Chapter 527 Teleportation Array

The boxes that the Aini family had finally sorted out were turned over everywhere.

Some boxes were empty, except for the gold and silver coins that were not taken away in time.

Gold coins have magical powers in this world and have special functions, so their value is relatively fixed.

However, the value of silver coins is not easy to estimate. Anyway, it is definitely much lower than gold coins, but it is definitely more valuable than the dinars circulated by ordinary citizens.

It is difficult to count the gold and silver scattered on the ground.

Finding the castle steward in charge of moving, we can find out that there are more than 100 boxes that need to be moved.

These more than 100 boxes are only the things that can be moved and are of relatively high value.

Other things that cannot be moved, such as the manor near Conaston, the shops in the city and other fixed assets.

For example, in the castle, there are quilts made of precious velvet, magic lamps made of pure gold, vintage wines stored in the basement, furniture made of century-old trees, etc.

Although the value of these luxury goods has decreased due to the war,

However, their essence is that they are all made of rare materials, and their value is reduced, and they are not affordable for ordinary people.

At least Xu Lai, who robbed so many gold coins, did not dare to deal with these things casually.

His first reaction to all these things in Aini Castle was to find a way to sell them and exchange them for gold coins.

There are so many troops to support, and the only stable source of income is Qingfeng City for the time being.

Although Xu Lai has a lot of gold coins, he is also the only one who is willing to provide sufficient military pay so that all soldiers and his family do not have to worry about life.

In this way, they can devote themselves to military training and military operations.

Except for a few legionnaires and private soldiers, most of the soldiers of Aini and other nobles are temporarily recruited and will not be paid at all.

Like militias, logistics soldiers, crossbowmen, etc., they are all recruited in the territory.

Whether it is imperial law or noble law, there is a clause that every resident in the territory must work for the lord for free for two months a year.

And this is just the initial plan. Now, under the constant exploitation of the nobles, ordinary civilians spend almost half of their time working for the nobles for free every year.

These scattered resources must be reorganized.

Xu Lai and his people are definitely unable to complete this task.

Xu Lai will definitely continue to use the old people in the castle, but he must not have much trust in these "old people".

Xu Lai's choice is to get rid of all the managers, including the castle steward and the team leader who only manages two or three maids.

Especially the positions of steward, head maid, and head chef, not only are they removed, but they must also be pulled down for strict interrogation.

As for the new steward, head maid, etc., Xu Lai will talk about it after Jimmy and others come.

With the help of Jilong and others, by the second day, Conaston had resumed its previous orderly life.

By the third day, Jilong had completely taken over all the affairs of Conaston City in the name of Xu Lai.

The city walls, castles, and all high-rise buildings were all replaced with the Qingfeng City flags made overnight.

The style of the flag is very simple, it is a flowing cloud, representing the gentle breeze.

The flag on the top of the city is the most distinctive representation of a force.

All people who come and go can tell who it belongs to and which force's territory it belongs to by seeing the flag flying on the top of the city.

Of course, Xu Lai only changed the flag representing Earl Aini, and he did not dare to move the imperial flag representing the camp.

At the same time, on the third day after Xu Lai captured Conaston City, Jimmy temporarily handed over the internal affairs of Martel City to others, and led dozens of assistants, officers and other people to Conaston by teleportation array.

His wartime reorganized troops, militia and other teams, have been disbanded.

However, the other hired soldiers, except for the more than 2,000 soldiers stationed in Martel City, the remaining approximately 3,000 soldiers and more than 5,000 temporary prisoners will be brought to Conaston by the deputy.

In addition to the scattered recruited soldiers, Aini's troops also have tens of thousands of prisoners.

However, most of them were given to Reina. Jimmy considered himself the rescued party and took over the logistical baggage left by Aini, which was a great advantage.

Therefore, only 5,000 infantrymen were selected as prisoners, and the remaining nearly 20,000 prisoners were handed over to Reina.

Reina accepted everyone who came. She had ready-made officers and enough troops.

As long as the officers of Aini's troops were stripped off, the original organization was broken up, and dispersed to various groups, they would not be able to cause any trouble.

