Power and Empire Chapter 49: The treasure of the Grand Duke (2)
On the night of early spring in April, the night wind is cold and permeating
Samor people sit in the hall with a blazing bonfire
The sparks of the bonfire brought out long sparks in the passing night wind, making a crisp crackling sound
Du Yu sitting on the main seat propped his fat face with his right hand, leaning against the back of the chair very uncultivated, and asked with a depressed expression about the three subordinates who were as helpless as him.
"Is there really no way?"
Hearing the fat man’s question, several subordinates drooped their heads one by one. Even the Caesar demon, who has always been the most ghostly minded, has a helpless expression
Fatty sighed regretfully, and couldn't help but feel annoyed
"I'm afraid I was fooled by the old rascal of the Grand Duke Jones this time. The title of the Grand Duke is simply the moon in the water, and the flowers in the mist make people see and intangible."
The words of the old bachelor during the day are vivid in my ears, which not only bumps the fat man's restless heart, but also triggers the fat man’s urgent problem for many days.
That is the fat man found that his finances have entered a blind spot, a big problem that may shake his foundation
just hurried back to the fortress of Samor, the fat man immediately asked the guard to notify the three commanders below to rush to the castle hall to hold an emergency military meeting,
The commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment is Treasurer Statunko, the commander of the 8th Infantry Regiment is Crolitsart, and the commander of the 1st Hussar Caesar Sauron
The first light cavalry regiment added is a new-style light cavalry regiment formed by Fatty using 2000 Kujit horses in exchange with the Kujites. The commander is the former captain of the guard, Caesar Sorron.
This newly formed light cavalry regiment is a fat baby. Not only the soldiers are recruited from northern refugees who are good at horseback riding, but the weapons are also the most sophisticated of all armies.
The newly-built light cavalry not only unified all the exquisite lock scale armor, but also added thick steel plates to important parts of the body. The defense is much higher than the ordinary kingdom light cavalry wearing thick leather armor. It is much lighter than heavy cavalry in weight,
is a three-meter-long cavalry spear, with a new single-edged thick-backed war knife on the waist, and ten short javelin slots on the weapon racks on both sides of the war horse’s span, which is completely mobile. Light weapons arsenal
This gives the light cavalry regiment, which has strengthened its defenses, very good mobility and impact. Even Caesar Sauron, who was good at commanding cavalry operations, is also amazed by the configuration
What makes the fat man most proud of is that this light cavalry who has devoted himself to his efforts has a light hand crossbow. This is an epoch-making equipment. This new light cavalry also has a heavy cavalry that faces the Kujit. Fighting force
This new type of single-handed crossbow arrow is easy to operate and has high shooting accuracy. The reasonable design of the crossbow body allows the cavalry to open the crossbow string on one foot immediately, and the quiver is carried on the back of each cavalry, which can be used as The thickened carapace can be taken by the arrow at your fingertips
Although the range of a one-handed crossbow is not as good as the footed crossbow equipped with heavy infantry, it can penetrate the scale armor 200 steps away, but it can also easily penetrate the cavalry ring armor 150 steps away, and it can even penetrate heavy within 50 meters. Cavalry's steel body armor
The most worrying fat man is that people have to eat and horses have to eat grass. Every day more than 20,000 people eat nothing but do nothing, which makes the fat man heartache.
The consumption of the newly established light cavalry regiment is even more than that of a heavy infantry regiment of 3,000 people
sit and eat in the mountains, if you have money and food, you can’t live like this.
The fat man thought to himself
To make a fortune, it is not only to reduce expenditure, but more importantly, to broaden financial resources.
Money is not saved, money is earned
Fatty is eager to find a way to the north. He is not only concerned about the Grand Duke's laurel crown, which is as bright as a full moon, but also has the idea of looking for a business road connecting the north and the south.
