Chapter 19: Time is Money

In this regard, it is several times stronger than a field hospital.

However, like the Pegasus cavalry, although it is very useful, the price is too high!

Therefore, for the next period of time, War Workshop+ mainly produced infantry, spearmen, and archers.

The cavalry stopped after producing four more teams, but the Pegasus cavalry produced one more team, that is, one.

In any case, one Pegasus cavalry is not enough, and if you want to keep an eye on the changes in the surrounding situation, two Pegasus cavalry are necessary.

A week later, the War Workshop went from rapid production to slow resource reserves.

No way, the gold and silver sand in the cave stream were collected by the peasants.

It's just a miniature vein that's half-exposed.

As for whether there were other veins in the cave, Zhou Mingyue could only let the peasants and soldiers scatter in the cave, digging everywhere for sampling, and the excavated stones, gravel, etc. were sent to himself for identification.

After all, it was too slow to go and grope slowly in the cave by yourself.

Of course, as the veins of gold were mined, they were replaced by strong soldiers.

Infantry, spearmen, and archers each produced a full 20 teams!

To date, the total strength is 320 infantry, 280 spearmen, 200 archers, 20 cavalry, 2 monks, 2 pegasus cavalry, plus 207 peasant soldiers.

Such a total of troops, if you don't count the knights, can already crush a viscount.

However, Zhou Mingyue did not rush to open up to the outside world, but asked the Pegasus cavalry to reconnoiter out and check the location of other barbarian tribes.

This is not entirely his instigation, after all, in a place like the wilderness, no matter how cautious it is, it is normal.

Don't look at the barbarian tribe under your feet was defeated, it was a whole number of viscounts' troops, and they almost failed to win!

According to Viscount Hanks, this barbarian tribe can only be regarded as a small tribe in the wilderness, and those more powerful barbarian tribes will often invade the human countries bordering the wilderness.

The Kingdom of Flor has been invaded by the barbarian tribes several times, and the most serious one, the barbarian tribes even hit the royal city of the Floran Kingdom, and the charge of the wargroup composed of more than a dozen big knights was broken by the barbarian chief Marmon in one fell swoop!

If it weren't for the two knight elders who guarded the royal family of Flor joining forces to repel Heisius, the kingdom of Flor would probably be destroyed.

The Pegasus cavalry was very useful, and it only took three days to find out all the barbarian tribes within a radius of two hundred miles in the vicinity.

In total, there are two barbarian tribes.

The first barbarian tribe was located in the direction of the rising sun, 160 miles away, with a population of about nine hundred, which could be regarded as a relatively large tribe.

The second tribe was in the opposite position, 90 miles away, with a population of about six hundred, more than twice as powerful as the destroyed barbarian tribe.

Even if Zhou Mingyue is now, he will not dare to rashly send troops to attack for a while.

No, the individual base of barbarians is stronger than that of humans, and when their numbers increase, it is easy for more powerful individuals to appear.

Under such circumstances, if you rush to send troops, you will easily be slapped in the face.

However, just when Zhou Mingyue was wondering if he could find another gold mine, the Pegasus cavalry brought back a piece of news.

A group of humans is crossing the border, heading towards the barbarian tribe.

Mankind?

Zhou Mingyue immediately remembered the news that his Totmoth knight had sent to the Iron Castle Village.

To say that he didn't really expect the news to work.

First, the village of Ironcastle is the territory of the knights of Temos, and if any knight does not want his own people to leave, that is, the potential of the territory is weakened.

Second, whether it is Tyrese or Ness, Zhou Mingyue feels that he will not be the kind of adventurer who dares to break through the status quo.

But apart from the people of Iron Castle Village, he really couldn't think of who it would be for a while.

Even Viscount Hanks couldn't have come over at this time.

The family still has a whole viscounty to govern.

"Bring them here."

After thinking about it, Zhou Mingyue sent two teams of infantry and one team of spearmen.

In any case, in the wilderness, compared to the barbarians, human beings are natural allies, and it is reasonable to send troops to protect them.

The result was not too unexpected for Zhou Mingyue.

It was indeed Tyrese and Ness, plus dozens of villagers from Iron Castle Village, and there were more than a dozen young and strong people, all of whom were dragged with them.

To be honest, this was also somewhat unexpected.

Are the villagers of Iron Castle so adventurous?

"Hi Zhou! Is it fifty acres of land for each person here? In the first three years, only 3% of the grain tax was collected? ”

After seeing Zhou Mingyue, Ness asked with a wink.

"Ah, yes!"

Zhou Mingyue immediately understood, the people from the Iron Castle Village dared to come over, it was Ness who fooled them.

Come to think of it, for the villagers of Tiebao Village, the field is probably the most important thing.

They are not yeoman farmers, including the village chief, they can only be regarded as tenants, and the land is all owned by the Knights of Temos, they can only help with farming.

Let's put it this way, they have to pay at least 70% of the grain after a year of hard work!

That's why they don't have enough to eat all the time.

The Knight of Temos seemed to be a good man in general, but he was a knight after all, a nobleman, and his standing army needed to be fed, all from the farmers' taxes.

But then again, Ness was really bold, Zhou Mingyue didn't say this, so he fooled people.

If these farmers had found out the truth, they would have beaten him to death.

Of course, Ness represents his promise to the farmer, and Zhou Mingyue has no problem at all.

Although there are large areas of grassland and woodland near the barbarian tribes, as long as the water from the pond in the valley is diverted and irrigated for a period of time, there is no problem in changing it to good water for irrigation.

Let the peasants help these farmers with their children and daughters to settle down in the valley temporarily, while Zhou Mingyue turned his attention to another group of guests.

A human caravan that came with the farmers of Ironcastle.

The number of people is not large, more than a dozen men, carrying knives and swords, can be called fully armed, and more than 20 camel beasts are full of goods on their backs.

The head of the shopkeeper is a middle-aged man, who looks gentle, but has a hidden edge.

Come to think of it, the guy who dares to do business in the wilderness can't be an honest person.

"Honorable lord, I have daily necessities and delicate knives here......."

After introducing himself as Arnell, the shopkeeper of a trading house in the royal city of Flore, the Arnell shopkeeper immediately introduced the goods he carried.

Obviously, even in this world, there is a saying that time is money and money is efficiency.