Heart of Empire Chapter 469: Huge wealth
Pandolph took his Fourth Legion and was in charge of exterminating the remaining demons in the Cinderella area.
This job is really not difficult, all he needs is to concentrate his troops, and according to the information provided by the contact person of the Black Hand Academy, wherever the demons appear, he can fight there.
In the Cinderella area, according to the estimates of the Black Hand Academy, the number of demons still active is no more than 2,000, and most of them have been completely dispersed. Judging from the assessment given by the intelligence personnel, the largest group of demons will never gather more than two hundred.
Facing such an opponent, Pandorf should have no pressure. But at the same time, it is precisely because the enemies are very scattered that it takes a lot of work and time to clear them up.
In the letter that Pandolph wrote to Dane, he said that it would take about one to two months for him to clear the entire Cinderella area with the Fourth Army. At the same time, he also mentioned in the letter that he hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to integrate the Fourth Army, so that those young officers under him who have just graduated from the military department of Schindler University, as well as himself Those confidant officers in the army can adapt to the army well and completely control the entire army.
And if the lord doesn't want his Fourth Legion to take so long to wipe out the demons, then he can also speed up his actions and strive to complete this matter within two weeks to one month , but then there is no way to guarantee whether there will be a small number of demons left in the area, and it is estimated that the fourth army will suffer more losses.
Dane agreed to Pandolf's first plan, letting him clean up slowly and run the troops slowly.
It is actually not urgent to wipe out all the demons in the Cinderella area. There are no living people left in Cinderella, and there are basically no living people in the surrounding area. Even if there are, there are no large-scale human gathering places. This once the most prosperous place in Schindler's country has become a dead place.
It is precisely because of this special situation that Cinderella is different from the Central County.
At the beginning, Dane hastily issued an order to destroy the magic, the main purpose of which was actually to wipe out the demons in the Central County. This is because although the Central County was affected by the demon disaster and suffered a considerable loss, at least the population is still there, and the human stronghold is still there. If the demons are cleaned up quickly, the reconstruction work can be carried out earlier.
But Cinderella doesn't even have a living person, let alone any rebuilding work.
Perhaps in the future, after Cinderella Suping, Dane may migrate the population from other places in Cinderella. After all, even if such a large city has been turned into ruins, it will take a lot of work to repair it, but it is still more convenient than rebuilding such a large city.
What's more, the land around Cinderella is still very high-quality, at least compared with other places in Cinderella. The rare oases in the desert are dotted with stars beside Cinderella. Relying on these oases, there used to be many villages, farms, and manors. Some small towns even appeared in slightly larger places.
Although these villages and towns have been poisoned by demons, the oasis is still there after all. It doesn't matter if there is some pollution. Dane's templars, priests, and priests are experts in solving the abyssal energy pollution brought by these lower demons.
However, whether it is to solve pollution, relocate population, rebuild villages and farms, it is not a matter of one day. At least, if you want to do a good job in this matter, there must be no way to do it in a year or two.
Since this is the case, there is no need for Pandolf to rush to clean up the demons, just take his time.
As for Dane and his main force, they didn't go anywhere. After blocking the entire city of Cinderella, they settled in the city for more than half a month with peace of mind.
He is digging for treasure.
Supporting Dane to actively eliminate Cinderella's demons, besides the land, the most important driving force is the wealth left by the city.
How much money is there under the ruins of Cinderella? No one can give an exact number, but this number should be very large.
During this period of time, the three major legions have firmly blocked Cinderella, prohibiting anyone except legion soldiers from entering or leaving, just to prevent some adventurers and mercenaries from peeking at Cinderella's wealth. .
At the same time, a large number of soldiers also participated in the excavation of Cinderella's ruins.
Dane has a city map of Cinderella in his hand, which was drawn before Cinderella was destroyed. It marked the main locations of the city and the divisions of each administrative district.
The map was obtained by the spies of the Black Hand Academy, and they even restored the map in detail, clearly marking each area in more detail.
After copying many copies, Dane distributed this map to the hands of various senior officers, who each led their own troops to contract the excavation work in an area and set up rewards.
After all the unearthed trophies are recovered, one-tenth of the wealth will be redistributed to every soldier. Soldiers and officers can receive their own share according to their military rank after the excavation work of the entire city is completed.
Such measures, on the one hand, are to encourage the soldiers to work harder to explore the city; on the other hand, Dane has another consideration.
20,000 to 30,000 soldiers followed him through life and death, and Dane would not be too stingy. After the last all-out war, soldiers and officers had no income other than their regular pay. Dane also intends to take advantage of this opportunity to distribute benefits and improve his prestige in the army by the way.
The entire excavation work lasted for two full months. And Dane's troops also brought him a major surprise.
Verina, who hastily rushed from Shahaiwan Port, has been in the ruins of the city for a week, and she has been responsible for the statistics of Cinderella's treasure during this week. Until now, there is finally a similar result.
"...From the ruins of Cinderella's urban area, we unearthed 400,000 gold coins in cash, other artworks, products, and some valuable items. In exchange for an income of about 600,000 gold coins."
"At the same time, we also found cash and goods worth more than 400,000 gold coins in several chambers of commerce in Cinderella—especially the headquarters of the Glittering Gold Chamber of Commerce."
There is a total wealth of about 1.6 million gold coins here, but Cinderella's wealth is more than that!
