Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

On the afternoon of the next day, Harvey, who had just spent lunch and was about to return to the bedroom to rest, was intercepted on the spot by Asdaren, who had rushed over.

"Sir, a secret policeman who was following me who went to Montenegro Port sent an emergency line." Asdaren handed the copied message to Harvey. "He was originally responsible for secretly spreading the news in the Montenegro Port area, and With the assistance of the local cooperative chamber of commerce, civilians were recruited... and they accidentally joined the slave trade caravan active in the southern border area. "

Asdaren sighed and continued, "This young man is too impatient and wants to gather a group of refugees to return north as soon as possible, so he traded with the slave caravan for 20 silver coins and bought five hundred of them. Refugees who came back from the kidnappers."

Alas! They really dared to make a deal with such a large banned population transaction.

Harvey couldn't help asking, "Why should the slave trader believe him in a few hundred gold pounds? I remember that the funds for the activities granted to the secret police were not sufficient."

"That's true. This young man named Muller was very brave. He actually issued a debt to the other party in the name of the grizzly bear. In order to forge their identity, you personally instructed Earl of Fagan. Ask him to provide some legal identification certificates for use by the secret police…”

Harvey nodded in a clear way and couldn't help but exclaim: "Although he acts impatiently, he is really flexible and has good adaptability... Since secretly spreading news and recruiting refugees is not effective, maybe he can buy it from human traffickers. It is also a way to deal with the civilians they abducted by them."

He paused and continued to ask, "How do you plan to escort these five hundred people back now?"

Asdaren smiled bitterly: "Muller was almost the same as yours at that time. He originally planned to use the relationship of the local cooperative chamber of commerce to rent three cargo ships to send people back along the Ralph River..."

Just go all the way from Heishan Port to Sancha Town, and the frozen river surface to the north can no longer sail, so water transportation must be changed to land transportation.

The problem lies in the transfer station on this journey to the north - the baron of Sancha Town received the news from somewhere, and learned that the fleet under the banner of Grizzlies Earl Fagan would be in his own little When the town wharf got off the ship, he immediately took people to arrest Muller and his group, and suddenly had a whim to temporarily impose a high "population tax" on them.

"The Baron of Sancha Town has Grand Duke Ralph as his backer and does not take the Grizzly Earl seriously at all. I sent a letter to Earl Feigen to ask... Both parties have been in conflict over the issue of shipping and freight. The grizzly bear's neck was stuck on the Ralph River all the time by Sancha Town. "

Harvey couldn't help but find it funny and deceived the traffickers under the guise of Earl Feigen. Unexpectedly, he inexplicably took the blame for the old grudges of Earl Feigen and the Barons of Sancha Town. Now Earl Feigen is afraid that he can't be willing to do so. He immediately sent troops to Sancha Town, shocking the obsessed baron a little bit of force.

"I didn't expect that in the end, Earl Feigen, in turn, took the initiative to take revenge on our tiger-skinned flag and pretended to be a tiger-powered."

Harvey shook his head, "Let Earl Feigen write a letter to Sancha Town, first stabilize the other party and ensure the basic safety of our personnel... A week later, the two icebreakers newly launched in Grizzly Fortress went to Sancha Town to rescue people Bar!"

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The young secret policeman named Mueller seemed to have a big mess for Harvey, but by chance, inspired Harvey in the way of population recruitment.

"Renner, immediately send a letter to inform the Dragonstone Chamber, Andrew Chamber and Harold Chamber... Let them cooperate with the secret police we sent past to connect with active local traffickers."

Reiner and Asdaren looked at each other and said in surprise: "Sir, are we going to buy people directly from the slave trader?"

The alchemy brain of the territory's chief executive immediately began to calculate at high speed, and in less than half a minute he said in a painful tone: "Even if affected by the domestic war in St. Valen and the shortage of food in winter, the price of human trafficking has dropped sharply recently... But I want to Buying people from these black merchants who are already engaged in banned businesses still needs to pay a lot of money."

Harvey shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The gold pound and silver coins cannot play any role they should have in the territorial warehouse. We are different from those greedy and short-sighted southern nobles. The fresh population labor force is the most valuable. ”

The price of a civilian serf in 20 silver coins is not cheap, mainly because Muller and others were too impatient and did not negotiate with the human traffickers to reduce the price. After all, population trade is different from goods, and if the goods are thrown into their hands, they will not get sick or die. Those who escape randomly do not need to consume the already precious high-priced winter food, and anyone wants to get rid of it as soon as possible.

"Young serfs can buy them normally at the price of 20 silver coins, but we need them the same as children, just try to lower the price to the limit. I believe that those human traffickers want us to buy these burdens from them, and maybe they are willing to be directly Attached to us."

Reiner asked carefully, "Then... how many serfs are we going to buy this time?"

Harvey smiled and said, "You and Asdaren are much better at math games than me. The budget of 20,000 pounds... How much population can be bought from southern St. Valen depends on your planning..."

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Using money to buy population is just a helpless move that I can’t wait for now.

On the eve of the outbreak of the civil war, it is naturally the best choice to try to gain more people in order to open up the territory, but wait for the outbreak of the war, a large number of refugees will also flee their hometowns due to the spread of the war. At this time, Harvey will set up a pre-schedule The propaganda offensive will work immediately.

Compared to fleeing to a foreign country outside St. Valen, although the Grizzly Corps is located in a more northerly border area, it is at least still in China, which is more or less a safer.

In addition, there is also the reputation endorsement of the nominal border lord, Earl Fagen, promising to provide a livelihood job for refugees and serfs who fled here, so that their future will not be uncertain.

But Harvey has not forgotten the most important work plan at the moment - once the population of the wasteland territory increases significantly, there will inevitably be a shortage of food supply.

There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!

After the war broke out, he probably would never have the opportunity to import a large amount of food from the southern border. The food trade, which was firmly controlled by the Chamber of Commerce and the nobles, will inevitably be sold at high prices.

"Notify the engineering minister of North Slope Base Pep to come and see me!" Harvey slapped his head and ordered the guard in the study.

Asdaren was a little confused, "North Slope Base? Sir, is there something wrong with the underground energy ranch?"

Harvey raised his hand and pointed to the area map on the desk. The central location was the plains of the Eastern Valley Basin surrounded by mountains, which has always been very difficult for them. He didn't know how to start developing a rich virgin land that pioneered.

"I thought for a long time and finally decided to start a development plan for the eastern basin before spring..."

Harvey picked up the charcoal pen and directly connected the mountain ridge between the eastern bank of the pioneer and the basin plain with a thick vertical line. "I plan to use a living shield machine to directly penetrate the mountain and dig out a A three-mile straight underground passage serves as a major transportation route that runs through the pioneering territory and the basin plains!”