5. Foothold Chapter 87 Census and Qualification Testing

A checkpoint in the north of Giant Stone City had to be cancelled under pressure from all sides after it was set up for more than ten days.

The commercial suppression has not been effective, Viscount Macbeth has a new action, and many people in the direction of Boulder City have begun to flock to Dalaran every day, nominally to do business, apprenticeship, and find work, but in fact, Macbeth is preparing for the complete subversion of Dalaran's territory.

However, these people did not do anything to endanger the territory, and Donald could not expel them, so he could only increase his patrols, and then simply spent some energy to exchange for two stone monument-like magic props and sentry runes.

Compared to a sentry guard with a time limit, a sentry rune can be created in the same place, and the sentry rune covering a radius of ten kilometers and lasting an infinite duration makes it easier for Donald to monitor the movements of those spies.

The two sentry runes, one south and one north, are placed at both ends of the territory, so that even any movement in the direction of the forest can be known at the first time, ensuring that the territory is not threatened by demonic beasts.

In addition to those foreign populations, the territory has now returned to normal development, and Donald, as a lord, has officially issued his first territorial decree, which is to conduct a territory-wide census and qualification testing.

The former was almost done when they came to the territory, and now it is only the settlement of the subjects according to different ranks, and at the same time, it is stipulated that young people under the age of 20 and children over the age of 10 must go to the special institutions of the territory to undergo qualification tests to determine their future development direction. Children who are not likely to become professionals can also be sent to other locations in the territory to learn knowledge and skills and embark on other paths according to their performance.

Donald doesn't plan to set up a school or anything else at the moment, and it's best to have talent in his own hands.

Children who have detected the talent of a warrior professional can be funded by his lord to receive basic training in the realm. However, the recipient of the grant is required to sign a contract whereby he or she must work for the territory for 10 years in return after obtaining the status of a professional in the future.

In addition, if the caster's qualifications are detected, they will be assigned to the lord's mansion as a mage apprentice, and Donald intends to teach it himself.

Ten years is not a long time, but it is enough for the next batch of qualified children to grow up, so that if the infinite good cycle continues, his Dalaran Collar will never fall into a situation where no one is available!

Such an ingenious idea can only be imagined by a person like Donald, who once lived in an era like the explosion of information in his previous life, that life in this world is limited by the gods, and thinking is relatively shackled and rigid, and even the occasional whimsy is suppressed because of the inherent form of thought.

As for those unbelievers and anti-god heretics, the spirit hún has long been nailed to the wall of the unbelievers in the underworld, and they are either devoured by the demons of the abyss, or they are tortured and die.

Such a decree can be described as the gospel of the people of Dalaran, who does not want their children to become great professionals and find a good way out?

For a time, the lord's brilliance was second only to the gods in their hearts, and even stronger than the king they had never seen before!

It's the end of summer, and the grapes planted before the end of spring are ripe, and it's time for the harvest to start winemaking.

Some of the tricks and recipes in the previous life need to be kept secret, and Donald divides the steps into several parts, which are completed by different workers, and the most critical part of them is to do it himself, so that he is not afraid of revealing the secret.

However, when it came time to make the wine, Donald had the whimsical idea to not only mix the barrels of the purchased wine with the essence of the moon, but also add a portion of the essence of the moon to each of the new wines.

I thought to myself, "If this thing can improve the quality of the water and improve the wine, then adding it to the grape juice to make it may cause other changes!Even if there are no new changes, the quality of these fine wines made with the essence of the moon will definitely be much better than those made with ordinary wines!"

After taking care of the brewing and leaving the rest to the workers, Donald went to the Lord's Mansion and found William, the political officer in charge of the qualification testing program, and asked him about the situation.

Due to the first time such a plan, the lack of experience and manpower of the warriors went quite smoothly, after all, whether it is Uther, the paladin or Clinton and other summoned warriors, it is very easy to detect the talent of the warrior, but the detection of the caster's qualifications is more troublesome.

There is only one mage in the territory, Donald, and if he wants to test those children one by one, he is not too busy? Moreover, when Donald first ascended to the bronze rank, it is when he needs to stabilize the realm, and there are other affairs in the territory that need to be dealt with, which basically takes up all his free time.

As a result, Donald had to hire three Black Iron Mages in the Mage's Guild to carry out the inspection work.

