Iron ore.
What a troublesome problem.
In terms of the civilization level of this era, it is absolutely not easy to develop a mineral resource. Although there are a large number of Kobold slaves that can be used to mine, the problem is that Murphy must first find a mineral in the surface layer. Humans don''t have the talent of dwarves. They are not only good at drilling holes, but also can know where there are minerals just by sniffing.
The above point is definitely not a big score and has nothing to do with exaggeration.
Because when dwarves are really looking for minerals, their noses are one of their most important tools. These guys with amazing talent in forging and smelting can smell the vein just by sniffing. This talent is the envy of other intelligent races, but they can''t learn it. Most of the veins mined by human beings in the Southern Plain were excavated by dwarves.
Murphy''s relationship with the barbarians is good, but his relationship with the dwarves is rather cold.
Maybe these grumpy guys can be better treated with the newly brewed high count liquor from Athens, but the problem is that Murphy has no way to connect with them now. Since these dwarfs moved out of the mountains, their tracks have been quite strange. It takes too long to find them, and then exchange the spirits for friendship, not to mention the time of transporting the spirits.
Murphy can''t afford it.
However, there is no way out.
There is a very common device in the advanced course of goblin alchemy, which is called goblin prospector.
The principle of action is to use magic waves to check whether there are veins in the ground, where they are and how deep they are. This is the most common device used by goblin engineers and one of their required courses. The only trouble is that the device, called the goblin explorer, needs a high level of magic to make. It needs to burn up to 800 magic marks to start.
Only mages above level 3 can make it.
Murphy''s current level is about level 2 mage, a little less than the level required for making goblin prospectors.
Although it is necessary to have its own iron ore, it should be able to slow down for more than half a year. Murphy only needs to have self-sufficient iron ore before he can turn against the aristocratic Council. After all, Athens captured a large number of standard weapons in the orc World War I. these weapons can not be re melted to meet the needs of the territory.
Athens has an open-pit coal mine, which is undoubtedly quite advantageous.
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The second era, July 5, 376.
After a few days, although she was still reluctant to part with her heart, after the news from all over the world came, Mrs. Elizabeth finally had to set out to arrange the plan for the establishment of the mercenary Union. She will unite the middle and small nobles nearby to pull up the rudiment of the mercenary Union. Then, in the name of Athens, order all the mercenary teams nearby to register! The Duchy of Athens will give them the corresponding identity and lay the foundation for the hierarchical production after the establishment of the mercenary Union.
With Athens and Lady Elizabeth''s territory as the core, it covers 24000 square kilometers of land in the southern plain.
A total of 32 aristocrats, big and small, issued new orders in the name of the south line aristocratic alliance!
All mercenary regiments established within the territory must be registered in the town before they can be recognized, and the formal mercenary status will be issued by the mercenary Union. Otherwise, it will be regarded as illegal private armed! It doesn''t need any fee to register as a mercenary regiment. After being registered, the mercenary team can accept the employment tasks from all over the world and be recognized by Athens!
Athens will protect them!
Lady Elizabeth''s financial and material resources began to play a role. With the reputation of "Purple thorn flower" and the support of military forces behind Athens, in a short week, large and small mercenary union branches were established in the large noble towns on the front line of the southern plain. These mercenary union branches are respectively responsible for the affairs of their large towns and surrounding small towns and villages. Once there is a danger that ordinary mercenaries can''t deal with.
The news will be delivered to Athens in two days, and general riodari will send Spartan soldiers to Athens!
In addition to the large mercenary regiment built under the control of Mrs. Elizabeth, Murphy also set up a nominally fully open mercenary team in view of the increasing number of mutated beasts and other creatures fleeing into the southern plains. The mercenary regiment was made up of Spartan soldiers and passed the news to the nobles around. They don''t accept ordinary mercenary tasks. Only when there is a danger that ordinary people can''t deal with, can nobles from all over the world ask for help in the name of Lords.
——Bless!
That''s what Murphy promised when he was in the league.
But Murphy is now shifting the power of patronage to the new mercenary Union.
In order to make the establishment of mercenary Union more smooth, because only related to their own interests, those greedy nobles will spend a lot of effort!
Just ten days.
