piratefiction Chapter 32: The Eastern Border is in Crisis
Chapter 32: The Eastern Border is in Crisis
Li Ang personally led Steward Mike and his entourage to take over the property. Inside the cellar of the Royal Capital Ratman Merchant Guild, the walls and floor were piled with thick blocks of ice, maintaining an extremely low temperature.
Hall directed the ratmen to move over one by one the specially made boxes.
Each box contains an organ from a higher organism.
After careful inventory by the court knights, the list was checked one by one against the ratman merchant guild's inventory.
The data was quickly reported.
This first batch of goods includes: more than 30 dragon hearts of rank 6 or above, more than 100 vampire hearts of rank 5 or above, more than 150 werewolf hearts of rank 5 or above, and more than 20 elf hearts.
Muscle tissue: 7,000 catties of Titan meat (level 6 and above), 230,000 catties of Green-skinned Monster meat (level 5 and above), 10,000 catties of Lich meat (level 5 and above), 420,000 catties of Polar Bear meat (level 5 and above).
Skeleton: 10,000 Frost Dragon Bones (Tier 6 and above), 350,000 Frost Barbarian Bones (Tier 5 and above), 210,000 Mammoth Bones (Tier 5 and above).
Lungs: 500 Mammoth Lungs (Tier 5 and above), 27 Frost Dragon Lungs (Tier 6 and above), 44 Eternal Winter Elf Lungs (Tier 6 and above);
Li Ang was very satisfied with the advanced biological organs provided by the Ratman Merchant Guild!
Hall said with a hint of pride, "How about it, Your Majesty? Our Ratman Merchant Guild is quite capable, isn't it! For these organs, our guild went to great lengths, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people in the polar ice fields. During the transport, we also hired nearly two or three hundred mages to accompany us, continuously casting ice spells!"
Li Ang nodded and said, "It's excellent! I'm very satisfied with this batch of organs!"
"Then please pay, Your Majesty!"
Hall rubbed his hands together.
Li Ang stepped forward and took another careful look at those higher biological organs.
The rats dug out the frozen corpses and then sorted them out; those that were not alive or showed signs of decay were discarded.
Furthermore, because the muscles, bones, heart, and lungs were frozen deep in the ice field after death, their vitality was well preserved, with the muscle texture still clearly visible and the bones as smooth and lustrous as jade.
"Okay, Vice President Hall, what's the price for this batch of goods?"
Li Ang inquired.
"Your Majesty, the original price of this shipment was 5.8 million gold coins. Following the promised 10% discount, the price after the discount is 5.22 million gold coins!"
Li Ang was shocked; this price really wasn't cheap.
However, considering that Vice President Hall brought two other organs with this shipment—"bones" and "lungs"!
Li Ang didn't dwell on it, waving his hand: "Steward Mike, allocate the funds from the palace reserves to Vice President Hall!"
Fortunately, Li Ang won seven million gold coins in the previous "Battle of the Warriors" against the green-skinned monster!
Otherwise, if such a large sum of gold coins were to be spent through the Treasury, Andrew would be terrified.
Steward Mike was also very distressed. After the allocation was completed, he whispered to Li Ang, "Your Majesty, the palace reserves are running low. Last time, the National Treasury could only allocate 80% of the pensions and disability allowances for the First Criminal Convict Corps of the Capital. The remaining 20% was drawn from the palace reserves."
Li Ang rubbed his forehead. Indeed, such a vast kingdom needed gold coins in every aspect!
"Notify Andrew to speed up the process of selling all the supplies seized from Flower Town for money!"
Fortunately, the destruction of Flower Town allowed Li Ang to recover some of the wealth accumulated by the Torland family over generations.
After receiving the gold coins, Vice President Hall beamed with joy and was in a very good mood: "Your Majesty, after the first batch of goods has been delivered, do you need a second batch?"
Without any hesitation, Li Ang believed that higher biological organs were the foundational material for cultivating [Legendary Knights], and naturally, the more the better!
"Vice President Hall, you don't need to worry about payment. Continue shipping! From now on, not only the second batch, but also the third, fourth, and fifth batches, I'll accept them all!"
Vice President Hall's eyes lit up. For ratman merchants scattered across the three continents, simply digging up corpses in the polar ice fields to obtain such a large amount of gold coins was naturally a very good business.
The Ratmen Merchant Guild is a vast trading organization spanning three continents.
The Ratman Merchant Guild of the Kingdom of Grant is a second-level organization among the Ratmen. Above it is a first-level merchant guild, the Continental General Merchant Guild.
The former president mysteriously disappeared during a trade shipment ten years ago, and his whereabouts remain unknown. The position of president has been vacant ever since.
Vice President Hall knew that the elders of the China General Chamber of Commerce had been using Hall's poor performance and insufficient profits generated during his time stationed in the kingdom as an excuse.
Hall, who had served as a deputy for decades, was not promoted to a full-fledged second-level chairman.
This collaboration with Li Ang has ignited Hall's burning ambition!
"As long as I continue to cooperate with the King, I might very well be promoted to the position of full president!"
"Furthermore, the Skaven Merchant Guild of the Grant Kingdom has always been rated as a Level Two guild! As long as I manage it well and seize the opportunity, there's a very good chance I can successfully upgrade it to a Level One guild!"
Hall was so excited by his wonderful vision of the future that he even had a nosebleed.
Hall immediately raised his arm and shouted to his ratmen, "All of you, perk up! Do your utmost to fulfill His Majesty the King's demands!"
"Furthermore, I will personally write to Hadas, my childhood friend and the head of the Level 3 Merchant Guild, who is far away in the polar ice fields! I will ask Hadas to use his extensive network and resources to help us dig up corpses more effectively in the ice fields!"
After Li Ang left, Vice President Hall took a series of actions.
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The eastern border of the kingdom, bordering the Emerald Mountains.
The 4th Defense Corps of the Governor-General's Office of Gaolubao Province was stationed here.
A patrol of two or three hundred people was moving along a dirt road through sparse woodland and rolling hills.
The veteran captain at the head of the group suddenly stopped, a look of immense terror flashing before his eyes.
The soldiers at the back of the column followed the gaze and saw goblins surging out like a swarm of locusts bursting through a dam. They brandished rough stone axes and wooden clubs, their eyes flashing with a primal, bloodthirsty light, and their sharp howls ripped through the silence.
Immediately afterwards, the snake-man warrior slithered out, his body sticky, flicking his forked tongue, and the poisoned blowgun and scimitar in his hand gleamed with an eerie light.
An ominous tremor shook the earth as hundreds of ghouls with festering, pus-draining skin flanked the area from the flanks.
At the same time, thousands of rust monsters with no fixed shape crawled rapidly, and wherever they passed, the vegetation withered and rotted quickly, leaving behind traces of corrosion.
Even more unsettling was the appearance of four or five hundred gray dwarves emerging from the hills behind them, clad in rough iron armor, with bulging muscles and carrying heavy warhammers...
The veteran captain's terrified voice immediately rang out: "Enemy attack! It's a foreign army!"