Chapter 214: Distribution of the Spoils of War
When Zhu Henghong and other Boghall corpse witch soldiers finally adapted to the many things that needed to be paid attention to as deceased people, did the ideological work of the Boghall soldiers, and returned to the team, Gensokyo had just finished the huge agricultural busy period, and at the same time, it also ushered in the arrival of autumn.
Now it has entered the golden autumn October, if you are still staying in Tokushima City, this season is about to usher in not only the annual Mid-Autumn Festival in China, but also the sea crab harvest season that Tokushima City is blessed with because of the sea-October is the fat period of sea crabs and river crabs, not to mention the tender and rich meat, this period is also the birth stage of sea crabs and river crabs, so many crabs also carry yellow crab roe, steamed and lifted the lid is a fragrant fragrance, which is guaranteed to make people appetite.
Although Gensokyo is inland and there is no ocean, the Teutonic camp sits on the Lake of Mist, the largest inland lake in Gensokyo, plus several tributaries that extend from it, so Feng Longde sent people to buy some river crabs and lake crabs from the fishermen of the world. Usually, these crustaceans are frozen into ice cubes by the lich mages with water magic and stored in the warehouse in the basement of the headquarters fort, and when Feng Longde is greedy, he will take out some of them and give them to Misiqi, a night finch girl, to be responsible for cooking, which can be regarded as solving Feng Longde's longing for the food of his hometown.
In addition to the difference between food and festivals, Feng Longde found that the biggest difference between the autumn in Gensokyo and the outside world is that there are two autumn gods here, and he really saw them and chatted with them!
Autumn Shizuba and Autumn Tsuko, the two twin gods about autumn, usually live in the Yokai Mountain, and rarely come into contact with outsiders outside the Yokai Mountain. But once autumn arrives in Gensokyo, the two of them will appear and wander around Gensokyo, revealing the arrival of autumn to everyone.
The appearance of these two autumn gods is not much different, they both have golden eyes and short golden hair, after all, they are sisters. However, her sister Qiu Jingye wears a maple leaf-shaped headdress on her head and wears a red dress similar to the color of maple leaves. The hem of the skirt is maple leaf-shaped flowers, and the two hands usually hold the corners of the skirt, and her younger sister Qiu Suizi wears a red hat with a bunch of grapes as decoration, and wears a dress with a pale yellow top and a black skirt, and a pale red loincloth.
Not only that, but the two god sisters have subtle differences in their abilities from each other: the elder sister Aki Shizuba's unique ability is to manipulate Momiji. And the sister Qiu Suizi's unique ability is to master the harvest of crops, so naturally, the residents of the world are more welcome and longing for the latter, after all, the people take food as the sky, especially in Gensokyo, a place where farming mainly depends on the face of the sky, and the importance of having Qiu Suizi, a veritable god of harvest, is self-evident.
Feng Longde met the two of them on the days when the human world was busy with farming and preparing to start holding the harvest festival in the village and town, and the human villagers would invite Qiu Suizi as their most important guest and give gratitude during the harvest festival, and Qiu Jingye would also go with Qiu Suizi as Qiu Suizi's sister. As a result, this year, they saw a large settlement near the eastern shore of the Lake of Mist, which was once empty and wild, and out of curiosity, they came to the Teutonic camp to see what was going on.
Facing the visit of two autumn gods. Feng Longde naturally called his old sister Caroline to receive Qiu Jingye and Qiu Suizi with her, and took them to visit the entire Teutonic camp. From the small talk with them, Feng Longde was surprised to learn that although these two were noble gods, their overall strength was a little embarrassing - even if their respective abilities were counted, even if the two sisters were tied together, Feng Longde was 100% sure that the two of them would be scattered and run away!
