Chapter 193

After a long time, Count Capet slowly looked back at Locke and said with relief, “Locke, you did a good job. No one can do better than you.”

“Thank you, father.” Locke also smiled. Even when he was called a loser, Count Capet didn’t give up his support for him.

The two smiled at each other.

Looking back at the leisurely scenery in the distance, Count Capet asked, “What do you think of the development of Lister?”

Locke took a deep breath and looked into the distance. The place had changed a lot. When he came here before, there were some simple thatched huts in the distance, but now there were signs of a city. It was like magic.

“First, we need to recruit strong people. Although Uncle Kotter and the others have improved their strength very fast, the upper strength of Lister is still too weak. Second, speed up the process of urban construction, first of all, the construction of houses. And then the construction of city walls. I intend to build a city wall, surrounding the Lister.”

“Build a ring of city walls…” Count Capet was shocked. After a long while, he nodded with admiration. “It’s a really big project.”

“Yes.” Locke nodded and stretched himself. “There will be a lot of complicated things to do in the future.”

The two discussed and decided to release the recruitment notice first to recruit more talents and strong warriors. Whether in his previous life or in this world with extraordinary power, people were the core forces. In his previous life, the development of a city depended on talents in technology, finance and management. Now, it was the powerful practitioners.

Besides, the infrastructure construction needed strong financial support. Although Locke’s financial resources and the property sent by the Hyman family could basically support the early construction work, it was not a permanent solution. Lister needed to find its own source of money.

All in all, in all the ways of making money, selling weapons and pills was absolutely a win-win deal, so Locke decided to start from these two aspects. First of all, they needed to recruit high-level healers and forging masters, and then Asclepius and Hephaestus were responsible for training them.

Finally, he withdrew the money with weapons and pills.

In the hall, Count Capet’s eyes lit up. His hand holding the deeds trembled slightly. After turning over all the deeds quickly, he raised his head stiffly. At this time, he still couldn’t believe it. “Are these shops really yours?”

Looking at Count Capet, Locke nodded helplessly. It seemed to be the fifth time that Count Capet asked him.

Seeing that Locke was still so sure, Count Cape finally stopped suspecting and couldn’t help but get excited. There were thirty shops in total, and many of them were still in the prosperous area of the city. The Capet family cannot afford such a shop even if they used all of their money.

But now, he had 30 of them!

He felt that it was a dream, as if countless gold pieces had suddenly fallen from the sky.

Just as Count Capet was excited, Kotter, Kerton and Hansen also came in.

“Sir,”

“Mr. Count.”

The three bowed slightly.

Looking at them, Locke said with a smile, “I have obtained some shops in the city. After discussing with my father, we want you to run them.”

“Shops?”

They were all stunned.

Seeing the confusion on the three people’s faces, Locke raised his chin, indicating for them to look at the deeds on the table first.

Kotter and the others walked forward in confusion, trying to see what these were. When they saw clearly what was on the table, their faces lit up.

“Are these really ours now?”

Staring at the deeds in his hand for a while, Kotter asked the same question that Count Capet asked again.

Locke was speechless and had to nod again. Sure enough, everyone could not believe it easily…

Sighing, Locke began to explain his plan to them.

“We need to decorate all our stores in the same style, and make our own brand based on the pills and weapons produced by Lister.”

“Brand?”

Count Cape and the others were stunned. It seemed that they had never heard of this word before.

Seeing the confusion on Count Capet’s face, Locke thought for a while and then came up with a simple and easy explanation. “Brand means that when people have the desire to buy weapons and pills, they firstly think of Lister.”

After thinking for a moment, Count Capet said slowly, “The same as the Treasure Pavilion controlled by the Grace family?”

“There are some similarities.” Locke smiled and added, “But compared with the Treasure Pavilion, we will do it more carefully.”

“First of all, we need to understand the concept of running a shop. All shops on the continent aim at making money. Of course, making money is understandable. This is also our purpose, but our business concept is not making money.”

“Customers are the core of our business, so our ultimate goal is to make customers satisfied. To make customers satisfied, we must stand in the position of customers and users, not in the position of producers and sellers. Moreover, this concept of “customer first” must always go through the whole process from goods purchase to final sale, and after service.”

Locke talked about how to train waiters and give customers a comfortable shopping experience from the beginning of shop operation. At last, he returned to the topic of the production of weapons and pills.

Of course, considering Lister’s current situation, it was not enough to produce a large number of products. After all, although there were Asclepius and Hephaestus, there were no other senior healers and forging masters. The current pill production and weapon refining were inseparable from the two.

Therefore, the most important thing now was to recruit senior healers and forging masters. Of course, generally speaking, the cost of hiring high-level healers and forging masters was absolutely outrageous. In order to save money, Locke decided not to use gold coins or other materials as recruitment conditions.

For these slightly advanced healers and forging masters, the temptation of the material may not be enough. He had never seen a forging master or a healer short of money. What did they need and pursue? It was a high level of healing ability and forging technique!

Therefore, Locke decided to take this as his capital. As long as the healers and forging masters were willing to come, they could learn it for free in Lister. Although the two were not aboriginals of this continent, their pill refining and forging abilities were absolutely top existences in the world.

He believed that someone would definitely fall in love with it.

As for the names of the pill stores and weapon stores, Locke had already made up his mind. They would be called Victor Pill Shop and Victor Weapon Shop.

Soon, they finished their work. It was managed by Kotter. Kerton and Hansen were responsible for selling weapons and pills respectively. In addition, there was also Pierce who went with them. He was the level-6 swordsman, who had joined Locke before, in charge of safety.

On the second day, Kotter and the others set off for the city.

There was no limit to the recruitment this time. Of course, practitioners with different cultivation bases would receive different treatment. For example, a level-5 practitioner could get a level-5 weapon book and a separate courtyard. The monthly salary was ten thousand gold coins. A level-4 practitioner could get a separate villa for free, a level-4 weapon, and the monthly salary was five thousand gold coins. A level-3 practitioner could get a living room, one level-2 weapon, and a salary of one thousand gold coins per month.

In addition, there was another important task for Kotter and the others, which was to hire an array mage in the array mage guild and to build a powerful teleportation array for Lister.

Although Kotter had left, Count Capet was still responsible for the construction. Therefore, Locke was happy to have a rest and continued to recover from his injuries.