Chapter 41: Rapid Expansion

As time went on, more and more refugees fled to Il, and Chen Jian also recruited some thieves to go to the surrounding area to spy on the movements of the orc forces on the one hand, and find survivors on the other hand, and guide them to Il.

As a result, the population of Yir Village swelled rapidly, and in order to settle refugees and prevent panic, plague and riots, Chen Jian used the villagers of Yir Village as the backbone to form an administrative department.

The first armed forces department, headed by Jiang Jinjiu, is responsible for external defense and internal security, and a large number of people have poured into Yier Village in troubled times. The execution of a few wrongdoers in public with magic immediately made it clear to outsiders who had the final say here, and the mysterious and powerful deterrent power of magic made them more disciplined.

Then there is the Ministry of Construction, with Wallen as the minister, a large number of immigrants need housing, but also need work, and they can't be allowed to be idle all the time, so it is easy to breed panic and uneasiness, and with food to live and work to do, people's hearts are much more stable.

So the first thing is to build houses, and the village of Yir is backed by the misty forest, which can be heavily logged to build houses.

Although it is uncertain how many people will remain in Yi'er Village after the war, but now that there is so much labor, there is no need to use it in vain, Chen Jian found an engineering designer on Earth to plan a set of town plans in the name of making fantasy games, and then asked Valen to build according to the drawings.

Then there was the Ministry of Agriculture, headed by the old village chief Morgan, who was responsible for cultivating new fields and food supplies, and a large number of people increased, and the food reserves of Yier Village itself were far from enough, so Chen Jian returned to Earth to purchase a large number of compressed biscuits, flour, vegetables, fruits and meat, and shipped them back to Orlund.

Although he couldn't use the space bag on Earth, Chen Jian became more and more proficient in the use of the space-time gate, and he could already open the door with a diameter of three meters. I rented a larger warehouse on this side of the globe and drove the goods directly on both sides of the pick-up truck.

Anyway, he opened a restaurant, and no one would suspect that he purchased food supplies in large quantities, but in the Orende plane, it was even simpler, a miracle could not only explain all the problems, but also improve the faith of believers.

Survivors from outside the country can choose to accept work arrangements from the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Agriculture in exchange for food. Of course, the elderly and children are additional humanitarian aids.

Finally, the management of mercenaries, during the war, it is certainly not enough to rely on the armed forces that the village of Il now has, and it is also urgent to recruit a large number of mercenaries. The work of recruiting and managing mercenaries was entrusted to Qiao Na, and the specific task assignment was assigned by her and Jiang Jinjiu's armed forces. Coordinated defense.

And in order to improve the combat enthusiasm of mercenaries, Chen Jian deliberately designed a set of task points system, which refines the tasks that need to be completed by mercenaries, such as patrol, reconnaissance, hunting, killing enemies, etc., into small tasks, each task has points, mercenaries can receive tasks according to their own specialties, and each task also has a completion criterion, for example, the patrol will have the guards of the armed forces department of Yier Village to participate together and record the completion.

The accumulated points can be exchanged for money, materials, and can also be exchanged for houses and fields in Yier Village, and the most attractive thing is that when the points accumulate to a certain amount, you can become an honorary villager of Yier Village, this honorary villager is not how beautiful the title is, but can receive a fixed pension every year in the future.

Mercenaries are a profession that licks blood from the head of the knife, often people are injured in middle age, and even less arms, less legs are common, many mercenaries are very bleak in their old age, and can only rely on their past teammates to help, only large mercenary groups have a better aftermath treatment, but in fact, if you are really injured and can't fight, that is, you can get a sum of money to go back to your hometown, but it is often spent in a few years.

Being old and helpless is a common phenomenon in this industry, and few mercenaries can die well, so the point retirement pension policy proposed by Yier Village is too attractive to mercenaries, that is, there is a sense of honor, and there are benefits to take, and there is also the god of food to endorse this initiative.

In fact, Chen Jian's move is not only a temporary emergency measure, but has a more far-reaching strategic purpose.

This invasion of the orcs has sounded the alarm for Chen Blade, who has been smooth sailing in Orende, this is not the earth in peacetime, but a different world full of wars, where wars can break out between countries, between various races, and between different hostile sects. Without a strong enough fist here, you will not be able to achieve your goals and ideals.

Unlike the local old churches and the nobility in various places, as a new sect, the Food Order may rely on its own advantages to quickly accumulate wealth and develop believers, but it cannot quickly establish its own armed forces, and without sufficient armed forces, then empty wealth and believers are just a lamb to the slaughter.

Therefore, Chen Jian quickly focused on the idle armed forces of mercenaries and adventurers.

Mercenaries and adventurers can be said to be an inevitable phenomenon in this war-torn world, although all kinds of battles and wars emerge one after another, but the intensity varies, sometimes it is just a need to hunt down a powerful magical beast that endangers the territory, sometimes it is a turf struggle between nobles, and sometimes it is necessary to participate in large-scale national wars, and selfish nobles are unwilling to spend a lot of money to raise more professional soldiers for the sake of battles of uncertain scale.

As a result, mercenaries were very popular, and they paid to hire people to fight according to their needs, and when they were not fighting, they did not need to spend extra money to support them. Supply and demand are clear, and each takes what it needs.

But the so-called mercenary union here is actually just a loose organization, and at the beginning, it was a reception office set up by several major mercenary groups in various places in order to take on tasks more conveniently.