Under the threat of Murphy''s high reputation and Athenian military power, nearly 100 mercenary teams built up on the front line of the Southern Plain were ranked, and the previous adventurers'' organizations were attracted by the strength of Athens. They don''t need to pay any fees. As long as they join this organization, they can get recognition from Athens, obtain official mercenary status, and learn about employment information in other regions through mercenary Union.
One by one, the information was sent to Athens, and a post system covering more than 18000 square kilometers of land on the front line of the southern plain was virtually established with the mercenary Union as the central point! The Athenian intelligence organization "Jiang Ye", as well as the spies and spies trained successively, were sent to the mercenary unions all over the country. Although it is still a simple rudiment, there is no doubt that with the passage of time, this huge intelligence network will be gradually improved. At that time, when Murphy was apportioning, the power in his hand could absolutely surprise any party!
Is there a better intelligence network in the world than the mercenary Union?
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Eight days after the establishment of the mercenary Union.
On the south line of the southern plain, 176 mercenary regiments, large and small, and more than 3400 mercenaries were recruited.
Their roster was sent to Athens, and the initial rating was made according to the size of the mercenary team and the number of tasks completed. With the efforts of the scholars trained by the University of Athens, the grading system from the first level mercenary regiment to the Ninth level mercenary regiment is being worked out bit by bit. During the game, these scholars will work out a set of task grading system, which will be graded according to the difficulty of the task and the size of the mercenary team.
At the same time, with the progress of the elimination of wild animals in various places.
The data collected by the mercenary Union on the strength and intelligence of various mutant beasts were sent to Athens. Athenian university scholars are classifying and trying to make statistics on the strength characteristics of all kinds of mutant beasts!
A huge prototype is gradually taking shape under Murphy''s concept of consciousness far beyond the times.
The scholars and talents trained in Athens in more than a year began to play a role. As Murphy''s think tank, they began to help him deal with many affairs. At the same time, more and more citizens are sent to universities to receive all kinds of basic education. In the future, they will be the pillar force in Murphy''s hands!
At the same time!
With the rapid expansion of the mercenary Union, Murphy also began to search for apprentices with magical talents throughout Athens.
Among the courses in the University of Athens, Murphy has officially incorporated the introduction to alchemy and basic magic course into the classified subjects! At the same time, through altoria, he also sent an invitation to the magician Merlin and the grey robed mage Gandalf. After simply describing the changes that are taking place in the world and the great changes that may happen in the future, Murphy said very directly that with the beginning of the second element tide, the threshold of human learning magic has become lower, and the number of magicians in the future will increase greatly.
He plans to establish the first school of magic in the human world, and invite two people to teach magic courses.
Murphy doesn''t know if he can invite these two masters of the human world, but according to his estimation, it''s still possible. After all, the number of magicians among human beings is very rare, and the strength of Athens is still attractive to them!
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Busy!
Busy! Busy!
Busy in the dark!
Ever since Murphy remembered, he has never been so busy! It seems that he can''t deal with all kinds of complicated affairs, which makes him very nervous even when he eats and sleeps! For a week, Murphy and general Jerry rivard ate and lived in the government. They only sleep less than three hours a day. They are busy from early morning to late night. They even have no time to take a bath!
But even so, he had to arrange people to deal with all kinds of complicated things.
Only then did Murphy realize how troublesome it was to set up a mercenary Union! With the strength of Athens and the material and financial resources accumulated by Lady Elizabeth''s family for one hundred years, there were still some problems in the early days of the establishment of the mercenary Union, such as shortage of manpower, financial shortage and so on. You know, after the combination of the two, there are 12000 square kilometers of land! With their financial and material resources are a little tight, we can imagine how amazing the consumption of building mercenary union is!
12000 square kilometers of land!
In the past, Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province of the people''s Republic of China, was only a little more than 7400 square kilometers.
Murphy couldn''t have foreseen that it would be so hard to support the establishment of the mercenary union with the financial and material resources equivalent to three or four prefecture level cities in the previous life!
But fortunately, it''s just that "everything is difficult at the beginning". After the difficult initial stage, all kinds of infrastructure have been formulated.
Murphy was finally able to breathe.
1500!
Not counting the recruitment, not counting the expenditure of Lady Elizabeth, the number of people sent out from Athens alone has reached 1500!
The total cost of materials and funds is nearly 200000 silver coins!
One month.
