This year's summer was hotter than usual, and the sun was scorching the Spartan territory, making it feel like a furnace. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down on their foreheads, and when the cloth was wet with sweat, the people of Sparta simply took it off and let the sun shine directly on them, and with perseverance they ignored the heavenly furnace and turned their attention to the earthly furnace.

"Add a little more fire!" The man held a heavy hammer and kept beating the iron tool in his hand, and the raging fire burned from the improvised stove in front of him, and the clanging sound of gold and iron continued to sound, and the iron tool in his hand gradually took shape.

The weapons that had not yet lost their heat were inserted directly into the water by him. The sound of hissing water vapor filled the area, and the red-hot weapon was cooled by the water and emitted a dazzling cold glow.

"Take it and cut it!" The man's unquestionable tone did not displease anyone, and the man who received the sword looked as if he was looking at some treasure.

"Sabada, how many irons do we have left?" The man with the sledgehammer asked the man who handed over the blade.

"Hugh, there are still seven more to cast!" The man known as Sabatta looked back at the iron tools piled up on the ground, and counted the number of sword-makers.

"Good! Sabada, it looks like we should be the first group to finish! I just don't know what His Majesty Guo Jia will reward us! When he heard that there were still many unfinished weapons, Hugh did not feel any sorrow, but forged his sword more quickly.

"Humph! Anyway, Your Majesty won't reward us women! You must know that His Majesty Guo Jia has not even touched the queen once over the years. "Sabada is a little helpless, he is a member of the Spartan Guo Jia's personal guard, and he knows Guo Jia's life well, Guo Jia has not touched his queen over the years, which makes him think that his respected majesty is a person who behaves strangely.

"Humph! Sabada, don't fucking say bad things about Your Majesty, beware of being heard by Your Majesty and beating you! Hugh, who was forging his sword, ignored the reaction of the speaker, and did his best to defend his king. Hugh had three terrible scars on his back, and the wounds that had healed were actually the result of the whip.

Although the Spartan people had some shallow or deep wounds on their bodies, the key point was that there was no one here except for one kind of wound from the whip, and that was the black laborers who were used to be slaves.

"Hugh, aren't you going to take a break?" Sabada asked, having watched the strong man work all day.

"You might as well fetch me a jug of water if you have time to rest, I'm dying of fucking thirst!" And the people who used to be slaves no longer see any unfair treatment here in Sparta, and the edicts issued by Guo Jia have been in effect.

"Cut, you go by yourself, let me do it for you!" Sabada walked up to Hugh and snatched the hammer from his hand and used his body to knock Hugh who was working straight away.

"You!" Hugh looked at Sabada, who was beating the weapon that had not yet been formed, and scolded helplessly, picked up the kettle on the ground and ran to fill it.

If an outsider came to the Spartan city-state, he would of course be surprised to see this scene and ask, "Why don't you soldiers here train and come here to strike iron?" ”

In the same way, the inhabitants of Sparta would tell them, "They are making their own weapons!" ”

Now that the past two years have passed, it stands to reason that the Greco-Persian War will break out in two more years, and Guo Jia will of course go to Thermosense Pass to stop the Persian invaders in order to complete the task assigned to him by Black Watch.

However, in order to accomplish this work, Guo Jia once issued the harshest order in front of all the Spartans. "Give me development!" What to develop? Troops, agriculture, commerce, industry. It can be said that almost no one in Sparta is idle now, and they all have their own tasks at hand.

The peasants were cultivating new land to sow the land that had already been cultivated, and in the first year they tasted the sweetness of the decree issued by Guo Jia, and then began to farm wildly, and the seeds of various plant crops were brought back by the caravan, which also gave Sparta an extraordinary appearance.

And Sparta also has caravans composed of children and old people here, who are heading around the world to exchange for what they need, what if they are afraid of bandits robbing the road? Simple, thirty stone of grain can hire the Black Soul Legion for a month, and they will do everything in their power to keep them safe. Of course, it doesn't matter if you're not scared, but you're sorry to be robbed. Because not long ago, in order to strengthen the ability of the Black Soul Legion, Guo Jia personally made some of the legions become bandits. Half of what was stolen belonged to them, and half needed to be returned.

Coupled with the fact that Guo Jia did not issue an edict that businessmen need to pay taxes, this shortcut to making money will of course be firmly grasped by them.

Industry is now everywhere in Sparta, and the soldiers unloaded their armor and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the project of building weapons.

