Chapter 345: A Wise Move
What will definitely be dealt with in the future?
The Kant's knights couldn't help but think about it after hearing Gawain's words, and they quickly thought about it.
What will the knight deal with? In addition to the etiquette that every member of the nobility had to come into contact with, of course, it was swords, armor and war horses.
Although now Ansu's aristocratic system has begun to decline, many traditional martial arts nobles have also been corrupted by extravagant life, and have begun to rely on magic rituals, potions and other simple and easy ways to catalyze their extraordinary power, but this is a world where there is extraordinary power after all, and personal strength can largely determine social status, especially in the south where public security is poor, the grassroots martial arts nobles are still very particular about "strength", and these knights from Kant are of course no exception - as the guardians of the superior nobles, The benchmark of force in the territory, they always put the improvement of personal strength in the first place, and talk about the things that knights must deal with...... That's undoubtedly weapons.
At most, add "decoration" such as servant.
The knights exchanged glances in silence, knowing that it was most likely the new lord who was showing them force. I heard that the original forces of Cecil's territory were devastated after the previous disaster, and only two transcendent knights survived, and the others were just a group of soldiers and militiamen, but later Gawain recruited a large number of people from the outcasts to train them, which was barely enough to defend the territory......
They don't know much about this new army, but they have heard that this new army has some strange weapons and equipment, and its combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of ordinary soldiers.
The knights had their own ideas, but they all agreed that the lord didn't really need to show his army - as a powerful knight lord with legendary strength in his own right, Gawain Cecil himself was the best deterrent, his force value was enough, what else did he need to show?
Regardless of their thoughts, the team soon arrived at the weapons test ground located outside the city, and after passing through the soldier checkpoints, the Kantmen came to a tall, wooden viewing platform, and saw a row of strange large creatures neatly arranged on the ground below.
"I want to show you the Justice-I Magic Crystal Railgun that has just been installed in Cecil's Combat Corps," Gawain said with a slight smile as he looked at the Kant knights who were looking around curiously, "If you want to become a member of Cecil, you can't do it without a good understanding of how your own people fight." ”
Justice-I Magic Crystal Railgun? What's that? Is it the big iron bumps and iron pillars on the field? Their shapes are quite regular, and I don't know how the craftsmen made them all identical......
The knights were confused, and then they watched as the soldiers got into action: soldiers trained by ordinary people were running around the railguns, loading metal objects between the steels, adjusting the angle of the "tracks", checking something, and shouting strange passwords......
This is a very new sight, these soldiers have almost no extraordinary aura on them, which shows that they are ordinary people, they are illiterate mud legs, that Duke Gawain Cecil can train this kind of people to be so obedient, let them act quickly, and cooperate tacitly, this is not easy, but what are they doing?
Just as the knights were confused, a soldier with a small flag in his hand suddenly ran to the bottom of the observation platform, and the soldier shouted: "Report! The railgun is ready, ask for instructions! ”
Gawain nodded slightly: "Rapid fire, fire." ”
The soldier turned around and waved the flag in his hand with a strange pattern.
Before the knights could understand what was happening, they saw all the soldiers standing behind the "railgun" move: they pressed something on the base, and a burst of mana-charged humming came from the strange large devices, and bright magic runes began to appear on the surface of the devices, and then the soldiers standing behind the side of the base pulled down a red lever.
A series of explosions followed, and the front of each "railgun" suddenly erupted into a bright halo: it was a flash of aerodynamic rune activation, and then, a blur of things rushed into the sky and flew into the distance.
With the extraordinary eyesight of the knights, it was almost impossible to capture the flight trajectory of those things.
A moment later, there was a thunderous explosion that exploded, and huge explosions rose from the distant hillside, sending dirt and rock into the air, turning into small mushroom clouds in the shockwave.
The knights were startled by this loud noise, many people thought that a powerful magician suddenly broke in and attacked the territory, and some even subconsciously activated their own talisman aura, but they did not see the figure of the magician, but saw that the soldiers below continued to move calmly and methodically in the loud noise, and new metal objects were filled into the steel, followed by another explosion, and another loud bang......
They finally knew what was going on with this terrible blow that seemed to be bombarded with dozens of high-level spells.
After several rounds of shooting, the deafening roar finally quieted down, and the knights looked at each other, while Gawain walked past them with a smile and walked towards the exit of the viewing platform: "Everyone, it's time for us to go to the next place." You don't have to keep staring, anyway, everyone will inevitably have to deal with these things after today. ”
Now, they finally know what it means to "deal with these things."
