Chapter 318: Faith (II)

Saleen and Ani revealed a little about the teacher. Even so, Aini was blown away by the background that Saleen had. He couldn't help but admire his parents' long-term vision, knowing that the Ferrets really had everything on Saleen.

The happiest are of course Gu Ya and the others, the three of them are women, although their status in Qin Yin is higher than that of other empires, but their future fate is only to obtain a more reasonable status in the family, and it is difficult to become the patriarch, let alone obtain the qualification to inherit the title of earl.

Assisting Salin, originally they looked at commercial interests, but now it seems that not only can they make money, but they also have a real chance to obtain the title of inheritance.

Salin groaned for a moment, the construction of Castlevania is almost halfway through, and in half a year at most, Castlevania can be completely established, and in another year, the number of demons can be summoned around 10,000. In other words, by the time the mages of Shreig Island arrived, they could already assemble a demon army that was beginning to take shape.

With these demon armies, you don't have to have so many mages in your own army. It allows more mages to stay in Metatrin City and build. In other words, after surviving this year and a half, basically, you don't have to think too much about the defense of Metatrin City.

The teacher will bring a lot of warships, sailors, and swordsmen when he comes over this time. Whether on land or at sea, the winged skeleton plus the Three Kings can fill all the loopholes.

These nobles don't need to keep too many private soldiers in Metatrin City.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Kingdom of Metatrin needs to expand its land, but we are allies with the Bitterwater Counties, and it is not appropriate to attack Phoenix for the time being, so I will target the Duchy of the Rhine. ”

"The four dukes can have 1,000 private soldiers and 30,000 soldiers. The twelve counts can have 600 private soldiers and 10,000 leading soldiers. Each private soldier can be equipped with three auxiliaries. The regular army you lead, I can provide equipment at cost price. I'm going to set up a joint bank with the King of Rexshire, and you all have the right to a first-class loan. ”

Saleen spoke of the army, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, in general, at the beginning of the statehood. It is difficult for the lower nobles to have the right to carry private soldiers or large armies. Saleen apparently did not have control over these men. Although the number of private soldiers has been reduced, the authority to lead soldiers has been increased.

Moreover, Salin gave preferential treatment for the purchase of equipment and was able to take out loans. This is equivalent to saying that Salin is using practical actions to support the expansion of power of these nobles.

With loans, you can hire more soldiers, and the better part of the land you have laid down may be rewarded to you.

"The King of Rexshire has returned home, and the defense of West Town has only more than 10,000 soldiers. The number is sufficient, but the Holy See's army is estimated to reach the west of Metatrin in two months at most. I have already sent troops to intercept the attack, and at most inflict some casualties on the Holy See Expeditionary Force, and I estimate that there will still be about 100,000 of the incoming expeditionary force. In two months' time, you can recruit troops to stop the Holy See's army in Xizhen. ”

"Your Excellency. We don't have enough money in our hands!" said the first earl on the right.

"After 10,000 people are stationed in Xizhen, it can accommodate an army of up to 40,000 people. Each of you, just organize an army of 3,000 men. There are ten floors of magic towers, and there is not much pressure on defense. Unless the Holy See's army divides up, you can hold on to the West Town without having to go out of the city to meet the battle. ”

When you think about it, it turns out that this is the case. The size of Xizhen is not large, it can garrison 50,000 troops, plus 20,000 logistics troops, and there are no residents at all. It's much easier to defend, so you don't have to worry about the safety of the residents. Coupled with the magic tower that Salin was going to build, there were two ninth-level mages sitting in the town, and the enemy could only attack in one direction to the west. It was too easy for 50,000 men to defend a wall that was only one mile wide.

As long as the enemy doesn't have the giant equipment like a war puppet, there won't even be too many casualties if they hold West Town.

Although it costs his own money to defend Xizhen for Salin, this is the first battle feat at the beginning of the founding of the country, and it depends on this performance if he can become a higher nobleman in the future.

When these nobles came to the city of Metatrine, they were accompanied by a varying number of private soldiers, each of whom had at least three or five hundred men. It's not hard to expand. After this battle, almost everyone was able to select good talents in the army and become their own private soldiers.

In fact, this time Salin let them participate in the battle, and it also allowed these nobles to start to expand their power. It was impossible for Saleen to spend his own money to expand their army.

Elaborating on the current loan requirements, Saleen easily stabilized the nobles. The twelve counts went separately to prepare for the conscription, and the four dukes stayed.

Gu Ya and the others were different from these counts, their family did not encounter any trouble, these young people were just dissatisfied with the rigid rules of the old family and wanted to stand on their own. These young men had far more wealth than the twelve counts, and the men and goods they brought with them were also enormous.

