Hathaway's first impression of Dodan was that it was a very humble border town.

And there is nothing, no noisy opera houses, no large auction houses, no bustling shopping streets, not even a decent restaurant.

Standing at the westernmost end of the street and looking east, you can easily cross the long street and see the tattered plaque of the easternmost storefront.

She was willing to come here purely to meet her fiancé Surdak, to know the real situation of his life here and to have a trace of worry in her heart.

In fact, Surdak led a battalion of miscellaneous cavalry into the White Forest Plane, and Marquis Luthor was also a little worried.

At his suggestion that Surdak join the Luther Legion, a cavalry team had been prepared, with weapons and horses as standard heavy cavalry, and five hundred knights.

That's right, knights who have received formal training at a knight's academy and all have official knighthood.

It's not those civilians, cavalrymen who can only fight on horseback.

Marquis Luthor felt that if he sent it out himself, Surdak might not be too rare, and he hoped that Surdak would personally propose it, even if it was a little bit of a mouthful, and he would hand over the prepared knights along the way.

Unexpectedly, Surdak actually relied on his own ability to prepare a cavalry battalion that was almost a miscellaneous army, and entered the Bailin plane so happily, and put on a fearless appearance.

Later, Marquis Luthor led the Constructed Knights to the Tarapakant region, and although he did not have time to deal with the matter, he sent his most trusted follower, the Chester Archswordsman, to the White Forest Plane to preside over the situation and ensure that Surdak had enough strength to face the beast tide.

When Hathaway heard that there was going to be a beast tide here, she was very worried.

However, after receiving a series of gifts, Surdak told some interesting facts about the town of Dodan and some local products from the White Forest Plane, and Hathaway relaxed a little.

What shocked Hathaway and Beatrice the most was the large amount of hard armor that Surdak brought back from the White Forest Plane, which completely changed Count Gopherro's attitude towards Beatrice and Surdak.

The number of these hard armor skins is so large that people can't help but wonder wildly, what kind of cruel war will harvest so many hard armor skins?

That's why Hathaway and Beatrice took a long leave of absence from the Foreign Affairs Bureau to visit Surdak.

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Hathaway and Beatrice live in the town, and on the third day, as Surdak said, they begin to establish a complete tax system for the town.

At the entrance of the town hall in the town of Dodan, Hathaway. Luthor and Beatrice. The two young ladies Gophilo walked to the gate, and the acting mayor, Lady Luna, and the tax collector Batra immediately greeted them.

When they saw Miss Hathaway, who was wearing a delicate dress and showing off her collarbones, they warmly invited her to the town hall.

The tax collector of Batra even contributed a private room owned by the tax collector to serve as a temporary office for Hathaway and Beatrice.

"Miss Hathaway, Miss Beatrice, welcome both to Dodan Town." Mrs. Luna greeted the two daughters warmly.

She has followed Mayor Marco for so many years, and although she has no ability, she is very eye-catching.

"Commander Surdak has informed us, hoping that we can cooperate with the two young ladies to establish a financial system in Dodan Town, if there is anything we need to do, just give us orders!" The tax collector of Batra stammered a little as he spoke at the sight of Hathaway's magnificent emerald eyes.

Lady Luna glanced at the tax collector Batra speechlessly, and continued, "This is our tax collector Batra from Dodan Town, and he will fully cooperate with the two of you in the coming days. ”

Hathaway walked into the town hall and asked the tax officer Batra very politely, "Tax officer Batra, how many tax clerks do you have?" ”

The receptionist at the front desk of the town hall hurriedly stood up and curtsied.

The tax collector of Batra followed behind Hathaway and stammered, "Only...... I'm the only one. ”

Hathaway stopped and asked in the hallway with a surprised expression, "Is there only one tax collector in Dodan all along?" ”

The tax collector of Batra was busy wiping the oil and sweat from his face with a handkerchief, and his lips trembled a little. Luthor was the most noble man he had ever seen in his life, and he wanted to show it as hard as he could. Miss Luther later found herself in a double . The legs are shaking.

He tried to calm himself down, but found it seem difficult to do.

