Transcendent Noble

Thirty Swiftbirds draped in a vehicle and lay quietly on the ground. Victor and his guards will ride these swiftbirds back to Flatlake Town. Their horses are used as pack beasts, carrying heavier lock weapons and some precious materials, mainly the crystals and silver ingots of the Thorium Mine.

Victor is going to bring these things to Flatlake Town, ask a jeweler to process them into jewelry, and then try to sell them. Although Alchemy Auxiliary Soldiers can also make exquisite silver ornaments, their craftsmanship has an Alchemy Empire style and is a self-contained system. It is incompatible with this era. It is easy to fall into the eyes of caring people and cause unnecessary trouble to Victor.

All transactions involving gold and silver must be extremely cautious.

The alchemy militia bundled up the last package of goods, and the team is ready to go. Victor held the sword hilt and said to Buso: "From now on, mountain fortresses will no longer produce ordinary iron essence equipment. You must come up with the equipment plan for refining the Golden Dragon lizard squad as soon as possible to meet the needs of mountains, swamps, forests, and plains. For combat and gathering needs, the key is to be able to supply on-site."

"Yes, my lord."

Before leaving, Victor performed the production tasks in the mountain fortresses according to the actual situation. A major adjustment has been made.

The hill camp will become a real armament production base. Victor plans to build a large furnace there, using poor iron ore and iron essence provided by the York family to produce ordinary weapon armor to meet the needs of the army . Although recruiting hired workers and mining iron ore is also a big expense, there is no longer a need to transport squad between hill camps and mountain fortresses, and at least 40 alchemy militias can be liberated.

The mountain fortress is responsible for smelting the minerals in the mountain, creating special equipment, raising swift birds, collecting mountain products, and making all kinds of medicines. At the same time, Victor also launched a plan to develop Great Swamp.

The core of this plan is of course trading with lizardmen, and wizard Imerson is the key. Apart from this, there are still a lot of preliminary work to be arranged, including digging platforms on the cliffs, building large lifting equipment, sending alchemy militia squad into the depths of the Great Swamp, collecting intelligence from the lizardmen tribe, and forming a powerful armed force. Transport power.

Victor is going to build a stable forward base under the cliff, and then make 3 golden dragon lizards, collect 5 dragon lizard fighting squads, each squad is equipped with 1 dragon lizard and 2 Concealed Ox militia, 4 monkey militias, 4 alchemy war mastiffs, 10 alchemy Golden Crow crows, dragon lizards and war mastiffs must wear special thorium armor, while the alchemy militia are equipped with the most sophisticated thorium equipment. The forward base will also be stationed with 50 militiamen, 20 auxiliary soldiers and 20 war mastiffs.

This project requires at least 100 homunculus to be drawn, and the mountain fortress has a total of 818 homunculus.

Currently, there are 1177 homunculus class members. Randal wants to retain an elite force. Each smuggling caravan needs to place 15 alchemy militias. Mountain fortresses must maintain a considerable number of homunculus classes and collect ceremonies. Silver resources, and there are also people on the northern side of Raven Town. Victor really feels that the number of homunculus is too small.

Randal has a large number of freelance workers, who need to be paid to mobilize them, as well as maintaining a huge amount of logistics consumption, and Victor has many secrets that cannot be known to outsiders. The alchemy creatures work hard and do not need to be paid, and the supply loss is almost zero, but Victor's stall is too big, and the more than 1,000 alchemy creatures seem to be insufficient.

Victor will never slow down the development progress! Don't forget, homunculus has only used lifespan for 15 years. If you don't use them to the extreme, Victor feels sorry for the cost of 1200 Kinsol. He can only try to optimize the use efficiency of the homunculus class. For example, build large furnaces near the veins to reduce transportation manpower as much as possible. However, building a furnace requires more energy crystals. Before getting the second batch of red crystals, the mountain fortresses can only continue to maintain a 280-person trolley transport team

The reality is so contradictory, Victor couldn’t help sighing: “Apart from training Golden Dragon lizards, can it be Can there be no natural creatures that can serve as mountain transport capacity?"

