Chapter 157: Making a Fortune
The vast majority of orc clans do not have the concept of currency. Their transactions were all very primitive barter, or fist barter.
The strong dominate everything. The weak have no hair, so they can only be the younger brother of the strong, or die.
This does not mean that the orcs reject gold, some orcs will decorate themselves with gold, to have a full nouveau riche temperament, such as on the cavity hole of their buck fangs, it feels too high to put a gold tooth ornament.
Or simply use gold as their own trophy, anyway, human beings are rare in this goods, hacking human beings, and seizing human valuables, this theory is fine.
For hundreds of years, the orcs have harassed the provinces of Bakaria, Badensenli, and Ernez, winning more and losing less.
The accumulated wealth is also quite staggering.
Looking at the mountain of gold coins, which is mainly made of golden pegasus, it probably covers an area of 10,000 square meters alone, and Rao is qualified to come in is either a duke or a general, no one has a low status, and he is still speechless.
"Oh my God, how much money should there be here?" said General Fargodi, in a voice like a dream.
"Hell, Your Majesty will envy us to death. When he found out, he would definitely regret his promise to give the Golden Horse and the Golden Eagle Knights their own spoils. Trist smiled wryly.
Fortunately, this time everyone made a fortune together, otherwise no matter which duke swallowed the money himself, he would definitely feel that the money was hot.
Now everything is different.
Martin couldn't help but sigh again about this kind of medieval vassalism.
It was an era of extremely underdeveloped communications and transportation. As long as the territory is larger, it will belong to the emperor far away, and the emperor's power will radiate two hundred kilometers, and no matter how far it is, it will be useless.
Therefore, whether it is King Bakaria or Emperor Rick, there are only a few simple requirements for the dukes who are divided into their own feuds: admit that he is the boss, and must send troops according to the quality and quantity of the war, and regularly present the taxes to the king (usually very low, theoretically the eleventh tax, but in fact, whoever does not make false accounts is a fool, and the king will not send someone to investigate).
By doing these three things, this vassal is a model for a courtier.
In fact, the field dukes who were divided into different places were no different from the king in power.
Even if it is a national war ordered by the king, the right to divide the spoils of war must be given to the vassals below. What's more, this is not a national war, it is a 'regional security war' initiated by Martin Lorraine's family, but Martin spent money to invite two knights directly under the king.
No one thought that Martin would win, but the orcs were so arrogant that they couldn't do it without a blow. So when the king asked his knights to help, he made a lot of promises that the king would not take commissions.
Now, it is estimated that King Keane will regret it when he hears the news.
After seeing this golden mountain, the bigwigs finally put the most neutral dwarf in charge of guarding, and then each sent an internal affairs officer to count it. At the same time, continue to clean up the battlefield.
When the soldiers heard the next day that the loot this time was as high as more than 11 million gold Pegasus, all the military camps were boiling.
There are two kinds of soldiers in Bakaria: the peasant soldiers who come to make cameos are compulsory military service, and it is natural to fight for the lord, and at most they can share the spoils; the professional soldiers who are subordinate to the lord are all buyouts, and the original settling-in fee is the money for buying life, and the military salary is the cost of employing them in peacetime.
Either way, the rule is that the money from the other party's treasury goes to the lord. The soldiers' gains on the battlefield and after the siege were to be divided into two to the lord, three to their own officers, and the remaining half to themselves.
But to achieve such a great victory, the lord also has a default unspoken rule - to give up the commission of the fragmentary loot.
According to the agreement, Lorraine Castle will receive up to 4.5 million gold coins in the booty, which makes the Lorraine family suddenly become the first tyrant in Bakaria.
With this big fortune, Martin naturally did good, gave up the commission, and paid the capitation fee.
Of course, the most important thing for Martin to capture Gentry is the deal with the dwarves.
In fact, the dwarves of Sharp Axe Peak are not very many, and if they can pull out 8,000 troops when they are full, they are the strength of the country.
Dwarves and orcs alike have a mad fascination with the eight peaks of Kalas, but for humans, the place centered on these eight peaks is chicken.
The land is so barren that few crops can be grown.
So during Barney's secret visit to the Bloodletter's Castle, Martin made a secret agreement with Barney - after the Lorraine family captured Ggent, they would sell the former orc city to the dwarves in installments.
The Dwarves are short of troops, and Lorraine will recruit a 1,000-strong local garrison for the Axe Dwarves, responsible for the day-to-day defense of Ggent, and obliged to send no less than one main force of the Standard Knights to assist in the defense of Gynette if it is attacked.
In this case, the Axe Dwarves only need to send 1,500 elites to guard the entrance to the underground passage. Ggent was largely safe, as the mountain city was surrounded by the province of Bakaria.
The dwarves gained nominal ownership of Ggent, as well as all of their internal powers.
In return, the dwarves had to deliver no less than 5,000 swords, spears, axes, and other standard weapons to Lorraine every year for a period of twenty years.
Twenty years later, the Axe Dwarves will be able to get the human garrison to leave. In the future, Lorraine wants weapons, which can be purchased at cost.
Moreover, from the day of the capture of Ggent, Fort Lorraine and Sharp Axe Peak formally formed an alliance, and the two sides signed an offensive and defensive alliance and a free trade agreement.
In fact, that's what Martin values.
With the Axe Dwarves as his backing, the cost of building his troops was drastically reduced by at least seventy percent.
Of course, the most important thing is the prize of the system.
A lot of system prompts popped up to swipe the screen, dazzling Martin's kryptonite dog eyes:
"As a result of the Baccaria Coalition led by you to exterminate an important clan among the Orcs, you have gained the passive perk [Orc Buster]: you are the bitter master of the Orcs! You are synonymous with terror, cruelty, and nightmares among the Orcs. The Jingguan you have set up has shocked the entire orc race. Every orc on the continent of Kaos has heard your name, and terror is passed on by word of mouth. You have become the target of the orc god Guush. ”
"[Orc Buster]: Except for the heroes in the orcs, when you face any orc, you will get the [Absolute Suppression] effect. Any orc will tremble at the sight of your banner, gain various negative statuses, and greatly reduce their combat power by 30%. Units flying your banner will gain +10 base attack against orcs and +20% critical strike chance. ”