Chapter 102: The Grain Transport Officer with Expanded Authority
The news of the discovery of a large magic crystal mine in the Oak Mountains by the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce reached the ears of Giggs in the Starfire Territory with the caravan, and Giggs, who was holding a recruit enlistment ceremony, heard Gibson whispering the news from behind, and the original smile instantly froze on his face, and half-ringing, Giggs retracted his embarrassed smile, and asked Gibson under the gaze of several officers around him, "A large magic crystal mine?
Gibson was a little confused about Giggs's clue, and didn't understand why Giggs had this reaction after hearing the news, and he was puzzled, but he still had to answer Giggs's question, "According to the news of those dwarves, this kind of large magic crystal mine is rare in the dwarf territory~"
"That's okay, it's almost about to start, after all, this is a suitable reason, Gibson, you go down and notify Jinshahe's manpower to withdraw, after several years of mining, the easy gold mine is almost finished, and the rest of the leftovers will go with it~"
After giving the order, Giggs once again paid attention to the dozens of recruits in the audience, compared to the soldiers who Giggs had always wanted to fight in close combat before, now he still prefers to fight with the Wanderer troops, which is not unrelated to the fact that the scale of the Starfire Leader is too small, and the role of the loiterers who conduct guerrilla special operations is still much greater than that of the fighters of the hard steel enemy blade when the large army is decisive.
Giggs turned his gaze to the audience, and several officers around him were guessing in their hearts the intention of Giggs's order, "Is there another large-scale rotation of officers?" Jimmy, who had become the squadron leader, secretly pondered the deep meaning of Giggs's words, the squad leader who came to report at Giggs's wedding was now able to take charge of himself by relying on his sense of responsibility.
In fact, there is already a saying in the garrison that the recruit battalion instructor is a reserve captain candidate, and his appointment as the chief instructor of the recruit battalion this time is to obtain a resume for him to be promoted to the captain in the future.
Ignoring the speculation of his subordinates, Giggs, who had finished the enlistment ceremony, returned to the Jazz House with a calm face, refused Celia's offer to make him tea, and Giggs locked himself in the study alone.
"Hmph~ For nearly a year, the elves' preparations must have been ready to go, just like a powder keg, only a small flame is needed, and then it will burst out with a 'boom~', a rare magic crystal mine, for the elves, this is no longer Mars, this is directly throwing a bomb on their war powder keg~"
"When the elven spies pass the news of this explosion back, the elves' art of war will be displayed again, but this time their enemies are not those weak and stupid gnolls, let's fight~ If the elves don't suffer major losses, how can humans have a chance to rise?"
In the following time, Giggs took the time to remind Dick, "It's not suitable for business lately~Elven dwarves, you know~"
Giggs's words made Dick's face change instantly, and he quickly disposed of the goods this time, bought some human commodity stocks in the trade area, and rushed directly to Black Rock City, after all, his foundation is on the dwarf side, Giggs's reminder is already very obvious, dwarf elves, what can these two overlord races do? There is only war, and once the war happens, not only will the interests be lost, but even the lives will be in danger.
In May, as the elven envoys issued resource conscription orders to the lords of various territories, the news of the imminent war spread throughout the human region for a while, and the merchants hurriedly disposed of the goods at hand, and then stayed quietly in their own mansions, waiting for the wind and grass outside, and the Spark Territory, which has a strong military guarantee, ushered in a wave of immigrants because of this news, which Giggs did not expect.
The influx of population has made progress in the already slowed construction of the Spark Collar again, and the houses of the residents, as well as the land that needs to be allocated, and the jobs that need to meet the needs of such a large number of people, keep the administrative staff of the Spark Collar busy all day. Coupled with the guards and those miners who returned from the Jinsha River, the population of the Spark Territory has broken through the seven thousand mark, this is only the population of the residential area, the population of the business area has too much mobility, but it should be no problem to add one or two thousand, Giggs now has a happy trouble, the population of the territory is about to exceed ten thousand, which is an affirmation of his merits.
The gnolls and kobold slaves captured by the guards in the wilderness were kept in improvised huts built especially for them, and when they were not mined, they could build roads and dig canals, and in short, these slaves had to radiate light and heat for the Spark Collar until they died.
Giggs's conscription order came later than the other lords, because the territories around the Starfire Territory had already begun to prepare supplies, and there was no news from the Giggs side, and Giggs suddenly had a hunch that maybe the elven mage Siv was coming to the Starfire Territory again.
So when the magician, dressed in a green robe sitting on a unicorn, came to Giggs, Giggs was not surprised at all, and asked Seve to sit in the living room while asking Celia to take out the wine from the jar of the fruit of the ancient tree of life.
Sity's nose moved slightly, and she looked at the jade wine glass handed over by Giggs, and suddenly asked, "Did you use that fruit to make wine?"
This sentence instantly embarrassed Giggs, and he replied, "Yes~"
Sifu couldn't help but tilt her head to the side, and said lightly, "The Ancient Tree of Life Fruit has abundant life energy, which can make the body of the person who eats it full of vitality, I want your future baby to have a healthy body~ I only have one~"
Giggs had already heard the resentment in Sif's tone, and quickly changed the topic, "Siv-sama, I don't know why you came this time?
Seve picked up the jade wine glass and slowly drank the wine in the quilt, without the intention of talking to Giggs, and Giggs was not annoyed, so he waited with a smile, and only then did Sif, who had finished drinking the fruit wine slowly, take out a sheepskin scroll from his bag.
The scroll floated directly in front of Giggs, "Dear Sir Giggs, in view of the perfect completion of your last grain transport operation, you are hereby recruited as the grain transport officer of the Whispering Forest region. In addition, the Starfire Leader has the following list of materials that need to support the elves in battle"
Giggs raised an eyebrow, "In other words, I'm a grain transport officer again~ and I'm in charge of a larger area than last time~ Well, I'm honored." Looking at Seve as he shifted his gaze, Giggs decisively stopped what he was about to say.
"This time, Alaye and I are only one of the five divisions in charge of the Moon Elves, and your task is actually quite heavy~ After all, the scale of this war will not be small~" Sif thought for a while and said something that seemed to comfort Giggs.
"Well, I'll try, by the way, Sif-sama, if you attack the dwarven city, you must not be too dense, the dwarven city is said to have a secret weapon, and I have only heard that that one out of five Starfire Collar can disappear directly with one shot. So, you and Lord Alayh must be careful. Giggs thought about it, and still said this information, he wanted the elf to suffer losses, but somehow in his heart, he just didn't want to let the elven magician fall in this war like this, "Maybe it's the reason why she's good to me, although she doesn't like to talk much." Giggs thought to himself.
"Your information is very important~ Is there anything else important?" Seve leaned forward slightly, allowing Giggs to smell a fragrance and lift his spirits, "I learned dwarven language, and if I need a place again, I think maybe I can help a little~"
"Well~ then I'll go, remind you, your wife has a new breath of life in her belly~" Seve sat down on the unicorn that had already run to the door of the living room to wait, still saying goodbye to Giggs in her cold tone.
"The breath of new life?" Giggs kept echoing this sentence in his mind, and he didn't even notice how Seve left, and suddenly turned around and looked at Celia who was waiting for him in the living room, and a heartfelt smile hung on his face.