A person who is dominated by feelings may have good intentions, and words may be sincere, but he can never find the truth. To triumphantly search for the truth is to be completely freed from the double encirclement of love and hatred, blessing and evil.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

From the province of Nice to the capital of the province of Bronjansson, it is necessary to pass through the thundercloud base hidden in the mountains and forests, and the significance of the thundercloud base at this time to Bai Feng does not need to be repeated, it is a secret base that Bai Feng has painstakingly built.

Not to mention for the time being, how strong the Thundercloud Garrison under Paresi's command was formed by 20,000 elite city defense troops from the Eastern Provinces, it was an equipment manufacturing center that produced 8,000 sets of Roman youth army standard weapons and equipment per month, and its value was far from comparable to the control of a province!

Coupled with the secret art of taming beasts handed over to Bai Feng by the Holy Maiden of Victoria on behalf of the Dark Council, the Thundercloud Base has become the most important core area of Bai Feng within the empire;

Although the commander of the 20,000 Thundercloud Guards was General Paresi, the former Storm Thieves, the real control of the Thundercloud Base was the former civil affairs officer Hess who Bai Feng transferred from the Brojansong Provincial Governor's Mansion, and the Equipment Manufacturing Center and the Thundercloud Knights were all in Hess's hands.

Bai Feng's sudden arrival made Hess, Paresi and other people left behind in the Thundercloud Base quickly put down the affairs they were busy with and ran to Bai Feng's side to report the current situation, but Bai Feng did not rush to listen to their reports, but wanted to go to various places in the base first.

After entering the heavily guarded equipment manufacturing center, what appeared in front of Bai Feng was a busy scene in full swing; looking at the craftsmen who were struggling to forge weapons and equipment, Bai Feng turned to Hess and asked, "Hess, how are these craftsmen treated?"

"General Qiyu, these craftsmen originally belonged to the two major equipment manufacturing centers of Brojansson Province and Besançon Province, but after this merger, we have raised their basic salary to ten gold coins per month by referring to the treatment standards you have set for them before. ”

Thinking that the highest salary he originally gave to these craftsmen was only five gold coins, combined with the reality that these craftsmen had left their hometowns and came to the Thundercloud Base with their families, Bai Feng was still quite satisfied with Hess's salary increase: "Yes, their treatment should indeed be improved." ”

"General, the basic salary of ten gold coins is for those skilled craftsmen of the normal level, and for those apprentices who are not yet skilled in forging and senior craftsmen who are skilled in blacksmithing, we will reduce and raise their standards accordingly. ”

Unexpectedly, Bai Feng, who didn't expect Hess to know how to use treatment grading to improve the enthusiasm of craftsmen, was quite interested: "Oh, let's talk about it specifically." ”

"Take the master craftsmen in the equipment manufacturing center as an example, because their forging technology and forging speed are far beyond that of ordinary craftsmen, so their basic salary is fifteen gold coins per month, plus he has three apprentices, and each apprentice rewards him with two gold coins per month. ”

And the three apprentices he took with him, because the forging skills were not skilled enough, and the forging speed was relatively slow, and the weapons and equipment they created each month were less than half of those of skilled craftsmen, so their basic salary was seven gold coins per month. ”

Bai Feng, who had a smile on his face, asked, "How effective is this method, and have any craftsmen raised objections?"

"At the beginning of the implementation, there were some unskilled craftsmen and apprentices who complained slightly, but later with the improvement of their own forging skills and the improvement of forging speed, all craftsmen were very supportive of our wage payment method. ”

"After the implementation of this period of time, the number of master craftsmen in our equipment manufacturing center has increased from the original seventeen to thirty-four, the number of ordinary craftsmen has increased from the original four hundred and twenty-three to six hundred and forty, and the number of new apprentices has increased to more than 1,500!"

Facts have proved that the development and growth rate of the equipment manufacturing center has far exceeded Bai Feng's best expectations, and even reached a point that Bai Feng did not dare to imagine; Bai Feng, who held back the joy in his heart, asked Hess again: "Have the craftsmen's families been arranged?"

"Outside the mountains and forests where the base is located, there is a new Thundercloud Town dedicated to the families of craftsmen, and all the materials needed for life in the town are provided by various shops opened by the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, and the price of daily necessities is half the price of ordinary goods outside. ”

"Hmm. Bai Feng, who was deeply satisfied, nodded and stopped talking, and after walking out of the equipment manufacturing center and coming to the barracks, looking at the soldiers in gray armor in front of him, Bai Feng spoke again: "General Paresi, how is the training of the Thundercloud Guards?"

"General Qiyu, the 20,000 soldiers of my Thundercloud Garrison Guard Army were originally carefully selected from the hundreds of thousands of city defense troops, and they have already become an army after a little run-in training; ”

"Windhaw Legion?" Bai Feng, who was not satisfied with this answer, did not say much, but pointed to the soldiers who were training in the barracks, and instructed Paresi: "Since they are no longer the city defense army, they will no longer wear the gray military uniform of the city defense army in the future." ”

"No!" Paresi, who was overjoyed, immediately asked for instructions: "Please give the general a flag and color for my Thundercloud Guard!"

"The name of the thundercloud base comes from the monster thundercloud leopard, and the thundercloud leopard is the blue demon leopard, the thundercloud guard is the garrison of the thundercloud base, and in the future, the thundercloud leopard will be used as a symbol to make military flags, and blue will be used as the color of military uniforms. ”

"The last general Paresi represents the 20,000 soldiers of the Thundercloud Guard, and General Xie gives the flag and color!"

Facing Paresi's eager eyes, Bai Feng turned his head and gave a formal order to Hess: "Hess, tomorrow you will arrange for the equipment manufacturing center to change the color of the armor for the Thundercloud Guard, and you will also be responsible for the production of military flags and the distribution of new military uniforms. ”

"No!"

After the group came out of the barracks of the Thundercloud Guard, Paresi knew that it was Hess's time to report alone, so he consciously took the initiative to leave early under the pretext of patrolling the defense of the city wall, leaving Bai Feng and Hess alone.

After seeing Paresi go away, Bai Feng asked Hess, "Thundercloud Knights, how is the development now?"

"General, after raising the selection criteria for the Thundercloud Knights to the rank of high-ranking knights, the size of the Thundercloud Knights has dropped from two hundred and twenty knights at the peak to one hundred and thirty knights; ”

After seeing the Light Knights of the Holy See and the Dark Knights of the Dark Council, Bai Feng's requirements for the Thundercloud Knights would only be higher and could not be lower, so even though he knew that he couldn't become a fat man in one bite, he still commanded Hess:

"The selection criteria for the Thundercloud Knight must be a high-level knight, which is the minimum standard; when the size of the Thundercloud Knights reaches five hundred knights, the high-level knights will only be ordinary knights, and the knights of the Grand Knight Captain level can become core knights. ”

"Only a knight at the rank of a great knight can become a core knight?!" Hess, who exclaimed in surprise, quickly apologized to Bai Feng for his gaffe after reacting: "General, I ......"

Before Hess could say his words of apology, Bai Feng waved his hand to interrupt him and said, "Hess, don't think that Prince Pros is our enemy, our real enemy is far stronger than Prince Pross; for the sake of the future of all of us, we must become strong as soon as possible." ”