The Swordsman of Faerûn

The first Night City Discussion Conference finally came to a successful conclusion amidst cheers.

The meeting established William, the lord of Dagger Valley, as the leadership core, the elf Irjana Starcloak as the CEO of the Night City, the dwarf Bonog Steelfoot and the corpse king Pasanus as the public—the security guard A top-level leadership framework for captains and vice captains.

And Bonog Steelfoot is a confidant worthy of his trust. Although this dwarf has a special background, he is very optimistic about William.Because Bonnog is a dwarf with a bottom line in life, and he has flexible means, just like his first encounter with William, do you think that Bonnog's team really wants to seek the legal right to rob civilians?Stop messing around, if they really can do this kind of thing, Bonnogue's players won't be so skinny and almost out of shape.

These guys are actually turning a corner to touch the porcelain of William, the new lord.

This is a talent who has the ability to sit on one side. In comparison, Baird may be more loyal than Bonog Steelfoot, but Baird's overly calm personality makes him less flexible. He might not be as competent as Bonnog as the captain of the guard in such a place where ghosts and monsters are rampant.

Of course, this is just William's personal opinion. The specific situation depends on Bonogue's actual performance.

The reason why William mainly focused on meritocracy in the distribution of power in the Capital of the Night, and then considered loyalty, in fact, to put it bluntly, he didn't think much of the Capital of the Night.

if I get it I am lucky, but if not, it is fate.

Iljana and the dwarves have done a good job, even if William is lucky, if they really don't do well, turn the night city into a mess, or even lose their land and life, William will regret it at most, and then come back Clean it up.

If he put Baird, the most loyal dog under the lord's flag, to the capital of the night for training, if he were to be lost here, wouldn't William have to regret it several times!
In fact, when it comes to employing people, our nation is the one that has the most say.

Our ancestors spent 5000 years trying almost all the employment strategies that human beings can think of, such as ranking seniority, rewarding merit, meritocracy, eclecticism, and talent without virtue. , Virtue without talent, and the beautiful expectation of having both ability and political integrity. The various advantages and disadvantages of this are clearly recorded in our history books and books, and permeate every aspect of our lives.

So when we deal with anything with a public heart, we can always make the right choice.

The CEO of the Night City, Iljana, is responsible for all the government affairs of the Night City. Of course, she must first select some officials from the local representatives to form a management organization that is accountable to her CEO, no matter what this organization is called The cabinet, the council, the government council or other names represent that the local people will become the main force that actually manages the city.

What, you said, why don't people from the night capital lead the night capital?Come come come!Come out and take a couple of steps, my Qiushuidao wants to date your brain, um, the more intimate one, if you can go on to the third step, maybe we can have a further discussion with each other.

There is also the issue of population diversion in the capital of the night, mainly those who have just been freed from slavery. William issued an injunction as a lord. Unless there are special circumstances, the vast majority of these people (mainly humans, Elves, dwarves and other intelligent races) will relocate to Waterfall Town.

However, there are still quite a few people who don't want to leave the Capital of the Night. Some of them really have nostalgia for the Capital of the Night, but some of them who are not very law-abiding covet the representative selection system here.Even a slave who has just climbed out of the muddy pit has the ambition to become a master.

William couldn't deny the choice of these people, but when a bold guy tried to incite more people to stay to serve as his pawns, William mercilessly suppressed this guy who thought he was too smart .

When William transformed from a wandering adventurer to a lord, the education he had received in the past seemed to have suddenly revived from the depths of his mind, and many seemingly long-forgotten knowledge were vividly remembered.

Of course, this is actually the echo of memory brought about by William's increasingly powerful spiritual power.

William remembered a sentence he heard when he was in school. For the ruling class, the population is the greatest wealth and resource.Obviously, he took this sentence as the truth. For William, the lord of Falls Town, these hundreds of newly freed slaves from the Night City are undoubtedly a wealth that is more valuable than any gold and silver treasures.

With the addition of this group of people, the population of Falls Town will be greatly expanded and the local human resources will be enriched. Moreover, these newcomers are like a group of catfish that have just entered the pond, and will make the original Falls Town conflicted by living resources. The antagonism between the local faction and the foreign faction has been torn and shattered.

