Chapter 363 Military

Back to the Duchy of Lancaster, Li Huailin's Duke's Mansion, two hours ago. mBecause the money problem here has basically been solved, Li Huailin began to consider the problem of his own private soldiers. Since the popularity of the people has skyrocketed to the present, Li Huailin has saved more than 25,000 reputation points, so he can fight with the temporary soldiers here. Acting Secretary of the Military, Veranika, is now discussing recruitment.

"It's really easy to understand..." As soon as Li Huailin talked about this problem with Veranika, Veranika here directly gave Li Huailin a page similar to the shop column, which listed the needs of these various arms. Prestige points.

Untrained militiamen can recruit 7-10 for every 100 prestige points. After all, you can recruit one with only 10-13 points, and the upper limit of your own army is 5000, which means that it is the cheapest. It takes 50,000 points to recruit, and I can't even recruit the cheapest ones.

Not to mention the following ones, militiamen who have undergone military training, for every 100 reputation points, 3-5 are directly twice as expensive. 3-5 ordinary soldiers with 300 points. Then there are specially classified soldiers, pikemen, archers 7-10 with 500 reputation points, cavalry 3-5 with 500 reputation points. Below that, elite pikemen, elite archers, 7-10 for 1000 reputation points, elite cavalry, 3-5 for 1000 reputation points. In addition, there are scouts, 7-10 with 500 prestige points, and elite scouts, 3-5 with 500 points. Soldiers who can operate bed crossbows, 3-5 soldiers with 1000 points and so on.

After reading it, Li Huailin found that there was a special unit at the end, the armored cavalry unique to the Lancaster area. The price is 1200 reputation points 3-5.

"I saw a ghost, is this something people can afford?" Li Huailin raised his forehead directly, and said that this armored cavalry, which sounds awesome, costs 3-5 for 1200 points, which is calculated as an average of four. It is 300 points each, and the prestige points I get in a day are 7200 points, and I can only buy 24. If this is the case, it will take more than 7 months to fill a team of 5000 people. What a mess you are.

"Marshal, what kind of troops do you want to recruit?" Veranika asked here.

"The ideal state is naturally to recruit a cavalry." Li Huailin said, "It's a pity that you can't afford it. Now it is enough to buy 500 pikemen, and they are not elite..."

"Marshal, soldiers can be upgraded after training. Ordinary militiamen can become cavalry after gaining enough experience." Veranika said here.

"I guessed it." Li Huailin nodded, because the experience value of the troops is written on the page of the Second Legion, "But it's best to have ready-made ones..."

"Marshal, it's no use worrying now, even if there are 5,000 soldiers now,

We don't have so many horses and armor either. "Veranika here said.

"Huh? Huh? Do you have to find the armor and horses yourself?" Li Huailin asked.

"Of course." Here Veronica gave Li Huailin a strange look, "The armor forging in Lancaster is very famous, and the armor produced here is very good. But Lancaster does not produce There is only one horse farm, and the scale is very small, and the number of mature horses per year does not exceed 50."

"I'll wipe..." Li Huailin held his forehead, "I have no horse to play with wool, can I buy it?"

"I have to ask the merchants about this, but horses are military supplies, so they are not easy to get, and the price will not be low," Veranika said.

"Then, you recruit some ordinary cavalry first. I'll go find a horse." After Li Huailin finished speaking, he put all 25,000 reputation points on ordinary cavalry, and recruited 50 times. In this way, he should get 150 -250 pcs.

"Okay, I'll post the conscription notice right now." Veranika nodded.

Li Huailin suddenly felt that he was very busy, why should he, the Duke, do everything. Shouldn't this kind of aristocrat just lie at home all day molesting the maid, why is it his turn to be so busy. Also, from the very beginning of the system prompts, I started to inexplicably remind myself that many people I have never heard of have a sharp increase in my favorability. I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s really annoying.

After leaving the Ministry of Military Affairs here, Li Huailin came to the Ministry of Finance again, just in time to see Hongchen Misty Rain discussing something with Oliveira. Anyway, the two of them were very happy talking about a lot of numbers, especially In the world of mortals here, Oliveira showed a very admiring expression from time to time. Li Hualin couldn't understand a lot of their professional terms at all, but he felt very powerful.

"Two two, please interrupt." Li Huailin from here stepped in and said, "Is the businessman here yet? I need to buy a horse now."

"Buy horses? Do you want to form cavalry?" Hongchen Misty Rain asked.

"Yes, but I heard that there are very few horses in this place, and I want to buy them from merchants, but they haven't come yet?" Li Huailin asked.

"The news has been released. If there is interest, the businessman should come. It will be in these two days." Oliveira said here.

