Chapter 10 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

A week passed quickly and the new village was completed.

There were more than 100 houses in the village and under Joshua’s suggestion, various shops and open-air markets were built.

The first thing that Joshua did after the village was completed was invite the old village chief to the village and then gather the residents of the surrounding cities.

At the same time, he also started a new plan: currency!

It was because this undeveloped land was too troublesome to deal with!

All of them carried all kinds of grain and minerals to carry in a barter system. However, this meant that the efficiency of their exchanges were not as equal as one could hope.

So, with the help of the old village chief, Joshua had decided to make a currency plan.

First, Joshua asked Alger to develop the currency. Then, he wrote many notices in the language of the Eastern continent and distributed them everywhere.

These notices explained all about the role this new currency would play.

Then, he asked the city guards to enlighten passersby on the subject and distribute the notices to the various demi-humans that they saw.

Unfortunately, it seemed like many people were not keen on the prospects of a currency system.

The surrounding demi-humans felt that the food in their hands was safest in their pockets, so they ignored Joshua’s notice.

Seeing that his plan was about to fail, Joshua tossed and turned in the new room.

When Lena saw that Joshua was so anxious, she immediately brewed a cup of tea from the kitchen and brought it over.

“Lord Village Chief, have a cup of tea first!”

When he smelled the tea’s fragrance, Joshua sat in front of the table.

He picked up the tea on the table and took a whiff. It had a fruity fragrance to it.

“Is it fruit tea?”

Lena nodded slightly. “Yes! After the village was built, there were people selling so many different things in the open-air market. I bought some from the market. I found that the taste was really good, so I planned to let you have a taste!”

Since that day, the relationship between them had become complicated.

However, Joshua still pretended to be stupid and kept avoiding Lena. Until now, he had not figured out his relationship with her.

Because he was not from this continent, he was overly concerned about having this sort of relationship with anyone at all.

In this continent, such relationships were much simpler than he had imagined. In most cases, he could be irresponsible without repercussions as soon as his pants came down.

The awkward atmosphere made it impossible for them to continue chatting, so Joshua immediately changed the topic.

“How’s the situation in the workshop that you’re in charge of recently?”

Lena gave it some thought for a moment and replied, “Well, it’s getting bigger and bigger. The number of manufacturing personnel has reached 50 and those searching for materials have also reached a couple of dozen! As the demand here is increasing, Alger is already planning the construction of a new factory.”

These words made Joshua very surprised. He did not expect that cosmetics and skincare products would be so popular.

An idea came to him!

“From today onward, we’ll make some changes! All cosmetics and skincare products must be purchased with gold coins. No more items are allowed to be exchanged!

“Actually, scratch that! All the best-selling products that can be exchanged with food must also adopt our new currency policy as well! Also, set up a few more places in the village where items can be exchanged for gold coins.”

Upon hearing this, Lena immediately turned around and left the room. She went to the village office to inform the people there to prepare the changes.

Without realizing it, Lena had already become one of Joshua’s most important personnel.

Originally, these things were handled by Mortimer. But now, he had been appointed public office director by Joshua.

There were a lot of things to deal with tomorrow, so there was no time to follow Joshua. Therefore, all these things fell upon Lena.

After she left, he immediately left the room and walked into the depths of the forest alone.

Because he had been too busy recently, he had not visited Alexia for a long time.