Gu Qing thought of the warning his grandfather gave him two years ago before he ascended the throne.
"Xiaoqing, you will soon take the throne and become the lord. Not only will you be the head of the Gu family, but you will also be the lord of nearly 10,000 people in the Water Stronghold. In this age of rampant corpse demons, this position is not easy to hold! Your enemies come not only from within your family, but also from various families outside the family. However, your greatest enemy is the corpse demons, and the contradictions caused by the lack of resources, food, and other things after the territory is occupied! If you want to fight for this position, you must have the heart and courage to shoulder this responsibility! In the future, you will encounter all kinds of difficulties, but, Xiaoqing, you must remember! What do you want to protect? What can you give up? Only by knowing how to make choices can you succeed! Xiaoqing, the lord seal is now handed over to you!"
Now, it’s time to make a choice!
Should I give up some power and win over the family members, or give up some resources and power and win over the families, or give up some resources and promote civilians or poor fighters who have no family!
Gu Qing is a young man in his twenties, and he is even more determined and enterprising!
The first one was eliminated by him!
"Power! I can't give it up so easily! Especially my family members, they are my biggest enemies!"
If I give power to my uncle and Gu Yan, I'm afraid I'll be sidelined soon. The result is self-evident!
"Secondly, those nobles?! They're all fence-sitters! They're more loyal to their families than to their lords!"
"Especially now that they have no fiefs, they are even more greedy! I already offered generous rewards when I first ascended the throne, but it didn't work! Just once is enough for something like this!"
"Then, there's only one left! In the past two years, I've opened up combat skills inheritance, developed the market, and opened up some resources to purchase Fangs! I even personally trained Wei Yuan and several other geniuses who came from humble backgrounds, and the results are remarkable!"
“They are my foundation!”
After Gu Qing took over, he has been developing fighters among civilians and the poor, which also made him unpopular among the major families.
It turns out that being a corpse hunter is a secret profession! The value of tusks has always been kept secret by lords and nobles!
However, after Gu Qing came to power, he promised the profession of corpse hunter! Fangs also became the new hard currency, no longer traded or purchased privately. Some resources and combat skills of the training level of warriors began to circulate in the market, and the number of civilian warriors developed rapidly two years ago!
"Originally, I wanted to wait two years, but now the situation is stronger than me! There's no other way! I have to take this step early!"
The next day, a small building near the city gate was blocked off for renovation.
Three days later, the small building was opened.
"What is this? A corpse hunter shop? A shop specifically for corpse hunters? In there, you can actually use tusks as currency to buy a lot of cultivation resources! Besides buying, they also acquire various resources!"
"Who opened this? It's so grand?"
"Didn't you see the Gu family crest and the lord's seal on the plaque? This must have been opened by the lord."
"I never thought that the corpse hunters would be so valued by the lord! The corpse hunters have finally made a complete comeback!"
"Is this the Lord's second affirmation and encouragement to the corpse hunters?"
"Well! The Lord has nothing to say about us corpse hunters!"
"So you're a corpse hunter, brother! My apologies!"
"Haha... We are just a bunch of small fry risking our lives, not worth mentioning!"
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With the emergence of the Corpse Hunter Shop, more cultivation resources are available to civilians!
A large number of people began to switch jobs to become corpse hunters, and corpse hunter teams were born in just a few days!
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Fang Yuan frowned as he watched the six zombie hunter teams surrounding a lone Iron Corpse!
The Iron Corpse has no intelligence, so it's no match for intelligent humans! Even if it's more powerful than these six people!
Jin Chen took a look and said, "The corpse hunter shop has only been open for three days, and the wasteland is already teeming with people! Hunting bronze corpses is becoming increasingly troublesome for us! We need to keep going deeper into the wasteland! Otherwise, if we lose control and accidentally hurt someone, that would be terrible!"
"Well! Let's continue to go deeper! Anyway, it's not dangerous for us soldiers during the day!" Ruan Qi said indifferently.
"Yes, it's not easy for them! Compared to us, they are fighting for their lives. We just need to walk more!" Fang Yuan sighed.
Jin Chen asked in confusion, "Strange, why do so many people become corpse hunters even though they risk their lives?"
Jin Chen was born into a noble family and had never suffered or worked, so he really didn't know!
Although Ruan Qi had heard about it from his elders, he had no personal experience. However, Fang Yuan had worked there for a year, so he had the most say.
Fang Yuan sighed, "For the poor, the rewards from corpse hunting are dozens of times greater than what they could earn from working! Even if a small team of six people only hunted one Iron Corpse a day, it would still be several times more than what they could earn from working. That's enough to ensure their families have enough to eat! We have to go ashore anyway, work under the threat of zombies, and the earnings are so meager, barely enough to make ends meet. We might as well become corpse hunters and give it a try!"
"What? We have to go ashore to work! That's too dangerous! Who would work there?"
"It's not too dangerous! We are protected by a guard team composed of warriors and apprentices. As long as we don't encounter a large group of zombies, it's still very safe."
"It's not fair for the Lord to do this!" Jin Chen said angrily.
This earned him strange looks from Fang Yuan and Ruan Qi.
Jin Chen asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"You really don't know?" Ruan Qi asked curiously.
"What do I know?"
"Not only the lords are doing this, the nobles are doing it too! Your Jin family is the largest noble family besides the lord, and you're also one of the largest noble families to form a gathering team. I heard that the lord has specially planned your gathering area, similar to a territory, and only your family can gather within the territory. Fang Yuan, is that right?"
"Well, I've worked for your Jin family before, and have gone ashore to do planting and collecting work. Your Jin family's collecting area is right over there, it's a pretty good place." Fang Yuan said with a smile.
"Ah? This, this..." Jin Chen really didn't know anything about his family's affairs.
When he was a child, he knew that his talent was not as good as his brother's. His parents loved him very much, and his brother's deliberate indulgence made Jin Chen naturally become a playboy.
He has no interest in these chores at all, and no one asks him to learn!
"Planting? I always thought there was only gathering?" Ruan Qi asked curiously.
Fang Yuan, who was in the slums, felt this most deeply. He sighed, "Before, there was only gathering, but after the new lord took over and publicly divided the gathering areas, planting has gradually begun."
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