Of course, the Night City is no longer called "Night City", and she has a new name - Dusk Town.In fact, the name change of the town was not written by William, but the first decree issued by Iljana Starcloak, the first CEO of Dusk Town, exercising her CEO power.

Her move to change the name of the town has been unanimously approved by almost all residents. The reason is very simple. Most of these people were oppressed at the bottom of society in the former night capital. Monsters, but not theirs.

Only by abandoning the past of the night capital, the remaining Dusk Town truly belongs to these new residents.The population of Dusk Town is relatively small, with a total of more than 200 people. Most of them are mixed blood of humans and monsters, and a small number are slaves such as humans and elves who refused to migrate.

There is also a group of residents with a smaller number. They are real monsters, but they also enjoy the rights that the residents of Dusk Town should have.However, they also need to contribute their own strength to this town, build the town, and protect the town.

Soon after, William and most of his elite team members escorted a relocated population of nearly 500 people on their way back to Dagger Falls.

However, a 12-member elite team was left to the new captain of the Dusk Town Guard, Bonog Steelfoot, and they will be the basic base of the future Dusk Town Guard.

Don't look at how easy it seemed for William and the others to cross the hills and ridges, but they brought nearly [-] oil bottles on the way back, and the speed of the team inevitably slowed down.

At the end of the day, William and the others only walked through no more than three hills, and the straight-line distance was even less than ten miles.If you go at this speed, not to mention returning to Dagger Falls, even if you want to get out of Dagger Hills, this team will have to walk for ten days and a half months. Totally bankrupt.

The reason why this road is so slow is that a large part of these slave-born migrants are relatively weak. The long-term cruel life and malnutrition have made these people extremely weak, and it is difficult for them to adapt to the long-term trek. You have to take a break after two steps.

Before departure, William divided these people into groups in advance, but the way of grouping was just to count the heads, without considering the physical condition of each person. ,
William knew that he couldn't rush on the road like this, otherwise he would be able to reach Waterfall Town in the Year of the Monkey!So he regrouped these people. According to the physical condition of each person, one group was for the strong, another group was for the ordinary people, and finally those who were weak were grouped into the last group. point.

Next, William assigned different tasks to each group, and the strongest group with the fewest number would be the pioneers. William asked them to clear the way across the mountains, build a camp every [-] miles, and then set up camp to rest.Such a strong group can walk out of Dagger Hill in only three days, and can even leave three camps and a simple passage for the follow-up team.

Next is the ordinary group as a support force. The number of people in this group accounts for a quarter of the entire team, and it is also the most important labor force of the entire migration team.

The ordinary group was divided into three small groups, each with nearly 40 people. Their task was to build bridges along the road opened by the strong group, and leave a small group to work every time they encountered a difficult hurdle. Then build another camp every fifteen miles.

As for the weak group at the end, they can't lift their hands or shoulders. They just need to stride forward along the road opened by the first two groups, and when they arrive at the ground, they can check in with their bags. Of course, most of them don't have any bags. Can carry.The members of the weak group who live in the camp have nothing to do. Unless they are really weak and difficult to get up, most of them will do some work within their ability after eating thick porridge, such as weeding the camp, modifying the ground and Walls and more.

The mutual cooperation between the ordinary group and the strong group, together with the ending of the weak group, is enough to establish a smooth road, with a high-standard and simple passage for a camp every fifteen miles, so as to connect the town of Dusk with the outside world. communicate.

Normally, if William wants to develop such a passage, he must organize a large amount of manpower and material resources in a costly manner, and then follow the labor efficiency of this era (out of the rejection of fatigue, people will inevitably grind their hands) , It is possible to open up the road if we die on a monthly and yearly basis.

This is the case when the old road of more than ten miles west of Dagger Hill was built.

But no one expected that this time, because of the opportunity of population migration, William would forcibly open such a simple road from the depths of the dagger hills full of hills and valleys.It is conceivable that if this simple road is successfully cut, then the resources and land of the entire Dagger Valley will be revitalized. As for the rest, widen and strengthen the roadbed, and transform this simple road into a permanent one, the latecomers You only need to follow the steps step by step, and there is no need to cut through thorns and thorns.

