Now there are nearly 100,000 people under the jurisdiction of Red Leaf City, although it is far less than the Holy Spear City with a population of one million, but in the Far East, it has been listed as a first-tier large city along with Saganis City, and the permanent population of Red Leaf City is slightly inferior to Saganis City, even if you count the people of the rest of the territories on both sides, the difference between the two is only between thousands.

According to the current development speed of Red Leaf City, it will not take too long, and it may be in the first quarter of this year that Red Leaf City can complete its surpassing and become the largest city in the Far East.

At present, Red Leaf City covers an area of about 27,000 square miles, and although more than 70% of the area is inaccessible and inaccessible to the woodlands of the Bicester Mountains, in terms of the area under its jurisdiction alone, Red Leaf City has successfully surpassed the former first family in the Far East on paper.

Red Leaf City has an annual output of 20 million pounds of steel, and according to the calculation of 20 pounds of a half-body iron armor, Morey can theoretically produce one million pairs of Murry iron armor per year, and a year's work can help the Holy Spear Kingdom complete the redress.

Of course, Morey can't use all the steel to make iron armor, enchanted weapons, farm tools to reclaim fields, steam engines, pipes, steel cables, etc., all need steel, and Morey's ability to make iron armor per month has been reduced to 1,000 pieces.

But even so, after witnessing the process of producing Murry's iron armor with a steam hammer, the shocked Bert signed a secret agreement with Morey on the spot, asking him to guarantee that 50% of the annual production would be distributed to the kingdom, and the kingdom would buy it at 20% above the market price.

Don't think that this is Bert giving Morey a benefit, you must know that the light and cheap Murry iron armor is quite popular in the market, and it is easy to change hands and add fifty percent after getting the share.

However, this difference is also a little protection fee paid by Morey to the royal capital, after all, he has to pull a tiger skin for the time being.

The Saber Guards have been managed by Ios who is in charge of the Saber Fort since Ire's disappearance, and the quasi-legendary mage has also penetrated to Morey, and now the number of Saber Guards is still 2,000 people, but the equipment has been upgraded by the Dwarven Blacksmiths, and many Dwarven Blacksmiths have been liberated because of the steam hammer, and they have nothing to do every day to study how to synthesize new metal materials, and even the long-bladed saber that can be cut by people and horses with a single knife has become tougher and lighter.

As the daily combat unit of Red Leaf City, there are now a total of five brigades of 5,000 people in the city guards, and the strength of ordinary soldiers has generally reached the level of beginner professionals, the squad leader is at the peak of the first rank, and the captain of the hundred people is mid-level, and the captain is a high-level foundation, and in terms of personal strength alone, it has reached the standard of a strong army on the mainland.

Therefore, although the city guard is still a city defense force in name, it is almost the same in strength as a garrison force like the Far Eastern Army.

There are 500 cavalry, all of them are heavy cavalry with iron armor, and for Morey, who is not bad for iron or money, heavy armored cavalry is his best choice. If you really let these iron cavalry charge, it is idle to take one as ten, this is still against the same elite infantry, if it is against those militias who are not trained, it is an existence that mobile steel puppets cannot defeat.

As the reserve of the city guards, the militia also numbered 5,000 people, but these militiamen, who were also equipped with Murry's iron armor, were not inferior to the city guards under the training of those veterans of Saganis City, that is, their personal strength was a little worse.

After talking about conventional combat power, let's talk about the rest of the special forces.

First of all, there are a hundred elven ranger troops, these rangers are generally above the middle level, and they are the strongest troops in Morey's hands on average. Morey intends to build it into his own special forces, carrying out decapitation, intelligence gathering, and sabotage behind enemy lines.

Then there is the goblin flight unit, which is divided into two parts: goblin aircraft and goblin spacecraft, goblin planes already have two squadrons of 20 goblin planes, the number is almost the same as goblin spacecraft, but this is mainly because Morey has no air defense needs, if there is a need in wartime, Morey can instantly pull up the size of ten squadrons.

In addition to the two armed spaceships, the main responsibility of the rest of the goblin ships is to transport goods, of course, in wartime, defensive weapons and explosive barrels can be carried onto the spacecraft, and carpet bombing to ground targets under the protection of goblin planes.

It can be said that if it enters the war phase, this air force can cooperate with its own Black Pearl, and it can even go head-to-head with the Griffin Knights of the royal capital.

There is also the steel-armored warrior unit that has just recently received an official name, ten Mosler Type III humanoid combat vehicles, which are spoilers on the battlefield and can easily change the situation of the local battlefield.

The True Eye, which was secretly developing, began to preach semi-openly in the Far East with the support of Morey.