Buso immediately said: "Black argali, skeleton is hard, meat is rough, smelly, difficult to eat, has a strong load-bearing capacity, can Carrying a 500-pound weight on the mountain can be tamed."

Victor stayed for a while, and gu lu wrote: "I don’t know earlier..."

It’s not that cattle and horses cannot be transported in the mountains. Materials, but a simple mountain road is needed, otherwise the cows and horses will easily break their legs. However, building horse trails in mountainous areas is time-consuming, laborious, and difficult to maintain. In the rainy season, the simple horse track will be washed away by flash floods. Therefore, the alchemy militia still undertakes the transportation of mountain fortresses.

The black argali in Buso’s mouth may have been extinct, but it reminded Victor. Naville Kingdom has high mountains and dense forests and rugged mountain roads. The Naville people must have domesticated pack animals that resemble black argali.

Bringing the mountain pack beasts in Naville can not only meet the needs of mountain fortresses, liberate more alchemy militias, but also improve the transportation efficiency of smuggling caravans.

Thinking of this, Victor was in a good mood and asked: "Buso, what other supplies do you need here?"

Buso said: "My lord, the sheepskin scroll is out. We need more. The sheepskin scroll."

Victor once ordered the alchemy assistant soldiers to copy the skills they mastered on the sheepskin scroll with Chinese characters. If Ant-Man captures Centaur Hills and Alchemy Tower falls, Victor will take these precious scrolls of knowledge and evacuate the territory.

Knowledge is wealth, and knowledge is the power that can change destiny.

Even if Alchemy Tower is lost, Victor can make a comeback with these scrolls of knowledge. To this end, he purchased 3,200 sheepskin scrolls and handed them to Buso.

"Report a number." Victor waved his hand very proudly.

"70,000 copies."

"Okay! Just 70...70,000?" Victor put down his arm stiff in midair, fluxered and exasperated exclaimed: "You said How many sheepskin scrolls do I need?"

"70,000 copies." Buso was very clear, and repeated clearly.

Victor settled, solemnly asked: "Why do you need so many sheepskin scrolls?"

"Sir, we spent 526 sheepskin scrolls to draw the crafts and graphics of Thorium battleship In order to copy out the content of our will, 70,000 copies of the sheepskin scroll is only the first batch, and more will be needed later."

The parchment scroll is also called parchment, but it is not paper. , But sheepskin. The craftsman first dehairs the sheepskin, tanned it into leather, and then stretched it to the extreme with a special wooden frame, thinned it with a knife, and dried it into pieces. Each sheepskin can make 6 sheepskin scrolls.

The Solim family in the south is the largest sheepskin scroll maker in Gambis. They have a unique craftsmanship that can make sheepskin scrolls that will not rot for hundreds of years, and their prices are not cheap.

Twelve pieces of sheepskin scrolls are worth 1 kinsall, plus transportation costs and caravan profits, and its price is even higher. Victor buys sheepskin scrolls from the Chebman family. It costs 1 gold sol for every 8 copies. 3200 sheepskin scrolls cost 400 gold sols in total.

The knowledge in the side of the will of the alchemy and auxiliary soldiers does not involve profound theories, but contains basic information about tens of thousands of plants, animals, and minerals, as well as various ore smelting technologies, alloy manufacturing processes, and pharmaceuticals. Production process, weapon manufacturing process, castle design plan, large-scale catapult and bed crossbow manufacturing process, ship manufacturing, transportation vehicle manufacturing, etc.

Now, just copying the blueprint of the Thorium battleship design will cost 526 sheepskin scrolls. Those 70,000 sheepskin scrolls are definitely not enough! As for how many sheepskin scrolls are needed to fully transcribe the knowledge, Victor doesn't know, nor does he want to figure it out, he only knows that the price of sheepskin scrolls will skyrocket until he can't afford it!

"Buso, do you know how to make paper?"

"My lord, I don't have any information about paper here."

"I know...I do Can’t make paper."

