Soon after the beginning of spring, Zhou Ming entrusted Solo and other traveling merchants to sell thousands of tons of grain from the Glan Territory to the Iron Fort Kingdom in the south, and then exchanged them for a lot of iron ingots. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

These iron ingots, about 5,000 pieces (10 kg each), could make 3,000 heavy ploughshares, or 20,000 spearheads, or 200,000 arrowheads, or 100 pairs of iron armor.

The number of things made of these iron ingots seems to be very impressive, but thinking of the results of a year of hard work, he was able to exchange for five tons of iron ingots, with an average of 1,000 tons of grain = 1 ton of iron, this exchange ratio, Zhou Ming was really a little speechless.

Of course, if you buy it inside the Iron Fort Kingdom, you will definitely not need thousands of tons of grain to buy one ton of iron ingots, and you can pay one or two hundred tons at most.

The real consumption is still the "tolls" that were scavenged by various lords when Solo and other traveling merchants passed through various territories, which brought huge additional expenses to Zhou Ming's cost of buying iron ingots.

"When the defense army of the Gran Territory is trained, we must take care of these lords who charge for bayonets! It is best to go to the Iron Castle Kingdom to occupy a mine and make steel by yourself, and make tens of thousands of tons of steel a year, not afraid of those lords and kings making trouble. ”

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 more than 180 people of the Grand Territory Defense Army.

In the middle of summer in June, animals breed and prey is fat.

Baron Garcia, who was in the western part of the Grande Territory, sent a knight to the Gran Territory, saying that there were not as many prey in his territory as there were Gran Territories, and he wanted to come to the forest on the Gran Territory to hunt for a while, and when there were enough prey, he would go back to the Bertow Territory and ask Donnie if Lord Donnie had any questions?

"Garcia, you old immortal thing! I want to get some cheap on the Gran Collar, don't fight, the prey of the Gran Collar only belongs to the Gran Collar, and you are not allowed to fight any of them!"

Downey roared at the knight brought by Berdo, and wanted to defend the interests and dignity of the Gran Collar with the strongest possible statement.

"Baron Donnie, then, are you planning to go to war with our Peters? I seem to see that you don't seem to have a single knight by your side? You have also trained a group of farmers outside the castle, you don't think that you rely on these farmers to defend your prey, do you?"

The knight said in a triumphant tone, as if asking, little one, do you dare to break your wrist with Baron Garcia?

"You-"

Donnie stood up angrily and pointed at him for a long time, but couldn't say anything harsh.

Yes, if you really rely on those farmers outside the castle who have been training for less than half a year to fight Baron Garcia's knights, I'm afraid they will lose everything, right?

He also complained a little about Zhou Ming, and Ryan was really, he had to train some defense troops and recruit a few knights to come over to Dolisuo, otherwise how could he be reduced to the point of being ridden on his head to and pee?

"Donnie, don't be angry, you take your breath, I'll take care of this. ”

Zhou Ming appeased Donnie and said to the knight below: "This honorable knight, Lord Donnie has agreed that Baron Garcia is hunting in the forest of the Grand Territory, and I wish him a happy hunt and pay more attention to safety. ”

"Ryan, you-"

Donnie stared at Zhou Ming with dead eyes, and even wanted to ask him loudly why he was so weak, at most a few people died, there are so many people in the Grand Territory, what is it if dozens of people die? The dignity and decency of the Grand Leader have been lost, and in the future, he will always be a weak and coward in the eyes of others.

But seeing that Zhou Ming kept squeezing his eyes at him, as if he had something to say to him, he had to endure the attack, and after the knight left the meeting room with a laugh, he said with a cold face: "Ryan, you just lost the face of my Grand Collar, what else do you have to explain to me now?"

"You sit down first, Donnie, Baron Garcia just wants to shoot a few of the Gran Collar's prey, and give them a little compensation compared to the lives they are about to lose. ”

Zhou Ming helped Donnie back to his seat, and in his ear, he said a plan in a cold tone.

"Okay! Just do as you say!Hmph, Garcia, you old immortal, take your prey and go to hell with you!" The excited Donnie seemed to have seen the tragic situation of Baron Garcia dying in the pit.

……

The next day, Zhou Ming pulled all the defense troops who had been doing basic training to the forest west of the territory, and under the guidance of more than a dozen thieves who were veteran of digging and burying people, it took less than two days to lay a near-perfect trap, waiting for the prey to take the bait.

It didn't take long for Baron Garcia to take more than a dozen knights under his command to run to the forest of the Gran Territory, and the autumn wind of the prey was spotted, and as soon as he entered the forest, he saw a lot of sturdy and fat prey at a glance, jumping and fleeing in the forest, and suddenly sighed with emotion, "If you want to talk about the prey, there are really many of the Gran Territory, and in my territory, even the wild boar with a bigger head can't be seen." ”

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

Be sure to catch it!

Baron Garcia chased after him with his men.

However, while chasing the elk through a steep canyon on both sides, the ground in front of him suddenly sank downward, and Baron Garcia, who rushed to the front, fell into the pit with men and horses.

"Not good, there are traps!"

"Save the Baron!"

