Chapter 85, Ransom for Prisoners of War
One is to integrate divinity into the war half-plane, so that it can produce more powerful units in the next level.
Well, Zhou Mingyue now knows that the advancement of this war half-plane is not the same, if you have divinity, the advanced class will be stronger!
The second is to integrate divinity into oneself, so that Zhou Mingyue has this trace of divinity, and the advantage of this is that Zhou Mingyue's strength will be improved to become a pure-blood knight!
Faced with this problem, which is extremely difficult for ordinary people to choose, Zhou Mingyue made a decision in only three seconds!
Divinity is integrated into the war half-plane!
He is not stupid, and he feels that his greatest strength is self-knowledge.
He is aware of his shortcomings.
Not ruthless enough, well, mainly not hard enough on yourself.
It is precisely because of this that his knight chief's strength is a little stronger than that of the big knight.
Well, he admits that he's cowardly.
But that doesn't stop him from making the right judgment.
When the war half plane is strong, one's own safety can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.
With that hint of divinity merging, some golden lines appeared on the form of the tower of the war half-plane.
However, with the appearance of this golden pattern, the thirty percent of the advanced progress bar immediately dropped to twenty percent.
Zhou Mingyue also knew that this advanced progress bar could not fall for no reason.
This can only show that after the war half-plane is integrated into the divinity, if it wants to advance again, it needs more advanced resources.
By this time, all the troops in the valley had poured out, escorting all the farmers who had surrendered into the valley.
And the high-ranking classes such as the Lance Valkyrie are chasing the fleeing knights.
Zhou Mingyue remembered at this time that the treasure was also transformed from divinity.
But obviously, after being transformed into a treasure, this divinity is no longer divinity, or the difference is very large.
So, can the Noble Phantasm be restored to divinity?
Zhou Mingyue took out the rebirth dagger, looked at it, pondered for a while, shook his head, and put it back.
He really couldn't think of any way to restore this treasure to divinity.
By nightfall, the peasants who had surrendered had been imprisoned, numbering eighteen thousand.
The knights also took quite a few prisoners.
Zhou Mingyue planned to tame the farmers who had surrendered and become his own people.
No, this wild area is basically inhuman except for the barbarians, especially after the three barbarian tribes A1, A2, and A3 have been eradicated by themselves, this area has become even more desolate.
Now that the Kingdom of Flor has removed its independent knighthood, then there is no relationship between itself and the Kingdom of Flor, and in this case, it seems that it is not bad to build a country by yourself to have fun?
As for the captured knights, he had no intention of killing them.
The kinship between the nobles can be said to be inextricably linked, and killing these knights yourself is likely to attract more hatred.
The blow is too big, and I don't know how many people will come to take revenge.
Zhou Mingyue didn't want to squat in the valley all the time.
The difference between a knight and a farmer is that the knight has someone to pay a ransom and the farmer doesn't.
In the following week, Zhou Mingyue was busy.
He was busy arranging the farmers to the A2 and A3 tribes in their original locations, and at the same time had to deploy troops in these places to protect the safety of the farmers.
Just after he had moved more than 5,000 peasants to the original site of the A3 tribe, and arranged hoplites, hoplites and even longbowmen as guards, he received news that Viscount Hanks had arrived.
When he rode the red dragon back to the valley, he saw a group of more than thirty people waiting outside the stone wall of the valley, and Ness was accompanying Viscount Hanks to greet him.
I have to say that Ness has worked very hard after taking on the position of political secretary of the valley.
In addition to his job, he even studied with several scholars in slavery.
Until now, I can barely write some official documents.
Looking at his conversation with Viscount Hanks, it can barely be regarded as a workout.
After getting off the dragon, Zhou Mingyue exchanged a few words of greeting with Viscount Hanks with a smile on his face, and then invited everyone to enter the valley for a while.
He swept his gaze and saw many unfamiliar faces, but he could be sure that these were nobles.
Clearly, they are here to ransom people!
Sure enough, after entering Zhou Mingyue's natural mansion, Viscount Hanks explained his intentions.
Indeed, they have come to ransom.
To put it simply, the group of people he brought with him were the representatives of the ransom, and in addition to being the relatives of the captured knights, they were also entrusted by the relatives of other captured knights to ransom people.
After all, many of the captured knights were the heads of their families, and there were only orphans and widows left in the family, and it was impossible for them to travel so far to ransom people.
As for Viscount Hanks's visit, one is to introduce both sides, and the other is to provide guarantees.
In the eyes of those nobles, Zhou Mingyue was always an enmity with the Flor Kingdom, and he was not a nobleman, so they were also worried that Zhou Mingyue would not be at ease if he received the money.
Therefore, most of the ransom was placed in Hanks Castle, with Viscount Hanks as a guarantee, and once the people were released here, Viscount Hanks promised to send the ransom to Zhou Mingyue.
In this regard, Zhou Mingyue did not refuse.
After all, the finances in the valley are also relatively tight.
The more than 500 slaves and more than 70 farmers in the valley before were all provided by Zhou Mingyue for food and clothing.
No, the crops have been planted, but there is still some time before the harvest.
The most terrible thing is that with the more than 18,000 farmers captured by him, no matter how bad they eat every day, the food consumed is not a small amount.
Let's put it this way, the Anel caravan alone can't do this business.
Zhou Mingyue took out all the skins and furs of the giant beasts, and only then did he buy enough food for the 18,000 people to eat and drink for three months.
But what if you run out of food for three months?
Those newly cultivated fields can't satisfy the appetite of so many people.
Therefore, these ransoms can be regarded as the solution of his urgent need.
Well, the amount of the ransom is tied to the title of nobility.
Over the past thousand years, the number has been basically fixed.
30-80 gold for a knight, 150-250 gold for a baron, 350-600 gold for a viscount.
Well, that's pretty much it.
Maybe it was because he felt that Zhou Mingyue didn't get a share of Count Max's ransom last time, but Viscount Hanks was quite righteous this time, and set the ransom price at 60 gold coins for knights, 200 gold coins for barons, and 600 gold coins for the viscount.
Let's put it this way, those knights and barons didn't take the initiative to attack Zhou Mingyue, they were considered accomplices, so the price was slightly higher, but it was not at the top level, and it also made those family members pay the ransom more willingly.