120 Chapter 119

Seeing the scene while all the merchants were dumbfounded, James's smile became wider. He slowly got off the boat and said to the merchants. "Everyone, these carriages belong to Lord Lucas. You can take a carriage into the city for three steel coins."

"Steel coins? What's that? Do you mean copper coins?" Joe asked, surprised. He never heard of steel coins in his life.

"You'll know once you get on the carriage." James said with a smile. He beckoned over a carriage driver and then left, leaving the merchants dumbfounded again.

"You'll know once you get on the carriage?" Joe muttered while looking at the carriages. He beckoned for a carriage.

"Guest, do you want a ride? It'll cost three steel coins to go into Sedona City." The carriage driver said after stopping his carriage in front of Joe.

"What are steel coins?" Joe asked the driver. "I've never heard of those coins."

The carriage driver smiled proudly and said, "They're coins that Lord Lucas invented for us commoners. One copper coin is equal to 10 steel coins, which can buy a lot of things in the market. You only need five steel coins to buy one big meat bun."

"Then can I use a copper coin to exchange for your steel coin?" Joe asked, taking out a copper coin. 'Meat bun? What is that? Is it a new type of food with meat?'

"Of course, please get in." The carriage driver said after giving Joe 10 steel coins, inviting them to get on the carriage.

He couldn't take any more people, as Lucas had told him that taking more than three people would overwork the horse. There had been a carriage driver who got greedy and took in six people, and he got fined for it after he got caught by the guards 

On the carriage, Joe was in a daze as he stared at the steel coins that he had just gotten from the diver.

Gale had a dissatisfied expression on his face. 'Isn't this just a carriage ride? Our family has more than 50 carriages because of the transport business we do. Why is Lord Father frozen there?'

"How incredible." Joe said, taking his eyes off the steel coins. As a businessman, he saw the potential of the steel coins. "Unfortunately, no one can copy this, unless…" Joe shook his head and didn't say anything else. There were some things that couldn't be said, otherwise, it would spell doom for them.

The merchants on the carriages that saw business opportunities in the steel coins all gave up as they didn't think that they would be able to make such exquisite steel coins.

"Tsk, trash city." Gale said, looking at the crumbling rammed earth wall of Sedona City. "It's a lot worse than the capital."

"…" Joe also thought that the walls of Sedona City were a bit too terrible. 'How many years has the wall not been maintained? Compared to all the cities that I have visited, the walls of Sedona City could rank top 3 in how broken they are.'

The carriage driver was a bit triggered by the words. 'What? You're despising our Sedona City? Don't bite your tongue out of surprise once you get in. Besides, Lord Lucas said that we'll rebuild the walls next year and Sedona City would definitely look very beautiful.'

Everyone in Sedona City believed that everything would improve since there was Lucas as its city lord.

As the carriage entered the city, the disdainful merchants that had muttered about how Bryan had lied to them all had their mouths open wide out of shock when they saw wide, flat, and clean roads. The roads in other cities might not even be able to compare to this.

"…" Joe didn't know what to say. They can't be compared at all. The streets in the capital aren't even half as wide as this road. And the houses on both sides of the road are neat and tidy. 

What was most unbelievable for Joe is how clean this place was. There's no garbage, waste, or bad smells in the air.

No, there is a bad smell. His body was somehow suddenly emitting a bad smell, and he realized that even the carriage driver smelled better than him. He had bathed just three days ago, and he would often go without a bath for a whole week, and he didn't feel anything wrong with it. But now, for some reason, he felt embarrassed.

Seeing the carriage driver rub his nose from time to time, Joe only wanted to just go take a bath and change into a new set of clothes. The carriage had just moved forward from the city with other carriages following it with merchants.

"Hey hey hey… the guy squatting over there and defecating, has no one in your family taught you that you can't just defecate anywhere?" The sudden voice made Joe turn his head and looked to see who was making noise. He saw a fat man, a fellow merchant, squatting down in the corner and defecating.

The merchants were confused because it seemed normal to them. They would just go to a random corner and defecate when they need to. 'So why is this old guy so angry as if the merchant did something unacceptable?'

James turned his head and recognized the old man to be Max.

Max was furious. 'Who is this guy? Even my grandson knows that you have to go to the restroom if you want to defecate.' People that defecated anywhere were looked down on as only dogs would do that.

"Hey. I'm talking about you. Did your family not teach you? Only dogs would defecate anywhere and everywhere." Max was getting more and more furious. 'Lord Lucas had managed Sedona City so well, and I can't let some people ruin it.'

The merchant that was squatting down started to speak. "This… doesn't everyone…" He didn't know what was going on. 'That's how I did it in the other cities all the time. No one bothered me there, so how come I can't even defecate here?'

Several merchants and servants that wanted to defecate and were planning to do what the merchant did were stunned. 'Are we supposed to suffer?'

"Everyone what? Only you do that." Max shouted. 'It's fine that people defecate everywhere before since no one knew that was inappropriate and even I did it. But now that there are public toilets, this behavior can't be tolerated.'

"You…" The merchant's face was red. Anyone that was stared at while defecating would be embarrassed, not to mention that he was being shouted at by someone at the same time.

"You what? Didn't you see that sign?" Max shouted, pointing to a sign on the side of the road. "Do you not know how to read? It clearly says that you cannot defecate anywhere you want. You must go to a public restroom if you want to defecate, and it even pointed to the direction of the public restroom. And yet, you still defecated here. Are you a dog?"

Can't read? No, all the merchants knew how to read and write, because those were necessary to be a merchant.

"…" The merchant turned his head and saw that the wooden sign did say that, and there was an arrow on it. He looked in the direction of the arrow and saw a small house. On the walls were drawings of a man and a woman and waste underneath both of them. It was an extremely clear sign.

'What is this operation?'

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