeiting, there will be a red seal on it, which is the porcupine family emblem, and the seal is only in Li Qi's hands.

Only food stamps stamped with the porcupine seal have purchasing power.

While Li Qi was staring at the carpenter's work, Kuai Ren rushed over on a horse: "My lord!"

"What's wrong?" Li Qi asked.

"There are five mercenaries outside, and they want to ask us to open the city gate."

　I forgot the time playing Kingdom Tears, there are still 2000 words, I will make up later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)