88: Conquest
Walking on the path to the center of town, the Michelo butler followed.
Aslan smiled lightly: "Grandpa Michelo, in this way, we can say that there are no other difficulties in Flying City. ”
Butler Michelo followed behind Aslan and said with a smile: "Young Master, the food problem is gone, we also have our own powerful army, and our own trade, plus those labor forces that will continue to come, our Flying Sky City may become the most prosperous city around us in the near future." ”
Butler Michelo looked at the young master's back, he himself was a little unconvinced, in just two months, their flying city seemed to have completely changed.
Aslan smiled silently, "But we still have a lot of things to do." ”
"Steward Michelo, I'm going to build a mining farm on the other side of the mountains to the west, and I've already told Cimaran that they'll make a few holes for us over there, and when the men arrive, I'm going to let them mine first. ”
"However, mining requires a lot of tools, and we have no experience in doing this before, so wouldn't it be nice to buy it from outside like we are now?" asked the Michelo butler, confused.
Aslan looked at this sky from afar, this sky that he had gradually become familiar with: "However, Grandpa Michelo, you also know that we need a lot of ores for the development of Flying Sky City now, and our weapons department also needs these things to make muskets, although the external supply can solve the urgent need for a while, but in the future, what if there is any accident, so I am ready for us to build a mine by ourselves." ”
"We can't mine, but the dwarves do, we can ask the dwarves to teach those people how to mine, and we can buy and learn what is missing. I'm sure it'll get better gradually. Aslan smiled confidently.
"Since you have already thought about it, young master, I have nothing to say about the old slave, and I will assist you well. Butler Michelo smiled and looked at the child in front of him who was slowly growing up in his eyes, he already had his own opinions, and he didn't need his own intervention, he just needed to help him well.
While the two were chatting, they came to the center of the town unconsciously, next to the barracks not far from the center of the town, a huge stable, surrounded by many sturdy and mighty horses stretching out their necks and neighing.
With his experience, it was clear at a glance that these horses were not ordinary horses, but well-trained war horses.
"This, this, this?" asked Michelo, somewhat confused.
Although he rarely came to the center of the town, he still had some knowledge of the large buildings here, and he had seen this stable, but it had always been empty, why did there suddenly have so many horses.
"This has always been the biggest secret of Flying Sky City, but I hid it better, and now that I have succeeded in raising horses, I naturally have to take it out. Aslan said with a smile, but in fact he was so depressed that he vomited blood.
The stables are different from the barracks, and when the barracks appear, they can train swordsmen and spearmen without restrictions. However, the number of stables is not good, there is a limit to the number of people, the maximum number of people in a stable is 500, and once it reaches 500, it cannot be built.
The only thing that made Aslan happy was that the speed at which the stables trained war horses was very high, and even if they did not produce cavalry, they could produce more than a dozen war horses in a month.
This is a faster, stronger, and most importantly less intimidated horse than a normal horse.
This may be an important source of economic resources for Flying City.
At this time, two fully armored cavalrymen slowly rode their war horses and ran in front of Aslan, holding a sword in their right hand and a shield in their left hand, and the shield was printed with the Flying Sword logo of Flying Sky City.
"Orlando!"
"Hilmy!"
"See Lord Castle. ”
The two knights dismounted at the same time and fell on one knee to salute Aslan.
Aslan looked at the two knights in front of him with interest, they are not bad, they are both junior knights, but their growth value is a little higher than that of the swordsman, reaching E+.
Although the two knights knelt on the ground, the other twenty light cavalry also knelt on the ground and saluted, Aslan helped the two knights up with a smile.
After encouraging them, Aslan planned to take them along with the army, preparing to wipe out the remnants of the Fan Bone Village.
It's not that Aslan wants to kill them all, but keeping the fan bone village is also a scourge, although Frey is dead, the elite of the fan bone village has been lost, but there are still more than 2,000 robbers and bandits left on the fan bone village.
If they are allowed to develop, it will not be long before they become another cancer in Andhra State.
Early the next morning, in the city lord's mansion.
A two-meter-long map was spread out on the table in the original hall.
Aslan looked directly at the bottom left corner of the map.
"This is the Fan Bone Village, located in the southwest corner of Andhra Oblast on the edge of the Wanlu Mountains. Aslan said, pointing to a city-like marker on the map.
The housekeeper of Michelo nodded: "Well, I heard about it a long time ago, at that time, the Fan Bone Village was just composed of villagers from the Great Xia Empire, and later I don't know why the entire cottage was abandoned and occupied by Frey's group of robbers. ”
Handini frowned on the side and said, "My lord, are you really going to crusade against Fangu Village?" We only have about 400 troops in Flying Sky City plus the musket team, and we ...... it."
"Let's not think about that yet, let's look at the map first. Aslan interrupted Handini's words to continue, he pointed to the river next to Feitian City and said, "This river leads to the sea on the other side of Fangu Village, and it should take less than half a day to reach it by water, and if we take the land route from Feitian City, it will take three or four days to get to Fangu Village." ”
"My lord, can you save it or not, we are just getting on the right track now!" we ......" Handini on the side couldn't help but say, the Michelo butler stopped Handini, and he motioned for Handini to be quiet.
Aslan glanced at the map from afar, and he stood there, deep in thought.
After a long while, Aslan's eyes lit up, he stared at the fan bone village on the side of the Wanlv Mountain Range, and he said, "Is the Great Xia Empire on the other side of the Wanlv Mountain Range?"
"My lord, the Wanlv Mountain Range is the dividing line between my Baiyun Empire and the Great Xia Empire, and through the Wanlv Mountain Range, it is the rich and powerful Great Xia. ”
Rich and powerful!
This is the adjective that Aslan found the most used in the Great Xia Empire when he was reading books in the past few days, and the most is mysterious.
What kind of country is this Great Xia Empire?
"That's even better, maybe we can use the Wanlu Mountains to open a mountain path to the Great Xia Empire, and the main thing is a little ......," Aslan said heavily.
"What?" asked the Michelo butler curiously.
A smile appeared on the corner of Aslan's mouth: "They have a Yanyan stone over there, which I saw when I was free before, when I read some information about the empire. ”
Handini's eyes lit up, he knew the importance of this thing, having used a musket and helped Aslan conduct experiments on gunpowder: "What do you mean ......?"
"One of the materials that we are in urgent need of in Flying Sky City right now is the Shuyan Stone, which is gradually unable to meet our needs by purchasing it alone, and we can't always rely on others to transport the Shuyan Stone from far away, so I think we can go over there to see the actual situation, maybe we can get something. Aslan's fingers kept tapping on the location of the fan bone village.
"However, our current troops are insufficient, and we need many people to maintain law and order in Flying City now. And what if the bandits are too powerful!" Handini said worriedly.