Urban Sims

Soon after the beginning of spring, Solo and other traveling merchants entrusted by Zhou Ming sold thousands of tons of grain from Grandland to the Iron Fort Kingdom in the south, and returned with many iron ingots one after another.

These iron ingots, about 5,000 pieces (1 piece 10kg), can be used to make 3,000 heavy plowshares, or 20,000 spearheads, or 200,000 arrowheads, or 100 pairs of iron armor.

The amount of these iron ingots seems to be very impressive, but considering the results of a year of hard work, I only got five tons of iron ingots, and an average of 1,000 tons of grain = 1 ton of iron. This exchange ratio, Zhou Ming I'm really speechless.

Of course, if you buy it within the Iron Castle Kingdom, you will definitely not need thousands of tons of grain to buy a ton of iron ingots. You will only need to pay one or two hundred tons at most.

The real big consumption was the "tolls" collected by various lords when Solo and other traveling merchants passed through various territories. This brought huge additional expenses to Zhou Ming's cost of buying iron ingots.

"When the defense forces of Granland are trained, we must clean up these lords who charge fees! It is best to go to the Kingdom of Iron Castle to occupy a mine and start a furnace to make steel by yourself, and the entire amount will be tens of thousands of tons a year. Steel, not afraid of those lord kings."

However, compared to this long-term plan, what Zhou Ming urgently needs to do now is to quickly turn these iron ingots into weapons, and fully arm the 180-strong Garland defense force.

Midsummer is June, a time when animals breed and prey is rich.

Baron Garcia of Bordeaux in the west sent a knight to Grandland, saying that the prey in his territory was not as good as Grandland, and he wanted to come to the forest on the side of Grandland to hunt for a while, until there were enough prey. I went back to Bodoland and asked Lord Downey if he had any questions?

"Garcia, you old bastard! You want to take advantage of Gran's leader again. You are not allowed to fight. The prey of Gran's collar belongs only to Gran's collar, and you are not allowed to kill any of them!"

Downey roared at the knight brought by Bodo, and wanted to use the strongest possible stance to defend the interests and dignity of Glenland.

"Baron Downey, so you're planning to start a war with us Bodoland? I seem to see that you don't seem to have any knights around you? You also trained a group of farmers outside the castle. You don't mean to think, rely on Are these farmers going to defend your game?"

The knight said in a triumphant tone, as if asking, little guy, do you dare to show off with Baron Garcia?

"you--"

Donnie stood up angrily and pointed at him for a while, but couldn't say anything strong.

That's right, if the farmers outside the castle had been trained for less than half a year to fight Baron Garcia's cavaliers, they would probably lose a lot, right?

He also complained about Zhou Ming, and Ryan really did. He insisted on training some kind of defense force and recruiting a few knights to Doriso, otherwise how could he be reduced to the point of being ridden on his head to shit and piss?

"Donnie, don't be angry. Just calm down and let me handle this matter."

Zhou Ming comforted Downey for a while, and said to the knight below: "This honorable Mr. Knight, Mr. Downey agrees that Baron Garcia is hunting in the forest in Granland. be safe."

"Ryan you-"

Downey stared at Zhou Ming, and even wanted to ask him loudly why he was so weak. At most, he could only kill a few people. There are so many people in Granland, so what if dozens of people die? Glenland's dignity and respect have been lost, and he will always be a weakling and coward in the eyes of others.

But seeing Zhou Ming winking at him continuously, as if he still had something to say to him, he had no choice but to hold back his attack. After the knight laughed and left the living room, he said with a cold face: "Lian, You have just embarrassed my Glenlord, what else do you have to explain to me now?"

"Sit down first, Donnie. Baron Garcia just wants to kill a few prey from Granland. Just give them. Compared with the lives they are about to lose, it's better to give them a little compensation."

Zhou Ming helped Tangny back to his seat and spoke a plan in his ear with a cold tone.

"Okay! Just do as you said! Hmph, Garcia, you bastard, take your prey to hell with you!" The excited Donnie seemed to have seen that Baron Garcia died. The kind of tragedy in the pit.

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The next day, Zhou Ming dragged all the defense forces who had been doing basic training to the forest on the west side of the territory. Under the guidance of a dozen veteran thieves who dug holes and buried people, Zhou Ming set up the defense force in less than two days. He created a nearly perfect trap and waited for his prey to take the bait.

Not long after, Baron Garcia took more than a dozen of his knights and ran into the forest of Grandland. The autumn wind for the prey was coming. Jumping and fleeing inside, he suddenly sighed with emotion, "If you want to talk about prey, there are really a lot of prey here, and I can't even see the bigger wild boars in my territory."

Suddenly, Baron Garcia's eyes lit up, elk, there was a rare elk in front of him.

Be sure to capture it!

Baron Garcia chased after him with his troops.

However, when chasing the elk and passing through a steep canyon on both sides, the ground in front suddenly sank down, and Baron Garcia, who rushed to the front, fell into the pit with his man and horse.

"No, there's a trap!"

"Save the baron quickly!"

"Not good! A lot of big logs rolled down the mountain."

"Ah!" A knight suddenly covered his face and fell down. A poison arrow was inserted deeply into his eye socket.