With Messer's prestige in the mage club, Donald has a good relationship with the mages, and the most important reason is that now he has been promoted to become the bronze mage that those black iron mages need to look up to, so the hiring of mages is very smooth, Donald directly found these three xìng old-fashioned, but serious mages, and promised to pay for three small purification potions, and successfully invited these three black iron mages.

After the testing manpower was available, nearly 100 school-age children and more than 200 young people in the territory were tested one by one.

However, the testing process of mage qualifications is slow, and the testing of these more than 300 candidates is about to be completed in half a month, and those who have been eliminated by the mage test have to be tested again for the warrior profession, so the overall plan is relatively slow.

William, who was dealing with this matter, heard Donald's inquiry and hurriedly replied, "Lord Lord, so far, all the mage tests have been completed, and a total of four candidates with mage apprenticeship potential have been found, three of them are children in their early tens, and one is a young man who has reached the age of eighteen. "There are four apprentices?" This result was still in Donald's expectation, there is not one in a hundred ordinary people with mage talent, and only one out of thousands of people can actually become a mage. If you have more than 300 people in your territory, you can select four mage apprentices, which is already considered a high yield.

"You go and ask the opinions of these four people's families, and if you agree to my conditions, then bring them to the lord's mansion and follow the plan below!"

"Yes, my lord.

At this time, someone came to report that the testing of the fighters had also been completed.

Donald ordered Uther, who was in charge of the test, to be called on the spot.

After Uther came in, he reported to Donald: "Master, there are a total of thirty-seven people with excellent warrior talents, of which thirty-one are suitable for the swordsman knight profession, and six are suitable for the assassin profession, and I have found that many of these young men are good at bow hunting, and they can also select a hundred people to form a bow and arrow brigade to strengthen the armed forces of the territory!" Donald said with surprise when he heard this: "Good job! The thirty-seven people will be handed over to you to be responsible, let them try to train with the garrison!"

"As for the matter of the bow brigade........."

Donald pondered for a moment and then said: "This number has exceeded the regulations of the kingdom, so it cannot be collected openly, this matter will be entrusted to you by William, let them form their own hunting teams in the name of the two villages, and usually conduct bow hunting training, and the huā fee will be paid by the territory, and I will find a way to solve their bows and arrows and equipment." ”

William and Uther immediately took the order. Donald ordered people to go to the territory warehouse to fetch a batch of high-quality timber and iron ore, and then exchange weapons and equipment for these new members of the territory's armed forces.

Warriors generally used infantry swords, and leather armor was relatively easy to make, so Donald did not exchange it in the Book of Truth, but ordered a batch from outside.

In addition to regular weapons such as elven longbows and malignets, Donald traded them for crossbows used by monsters such as werewolf shooters and centaur hunters. Because the hand crossbow is small, easy to operate, and powerful, and does not require the precision of the elven longbow, Donald plans to equip all soldiers in the territory with this crossbow in the future, which can greatly increase the lethality of the territory army.

In the next half month, it was time for Dalaran to lead the mobilization.

The commoners devoted themselves to their own work, most of the children found their way in life, forty-one of them became future warriors and mages, and one hundred were selected to form the bow hunting team, and the remaining nearly two hundred were also added to the various trades of the territory, becoming apprentices or helpers, and there was a way to support their families in the future.

This situation made the parents of all the children very satisfied, especially the four families with mage talents, who suddenly became the masters of the territory, not only were the children sent to the lord's mansion to study, but the families from two villages were also given houses to them by the lord in the town, which was simply a step to the sky.

Regarding the education of these four mage apprentices, Donald simply gathered the three black iron mages together and discussed them.

"Three mages, I think you can guess what Donald meant by calling everyone over, yes, I want to invite three of them to become the sī mages of our Merlinna family. ”

The sī mage sounds good, in fact, he is a subordinate mage of the nobles, equivalent to a subordinate knight, with a higher status than other subordinates, and is also relatively self-sufficient, but it has already belonged to the noble, and the advantage of being a self-serving mage is that he can get a certain amount of financial and power support.

Donald had consulted with his teacher in advance, and knew that these three were all stubborn and hard-tempered, otherwise he would not have stayed in the clubhouse at a young age and studied tirelessly, and would have sold himself to those aristocratic forces like most mages whose cultivation has stagnated.

Such people deserve to be recruited by Donald, because once they have made up their minds, they are more able to guarantee loyalty than ordinary people. @。