Now a large amount of materials in the south are stockpiled in Samor, light weapons are piled up in two large warehouses, and other materials are piled up like a mountain
New things are constantly being created, but old things cannot be sold
The fat man discovered that he had accidentally fallen into an economic crisis,
What is a crisis? Production but not selling is the biggest crisis
These valuable things are placed here, rusty and moldy will not turn into money, they will only slowly become a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron
Especially in the rainy season that just passed, the wet weather and heavy rain made the bowstrings in the warehouse soften. After everything goes on, the various weapons and equipment accumulated in the warehouse can only be put into the iron furnace again. Turned into a pool of molten iron
how to do? Fat guys troubled by these problems have a headache
In the south, most of them are a group of poor little lords, each living a stable life, who wants so many weapons to do?
is even more difficult to sell to Kujites,
If you sell these weapons and equipment to the Kujites, I’m afraid that it won’t take long before the arrowheads nailed to the gate of Kristol, Kyoto, and the words "Made in Samer" will appear
"Is it really impossible to find a road leading to the northern border? Are there Kujites squatting on the snowy mountains west of Vikiyah? Kujites are not so perverted, right?"
Seeing the subordinates are silent one by one, the fat man’s face is getting more and more ugly
I saw my lord’s face that is getting redder, especially the eyes of my lord are shining with angry sparks,
Poor Caesar Sauron had to bite the bullet
" My lord, if you want to find a way to the north, it’s not impossible, but we need someone’s help! Only with his help can it be possible to find one under the eyes of the Kujites The way to the north!"
The fat man heard that someone could get through the passage to the north, his mood immediately improved, and he could see Caesar Sauron's hesitation and cessation, anxiously
"When is this, what are we doing in hiding, do we really have to wait until we are completely in desperate situation before we are willing to say it?"
Seeing the fat man get angry, Caesar Sauron replied with an embarrassed expression
"Adults, don’t worry, it’s not that the subordinates refuse to say, but that doing so may affect the adult’s precious reputation,
I heard that among the captives exchanged from the Khergits this time, there was a little baron named Stalidov. He was an important figure in the Hertha Chamber of Commerce, the largest smuggling organization in the north. An insignificant little fish, very famous among the northern aristocrats and Kyoto
In terms of evading chase, smuggling goods, and secretly opening up business channels, Baron Stalidorf is a first-rate expert. His subordinates have heard of this person many times before. It is said that he often wanders in Kyoto and the north. Among the nobles, there are many things that are inconvenient for the adults to handle. They are all handed over to this person~IndoMTL.com~Specializing in black work
If you want to open the north-south passage under the eyes of the Kurgits, you must first find this person. If you can get the help of his Northern Hertha Chamber of Commerce, it will be easy to secretly open up a smuggling tunnel to the north. ! "
Caesar Sauron looked at the expression on the fat man’s face and found that there was no big reaction on the fat man’s face, so he secretly let out a sigh of relief and continued
"It’s just that this person likes to smuggle slaves the most. He is notorious in the north and is known as the black wolf in the north. If an adult cooperates with him, spreading it out may have a bad impact on the adult’s current reputation!"
"Qingyu? You can't eat or wear things, who cares about this!"
The fat man laughed after hearing what Caesar Sauron said. How did he forget this big acquaintance? He had the intention of cooperating with him when he was in the Falcon Territory. As a result, he encountered the Kujit invasion. Delay it
It seems that people really need to talk about "fate"
Fatty stood up and waved to the subordinates below
"Let’s go away today. Tomorrow morning, Caesar Sauron, you will lead 2,000 hussars to Riwading City with me. This northern black-hearted wolf still owes me two hundred thousand gold Luke, which happens to be I asked him to carefully calculate the debts!"
saw the fat man leave the hall with joy, and then Caesar Sauron, who stepped out of the hall, shook his head suspiciously
"How did I think of helping this fat man think about his reputation? Is it because I recognized what the fat man did?
Judging from what the fat man is doing now, I can't say that he will become a good king, or at least a rare lord who is compassionate to the people! Maybe it's because I don't want to destroy the image of the fat man as a benevolent lord among the people! "