Heart of Empire Chapter 479: Rich Ice Cave City
Biwen, the lord of the Beast Blood Castle, does not live up to his name.
It is said that he is the lord of the city, in charge of the military and political affairs of Beast Blood Castle. But Wen You conquered an entire profession; Wu Youdelin led the Fifth Army to garrison the entire city. As the city lord, he was only in name, and he was completely in a state of being emptied, with no power at all.
But Biwen doesn't care.
Two years ago, when he witnessed the 100-meter-high castle rising from the ground in front of his eyes in White Wolf Castle, he was overwhelmed by the man sitting on the top of the castle. And Governor Oze, whom he pledged allegiance to the death, had a clear order before he left to hand over Beast Blood Castle and Ice Cave City to Dane.
In this sense, he has fulfilled his wish to a large extent by being able to take back the Beast Blood Fort from the rebellious hands and hand it over to Dane.
What's more, before Dane left, he took the time to meet him in private.
On this side, of course, outsiders cannot know what Dane said to Biwen. But it can be seen that Biwen was in a very good mood after returning to his seat as the city lord.
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At the end of November, the problem of Ice Cave City was also resolved.
The situation is similar to that of Beast Blood Castle, there is no need for Dane to do it himself, and naturally there are people in the city who cannot bear the pressure and choose to vote for him.
Dane's handling method is similar to that of Beast Blood Castle. Some cronies were left behind to be stationed in the Ice Cave City, responsible for defense; at the same time, the Ice Cave City Government was established to control the administrative work.
However, Ice Cave City has its own special place. The city itself is nothing special, the population is not particularly large, and the location is not that important.
However, in the special ice field environment around the Ice Cave City, the rich ice crystal mines born are extremely valuable!
The location of Ice Cave City is not very far to the north. Judging from places that are almost at the same location, Lost City will not be closer to the south than it is, but Lost City is not so cold, and it will not form perennial solid ice around the city.
According to the legend, in ancient times, in this part of Ice Cave City, an extremely powerful ice dragon once fell here, and its bloodline changed the climate and environment of this area forever, and he The scales penetrated deep into the earth, forming ice crystal mines.
Whether the legend is credible or not is impossible to verify. However, the special geographical environment here has created a large area of ice-snow-covered wonders, and at the same time, there have been special mineral deposits buried under the ice and snow.
These mineral deposits are the most important lifeline of Ice Cave City, as well as its most precious wealth.
How to maximize the economic value of these mineral deposits is the most important task of the ice cave city government. As long as they can achieve the desired effect, the benefits that Dane's Kingdom can obtain in this regard will be a very considerable figure.
A monthly income of not less than 150,000 gold coins, and there is a lot of room for growth!
Dane valued the money.
Now, in the entire territory of Schindler, except for White Wolf Castle and Shawan Port, the tax revenue of other places is only about 100,000 gold coins per month on average. And there are 100,000 gold coins in the two cities in the southern border. Comilla Island and the Chamber of Commerce controlled by the halfling Hull can also bring Dane 100,000 gold coins every month.
The total monthly income is only 350,000. And the ice crystal mine in Ice Cave City has 150,000 gold coins a month. What a huge number is this?
Occupied the Ice Cave City in the past era of warlords, and it has never been unified. The warlords who occupied this city often fought each other for the benefit of ice crystals, and the population of this ice and snow land was too sparse. If it weren't for these reasons, I'm afraid this city is the place where top warlords are most likely to be born.
Such interests are also very easy to breed bandits. Ice Cave City has always been one of the most serious places for banditry. Many robbers who took risks even dared to directly attack the mine veins guarded by the army in groups, just for the coveted benefits.
In order to protect the interests of Ice Crystal from being looted, Dane also left over 5,000 soldiers in this city as guards.
After thinking about it, Dane did not organize these soldiers as a new legion, but put them all under the control of Durin's Fifth Legion.
Now, looking at it this way, the strength of this new Fifth Legion is still very strong—nonsense, can it not be strong? A total of 10,000 people were transferred from the White Wolf Army and the King's Guards! Elder came to protest, saying that his legion had shrunk by half!
Using the promise that after returning to the southern border, he would replenish the troops drawn from the King's Guards within half a year, Dane managed to appease the general.
Actually, why did Dane himself want to split the two main armies, the White Wolf and the King's Guard? But there is no way, both Ice Cave City and Beast Blood Fort are under the pressure of military defense ~IndoMTL.com~ Both need troops to defend, and there are only three main armies that he can trust. Of course, the elves of Comilla could not be used to garrison the place. The only ones who could be dispatched were the Kingdom Guards and the White Wolf Army.
Originally, Dane still had a huge army—the soldiers before Ice Cave City and Beast Blood Castle.
In Dane's plan, all these soldiers will be assigned to the Fourth Army. This also made Pandorf's Fourth Army expand to nearly 20,000 people in a short period of time.
However, for him, those soldiers who belonged to the warlords in the past are all untrustworthy.
Not believable, at least temporarily.
Pandorf's control over the Fourth Army had initially achieved results. However, when this new patch of surrendered soldiers was thrown in, the legion became less controllable again.
Of course, there must be a way.
By appointing students from the military department of Schindler University, transferring some loyal officers from other legions, and strengthening the spiritual construction of the army, these methods can still be used to a large extent Strengthen Dane's control over the army.
Then, Dane will slowly and gradually let the soldiers of the 4th Legion receive training from the various arms and buildings of the White Wolf Castle, and finally complete the transformation, becoming a team that is not weaker than the White Wolf Legion elite legionary troops.
Of course, it will take a lot of time and money to complete all this according to the plan. But this plan must be pushed forward, otherwise, the army in Dane's hands will become very insufficient.
In the past, he led a powerful army, and it was very uncomfortable to fight around; but now, he has become a king, and he has a whole kingdom to protect, so the use of the army can no longer be so careless.