"Oh no! There was a lot of big logs rolling down the mountain. ”

"Ahh

In a short time, under the heavy blows of the large pit traps on the ground, the thick logs rolling down the mountain, and the dense shooting of poison-smeared crossbow arrows, Baron Garcia and more than a dozen of his knights suffered heavy casualties in an instant.

Even the three or four knights who did not die immediately were quickly reduced to corpses under the siege of sturdy nets, limes, and maces.

Baron Garcia, the lord of Pedeaux, was attacked by thieves in the field and all killed, which made the "Ali Baba thieves group" who had long been famous even more famous, and Count Lauzitz issued a bounty of 500 for one head, hoping that some heroes could destroy this group of thieves who had been entrenched in the Rhodes for a long time, and return the Rhodes to a stable and peaceful situation.

However, this group of thieves came and went without a trace, and they did things neatly and neatly, leaving no trace of them, and could only issue a warning, advising those barons who like to go out to hunt not to go out hunting, and to pay attention to safety in the wild.

After this incident, Gran Ling has survived a two-year period of steady development.

But in the third year, Baron Sean, who led Nathan, after not seeing his daughter and granddaughter for three consecutive years, finally sent someone to Gran Ling to find out the news that his daughter and granddaughter had died of the "plague" a long time ago.

His daughter and son-in-law, as well as his two lovely granddaughters, most likely, died in the shameful conspiracy of Baron Donnie!

In the face of the repeated questioning of the envoys sent by Baron Sean, Donny flatly denied it, claiming that there was absolutely no such thing! Baron Sean naturally did not believe it, and said that he would report the matter to Count Lauzitz, and would prosecute him for murder in the Earl's court, and demand that Lord Earl deprive him of his territory and title, and sentence him to death by hanging, so as to avenge his daughter and son-in-law's family!

Things came to this point, Donnie discussed with Zhou Ming, and decided not to do anything, and simply killed Baron Sean to prevent future troubles.

The next day, early in the morning.

In recent years, the number of soldiers and horses has expanded to more than 300 people, and the Alibaba thieves group set off first, divided into ten squads, burned and looted everywhere in the Nathan territory, and did all kinds of evil, which caused Nathan to lead the knights to encircle and suppress, but how could it be the opponent of the cunning thieves who were more than 30 times their number, after losing half of the knights in the field, the remaining six knights had to retreat in the Nathan Territory Castle, the city gate was closed, and they did not dare to take half a step.

The thieves tentatively attacked several times, and after leaving a few corpses, they could not do anything about the tall castle, and sighed.

At this time, Zhou Ming came over with his Gla Leader Guard, whose number had been expanded to 600 people, and it only took half a day to break through the castle.

The method adopted by Zhou Ming was very simple and rude, that is, the 60 catties of black powder he had accumulated and prepared in the past few years were stacked at the city gate, and then sealed the dense earth and stone at the back, and then detonated, and the heavy city gate was opened.

After the capture of the castle, he ordered the robbers to kill all the Baron Sean's family, and the remaining servants of the castle and the more than 2,000 people of the entire Nathan Territory, as long as they were able-bodied, were all moved to the various large estates and workshops of the Gran Territory to serve as slave laborers in the Gran Territory.

Yes, Zhou Ming found that the development of honesty is too slow, the population growth rate is only 6% a year, and it will not be until the Year of the Monkey that the Grand Territory can be built into a super territory with a population of more than 100,000 and more than 5,000 soldiers.

Not only that, Nathan led this land, and Zhou Ming was not ready to let Count Lauzitz take it back, as long as Count Lauzitz sent a baron over, he would let the thieves intercept and kill one, so that here, on the surface, was a chaotic place occupied by thieves, but secretly, it was still under the management and control of the Grand Collar.

At this time, the Count of Rhodes finally realized the seriousness of the problem, the Earldom of Rhodes, within a few years, there was a baron's heir and two barons who died at the hands of thieves, and even the castle of Nathan Territory was completely destroyed, if you don't exterminate this group of thieves in the territory, I'm afraid that there will never be peace in the Earldom of Rhodes!

After the lord's conscription order was issued, the fourteen barons in the Earlate of Rhodes responded to the call, and within half a month, they gathered a huge encirclement and suppression force consisting of 130 knights (including ten knights pretended to be by the Gran Domain thieves), 300 mercenaries and more than 3,000 farmers (mixed with 600 Gran Lord's defense army), and directly attacked the Nathan Territory where the thieves were entrenched, with a momentum of black clouds crushing the city, to completely crush this group of thieves!

However, on the night when this huge encirclement and suppression force had just set up camp, under the operation of the Gran Territory, it first poisoned a large number of knights and mercenaries with more than a dozen barrels of poisoned wine, and then burned all the grain, grass and horses.

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

The county of Rhodes is in an unprecedented state of leaderlessness and panic.

In this incomparably chaotic situation, Zhou Ming desperately looted all the population and resources in the Earldom of Rhodes, and it didn't take long for the population of the Gran Territory to break through the 20,000 mark, and the soldiers of the Gran Territory Defense Army also reached the minimum army requirement he expected, that is, 1,200 people.