I could only continue to stammer: "In fact, officially, our taxes were very small in the past, and many nobles did not need to pay taxes when they did trade, and at the same time, those commoners could not afford to pay taxes, so it was enough for me alone." ”

He said truthfully, "Now that Commander Surdak has demanded that all the merchants in Dodan Town pay taxes, I have only recently become very busy. ”

"In that case, the town will have to recruit some tax clerks...... Hathaway said very succinctly.

The tax officer of Batra hurriedly agreed.

It's just that the town is recruiting tax clerks, which can't be done by the tax collector of Batra alone.

In addition, to establish a sound tax system, there must be corresponding regulatory departments, and someone must keep an eye on these tax officials, otherwise if they act recklessly like wild horses and fill their pockets with some taxes, they will definitely become the biggest moth in Duodan Town.

Surdak hopes that the town of Dodan will be able to take advantage of this beast tide to become prosperous.

If a town wants to grow, it must have money.

After all, whether it is the cost of infrastructure, or the cost of maintenance, or the salary of officials in the town hall, I am afraid that these will depend on tax revenue.

Only when the town of Dodan grows and grows can it gather more inhabitants so that he can have enough people to develop the Invercargill Forest.

Hathaway walked into the office that the tax collector had moved out, sat down in a chair, and looked up just in time to see the towering Thorny Mountains outside the window, the peaks covered with snow and clouds, and countless thorny stone pillars growing from the mountainside, which looked like a thick patch of dead grass from a distance.

Beatrice pulled out the tax statements from the reference room, and the two young aristocratic ladies began to get busy.

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During this time, Hathaway and Beatrice only occasionally came to the barracks, and they usually only sat in the small building for a while, had lunch with Surdak, and then left in the car.

Surdak will also go out of the city with the cavalry battalion to hunt ghost red ants these days, this beast tide is like a development opportunity for Dodan Town, and it is also an opportunity for the development and growth of the cavalry battalion, after all, when everyone resists the impact of the ant tide, you can wait for the opportunity to harvest some monster materials.

Even if the amount of Warcraft materials is huge, causing the value of hard armor in Wilkes City's magic market to continue to depreciate, the enthusiasm for hunting ghost-patterned red ants here continues to rise.

Ten years ago, the Legion of Bednar was in charge of guarding the area of the Thorn Mountains, and almost all of the wealth was divided between the Legion of Bednar and the merchants.

They didn't think about building this border town, and they didn't even think about how long they could stay here, they just felt that they would be able to block the beast tide and make a wave, and the next development of the plane region would require local noble lords to do these things.

Surdak wanted to build the town of Dodan mainly because he wanted to add a large area of Invercargill Forest to the territory of the Grimm Empire, and his original purpose was only to occupy the two veins and become a mine owner.

For two weeks in a row, the cavalry battalion has been clearing the hills and mountains of ghost-striped red ants.

The ant colonies in the hills and mountains around the northern exit of the Dodan Gorge are about to be cleared, and many of them are migrating to the east and west, and the cavalry battalion wants to hunt a large group, and they need to walk east along the Thorny Mountains all day to enter the northern area of the mountain road in the town of Plantos.

The mountain road was crowded with a colony of ghost-striped red ants, and Surdak's cavalry battalion occupied the entrance to the northern end of the mountain road and completely blocked the colony of ghost-striped red ants in the mountain road.

After so many battles, Lance finally figured out how unrealistic it was to hunt the Ghost Empress, with a team of mercenaries alone.

The queen is always hiding in the deepest part of the colony, guarded by dozens of males larger than a magic caravan, and surrounded by tens of thousands of soldier and worker ants.

These colonies can only be digested by the cavalry battalion's cavalry battalion charging non-stop on the periphery and eating away at the red ants on the edge of the colony.

Of course, if you can master the large-scale attack magic such as meteor fire shower, lightning waterfall, and skyfall meteorite, you may be able to destroy these ghost-patterned red ants in an instant.

These cavalry are like a group of never-tiring war machines in the hills and mountains, always running alternate charges.

Both the cavalry, as well as the horses with hard armor, fought like this, and the merits of the cavalry were calculated according to the number of red ants hunted.

