Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

Early in the morning, Su Zheng got up early, and today Su Zheng planned to go to the barracks to have a look.

Su Zheng moved the training camp to the mountains outside the city, and set up a military activity area to prohibit idle people from approaching.

Coming to the city lord's mansion, Chris and the guards had been waiting for a long time, and Su Zheng's personal guard had more than a dozen heavily armed and well-equipped knights.

Although they are fully armed and well-equipped, if you look at their identities, I am afraid they have to be described as shabby.

Generally speaking, each of the elite guards of the city lord is a viscount or baron noble, which symbolizes the noble status of the earl, but Su Zheng's personal guards, except for the knight chief who is a baron, are all commoners.

The difference between the two is not ordinary, after all, the viscount and the baron are nobles, and it obviously costs a certain price if they want them to be loyal and maintain extremely high combat effectiveness.

Riding on the horse, Su Zheng waved his hand and signaled the team to set off, the civilians at the gate of the city lord's mansion bent down and saluted after seeing Su Zheng, Su Zheng nodded slightly, Su Zheng's prestige in the city is still very high.

After leaving the city, Su Zheng accelerated his progress, as a modern person, Su Zheng was accustomed to the fast pace of the industrial age, and he was no longer suitable for the long wait.

For example, to purchase supplies, you need to go to Notting, which is close to 200 kilometers away from Su Xincheng, and if you have a car, you can get there in a few hours, but now you can only rely on foot, and you have to pull full of goods, which delays the time even more, which makes Su Zheng feel irritable.

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In the suburbs outside the city

, in the camp in the mountainous area of military activity "121, 121",

the team is conducting physical training, and columns are running circles around the playground.

"His Royal Highness the City Lord!"

a knight wearing armor and a long sword at his waist came to Su Zheng.

"Lei Ming, how is the training?" Su

Zheng asked about the situation while getting off the horse, and the knight hurriedly got off the horse and took off his helmet when he saw this.

"Your Highness, you are still training according to your plan, and today everyone is barely ... Go out... It's done, but the food is a little insufficient, and the food standard you set is much, much higher than before.

"It's okay, you must ensure their nutrition, you don't have to worry about food, all the food in the granary is used to supply the army, and I also arranged for someone to buy 10,000 copper coins of meat and live white pigs, which have arrived last night and can be slaughtered for the soldiers to eat." Su

Zheng's physical training intensity is more than one level stronger than before, but the plan is still gradual, the first day is only to run 20 kilometers, but the result is almost all lying on the nest, the second day only eight people get up on time to report.

However, correspondingly, Su Zheng has also raised the food by more than one grade.

Looking at the panting soldiers running in the camp in front of him, Su Zheng couldn't help frowning, the physical fitness of these people was really poor.

This group are all recruits, and in fact the veterans are the same, except for the first few days when they perform better than the recruits, and they are half dead like the recruits in the subsequent training.

Originally, there were a total of 500 city guards in Suxincheng, and in the era of backward productivity, for a city-state with a population of only four or five thousand, 500 people who were out of work, that is, 10% of the people out of work, was already a big burden.

After Su Zheng crossed over, he organized another 500 civilians, and the priority was to pick hungry wanderers without work, which made Chris and Lei Ming incomprehensible.

From the perspective of Su Zheng's personal interests, it is indeed not worth it, but from the perspective of people's livelihood, the expansion of the army is one of the ways to solve the problem of unemployment, and in the era of backward productivity, handicraftsmen need craftsmanship, and farmers also need experience, unlike the operators on the assembly line in the factory in the industrial era who only need simple training to take up their posts.

It is clearly an unwise choice to separate artisans and peasants who have experience in the state of production from production.

"Your Highness the City Lord, according to your method, we will all conduct physical training in the next two months, won't we train them to use bows and arrows?"

Su Zheng shook his head:

"The first thing the army needs to solve is physical fitness, and everything else is not a problem.

"However, archers are indispensable for both city defense and attack, and the training of archers takes time. "

No, no, no, things like bows and arrows will soon be useless!" Su

Zheng shook his head.

Lei Ming didn't understand Su Zheng's words, but he didn't continue to ask.