In the 24000 square kilometers of the south line of the southern plain, with the support of Athenian manpower and Lady Elizabeth''s financial and material resources, large and medium-sized towns have sprung up like mushrooms everywhere. With the establishment of the mercenary trade union, the nobles all over the country began to take the initiative to clean up the mutated beasts in the territory with the help of the mercenaries.
Within a month, more and more wild animals in the forest mutated.
Not only have their bodies changed, but their wisdom has also improved a lot. They frequently appear in the range of human activities, attack caravans or single travelers, and even threaten some villages and small towns. Almost all the nobles realized that a danger was brewing, and the armament forces everywhere were rising for a while. This situation is not only limited to the southern plains, but also to other races living in the surrounding areas of human beings. More and more wild animals have emerged from semi elf villages, the mountains inhabited by dwarves, the territory after the migration of semi orcs.
Now they have turned into orcs on the front line of Athens, and even some Warcraft in the dark area appeared in their territory after migration!
I don''t know when to start.
A saying began to spread in people''s mouth.
——The disaster has begun.
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Because of the establishment of the mercenary Union, the aberrant beasts around Athens were cleaned up in time.
Even if there is a Warcraft that ordinary people can''t deal with, there are Spartan warriors sent from Athens to deal with it. In this way, compared with the chaos and chaos in other places, the order in the League of principalities is undoubtedly much better. After witnessing the great strength of Spartan soldiers, many small and medium-sized lords around Murphy were convinced that Athens was the leader of everything.
Compared with Athens, the rest of the southern plain is much worse!
It is not only the frequent occurrence of mutated wild animals, but also the fact that a large number of goutouman, grey sideburns jackal and goblin bandits migrated to human territory in the southern wilderness is unknown. Almost in a short period of one month, a large number of dog headed men and jackals have appeared in cities and towns all over the world, and some groups of earth bandits even attack human towns!
It''s as if some terrible creature is driving them away. These creatures, who were afraid of human territory, are driven away in large quantities.
Group by group into the southern plains!
At this time, there is no aristocratic Council, there is no unified leadership of the drawbacks finally revealed.
Although the parliament has nominal regulation, how many lords are willing to take the initiative to dispatch their own soldiers to clean up the goblin robbers and jackals for other nobles? What if, after the troops are dispatched, their territory is threatened by those creatures?
In the case of selfishness, almost all the other areas of the southern plain formed factions and fought on their own!
At this time, the authority of the three great princes could not be absolutely controlled. For the orders of the great princes to send troops to help clean up, most of the nobles in different places violated the rules of yin and Yang! This is not like a jackal war. At that time, there was a front line. As long as the front line did not collapse, the rear would be safe.
But now?
Countless creatures, such as Kobold, gray sideburns jackal, Earth Spirit and so on, entered the southern plains in large quantities. Even boar people living in other areas have appeared in human vision!
What does that mean?
In addition, the saying about the "evil disaster" is that the nobles all over the country are reluctant to send troops. There are so many other creatures invading our territory that we can''t kill them all, let alone help others clean up.
It''s not just a race war anymore.
It''s just - the world is in chaos!
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Compared with other places, the strength of Athens has improved a lot during this period, not only in the training.
Similarly, Athens also gave birth to a general in the process of eliminating the mutated beast.
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Character attributes.
Name: iagos Sparta (this is a noble surname)
Commander in chief: he is an excellent general
Management: he has little management ability
Reputation: he has a slight reputation
Loyalty: This is a loyal man, who regards glory above life
Personal combat effectiveness: {}}} {}}} {}} (he is a believer of the God of war and a powerful fighter!)
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title:
Spartan (he is a Spartan, law + 3, buy money + 400%.)
Cruel training (this person has undergone cruel training, personal combat effectiveness + 2.)
Iron will (this person has iron will, personal combat effectiveness + 1, buying cost + 200%.)
Basic education (this person has received basic education, commander + 1, management + 1.)
Excellent commander (he is an excellent commander, commander + 1)
He has a good face. Reputation + 2.)
Strong body (he has strong body, life + 2)
The one with few bells
Vigilance (he is a vigilant person, personal safety + 2.)
Crazy believer (he is a follower of Kratos, the God of war, with personal combat power + 2, reputation + 1, and law + 1.)
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entourage:
Herald (every general needs a qualified Herald, commander + 1.)
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(publish a task:
Guess what drove the southern wilderness into the plains?
Guess there''s a prize!)