Chapter 265

Thirty fast birds, draped in vehicles, lay still on the ground. Victor and his pro guards will ride these fast birds back to Pinghu Town. Their horses, as pack animals, carry heavy armor weapons and some precious materials, mainly the accompanying crystals of Se silver mine and silver ingots.

Victor is going to take these things to Pinghu Town, ask a jeweler to process them into jewelry, and then try to sell them. Although the alchemy auxiliary soldiers can also make exquisite silver jewelry, their craft works have the style of the alchemy Empire and form their own system, which is incompatible with this era. It is easy to fall into the eyes of interested people and bring unnecessary trouble to victor.

All transactions involving gold and silver should be handled with extreme caution.

The alchemy militia tied up the last package of goods, and the team was ready to go. Victor held the sword handle and said to Bousso, "from now on, the mountain fortress will no longer produce ordinary refined iron equipment. You should come up with the equipment scheme of the alchemy dragon lizard team as soon as possible to meet the combat and collection needs of mountains, swamps, forests and plain terrain. The key is to be able to supply locally."

"Yes, sir."

Before leaving, Victor made a major adjustment to the production task of the mountain fortress according to the actual situation.

The hill camp will become a real arms production base. Victor plans to build a large furnace there to make ordinary weapons and armor by using lean iron ore and refined iron materials provided by York family to meet the needs of the army. Although recruiting employees and mining iron ore are also a large expense, there is no need for transportation teams between hill camps and mountain fortresses, and at least 40 alchemy militia can be liberated.

Mountain fortress is responsible for smelting minerals in mountain areas, making special equipment, raising fast birds, collecting mountain goods and making all kinds of medicaments. At the same time, Victor also launched a plan to explore the Everglades.

The core of this plan is, of course, the trade with the lizard people, and the wizard imosen is the key. In addition, there are still many preliminary work to be arranged, including digging platforms on the cliffs, building large lifting equipment, sending alchemical militia teams to dive into the depths of the Everglades, collecting information about the lizard tribe, and forming a strong armed transport force.

Victor is going to build a stable forward base under the cliff, create three more alchemical dragon lizards, and gather five dragon lizard combat teams. Each team is equipped with one dragon lizard, two Funiu militia, four monkey militia, four alchemical war mastiff, 10 alchemical crows. Both dragon lizards and war Mastiff should wear special silver armor, while the alchemical militia is equipped with the most sophisticated silver armor. The forward base should also be stationed with 50 militia, 20 auxiliary soldiers and 20 war mastiffs.

The plan requires at least 100 alchemists, while the mountain fortress has only 818 alchemists in total.

At present, there are 1177 existing alchemists. Randall leader wants to retain an elite force. Each smuggling caravan needs to install 15 alchemist militia. The mountain fortress also needs to maintain a considerable number of alchemists to collect silver resources, and there are also people in Raven town in the north. Victor really felt that the number of alchemists was too small.

Randall has a large number of free civil servants, who need to be paid to transfer them, and maintain a huge amount of logistics consumption, and Victor has many secrets that can not be known to outsiders. Alchemists work hard and do not need compensation, and the supply loss is almost zero, but Victor's stall is too large, and the more than 1000 alchemists are not enough.

Victor will never slow down the development progress! Don't forget that alchemists have only 15 years of service life. Victor feels sorry for the manufacturing cost of 1200 kinsol if they don't use them to the extreme. Now he can only try to optimize the efficiency of alchemists. For example, build a large furnace near the ore vein and try to reduce the transportation manpower. However, building a furnace requires more energy crystals. Before getting the second batch of red crystals, the mountain fortress can only continue to maintain a cart transportation team of 280 people

The reality is so contradictory. Victor couldn't help sighing: "apart from the alchemical dragon lizard, can't there be any natural creatures that can act as the transportation power of the mountain?"

Bousso immediately said, "black wool argali sheep has hard bones, thick and tough meat, stinky and difficult to eat. It has a strong load-bearing ability and can carry 500 pounds in the mountains. It can be tamed."

Victor stayed for a moment and muttered, "I didn't say earlier..."

Cattle and horses are not unable to transport materials in mountainous areas, but they need a simple mountain road, otherwise cattle and horses are easy to break their legs and feet. However, the construction of horse roads in mountainous areas is time-consuming and difficult to maintain. In the rainy season, the simple berm will be destroyed by mountain torrents. Therefore, the alchemical militia still undertakes the transportation of mountain fortresses.

The black haired argali sheep in busso's mouth may have been extinct, but it reminded victor. The Neville Kingdom has high mountains, dense forests and rugged mountain roads. The neville people must have domesticated pack animals similar to black haired argali sheep.