Later, the nobles in other places continued to think that this was a good way to control the mercenaries and adventurers flowing in the territory, so similar to the franchise store, the branch of the mercenary union was opened, and as long as a little franchise fee was handed over to the general association every year, in essence, these branches still serve the aristocratic forces, helping them to supervise and monitor the actions of mercenaries and adventurers, so you will never see a mercenary task to assassinate nobles in the mercenary union.

This gave Chen Jian a chance to establish an organization that truly served these mercenaries, and this organization was in his own hands, so these mercenaries and adventurers who served the new organization would naturally become the spears of the Food Order.

As a result, a new organization that is different from the local mercenary union, the prototype of the adventurer's union, appeared, and through this orc invasion, the large number of war missions generated by the mercenary continued to expand its influence among the mercenaries. Better mechanism, better service, and better remuneration. These will form a stronger defensive network for the village of Il.

Chen Jian was busy with internal affairs on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was also nervously concerned about the external situation, although he only retreated to a village in the northwest, but fortunately he had powerful allies, and the Love Church may be one of the most well-informed churches in the world.

As a powerful church across races, the power of the Church of Love can be said to be spread across all races. Soon, Chen Jian learned about the general situation of this orc invasion through the channel of the Love Church.

In previous years, after the autumn harvest, the orcs would launch an attack on the human forces, on the one hand, they would consume the surplus population that they could not afford in winter, and on the other hand, they would rob the humans of food and wealth.

The town of Kovinoa was already behind the Northwest Line, which meant that the orcs had found a new way to bypass the Raven Fortress and invade the Grey Sword Mountains.

But this is almost impossible, in the long years of war, human beings continue to strengthen the defense line, and find out the map, it can be said that the terrain of the entire Gray Sword Mountain Range, human forces are well aware, it is impossible for orcs to discover the new passage, and humans do not know yet.

Then if you eliminate all impossibilities, it is easy to come to the truth, the orcs took advantage of the territory of the dwarves, bypassed all the defense lines of the human army, and entered the backyard of the human kingdom.

The combination of orcs and dwarves caught the Terran forces off guard. After the Battle of Dawn, the relationship between the Terrans and the dwarves has been estranged, not good, not bad, and the dwarves who originally lived in the plains have withdrawn to the mountain range. Although there are local wars, in general in the north, the main enemies of humanity are orcs.

Humans also have to buy a large number of weapons from the dwarves every year, and of course, the dwarves' weapons are also sold to the orcs, and the dwarves who are engaged in the arms business on both sides can be said to have made a lot of war money.

As a result, humans have always felt that dwarves should not take sides, and dwarves themselves do not like orcs. The conflict between them and the orcs is greater than that of the humans.

Therefore, the defense force near the dwarven territory has not been strong, and the elite troops of the human race are on the front line of the battle with the orcs such as the Raven Fortress.

As a result, the orc troops that came out of the direction of the dwarven territory easily tore through the human defenses, burning and looting in the human territory, as if entering a no-man's land.

By the time the humans deployed their troops and returned to the rear, they had already suffered heavy losses, and the orcs had already retreated with a full load.

Humanity will not only face the tragic scene of having their homes destroyed and food robbed, but also facing the grim situation of dwarves and orcs joining forces, and this winter will be particularly difficult.

If there is any beneficiary of this orc surprise attack, it may be the Food Order.

Through the connections of the Earth Church, Chen Jian used Baitiao to buy a large amount of food from them for disaster relief.

That's right, it's a white stripe. Just taking in the refugees of Barony Vinoa was already a bit overwhelming for Chen Jian's finances, not to mention the entire Northwest Region, so he brought a lot of special products from the earth, and wanted to see what other profitable bilateral trade items were available besides food.

In the end, he really found one thing, which not only the Earth Church and the Love Church liked, but also made great profits, that is-white paper.

There are only two kinds of paper in the Orende plane, one is parchment, which uses parchment to undergo multiple processes and polishing to form a carrier that can be written. It was very expensive and only used by nobles, mages and churches. The other is straw paper, which is made of a plant called Serra grass and cross-splicing and pressing, although the cost is low, it is not suitable for preservation, and it will generally be moth-eaten or broken after a few years.

And the quality of the paper provided by Chen Jian was so high that it could be directly used as a carrier for low-level spell scrolls. In particular, it is a bamboo fiber paper, which can also be used as a material for making magic books, which is even more valuable.

Although Chen Jian only offered half the price of the local parchment, the two major churches still placed tons of orders at once.

In the messy Northwest Territory, grain is now a harder currency than gold coins.

The Gourmet Order, which had mastered a large amount of food, was rapidly expanding its power as if it had been opened. Opening the way with grain, the nobles who were having a headache due to lack of food everywhere opened the door to welcome the arrival of the Food Order.

Of course, it is not that there are no despicable nobles who want to grab food directly, but Chen Jian is steady, while using food to relieve the poor and improve the prestige of the order, while expanding the organization of the adventurer's union, to say that Jona really has a set, she can't fight, but she is quite talented in forming gangs and doing things, and the adventurer's union soon attracted a large number of small teams and individual adventurers in the northwest region.

The huge team of grain mercenaries made the small nobles along the road dare not do the black, and the high-level of the major principalities, Chen Jian greeted them one by one through the help of the two major churches, after all, the gourmet church used low-priced food to hit the unscrupulous traders who took advantage of the opportunity to raise the price, stabilized the people in the territory, and made this food-poor winter less starvation, and the high-level of human forces still welcomed this kind of kindness.

In the first winter of Chen Blade's arrival on the Orende plane, the Food Order took the opportunity of post-war rebuilding to expand rapidly like a snowball.