After a while, Baron Garcia and his dozen or so knights suffered heavy casualties in an instant under the heavy blows of the big pit trap on the ground, the thick logs rolling down the mountain, and the densely shot poisoned crossbow bolts.

Even if the three or four knights did not die immediately, they soon turned into corpses under the heavy siege of strong nets, lime and mace clubs.

Baron Garcia, the lord of Bodo, was attacked by thieves in the wild and killed all of them, which made the already famous "Alibaba Thieves Group" more famous. Earl Lausitz issued a reward order of 500 rewards for his head, hoping that some The heroes of the world can wipe out this group of thieves who have been entrenched in Rhodes Territory for a long time, and restore stability and tranquility to Rhodes Territory.

However, this group of thieves came and went without a trace, and they did things cleanly without leaving anyone alive. They couldn't catch their traces, so they could only issue a warning, urging those barons who like to go hunting not to go hunting, and must pay attention to safety in the wild .

After this incident, Glenland went through a two-year period of stable development.

But in the third year, Baron Sean of Nathan Land, after not seeing his daughter and granddaughter for three consecutive years, finally sent someone to Grand Land to find out that his daughter and granddaughter had been infected with the "plague" for a long time. The news of his unfortunate death made him very sad and shocked immediately, and he also noticed something was wrong. After a secret investigation, he came to an angry conclusion.

It is very likely that his daughter, son-in-law, and two lovely granddaughters all died due to Baron Downey's shameful conspiracy!

Faced with repeated questioning from the envoys sent by Baron Sean, Downey denied it, claiming that there was absolutely no such thing! Baron Sean naturally did not believe it, and said that he would report this matter to Earl Lauzitz, prosecute him for murder in the Earl's Court, and ask the Earl to deprive him of his territory and title, and hang him to avenge his daughter and son-in-law's family!

When the matter came to this point, Downey discussed it with Zhou Ming and decided not to stop doing anything and simply kill Baron Sean to avoid future troubles.

The next day, early in the morning.

The Alibaba thieves group, which has expanded to more than 300 people through recruitment in recent years, set off first and was divided into ten teams. They burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil in Nathan's territory. This caused the knights led by Nathan to vigorously encircle and suppress them. How could a dozen knights be a match for the cunning thieves who were more than 30 times their number? After losing half of the knights in the field battle, the remaining six knights had to huddle in the Nathanland Castle with the city gates closed. Dare not take half a step.

The thieves tried to attack several times, and after leaving a few corpses behind, they were helpless and disappointed as they were helpless against this tall castle.

Just at this time, Zhou Ming came over with his Gela defense army, which had expanded to 600 people. It only took half a day to capture the castle.

The method used by Zhou Ming was very simple and crude. He piled 60 kilograms of black powder that he had accumulated over the past few years at the city gate, sealed it with dense earth and rocks behind, and then detonated it. The heavy city gate opened.

After the castle was captured, the robbers were ordered to kill all Baron Sean's family. The remaining servants of the castle and the more than 2,000 people in the entire Nathan Territory, as long as they had sound hands and feet, were all moved to various parts of the Glen Territory. In the large manors and workshops, he served as slave labor in Glenland.

Yes, Zhou Ming found that development is too slow. The population growth rate is only 6% a year. It will take until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse to build Glenland into a super territory with a population of more than 100,000 and more than 5,000 soldiers. I'm afraid only crazy plundering is the fastest way to achieve results.

Not only that, Zhou Ming was not prepared to let Earl Lausitz take back the land that Nathan had claimed. As long as Earl Lausitz sent a baron over, he would let thieves intercept and kill one of them, leaving this place ostensibly occupied by thieves. A chaotic place, but secretly, it still accepts the management and control of Glenland.

At this time, Earl Lauzitz finally realized the seriousness of the problem. In the Earl of Rhodes, within a few years, a baron heir and two barons died at the hands of thieves. Even the Nathan Castle was destroyed. It has been completely occupied. If this group of thieves in the territory are not wiped out, I am afraid that there will never be peace in the Earl of Rhodes territory!

After the lord recruitment order was issued, the fourteen barons in the Earl of Rhodes responded to the call one after another. Within half a month, a team of 130 knights was gathered (including ten knights impersonated by Glenland thieves) A huge encirclement and suppression force composed of 300 mercenaries and more than 3,000 farmers (mixed with 600 Glenland defense forces) rushed directly to the Nason Territory where the thieves were entrenched. With the momentum of a black cloud over the city, they wanted to defeat this group. Rogue, completely smashed to pieces!

However, on the night when this huge encirclement and suppression force first set up camp, under the operation of the Glen Territory internal response, they first poisoned a large number of knights and mercenaries with more than a dozen barrels of poisonous wine, and then burned them all with a fire. They lost all their grain, grass and horses, fled in chaos, and fell into a large number of traps set by thieves. The entire encirclement and suppression force completely collapsed in less than a day.

Except for one baron who narrowly escaped, twelve lords, including Count Lauzitz and eleven barons, all died in the chaos.

The Earl of Rhodes fell into unprecedented leaderlessness and extreme panic.

In this extremely chaotic situation, Zhou Ming desperately searched for all the population and resources in Earl of Ross's territory. It didn't take long for the population of Granland to break through the 20,000 mark. The number of soldiers also met the minimum army requirement he expected, which was 1,200.