Chapter 143 War Mobilization Order (I Wish You All a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, and by the Way, Thank You Zuishajiang for Your Continued Rewards)

Then Jian Yuan also reported the scale of the town to Xu Lai.

Compared with Qingfeng Town, this town where Nagas and humans live together can no longer be described as a small town, but should be said to be a large town.

The entire city has no walls, but there are many sentry towers, watchtowers, and even arrow towers.

The scale of the town is very large, mainly divided into three major areas, human settlements, Naga settlements, and mixed settlements in the middle.

The core of a town is often located in the most central position. Of course, with the continuous construction of the town owner, the original central position will shift.

Just like Xu Lai put several major military buildings opposite Swan Lake, judging only from the area of ​​the town, the center should be in Swan Lake, and where they are is on the edge.

Jian Yuan said that the other party is more xenophobic, Xu Lai believes it, but if he says that they completely refuse to trade, Xu Lai does not believe it.

It's nothing more than that they don't trust outsiders. Xu Lai believes that as long as there is enough sincerity, this matter may not be unsolvable.

On the contrary, Xu Lai really didn't want to be exposed in front of Earl Aini, so he didn't communicate if he could, let alone actively trade.

"Okay, you go and rest first, and squeeze with Yan Feng today. When Tahan and others come back in two days, I will arrange a new residence for you."

This person really didn't care about it. The day after Jian Yuan came back, Wei Yihong and Urdola returned to Qingfeng Town with a large team.

The people who came this time were really not young or old. Xu Lai took a rough look and the number was no less than 200.

Fortunately, Xu Lai rushed to build 30 wooden houses for three consecutive days and upgraded six mansions. Otherwise, the resettlement of so many people would really be a big problem.

30 wooden houses can accommodate 150 people. After the original six high-end wooden buildings were upgraded to mansions, each house can accommodate 24 more people.

Of course, Xu Lai would not arrange it this way. Some important people still need a separate mansion.

For example, Xu Lai's old friend, Village Chief Lazi and his family, Miss Elena, the priest who was kind to Xu Lai, and two priests of the temple, and two trainee knights who were guards.

Others had to squeeze together, which was better than sleeping in the wild as before.

There were too many people, and Xu Lai did not prepare enough food in advance. Fortunately, there was enough hot water, and they also brought dry food.

Xu Lai naturally personally served hot soup and hot cakes to Elena, Village Chief Lazi and others.

In fact, the weather was not cold even in the middle of the night, but eating a mouthful of hot food made the heart warm.

After receiving the reception twice in the middle of the night, Xu Lai and Su Ya had experience. Dozens of magic lamps were hung out, and the whole town was brightly lit.

It was too late today, and it was hard to say what happened. After barely settling down, Xu Lai asked everyone to rest.

However, Aaron, the sheriff, and Yan Feng and others who were responsible for night duty, could only continue to work hard.

Wei Yihong and the others all looked unhappy. Xu Lai guessed that something must have happened in the Stone Castle.

Sure enough, after the resettlement was settled, Wei Yihong and Tahan followed Xu Lai back to his courtyard and reported their trip in the pavilion on the pond.

Xu Lai's biggest demand for this transaction was met. A large number of gold and silver utensils, jewelry, and other items were much more stable than the antiques and paintings that were shipped last time.

This was also the last benefit provided by the bandits to Xu Lai. This last batch of items alone was worth 100,000 gold coins. The profiteers who were eager to leave lowered the price and only sold 80,000 gold coins, and only 60,000 gold coins were brought back.

A large part of the 20,000 gold coins was collected by Earl Aini as a transaction tax, and the other small part was used to purchase intelligence and give gifts.

Fortunately, there was an experienced Abok in the team, who gave gifts to Earl Aini's tax officer and attendant in time, otherwise only half of the 80,000 gold coins would be returned, and that was for the face of the temple.

In addition, in order to make up for the shortage of stones, Xu Lai not only sold a large number of weapons and equipment in stock, but also provided an additional 100 units of iron ingots.

One unit of iron ingots has three large pieces, each of which weighs about two or three kilograms. 100 units should be about 1,000 kilograms, or one ton.

This may not be a big deal in other places, but it is an indisputable fact that the grassland lacks minerals, and the unit price of iron ingots is usually extremely expensive.

At this moment, one unit of iron ingots is worth more than a horse. The key is that you may not have a place to buy it even if you have money, not to mention that Xu Lai also provided a batch of finished equipment.

These things together may only be worth tens of thousands of gold coins, but the key is the current scarcity and importance, which is really like timely rain.

On the contrary, the more precious and rare resources, the temple took away 50 units of gems, and the other 50 units of crystals were taken away by the merchants personally introduced by High Priest Ryan.

50 units of crystals gave a full 10,000 gold coins, not including tax, which is equivalent to one unit of crystal worth 200 gold coins.

