Lord of Rot

Chapter 244

"But for the power of muskets, I..." Quick Blade hesitated.

"Power?" Li Qi turned around and waved his hand at Luobo. Luobo immediately took the breastplate that had been placed aside a long time ago, and tied it to the trunk of a tree.

Quick Blade understood Li Qi's meaning, and he couldn't hide the expectation in his eyes.

It depends on the power, just shoot it and you will know it!

Li Qi quickly picked up the musket, loaded the gunpowder, shot, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

The flint pin slammed on the scythe.

White smoke rises.

"Oh!"

In other people's hands, the musket would like to jump into the sky, but in Li Qi's hands, it was honestly unremarkable and did not waver.

With his strength, this little counter-shock force is not enough to fear at all.

Before the thick smoke dissipated, Quick Blade couldn't wait to rush out immediately.

He ran to the piece of wood of the armor, lowered his head and inspected it.

There is a sunken crater in the armor, which has been pierced by muskets.

Untie the armor bound to the tree trunk.

There is an obvious bullet hole in the trunk.

Although the bullet holes were shallow compared to when there was no armor protection, even half of the projectile was exposed, but with a light prick with his finger, the projectile fell out.

But ordinary crossbows are very difficult to shoot through the breastplate.

"hiss!"

The armor of the porcupine soldiers is not particularly inferior to the plate armor of the knight master.

In other words, the days when a knight master could gallop on the battlefield with a set of plate armor are gone forever. To put it even more exaggeratedly, if a group of militiamen with muskets can also kill the charging noble knight!
Facing the charge may require the sacrifice of a dozen or twenty lives.

But the cost of a noble knight is more precious than hundreds of militiamen!
Li Qi looked at Quick Blade and understood what he was thinking now. He wanted to directly rule the battlefield with the power of the musket.

But...it's a pity.

After the emergence of the tide of magic, advanced combat power emerges in an endless stream, and more and more creatures are not afraid of muskets.

The musket is not to help the porcupine leader rule the battlefield.

But to keep them from being abandoned by the battlefield.

Of course, if Li Qi could develop a large-caliber weapon, the situation might not be as bad as he thought.

But magic is the main theme.

After seeing the power of muskets again, the soldiers couldn't put it down completely.

Li Qi has two requirements for soldiers.

One is to shoot.

The second is that the ability to fight in close quarters must also be trained to ensure that you survive.

That is to say, it can be used as a long-range musketeer, but the most important thing is the melee ability.

It is said that militiamen can fight with guns, but militiamen are just militiamen after all.

The combat effectiveness of systematically trained soldiers is beyond that of ordinary militiamen.

Muskets can be used at a long distance, but when it comes to hand-to-hand combat at close range, the militia is destined to be massacred one-sidedly.

It's not just infantry training.

Cavalry training is also proceeding in an orderly manner.

With the help of Pitts, the current cavalry has just established a fairly good friendship with the horse. They can ride the horse for a walk, but if they want to drive fast without being thrown off, and be flexible on the battlefield on horseback, they still need A long time to train.

According to Li Qi's plan, after the preliminary training of the cavalry has results, they will also be arranged to use muskets on horseback.

……

It's the end of the year.

Li Qi gave the whole Porcupine Ridge a day off.

At the bonfire party of killing chickens and pigs, Li Qi even asked Grant to contact his daughter in advance to bring the team to the porcupines to lead the performance again.

It can be regarded as fulfilling Glenn's wish to see his daughter.

Grant was very moved by the lord's decision. In order to repay Li Qi, he dragged Li Qi to stay in the city hall for a whole morning!
During this morning, Ge Lan took all sorts of prepared report materials, made a year-end summary to Li Qi, and started to formulate future plans.

The development of the porcupine collar is obvious to all.

From being unable to eat last year to more than 2000 people this year, every family has enough food and clothing, factories have been built, and even the wharf is not far away from completion, completely getting rid of poverty.

Just the number of soldiers is comparable to the total population of the porcupine collar last year.

But there is one thing that Li Qi didn't expect. This year, Li Qi's total pocket income is 50 gold days.

"Is something wrong?" he asked after a moment of silence.

"No, my lord," said Glenn, holding the documents beside him, "this has not counted the part you paid to build the factory yourself. Although our porcupine wine, soap, and honey are all making money, but making equipment for more than 200 soldiers, Buying war horses, building houses and factories, paving roads, paying people's salaries, and exchanging work points for slaves, all the money we earned this year has been spent."

"If you're going to add a batch of heavy plows for spring plowing, you'll also need money to buy cattle."

Most of the money was spent on the treasure that Li Qi got in the headland crypt.

"That is to say, the last 50 golden days are not mine?"

Money comes fast and spends fast.

On the surface, Li Qi only earned 50 gold days, but in fact he was giving away money to make the entire territory develop.

But at least the territory has developed. As long as it continues to operate, the territory will definitely bring greater benefits.

Looking at it this way, it’s better to sweep the crypts. It’s faster to get money by stealing money. Just dig a crypt and you can persist in the development of the territory for a period of time. After building a factory and a house, and living in a new house, even the exchange of work points for slaves can overwhelm him.

"The territory doesn't need so many slaves." Li Qi said, "All of them will be converted to serfs next year and let them farm the land!"

At least a serf doesn't need work points and can be self-sufficient, which also saves him some money.

Moreover, food supply is indeed a big problem, and more people are needed to farm the land.

He didn't want to buy a lot of grain for the winter every year at the end of the year.

The comedy troupe came, and Ge Lan's report work also came to an end, and she happily went to see her daughter.

Li Qi stood at the gate of the city hall, and a gust of cold wind blew in, making him more energetic.

The male servants and female servants also put on new clothes on this day. After receiving Li Qi's consent, the butler Simon reluctantly let them go on vacation.

Akeke also went home to accompany his father and brother.

Betty was working on dynamite.

The Thomas scholar is still tirelessly studying the magic scrolls, and has unknowingly pulled out a lot of hair.

Quickblade had already dragged Crowe and Joe to drink.

Although it was a day off for everyone, everyone seemed busier than usual.

But it's blissfully busy.

After returning to the castle.

Li Qi lingered in the study for a long time, and finally found Pitts with a few letters.

"Get these letters out for me and you can go home and rest, Pitts."

"Yes, my lord." Pitts happily accepted the letter.

She couldn't wait to get out and play with her little sisters.

"This letter, send it to Donggang City." Li Qi handed one of the letters to Pitts, and after watching her say a few words to the raven, the raven spread its wings and flew away.

A letter was sent to Hong Qiangwei, thanking her for her help in her business.

After all, love is a matter of constant contact.

The rest of the letters were sent to Greenwood Fort and Longship Fort.

After delivering the letter, Pitts turned to leave.

"This is your human's festival?" The brass dragon flew over and landed on Li Qi's shoulder.

"Isn't the dragon not on holiday?"

Li Qi stood on a high place, looking at the porcupine collar and asked.

"The giant dragon is too lazy to record the time," said the brass dragon, "but the human festival looks very good."

"This is a happy day to celebrate the end of the year." Li Qi said, "Let's go, let's go shopping too."

(End of this chapter)