Chapter 176: Fighting Demons with Demons

With the former old lord of Thumb City (Hebrew's grandfather) being killed by Leitch in full view, there was no more major unrest in Thumb City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Thumb City is a castle built from gray goblins, with a strong goblin flavor. Goblins, like dwarves, are natural blacksmiths and excellent miners, and they have an almost pathological fondness for stone in the eyes of other races, so whether they are goblins or dwarves, their dwellings are almost inseparable from stones.

Thumb City is a city built on stone, or a pit to be precise. According to the information obtained by Leitch, it was a huge mine thousands of years ago, and as for why it was turned from a mine to a city, the information says that the veins were exhausted, and the gray goblins who had a soft spot for the mine simply founded the city on the basis of the old mines.

And judging from the topography inside Thumb City, although it has been more than a thousand years, it is still vaguely visible that the traces left by the original - the structure of the city is like a huge irregular mining pit, and the chisel marks left by the cross pickaxe can be seen in the streets, city walls, etc., and even in front of the most famous tavern in Thumb City, the Cross Pickaxe Tavern, there is a large mining machine!

Unlike the dwarves of the Storm Mountains of the Blanca continent, who built the city entirely underground, the houses in Thumb City were embedded in a mine and did not go deep underground. But that's it, there isn't a single open-air house in the whole of Thumb City.

The population of Thumb City is about 100,000, which is equivalent to a medium-sized city in the Dawson Federation, comparable to Jinsha City, White Wave City, etc., and much larger than his Black Wind City. The majority of the population of the city is gray goblins, accounting for more than half, in addition to the abyssal races such as horn demons, sheep's horn demons, winged demons, ogres, kobolds, etc.

The reason why Leitch chose Thumb City as the target of attack was to come at these tens of thousands of gray goblins; although not all gray goblins were blacksmiths, according to the talent of the gray goblins, there were at least five or six thousand! As long as these five or six thousand blacksmiths were included in their own forces, then their military industry would surely enter a period of vigorous development!

What is most important to a power? Of course, talent, especially a skilled person like a blacksmith, is completely linked to the level of productivity and technology! When Germany was breached, the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, both plundered, but the two bigwigs had different emphases: the United States secretly looted all the technical talents of Germany, while the Soviet Union was complacent about the machines that had been brought back from various factories -- it was like choosing between a fish and a fishing rod. Since then, the United States has far surpassed the Soviet Union in scientific and technological strength, and this may not have nothing to do with this.

In addition to the idea of the blacksmith who is dusting the goblin, Reitch actually hopes to find the ore vein. Goblins claim to be natural miners, but it's not for nothing, even if they are dwarves, they are slightly inferior in their ability to find ore veins! Now that he learns that the ore veins in Thumb City have been depleted, Ricky can't help but be a little frustrated. However, even if the ore veins of Thumb City are exhausted, I believe that it is impossible for these gray goblins to completely abandon the mining business in the past thousand years, so it is impossible for them to still control the ore veins elsewhere?

Thumb City is divided into five districts, and the way it is named is quite distinctive - thumb area, index finger area, middle finger area, ring finger area and little finger area.

Near the city gate is the Littlefinger area, which is also the bottom of this open pit. The Little Finger District is also the dock area and container container container area of Thumb City, and it is also a more chaotic area of Thumb City, where thieves, killers, beggars, hooligans, etc., are mostly concentrated in this area.

In this regard, Lei Qi did not say anything on the face, but he had already made a plan in his heart to vigorously renovate the Little Finger District - from the perspective of terrain conditions, Thumb City has a natural harbor, and he will house thousands of gray goblin blacksmiths, as long as he works hard to build it with his heart, it may not be impossible to build it into a trading point! The little finger area is connected to the city gate, and for those passers-by, the first impression left by the little finger area is often related to their impression of Thumb City, and the chaotic security situation in the little finger area undoubtedly lowers their evaluation of Thumb City, that is, the problem of image engineering.

Passing through the city gate and going straight into is the little finger area, and there is a mountain road on the left and right sides of the city gate that curves upward, the left mountain road leads to the ring finger area, the right passage leads to the index finger area, and between the ring finger area and the index finger area is the middle finger area, which is located in the middle of the whole open pit.