This is also why Reina had to rest in Martel City for a whole day. If she didn't rest, these prisoners could not be reorganized.

If she didn't reorganize, she couldn't take them away.

If she didn't take them away now, she would be even less likely to come to take them in the future, so even if she knew Xu Lai was in Conaston, she had to rest for a day.

In the final analysis, Xu Lai's troops were too small, and there were relatively few officers and responsible persons.

Otherwise, there is no need to care too much about the 20,000 surrendered soldiers, or simply leave them to others for reorganization and training.

The large army moves slowly, and it also has to carry a group of 5,000 prisoners who were previously in combat and are now incorporated into the army.

You know, even if the officers were detained and the organization was disrupted.

But after all, it was 3,000 people leading 5,000 people. In a small team, most of them were former enemies. Even if they didn't know each other before, the pressure would not be small.

And so many people can't take the teleportation array, even in batches.

These days, continuous teleportation has consumed more than 100,000 gold coins of Xu Lai, and this is because Xu Lai is the city lord and only needs to pay a cost price.

This thing is charged per person, and the energy consumed increases exponentially with each additional target teleported.

The more targets are teleported, the less cost-effective it is. If they are teleported separately, one is that the mage who presides over the teleportation array needs to rest, and the other is that it is also very time-consuming and delays the normal operation of the teleportation array.

Moreover, the teleportation array is a two-way teleportation, and it is also charged at both ends.

Xu Lai can spend hundreds of thousands of gold coins without caring, but the other side of the city of Martel also has to take out energy stones worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins to fill it.

It can be seen from this how important it is to have your own energy stone supply channel, and Xu Lai happened to have found such a channel.

Therefore, when the wizard who presided over the teleportation array complained to Xu Lai, he just calmly told him to use up all the inventory and he would give him better ones later.

Xu Lai spent a high price and insisted on letting Jimmy bring dozens of people to teleport together, of course, he also had a purpose.

He has decided to let Tahan take Joseph and others back to join Rena.

First of all, Rena's troops have also expanded seriously, and Xu Lai needs to send these officers back to prevent Rena's troops from losing their combat effectiveness.

Anyway, the biggest enemy on the grassland is Count Aini, and his assembled troops have been eliminated by Xu Lai.

Counting the entire grassland, he should no longer find an opponent.

Counting on your fingers, you can roughly guess how many troops each family has.

First of all, Aini must have recruited a lot of soldiers from the major nobles. After all, even they are under Aini's command, so they must bring some personal guards with them.

In the last stronghold war, the nobles also suffered heavy losses, otherwise Aini would not have been unable to gather even a thousand knights because of the loss of a Knight Guard.

After two such heavy losses, how many troops could they leave in their hometown?

Even if Jimi, who did not suffer the second loss, gathered the strength of the entire territory, he could only gather more than 10,000 soldiers, tens of thousands of militiamen, and hundreds of thousands of civilians who served as laborers.

This was because Jimi was deeply trusted by Aini before, and he got a lot of benefits, and he was still a viscount.

For the nobles who escaped this time, it would be great to gather 5,000 or 6,000 warriors in the territory.

At most, some militiamen and laborers were added, which basically did not count as combat power.

When defending the city, these militiamen could also operate a crossbow trebuchet or a catapult, and the laborers could also carry ammunition.

If they went out of the city for a field battle, Xu Lai's small team of knights could kill them.

Moreover, there were as many as 4 or 5 nobles captured by Xu Lai alone.

These are traditional nobles with names and titles that have been recorded in the Council of Nobles.

For example, when the stronghold was attacked, the knights, barons, etc. who were temporarily canonized, including Xu Lai, were not actually in the records of the Council of Nobles.

Of course, Xu Lai had the temple present to witness it, so even if Aini did not report it after the battle, it would not work.

But the others were different. After the battle, if the empire was still there and the Council of Nobles was still there.

If Aini did not report it and did not register it, then these nobles would not be recognized by other nobles.

Even if Aini reported it, the Council of Nobles would send someone to register the merits. Otherwise, unless Aini used his own land for enfeoffment, it would have to be approved by the Council of Nobles.