"Minister Oliveira, there is a person who claims to be from the De'an Chamber of Commerce and wants to meet you." As he was speaking, someone walked by and immediately woke up when he saw Li Huailin and gave a military salute, "Hello, Marshal."

"De'an Chamber of Commerce, why do I feel like I've heard this name before?" Li Huailin said suddenly.

"Filmt's chamber of commerce..." Oliveira said, "My lord, what should I do?"

"Filmt's chamber of commerce? Get it done quickly." Li Huailin was finally a little happy. The other party obviously came to join him. Basically, the entire family of Firmet was wiped out. I didn't expect such a valuable one to be left behind. Something, "Go, hurry up and meet him."

The three of them soon came to the living room, and there was already a middle-aged man waiting there. The middle-aged man seemed not very stable, and kept stomping his feet. He knew that when Li Huailin and the others entered the door, the people here just cleaned up. After thinking about it, he stood up immediately.

"Grand Duke of Aquitaine? You... hello." Seeing the appearance of Li Huailin. The person here was shocked again, this guy is really not joking, he was almost killed as a remnant of Firmut, he was really guilty when he saw Li Huailin.

"Is that Polit?" Li Huailin looked up at the name and said. "From the De'an Chamber of Commerce?"

"I'm Polit, the current president of the De'an Chamber of Commerce, Your Excellency the Duke." Polit said immediately, "These two are the Duchess, right? Duchess, hello..."

"This is the Duchess. I'm Minister of Finance Oliveira. Hello, President Pollett." Oliveira on the side immediately clarified.

"Hello, Minister Oliveira." Polit corrected immediately.

"Sit down." Li Huailin waved his hand casually. Then he sat on the sofa next to him, Hongchen Misty Rain also sat next to him, Oliveira stood behind Li Huailin, how dare Politt sit down, now the Minister of Finance is standing, and he is also walking Stand beside Li Huailin.

"My lord duke. I am here this time to seek refuge with my lord duke. Please take me in." Polit here said without talking nonsense.

"How is the current situation of the De'an Chamber of Commerce?" Li Huailin asked.

"Since Firme's downfall, the De'an Chamber of Commerce has basically stagnated. The purge of Firme's remnants has not yet ended. Many people are afraid of getting involved with us and are unwilling to do business with us. So now The chamber of commerce is very dangerous and has reached the point of collapse." Politt said without reservation.

"In other words, you want to draw a line with Firmette by taking refuge in me?" Li Huailin said with a smile.

"Not only that, but according to the current strength of the Grand Duke, I think the prospect of the De'an Chamber of Commerce must be better than that of Firmut's era." Polit here immediately began to flatter.

"If you came to Oliveira, you should know our current situation, tell me your opinion." Li Huailin said again.

"I think the biggest problem for the Duke now is how to deal with this large amount of food. The amount is too much, and the empire can't digest it at all. I don't know if the Duke wants to go some other way...for example... the beast race ?” Pollitt asked cautiously.

"Bold!" Before Li Huailin could speak, Oliveira next to him yelled, "My lord, food is a controlled material. If we sell food to the orcs. They have solved the food problem, and the next one is to attack us." human."

"Your Excellency, forgive me!" Paulitt said hastily.

"Filmt used to do this often?" Li Huailin asked.

"Yes, Philmut often does these things, and we have handled them all. So far, they have not been discovered by the empire." Polit here said without any reservations as he was ready to defect.

"Selling to the orcs is needless to say, it's not allowed." Li Huailin said, "But you reminded me... food seems to have other uses besides selling... war seems to be a waste of food..."

"Ah?" The three people present all looked at Li Huailin strangely, fighting?

"It's nothing, Pollitt, now I need a lot of horses, can I get them?" Li Huailin asked suddenly.

"Horses? We have a way. Horses are produced in the North. We have some way in Udesa Province. We should be able to get them, but the current horses are not very cheap. The price is between 230-280 gold." Polit thought for a while want to say.

"One horse?" Li Huailin asked.

"Well, yes." Politics nodded.

"Damn it, this cavalryman is really not affordable for ordinary people. Fortunately, I have money...Polite, go buy it, buy as much as you can." Li Huailin waved his hand and said.

"Yes, Your Excellency the Duke." Although he didn't say it clearly, since he asked him to go to work, he agreed to his refuge, and Politt left very satisfied.

As soon as Politt here went out, a soldier hurried in. He probably waited at the door for a while, walked to Li Huailin and immediately saluted and said, "Master Marshal, the elves sent an ambassador to see you."

"Elf ambassador?" Li Huailin asked strangely, "I really can't stop for a moment."