Victor exhaled heavily. Alchemy Empire can directly load knowledge into the will side of the homunculus class. Alchemy Tower can extract the memory of alchemy creatures. This method is better than the computer on Earth. Technology must be advanced. Alchemists will certainly not use paper as a carrier of civilization. Even if Alchemy Empire has paper, it is mostly used for alchemists to wipe their butts. Obviously, the homunculus class does not need to make toilet paper for alchemists.

"Pause the knowledge transcription. I will solve this problem later."

"Yes, my lord."

Victor stepped onto the vehicle, and the bird raised his head and screamed. The team headed east.

Four hours later, Victor arrived in Flatlake Town. The two-meter-high Swiftbird mount immediately caused a sensation, so that the crowd watching the castle chased the Swiftbird into the town.

Yes, it's a castle.

The construction of the castle of Delling began in February of last year's water season. It lasted 11 months and mobilized 4000 young people. By January of this year's autumn season, the castle was finally completed.

This castle covers an area of ​​24 acres, the shortest city wall is 40 meters high, the tallest tower is 48 meters, a total of 107 rooms, 6 towers, and 12 cellars. There are two warehouses in the courtyard, a stable, a blacksmith shop, and a well. If the castle is full of supplies, it can provide more than 700 people for a year.

The castle is made of solid limestone. The city wall is 6 meters thick. The walls are smooth and no cracks can be seen. Even Wind Element Great Knight is impossible to climb with arrow rain and kerosene. Meter-high city wall. Although this majestic Viscount castle was built on flat ground, a heavy trebuchet must be used to conquer it. And the trebuchets on the castle are not decorations. Their condescending advantage will allow them to smash the enemy's trebuchets into dust.

Only castles that were disintegrated from the inside, not castles that were captured. This is not empty talk.

In addition to serving as a military defense facility, the castle also has extraordinary political significance. The castle represents the power, status, strength and prestige of the lord's family, and has the effect of cohesiveness. It can be said that there is a castle before a family.

In addition to the mountain castles and the castles of Raven Town, Victor currently owns three castles, but he cannot deny that this castle marks that Viscount Randal is the legal lord of this territory, even the king and the church. Can change this fact. Although, this is just an auxiliary fort.

The castle is 2600 meters away from the fence on the west side of Flatlake Town. According to Victor’s plan, a 35-meter-high city wall and two other auxiliary castles will be built along the castle in the future to expand Flatlake Town. A city of 48 square kilometers in size. The three auxiliary forts guard the north, west and south walls respectively, while the main fort is located on the east side of Pinghu Lake and is built next to the water.

In the future, not only Flatlake Town will have a fortress, but also three auxiliary fortresses. Giant fortresses will also be built in the hill camps, and each village will build fortresses and transform towns.

Randal covers 9,000 square kilometers and Raven Town 1300 square kilometers. Victor wants to build 2 cities, 9 towns and 16 villages, a total of 2 forts and 14 castles. With a giant brick kiln and rock bricks, this castle is just the beginning, and Victor's vision is no longer limited to the territory and the castle, there are more important things waiting for him to build.

In any case, this castle is of great significance to the Randal Family. Family members will walk around the castle if there is nothing to do. Some people have already stayed in it and refused to leave.

In the main bedroom of the castle, the huge bed is covered with silver bricks. Lilia is lying on it, with her white and beautiful calves, carefully counting each accompanying crystal, her eyes are also shining. of.

Victor couldn’t help but said, “Sleeping on it, don’t you think it’s too hard?”

“No.” Lilia didn’t look up, holding a blue crystal. , Smiled lightly.

"These things are worthless."

Victor slapped his peach-like hips and lay down on the silver mattress, really panicking. Lilia leaned on Victor's chest immediately, her apricot eyes were round, and she held the blue crystal in front of Victor and shook and shook her, "This is a gem, and there is silver underneath, why is it worthless?!"

Victor He grabbed the blue crystal from the little woman's hand, threw it aside, and said: "Can't eat, drink, can't resist the cold, can't overcome the enemy, what is it worth?"

"I don't believe it." Lilia Hao Without leaving Victor's embrace, he turned over and picked up two crystals, happily said: "I used to dream of lying on gold, surrounded by gems! Although silver is a little worse than gold, it is not a dream."

