Chapter 469: Great Wealth
With his Fourth Legion, Pandorf is tasked with exterminating the remnants of demons in the Sinderella region. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This work is really not difficult, he only needs to concentrate his troops, and according to the information provided by the contact person of the Mafia Academy, he can fight wherever the demon appears.
In the Sinderella region, according to the estimation of the Mafia Academy, the number of demons still active does not exceed two thousand, and most of them have been completely dispersed. Judging from the assessment given by the intelligence officers, the largest group of demons will definitely not exceed two hundred in number.
In the face of such an opponent, Pandorf should be pressure-free. But at the same time, it is precisely because the enemy is very scattered that it takes a lot of time to clear it down.
In a letter to Dane, Pandorf said that it would take about one to two months for him to clear the entire Sinderella area with the Fourth Legion. At the same time, he also mentioned in the letter that he hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to integrate the Fourth Army Corps, so that his young officers, who had just graduated from the military department of Sindellaire University, and his own henchmen, could adapt to the army and completely control the entire army.
And if the lord doesn't want his Fourth Legion to take so long to wipe out the demons, then he can also speed up his actions and try to finish this matter in two weeks to a month, but then there is no way to guarantee whether there will be a small number of demons left in the area, and it is estimated that the losses of the Fourth Legion will be relatively large.
Dane agreed to Pandorf's first plan and asked him to slowly clean up and slowly grind in the troops.
Cleaning up all the demons in the Sinderella area is not a very urgent matter. There are no living people left in Cinderella, and there are hardly any living people in the surrounding area, and even if there are, there are no slightly larger human settlements. What was once the most prosperous place in the country of Sindelare has become a dead land.
It is precisely because of this special situation that Cinderella is different from the Central County.
At the beginning, Dane hurriedly issued a magic extinguishing order, and the main purpose was actually to eliminate the demons in the Central County. This is because although the central county has been affected by the demon plague and has suffered considerable losses, at least the population is still there, and the human stronghold is still there.
But Cinderella was left alive, let alone rebuilt.
Perhaps in the future, when Cinderella is pacified, Dane may move from other parts of Hindlaire. After all, such a large city, even if it is in ruins, and the amount of work to repair is very large, but it is still more convenient than rebuilding such a large city.
What's more, the land around Sinderella is still very high-quality, at least compared to the rest of Sindrel. A rare oasis in the desert, dotted with Cinderella, there were once many villages, farms, and estates, and in larger places, there were even smaller towns.
Although these villages and towns have been poisoned by demons, the oasis is still there after all. It doesn't matter if there is some pollution, the Templars, priests, and priests of Dane are experts in tackling the contamination of the abyssal energy brought by these lower demons.
However, tackling pollution, relocating people, and rebuilding towns and farms will not happen overnight. At least, if you want to do this thing well, there will be no way to do it for a year or two.
In that case, there is no need for Pandorf to rush to clean up the demons, just take your time.
As for Dane and his main force, they didn't go anywhere, and after locking off the entire city of Cinderella, Anxin was stationed in the city for more than half a month.
He's digging for treasure.
One of the main motivations for Dane's active campaign to eradicate Cinderella's demons, besides the land, is the legacy of the city's wealth.
How much money is under the ruins of Cinderella? No one can give an exact number, but it must be a very large number.
During this time, the three legions firmly blocked Cinderella and forbade anyone except the legionnaires to enter and leave, just to prevent some adventurers and mercenaries from spying on Cinderella's wealth.
At the same time, a large number of soldiers were involved in the excavation of the ruins of Sinderella.
Dane had in his possession a map of the city of Cinderella, which had been drawn before it was destroyed, showing the main locations of the city and the divisions of the districts.
The map was obtained by the agents of the Black Hand Academy, and they even restored the map in detail, marking each area in more detail.
After making many copies, Dane distributed the map to various high-ranking officers, who each led their own troops and contracted the excavation of an area, and set up rewards.
All the unearthed loot, after the unified recovery, will have a tenth of the wealth, will be redistributed to each soldier. Soldiers and officers, according to their ranks, received their own share after the excavation work of the whole city was completed.
On the one hand, this measure is to motivate the soldiers to work harder to explore the city; On the other hand, Dane has other considerations.
Twenty or thirty thousand soldiers followed him from birth to death, and Dane would not be too stingy. After the last full-scale war, the soldiers and officers had no other income than their salaries. Dane also plans to take advantage of this opportunity to distribute benefits and improve his prestige in the army by the way.
The entire excavation lasted two full months. And Dane's troops also brought him a major surprise.
Verina, who had hurried from Shawan Harbor, had been in the ruins of the city for a week, and she had been in charge of counting Cinderella's treasures for the rest of the week. Until now, there is finally a similar result.
“…… From the ruins of Sinderella's city, we unearthed 400,000 gold coins in cash over the course of a month, and other works of art, products, and some valuable items, which, if sold by reasonable means, could have earned about 600,000 gold coins. ”
"At the same time, we also found cash and goods worth more than 400,000 gold coins in several chambers of commerce in Sinderella, especially the headquarters of the Shining Gold Chamber of Commerce."
That's about 1.6 million gold coins, but there's more to Cinderella's treasure than that!
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From the ruins of the city alone, as well as the former chamber of commerce residences, Dane's troops had unearthed a fortune worth about 1.6 million gold coins in the space of a month.
