Chapter 1312: Artisan Eruption (4)

These past few days, Gu Qing arranged for the construction of a Pharmacy.

The Pharmacy is a default building and could have been built earlier.

But every time Zhao Chi fought, he could capture large quantities of medicine.

So it had never been built.

It had only just now been completed.

The female pharmacist in charge of making medicine, named Yao Wu, directly took on the role of Pharmacy Captain.

She led the other 9 female pharmacists and began producing medicine every day.

Right now they are all Apprentice Pharmacists, only able to make Apprentice-grade medicine.

It can only be considered better than nothing.

But it doesn't matter—slow accumulation is fine.

By the way:

Among the 20 female physicians, the captain is named Yi Shi.

Among the 50 fire mages, the captain is named Xia Yan.

Zhao Chi watched for a while beside the training ground, then entered Phoenix Cry Tower and found Qi Yue in the Phantom Arms Room.

Qi Yue looked at Zhao Chi, a little dazed.

"My lord, is it already past midnight?"

Zhao Chi smiled and said: "No, my side has just wrapped up a phase. We two need to coordinate and start crafting fashion items."

"Crafting fashion items? Oh, oh! Haha, I thought you were… coming to replenish my energy. Well then, I understand."

These past few days, Zhao Chi had not wasted any time putting in effort with them.

The Bliss Frenzy energy points of those few women had all already overflowed.

And that Neutral energy point clearly had a maximum of only 100 points; even if they all overflowed, the cap did not expand again.

The excess energy could only be wasted while they trembled.

Then they could only wait for the next battle to burn off a bit more.

Before the two could even begin crafting, Su Qin's message had already arrived.

【Zhao Chi, Third Brother is very willing to take the flour and Experience Fruits, at the price you mentioned】

【And he said, no matter how much grain and Experience Fruits there are, he'll take all of it】

【You can tell our clan is also rather short on food, especially now that the environment is a bit more stable, everyone's accumulating strength, and the number of vassals keeps growing】

【Third Brother has already contacted Fourth Brother: flour at 10 copper coins per kilogram, Experience Fruits at 3.5 silver coins each, and he'll provide the manpower to haul it. He'll pay you in a bit】

【For the Master Blacksmith's Insights, Third Brother says he can pay 220 gold coins, but the Tailor Insights can only be sold for 130 gold coins】

【After all, our clan already has quite a few advanced tailors, so the offer for Tailor Insights is lower. Are you still selling?】

Although the Zhao clan is a small clan, it is still a clan.

It also has around 100 lords.

Grain cannot be lacking for even a single day.

Although the unit price is cheap, everyone needs it, and the cumulative consumption is also enormous.

From this point alone, one can also see another advantage of the Skeleton race: it can save enormous amounts of grain.

But the Skeleton race still has many inconveniences; most people are still biological races.

Most lords who want to expand their armies must first stockpile grain.

Zhao Chi's several clan brothers are all town-level lords; Second Brother Zhao Cang and several uncles are all county-level lords.

And they are very close to commandery-level.

Clan Leader Zhao Shizhang is even a commandery-level lord.

The Zhao clan alone can absorb quite a bit of Zhao Chi's grain.

Selling grain to the Zhao clan is truly a fine channel.

Experience Fruits, moreover, are good items that can boost professional experience.

But no one treats Experience Fruits like fruit and eats them every day like the women in Zhao Chi's territory.

Most lords treat Experience Fruits as a temporary experience-boosting item.

For example, if today they need to complete 100 sets of high-intensity training, they let those soldiers eat Experience Fruits to gain an extra 100% training experience.

Or if today they need to craft more equipment, they let the blacksmiths eat Experience Fruits to gain an extra 100% forging experience for the day.

Apart from the former nobility, very few people eat them every day.

After all, the yield is low, and they aren't cheap.

But for great lords, giving them daily to a small number of elite troops is still sustainable.

As for the Insights, forget it.

The grain sales channel is already established; later on, selling grain can make money.

These kinds of Insights, then, should just be used entirely by oneself.

Zhao Chi replied:

【I won't sell the Insights. Do you need any over there?】

Su Qin 【No need, I have several dozen advanced blacksmiths, and tailors are even less needed. I'll return them to you in a bit】

Zhao Chi 【Good. Help me ask if there are any Speed-Work Talismans and full sets of women's iron armor, 90% new is fine. If there are, help me buy 200 sets, and the more Speed-Work Talismans the better】

Not long after.

Su Qin immediately replied 【Women's iron armor are available, 90% new ones are 1.4 gold coins per set. Speed-Work Talismans aren't many; Third Brother told me to go to the Exchange to buy them, saying the Exchange has an enormous quantity. Shall I go to the Exchange and buy them for you?】

Zhao Chi 【Are you busy over there? If you're busy, take care of your own things first】

Su Qin: "No worries. Since I agreed to be your agent, these things are my job. Wait until I get to the exchange and I'll explain."

Zhao Chi: "Alright, thanks for your hard work."

Su Qin: "No need. I'll buy the Iron Armor for you first, I'll be in touch in a bit."

This Iron Armor really isn't all that expensive.

A fair price, all things considered.

These past few days, he had been continuously inscribing within Tang Ruan's body.

The Speed-Talisman had been consumed at a furious pace—over a thousand used up.

There were still 1,014 remaining, enough to last quite a while longer.

But for Zhao Chi, this sort of thing was an absolute necessity.

The more, the better.

Just as he was thinking this, Su Qin suddenly appeared within the territory.

She gave Zhao Chi a smile, stuffed those insights into his hands, and vanished again.

Truly here one moment, gone the next…

Su Qin still had some time on her end, so Zhao Chi directly sent the remaining Artisan Insights to Feng Xiu and Ding Dang, letting them select craftsmen to upgrade.

Up to today.

The vast majority of craftsmen in Zhao Chi's territory were Apprentice-level.

There were also a small number of Journeyman-level craftsmen who had just been promoted—basically all of them barely scraping past the 20-point threshold.

As for Master-level craftsmen, they had all been raised using Artisan Insights.

In total, there were 110 Master Blacksmiths and 50 Master Tailors.

With them around, Zhao Chi's working time would be drastically shortened.

Zhao Chi piloted Qi Yue, heading straight into his exclusive tailor shop.

The tailor shop looked rather messy.

The large quantities of silk thread produced by Gu Qing were neatly wound together and placed in the wooden compartments beside her.

The large quantities of Jade Armor produced by Tang Ruan were neatly stacked in the wooden baskets beside her.

Beside the workbench, there were large quantities of garments half-finished—only the overall frame completed.

Goddess Sleepwear was the most numerous.

Next came the Efficient Shirt.

There were quite a few other garments as well.

Currently, the entire territory only issued full sets of garments to the female soldiers.