Chapter 345: A Wise Move

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Something you will definitely deal with in the future?

After hearing Gawain's words, the Kant knights couldn't help but think, and they quickly thought of something similar.

What will the knight deal with? In addition to the etiquette that every noble member has to contact, of course, it is the sword, armor and war horse.

Although Ansu's aristocratic system has begun to decline, many traditional martial arts nobles have also been corroded by extravagant life, and they have begun to rely on simple and easy methods such as magic rituals and potions to catalyze their extraordinary power, but after all, this is an extraordinary power that exists. , and personal strength can determine social status to a large extent in a world, especially in the southern border with poor security, the grassroots martial arts nobles still pay attention to "strength", and these knights from Kant are no exception. The guardians of high-ranking nobles, the benchmarks of force in the territory, they always put personal strength in the first place. When it comes to the things that knights must deal with... it is undoubtedly weapons and equipment.

At most, add "decoration" such as retinues.

The knights exchanged glances silently, and they knew that this was probably the new lord showing them his strength. I heard that the original armament of Cecil Land was hit hard after the previous disaster. Only two extraordinary knights survived. The others were just a group of soldiers and militiamen, but Gawain recruited them from the refugees A large number of people were trained, and it was barely enough to make up the number of troops to defend the territory...

They don't know much about this new army, but they heard that this new army has some peculiar weapons and equipment, and its combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of ordinary soldiers. Probably this is what the new lord is showing.

The knights have their own ideas, but they all agree that the lord does not need to show his army as a powerful knight lord with legendary strength. Gawain Cecil himself is the best deterrent, and his force value is enough. , what else needs to be shown?

No matter what they had in mind, the team quickly came to the weapons testing ground outside the city. After passing through the soldier levels, the kant knights came to a high wooden viewing platform and watched To a row of strange big guys are neatly arranged on the ground below.

"I want to show everyone the Justice I-type magic crystal railgun that has just been installed in the Cecil Combat Corps," Gawain said with a slight smile as he looked at the Kant knights who were looking around curiously, "If If you want to be a member of Cecil, you can't get a good understanding of how your own people fight."

Justice Type I Magic Crystal Railgun? What it is? Is it the big iron bumps and iron pillars on the field? Their shape is quite regular, and I don't know how the craftsmen made them exactly the same...

The knights were bewildered,

Then I saw soldiers in action: soldiers trained by ordinary people running around rail guns, stuffing metal objects between those steels, adjusting the angle of the "track", checking something , is still shouting strange passwords...

This is a very fresh sight. There is almost no extraordinary aura on these soldiers, which means that they are all ordinary people, and they are mud-legged people who do not know big words. The Duke of Cecil of Gawain can train such people to be so obedient, It's not easy to get them to act quickly and cooperate tacitly, but what are they doing?

Just as the knights were puzzled, a soldier holding a small flag suddenly ran under the high observation platform. The soldier shouted: "Report! The rail gun is ready, ask for instructions!"

Gawain nodded slightly: "Quick fire, fire the cannon."

The soldier turned and waved the flag in his hand with a strange rhythm.

Before the knights understood what was going on, they saw that all those soldiers standing behind the "rail gun" moved: they pressed something on the base, and there was a humming sound of magic charge. From those strange large-scale devices, bright magic runes began to appear on the surface of the device, and then, the soldier standing behind the base pulled down a red lever.

A series of explosions followed, and a bright halo suddenly erupted from the front of each "orbital gun": a flash activated by aerodynamic runes, and then a cloud of indistinct objects rushed into the sky, flying towards distance.

With the extraordinary vision of knights, it is almost impossible to capture the flight path of those things.

After a while, a thunderous roar suddenly exploded, and a huge explosion flashed up one after another on the distant hillside. The soil and rocks rose into the air and turned into small mushroom clouds in the shock wave.

The knights were taken aback by the loud noise. Many people thought that a powerful magician suddenly broke in and attacked the territory. Some even subconsciously activated their protective aura, but they did not see the magician. Instead, I saw the soldiers below continue to move calmly and methodically amid the loud noise, and new metal objects were filled into the steel, followed by another explosion, another explosion...

They finally knew what was going on with this terrifying blow that seemed to be bombarded by dozens of high-level spells.

After several rounds of shooting, the deafening roar finally quieted down, the knights looked at each other, Gawain walked past them with a smile, and walked towards the exit of the viewing platform: "Everyone, we should go to the next place. Don't keep staring at it. Look, everyone will inevitably have to deal with these things after today."