In order to make this simple passage a real blood vessel of the territory, William took out holy nails fired from most of the sacred soil, turning every camp along the way into a veritable holy residence.

For an ordinary lord, this is the real big deal.What is a sanctuary? A sanctuary is a fortress of civilization. Are you making a fuss if your family is so reckless in the wilderness doing wholesale repairs?
Because every once in a while, William will use the energy of the curse fire to replenish the vitality of most members of the weak group, coupled with a fairly sufficient diet, the people in the weak group are recovering health quickly, almost within two days , there are many people whose physical strength has almost reached the minimum standard of the ordinary group.

These grateful people organized spontaneously, the weak rushed on the road, and those with more physical strength collected wild fruits and vegetables along the way, hunted animals, and supplemented food consumption.

Indeed, for the entire team, food was the most important thing.Without food as a supplement, all William's ideas and arrangements would be lofts in the sky, which would be difficult to support.

But when it comes to grain, the valley is the most fertile and productive grain-producing area on the entire Faerun continent.Valley is not a place, but a general term for a certain area, just like we say Northeast China, North China, and Jiangnan.

The Valley is not a country, but a loose alliance composed of a series of geographical regions such as Shadow Valley, Dagger Valley, Scar Valley, Farming Valley, etc., and dozens of small city-states, as we said Same as the EU.

What is surprising is that almost all of these city-states are known for their high grain yields. Even the kingdoms of Cormyr and Sembia, which are adjacent to the Valley Alliance, or Hantu, which is across the sea from the narrow Dragon Bay, are all It's hard to find grainlands so good that every one of them covets the territory of the Valley.

Under the watchful eyes of these impoverished countries, the entire valley alliance has been continuously eroded and occupied by foreign enemies (such as Tesen Valley), and internal conquests have also continued (such as the capture of Battle Valley, Feather Valley, and Farming Valley by Scar Valley in the past two years). There are only a dozen independent city-states left in the valley.

There is no shortage of food in the valley, and there would not even be a lack of food in the dagger valley if it hadn't been for a great flood that disrupted the order of life in dagger valley.But now William is really short of food. Before he came to wipe out the Dark Kingdom, he had already arranged for the smart Rabiel to go to Shadow Valley to buy food as a representative.

However, due to the wave of monsters caused by William's sweeping of the dagger hills, it is clear that Rabiel's food shopping trip is somewhat uncertain.However, William was not worried about this, because he had already faintly felt that there seemed to be a big gift bag waiting for him to open nearby, which would greatly alleviate the current food crisis faced by the territory.

Of course, although William believed in his hunch, he would never just wait for the pie to be delivered to his door.After he sent Misha'er and Miluna to Waterfall Town on the Pegasus Mozi to send a letter back, he let them cruise around on the Pegasus, looking for unusual places around.

But it is said that there is a spring valley five miles south of the dark town, where there are countless clear springs, which converge into streams, and then into rivers. Another river originated in the middle of the Mokou Mountains and runs through the southern end of the Dagger Valley. Together, they form the source and branch of the Asaba River that runs through the entire valley.

When William stood at the outlet of the river in the spring valley, looking at the gentle water flow, he felt that his big gift bag should be on this river.

William flew back to the camp where the weak group camped, but found that the whole camp was beaming. After asking, he found out that the hunting team had caught several big guys, five fat cave bison.

This is the large beast that the Minotaurs in the Underdark love to tame most. Each adult cave bison can weigh two thousand to three thousand pounds (about one to one and a half tons).

However, although this kind of cave bison has a standard bull head and a pair of rear hooves, their body shape is very similar to that of a gorilla, with a pair of sharp clawed arms that are much longer than the hind hooves.

Of course, the biggest contributor to being able to hunt the cave buffalo is Phinea. This woman has a unique talent in hunting, and she is also quite crazy. Almost every cave buffalo has its neck broken by her.

Standing in front of one of the cave bison corpses, William frowned. Then he opened the bison's belly and internal organs with a knife, and dug out a dirty little thing from the bulging stomach.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and the little thing seemed to be woken up. She secretly opened her light blue glazed eyes, looked at William in horror, and then burst into tears with a cry. He also rubbed the bison's stomach juice, blood and other filth on William's body desperately.