At the thought of the imminent establishment of the Storm Legion, Duke couldn't help but get up excitedly, and when the time came, he would punch the Valley of the Monsters and kick the Holy See Legion!

While waiting for Abner's return, Duke began to write out the detailed steps of military reform in his study. In fact, there is not much to prepare, because Duke himself has no military talent.

What Duke is doing now is to copy the queue training and housekeeping regulations of later generations, after all, he is a person who has experienced military training, and Duke is deeply impressed by these.

Simple queues, positive steps and other things are not complicated, and in this era when there has not yet been a platoon of guns, there is almost no such training mode in the army. However, Duke knows that these simple things have a qualitative improvement in the discipline and execution of the army, and can make the army quickly become a whole.

And internal affairs, in fact, are to strengthen the discipline of soldiers, generate their sense of obedience, and even make them form an instinctive reaction to life, and eventually become a war machine. History has proven that this is the most effective way to train.

With Duke's meager military knowledge, that's all he can do, and as for other military skills and martial arts, he can only rely on Cassel and Allen to teach. However, in addition to the two of them, Duke also had another group of people in mind, and these people were the Royal Knights stationed in Storm Castle!

As a professional soldier in this world, the level of the Royal Knights' battle formation is almost a street behind the Border Knights, which can be seen from the protection of Jina on the ice demon's attack on the city wall. The royal knights cooperated tacitly, and the battle formation was extremely stable, even the powerful ice demons did not disrupt their formation.

If you want to mobilize the royal knights, Duke doesn't have this permission, especially the knight chief Adams, who always can't be dragged in front of Duke, the two of them don't like each other, and it's a fantasy to want him to help, it seems that this has to be decided by Princess Jena.

Just as Duke was thinking about how to calculate Jena, the maid Sophia walked in.

"My lord, Abner has come to the door and wants to see you. ”

"Hurry up and call him in!"

Duke hurriedly replied, now Abner is the God of Wealth, and Duke's great development plan depends on him.

Abner walked slowly into the study with his head down, but Duke quickly noticed the abnormality on his face.

"Abner, what's wrong with your face?"

As soon as Duke asked this question, he saw Abner directly "poof" and fell to his knees crying: "My lord, I messed up the matter. ”

When he heard this, Duke also stood up nervously, now that all the development funds of Storm Castle are pinned on porcelain, it is difficult not to pay attention to it.

"What the hell is going on, tell me in detail!"

In response to Duke's questioning, Abner repeated what had happened that day. After listening to Abner's story, Duke immediately slapped the table and said in an extremely angry tone: "It's all twenty gold coins of conscience, that guy named Ott is still so dark, this kind of heart-wrenching behavior is unbearable!"

Duke's slap startled Abner and Sophia in the study, and the lord didn't seem to be so angry since he took office.

"Abner, how many people are there in Alpine City, and they dare to hack my Du someone's money!"

Abner was a little frightened by Duke, and hurriedly replied: "Alpine City has 10,000 people from the Third Legion of the Empire, 2,000 people from the Knights of the Rock, and about 1,500 people from the City Lord's Guard. ”

"Holy, so many people?"

Duke subconsciously exclaimed, no wonder the other party was so arrogant, it turned out that he was a strong soldier.

Not long enough, Duke noticed his surprised tone, there was a loss of lord's momentum, after all, a loser does not lose the battle, and the momentum cannot be weaker!

So Duke immediately replied in a flat tone: "I know about this matter, Abner, you go back and rest first, I don't blame you for this matter." ”

"Thank you, Lord for your forgiveness, what will happen to the sale of porcelain in the future?"

This Abner is really ignorant, which pot is not opened, of course, he chooses to forgive him, and then continue to sell! But it is still a little embarrassing for Duke to say it himself at this moment!

After all, Alpine City is the only place where you can get money quickly, and Duke has no choice, if it is transported further to the royal capital of Andorra, it will take about ten days to go back and forth. What's more, the cost of porcelain is really low and terrifying, even ten gold coins are huge profits.

Duke is most lacking in time now, although the ice demon has been defeated, but the supplies in Storm Castle are still in short supply, and prices are still rising, Duke needs to use this money to exchange materials in Alpine City to curb prices. At the same time, the bereavement of the wounded and disabled soldiers must also be paid, and the war mobilization period does not dare to default on wages, and Storm Castle is currently a poor egg.

In addition, even if the Ice Demon was defeated, but this time the Ice Demon suffered such heavy losses, and there was also the appearance of the necromancer, no one knows if there is any hidden crisis behind this, and military reform is urgent.

"It's still sold to Takayama City, but I'll keep this account in mind first, and when the time comes, they will spit out everything they eat, and they will vomit twice!"

"Understood, my lord. Abner nodded, and then prepared to retreat.

"By the way, you will still be rewarded with one-tenth of the gold you get, and the rest will be given to the town hall. Next time you come back from a trip to Takayama Castle, remember to buy more daily necessities. ”

"No, I can't ask for this money, my lord. Abner wanted to decline the offer, as he felt he had caused a loss in porcelain sales.

"This is the promise you made before, and you deserve it, don't prevaricate anymore, go down. ”

Seeing Duke's insistence, Abner didn't dare to shirk too much, so he could only silently withdraw from the study.

Watching Abner walk out, he was very unhappy to think that half of the gold coins had been hacked by Duke, but now that the situation is stronger than people, it is useless to be angry.

Seeing Duke like this, the maid Sophia hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to walk to Duke's side and comforted, "Lord Lord, in fact, you have done a good job. ”

Suddenly hearing Sophia say this, Duke was a little surprised, this little girl used to be like a mouse seeing a cat, and she couldn't wait to hide away, how can she be the same as changing sex recently.

"Why do you say that all of a sudden?" Duke asked curiously.

Sophia's eyes widened, and she looked at Duke and replied with great seriousness, "Because you are the best lord I have ever seen in Stormcastle!"