Regarding the matter of co-opting big-eared monster prisoners of war, in fact, Chen Jian himself didn't think too much, he just simply regarded running his own territory as running a company.

For a company to develop, of course, a variety of talents are indispensable.

In Jian Chen's view, these big-eared monsters are talents. Why? The reason is very simple, the Lord's Guard suffered heavy losses in this battle, and the most elite and combat-ready veterans were almost lost, and to put it mildly, the combat effectiveness of the current Lord's Guard is only a little higher than that of the militia and volunteers who are guarding the gate of the town.

Under the current situation, the elves may suddenly kill again one day, and how to improve the combat effectiveness of the lord's guard as soon as possible has become a problem that Jian Chen must be concerned about.

And these battle-hardened big-eared monster soldiers naturally became the sweets in the eyes of Great Lord Chen Jian.

With these experienced and physically strong qualified soldiers joining, it is self-evident what kind of benefits the lord's guard will be built entirely by the whims of the lord with no military experience.

If possible, the lord would even want to take in more than twenty centaurs as well, but unfortunately these guys are currently quite hostile, so they have to give up for the time being.

In fact, even if these big-eared monsters don't join voluntarily, the lord will find a way to keep them, and returning them to freedom before is just a means to win people's hearts.

But what the lord never expected was that the good thing of dropping his pillow in the sky just after dozing off would be opposed by so many people, and even the female magician raised objections.

This simply made the lord angry crooked his nose.

When he was on Earth, the lord was a figure who was extremely disgusted with racial discrimination.

In his eyes, the various races on the continent of Erathia, whether they are humans, elves, dwarves, big-eared monsters, or any other strange race, including the notorious undead spirits, are just another form of life, just like the people on the earth are divided into yellows, reds, whites, and blacks, but their racial characteristics are a little more obvious and weird.

Chen Jian believes that even if these species appear and develop their own civilization and history, then there is no difference between them and human beings, or they are another form of human beings.

Therefore, the lord has no psychological barrier to co-opting these big-eared monsters.

He believed that as long as the interests of these twenty or so big-eared monsters were firmly tied to himself, they would naturally be used for their own purposes.

When they ask for money, they give it to them; If they want a name, they will create opportunities for them. If they want to kill, send them to battle!

Of course, the necessary beating is also indispensable, carrots and sticks, so as not to worry that these big-eared monsters will not die for themselves.

As long as you can always provide them with everything they need, as long as you can always have the strength to suppress them, as long as you can lead them to victory after victory, you don't have to worry about them having a different heart for you.

What the lord has to do now is to unite all the forces that can be united, develop himself as soon as possible, and grow his strength.

No matter what kind of consideration or purpose, Jian Chen needs to make himself and his territory strong as soon as possible.

I didn't expect someone to jump out and play racial discrimination at this time! Isn't this against the lord?

Although the lord later decided this matter with a very tough attitude and gagged everyone's mouths with the impure blood of the half-elf guard, the lord also knew that it was not possible to dispel the wariness of the people and the lords against the big-eared monsters in a day or two.

He didn't know that this matter had been reported to Empress Catherine by Ryan, nor did he know what kind of impact it would have on him in the future, and what effect it would have on the changes in the situation on the continent in the future, let alone how future historians would comment on it.

The lord quickly put the matter aside for now.

At the moment, he has too many things to deal with, such as the food problem.

Due to the previous plan, all the food and other living materials stored in the castle were moved underground by order of Chen Jian, and then left in Terrence Lockewen's secret room during the battle.

Chen Jian hadn't thought much about it before, but after the battle was over, he found that the consequences of doing so were quite serious - right now, he and his group of men, the soldiers of the lord's guard, and the more than twenty centaur prisoners of war were about to run out of food.

If it weren't for the people who spontaneously rescued a batch of food from the lord guards, maybe all the lord guards would have starved to death during the time when Jian Chen left.

However, the assistance of the lords is also limited, and the amount of food stored for the winter is limited, so it is impossible to support the lord like this all the time.

Although the reinforcements sent by Her Majesty the Empress will certainly come to Hammondale with food, it is unknown when these reinforcements will arrive, and it is not known if they will have any surplus food to distribute to the lord by then.

Therefore, the lord decided to take people to the underground secret room to check the situation and try his luck, hoping to dig up some food for emergency relief.

At the very least, it will take until the reinforcements sent by the empress will open the road, and then people can be sent out to buy food.

When Jian Chen led people to the exit of the tunnel halfway up the mountainside, he was surprised to find that the tunnel had not collapsed.

Not only that, but even the mechanism at the entrance is still functioning normally.

Originally, Jian Chen also asked the soldiers to carry a bunch of digging tools, but now they are completely useless.

This unexpected situation surprised and delighted everyone.

"My lord, we need to be careful!" The Half-Elf Guard Captain looked at the open entrance to the tunnel, a little uneasy, "Maybe there are still remnants of enemies inside!" ”

The half-elf's worries are not unreasonable, if this secret passage is not affected when the castle collapses, then it is very likely that the other secret passage connecting the castle cellar and the underground secret room will also be intact, and it is entirely possible that the surviving enemies in the castle cellar or the secret passage will smoothly enter the underground secret room along the undefended secret passage after the castle collapses.

Chen Jian laughed and didn't care: "Don't be afraid, even if there are enemies, I'm afraid that they are about to die of thirst at this time, have you forgotten?" I told you that before I led people to evacuate, I had people pour out all the clear water inside, and without water, they couldn't have lasted too long! ”

As he spoke, Jian Chen pointed to the ground at the entrance, and said, "There are no traces of the enemy's activities here, which means that the enemy has not discovered the existence of this secret passage!" And it's been five days since the end of the battle, and if you think about it, if you don't have water to drink for five days, what race can hold on? Centaur? Dwarf? Or elves? ”

Jian Chen's words made everyone on the side stunned, except for the insiders at the time, they didn't expect that the lord had expected such a possibility early on and made preparations in advance.

The high priest of Ryan, who brought four angel warriors to see the excitement, was even more impressed by this lord again.

He found that the lord seemed to be getting more and more incomprehensible to him.

(Happy May Day to book friends!) There will be a change later, especially thanks to the old man of the strait for two consecutive days of eight 12,000 reminder tickets, but the son really can't write so much, I'm sorry! ）