Wu Xin eventually left Zuwara, but instead of heading west to Gabès, as Murray Hassan had hoped, Wu Xin plundered southern Tunisia.

This is an area he hadn't been to in Zuwara last time, and Wu Xin's camel team and troops this time are strong enough to go hundreds of miles deep.

As far as the farthest, it reached the vicinity of the Jerred Salt Lake.

This area was far from the coastline, and Khareddin had not yet attacked it, and although his troops were strong, he was careful to operate only near the coastline.

This Jerred Lake is a salt lake with a large area and no thriving big cities nearby.

No one was able to keep their composure under the attack of the "Fireball Technique", but Wu Xin was not willing to go on a killing spree.

There was no need for him to go on a killing spree, as he only asked each leader to hand over ten "fireball" spell casting materials, as well as a limited amount of water and food.

Although the resistance in this area has been taken away by Murray-Hassan, if Wu Xin destroys this area, it will be a crossing.

Wu Xin just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of pirate robbery, and didn't want to pull the hatred of his master.

Wu Xin actually collected taxes on behalf of the Hasf family, after all, many wealthy families in towns and cities had stopped paying taxes to the Hasf family by taking the opportunity of the fall of Tunisia.

In short, Wu Xin tried to find a step for Murray Hassan in Gabès City, so that he would not come against him.

As he wished, Murray-Hassan just kept sending emissaries asking for Wu Xin's explanation and cooperation.

On the way back, he sent Murray-Hassan a hundred sheep and ten sets of rotten leather armor that he had received from the nomads. Thirty broken leather shields, these things are not without a small supplement to Murray Hassan, who is short of supplies.

Murray Hassan was always expecting Wu Xin to attack Hayreddin. And his reason also told him that turning his face with Wu Xin would only hasten his demise, so he kept putting up with it.

Wu Xin has no plans to take part in the Hayreddin vs. Murray-Hassan contest, at least not yet.

He only collected his own profits, with very little gold, silver, and nutrients, but he still looted about 5,000 tales of spell casting materials and more than 300 sheep. Fifty camels.

Although the robbers claimed to be members of the Hasf family, Wu Xin didn't care.

Whether the towns were originally loyal to the Queen Mother or Murray Hassan, Wu Xin unceremoniously blackmailed them.

Then he began to return east. In mid-December 1534, he returned to the port of Tripoli via Zuwara.

This operation, under the slogan of "westward march against piracy", actually eliminated only the limited Ottoman blocking force in Zuwara. The others were completely an action by Wu Xin for his own interests.

The biggest result was to further weaken the prestige and war potential of the Hasf family in Tunisia.

Within the Tripoli Port Group. Of course, there are also voices that believe that this is a short-sighted operation, and that this kind of robbery will hasten the reign of Hayreddin over all of Tunisia when the Hasf family is already in a vulnerable position.

In the officers' canteen in the port of Tripoli, the knights were worried, and an old knight said: "I really don't understand why we don't support the Hasf family, if Hayreddin completely exterminates them, we will be next." ”

He said this in general with a fair heart. However, he did not participate in the western expedition, so he was somewhat jealous of his colleagues who carried trophies full of booty.

"Not necessarily. I've heard that the Hasf family has ruled Tunisia for hundreds of years, and even if pirates can conquer cities, they can fight guerrilla warfare on the edge of the desert. This more optimistic young man is a Hungarian officer who has just joined the Wu Xin group.

The old knight who had just spoken coldly reprimanded his junior: "Do you think that this is the Danube Plain, and you can get supplies anywhere?" Here, as long as the oasis and the desert well are guarded, the guerrillas can only crash into them. There is no guerrilla warfare at all, and no troops can survive if they lose an important source of water. This Hasf family has long been corrupt and degenerate, and there is not much kindness among the people, and this time they will not be able to resist our robbery, and the destruction of the Hasf family is imminent. ”

His words were the experience of more than ten years of fighting in the Black Continent, and the young officer could not refute it.

Still, he made it clear in silence that he didn't fully agree with the old knight's opinion.

Unlike the old knights who stayed in the port of Tripoli, he received more benefits in this operation, money, women, and nutrients.

Father Erlan also did not support this view of the old knight, and he was very happy with the loot that Wu Xin had brought back.