"Small money fan." Victor squeezed Lilia's face, and said indulgently: "These are all made into jewelry and silverware, but it is difficult to sell high prices."

Lilia asked inexplicably: "Why? Aren't jewelry and silverware expensive?"

"We cast these silvers into silverware for our own use. There is no problem at all. If you sell them out, you will be in big trouble. Even if they are made into silver plates and candlesticks, they can only be sold secretly by freelance traders. At present, only the Trading Company of the Marquis Leopold, Chancellor of the Exchequer, can legally operate gold and silver objects. They make them. The exquisite silver plate can produce more than 70 Silver Coins, but it can only sell 30 silver sols. The same is true for gold objects."

"These crystals are just rough stones, so they are not worth the money." Victor grabbed a handful of crystals and let them fall from his hands. He explained: "Only by processing crystals into jewelry can they sell for high prices. And the price of jewelry is not only the material and the level of craftsmanship. In fact, it really determines the price of jewelry. It’s the reputation of the craftsman and the people who wear the jewelry."

"The Benjamin Master of the Gambis capital is the royal jeweler, and the jewelry he makes can be sold for thousands of gold sols. Those unknown craftsmen The jewelry made, even if it is more exquisite than Ben Jamin’s works, is impossible to sell at high prices. Because Ben Jamin is the royal jeweler, his reputation represents the identity of jewelry. And advertised identity is the one. The value of jewellery."

"Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Lora has used tableware to be sought after by aristocratic children. This is the celebrity effect. And these things can only be sold to vassals when they are made into jewelry. . How much can a vassal spend to buy?"

"It turned out to be worthless..."

Seeing Lilia becoming extremely lost, Victor smiled and comforted:" Don't be depressed, maybe the jewelry you used will sell for sky-high prices in the future?

"Really? "

"Well, I promise to collect Lilia jewelry at sky-high prices. Victor joked, and said, "Okay. Tell me how many people have invested in building houses now. "

Lilia leaned back into her husband’s arms and said: "At the beginning, only 235 families were willing to invest in buying houses. Since the castle was built, the number of families who invested in buying houses increased to 421. We gathered The fund was 12,630 gold sols, 10,000 gold sols were deducted from the security deposit for the church, and the balance was 2,630 gold sols. "

"After that, no one is willing to invest in buying a house anymore. "

"How could this be? ”

Victor frowned, Randal led to provide 600 places to build houses, plan to recruit 600 freedmen’s families, nearly 3,000 registered children, and select officers and soldiers from them. Although, 30 Jinsuo This is a huge sum of money for the freedmen, but it is not difficult for those able and knowledgeable freemen, not to mention that Victor also provides loans.

The stewards and soldiers have monthly salaries. After three years, their families will be converted to civilians, and they will be able to rent 80 mu of land. In a few years, they will be able to earn 30 goldsore back.

Accordingly, with such favorable terms, 600 housing quotas should have been sold out. Why are so many people short of it? Is it true that the freelance workers led by Randal are short-sighted farmers?

Lilia sighed, said: "The 300 stewards have all been recruited, and the 60 security soldiers have also been recruited. Only the mercenaries only recruited 93 people. Those free citizens heard that now they only recruit mercenaries and are unwilling to build houses. "

"so that's how it is. "

Victor nodded, he understands, why Nelson said that the freedmen are unreliable!

The freemen are afraid of death!

Victor originally thought he was a refugee Recruiting soldiers in China couldn’t be easier, but it’s not.

Earth’s ancient refugees, often due to famines and wars, flew around to survive, living a life-and-death dilemma, and a precarious life. At this time, as long as someone organizes it. Recruitment can immediately pull up an army. However, this world is rich in wild resources, and the refugees are not easy to starve to death. They are afraid of monsters and wild beasts. In the final analysis, they are afraid of death. The most important thing is that the church has served as the refugees. The organizers of, they asked the lord to shelter the refugees, provide food and work. If the territory is in danger, the church will arrange the evacuation of the refugees.

Can organized refugees still be called refugees? Can they recruit from them? Mercenaries?

