Bai Qi told Liu Laozhang that this fleet was a foreign envoy group, not a temporary change by him, but a decision made by Andre and everyone to discuss. Of course, this idea was first proposed by Bai Qi.

The Great Zhou Dynasty is similar to ancient China in the real world, and it is not uncommon for foreign envoys to come to the dynasty as the overlord of the East, and this identity can eliminate the rejection and fear brought by the completely different appearance of these Western mainlanders to the greatest extent.

Zhou Laozhang politely invited Andre back to the village, and Bai Qi took the captain and others to direct the soldiers and sailors to clear the weeds on the wasteland, cut down trees, set up a cauldron, and under the guidance of the villagers, collect non-toxic leaves and artemisia grass, bring clean water, add the freshly caught sea fish, boil them in a cauldron, and distribute the boiled fish and grass soup to the crew members who have been drifting at sea for three months to supplement vitamins.

With the help of the villagers, a group of people were busy for half the night, and finally set up simple tents and settled the tired and weak crew.

After discussing with Uncle Liu for a long time, Count Andre also returned to the temporary camp, and he summoned Bai Qi and other middle-level officers to discuss the next action.

After listening to the earl talk about the current chaos in the Eastern Continent and the situation in Beihai Prefecture where they were located, everyone was a little excited, and they all felt that it was their opportunity for the powerful Eastern Empire to fall into civil strife.

Everyone was talking about how to open up the situation, and Knight Toph even suggested that Liujia Village be bloodied, occupy this natural harbor, and use this place as a base to invade inland.

When the knights had almost finished their opinions, Bai Qi spoke: "Ladies and gentlemen, according to the news I got from Old Master Liu's mouth. The Beihai Prefecture where we are now alone has a population of nearly one million. The lord of the place, the King of the North Sea. There are almost 50,000 regular troops under our command, and if we invade blatantly, as outsiders, we will probably encounter extremely fierce resistance, and you guys, we are far from our homeland, and we will never be replenished, and once the war starts, we will only get weaker and weaker. Once we get caught in the quagmire of war, it won't be long before more than 2,000 of us will be swallowed up by the war. ”

Bai Qi's words made everyone think thoughtfully, and Andre nodded slightly: "Xia Zuo is right, we can't let all the Orientals treat us as enemies, otherwise why should we pretend to be envoys?" ”

Xia Zuo is Bai Qi's name that cut into this space, and his full name is Xia Zuo? Fergostein, a member of the Fergostein family. Andrei's nephew.

Andre said to Bai Qi: "Xia Zuo, tell me, what do you think?" ”

Bai Qi said: "I have carefully inquired with Uncle Liu about the situation nearby, and it is very bad. Because the king of Beihai transferred the county soldiers in the eastern counties, causing the eastern counties to be empty, the horse thieves in the northern mountains took the opportunity to attack the county seat, burn and loot. As a result, most of the people in the eastern counties of Beihai Prefecture have become refugees. ”

"Butterworth is a peninsula with four counties. Langya County, which is adjacent to the mainland in the northwest, has developed agriculture. It is the location of Beihai City, the seat of Beihai Prefecture, and also the foundation of Beihai King, Cangya County in the southwest, and the mainland has convenient water transportation, developed trade, dense population, and is also valued by Beihai King. In these two counties, the King of the North Sea not only did not transfer troops, but instead replenished a lot of troops transferred from the east, so they are basically stable at present. ”

"The northeast is Beiheng County, the main vein of Beiheng Mountain is in this county, the county is mountainous, thieves are rampant, after the troops are withdrawn, only the county town is still under the control of the government, and the other counties are almost all attacked by horse thieves, looting, and the people are almost all refugees."

"Cangwu County in the southeast is not so serious because it is far away from Beiheng Mountain, but Cangwu County is far richer than Beiheng County due to its relatively fertile land, and the bandits in Beihengshan will go south sooner or later."

"The location where we landed is in Linhai County, which belongs to the junction of Beiheng County and Cangwu County, and the county seat was just broken by the Ghost Horse Thieves in the eastern part of Hengshan a month ago."

"My suggestion is to take advantage of this time to go to Wanghai Town, the county seat of Linhai County, which has been destroyed by the thieves, under the banner of the envoys of the Suss Kingdom, occupy the county seat in the name of self-preservation, and occupy the land adjacent to the county seat, recruit refugees, select soldiers from among the refugees, integrate into our army, and let these eastern refugees become our source of troops through the division of feudal and land, so that we can become stronger and stronger."

Finally, Bai Qi turned his gaze to Bishop Christopher and said, "Instead of waiting for these two thousand people to reproduce, it is better to influence these heretics to throw themselves into the arms of our lord, so that the light of our lord can quickly shine on this continent, isn't it?" ”

This group of expeditionary forces from the Western Continent are almost all followers of the Lord of Radiance, and Bishop Christopher's influence is no worse than that of Count Andrew, and a squadron of paladins under the Bishop's command is also the most elite in this army, which should not be underestimated.

Andre and the bishop looked at each other and nodded their heads.

With the bishop's approval, Andre said to Bai Qi: "Xia Zuo, your suggestion is very good, this is indeed a safe way for us to gain a foothold in this strange continent, the Eastern Continent is not a wilderness, there is a huge population here, no matter how strong we are, with more than two thousand of us, it is impossible to conquer this peninsula with a population of nearly one million, so we must obtain the approval of the locals." ”

Speaking of this, Andre's gaze swept over everyone's faces and asked, "What other people's opinions do they have on Xia Zuo's suggestion?" ”

The knights all shook their heads to say no.

Bai Qi, as a fourth-level warrior and part-time fourth-level mage, also has a decisive influence in this team, not much lower than the knights.

Unanimous in opinion, André began to assign tasks, and he left Sir Barron here, asking him to stay here to build a dock where large ships could moor, and organize armed merchant ships to go to sea to fish and serve as military rations.

Andrei also left all the civilians and craftsmen in the bay, and asked a scholar named Dean to organize craftsmen to build a small shipyard, build small fishing boats, and organize sailors to go out to sea to fish.

Since it cannot be plundered, then the military rations for a period of time in the future can only be solved by relying on the sea.

Bai Qi took the opportunity to suggest that Andre had better move the old man named Liu Zhengrui, who used to be a county magistrate in Linhai County, and must have a certain influence in the county, if he could move the old man to go to Linhai County with them, it would be easier to recruit refugees.

Andrei took Bai Qi's advice and gave him the task.

After the meeting was adjourned, everyone went to the temporary battalion commander to rest. (To be continued......)