Now, they finally know what "dealing with these things" means.

Wald Perich walked in the middle of the team, and he heard a young knight beside him muttering to himself: "The new law... It doesn't seem to be unacceptable..."

Wald tilted his head slightly, recognizing that this was the knight who had previously said he wanted to "show an attitude".

Afterwards, Gawain took these people to a cannonball assembly factory.

He didn't let these Kant knights see the rune structure in the cannonball, although he felt that these knights shouldn't understand the runes, after all, not everyone is the same as him, he just let everyone take a look, that power An infinite number of shells can be made here in a day.

After returning to the lord's mansion, Gawain watched the reaction of these old knights with satisfaction, but he thought that his deterrence was enough, and it was time to give these people some comfort.

"Everyone, I know that you have resentments about the deprivation of land governance, and you don't need to justify or hide it. I still have some eyesight, but what I want to say is that this is the basis for the prosperity of the Cecil region. In the future you can obtain the foundation for a better future.

"I don't think you can understand it yet, the concept of liberating productive forces, unleashing population, and centralizing authority, but I can promise you that after you let go of your old privileges, what you can reap in the new order will be even greater. Dona is not just wealth, but personal glory and achievement.

"Kant will set up a new, second-level government-like administration. Knight Philip and Mr. Patrick will preside over this work. I hope Knight Walder Perich will be the mainstay in this process, just like you. Maintaining the order of the Kant Territory a few months ago, I hope you can also become the maintainer of the new order.

"I would also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone present that it is wise to find their place in the new order, rather than cherish the privileges that are doomed to be lost.

"Now, you can take the oath, or leave."

Cecil led, on the banks of the Baishui River, a new merchant ship was approaching the trestle with the help of the pier guide.

In the north of the kingdom, the main rivers are still in a severe dry season, the water sources on the high mountains are still frozen, and the rivers in the north are still covered with ice floes. The ice layer has melted, and although the high water season is far from coming, at least on the Baishui River, lighter and faster merchant ships have become active again.

With the water level just beginning to rise, those merchants who have been waiting for the whole winter can't wait to start their business. The month of recovery is not only the recovery of farmland, but also the recovery of these merchants who traveled south and north and relied on material reselling for a living. At this time, all territories are in urgent need of goods from afar Much-needed wine, sugar, new carpets and fabrics, and spices and furs.

These things can be sold at a higher price at this time.

Because the water level of the Baishui River was still shallow at this time, and dangerous ice floes were still floating on the river in many places, the first batch of merchant ships to set off had to take a greater risk, and the earlier the risk, the greater the risk, but driven by interests There is always someone who is bold enough to leave the port first.

The goods required by each territory are different. Cecil Territory may be the "most different" of all territories. There are not many drinks and spices required here, and the demand for various magic ores and metal ore is huge. , These things are quite heavy, and the cost of land transportation is high, so in most cases they will be transported by water, and due to the prosperity of the alchemy potion business, any businessman with a brain knows that Cecil has money at the moment, so as soon as the river opens, A ship full of magic ore arrived at Cecil's dock.

Along with the ore, there are the first batch of new immigrants who arrived in this pioneering area after the month of recovery.

The clerk in charge of registering immigrants is sitting in the office on the west side of the wharf. He has been doing this job since last year, and he is familiar with the content of the work. After knowing that today's merchant ships are still carrying some immigrants, he has sorted out the registration. He started to record those foreigners who were illiterate and could not even say their own names.

One after another ragged registrants came in and out, and the clerk was skillfully and numbly sorting out the forms and filling in the contents, but suddenly, he noticed an unusual coat in his sight.

It was a woolen coat, old, but clean and tidy. This is not what a homeless homeless person would look like.

The clerk raised his head and moved his gaze up along the seam of the woolen coat. He saw a man who was depressed but looked good.

"Is it registered here?" the man asked cautiously.

"Yes," the clerk took a form reflexively, "name, age, what job you are good at, or your previous occupation?"

"Joseph, thirty years old, pharmacist."

"Pharmacist?" The clerk's recording finger paused, this was the most respectable profession he had written since he took up this job, he raised his head uncertainly and confirmed, "You mean pharmacist? "

"Yes, pharmacist, there are more than a dozen queues outside...including pharmacists, herbalists, alchemists..."