The first thing Lu Jingzhi did when he returned to the castle was to ask Sijiu to run to the border village with the guards and call back Baghdad, who was volunteering to guard over there. Since the fief is not his own, there is no need for the rangers who have sworn allegiance to him to guard there, let them live in the trading post, and it is also a good choice to serve as a guard at the trading post.

However, since he no longer plays for Belgo, the equipment borrowed through Belgo will have to be returned. The four rangers lost their undead horses and became dismounted knights. The so-called dismounted knight is a generous term for those knights who have lost their mounts, but in fact, the combat effectiveness of dismounted knights is only a little stronger than that of infantry.

To restore the rangers' combat effectiveness, equip them with horses, preferably stronger armor and heavier swords. Lu Jingzhi inquired about it, and only when the caravan outside came, could he buy weapons and undead war horses. Because the Duke of Winsand has no blacksmith, and no one can make an undead horse.

"My lord, do you want to ask about the undead war horses?" said to Lu Jingzhi from the human slaves who were doing hard labor in the stables, "The undead war horses that the knights ride are all obtained through reincarnation. ”

Lu Jingzhi had heard of the method of reincarnation, which was one level higher than the soul summoning technique, which was the reincarnation technique. Reincarnation can retain some basic memories of life, like some souls reborn with resentment, usually remembering their strong grievances during their lifetime.

"Why do you have to use reincarnation?" Lu Jingzhi asked, "Can't you use spiritualism?"

"My lord, the most that comes out like that is a pack horse is that you can't even pull a horse. The human slave said, "Reincarnation allows horses to remember what they have been trained, my lord." ”

Reincarnation is not a very difficult spell, but it can only be learned by at least advancing to the undead of a wise man. Duke Windsor's castle is the only one who is a wise man, and he should be able to learn the art of reincarnation.

"My lord, Lord Gasso is a wise man, of course he will use the reincarnation technique, but the success rate of the reincarnation technique is relatively low, and our undead war horse can generally be achieved only once in five times. If it doesn't work, then the horse can only remember part of the training content, and only know the most basic left and right advance and retreat, and like this, it can only be used as a horse. If it's worse, you'll have to be blindfolded and led away as a pack horse. ”

Pack horses are worse than pulling horses, they need to be led to know which way to go, and pulling horses know which way to turn when they are commanded. Lu Jingzhi thought about the reincarnation technique, and suddenly his heart was shocked, since that witch doctor Gaso knew reincarnation technique, it was very likely that when he died, he would reincarnate himself into an undead spirit and continue to work for them. Why didn't you turn directly at that time? It's probably because of the success rate of this reincarnation technique. If it weren't for the 20 percent success rate, he might have turned into a walking corpse, and it seems that the old guy from Gasus said that the Duke had taken a fancy to his human mind, and it was not a lie.

"My lord, raising and training war horses is a very expensive and laborious matter. Our duke doesn't have so many people and money to build a horse farm to train horses, so our undead horses are all bought. The slave said.

Buying a horse is also a solution to the problem at hand. "How much does it cost to buy a war horse?" Lu Jingzhi asked.

"My lord, if the Duke buys it with the caravan, he will exchange it for twenty times the weight of the undead war horse for sulfur or sixty times the amount of ice fruit. "The human slave had been in the stable for a long time, and he remembered all these things clearly.

Lu Jingzhi secretly said to himself, obediently, the weight of an undead war horse is at least seven hundred catties, and this is still a war horse on a light horse. In exchange for twenty times the amount of sulfur, that is 12,000 catties. If in the past, a person in the border village could only carry ten catties of sulfur back to the village a day, and the annual income of the whole village was only one horse, and it had to be used by the undead in the castle, no wonder the war horses in the duke's castle have always been a very scarce strategic resource.

"This undead war horse is so expensive, no wonder there are not many of them. Lu Jingzhi looked at the dozens of undead war horses in the stable and said with emotion.

"My lord, raising a horse is more expensive than buying a horse. The human slave said, "A war horse's ice fruit consumption is three times that of an undead soldier, and this is still usual." If it is during training or wartime, it is five times that of the undead infantry. ”

"They can eat so much?!" Lu Jingzhi exclaimed, "That's really unaffordable." "My own mounts are Silly Big and Silly Er, and the diet of these two brothers is much cheaper than that of an undead war horse. No wonder he said that he wanted to let Silly Silly Er be a knight for himself, whether it was Belgo or Duke Wensha, there was not much objection, this could solve the problem of a knight's mount, and the Duke would simply take a big advantage.

