Lord of War

  The war came suddenly and ended even more inexplicably.

  The 20,000 troops of the Boulder family had just reached the edge of the Mordege leader, they were urgently recalled, and they didn't even dare to take a step. Originally, Asuna expected that the opponent would be a little bit bloody, and it would be best to fight a battle fiercely to give her a better excuse, but I didn't expect the opponent to be so embarrassed, so the thundering forward led by Simi was invading. After Mordege took the whole territory, he could only stop moving forward.

  After all, the peace agreement between the two countries that was signed under strong pressure from some aspect has only been more than a year ago, so Asuna can’t break this rule first. After all, Ryan is just a principality, and behind her is the giant of the Thousand-Year Covenant Empire. I think that the fascist kingdom that was once prosperous in the past was almost subjugated by the Zenas Empire, how dare to fight against its own suzerain with the strength of the Principality of Lane.

  So, Asuna could not take the initiative.

  Otherwise, what reason is needed to start a war in this world? It's nothing more than finding a way to get a righteous name, and then you can go to war just right.

  But the Boulder family members are also very smart.

  Since she did not dare to go to war with Asuna, the only remaining method was peace talks.

   Soon, the two peace talk teams set off from the tequila leader, one went straight to the Modger leader to get in touch with Simi, and the other was of course led toward Panda. At this point, it shows the shrewdness of the Boulder family, and he did not choose to ignore Sean because of his pioneering knighthood. It has to be said that the Boulder family, who is good at investing, is indeed worthy of doing things. The top is dripping.

  Sean threw a sticky note in his hand to Lonnis, and smiled: “The Boulder family’s reputation for being good at investing is indeed well-deserved, but I didn’t expect you to be so important to the Boulder family.”

Ronnis glanced at Sean with a calm look: "Anyone has a different value in the eyes of different people. Some people have high value, some people have low value, some people can appreciate in value, and some people have a different value. It is a constant depreciation. I still have a high value in the eyes of the Boulder family, and this value will continue to appreciate in the future, and they will naturally take it very seriously."

  Lonnis has changed his clothes, no longer the tattered aristocratic clothes before.

  The new clothes are pure white costumes modeled on the military uniforms of the Kingdom of Darbion. Wearing this suit on Ronnis's body, it highlights his melancholy aristocratic temperament even more, without the seriousness and ferociousness of the kingdom's military uniforms. Coupled with the fact that Ronnis’s leather bag is already good, the pure white clothes on the body gives people the unusual sunlight. Many women in the town of Baige have a secret affection for this prisoner of war, only because of the lord Sean. The deterrence of adults, no one dares to be too presumptuous.

  But this way, Ronnis secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

  This costume was made by Sean who asked the best tailor in the town to use the best fabric, so that a set of clothes is only worth a few gold coins. But Ronnis has no dissatisfaction with this, because he knows that Pandaling is now a waste of time, and it has always been a small town. Naturally, there can be no famous tailors, but from this point You can see Sean's attitude from above.

  He really satisfies Lonnis according to the Marquis's standards.

  Of course, it is impossible to be satisfied materially. After all, Sean’s life is not luxurious, so he can only be satisfied from other aspects.

Now Ronnies lives in Baige Town, and Sean does not restrict his actions. He can go out and walk around the town at any time as long as he wants. Of course, it is necessary to prevent some unnecessary accidents and troubles. One of the three of Knock, Stalin, and Aldolf led the team to be responsible for "protection." For this kind of behavior, Ronnies does not have the right to oppose, on the contrary, he can obtain such a high degree of freedom, which is indeed beyond his expectations.

"You are very confident of yourself." Xiao En said with a smile, "As soon as tomorrow is over, your one-week enjoyment period will be over, how about? Do you want to exchange something new? ?"

  Lonnis gently put down the knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a napkin, all the movements looked unusually elegant.

On the dining table, in addition to tender beef ribs, red maple wine, a plate of vegetable and fruit salad, white flour, jam and other common noble meals, there are three types with different dishes. Seafood and fish food prepared with cooking techniques.

  In fact, these three fish foods are the most essential and expensive part of this marquis-style treatment.

  There are many inland lakes on the Continent of Miracles, but they are not too many to spread across the continent. Basically, except for coastal foreign countries, it is difficult to eat seafood in many other countries. Therefore, in some areas, seafood dishes are only available to real nobles. Take the Kingdom of Dabion as an example. Except for the eastern part of the kingdom where you can enjoy seafood more often, other places, especially the southwest, have no seafood to eat since the fall of the Black Swan Castle, even if there are occasional opportunities. It can be eaten, but the seafood is also shipped from Fengshen Lake, and the price is not affordable by everyone.

  Lonnis was able to eat these seafood, and it was Sean who asked him to catch it from Black Swan Lake and send it directly to the town. Of course, only Ronnis can enjoy it. Although other people in the town are greedy, no one is so insecure or bold enough to ask for seafood, because they all know that this is a nobleman. Their class privileges are definitely not something that little people like them can enjoy.

