Chapter Twenty-Four: Border City
Border Village
In winter, heavy snow covered the mountain, and day after day, the border village began to slowly regain its vitality, and after Zhang Yilin's assistance in resources and Lisa's arrangement, the border village began to slowly regain its vitality. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There is a rocky field at the west end of the village that is very easy to mine, and the fence around the village has slowly begun to be replaced by stone walls, and the villagers have built brick kilns to burn some ordinary bricks according to Lisa's arrangement, and gradually the wooden houses in the border village have begun to be replaced by brick houses to better resist cold winds and attacks.
According to Zhang Yilin's plan, a small city was built as the basis of the original border village as the inner city, and later expanded outward from this center to expand the scale of the city.
In Lisa's report, Zhang Yilin learned that Li Erdan had brought back a group of children who had been trafficked by traffickers, and now that the border village is sparsely populated, more people must be added if it wants to develop.
Now that the people in the border village are headed by Lisa, it is a good time to expand their power, and it is difficult for people from outside to enter it within a year of heavy snow closing the mountain, which also wins a year of stable development opportunity for the border village.
But Zhang Yilin has a lot of everything, but he lacks people, and Li Erdan's approach inspired him, since there is no one, then he will find a way to buy children from traffickers from various countries on the mainland.
This method has many advantages, one is that it can solve the situation of these children, so that they can cherish everything that the border village gives them more, and the other is that the loyalty of the people cultivated since childhood is absolutely the highest, Zhang Yilin can't plant the mark of master and servant every person who comes to the border village, and only needs to master a few other people who are in the lead to obey the order.
As soon as he thought of it, he would do it! As soon as possible, Zhang Yilin informed Lisa to arrange for personnel to go to the surrounding cities to find the trafficked children, and asked the guards of the border village to secretly open up a few small roads blocked by snow so that people could enter and leave the border village.
Once again, the desire in Zhang Yilin's heart began to brew, and the former glory made him decide to run a behemoth in this world!
Although the cold winter is still a year away, in the next few months, the traffickers in some surrounding cities ushered in their spring, and they were worried that the "goods" in their hands would freeze to death when the cold winter came, but some strangers appeared in time to buy their "goods".
Three months later, the village, which originally had less than 1,000 people, grew exponentially, and soon the population of the border village surpassed that of its peak to more than 10,000 people, and of course almost all the new children were purchased by Zhang Yilin's order.
Naturally, there are more problems, housing, clothing, and food need to be solved, but as long as the money is used to solve the problem, a large amount of gold coins are used by Lisa to maintain the operation of the border village, and the escort team stationed in the border village also provides protection for the team transporting materials in and out of the village to prevent the "snow bandits" from looting.
Gradually, the prototype of a city appeared in the Warcraft Forest, the trees around the city were used for construction, and the continuous extension of the city wall enclosed the land ten times larger than the original border village, and the three words "border village" were blown away with the cold wind, and then it was replaced by "border city", a rising city.
Although 10,000 people in a city seems to be very small, the population problem will eventually be solved by the continuous flow of children from all over the world, but the defense of the border city cannot always rely on Lisa and the garrison guards.
The border city will definitely continue to grow and develop in the future, and it is impossible to limit it to the current scale, so a very practical problem is in front of us, and that is the city defense.
Although Zhang Yilin gave Lisa an order to select suitable children from the purchased children for training, it would take a long time for them to be in charge of city defense after training.
Without a strong city defense, even if the border city is built, it will be coveted, and it is impossible to stand on its own like Los Angeles.
It took thousands of years for Los Angeles to get to its current scale, but Zhang Yilin has countless resources to shorten this time, as long as there is a strong army to develop, there will be no fetters.
The first thing that Zhang Yilin thought of was mercenaries, even if he was in charge of the city defense of Los Angeles until now, he was also a mercenary, as long as you were willing to give money, there would be mercenary legions, of course, you don't have to worry about the loyalty of mercenaries, for them, loyalty is only money.
The average mercenary only accepts a one-year employment agreement, and within one year of the employment contract, no matter how high the price is, they will not betray them, but after a year, if you don't give the highest price, they will be disarmed.
As mercenaries, they are more trustworthy than merchants, because there are thousands of mercenary legions on the mainland, and once any mercenary corps is discredited, no one will hire them anymore, and their fate can only be disbanded or perished.
After understanding the situation of the mercenaries, Zhang Yilin decided to find a mercenary corps to be responsible for the defense of the border city first, and wait for the border city's own army training to be completed, and then replace the mercenaries.
Of course, now that there is still more than half a year before the end of winter, heavy snow has become the best defense, although a small group of men and horses can still enter the border city, but it is impossible for the Su Nuo army to attack the border city in this environment like before.
Unlike ordinary countries, even if the heavy snow only slows down the march, the border city is located in the Warcraft Forest, and the forest and heavy snow are more solid than the city walls.
The city is developing rapidly, and Lisa also comes to the castle to report the progress to Zhang Yilin.
"My lord, according to the current situation, it seems that the inner city with the original border village as the prototype can be basically completed by the end of winter, and the outer city wall can also be completed. Lisa had a lot of information in her hand and was doing a debriefing.
"Well, that's very good, I don't worry about the time, the most important thing is how well those children are trained?"
"We selected the first batch of 2,000 boys for training, and the instructors for the training were all members of the First Escort Team, and the training went well overall. ”
Zhang Yilin heard that Lisa seemed to be having some difficulties in training.
"Okay, Lisa, I've always been at ease with you, if you have any difficulties, just say it, my mother said it, but it was nonsense before the two words, and I want to hear what you have to say next. ”
Lisa was stunned for a moment.
"Your mother's mother is as wise as your grown-up!" said Lisa.
"Although the training went well overall, we haven't been able to get them to break through. ”
Lisa had always thought that these children could be upgraded by killing monsters just like the world she was in before, but the Guardians caught a large number of monsters for training, but the results were disappointing.
Not only did the trained children not "upgrade", but a few of them were injured by the monster because of this, which can't be blamed on Lisa, and even Zhang Yilin thought it was like this.
"Well~!, in this case, you first ask the escort team to change all the training to subjects based on physical strength and endurance, and I will find a solution as soon as possible. Zhang Yilin pondered for a while and said.
"Yes, sir! I'll do it as soon as I get back. ”
Lisa then reported on the expenses and the materials and resources needed for the future, and after the report, Lisa rushed back to Border City to continue to preside over the overall situation.
"A mercenary problem, a problem of training children to break through, it seems that we will have to be busy again. Leaning back against the chair, Zhang Yilin closed his eyes and rested.