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Just from the ruins of the city, as well as those former chambers of commerce, Dane's troops had unearthed wealth worth about 1.6 million gold coins within a month.
Of course, it will take some time for the 1.6 million gold coins to be realized, and the cash is only about 600,000 gold coins, but this is still a huge amount of wealth, enough to directly increase the development speed of Dane's territory. steps.
However, Cinderella's wealth is not only that, there is also a large part of it, which is buried under Cinderella's palace.
In the era of Governor Bernier, Governor Conley, and earlier governors one after another, they sat in Cinderella, relied on taxation, chamber of commerce supplies, and wars, and all their wealth was buried under this palace.
Of course, when the warlords get the money, most of them will use it to develop the army. Especially Conley before, in order to launch Schindler's all-out war, it is estimated that he spent a lot of money.
But even so, under this palace, Dane still dug out 600,000 gold coins—this amount may not seem like a lot, but it's all cash!
Now, Dane has only one thought - to get rich.
So far, more than 2.2 million yuan of money has been excavated, which is even enough for Schindler's total tax revenue for two or three years now!
Under the huge amount of wealth, Dane is extremely fortunate. Fortunately, I didn't agree to recover Cinderella with the Shire United Chamber of Commerce because I wanted to borrow some money to tide over the difficulties. Otherwise, it would be a big loss.
Originally, Dane planned to continue heading north to launch a campaign to recover the Lost City. But with so much money, he temporarily changed his mind - he had to send an army to bring the wealth back to the southern border.
More than two million gold coins are enough to attract any desperadoes. Without an army guarding the side, it is really hard to be reassuring.
After thinking about it, Dane decided to go through it himself. He left the Governor's Guard Legion in Cinderella, and at the same time he took the White Wolf Legion and the Cormian Legion to **** this huge fortune and embarked on the road back to the south.
Of course, before that, Dane fulfilled his promise and sent all the rewards he promised to the soldiers—it was more than 300,000 gold coins. Their generous lord.
Leading the way to **** the wealth back to the south, there is no risk and no risk. With him personally in charge and the joint guardianship of the two legions, no one dared to challenge his life.
These wealth were all transported to the warehouse of White Wolf Fort, where they were firmly guarded. Even, Dane asked Easterlin and Joel, two high-ranking mages, to assist Esther to bless the treasury of White Wolf Castle with very strong guardian magic.
In this way, it is basically foolproof.
And then, Dane continued to lead the troops northward.
After tossing back and forth, it was almost two months, and it just passed. But Dane doesn't think it's a waste of time at all, it's only two months, it's still very worthwhile to spend this time to ensure the safety of this high fortune.
And this time going north, Dane is going to solve the trouble in Lost City.
The Lost City is also a city occupied by demons. However, compared to Cinderella, the number of demons in the Lost City area is obviously not that many.
There should be no more than 10,000 demons in the entire area, and the number of demons concentrated in the city may only be six or seven thousand.
Not even Cinderella's army of demons can stop Dane, let alone Lost City.
However, this time, Dane didn't intend to sweep the Lost City like he smashed Cinderella.
First of all, Lost City is not as rich as Cinderella. From Cinderella, Dane was able to get more than two million gold coins. It is estimated that in Lost City, it would be only six to seven hundred thousand.
Of course, 600,000 to 700,000 gold coins is also a huge amount of money, and it is impossible for Dane to give up. However, the solution he thought of to solve the problem of Lost City was another one.
Confusion City is more than 400 kilometers away from White Wolf Castle. And this distance, for Dane, seems very ambiguous. You must know that the space required for the deployment of the system base is exactly 400 kilometers away.
The longer Dane sat in the lord's seat, the more fortunate he was that the first two bases he opened were elves and humans.
There is no need to say more about these two races, humans are the mainstream races in the world. And elves are also a race with a good reputation in the main material plane, and no one would hate elves.
But demons are different.
At the beginning, when Dane had just obtained the "Dynasty Heart" system and just started the game, if he had directly launched the abyss base as he wished, then things would have been a big deal—— It is estimated that there is a force on the mainland, and if they find traces of his demon base, they will definitely try their best to get rid of him.
Even now, Dane didn't dare to openly find a random place and spread out the demon base. That would be a big problem.
However, Lost City provided Dane with a very good opportunity - this itself is a city already occupied by demons~IndoMTL.com~ If he directly expands the demon base in Lost City, Maybe there will be a chance to directly incorporate these existing demons in the confused city.
And there is no aftermath of being attacked by public opinion for raising demons. Compared with the main world of human beings, Lost City is located in a remote place. What's more, it is still in Schindler's territory, Dane's own territory. If he is not effective at destroying demons, he will not be able to do anything. Who can do anything to him?
It is estimated that his hostile forces will be secretly happy when they see that he can't wipe out the demons in the confused city. They feel that there is such a violent force in Dane's land, and it would be a big deal to make trouble for him at any time. Good thing.
No one would have imagined that these demons in Lost City are actually under Dane's control.
The more he thought about it, the more Dane felt that it would be very reliable to do things this way.
However, this is just an idea for the time being, and Dane has to prepare a slightly more detailed plan.
He took the White Wolf Army and the Cormyr Army and embarked on the road northward to the Lost City.
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On May 21st, Dane and his army arrived at a place fifteen kilometers away from the outskirts of Lost City.
On the way, the two armies encountered demon troops several times. However, this time Dane did not order the soldiers to drive out the opponents, just drive them out.
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