Crystals are not the most in-demand material for the human race. The gems that Wei Yihong left for the temple are priced at 500 gold coins each, and buying them often depends on personal connections.

The materials and strength provided by Xu Lai alone are equivalent to the sum of several small towns in the rear, and they are all precious materials such as wood, stone, iron ingots, weapons and gems that other towns are reluctant to provide.

Under such circumstances, how could the relationship between the temple and Xu Lai be bad?

In addition to the frequent dealings with High Priest Ryan, several paladins stationed here in the temple have heard of the name of Qingfeng Town and know Xu Lai.

Of course, knowing Xu Lai is useless. Xu Lai has to see a return for such a big investment.

The temple does have large supply vehicles, but at present, in addition to gathering forces to guard against orcs, the temple is also fighting against demons, and Yuwen Shaoguang of the Eastern Empire is constantly asking for support.

Therefore, Wei Yihong failed to bring back a large supply vehicle, but brought back two medium-sized supply vehicles, and together with three vehicles, he can store a full 15,000 units of supplies.

In addition to Xu Lai's own space backpack, the soldiers can also carry a certain amount of weight, which is enough for Xu Lai's 500-man troops to run wild outside for a while.

If you want to bring more people, it is probably not enough to rely on supply vehicles alone. Someone has to lead the packhorses and the civilians have to supply in the rear.

Although medium-sized supply vehicles are precious, if there are only two, it is obviously not enough to trade with Xu Lai.

However, the supply vehicle on the temple side could not be sold, so Wei Yihong came forward and exchanged a few precious spell scrolls.

One group dispel, one group treatment, and one group rejuvenation.

Unlike Xu Lai's strategic healing, group treatment does not specify a soldier, but specifies a range. All friendly targets within the range will instantly recover 35 health points.

The same is true for group dispel, dispelling the enemy's buff spells within the specified range, or dispelling the debuff spells of your own side.

As for rejuvenation, it is another kind of recovery spell. The range is similar to group treatment, but the difference is that rejuvenation is not as instantaneous as healing.

The effect of group rejuvenation is to restore 1 health point per second, lasting for one minute, and a total of 60 health points are restored, which is extremely cost-effective.

Of course, this recovery method is actually more suitable for units in the rear.

Front-line battles can almost decide life and death in an instant, so where can you have a minute to slowly restore health.

Spell scrolls are equivalent to wizards or priests. Spells are stored in prepared scrolls in advance. The difficulty of making is extremely high. The higher the level of the spell, the greater the chance of failure.

The spells taught to Xu Lai by the temple are not difficult, but they all have group effects, obviously from the hands of senior priests.

In addition, in addition to these three spell scrolls, the temple also gave Xu Lai a "Friendly Medal", which is much more valuable than the previous "Friendly" Medal, enough to offset 2000 temple contributions.

The above transactions, plus the temple's implicit protection of Xu Lai and turning a blind eye to the escape of village chiefs and headmen, can basically be regarded as a fair transaction.

If it were just these, Wei Yihong would not have to report to Xu Lai in the middle of the night, let everyone have a good rest for a day, and it would be the same tomorrow.

The reason why Wei Yihong couldn't wait even half a night was that the battle between the stronghold and humans was already on the verge of breaking out.

For this reason, the former great nobles of the empire, the actual ruler of Pingfeng Grassland, the Count of the Empire, His Excellency Aini Kentar, has officially issued a war mobilization order.

According to the imperial law, after the war mobilization order is issued, all lower-level nobles in the territory of the noble who issued the order must obey the order unconditionally.

The noble who issued the order has the right to intercept the taxes of all villages, towns, fortresses, and castles.

All adult males in the territory will automatically become militias and can be unconditionally recruited into the army at any time.

The effect of the war mobilization order is so great that only the emperor has always been qualified to issue it, and a few nobles must also obtain the permission of His Majesty the Emperor or the Congress.

Now that the throne is vacant, the great nobles in the Congress are fighting for power and profit, and some have even taken the title of emperor for themselves. What can they use to permit other nobles?

However, under special circumstances, nobles above the earl level are also qualified to issue war mobilization orders if they obtain the permission and support of the temple.

Generally speaking, the temple will not participate in the struggle for secular power. In addition to the fact that the God of War does not allow internal friction, the temple's participation in politics will greatly weaken the power of the entire human race.

Previous experience has proved that if the empire does not want to split again, the temple can no longer get involved in politics, at least not in high-level politics.

But when the human race faces a threat of life and death, the temple is qualified to allow the issuance of a war mobilization order in the name of the God of War.

In addition to the organization of Congress, the only individuals who can issue a war mobilization order, except the emperor, are the highest faith of the entire empire.

Now, since the temple has allowed Earl Aini to issue a war mobilization order, it means that the situation has reached an extremely dangerous edge. If it is not good, the entire grassland and even the human beings on the grassland will be destroyed.