Chapter 451 Sally's Troubles

Chapter 451: Sally's Troubles

For Avala, the puppet head of the Bada tribe, this winter has been a mixed blessing.

Rody led the team and didn't come back as planned, which made the puppet chief secretly have a lot of thoughts in his heart, but before he could do anything wrong, the loud voices of Erwin and others made his thoughts completely dispel.

The countless giant armors and weapons pulled on the sled made the eyes of the barbarians who came to watch round, and the Fendi elk, which was as strong as a hill, deterred a group of barbarian warriors who thought they were capable. Needless to say, Roddy was already in their eyes. It reached an unshakable position, but when these guys heard from Erwin that all the snow monsters had been killed, the crowd of onlookers fell silent.

"Tens of thousands of snow monsters are dead? How is it possible..."

The power of magic is beyond the comprehension of these barbarians, so no matter how Erwin and the surviving mercenaries described it, the rest of the tribe did not believe it was true.

Rody didn't expect this group of illiterates to understand anything, he just came forward to explain the reasons for those barbarians who died in battle, and compensated the families of these barbarians with several sets of armor and weapons, and then went to discuss other things with Suo Deluoer .

In fact, the barbarians have long taken death lightly, because it was normal for a few people to die when they went hunting in the past. But now there are "subsidies" for dead people, but it has never been heard of. Erwin didn't understand either, so he leaned over and asked for a long time, learned the term "pension" and explained it, which allowed a group of illiterate people to roughly understand. As a result, they supported Rody even more, and instead forgot the original leader, Avala, in a corner.

What the barbarians think Rody doesn't care at all, what he is thinking about now is how to expand the source of troops here

"Erwin, if you go east, how many tribal settlements can you find?"

In the warm room, Rody, who was roasting by the fire, asked the big man next to him, who was holding a deer leg and gnawed it with oily mouth. He wiped his mouth and replied, "Go back to the boss, it's no problem to find seven or eight. I’ve been to those places. It’s going to be windy and snowy now, and it will take several days.”

After experiencing the Solomon Dungeon battle, this idiot was completely convinced of Rody, and kept calling "Boss" all the time. Roddy saw that he was determined to want him, so he simply gave him Sauron's battle axe, and let him know He followed him as a "close bodyguard" and asked him to call himself "boss", which made Erwin so beautiful, and now he called "boss" very smoothly.

"Are you familiar with those leaders? How is their relationship with the Bada tribe?"

"Boss Vaglo and I can still get along, and Siluo, who goes further west, is also okay..."

Erwin looks silly, but in fact, his memory and judgment are not bad, and his expression ability is not bad, so Rody quickly learned about other tribes from him, and made a plan in his heart.

There is no "human resident" in the glacier plain in my memory, because the barbarians really don't have anything of interest to humans here. The so-called "exported mercenaries" are only when the barbarians voluntarily walk out of the snow-capped mountains.

But now that the threat of the snow monster is gone, and he has opened up the situation again, what are we waiting for with Jinshan? The best choice is to build this place into a "rear base" as soon as possible.

In his memory, even when the orc undead ravaged the country, no one would ever go to the glacier plain to toss, so this kind of territorial resources that are indifferent to the world but full of excellent soldiers, Luo Di really didn't want it for nothing.

Once there is a decision, all that remains is action. From the next day, Rody asked the soldiers to disassemble and refit the giant armors, and let the "Train King" pull the equipment of the three sleds, and took Erwin and others to the depths of the territory.

At the same time, Soderol, who stayed in place, began to record and map the nearby terrain, making preliminary preparations for the construction of the city in the future.

Rody didn't return until ten days later, and when he came to the Bada tribe's camp again, there were fifty-four more barbarian "mercenaries" in the team behind him than before.

In fact, the total population of the seven tribes visited has already exceeded 2,000, but this is their first contact with humans outside the glacier. It is already considered a good deal for Rody to exchange items for the three-year employment period of these barbarians. the beginning.

Of course, Erwin's testimony and the size of the Fendi elk also played a big role.

Fifty-four barbarian soldiers are not too many, but this is just the beginning. Rody believes... When the base here is completed, these outstanding soldiers will be continuously added to his troop sequence.

It is an indisputable fact that the civilization level of the barbarians is low. If everyone has enough to eat, I am afraid that Roddy will really have no way to bring so many young and strong guys for the first time. These guys are all about as strong as Erwin. Therefore, the main reason for being pushed out by those leaders is that they consume too much food and do not have enough hunting skills... To exchange a group of "rice buckets" for a batch of weapons and equipment, it is probably considered a good deal for those leaders.

These young people who were sold off by the leader also knew how much they weighed and how much they were. They didn't have any arrogance at all. Catch up with the "New Year's Day" in the traditional sense of the Karen Kingdom.

So Luo Di gave an order, and the soldiers killed sheep and deer, stewed soup and drank wine, and a full meal made these guys completely happy.

"Hey, what a group of great lads."