It was only because Aini had enough land that other nobles would not be able to promote so many nobles at once.

You have to know that nobles have basic requirements for land. Nobles without land are just wandering nobles and are not qualified to be recorded by the Council of Nobles.

And the land requirements for each level of noble titles are also different. Generally speaking, it can only be more, not less.

As an earl, you can own even a duke's territory, which is at most a real earl.

If you are a duke, but only own an earl's territory, unless that territory is a big city such as Magic Plains or Super Port, you will be discriminated against.

Of course, the title of nobility is permanent, and will not be deprived of the title due to the reduction of land, unless you have done something treasonous.

But after the land is conferred, your actual income is also reduced.

And the number of such newly promoted nobles, knights, lords, etc. is as high as dozens.

After Xu Lai defeated Aini, it was equivalent to wiping out the hope of these newly promoted nobles.

Without Aini, no one would prove them, and no one would report them.

If they don't report, no one will make noble coats of arms for them, record their family names, etc., which means that they will never be verified, and they will not be qualified to have their own family emblems and coats of arms.

As for making them by themselves, it is not impossible. Many nobles make their own coats of arms.

The problem is that they are registered with the Noble Council.

When you use your own private seal to sign, if someone takes the contract and finds that the seal cannot be found, then you are doomed.

But Xu Lai didn't like them anyway. No matter if they surrendered to him or wanted to pay the ransom, they were all locked up in the dungeon with the rebellious officers.

Xu Lai had to wait until Jimmy came to deal with these people, even if Jilong was there.

For those who surrendered, Xu Lai needed to know their relationship with Aini and whether they were trustworthy.

For those who paid the ransom, Xu Lai couldn't just look at their titles, but also knew the territory and wealth they actually owned.

How could they be allowed to walk out without peeling off a layer of skin? Who made them stand on the wrong side?

In addition to these captured people, Xu Lai didn't necessarily need to attack those nobles who escaped.

According to Xu Lai's original intention, he certainly hoped to unify the entire grassland now.

However, even if he could gather the troops to unify the grassland,

In fact, he didn't even need to gather them together. He could wait for Reina's Qingfeng Corps to reorganize the soldiers he had recruited and integrate the logistics troops to form a real corps.

At that time, this Qingfeng Corps of tens of thousands of people would definitely have the strength to sweep across the entire grassland.

At that time, even if there were still respected nobles who could stand up and make a call, even if all the other grassland nobles were combined, they might not be Reina's opponents.

After all, it was a different time than now.

But even if he had such a corps, he couldn't form enough ruling power.

To rule, you need to rule and govern.

So it's easy to conquer the world, but it's hard to keep it.

Just the city of Konaston alone, Xu Lai had so many helpers behind him, but they still made him feel overwhelmed.

He couldn't get away now, so even if he transported the resources back to Qingfeng City, he could only let Tahan escort them.

In addition to the gold coins and treasures he looted from Aini Castle, Xu Lai also needed Tahan and his men to escort a team of mages to Qingfeng City.

Qingfeng City did not have its own teleportation array, so it was inconvenient to do anything.

And the teleportation array was not something that could be set up by just any mage. It was necessary to find a senior mage who was good at space magic.

Qingfeng City did not have such talents yet, but Conaston did.

So Xu Lai politely asked this space mage named "Isam Gates" to go to Qingfeng City.

This time, Xu Lai was really polite. Not only did he pay in advance for all the resources needed to build the teleportation array, he also sent two boxes, each containing 100 units of gems and crystal resources that were very important to mages.

In view of Xu Lai's "full" sincerity, he agreed to travel with Tahan to Qingfeng City.

At the same time, he also promised that after arriving, the shortest time would be 3 days and the longest would be a week, depending on the cooperation given by Qingfeng City and the number of mages who could provide auxiliary helpers.

Anyway, the master promised to arrange a medium-to-large teleportation array for Xu Lai that can accommodate at least 80 people and teleport at the same time.

Teleportation arrays with a scale of less than 10 people are collectively called small teleportation arrays, while medium-sized ones are more than 10 people and less than 100 people. Large ones are more than 100 people. There are only a few economically important towns in the empire that have them. (End of this chapter)