Of course, the main population of the Eye of True Knowledge is still the mountain people near the edge of the Bicester Mountains, for whom the mainstream of the Far East is left to fend for itself, so there is not much resistance to mission.

But in the Bicester Mountains, where there is no god to oversee it, the True Eye has grown incredibly rapidly.

Now there are more than 10,000 believers in the True Eye, many of whom are powerful barbarians who can carry out a big battle with a little armament, and there are many elite troops such as the Half-Dragon Man Heavy Infantry who have fought in the Far East, and the Rat Artificial Troops are more threatening than the Half Dragon Heavy Infantry in the eyes of some people.

Therefore, not counting the Far Eastern Army that Morey can command, there are more than 20,000 troops that he can directly mobilize, and each of them is an elite who can fight well.

The open space seemed to be already elite, and Morey, who had been the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, couldn't help but put his eyes on the water.

In fact, as early as after the establishment of the steel plant, the construction plan of the ironclad ship has been included in the planning of Morey, although the current sphere of influence of Red Leaf City is at most just enough to reach a large bathtub in Maas Lake, but Morey is a man with the sea in his heart, and finally made a high-temperature and high-pressure steam-powered furnace comparable to a nuclear-powered flame pillar, and he did not let go of the idea of dumplings.

It's just that if you want to build ironclad ships, then the demand for iron ore will become huge, and it is really a bit impossible to keep up with the iron ore from the Muli mining area and some iron ore merchants alone.

The mining robot invented by Sykes has greatly improved the output of the mining area and liberated a lot of productivity.

However, Morey's arrogance could not be stopped, and the initial goal of the ironclad was set at a high-standard warship of 3,000 tons, so Morey had to improve the ore production of the Murray mine again.

At this stage, Gode's preliminary plan is to change the principle of mining robots using buckets to work, and adopt more efficient high-temperature spray guns to mine ore.

Because the process of the nozzle is not up to standard, there are often accidents of exploding, so in order to prevent the bore, the nozzle is thick and too bulky, but fortunately, the mining robot is full of power but does not mind such a small weight.

However, the Hot Sand Goblins and Dwarves are now in a hurry to make a mining armor that can be worn to protect against the flying stones in the mine tunnels and the copper pipes that blow up the bore, which is somewhat similar to the power mech with added protection.

It's just that at this stage, it can only be experimented, and the heavy power mecha can't even carry the ogre, let alone the weak human.

However, Morey did not cut off the financial support because of this, this simple power mecha can be used as a technical reserve, maybe one day it will be able to develop a power armor that can be carried by individual soldiers, then as long as you want, it is not impossible to sweep the continent.

Of course, it was not enough to dig into his own abilities as much as he could, and Morey set his sights on the remaining ownerless mines in the Far East.

If Red Leaf City is still under the wings of Saganis City, it is natural that everything can be eaten first and then made up.

Now that Morey has become a force on his own, he must be more elegant and avoid being caught.

However, because of Morey's amazing performance at the coming-of-age ceremony of the royal capital, coupled with the label of His Royal Highness Bert's confidant attached to Morey's body, the new acting governor of the Far East gave Morey the green light to buy land.

[Exploration] The realm is in hand, and under the perception of Morey's divine thoughts, he naturally knows where there are ore veins and how far away from the surface there is.

Therefore, these mines are also selective, mainly open pit veins close to the Murry Park or the edge of the mountain range.

This kind of barren land in the Bicester Mountains has little value in the first place, so the price of this land is naturally cheap and almost free of charge.

Of course, even if he knew that this Baron Morey would not buy a large piece of seemingly useless mountains and forests without a purpose, the acting governor did not take the opportunity to extort a sum of money.

He also wanted to remove the word "agent" from his head, if he showed favor to the Faist family, he would be in considerable trouble, and with their size, he could not look down on himself as the acting governor, only Morey was an emerging force, and the government and the opposition were also mainly wooing him, and throwing flattery to him would not attract the opposition of those people in the royal capital.

Therefore, taking the opportunity of buying a mine, Morey completely connected several enclaves together and integrated them into a territory, in which the cost of buying mountains and forests rich in mineral deposits was not as large as the cost of the land between Red Leaf City and Saber Castle, so you can imagine how low the land price in the Bicester Mountains was.

Morey even had the intention of buying all the remaining ownerless mountains and forests and building villas in the mountains, but thinking that the Far East was almost like Siberia in the previous life, which was rarely populated, Morey, who did not want to build a ghost town, had to abandon the idea of entering real estate.

At this point, Morey, who occupied a large part of the Bicester Mountains, far exceeded the city of Saganis on paper, and began to fight against the Faist family in an all-round way.