Lance has seen the Grimm Empire's Constructed Knights, as well as the Heavy Cavalry of other legions.

Compared to the Constructed Knights in the Constructed Knights, the cavalry in the cavalry battalion still lacks some explosive power and lethality, and the Constructed Knights don't need this kind of cannibalization tactic, they can directly carry out a few rounds of charges, and they may be able to break up these ant colonies.

Compared to other heavy cavalry regiments, the cavalry in the Surdak cavalry battalion behaved ...... Resilient.

Whether it is a cavalry or a war horse, they all have extremely abundant physical strength.

In addition to the fact that the cavalry battalion has three second-turn powerhouses, this may be the biggest advantage of the cavalry battalion.

Lance discovers that Surdak always holds a blessing ceremony before setting out on battle, and all cavalry and horses are baptized by the light before going into battle.

And this baptism of light usually lasts for three days, under the baptism of light, both strength and physical strength will be greatly improved, and the cavalry can fight tirelessly.

In fact, such a battle is also a kind of physical extreme exercise for the cavalry.

Fighting more than the limits of physical fitness, and having extremely good resilience, can continue to enhance physical fitness, and this is how many veterans have the opportunity to be promoted.

Several magicians have already made up a small half of their merits, in fact, there are more than a dozen ghost pattern ants hunted these days, and even high-grade magic crystals have harvested more than ten.

The cavalry battalion can be described as a fruitful battle.

Of course, these magicians are not idle, and they also provide many magic scrolls for the cavalry battalion, among which Gorena, who is a water magician, will lock herself in a wooden house almost all day and draw the 'hydrotherapy' magic scroll, which is the most practical on the battlefield.

In addition, since Surdak contacted the indigenous tribe, he has successively hired more than 100 young indigenous warriors from that indigenous tribe.

Surdak also exchanged some standard weapons for some low-level magic herbs from the indigenous tribes, some of which were silver leaf grass and kudzu, which could be equipped with secondary life potions.

This is also the real purpose of the glasses magician who came to the Bailin plane, and now as a magic potion master without the support of noble lords and merchants, he wants to go down the road of magic potion refining, I don't know how difficult it is.

Magic herbs are almost in the hands of the great noble lords, and these things have rarely flowed out.

Therefore, if other magic apothecaries want to refine magic potions, the most difficult thing is to get the herbs, and now the glasses magician has made a secondary life potion as he wished, and selected some swift grass from some herbs to make a bottle of antidote.

This potion is simply too practical.

The cavalry fought against the ghostly red ants, and the most difficult thing to defend against was that the red ants spit acid putrid liquid, which now has an antidote that happens to be effective against this acid putrid liquid.

In the beginning, the cavalry were very dissatisfied with the magician throwing fireballs at will during the battle, because there were always some accidents when the fireballs splashed out of the sparks.

Therefore, the cavalry had a lot of opinions about these magicians, but they were friends with the commander and high-ranking magicians.

At most, the cavalry did not communicate and avoided ...... silently

But after Gorena's 'hydrotherapy' magic scroll successfully healed the wounded cavalry, everyone became enthusiastic about the good-looking sorceress.

What made the magician turn around was precisely these secondary healing potions and antidote potions in the hands of the glasses magician.

The mages often act alongside the archers, but the mages are much more effective than the archers, providing 'shimmering illumination' in night battles and pointing the way in battle......

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As Surdak's cavalry battalion opened up the situation in the hilly and mountainous terrain, the mercenary regiments of Dodan Town would often organize some raids against red ants.

The mercenary group in the town harvested the Warcraft materials, so more caravans and adventure groups gathered towards Dodan Town.

In just half a month, the hotels in the town were full of outsiders.

Many adventuring parties choose to rent a house in the town, and the size of Dodan Town is not large, and so many outsiders pour in, and the town is crowded in an instant.

Even this did not stop the enthusiasm of the outsiders, and some caravans and adventure groups still entered the town of Dodan in horse-drawn carriages.

At the entrance to the south side of the town, there are now six hard carapace ants with ghost stripes side by side, which makes newcomers look sideways......