In recent days, he has been a staunch defender of Wu Xin's strategy, especially when the German-speaking and Hungarian-speaking arguments have arisen, and he has always been actively involved in intensifying the debate.

"It's best for the infidels to hack each other to death, have you forgotten the infidels who refuse to obey us? Petition? Hehe. He went on to say to the worried knights, though this was not actually a reasonable explanation, since it was always the usual strategy to unite with the weaker infidels.

"Fighting all the infidels at the same time is synonymous with stupidity and arrogance." The old knight was very unkind to the Italian priest, and he was a staunch supporter of old Deverrich. "Only people who have never really fought in the desert would say such big words."

Father Erlan's face turned red from this blow, and his combat experience was indeed thinner, but he could still continue to persevere, because Wu Xin really needed him to support him: "Allies are strong, not as strong as yourself, don't you guys all need nutrients one by one?" The mutton brought back this time can be made into a lot of medium-level nutrients, and you can increase the amount of distribution by 30% next month. ”

"Thirty percent!" The officers were all excited, nutrition is strength, is health.

Compared with those officers who followed Wu Xin to make a fortune, the officers who stayed behind needed this batch of nutrients even more.

Old Deverichy sat in silence in the corner with his own daughter, and he repeatedly asked Wu Xin to send troops again in the winter. To rescue the port of Benghazi, this suggestion cost him quite a bit of power.

Wu Xin completely handed over the distribution of this batch of additional nutrients to Father Erlan.

It was a big defeat for him.

Wu Xin resolutely refused to go to the rescue of the port of Benghazi. Compared to the Tunisian region, the area between the ports of Tripoli and Benghazi is too barren to get any loot at all.

And those members of the French team couldn't really surrender to him, he preferred to wait and see how things unfolded.

When Father Erlan saw Wu Xin, Wu Xin was in a good mood, he had just left the workplace in Sazastan and was able to breathe fresh air without the smell of mutton.

"Your Excellency. The emissary of the Hassf family is waiting for you. ”

The messenger had already searched for Wu Xin all the way, and finally waited for him at the port of Tripoli.

"I've been busy lately, so let the Honorable Emissary be patient. When the time comes, I will naturally meet him and fight the Barbary pirates. "Wu Xin has already made a fortune in Tunisia under the banner of supporting Murray Hassan. And geographic intelligence was explored. Next, he naturally had to digest it first. "Father Erlan, how is the relocation of the Slow-Release Pool?"

Although the Mitigation Pool was originally built in Zuwara in order to prevent the demonic power from being neutralized by the main plane as soon as possible, in the end, this thing had to be moved back to the port of Tripoli.

In fact, in order to be able to move with the army, most of the relieving pools were built on horse-drawn carriages.

The cart pulled by four camels can be dragged and transported.

If you can't maneuver. Then a lot of the blood that the warlock can absorb will be wasted.

"Kessler the First and Master Helsing have done a great job, those wheels and transport troughs. It's all designed just right. Father Ellan knew that his main opponent in the struggle for power was old Deverrich, and that Kessler had used the property of Vulcan to pay for most of the work, so he had good things to say.

Wu Xin said: "They are all very capable people. ”

"But a lot of labor costs are still over." However, Father Erlan was unable to fully hide his displeasure. "Actually, there should not have been a rush to build in Zuwara at that time, a lot of transportation costs are redundant, and if it is manufactured in the port of Tripoli, it can save at least 500 thalers."

"Then I won't be able to become an eighth-level warlock." Wu Xin refuted Father Erlan's performance. "We shouldn't be short of money lately, why are you so sensitive."

Father Erlan immediately complained: "There are many supplies, especially camels and sheep, but we do not have enough hard currency, and only the merchants of Venice and Liguria are willing to give us silver. You didn't bring back enough hay to make it through the winter. ”

Of course, it is okay to plunder sheep and camels, but it is not possible to haul back much larger pastures.

No matter how warm the winter in the northern part of the Black Continent is, it is also necessary to prepare winter grain and grass.