The refugees have a church to rely on. They have no sense of belonging to the territory and kingdom, and the lord hates the refugees. It is the church that draws a deep line between the populace and the nobility. The gap also hinders Victor’s development.

The Randal leader is a pioneering leader after all, and it is reasonable for the refugees to fear becoming the cannon fodder of the Randal Family. Before the entrance to the Great Swamp was blocked, mercenaries were recruited. Victor’s work would be very difficult, and Victor has nothing to do with it.

However, the 93 mercenaries have vision and courage, and are many times stronger than those who think they are smart but are actually cowardly. , Can be trained as elite and non-commissioned officers.

It is also a comfort to refine real gold by fire.

Victor smiled and asked: "Did Nelson jump in a hurry?" "

"Sister Linda is about to give birth, and the big brother follows Father Miller's ass every day, and hasn't even thought about jumping on her feet. "Lilia laughed, and said again: "By the way, the sheepskin scroll is not enough if the deed has not been issued yet." Honey, can you tune some sheepskin scrolls from the hill camp? "

Victor is silent. He can't tell Lilia that more than 3,000 sheepskin scrolls have all been used up.

"I still use those sheepskin scrolls. You can let Alice go again. Buy some. "

"Okay. "

Lilia nodded, picked up a crystal to play with. Victor was lost in thought.

The parchment scroll is unusable, papermaking is imperative!

Expensive sheepskin scrolls are the monopoly of knowledge by the nobility and the church. Cheap paper will give birth to many civilian scholars and promote the development of civilization. A strong human civilization has the ability to face unpredictable opponents, which meets Victor's needs.

However, Victor doesn’t know how to make paper, and it’s not his job.

As a lord, Victor has a lot of manpower available, and he can let others develop paper, but Papermaking is only a superficial problem.

The problems of inventing paper and recruiting mercenaries made Victor realize that the system needs to be built!

Leasing employment that combines land lease and civilian employment The system conforms to the reality of Randal, but there must be a system above the system.

If the system is the root system and the backbone, then the system is the branches and leaves. The combination of the two can become a towering tree.

On the basis of the vassal system, the lord has a military system, an education system, a judicial system, an internal affairs system, and a trade system. Similarly, Victor will also build these systems on the basis of a rental employment system. Papermaking can be incorporated into the education and scientific research system, and mercenaries into the military system.

Victor still needs time to consider the specific content of each system, but the general principle will not change.

You must reward, you must punish you, to ensure a relatively fair upward path, strive to transform freedmen into supporters, train supporters into facilitators, and let excellent facilitators become Victor's supporters through permanent land lease.

Once the system is perfected, the rental and employment system can burst into unimaginable vitality. Inventions and creations will continue to develop, army building will also develop rapidly, and territories will be voluntary revolving. No! It should be said that the huge organization established by Victor will continue to grow.

To some extent, this has touched the interests of the church. Because freedmen will find a sense of belonging in the system of renting and employing, they will become Victor’s citizens and no longer the lambs of the church. , There may be faith, but it may not be pious.

Lilia didn’t know what Victor was thinking at this time. She picked up a red crystal, gestured on her chest, and said: "My dear, I use this crystal How about playing a pendant? "

Victor looked around and saw a snow-white gully behind the red crystal. Four years later, Lilia is 22 years old. Compared with the 18-year-old young woman, she has a more mature Charming, full of breasts and hips, long legs and slender waist, fair complexion, and picturesque eyebrows.

The beauty is on the side, and Victor can't move his index finger. To kiss her attractive red lips, Lilia giggled, twisted her body, and got rid of Victor's clutches like a snake.

"en?! Actually use Spirit Monkey Secret Shape to reject me? "Victor said dissatisfied.

Lilia leaned over and kissed her husband's lips gently, said with a smile: "My dear, you have to keep your strength now. "

"you dare to look down on me! Didn't you get rid of the docile post by me that time? ! "Victor is furious.

"Someone is waiting for you at Silvermoon Manor. Lilia pursed her red lips, her face was jealous, but there was a sly smile in her eyes.

"Nicole? "

"no! It's Mrs. Judy. "