He didn't understand Su Zheng's current situation at all, and he also heard that Su Zheng ordered the purchase of a bunch of things, but he didn't understand what Su Zheng was going to do. But he estimated that the Soviet government was going to make a big move.

However, Chris asked the question that Lei Ming wanted to ask:

"Your Highness, you are now stockpiling food and training new soldiers, are you planning to jointly attack Ted City with Merlin City?"

Lei Ming also looked at Su Zheng, he couldn't predict the rest, but through the expansion of the army and the storage of food, it can be seen that Su Zheng is definitely going to have a military operation.

However, Su Zheng's words made the two stunned:

"No, it's just the expansion of the standing army, and I don't have any ideas for the time being." "

Su Zheng didn't hide it, this is Su Zheng's current thoughts, this is the world of magic, without complete preparation, Su Zheng doesn't dare to expand rashly.

Chris said with a worried face,

"His Royal Highness the City Lord... It is my duty to remind you that if we continue like this, the food in our territory will not be able to supply the consumption of so many troops, and if we follow the food supply you give, it will take up the vast majority of our income, and may even be unable to make ends meet. "

The main income of Suxincheng depends on taxes, and the tax method is still the tax income of individuals per capitation, and it is only 10%.

In addition to agriculture, Suxincheng mainly manufactures furniture, and other semi-finished product processing also accounts for a part, and the per capita output of the people of Suxincheng is about 200 copper coins a year.

The City Lord's Mansion relies on taxes and some other income, and can have an income of about 80,000 copper coins a year, and the annual expenses of the City Lord's Mansion are about 40,000.

That is, there can be a net income of about 40,000 yuan a year, in addition to some food income.

In the past, relying on these taxes and grains could completely feed the previous 500 city guards, even if there were additional expenses, at most a few thousand copper coins a year.

However, according to the food supply set by the Soviet government, a soldier would have to consume 30 copper coins a month just to eat and drink, and 1,000 soldiers would have to consume 30,000 yuan a month! 360,000 a year.

Now in addition to providing these soldiers with more food, there is even a large amount of meat.

This is something that no civilian army has, and these civilian soldiers, let them have enough food to train and fight, which is the greatest care for them.

"The Imperial Royal Guard is no more than that. This

is the emotion of thunder.

Only the imperial guards of the empire have such treatment, after all, they are all viscounts, even the auxiliaries and reservists are barons.

Civilian soldiers of the Imperial Army could not have been treated like this.

"First use the money in the inventory to buy grain, I remember that my grandfather was not rewarded with some gold bars, which have been useless in the treasury, all exchanged for copper coins estimated to be worth millions, no need for nothing, there are so many gold, silver and jewelry in the treasury, and there are millions of them all sold. Su

Zheng is not distressed at all, he is not like these pedantic old-world aristocrats, who only know how to collect these belongings and are not willing to spend.

"This..."

Chris looked at Su Zheng in shock, but he didn't expect Su Zheng to even plan to spend the money at the bottom of the box.

Looking at Chris, who was a little worried, Su Zheng smiled and said

, "It's okay, what's the use of keeping these things? It's better to use them realistically, and, although I don't have a plan in the short term, it doesn't mean that I don't have a long-term plan." Hearing

Su Zheng's words, Chris and Lei Ming glanced at each other, they vaguely felt Su Zheng's ambitions, but Chris still didn't understand Su Zheng's unreasonable operation.

Su Zheng didn't give Chris a chance to continue to make suggestions, he rode directly on the horse, and then explained

to Lei Ming: "Lei Ming, you don't have to worry about logistics, just train." "

Yes, Your Highness, I will definitely step up my training for them.

"In addition, immediately organize a group of soldiers in better condition, distribute armor and weapons, and prepare for battle. "

Ahh Understood!"

Lei Ming and Chris were both a little puzzled by Su Zheng's order, didn't Su Zheng just say that he had no intention of fighting in a short period of time? Why did he start assembling the team again now? Seeing this, Lei Ming didn't

ask much. Although Su Zheng's current approach made him a little confused, as an officer, it was his duty to obey orders.

Chris didn't ask too much anymore, in his heart, no matter what Su Zheng did, he would unconditionally carry out Su Zheng's orders.