Soderol stroked his chin and sighed in admiration. He was extremely satisfied with this group of young guys: Soldiers are trained, and it doesn't matter whether they have hunting skills or not, because it is a different system to kill the enemy in battle. The most important thing is that they have a good foundation and are still young. Military instructors like students who are like blank paper.

"It is estimated that it will take a few months to become a talent. After a few kills, I am afraid that I can walk sideways in the kingdom."

With an average height of two meters, a strong body and the talent of "Berserker", they can even suppress the orcs on the battlefield. Thinking that he can command such a powerful soldier, Suo Deluoer feels that he has to wake up from his dreams .

"You can figure out these things, but... we may not have much time left," Rody patted Suo Deluoer on the shoulder, looking at the endless snow-capped mountains in the south, "Once the preparations are completed, we will start to prepare." Come back."

"The last New Year's Eve was on the way to the Sola Sentinel, and this year it's in this kind of place where the birds don't shit. It's really busy..."

Looking at the heavy snow falling again, Rody felt deeply moved.

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Elonian calendar year 590, January 12th.

At this time in previous years, Hollier City, the largest city in the northwest of the Karen Kingdom, would always hold many large-scale celebrations from the beginning of the New Year. All kinds of banquets are endless like running water, and the whole city is often brightly lit, often lasting until the end of January before gradually stopping.

However, this year's Holy City is as quiet as a cemetery.

The main road in the city is empty, and looking around, all the buildings seem to be covered with a thick layer of white cloth, the snowflakes falling from the sky make the snow thicker, and the white smoke rising from the chimney makes everything quiet painting.

It has been snowing intermittently for two months.

This new year is very depressing for the nobles, because the roads are blocked, and the caravans that were in operation basically stopped, so they can only sit in front of the red fireplace, wrapped in fur blankets all day long, staring at the goose feather snow outside the window in a daze. day.

And Sally, who is the lord of Houllier City, is praying in the monastery of the "Rose Cross" with her eyes closed.

A few months passed, the Duchess grew taller, her brows became a little majestic because of her high position, her face became thinner, and she was wearing a blue and white priest's cassock, which stood out among the nuns and monks in the church. dazzling.

Since Rody left, Sally would come to the monastery's idol every day to pray routinely. Even if the weather gets worse, she has never had an exception.

After the prayer, Sally said goodbye to these companions in the sect politely. Although she had a smile on her face, her mood was as gloomy as the weather.

"Miss, this is a letter that just arrived today."

After returning to the mansion, the housekeeper John brought over a stack of letters of different sizes, and at the same time began to briefly describe the information collected from various places in the past few days: "The information returned by the Parling Trading Company said that they have almost cleared the goods, and the proceeds There are a few more than planned, but because one is suppressing the price, a few places were attacked by local rogue bullies, and some losses..."

"The situation in Houlier City is still stable. The food hoarded in the early stage has stabilized the price, and those nobles who want to get a share of the pie are more restrained now..."

"Restraint? They call it restraint? Hmph."

Maybe it was suppressed for a long time, Sally seemed a little annoyed because of these few messages, and her brows were deeply frowned.

Speaking of which, before he left, Rody explained to her everything that might happen this winter, and Sally also followed his advice, and started secretly hoarding food and various winter supplies early in order to prevent people He died because of "food shortage" or "can't afford food".

In fact, nobles seldom take the initiative to help civilians during natural disasters. Because of the feudal system, the lords can't wait to drain all the oil and water from the people, so why do they care about such things as porridge relief? The act of distributing bread in the slums is just like Sally This kind of compassionate nun can do it, but the work of "relief of refugees" is often presided over by the monastery, and has little to do with the nobles.

When more and more people realized that the severe cold had become a disaster, the prices of food, firewood and other materials naturally began to soar. So she chose to squeeze a large amount of inventory directly into the market to stabilize the price, and successfully lowered the price in one fell swoop.

Cooperating with her is the "Palling Firm" controlled by Roddy. Because of the "ridiculous" behavior of selling firewood since September, the name of this business that spread inside and outside the territory has long been deeply remembered by people. It is the first choice for people to buy materials, and it has squeezed out the original business shares of other nobles in the market.

As a result, more civilians in the territory can survive this severe winter. At the same time...the aristocrats who stockpiled food inside and outside the territory also hated Sally deeply: because they failed to sell at a high price as expected and make a profit.

Blocking people's money is like killing their parents, and Sally quickly paid the price for her actions: these nobles began to unite and played their conspiracies in various aspects.

[The name of the book was changed, mainly for better development there. Everyone knows that the name "The Arrow Emperor" is biased towards Xiaobai. The original purpose was to attract more young readers in the bookstore. But after all, the content is not too white, which makes the real novice readers feel very unimpressed, and the readers of this book are all older books, and they have long been tired of x emperor x tyrant x emperor. To sum it up, Only then has the decision to change the name, I hope everyone understands. 】