This aspect made Feng Longde a little puzzling. It stands to reason that since they are the gods in charge of autumn, they can't be weaker than they are with a stable source of faith, right? But when Feng Longde figured out the situation, he couldn't help laughing, because they themselves were gods born from fictitious images and beliefs about harvest and autumn, and their own abilities were determined by the prayer tendencies of believers. What is obtained is only some individual faith yuan, far less than the stable group of collective believers like Shouya Shrine, Shinsei Temple, and Meiren Temple, and it is understandable that the natural strength is so weak.
And the personalities of these two autumn gods also determine their situation, Qiu Jingye is usually silent and sad, and Qiu Suizi is usually simple and cheerful - to put it bluntly, they are far from being conscious and majestic as gods, plus they also have the trouble-fearing nature that Gensokyo residents generally have, so they bother to find a way to increase the faith power they have?
Through the experience of the Qiu sisters, Feng Longde also understood some of the characteristics of the gods, that is, the gods born from fictional images are too dependent on the belief in the Yuan Force, but the existence of the original specific characters Even if there is no faith in the Yuan Force, their own strength is the best insurance- In the case of his own identity, the soul connection of the immortal king is the prototype of the belief network of the gods, but even if the immortal king himself does not have his own people, his strength cannot be underestimated, but what if the gods, especially those born from fictional images and concepts, lose the source of faith? Needless to say, the consequences will either disappear completely or be beaten back to their original form.
Feng Longde doesn't have much of a source of faith power of his own now, and the stable sources of faith come from his own Teutonic people, namely Caroline, Guard Knights, Lich Mages, Necro Technicians, and the large number of skeleton corpses. Oh, now we have to add Zhu Henghong and the other seventeen Boghall corpse witch soldiers, and the deep soul connection determines that they and Feng Longde are destined to live and die together, as well as contribute their weak soul energy to their majesty the king all the time.
In response to this situation, Feng Longde and Caroline's countermeasure is to follow the rules, Teutonic faith needs to be spread after they have a large number of their own people, and at this stage, all kinds of infrastructure in the camp are not complete, and they still want to spread religious beliefs?
After sending the Autumn sisters to the world to participate in the harvest festival. Feng Longde still has a lot of things to do: it is almost mid-October, and in a few days, the outside world will be the time for the midterm exams, and he and Caroline still need to go back to the exams to buy some modern products, so that they can have enough supplies and enough materials and equipment to tinker with Caroline while she is resting in Gensokyo.
While there are still a few days left. Feng Longde hurriedly began to deal with many matters that needed to be solved as soon as possible, saving himself from waiting for a trip back to the outside world and coming back tired and tired and still having a lot of things to do, it was better to arrange them in advance and let the relevant personnel be in charge.
The first thing is naturally the distribution of the spoils: some time ago, the total annihilation of more than 10,000 Aztec warriors harvested not only a large number of human corpses and soul energy, but also a large number of various small objects made of gold, silver, gems and jade, as well as various animal skins and bird feathers. As for those weapons, only obsidian is somewhat useful - Feng Longde sent some samples to Caroline for analysis, and was surprised to find that this mineral crystal, which is close to crystal and belongs to volcanic glass, actually has the property of absorbing soul energy and dark elements, and has the function of removing unpleasant musty odors, which Feng Longde did not expect.
Feng Longde didn't know much about obsidian, so he directly asked Zhu Henghong, who knew more about Aztec culture, about the characteristics of obsidian, and found that the function of removing unpleasant musty odors, which is similar to mothball, is really not to mention. Moreover, the biggest characteristic of obsidian is to absorb the so-called negative energy and prevent the interference of supernatural things, which is the so-called evil protection and turn evil into good fortune!
In fact, to put it bluntly, obsidian can absorb the soul energy and dark elements around itself, that is, it can eliminate the so-called negative energy, sickness, turbidity or something around the wearer, after all, for the life race, it is not a good thing for the soul energy and dark elements to gather too much around them, so the effect of obsidian that sounds like a god and a god can't be said to be wrong, but it is not as effective as everyone says.