Getting the mountain pack animals from Neville 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, "Bousso, what else do you need here?"

Bousso said, "my Lord, we have run out of sheepskin scrolls. We need more sheepskin scrolls."

Victor once ordered the auxiliary alchemists to transcribe their skills in Chinese characters on the sheepskin scroll. If the ant man conquers the man horse hill and the alchemy tower is lost, victor will evacuate the territory with these valuable knowledge scrolls.

Knowledge is wealth, and knowledge is a force that can change fate.

Even if he lost the alchemy tower, Victor could make a comeback with these scrolls of knowledge. To this end, he purchased 3200 sheepskin scrolls and handed them to busso.

"Give me a number." Victor waved his hand with great pride.

"70000 copies."

"OK! Just 70000?" Victor put down his frozen arm in mid air and shouted angrily, "how many sheepskin scrolls do you say you need?"

"70000 copies." Bousso repeated it clearly and clearly.

Victor calmed down and asked in a deep voice, "why do you need so many sheepskin scrolls?"

"My Lord, we spent 526 sheepskin scrolls in drawing the craft and graphics of the seiyin warship. If we want to transcribe the contents of our will side, 70000 sheepskin scrolls are only the first batch, and we need more later."

Sheepskin scroll is also called parchment, but it is not paper, but sheepskin. The craftsman first depilated the sheepskin and tanned it into leather, 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 manufacturer of sheepskin scrolls in Gambis. They master a unique technology. The sheepskin scrolls produced can not rot for hundreds of years, and their price is not cheap.

Twelve sheepskin scrolls are worth one kingsol, plus transportation costs and caravan profits, and its price is even higher. Victor bought sheepskin scrolls from the chebman family. He needed 1 gold sol for every 8, and a total of 400 gold sol for 3200 sheepskin scrolls.

The knowledge in the will side of alchemy auxiliary soldiers does not involve advanced theories, but contains the basic information of tens of thousands of plants, animals and minerals, as well as the smelting technology of various ores, alloy manufacturing technology, reagent manufacturing technology, weapon manufacturing technology, Castle design scheme, manufacturing technology of large-scale catapult and crossbow, ship manufacturing, transportation vehicle manufacturing, etc.

Now, it takes 526 sheepskin scrolls just to copy the design drawings of the seiyin warship. That 70000 sheepskin scrolls is definitely not enough! As for how many sheepskin scrolls are needed to transcribe the knowledge completely, Victor doesn't know. He just knows that the price of sheepskin scrolls will soar until he can't afford it!

"Bousso, can you make paper?"

"My Lord, I have no information about paper."

"I knew... I can't make paper."

Victor breathed heavily. The alchemy empire can directly load knowledge into the will side of alchemy humans. The alchemy tower can extract the memory of alchemy creatures. This means is more advanced than computer technology on earth. Alchemists will certainly not take paper as the carrier of civilization. Even if the alchemical Empire has paper, it is mostly used for alchemists to wipe their ass. Obviously, alchemists do not need to make toilet paper for alchemists.

"Suspend knowledge transcription. Solve this problem later."

"Yes, sir."

Victor straddled the vehicle, the fast birds sang with their heads held high, and the team headed east.

Four hours later, Victor arrived in Pinghu Town. The two meter high mount of the fast bird immediately caused a sensation, so that the crowd around the castle chased the fast bird into the town.

Yes, it's a castle.

Del Ling's castle was built in February of last year's water season, which lasted 11 months and mobilized 4000 young people. By January of this autumn season, the castle was finally completed.

The castle covers an area of 24 mu. The shortest city wall is 40 meters high and the highest tower is 48 meters. It has 107 rooms, 6 towers and 12 cellars. There are two warehouses in the courtyard, a stable, a blacksmith's shop and a water well. If the castle is full of materials, it can supply more than 700 people for one year.

The castle is made of solid limestone. The wall is 6 meters thick. The wall is smooth and there is no gap. Even the wind knight can't climb the 38 meter high wall against arrow rain and fire oil. Although this magnificent Viscount castle was built on the flat ground, a heavy-duty catapult must be used to capture it. The catapults on the castle are not furnishings. Their condescending advantage will make them smash the enemy's catapults into powder.

Only the castle that disintegrated from the inside, the castle that was not captured. This is not empty talk.

In addition to being 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 plays a role in rallying people's hearts. It can be said that there is a castle before there is a family.

In addition to the mountain castle and the castle in Raven Town, Victor currently has three castles, but he can't deny that this castle marks that Viscount Randall is the legitimate Lord of the territory. Even the king and the church can change this fact. Although, this is only an auxiliary fort.

