Chapter 247: thief
Panda never imagined that he would be a guest thief one day.
And it's not a lone thief, it's a gang.
Including him, a total of seventeen traversers with high skills and flexible minds accepted this task. They will go to the major cities in Thrace, looking for warehouses for storing metals, especially iron ingots, and put the contents in them-mostly iron ingots-into their inventory, and bring them with them. Back to the castle.
The reason for repeating the "iron ingot" is to prevent them from dazzling their eyes when they see the gold and silver treasures and misunderstanding the priority.
After the windfall was automatically made, the traversers were really not short of money—or, in fact, they were not short of money in the first place, it was just enough for their own use and not enough for construction territory.
"I'm not saying that you should ignore the gold and silver treasures, and only steal the iron ingots." Before leaving, Sanyu stressed hard, "I mean, stealing everything else is your own business, but the iron ingots must not be spared! We need this!"
"This guy Sanyu is really a big deal!" Walking on the road, Panda thought of the scene where Sanyu emphasized "iron ingots" repeatedly, and felt amused, "It's just a pile of iron ingots, what's there to care about? But as long as forty tons is enough, just look for it and you will have it.”
A few days later, he found himself taking it for granted.
Sneaking into the warehouse of a baron's castle in Thrace, he only saw piles and piles of grain and wood, and the number of other things was very small. That's all for gold coins. People definitely don't put money in the material warehouse, but why are there so few iron ingots?
Looking at the dozen or so iron ingots in front of him, the panda felt a little pain in the ass.
(Anyhow, he is a baron! There are only so many iron ingots in the material warehouse?!)
He weighed it and found that one piece weighed about two kilograms. It might be lighter or heavier. Considering there are some scraps and other losses during processing, it is estimated that this piece will be built in the future. It is probably a commonly used knight. Broadsword.
There are twelve iron ingots like this.
This is all the iron ingots in the baron's castle material warehouse.
Panda still didn't give up, and searched the warehouse carefully again, after all, he couldn't find anything else, so he could only go away angrily.
After leaving the castle, he found a safe place and complained in the chat channel.
Anthony laughed at this complaint.
"What do you think an iron ingot is? It is a very precious and important strategic material! Generally speaking, as long as there is stock, it will be used immediately and turned into a weapon or tool. You can find it in the warehouse of the baron's castle. I was a little surprised to find more than 20 kilograms of iron ingots."
The panda sighed and asked, "Then what should we do? We need to find tens of kilograms in this place, and we need to make up 40 tons. How long will it take to steal it?"
"It really doesn't work, you can also buy it." Anthony replied, "It's just...buying iron ingots in large quantities, this kind of thing is too easy to attract attention. And the iron ingot business, non-regular customers or well-known buyers, absolutely can't get involved. Go ahead. Even if you have money, if you want to find a big business association, you can buy a few hundred kilograms of iron ingots. I'm afraid it's not easy. "
Panda asked helplessly: "Then where should I go to find so many iron ingots? Do I want to steal the warehouses of those big chambers of commerce?"
"No! Don't attack the Chamber of Commerce!" Without waiting for Anthony to answer, he said without sleep, "Unless it is absolutely necessary, not only can we not offend the businessmen, but we must try to win them over. Tarakhan's territory is located in the middle of the Western Continent, and the transportation is not convenient enough. , and its own mineral resources are not rich. If there is no commercial supplement, it is difficult to develop."
"By the way, the Tarakhan family should have a well-connected chamber of commerce, why didn't they find them?" asked Jian Shisan, who had also changed jobs to become a thief and had not yet opened.
"Of course I found them. I found them just after I stabilized my rule." Anthony replied, "But... I don't know, I was startled when I said it. It turns out that within the kingdom, there are many forces that exclude Earl Tarahan. I don't know if it's because of political reasons, or because the identity of the demon contractor is vaguely suspected... In short, it's okay to want to buy food, cloth and other living materials, but if you want to buy strategic materials such as war horses, weapons, and iron ingots, stock up The channel is very affected. From last year to this year, Tara Khan led a total of less than 600 kilograms of iron ingots."
"Six hundred kilograms? That's a little bit."
"There's no way, just this iron, it has already made the affiliated Chamber of Commerce of the Tarakhan family very embarrassed. The side branch of the family in charge of the Chamber of Commerce has repeatedly persuaded me not to worry, take it slow... He is very loyal, and he is very loyal to both the glory and the loss. Lose this set, see it very thoroughly."
Anthony shook his head, sighed, and continued to say in the chat channel: "In his opinion, Tara Khan is located in the northern border of the kingdom, very remote and very safe. I have now suspended large-scale development again, and it should be for a while. There's nothing special about using iron. I don't know that there will be a war in a few years, and no amount of iron will be enough!"
"So many people died last time. After the weapons and armors were restored, isn't there a lot of iron?" Heyin asked.
"Weapons and armors are returned to the furnace? How is it possible!" Wu Mian answered this question, "We just hate that there are not enough weapons and armors, how can we return the ready-made equipment? Some time ago, a few of us from the Enchanting Department spent a lot of time on the selection of selected items. The weapons and armors that come out are all enchanted, and we are really exhausted!"
Panda also had an impression of this, and Binglin talked to him.
The enchantments on those weapons and armors are of course the lowest level. Regardless of the armor, the uniform is "weak vitality enhancement" - for the traversers, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that they are in good health. A healthy body has great potential for training and growth, and can be trained as an elite soldier as soon as possible.
In order to gather the materials needed for enchanting, they made a big business with the Druids of Mythler Forest, and exchanged precious magic materials such as mithril produced by the castle for a large number of enchanting materials collected from ancient trees. The scale of this business is very large, and the Druids are naturally overjoyed. On the contrary, it has greatly enhanced their friendship with each other, which is an unexpected gain.
At present, the Druids of Mythler Forest have sent a young man named Edward Jeanne to act as a liaison. In addition to spells, this young man can hardly be seen as a Druid at all. He wears a white robe and follows Anka to study medicine all day long. He looks like a young doctor, and he doesn't know what he thinks.
Just when Panda was thinking, the thief "Bounty Hunter", who used to go deep into the primeval forest with him to search for dragons, spoke in the chat channel.
"Apart from iron ingots, do you want any other iron tools?"
"What iron?" Anthony asked.
"Torture tools." Gondor (the bounty hunter) replied, "I was in a viscount's castle and found that his torture room had a lot of metal torture tools, and I'm afraid there are several hundred kilograms of iron in total."
Panda's eyes lit up, and immediately set off to return to the castle from which he left.
What a word to wake up a dreamer! There isn't much iron in the warehouse, but there are other places in the castle!
It doesn't matter whether it is a torture tool or something else, as long as it is a large piece of iron, you cannot let it go!