Cavalry training is not achieved overnight, in addition to horses, cavalry also need to have a variety of equipment, horseshoe, saddle, these also need to be prepared in advance.

This is just the most basic, the light cavalry is fine, there is no need to prepare horse armor, the heavy cavalry also needs to prepare a full set of horse armor, but Su Lun does not plan to train heavy cavalry for the time being, there is a group of strong barbarian warriors, they can replace the heavy cavalry to a certain extent.

Now the territory lacks some light cavalry, which can be used for reconnaissance, harassment, sneak attacks, and transmission of information, and can be used in a wide range of ways.

The weather is getting colder, and when I wake up in the morning, there is already hoarfrost on the window, and just yesterday, Suren meets a wandering hero, Hunter, again in the tavern.

This is a small head of the caravan, who used to trade in various places, knows the price of various goods, and is familiar with the various operations of the caravan, when Su Lun sent him an invitation, the little head of the caravan agreed without thinking about it, and then went to terminate the employment relationship with the caravan director.

Suren appointed him as the tax collector of Fort North, responsible for collecting taxes on the incoming and outgoing caravans, which had previously been the responsibility of Chris and Jean, and now handed over to Marnes, but he still had to report to Chris every day.

"Name: Marnes, Loyalty: 82

Occupation: Merchant/Tax Officer

Level: Level 5

Strength: 6

Dexterity: 7

Spirit: 6

Constitution: 6

Charm: 7

Commander-in-Chief: 20

Traits (Talents): Valuation, Observation, Listening, Actor, Trading, Clever Tongue, Good Manners, Gossip, Shrewdness.

Merchant: He used to be a merchant who had been trafficking goods from place to place for a long time, giving him an idea of the prices of various goods, as well as the various tricks used by merchants to evade taxes (tax +1).

Skills: Math Mastery, Law Mastery, Basic Swordsmanship, Message Gathering, Intimidation, Searching Dark Grids.

Weapon Proficiency: 60 for Sword Weapons, 75 for Bows and Arrows, 83 for Horsemanship

Evaluation: This is a qualified tax officer, and he will be aware of any behavior that wants to evade taxes.

You need to pay him a monthly honorarium. ”

With the tax collector, the tax revenue of the territory is clearer, and under the role of Hunter, those who want to evade taxes are also punished, greatly reducing tax evasion, and Suren can already foresee that the tax revenue of Zhenbei Fort will increase again.

In fact, the official structure of Zhenbei Fort is not reasonable at all, and the positions of town mayor, chief of guards, garrison officer, and castle steward are not manned.

Chrissy was actually in charge of the mayor's and castle stewards, and as for the chief of the guard and the garrison, Johnson and Boulder were temporarily in charge, the two of them were actually not qualified. There is also no one to hold the diplomat of the territory, after all, the position of diplomat is very important.

To a certain extent, he is Su Lun's spokesperson, basically all diplomats are from nobles, after all, this era is a confrontation between nobles, if you don't understand the etiquette and way of speaking of nobles, you can't become a qualified diplomat at all, so this position can only be vacant, maybe he can train one by himself in the future.

Because of the need to form cavalry, Su Lun has been directing slaves and homeless people to build horse farms and stables for the past two days, and the winter in the Northland Wasteland is still very cold, and the warmth of the stables must keep up, otherwise these horses will be easily frostbitten when there is a heavy snowfall in winter.

The stables were built southeast of the town, where there was a large clearing, and Suren had brought a canal from the Hongsha River, and had selected five pikemen and five archers from the Spirit of War to be stationed there.

Although it is only a team of ten people, these war spirits cooperate tacitly and are well-equipped, and there is no problem in dealing with small-scale gnolls or bear goblins, if it is a large-scale entry into the territory, it will definitely be discovered as soon as possible, and the barbarian guards of the territory will go to solve it as soon as possible.

The pace of construction of the stables was rapid, and Suren deliberately took the time to turn the stables into mud and stone, transforming the walls of the stables into rock structures. Soon the stable was built.

[Stable: A place where war horses live and rest, and a good rest environment can make war horses stronger. Clean & Tidy +3, Regenerate Energy +2, Energetic +1, Reduce Blight +2, Warm as Spring +2]

After the construction of the stables was completed, the centaurs who had come to trade also arrived, and Suren had two hundred pieces of iron armor and twenty carts for transporting grain ready for trading, and then personally led them to the agreed place between the two parties.

The camel beast pulled the heavy cart forward, more than twenty cars formed a long procession, Su Lun with the barbarian guards guarded by the side, and there were thirty war spirits next to him, it can be said that for this transaction, Su Lun has brought out most of the power of the territory.

He wouldn't be naïve enough to think that he had agreed on a deal with those centaurs last time and would just send things over. There is no law in the wasteland, and it is the truth that the fist is big here, and it is prevalent to convince people with reason.

If Su Lun didn't prepare enough deterrence, don't look at the good communication between the two sides that day, once a lot of interests were involved, he believed that those centaurs would definitely not mind making a cameo appearance as a bandit. Twenty wagons of food, two hundred sets of iron armor, such a large fortune was enough for those centaurs to venture.

Don't think about what credit they will care about, the tribes in the wilderness rise and fall, the old and the new are changing too quickly, they don't have the time or the right to look at the long-term development. Suren wouldn't test the credibility of the centaurs with his goods, because nine times out of ten they simply wouldn't be able to stand the test.

The location of the trade between the two sides was on a plain outside the territory of Suren, where the terrain was open, as long as a few men were arranged to stand on the nearby high ground, a radius of several kilometers could be unobstructed, and there was no need to worry about being attacked at all, even if it was a centaur charge, they would have enough time to surround the convoy in a car formation.

Soon a scout came to him and dismounted with a clean kick.

"Sir, I have already probed, and there is no ambush around. ”

"Explore!" Suren said, nodding, and the scout turned on his horse and galloped off again.

The convoy continued on its way, and about an hour later, the convoy arrived at the agreed location. At this time, those centaurs also appeared on the other side, Su Lun looked at it from a distance, and the black pressure was overwhelming, except for those war horses, these centaurs came at least three hundred people.

......

On the other side, the centaurs who had just arrived also saw Suren's convoy.

"Kane, is that the lord who traded with you? There are only so many people with you, should we just eat them? A topless, tall, muscular centaur with various scars on his body came up to Kane and whispered.

"Kanter, don't do it yet, these humans can gain a foothold in the wilderness, which means that they are not weak, but you can try their depth first. Kane thought for a moment and said. "If it's not good, you know what to do. ”

"Understood, I'll go. ”

Although he saw the ogre's head and the ice pterodactyl's head on the walls of Zhenbei Fort last time, he had never seen these humans do it with his own eyes, Kane was still a little skeptical, after all, in his opinion, these short humans were not as strong as orcs, and their running speed was slow, and they had almost no other advantages except for being well-equipped and good at farming.