The castle is 2600 meters away from the fence on the west side of Pinghu Town. According to Victor's plan, a 35 meter high wall and two other auxiliary forts will be built along the castle in the future to expand Pinghu Town into a city of 48 square kilometers. The three auxiliary fortresses guard the north wall, west wall and south wall respectively, and the main fortress is located on the Bank of Pinghu Lake in the East, adjacent to the water.

In the future, not only will there be a fortress and three auxiliary fortresses in Pinghu Town, but also giant fortresses will be built in hill camps, and each village will build a fortress and change it into a town.

Randall leads 9000 square kilometers and raven town 1300 square kilometers. Victor will build 2 cities, 9 towns and 16 villages, a total of 2 fortresses and 14 castles. With huge brick kilns and rock bricks, this castle is just the beginning, and Victor's vision is no longer limited to territory and castle, but more important things are waiting for him to build.

In any case, this castle is of great significance to Randall family. Family members will stroll around the castle when they have nothing to do. Some people have stayed inside and refused to go.

In the master bedroom of the castle, the huge bed was covered with silver bricks. Lilia lay on it, tilted her white and beautiful legs, carefully counted each associated crystal, and her eyes were bright.

Victor couldn't help saying, "don't you think it's too hard to sleep on it?"

"I don't think so." Lilia did not lift her head, holding a blue crystal and smiling.

"These things are worthless."

Victor slapped his hip like a peach and lay down on the silver mattress. He was really flustered. Lilia immediately fell on Victor's chest, her apricot eyes widened, and shook and shook in front of Victor with blue crystal. "This is a gem, and below is silver. How can it be worthless?!"

Victor grabbed the blue crystal from the hands of a young woman, threw it aside and said, "what's the value of not eating, not drinking, not resisting the cold, not conquering the enemy?"

"I don't believe it." Without nostalgia for Victor's arms, Lilia turned over and picked up two crystals and said happily, "I used to dream of lying on gold, surrounded by precious stones! Although silver is worse than gold, it's not a dream."

"Little money fan." Victor pinched Lilia's face and said spoiled, "these have to be made into jewelry and silver, but they are difficult to sell at a high price."

Lilia asked, "why? Aren't jewelry and silver expensive?"

"We have no problem casting these silver into silverware for use. If we sell them, there will be big trouble. Even if they are made into silver plates and candlesticks, they can only be secretly sold by free businessmen. At present, only the business of marquis Leopold, the chancellor of the exchequer, can legally manage gold and silver ware in Gambis. The exquisite silver plates they make can produce more than 70 silver coins, but You can only sell 30 silver sols. So is gold. "

"These crystals are just raw stones, which is even less valuable." Victor grabbed a handful of crystals and let them slip from his hand. He explained: "only when the crystals are processed into jewelry can they sell at a high price. The price of jewelry is not just the material and workmanship level. In fact, it is the reputation of craftsmen and the people who wear jewelry who really determine the price of jewelry."

"Master Ben Jamin, the king capital of Gambis, is a royal jeweler. His jewelry can sell for thousands of gold sols. Even if the jewelry made by unknown craftsmen is more exquisite than Ben Jamin's work, it can't sell at a high price. Because Ben Jamin is a royal jeweler, his reputation represents the identity of jewelry. And flaunting his identity is the key to jewelry Value. "

"The royal highness of Loran's Royal Highness can be sought after by aristocratic children by dinnerware. This is the celebrity effect. These things can only be sold to a vassal for jewelry. How much money can a vassal buy?"

"It's not worth money..."

Seeing that Lilia became extremely lost, Victor smiled and comforted, "don't lose heart. Maybe the jewelry you used will sell at a high price in the future?

"Really?"

"Well, I promise I'll collect Lilia's jewelry at a sky high price." Victor teased and said, "well, 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 contribute to the house purchase. Since the castle was built, the number of families contributing to the house purchase increased to 421. We collected 12630 gold sols and deducted 10000 gold sols from the deposit to the church, leaving a balance of 2630 gold sols."

"After that, no one is willing to pay for the house anymore."

"How could this happen?"

Victor frowned. Randall offered 600 places to build houses and enter households. He planned to recruit 600 free people's families and nearly 3000 people, and select administrators and soldiers from them. Although 30 kinsol were a huge sum of money for free people, it was difficult not to reach those capable and knowledgeable free people, not to mention Victor provided loans.

Free people who build houses and enter their homes can serve as stewards and soldiers, and receive salaries every month. In three years, their families will become neighbors and can rent 80 mu of land. In a few years, they can earn 30 kinsol back.