"Camels are kept for the army as much as possible, this is the source of mobility for our army, mobility is a good thing, and it is all up to camels to avoid the real and grab the false." Wu Xin was quite proud of his robber behavior, and he didn't prepare for the winter with those sheep. "Try to sell it to the residents and the surrounding nomadic tribes, and the low-priced lamb will make them feel safe and satisfied. However, sheepskins and wool were to be preserved, as they could be sold to European merchant ships. ”

Father Erlan was still very dissatisfied, releasing so many sheep at one time, so the price was not enough to describe the word "low price".

"Okay, be content. This way, we will be able to reduce the amount of food we buy. "Wu Xin comforted the dissatisfied Father Erlan, food is the largest expenditure since the rise of the Wu Xin group." In this way, our salt can also be sold a little more expensive, and the loss in the embankment can be compensated for outside the embankment. ”

"The salt pans haven't dried up yet, and they won't be produced until next summer." Although he hadn't harvested it yet, Father Erlan was satisfied. "In the future, the Venetian merchants will not be able to sell us salt, so they will have to bring more food and weapons."

The smaller the types that need to be purchased, the more available other types of goods, and lower prices.

The salt content of the sea on the southern shore of the Mediterranean is lower than that on the northern shore of the Mediterranean, while the Adriatic Sea, because of its narrow terrain, is the best salt-producing area at the northern end, near the city of Venice.

The fjord between Venice and Friuli and Treviso is not only salty, but also an important saltwork because it is shielded by the main island of Venice and inaccessible to Barbary pirates.

However, there are pros and cons, the latitude of that area is too high, so there is not enough sunshine, and relying only on solar energy will cause slow progress.

So in most cases, fuel is still needed for final extraction.

The port of Tripoli faces the Gulf of Sirte, which has a low salt content, but it is closer to the equator than Europe and has less rainfall, so it can also produce competitive salt.

Of course, the Republic of Venice has hundreds of years of experience in the production of sea salt, and in terms of management and technology, it still has its own stunts.

The salt produced in the port of Tripoli is also of poor quality, but because of the difference in transportation costs, it can compete with Venetian salt on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.

"As long as there is the help of the sun, Yantian will do it after all, right?" Of course, Wu Xin is also very proud, although his salt pond planning level is far inferior to the masters of Venice, but many years of life as a seafarer have allowed him to see a lot of salt pans, and finally designed a fairly good salt pan.

In this day and age, many technologies are neither secret nor widely used, because knowledge is still precious.

Of course, compared with fertilization and irrigation, salt drying will not have any religious hidden dangers.

Naturally, Shioto is the most devout devotee of the Lord of the Flames.

Wu Xin naturally cares about their well-being: "Most of the laborers in Yantian are lost lambs, and we must establish a channel for them to pray to the Lord of Flame as soon as possible." ”

The so-called "lost lamb" is naturally a believer in Xingyue.

"The seaside environment is too harmful to building materials, so I think it is better for them to come and pray under the Yongming Lighthouse." Father Erlan actually hoped that he could be consistent with Wu Xin on all issues, but although Wu Xin needed to support his courtiers, he did not allow the existence of simple courtiers, but carefully distributed power according to the strength of the faction. "To this day, there is still not a single church of His Majesty God in the port of Tripoli, and if an altar of Vulcan is added, I am afraid that many citizens will be dissatisfied."

Father Erlan has his own basic position, he has to speak for his basic plate, Ciric's influence in the port of Tripoli is not great, but the Italian group, almost all of them are Ciric's followers.

They saw the ability to build churches as important evidence of the qualifications of their leaders.

Of course, Wu Xin hopes that all of his subordinates believe in "fire", so that he can promote more priests, increase their ranks, and make the magic materials a little more relaxed.

"Have you contacted a cardinal?" But Wu Xin's plan was still to build a new altar after a cardinal visited.

Father Erlan nodded hurriedly: "If we can guarantee the establishment of a new church, Cardinal Gonzaga and Cardinal Orsini will be willing to come to us once, and will bless a new priest according to your wishes, and you can arrange for him to serve in the place you wish." ”

This was Wu Xin's condition, a cardinal archbishop was persuaded of Wu Xin's political merits in exchange for him deciding on the number of clergy and how to use them.

Wu Xin nodded, but another voice sounded from upstairs..................

"It can't be! That's impossible! That's impossible! (To be continued......)