There are even great magicians around Gu Ya and the others. Quasi-Juggernaut such a power. Now that they have been ordained and received a new family crest, they are equivalent to becoming independent from the family. The title that Salin had prepared for them was a third-class duke, which was already more than the title of the most powerful person in their original family.

This makes it impossible for their original family to reabsorb them, they are already dukes, after they go back, will they be the patriarch? If there is this possibility, Gu Ya and the others will not want to leave the family.

Of course, the price of separating from the family is not small, but with a place like Metatrin City for them to develop, those losses are nothing, and the four major families cannot solve this problem by violence.

Salin is not afraid of offending the four major families now, because Metatrin's magic core resources and metal resources are enough for him to trade with any place on the continent, and he doesn't have to think about the faces of these four families.

Salin also knew that the twelve earls were short of money, but they were very rich. After a complete break with the family, including Aini, all the funds available to him were transferred to Metatrin City. Saleen left them to talk about the investment in the arena.

Don't look at Gu Ya and the others are all women, including Elaine, they all expressed a strong interest in the affairs of this arena.

Saleen has already built the infrastructure. The largest part of the rest of the investment is about setting up a gambling game. Qin Yin's attitude towards gambling was very strict, and this kind of open gambling organized by the nobility only existed in the Fourth Dynasty. But that was also the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty.

As a result, this question, which Salin thought was very simple, went on and on the evening, and nothing came of it. It's not that Salin doesn't want to be alone, but he must be supported for such an approach, which is seriously out of touch with Qin Yinren's concept. Fortunately, the matter in the arena was settled after an afternoon, and the rest was only about the gambling game.

Unexpectedly, at dinner, Eileno, who had been practicing behind closed doors, gave Salin a solution.

What Saleen wants. It's about getting more money by playing in the arena, not losing money to do it. Elenore said bluntly: "You can sell tickets, just like the theater of the Cloud Empire. For a few silver coins, you can enjoy a competitive game. ”

The largest arena has tens of thousands of seats, and if each seat sells for two silver coins, and if all of them are sold for a game, it will be close to 100,000 silver coins, which is also thousands of gold coins.

It doesn't seem to be as profitable as hunting demonic beasts in the sea, but the sale of demonic cores, where the market size is limited, the more you sell, the price will drop.

But would the people of Metatrin accept the price of two silver coins? This is too high! People here work hard, and it is possible to earn a dozen gold coins a year, but it is only one gold coin a month. Spending one-fifth of your monthly fortune on tickets is a bit of a luxury.

Eleno said: "The largest arena has a total of 50,000 seats, and each seat sells for two silver coins, which is 100,000 silver coins, which is equivalent to 10,000 gold coins. Of course, this is too expensive. However, everyone's tickets can be used as betting chips, and when you buy them, you can make competitive predictions, and if all the predictions are accurate, you can get a reward of gold coins or even more gold coins. ”

"That's not going to be paid!" "Xika couldn't calculate the cattiness here, and immediately objected.

"How is that possible?" Salin smiled, and he immediately understood the key here. This is also a standard question in the Figaro Magic Formula. When there are two possibilities for a magic sequence, either result is 50% accurate. This is the most difficult part of Figaro's magic formula to judge, known as indeterminate magic.

It seems that the first choice is 50% correct and the second choice is still 50%. In fact, the chances of choosing the right second time are less than 25 percent. The more you guess, the more frightening the chance decreases.

Even if Saleen doesn't control the outcome of the match, it will be quite difficult to predict all the matches accurately. It is a miracle that there are a few hundred lucky people out of 50,000 people.

Ordinary people will not understand this truth, only magicians who have strictly studied the calculation formula can see the doorway at once.

"Two silver coins can also contain a meal, tea, and so on. Most people see the prize money, not the price of the ticket. Nania said.

"No, I only sell one silver coin...... No, fifty copper coins!" Salin quickly analyzed the profits. According to the original plan, he only arranged one competitive tournament a week, so as not to overspend the city people. However, with only fifty copper coins in the ticket, he can arrange matches every day, and every game will be full.

Fifty copper coins per seat is a ticket of 2.5 million copper coins. Converted into gold coins, divided by one thousand, there is also an income of more than two thousand gold coins. Half of it is used as a bonus, and the temptation for the audience is incomparably great.

In this way, I will also have an income of 1,000 gold coins a day, and in a year, it will only be a big arena, and I will get hundreds of thousands of gold coins in terms of tickets.

"Elenor, your idea is brilliant!" Salin exclaimed.