"My lord, it's not all. The human slave said, "The undead horses should also be washed with sulfur water so that they do not rot." They are large, and the amount of sulfur used is four or five times more than that of the undead infantry, and some are twice as large. ”

It's no wonder. There are not many knights in the duke's castle, and each knight has at least one undead horse. But few of their servants rode horses, and even if they did, they were inferior horses. The price of pulling a horse is more than twice that of a pack horse, but the transportation function is the same, but there is one more role - it can be handed over to the servant to ride.

Lu Jingzhi thought of the so-called treasure he had dug up before, which was used to pay taxes for the two villages under his rule, which was more than enough, and it was no problem to pay it for a year or two. But compared with these strategic materials, it is not enough. Looks like we still have to make money.

"What about iron tools, how did you buy things like swords and armor?" Lu Jingzhi asked.

"My lord, I don't know about this little one. Why don't you ask the man who did hard labor in the barracks? The human slave replied.

Lu Jingzhi thought for a moment, then waved his hand to let the human slave go back to the stable, and asked Sijiu to call the human slave in the barracks. This human slave is also the same as the one in the stable, he does hard labor in the barracks, and he usually does the work of moving and transporting, without it, just because even if the human body is cut, it can grow again, so the work of taking care of these sharp things is naturally done by human slaves.

"My lord, weapons are much cheaper than horses. The barracks servant said, "A good undead horse can be exchanged for three or four sets of infantry equipment." "The infantry's swords were relatively short and easy to carry, and their armor was not as heavy as that of the knights, except for plate armor on the chest, and leaf armor and chain mail in other places. Leaf armor, also known as scale armor, is stacked with iron sheets, which has good protection and is relatively light.

"What about the knight's equipment?" Lu Jingzhi asked. A heavy knight must have a spear, a lance, a sword, a full body of armor, and if you are careful, the horse must also be draped. A heavy cavalry weighs a ton in the human world, and in the world of the undead, I am afraid that it will have to be doubled.

"My lord, the equipment of the light cavalry is about the same as that of an undead war horse, and the equipment of the heavy cavalry or dragoon is much more expensive. The barracks servant replied.

Lu Jingzhi nodded, waved his hand and let the hard labor go back. Now he understands that the wealth in his hands is really not a small amount in the eyes of any village, but on the battlefield he can't even put together a small team. If you want to reach the strength of the Duke of Windsor, it is difficult to achieve it without hundreds of years of accumulation.

"Forty-nine, close the door. Seeing the figure of the barracks disappearing outside the door, Lu Jingzhi asked Sijiu to close the door. He had to think about something he didn't want to be heard by any of the undead guys. The only real people in their own are Tangtang and Sijiu, and Yinxin is also one, at least they won't shy away from her when they discuss something. But Silver Heart is always silent at such times, as if she were air.

Lu Jingzhi looked at the numbers he wrote in his notebook and sighed. If an accountant sees it, he will be surprised that this teenager can write such neat accounts, which is a professional accounting method. But for Lu Jingzhi, it was just the result of his mother learning to time herself and secretly flipping through the accounting textbooks.

"Brother Jing, you sigh again. Sugar Candy said unhappily. She didn't like Lu Jingzhi's sigh, which meant that he had to face difficult and difficult problems again. The last time I fought against the fat knight, I didn't have to work so hard.

Lu Jingzhi snorted and said, "It's not okay to go on like this." Judging from our current income, it will take at least sixty years to reach the strength of the Duke of Windsor. ”

Tangtang didn't care, Brother Jing said that if he could reach the strength of Duke Wensha in sixty years, he must be sure, but Yinxin and Sijiu were taken aback by this sentence. They had been in the castle longer than Lu Jingzhi and Tangtang, and they knew the weight of this sentence. You must know that if an infantry wants to be promoted to a knight, it takes dozens or hundreds of years of accumulation, and if a knight wants to be promoted to a high-level knight, in addition to one or two hundred years of accumulation, he must have enough luck to evolve a smarter mind and a more powerful body. The cost of this period is by no means more than one or two villages with poor output can afford. After being shocked, Yinxin quietly lowered his head, while Sijiu looked directly at this strange young master, wondering why he could say such a big thing.

"This young master, ...... you" Sijiu asked as if he was struggling, "Why do you want to have the strength of a duke?" "It's not a good thing to be too strong, if a knight's output is too rich or his subordinates are too much, and he doesn't become a high-ranking knight, then eighty percent of the territory will be taken away, and along with his subordinates and subordinates, he may be incorporated into the barracks to be ordinary infantry or cavalry. The best way to do this is to keep moving up the ladder and equalize your wealth, strength, and class.

"Stupid. Lu Jingzhi said, "Young Master, if I don't develop, in this place where ghosts are full of ghosts, I can only have no bones left." You two follow us, and only the faster we develop, the better your environment will be. ”

Sijiu nodded thoughtfully, and said in his heart: This is our strange young master, who thinks farther than the knights.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.