Of course, this 1.6 million gold coins will take a certain amount of time to realize, and the cash is only about 600,000 gold coins, but this is still a huge amount of wealth, which is enough to directly increase the development speed of the Dane Territory to a higher level.
However, Cinderella's wealth is not only that, but also a large part of it is buried under Cinderella's palace.
During the days of Governor Bernier, the time of Governor Conry, and the successive governors who had come before them, they had ruled Sinderella, and all their wealth was buried under this palace with taxes, chamber supplies, and wars.
Of course, when the warlords get the money, most of them will still use it to develop the army. Especially before Kangli, in order to start the full-scale war of Hindlaire, it is estimated that he spent a lot of money.
But despite this, under the palace, Dane dug up 600,000 gold coins - which may not seem like much, but it was all cash!
Now, Dane had only one thought - to get rich.
Up to now, there are more than 2.2 million dollars of money excavated, which is even enough for the current Hindlaire's total tax revenue for two or three years!
Under the huge wealth, Dane was extremely happy. Fortunately, he didn't agree to recover Sinderella with the Shire Chamber of Commerce because he wanted to borrow some money to tide over the difficulties, otherwise it would have been a big loss.
Originally, Dane also planned to continue to the north and launch a campaign to reclaim Chaos City. But with so much money, he changed his mind for the time being—he had to send an army to bring the wealth back to the south.
More than two million gold coins are enough to attract any outlaw. It's hard to be reassuring that you don't have an army to guard you.
After thinking about it, Dane decided to go through it himself. He left the Governor's Guard in Sindrella, while he himself took the White Wolf Legion and the Kormian Legion to escort this great fortune on his way back to the south.
Of course, before that, Dane had fulfilled his promise and had given the soldiers all the rewards he had promised - more than 300,000 gold coins, and the soldiers rejoiced and praised their generous lords.
The journey of leading the army to escort Fortune back to the south was windless and dangerous. With him personally in charge and the joint protection of two legions, no one dared to challenge their own lives.
All this wealth was transported to the warehouses of White Wolf Castle, where they were firmly guarded. Even, Dane also asked Easterling and Joel, two high-level mages, to assist Eslor to bless the treasury of Castle White Wolf with very strong guardian magic.
In this way, it is basically foolproof.
And then, Dane continued to lead his troops north.
After tossing back and forth, it was almost two months, and it passed. But Dane didn't think it was a waste of time at all, just two months, and it was well worth spending that time to keep this expensive fortune safe.
And this time going north, Dane is preparing to solve the troubles of Chaos City.
Chaos is also a city overrun by demons. However, compared to Cinderella, the number of demons in the Chaos area is obviously not that much.
There should be no more than 10,000 demons in the entire area, and the number of demons concentrated in the city may only be six or seven thousand.
Not even Cinderella's demon army could stop Dane, let alone Chaos City.
This time, though, Dane doesn't intend to sweep Chaos City like he did Cinderella.
First of all, Chaos isn't as wealthy as Cinderella. From Cinderella, Dane was able to get more than two million gold coins, and it is estimated that in Chaos City, it will be six or seven hundred thousand to die.
Of course, six or seven hundred thousand gold coins is also a huge amount of money, and it is impossible for Dane to give it up. It's just that the solution he thought of to solve the problem of Misty City was another.
Misty City is more than four hundred kilometers away from White Wolf Castle. And this distance, for Dane, seems very ambiguous, you know, the deployment of the system base, the required space spacing, is exactly 400 kilometers away.
The longer Dane sat in the lord's seat, the more fortunate he was that the first two bases he opened were elves and humans.
These two races, human beings don't need to say much, the mainstream races of the world. And the elves are also a race with a good reputation in the main material plane, and no one will hate the elves.
But demons are different.
At the beginning, when Dane had just obtained the "Heart of Dynasty" system, and at the beginning of the game, if he really directly launched the abyss base as he wished, then the matter would be a big deal - it is estimated that there is a force on the mainland, and if he finds a trace of his demon base, he will definitely try his best to get rid of him.
Even now, Dane didn't dare to openly find a random place and unfold the demon base. That's going to be a big problem.
However, Chaos City offers Dane a very good opportunity - a city itself that has been overrun by demons.
If he directly deploys the demon base in Chaos City, maybe he will have the opportunity to directly absorb these existing demons in Chaos City.
And there is no aftermath of being used to raise demons for public opinion attacks. Compared to the main world of mankind, Chaos City is located in a remote area, not to mention, this is still in the territory of Hindlaire, Dane's own territory, he is not effective if he destroys demons, who can take him?
It is estimated that his hostile forces will secretly be happy to see that he can't destroy the demons of Chaos City, and feel that it would be a good thing that there is such a violent force in Dane's territory and come to make trouble for him at any time.
No one would have imagined that these demons in Chaos City were actually under the control of Dane.
The more he thought about it, the more Dane felt that it would be very reliable to do so.
However, this is just an idea for the time being, and Dane will have to prepare a slightly more detailed plan.
He took the White Wolf Legion and the Komyrya Legion and embarked on the road north to the City of Chaos.
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On May 21, Dane and his army arrived fifteen kilometers outside of Confusion.
On the way, the two legions encountered several demon forces. However, this time, Dane did not order the soldiers to drive out the opponent, but simply expelled them.