The Ring Finger District is the commercial district of Thumb City, home to the city's most famous Cross Pick Tavern. It is not difficult to see that there are indeed many blacksmiths in Thumb City, but it can also be seen that the weapons manufacturing industry in Thumb City is scattered, which is roughly equivalent to the family workshop business model.

Now that Leitch is in control of Thumb City, it is naturally impossible for this to continue, although he declares that his property will not be moved, but he does not say that he will keep the city as it is, which is impossible, he is not here for taxes. Whether the grey goblins wanted to or not, Richie would force them under his command, and of course, Retch didn't think of them as slaves, and he would treat them well, just as he did in Blackwind. Although Leitch is not afraid that these gray goblins will riot or something, riots are a headache after all.

Both the Index and Middle Finger districts are residential areas of Thumb City, but most of the inhabitants in the Index Finger District are gray goblins, while the inhabitants of the Middle Finger District are mostly other Abyssal races. It's not that Thumb City is engaged in any racial discrimination, but the city was originally created by gray goblins, and the other demon races moved here one after another after the city was built, so it is normal for these two residential areas to be formed. However, because the middle finger area is extremely mixed, the security here is much worse, even compared to the little finger area, and demons have a aggressive nature, so there are often fights and fatalities in the middle finger area.

Although the Abyss is also a social body that is orderly, compared to the human kingdom in the Valley of the Dawn, their laws are much looser, and they are similar to those orcs in the realm of the Seven Kings. Reich doesn't care what this place used to be, now that he's taken over here, he has to run it according to his will, not to mention that the law represents his will and majesty, and once the law is deeply rooted in the demon's heart, then his dominance will be secured.

Long before stepping into the abyss, Ricky had already thought about how to manage the demon territory - the core was to "fight demons with demons". Blind plunder and repressive rule are not feasible, and it is not obvious that he has only captured one place at present, but as the results of the war expand, he will inevitably have a serious shortage of troops and a shortage of management personnel. Therefore, he must select some representatives from his rule and make them "vested interests", and when the time comes, they will automatically maintain their rule, even if they do not have to supervise themselves. Anyway, for these abyss demons, they don't care if they are ruled by humans or not, whoever has the biggest fist is the one who has the final say.

As for the lack of troops, Reich is not currently considering continuing to expand the scale of the Dragonroar Warriors, there is an upper limit to the number of people he can bless, and the remaining blessing places are still of great use, so Reich's plan is to recruit on the spot - in this abyss, he will not be constrained by federal law at all, as long as he has enough financial resources and ability, even if he has a million demon army, no one can say anything about him.

As for whether the use of the Abyss Demon into his legion will affect his image, there is no need to worry about it, because as early as the Fast period, the Fast Empire had taken the lead in recruiting demon mercenaries to strengthen its rule over the Abyss Colony, and even in the process of the Fast Empire's conquest of other planes, its Abyss Legion made great contributions, and the Abyss Legion was completely composed of demon mercenaries!

Of course, this involves a matter of management, especially in the internal human wars of the Dawn Valley, the use of demon mercenaries is indeed quite taboo, and if one is not done well, it is often self-defeating, but in foreign wars, demon mercenaries are indeed a good choice.

However, Leitch does not intend to copy the practice of the Fast Empire, the so-called mercenary is a mercenary relationship, which is not a loyalty at all, and the facts have also proved that after the outbreak of the Battle of Dusk, the Abyss Legions of the Fast Empire have become independent, and have carved out a large part of the colonial plane of the Fast Empire, which made the Fastster Empire even worse at that time.

Leitch doesn't think that the Abyss Demon is not credible, but it is a matter of loyalty, and the management method of the Fast Empire is unlikely to cultivate any loyalty at all, so even if the Abyss Legion becomes independent in the end, it can actually be said that it is inevitable. Leitch's plan is to truly bring some of the Abyssal Demons into his own forces, make them also vested interests, give them the same status, the same enterprising hope, and believe that they will also serve him wholeheartedly.

Just like the Chinese people on the earth, its growth process is a process of annexation, countless small nations have been conquered on the road of Chinese growth, not only the annexation of land, but also the merger of nationalities and cultures, but now, the Chinese have grown into the largest race on the earth! Although the abyssal demons are very different from the humans in the Valley of the Dawn, if the rule established by themselves is not overthrown, after thousands of years, will the descendants of these demons still care about the difference between themselves and humans?

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