Chapter 36: Mercenary Regiment
The sheer number of refugees has made the administrators of the City of Angels both happy and painful. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info is glad that in a short period of time, there will be no shortage of manpower, even the hard and dangerous mines, these long-term hungry refugees in Yuexi Town are willing to go! Because this small mine is no more dangerous than the death mine in their eyes!
And don't worry anymore, my lord has expanded his army on a whim, although this time he is once again frantic and ready to expand the army to a thousand!
The joy of the relative population explosion and the various problems that come with it are also tormenting these poor officials.
Not to mention the more chaotic management, just the daily distribution of materials has to keep some people busy until late at night! This is not bad, as long as you work hard, you can solve it!
The real difficulty lies in the sudden three-fold increase in population, followed by a shortage of food, although the City of Angels has always implemented a large pot of food rationing system, but the small amount of food reserves can hardly support the consumption of such a large population.
Housing was also scarce due to the large number of refugees, and although a large number of houses were built in the sprawling outer city, the former lords lived only in the part near the castle, and the rest of the city was mostly vacant.
But even so, it is tight to accommodate so many people in the remaining houses, and many single people live in one room with several people!
The last problem is that due to the food rationing system, many people have developed a lazy mood, and there will be food anyway if they don't work! This phenomenon was quite common among the first batch of refugees who followed Xiao Yi.
As a last resort, Xiao Yi finally formulated another system, that is, the work division system, without work, there is no food, which finally eliminated this trend of laziness.
Among them, Xiao Yi's frenzied recruitment is also related to this aspect. The explosion of the population will saturate many jobs and more people will face a state of lack of work allocation.
In this way, whether it is the daily ration or the labor division system, these idle populations are always a huge hidden danger, and if they are not guaranteed, they will make some mess at the instigation of some unscrupulous people.
So Xiao Yi simply pulled out the strongest and most dangerous group of people and threw them into the barracks! Although the City of Angels, with the newly built Recruiting Office, can only convert 50 Sentinels and 30 Marksmen per week. But Xiao Yi would rather keep these people in the barracks and work every day under the leadership of the officers until they are all transformed!
In addition to refugees, what excites Xiao Yi the most is that he finally got in touch with the outside world! The merchant who asked the mercenary leader to go to Treasure Bay to contact has finally arrived in the City of Angels!
He sailed a small cargo ship across the strait, into the river that meets the Twilight Forest, and docked in the City of Angels.
Goblin merchant Hahn walks the streets of the City of Angels as he investigates business opportunities in this up-and-coming city. A month ago, a mercenary approached him and brought him a handwritten letter from a human lord, inviting him to trade in the City of Angels in the western wilderness.
To be honest, Hahn wasn't interested in the invitation, though he was still far from the Trade King, but the Wild West was nothing more than barrenness and mines in his mind.
The mine cave can make him a little interested, after all, the copper and iron ore produced here most of the time are not rare, and Mithril and gold ore are his favorite ores!
However, there have been some losses in trade recently, and the failure of this investment has caused many partners to cut off trade with him, so Hahn came to the so-called City of Heroes to see if he can get some business opportunities, and leaving merchant ships idle is the biggest sin!
He was very satisfied with this visit! Although there are hardly any shops in this up-and-coming city, the commercial base is almost zero! But the constant stream of pedestrians, the hurried workers, and the satisfied smiles on their faces made Hahn feel that this was a gold mine!
Don't have a business foundation? This is totally his greatest chance! He could already imagine that whatever he had, the inhabitants of the city would not hesitate to buy it!
Now, all he has to do is immediately! Right away! Meet the ruler of the city, His Excellency Duke Falken! And pray that he will be able to do business again!
At this time, the newly recruited butler Auston respectfully reported to Xiao Yi: "Dear master, outside Angel City, there is a team of people who claim to be mercenaries who want to be received by you. ā
"Mercenaries?" Xiao Yi asked suspiciously, at this time he was waiting for the leader of the caravan, the long wait had already made him a little irritable, if it wasn't for the desperate desire for outside supplies, Xiao Yi would have gone to accompany Xiao Lori to read the storybook a long time ago!
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yi suppressed the irritability in his heart and said flatly: "Let him come in, by the way, let Captain Ratcliffe come over too." ā
After a while, the butler led a burly man accompanied by the guards in, he had been removed from his armor and weapons, and was wearing only a decent linen shirt, and when facing Xiao Yi, he looked respectful and humble.
This is a strong man with a height of nearly two meters, Xiao Yi has seen such a strong and tall person for the first time, even the guards are a head shorter than him, the linen shirt on his body is a little white, and there are broken threads leaking in many places, from this point of view, this strong man seems to be living a relatively poor life.
It seemed that because of Xiao Yi's scrutiny, this strong man seemed a little helpless, and he didn't even dare to look at Xiao Yi, which reminded Xiao Yi of the situation when he was looking for a job interview when he just graduated from college, and asked with a smile: "This gentleman, listen to my housekeeper, you seem to need a job?" But you know, I don't know much about you and your people. ā
He paused for a moment and continued, "As far as I know, my fame is not good enough to attract warriors like you in these chaotic times. ā
Fortunately, although this strong man was nervous, he was not dull. Hearing this, he immediately bowed to Xiao Yi and said a little nervously: "Honorable Duke, my team and I have arrived with the merchant ship, and your reputation is not as unknown as you think. ā
Maybe he wanted to say that he hadn't introduced himself yet, he said in a panic: "My name is Daniel, my lord, you can call me Daniel, my mercenary group is called the Green Goblin Mercenary Group, there are forty-six people, of which thirty-one are humans, two goblins, one dwarf, and the rest are trolls, our strength is beyond doubt!" ā
"Trolls!" Xiao Yi was very surprised, you must know that during this period, trolls were not friendly with other races, especially the troll tribe near Treasure Bay, but Xiao Yi still asked: "You haven't answered my question yet, I'm famous?" ā