Chapter 59: Three Conditions
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"The first condition, the bandits in the Northern Wilderness are rampant, and Lone decides to suppress the bandits, and when the time comes, he will also send troops to clean up the bandits in the wilderness city, but the grain transported by Songhai City remains unchanged, and the grain and grass of the army need you to provide. Shaoyang put forward the first condition.
"For such a major event that benefits the country and the people, Weichen thanked His Highness for his great kindness on behalf of tens of thousands of people in Wilderness City. "The bandit problem has plagued almost every city lord in the entire Northern Wilderness Territory, and it is even more disgusting than orc plundering, where would the fat city lord refuse, and immediately nodded and agreed.
Isn't it just to provide grain and grass, which can cost a few dollars, the fat city lord thought that when the time comes, he will mention a few words to the big families in Wilderness City, and if everyone donates grain and grass, maybe he can earn some change, and the bandits are eliminated that is a political achievement, and if he can't do it, he can still be promoted to a certain inland city.
Shaoyang is not just as simple as wanting to suppress bandits, when the time comes, in the name of the bandits not cleared, leaving an army in Wilderness City, it will be easy for him to interfere in the affairs of Wilderness City in the future.
"On the second condition, Lone intends to recruit troops in Wilderness City and reclaim the wasteland. "Needless to say, Shaoyang once again put forward a condition.
The strategy of Tuntian is imperative, but Songhai City has already recruited five thousand soldiers, and it is not impossible to continue to recruit Tuntian soldiers, but it is definitely impossible to recruit a large number of soldiers, and the population of Wilderness City is not as good as Songhai City, but there are also sixty or seventy thousand.
According to the results drawn up by Xu Shu and others, the recruitment of 500 to 1,000 tuntian soldiers for a population of 10,000 will not affect the original agricultural system, and if 3,000 tuntian soldiers are recruited in Wilderness City, 100,000 mu of new land can be reclaimed within three years.
"Your Highness, by all means, the garrison of Wilderness City is already full of a battalion, and it can't be increased, so you can spare Weichen. The overjoyed fat city lord knelt down in fright when he heard about the conscription.
The city lord of the Northern Chu Kingdom can generally only have a garrison of three hundred people in one battalion, and the other armies belong to the major legions and have nothing to do with the city lord. First, one city can't afford to raise too many troops, and the other is to prevent the city lord from being too strong.
"Don't worry, it's a lone conscription and it's not for you to conscript, if it weren't for the limited population of Songhai City, Lone wouldn't need to come to your wilderness city to recruit soldiers. Shaoyang knew that the fat city lord might have misunderstood.
"This ......" The fat city lord still didn't dare to agree, as the lord of Shaoyang and the prince, as long as he could afford it and was not afraid of the king's blame, it was no problem to recruit more soldiers, the problem was that he ran outside the territory to recruit troops in his own city, and the fat city lord was afraid of being involved.
"When the time comes, the reclaimed wasteland will belong to the Wilderness City, and the taxes will be paid as usual, and if you are interested, Gu can sell some of it to you at a low price, and you must understand that Gu is ready to reclaim at least 100,000 acres of wasteland. Shaoyang threw out some bait when the fat city lord hesitated.
100,000 acres of wasteland, that is almost the total amount of existing land in Wilderness City, just the tax collection and deduction of the part paid, the fat city lord calculated, he can intercept 18,000 stones a year, and more importantly, Shaoyang proposed to sell at a low price.
Of course, it is impossible for him to keep the land to cultivate, but the nobles in the city must be interested, especially after the bandits were cleared by Shaoyang, he has no worries about this, the werewolf army has been repulsed, not to mention those bandits.
"Okay, it's just this conscription matter, Wilderness City will not come forward to support or stop it, whether you can recruit soldiers Weichen can't guarantee it. "The fat city lord decided that when the accident happened, he would not admit that it had anything to do with him.
Shaoyang didn't expect the fat city lord to help, as long as he didn't stop himself from recruiting troops, with a population of nearly 200,000 in the two cities, it was not difficult to recruit an army that included 5,000 regular troops and 5,000 tuntian soldiers, and with the ability to ban and the military talisman produced by the system, Shaoyang believed that even the combat power of the tuntian soldiers was stronger than the garrison army.
With such a scale of the army, when the variety of talismans is complete, it is estimated that even if the werewolf clan comes to attack, it will not be able to take advantage.
"The third condition, Lone must recruit craftsmen from Wilderness City, the more the better, and each qualified craftsman will give you a reward of one gold coin. "Shaoyang can be regarded as seeing through the fat city lord's greedy nature.
"Your Highness said with a smile, where do you need to be paid, isn't it a craftsman, Weichen will definitely do his best to collect it for you. Saying this, the fat city lord was happy in his heart, he would not really refuse the payment, a craftsman for a gold coin, how can Wilderness City find a hundred craftsmen.
Tuntian needs a lot of farm tools, and the Tuntian soldiers can't be without weapons and equipment, and they can't always go to the battlefield with a hoe, and the value of each craftsman is far more than a gold coin, in fact, Shaoyang doesn't pay the fat city lord, I'm afraid that he won't be satisfied, and when the time comes, just find a few to deal with himself or procrastinate but waste time.
"Your Highness, do you see if there are any other conditions, and they will be put forward as well. The fat city lord asked with a smile, none of the three conditions would make him suffer, but he felt that the conditions were too few.
"Not for the time being, if there is one in the future, Lone will come to you again. Shaoyang still had some ideas in his heart, but it was not suitable to propose it now, he felt that the time was about the same, so he got up and wanted to leave after giving a command:
"The matter of suppressing bandits and conscripting troops in Tuntian, I will send someone to find you after I return to Songhai City, and in the past two days, you will first collect the craftsmen, and then I will bring them back to Songhai City together. ā
"Weichen knows, Your Highness, you go slowly. The fat city lord got up to send him off, and only when he sent it to the door did he pretend to stay: "Why don't you stay and have a light meal before leaving?"
Shaoyang felt speechless about this, and didn't send it to the door if he wanted to keep the food, stopped and looked at the sky, and pretended to mutter: "Well, I didn't expect that when it was time to eat, Lone was indeed a little hungry."
"Ah~" The fat city lord didn't expect Shaoyang to be serious, and he didn't know what to do at the door.
"Forget it, Lone should go back to the inn and don't bother the city lord. Seeing the embarrassment of the fat city lord, Shaoyang smiled and left to return to the inn.
For this greedy and stingy fat man, Shaoyang doesn't like it, nor does he dislike it, it's better than Cassel and Locke's betrayal of the human race, as for his son's oppression of the people, he will take care of it when he meets Shaoyang, but he won't be too embarrassed.
The Dusk Continent is not the earth, Shaoyang will not be stupid to advocate the idea of equality for all and defeat the aristocracy, after all, he himself is the top group of nobles in the continent, and it is impossible to be stupid enough to defeat himself.
After Shaoyang left, the fat city lord sat down on the chair when he returned to the hall, the smile on his face was indeed undiminished, thinking about sending hundreds of craftsmen to Shaoyang in exchange for a few hundred gold coins, as well as the annual increase in taxes and land income after the reclamation of wasteland, how could there be a hundred gold coins a year.
"Huh" The fat city lord found that the gold coins he gave at the beginning were still on the table, but the magic crystal was taken away, and he was even more excited, holding the plate of gold coins and counting them, of course there were still a hundred gold coins that would not be more, but he felt that there were more than these, and there would be extra gold coins in the future.