  Lonnis glanced at the table, and felt that the only pity was that there was no honey. It tasted great when it was smeared on the bread.

"I did a little research on steam science before, but later time was too tight, so I didn't go deeper." Ronnis stood up, went back to his room, took a few drawings, and put them on the other end of the dining table. Spread out one by one, "But recently because it's been relatively idle..." At this point, Ronnister glanced at Sean, and the meaning was self-evident: "So I will perfect my previous research and ideas. Unfortunately, there is no way to do experiments, but according to my theoretical data, the success rate of this method is close to 90%, so I will make a small improvement on the blueprint of the impact shield..."

  While speaking, Ronnis reached out to one of the drawings, which was painted with a dense pile of things and formulas, but it was obvious that it was absolutely impossible for Sean to understand.

"I kept this steam-powered engine only the key parts, and then transferred it to the internal structure of the impact shield, so that the impact shield can be nailed out within ten seconds after it is activated, and it becomes more solid, but this There are disadvantages and benefits.” Ronnis gathered all the drawings in order and integrated them, and then laid them out and pressed them hard. This kind of extremely thin paper was printed on top of each other, and all the structures of the entire impact shield were printed. All integrated, it looks clearer and more obvious, "The advantage is that as long as it succeeds, it can be put into use immediately, without just staying in the unfinished state as before, and its unique triple shield structure I dare say that it is absolutely current The highest pinnacle of forging technology. But the downside is..."

Sean frowned slightly, and took over Lonnis’s words and said: “People who use this impact shield have extremely high requirements for arm strength. The core is reduced, and there are also high requirements for the craftsmanship level of the production, in addition to the requirements of the blacksmith's production ability. In addition to the cost...not counting the training cost, just say that such an impact shield is good, it The cost of building is nearly 5,000 gold coins, which is even enough to arm hundreds of heavy infantry with tower shields, and it still includes training costs."

"Yes." Ronnis said in a deep voice, "but I have also calculated that if you don't buy the core of the steam engine power source, but instead provide the material yourself to make it by goblins, and the shield embryo is also responsible for the dwarf, the cost will be Probably it can be reduced to about 3,000 gold coins. If the skillful skills can form the current unique arsenal assembly line operation, the cost price can even be reduced to less than 2,000, plus the funds required for a year of training and other supporting equipment. , The cost of a hundred heavy infantry equipped with shock shields is about 300,000 gold coins."

"The scale of one hundred people is not enough to form a fighting force." Xiao En calculated silently, and then frowned further. "Based on the minimum configuration, at least five hundred people are required to form a force, so the cost is one hundred. Five hundred thousand."

  Lonnis also retorted: “But don’t forget, if such a unit has only 500 people, the combat power they can form is close to a heavy infantry regiment with a size of 3,000 people.”

"But you also need to know that even if the standard configuration of a heavy infantry is required by the standards of sophisticated equipment, it only needs less than three hundred gold coins, and three thousand men are only 900,000.... If it is an ordinary grade, Not even a hundred gold coins."

"But the training period of any heavy infantry is more than three years, and the elite even needs five years of training." Ronnis said with a calm face, "but the heavy infantry equipped with the impact shield only needs one year of training. You can go to the battlefield immediately, greatly omitting several years of work, and it is extremely easy to supplement the strength of this heavy infantry. This is the most important point. Besides, as long as it can block the charge of the cavalry, do you think such a heavy infantry Is the infantry worthless?"

Sean sneered and said: "But don't forget, your assumption is based on the presence of goblins and dwarves and skilled craftsmanship. Without all this, the cost of the impact shield is more than 5,000 gold coins. . How much do you count as five hundred people."

  As a result, Ronnieston was a little discouraged, so he said helplessly: "Indeed....So, are you not interested in this drawing?"

"Forget it, it's better than nothing. Anyway, I guess you won't be able to bring out any good products." Sean curled his lips in disdain, "Well, it's converted into three days. You still have four days to enjoy it, if it's time. There is nothing that can satisfy me, so I will put you back in the cage."

  Hearing Sean’s words, Ronnies looked distressed, and even lost interest in looking at the food on the table.

  However, Sean ignored Ronnis’s thoughts, and he took away along with the drawing of the armor. If Ronnies was still thinking about observing Sean at this moment, he would definitely find that Sean's clenched fists were a sign of his inner excitement.

  Dwarf? Goblin?

  Unfortunately, there are these two types of people in a strange army that Sean has just acquired.

  The construction of the military factory?

  Hey, in the classification of military in Sean's lord system, there happens to be the construction of military factories, but it can't be built for the time being.

  As for the soldiers?

  Well, the discussion between Sean and Lonnis is naturally based on humans, but Sean now has bear and tauren. These two races of improper heavy infantry are simply a violent thing.

  So many resources can be used, Sean would be really stupid not to use it.