According to the truth, with such favorable conditions, 600 housing construction places should be snapped up. Why are so many people missing? Are all the free workers led by Randall short-sighted farmers?

Lilia sighed and said, "all 300 managers have been recruited, and 60 security soldiers have been recruited, but only 93 mercenaries have been recruited. Those free people heard that they are only recruiting mercenaries now, so they don't want to build houses."

"I see."

Victor nodded. He understood why Nelson said that free people are unreliable!

Free people are afraid of death!

Victor thought it would be easy to recruit soldiers among the refugees, but it was not.

The ancient refugees of the earth often fled everywhere for survival because of famine and war, living a life of life and death dilemma and precarious life. At this time, as long as someone organizes recruitment, an army can be pulled up immediately. However, the world is rich in wild resources, and refugees are not easy to starve to death. They are afraid of monsters and wild animals. In the final analysis, they are afraid of death. Most importantly, the church served as the organizer of the refugees. 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 refugees.

Can organized refugees still be called refugees? Can mercenaries be recruited from it?

Refugees have churches to rely on. They have no sense of belonging to their territory and kingdom, and the Lords hate refugees. It was the church that drew a deep gap between the people and the nobility and hindered Victor's development.

Randall's collar is a pioneering collar after all, and it is reasonable for refugees to be afraid of becoming cannon fodder of Randall's family. It would be difficult to recruit mercenaries until the entrance to the Everglades was blocked, and Victor had no good way to do so.

However, the 93 mercenaries have vision and courage. They are many times better than those refugees who think they are smart but actually cowardly. They can be trained as elite and sergeants.

The fire refining real gold is also a comfort.

Victor smiled and asked, "did Nelson jump in a hurry?"

"Sister Linda is going to have a baby. My brother follows father Miller's ass every day and doesn't care to jump." Lilia smiled and said, "by the way, the sheepskin scrolls are not enough before the deed is issued. Honey, can you transfer some sheepskin scrolls from the hill camp?"

Victor was silent. He couldn't tell Lilia that more than 3000 sheepskin scrolls had been used up.

"Those sheepskin scrolls are still useful to me. Ask Alice to buy some more."

"OK."

Lilia nodded and picked up another crystal to play with. Victor was lost in thought.

Sheepskin scroll can't be used. Papermaking is imperative!

Expensive sheepskin scrolls are the monopoly of nobles and churches on knowledge, and 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 can't make paper, and it's not his job.

As a lord, Victor has a lot of hands available. He can let others develop paper, but papermaking is only a superficial problem.

The invention of paper and the recruitment of mercenaries made Victor realize that it was time to build a system!

The lease employment system combining land lease and collar employment is in line with the reality of Randall collar, but there should be a system above the system.

If the system is the root and trunk, 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 had a military system, an education system, a judicial system, an internal affairs system and a trade system. Similarly, Victor should build these systems on the basis of 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 contents of each system, but the general principle will not change.

Merit will be rewarded and excess will be punished, so as to ensure a relatively fair rising channel, strive to turn free people into supporters, train supporters into helpers, and make excellent helpers become Victor's supporters through permanent land lease.

Once the system is improved, the rental employment system can burst out unimaginable vitality. There will be an endless stream of inventions, the military construction will also develop rapidly, and the territory will operate by itself. 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 free people will find a sense of belonging in the rental employment system. They will become Victor's children, no longer the lamb of the church. They may have faith, but they may not be pious.

Lilia didn't know what Victor was thinking at this time. She picked up a piece of red crystal, gestured on her chest and said, "honey, how about I hit a pendant with this crystal?"

Victor looked around and saw a snow-white gully behind the red crystal. Four years later, Lilia is 22 years old. Compared with the green and astringent 18 years old, she has more mature beauty, breast enhancement, hip warping, long legs and thin waist, fair complexion and picturesque features.

The beauty was on his side, and Victor couldn't help but move his index finger. He put his hand around Yingying's slender waist and was about to kiss the attractive red lips. Lilia giggled and twisted her body, like a snake, and got rid of Victor's clutches.

"Hmm?! why did you refuse me with the secret form of a monkey?" Said Victor discontentedly.

Lilia leaned over, kissed her husband gently on the lips and said with a smile, "honey, you should keep your strength now."

"How dare you look down on me! Didn't I take care of you that time?" Victor was furious.

"Someone is waiting for you at the silver moon manor." Lilia's lips were red and her face was jealous, but her eyes were cunning with a smile.

"Nicole?"

"No! It's Mrs. Judy."