Wald Perridge was walking in the middle of the group when he heard a young knight beside him muttering, "New law...... It doesn't seem to be unacceptable......"
Wald tilted his head slightly, recognizing that this was the same knight who had said he wanted to "show his attitude".
Gawain then took the men on a trip to the artillery shell assembly plant.
He didn't ask these Kant knights to look at the rune structure in the cannonballs (although he felt that these knights shouldn't be able to read the runes either, after all, not everyone is like him), he just let everyone see how many powerful cannonballs can be made here in a day.
Returning to the Lord's Mansion, Gawain watched with satisfaction as the old knights reacted, but he decided that his deterrence was enough, and it was time to give them a little comfort.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I know that you have a grudge against the dispossession of the right to govern the land—no need to justify and hide, I still have the discernment to do so, but I will say that this is the basis for the Cecil Territory to be strong, and for a better future for you in the future.
"I don't think you can understand it yet, you can't understand the concept of liberating the productive forces, liberating the population, centralizing authority, but I can promise you that after you let go of your old privileges, you will have much more to gain in the new order - not just wealth, but personal glory and achievement.
"Kant's order will be set up in a new administration similar to that of the second-level government department, and Knight Philip and Mr. Paderick will preside over it, and I hope that Knight Wald Perridge will be the mainstay in this process, just as you maintained order in Kant's order a few months ago, and I hope that you will also be the maintainer of the new order.
"I would also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone present that it is wise to find their place in the new order, rather than to remember the privileges that are destined to be lost.
"Now, you can take the oath, or leave."
Cecil Collar, on the banks of the Whitewater River, a new merchant ship is approaching the pier with the help of a dock guide.
In the northern part of the kingdom, the main rivers are still in a period of severe dryness, the water sources in the high mountains are still frozen, and the rivers in the northern regions are still full of ice floes, but in the southern part of the kingdom, the area closest to the wasteland of Gondor, the ice that blocks the rivers has melted, and although the flood season is far from coming, at least on the White Water River, the lighter and faster merchant ships have been reactivated.
The month of recovery is not only the recovery of the farmland, but also the recovery of these merchants who have traveled from south to north and rely on the reselling of materials for a living, and the various territories are in urgent need of goods from afar at this time - of course, in most cases, the subsistence farmers will not deal with these merchants, these merchants mainly deal with the rich and nobles in the territory, and they bring the wine and sugar that the rich people urgently need, New carpets and clothing, as well as spices and furs.
These things can be sold for a higher price at this time.
Because the water level of the Baishui River was still shallow at this time, and there were dangerous ice floes floating on the river in many places, the first batch of merchant ships to depart had to take greater risks for this, and the earlier the risk, the greater the risk, but driven by profits, there were always brave people who were the first to leave the port.
The goods required by each territory are different, Cecil's territory may be the "most different" one among all the territories, there are not many drinks and spices needed here, and the demand for all kinds of magic ores and metal ores is very huge, these things are quite heavy, and the cost of land transportation is high, so in most cases they will be transported by water, and due to the prosperity of the alchemy potion business, any merchant with a brain knows that Cecil has money at this moment, so the river is opened, A ship laden with magical ores arrived at Cecil's docks.
And with the ore came the first new immigrants to arrive in the frontier after the moon of recovery.
The clerk in charge of registering immigrants sat in his office on the west side of the wharf, he had been doing this work since last year, and he was familiar with the content of the work, and after knowing that today's merchant ships still carried some immigrants, he sorted out the registration forms and began to record those outsiders who could not read the big characters and could not even say their own names.
Ragged registrants came in and out, clerks skilfully and numbly arranging forms and filling out contents, but suddenly, he noticed an unusual coat in his sight.
It was a woolen coat, old, but clean and tidy—not the kind of homeless vagrant would have.
The clerk looked up and looked up the seams of the tweed jacket, and he saw a down-and-out but good-looking man.
"Is it here to register?" The man asked cautiously.
"Yes," the clerk reflexively took a form, "name, age, good job, or former occupation?" ”
"Joseph, thirty years old, pharmacist."
"Pharmacist?" The clerk's note-taking fingers paused, the most respectable job he'd ever written down in the job, and he looked up uncertainly and confirmed, "You mean the pharmacist?" ”
"Yes, pharmacist, there are still a dozen or so queues outside...... Including apothecary, herbalist, alchemist, ......"