Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 27 25. Continue or go back
"The horseshoes fly,
horseshoe falls
The herd of horses galloping between the mountains and the plains sweeps like the wind

you are in the river,

You are among the mountains,

you are in the prairie,

you are among the horses
Now is your age to conquer the Plains of Galloping Horses
Our tribe of galloping horses is under the patronage of Emperor Augustus VI
Yeqi city made of the palace and temple made of huge stones
Forward, to awaken the glory of the ancestors
. . . . . . .

You are written by people,

You are in people's mouth,

You are in the hearts of people,

you are on top of people
Now is your age to conquer the Plains of Galloping Horses. "

43 barbarian demon possessors and nearly 100 non-magic in the right camp sang songs adapted by Rand from their hometown.

Today is October 10. In 20 days, Rand defeated two small and medium camps and one medium and large camp.

These three camps brought a wealth of black-scaled horses, pack animals, and long-haired sheep, as well as coins worth 350 gold, 42 pieces of iron armor, nearly 4 tons of grain, more than a dozen pieces of magic rune plates, and nearly 30 magic coins. crystal.

Freed 5 human demon possessors including 21 knights from these three barbarians.

Although no small tribe is officially affiliated, several songs adapted by Rand have been sung in several small tribes.

Large tribes attack with force, and small tribes conquer culturally. This is Rand's current attitude towards various barbarians.

In addition, as a race that worships the strong, the barbarians have a natural reverence for the powerful tribe and the strong man of the tribe.

Rand's tribe has created consecutive victories, and every time Rand has a big victory, Rand takes the lead in charging, completing the breakthrough and the first kill.Let the barbarian cavalry see their breakthrough in the enemy's formation, and naturally gain the loyalty of the barbarians. Of course, such loyalty is not cheap.

Before each battle, Rand needs to consume 2 magic crystals to activate the armor, and 1 magic crystal to replenish his fighting spirit. Therefore, 3 battles cost 9 magic crystals, which is worth 90 gold coins.

If it wasn't for the fact that Rand took Neil and others to hunt low-level water-type monsters in the pond when he was not fighting recently, Rand would really be reluctant to burn magic crystals to fight like this.

Of course, this kind of battle is not simply consumption. Rant felt that after every high consumption, the proficiency and frequency of using fighting qi skills increased, and the number of activations after consuming a magic crystal increased.

In this regard, Luo Er believes that after the increase in the release of fighting energy, Rand's own storage of fighting energy has increased, and his proficiency has also increased. This is the process of breaking through to the intermediate level.

After several battles, including gathering the remnants of the defeated tribes, the number of barbarian demon possessors in Rand reached 43, of which 35 were able to mount horses and fight.

According to the traditional barbarian ratio of 1:5 demon possessors and non-monsters, and the size of the traditional barbarians, the right battalion of Rand can be regarded as a veritable large tribe.

Now Rand's left battalion has reached 33 human demon possessors, and the population of both demon possessors and non-devil possessors far exceeds that of the previous Barony of Galloping Horse. There are 9 junior and reserve knights, and 24 demon possessors. Equipped with Iron Armor and Blackscale Horse.This team can also be regarded as the number one in the Northwest Earl's Territory.

The number of non-monsters in Zuoying also increased by more than 200 accordingly.Now that the population has increased and there are more literate people, Rand found more people to start territorial education.Now all the children in the territory are divided into three classes, which carry out four courses of literacy, arithmetic, physical education and skills respectively.

Literacy is to teach all children the letters, words and grammar of the common language of the human race. The goal is for children to know the letters within 1 month, and to be able to do simple spelling within 2-3 months.Arithmetic is to teach children addition and subtraction within 20, and more advanced multiplication within 100. Needless to say, children, Albert is not very good.

Sports are mainly physical exercise, and some good seedlings will also learn horse riding from young barbarians and swordsmanship from dog teeth.There are more skills.

It mainly depends on what the craftsmen in Group 1 and Group 2 are doing and what they have time to teach.There are also some craftsmen who have taken a fancy to some children and will let these children be their apprentices.

More talents also bring more management problems. Knights and demon possessors come from different countries and families, liberated from different tribes, and they are not familiar with each other. Demon possessors undergo recovery training for horseback riding and combat.