After two years of development, it can be said that the whole Sparta has formed an industrial chain, and crops have replaced the original numismatic currency and become the latest hard currency. It can be said that everyone is a rich man, and everyone can go out and make money.

The peasants happily harvested their crops, leaving some of them for the winter, and the other all to a place called a bank established by Guo Jia, and every year they would add a lot of grain out of thin air, which was the way the Spartan farmers made money. After that, there were the people who formed caravans, and they used their crops to go out in exchange for specialties from other regions, and then sold them back to the inhabitants of Sparta, which was their way of making money. Then there were the soldiers, who were divided into teams, each with a hundred people, including the presence of the personal guards. Merchants can hire them to keep themselves safe along the way and protect themselves from bandits. Similarly, farmers can be hired to help carry water for their own land and to supervise the ripening of agricultural crops.

And at the highest of them were the two decrees that Guo Jia made for the Spartan treasury, that is, every industry that could make money was perceived by him, and his soldiers could go over and rob their property, and half of the looted would be returned to their owners and half would be returned to their owners. And the second was issued to his own soldiers, and all their income was to be paid to half of the Spartan treasury. The whole industrial chain can be said to be completely bloody and violent, but this has won the applause of the entire Sparta, where there is no weakness, no humility. From childhood, the people of Sparta were told by their families about the blood here, and the whole of Sparta was built from blood. People who are accustomed to this regard Guo Jia's method as an act of honing themselves.

"The Great King." A man bowed down to the throne of Guo Jia, and now he had to report routinely on the situation in Sparta.

"Well, it's Malfuriel. Are you alone today? "Now Malfuriel is a big celebrity around Guo Jia, and his intelligence and force are the strongest in Sparta's comprehensive ability.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? Today Perseus went out to be a robber. Malfuriel said weakly.

"Oh, by the way, it's his turn today. I don't know if Perseus can break your record. Guo Jia smiled and recalled that Marfuriel's design had added nearly thirty percent to Guo Jia's treasury, and he had eliminated almost all those who stood in his way, and those few days could be said to be the dark days of Spartan merchants.

"Go ahead and wait for him to get back." Guo Jia pulled out of his memories and got down to business.

"Yes, Your Majesty! Let's start with our army. The Black Soul's weapons are almost halfway cast, and the swords and other things are almost finished, and the spears and bows and arrows used for throwing are just gone. ”

"Next is about agriculture. Now, because of the decree of the adults, there is now too much land cultivated by the peasants, and if this year's harvest is good, our treasury may not be able to store it. ”

"Then there is very important news, I heard that another emissary from Greece wants to conclude an alliance, and they mean that we have only verbally agreed to their request, but still have some distrust of us." Speaking of which, Malfuriel was a little helpless, he was afraid that Guo Jia would suddenly become angry because of this.

"Oh, then bring them to me when they come, and then you have to remember to give them a dismount! Let them know how good we are in Sparta! "To be honest, Guo Jia is indeed a little angry, after all, Greece they don't trust themselves.

"If there is anything else, let's continue to report." Guo Jia continued to think about the development of Sparta, and now Sparta's troops are still small, even if the black soul is still too small.

"No, Your Majesty looks like something is in trouble." Malfuriel saw Guo Jia's current state, and he hoped that he could help Guo Jia share some of the burden.

"Malfuriel, do you think we Spartans are strong?" Guo Jia asked lightly.

"Sparta is the most powerful in my heart, but to be honest, it's still a little smaller." Malfuriel said what Guo Jia wanted.

"Tell me more." Guo Jia smiled, he especially admired this man now.

"We Spartans are strong, and we are strong in soldiers, and we are weak in soldiers. Adults, too little! "Malfuriel had heard of the Persian forces, and he knew the Greek forces, and compared to the two Spartans, it was a drop in the ocean, and that was the pontoon.

"I have an idea, why don't you refer to it!" Guo Jia nodded, he also knew that these were Sparta's shortcomings.

"Your Majesty, please speak!"

"You see, our liberation of the Black Soul should be the only thing that a city-state on the entire continent can have the courage to do, why don't we release this news and continue to expand the strength of the Black Soul Army?"

"Your Majesty! Feasible! Malfuriel instantly figured out what Guo Jia meant, and a treacherous smile appeared on his face.

"By the way, there's one more thing, Sparta's ambitions weren't just in this tiny city-state. Seeing the land of Greece, don't you have no idea, Malfuriel? ”

"O gods!" The moment Malfuriel heard what Guo Jia said, he knew how big this was and how ambitious the king was.