It has the property of absorbing the surrounding soul energy and dark elements, and can be emptied by special methods. Obsidian is completely a magical material, so Feng Longde directly sent someone to collect and transport all the obsidian on the weapons of the captured Aztec warriors to the material warehouse in the basement of the headquarters fort for preservation: this is Caroline's advice to Feng Longde. You must know that Gensokyo is not without volcanoes, and Yokai Mountain is a dormant volcano, but the source of obsidian here is not stable, so it can only be recycled from the weapons of Aztec warriors.
All obsidian was confiscated and returned to the public, but valuables such as gold, silver, gemstones, and jade and all kinds of animal skins and bird feathers could not be disposed of in the same way. Feng Longde knew very well that the Boghall soldiers didn't say anything these days. But he could sense from their eyes and souls that after such a high-intensity battle some time ago, it was time to be rewarded.
Therefore, after discussing with Caroline, Von Longde made the following arrangement: the various seized precious metal items were divided into three equal parts, and one was taken over to the Teutonic camp. The other two were awarded to the knights of the Guards such as Yarman and the soldiers of Boghall, respectively, as a reward for all those who participated in the bloody battle.
As for the miscellaneous things such as animal skins and feathers, Feng Longde's arrangement was to let the knights of the guard pick two pieces each, and then divide the rest into two parts again, and still receive one in the Teutonic camp and one in the Boghall soldiers. While these skins and feathers from the Mesoamerican rainforests are also valuable, they are just the icing on the cake compared to the real money prizes that have been awarded before.
Von Ronde's generous reward made the knights of the Guards and the soldiers of Boghall more loyal to him, especially the latter: after all, they could not say that their lives were bad before they were drafted into the soldiers of the Teutonic camp, but they could only mix food and clothing, and now they could get such a rich distribution of spoils after a battle in the Teutonic camp? As a result of this privileged treatment, it can be said that the sense of belonging and identification of all Boghall soldiers to the Teutonic camp was greatly deepened, and in time the first Germanic people who voluntarily tied their interests to the Teutonic camp could be foreseen.
For the reward, the knights of the Guards just felt that Feng Longde, the immortal king, was indeed deeply rooted in his heart - during the Teutonic Empire, whether it was the Teutonic Knights or the Teutonic Empire Legion, or the reserve militia, the emphasis was on cultivating absolutely professional soldiers with high salaries: stable and timely daily military salaries, allowances and pensions under various circumstances, and generous rewards after winning battles, these three most basic aspects made the soldiers of the Teutonic Empire not have any worries, they only needed to fight hard.
Whether it is the situation that Caroline told herself, or the knowledge she learned from historical materials, Feng Longde knows very well that an army cannot guarantee lasting and stable combat effectiveness with the so-called spiritual thoughts: no matter how strong the will is, it cannot defeat steel, only by fully ensuring the dual supply of material and spiritual, and giving the soldiers a safe way to deal with various possible situations in advance, and then cooperating with high discipline, High order and high training and many other matters, Feng Longde can have the confidence to build a strong army with military soul and strength.
The reward is said to be non-discriminatory, but there are exceptions: for example, the seventeen Boghall corpse witch soldiers led by Zhu Henghong got a full double the spoils of war as the other Boghall soldiers!
But no one had any objections or opinions - the Boghall soldiers who had already learned about their situation through His Majesty the King knew very well what kind of price Zhu Henghong and the others had paid in the previous battle, so the Boghall soldiers did not have the slightest complaint about the fact that they had received twice as much loot as themselves, but were moved by Feng Longde's move to resurrect the soldiers who died for themselves into the deceased who were not too different from the living.
Although there is a lot of separation between humans and non-humans, those who have spent time in the Teutonic camps know that the Teutons such as Von Rond treat all people equally, regardless of race or race, and if anything, the Teutons are more considerate of the people they identify with. (To be continued.) )