In addition, the demon possessors of the human race can only replenish the most basic rations during their captivity. The barbarians are extremely vigilant against powerful demon possessors, not only reducing their daily food rations, but also wantonly whipping or assigning heavy physical strength to the demon possessors.

Therefore, before training, Rand needs to provide demon possessors with a large amount of mutton and even monster meat to ensure that they can recover to the fighting level.

The barbarians in the right camp have a new song, and the left camp will naturally not be left behind. Rand adapted a farewell song for Kislev from the former Ursun Republic, and asked the women in the camp to sing together. Let the traveling knights have a little more nostalgia for them.

"Why did you make this farewell song?" Albert was curious, "I thought you would make a war song"

"Every time I go to war, I look at Nila, and I think of a melody, which is the earliest melody of this song." Rand's reason is made up, but the reason for his creation is not made up.

"Our human demon possessors come from too many places. I investigated it. In order to prevent the human race demon possessors from entering a small tribe and joining forces, the barbarians will deliberately disperse them when they are placed.

This has led to our demon possessors coming from all over the human empire. Most of them didn't even loot the Dragon Kingdom, but were abandoned by their families for various reasons and sent to the Benma Plain. "

"That's right, I noticed that too"

"So the question is, why do they want to be my Demon Owners?"

"What? It's so difficult that we saved them?" Albert didn't understand.

"Of course, I saved them, but it doesn't mean that I saved them this time, they live in my castle and serve me.

But among our knights, fight with me. In the future, what I can give them may only be a knight collar, or maybe not even a knight collar. If they are allocated 10 non-monsters, they must develop new territories with me. "Landt said, "I am just the fourth son of a baron. I have no financial resources and no territory. Maybe these people today are the foundation for my further development in the future, but it is also very likely that I will end here. The barbarians are here. The flags and drums in the south died down, and I returned to the south of Cornico to be my little noble with peace of mind."

"so what"

"It's okay, I want to give them a bond to stay in my territory, so that they can really integrate into this place. There are their comrades-in-arms here, and their family members who have no demons. They are not dying for a lord who is just them once." , but for his own territory and family," Rand said while looking at the barbarians.

"I think, no matter what, I don't want to call them barbarians in the future, maybe they will be called herdsmen or grassland tribes.

Regardless of whether it is the left camp or the right camp, I hope that they can sincerely identify with their identity as the Baron of the Running Horse and the Running Horse Tribe. "

"Can this be achieved?" Albert didn't know whether Rand's plan was a great achievement or a whimsical one.

"Can you, you have to start.

As long as we are careful and keep winning, we can see that day," Ranter is confident.

"Rand?" Albert hesitated at the moment.

"What's the matter? Uncle?"

"Have you considered... Let's go back the same way... Barony of Galloping Horses" Albert asked tentatively.

"I've thought about it," Rand told the truth without being polite. "Every time I win, I think about it"

"Have you thought about it?"

"Of course, if I go back now, keep the people, expand the population, and increase the number of demon possessors, if I return here, maybe we can eat a part of Rot's territory, or simply ask the earl to let us confront Viscount Rot." Rand said,

The conversation changed, "But uncle, if I go back like this and dream about my father and two elder brothers in the future, how should I face them?
Tell them, I've had enough fishing on the grasslands, and I don't want to worry about them anymore? "

"No... we can use other methods"

"We have swept through the entire tribe in the south of the Benma River. Could it be that they can exchange prisoners with us?"

"It's...they won't"

"Then tell me, what should I do?" Rand looked at Albert,
"If they, these barbarian cavalry who have just wandered in the Northwest Territory, return to the Benma Plain and find that their camp is gone, their father and brother have been cut down by us, and the human slaves have been released by us, and near the Rotor Territory, just There is a new baron or viscount land, what will they do?
Or, on the way back, they happened to watch us heading south to return to the territory, seeing us riding black scaled horses, singing songs, and eating mutton pot, what would they think?
Can we take on 200 barbarian cavalry? "

Albert was silent. In fact, he had already thought of these things before talking to Rand, but he still wanted to try.

The current Rand is too dangerous. What he is doing is digging the family grave, and his thinking is simply pagan thinking.

Since 1000 years after the Era of the God-Emperor, it is not that no one has thought of recruiting barbarians and extensively cultivating non-magic people, but without the protection of big families or legendary powerhouses, such behavior will definitely arouse the hostility of other big families.

What is most unclear to Albert now is what is behind Rand.

Is it a legendary class or even a classical demigod who inspires and unifies the barbarians?Or is it the ancestor of the Benma family who has hidden into the magic net?
Or the Pure Tower School of the Imperial Capital?

Albert didn't know who it was, so Albert decided to test Rand once.

See what Rand cares about.

"Since we still have to travel across the plain, what effect can we achieve by teaching the children intermittently?"

Lante pointed to one of the children in the distance, "The child of the first cobbler in the left camp is called Xiaodaoshan.

I remember when I first met him, his face was sallow, and he couldn't even understand a whole sentence. The old cobbler was responsible for the maintenance of the cavalry's leather clothes every day, but the small knife handle could only pee and play in the mud when he was free. "

Rant looked at Albert and said very seriously: "For Knife Hilt, the significance of education lies in realizing more possibilities in life; for me, it lies in cultivating the leaders I need.

Let the children know that their life is not just the sand under their feet, but they can also learn to plant, breed, weave and play musical instruments.

If they know the characters, they can also see a bigger world, more possibilities, and a higher vision in the books. For children, is this not good? "

"So... what does this have to do with you? You are their lord, shouldn't you be concerned about your rank, family and territory?" Albert was a little confused,
He had thought that Rand might say that the Benma family needed talents, that the Benma Plain was waiting for him to recover, or that the common people could get more resources, but Rand chose something he hadn't thought about. Angle: The individual perspective of the leader.

"Isn't this consistent? The development of my family, the development of my family, and the development of my territory are integrated. You see, when we first entered the Benma Plain, we faced food difficulties and the danger of attacks from barbarian tribes. Survival was a problem." .

Now we have everything, I have rune armor, my knights, big tents, herds of black-scaled horses, and large tracts of woolly sheep.

In the past, I needed them to follow me, not to be left behind in the migration. Now I need them to help me raise horses, skin them, and make sausages. In the future, I love them to make pottery, wood, and iron.

I can give them the expectation of a better life, and I also need them to have more skills. They are part of my territory, so I will definitely pay attention to them. "

"You can ask Mei Wennan to do these things. You can tell him what you want and let him do it for you, or you can let me do it."

"..." Rand didn't say anything, but he thought in his heart: Don't be ridiculous, I found Huck and the others, and you took your people and followed them.

Besides, the two of you are too careless. Mei Wennan can manage less than 100 people in the castle, and you can also manage the demon bearers.

You haven't figured out how many black-scaled horses and how many gold coins there are in Baron Galloping Horse's territory. Can I give you the 570 mouths in Zuoying?
"How many black-scaled horses do we have?" Rand asked.

"what?"

"When we left the territory, each demon possessor had a black-scaled horse, a total of 20 black-scaled horses.

How many black scaled horses do we have now after all the battles we have gone through? "

"Well, just ask the groom about this."

"A total of 101 horses, 81 of which were newly acquired after our recent wars. Of these 81 horses, 35 horses were born this year and could not be ridden, and there were more than 40 older horses. stallion or mare.

There are still 240 pack animals in our territory, and there were originally 650 long-haired sheep, but now there are only 550 left.

In addition, we have enough grain for about a month. After a month, if we can't find a lot of grain, we will consume more long-haired sheep.

The pig iron we have left is enough to replace the horseshoes of all the current black scaled horses 2-3 times, but if it exceeds 2 months, the combat effectiveness of our black scaled horses will also decline. "

"You..." Albert couldn't imagine that Rand knew the territory better than the butler.

"You are not sensitive enough to numbers and territory, but I have higher requirements on my subordinates than other lords." Rand looked firm.

Albert looked at Rand, and his heart fell into an abyss, because he had never heard a similar statement, and he had never seen other knight lords in the Dragon Kingdom pay so much attention to the specific wealth in the territory.

But now, the person in front of him no longer has the slightest awe of the aristocratic system for thousands of years.

(End of this chapter)