The speed of the flight was more than ten times that of walking, and it took only ten days for Neburdan to carry Ivo into the territory of Lasses, which was worth three months for Ivo to cross the mountains and mountains. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, Ivo wanted to go back to the royal capital directly, but after thinking that the dragon landing was too high-profile, he asked Neburdan to land near the town of Burning Horse, and waved his hand to let the frost dragon forage for food on its own.

Ivo came to Liema Town for several purposes, to inquire about the year's information, by the way, to see what the hurricane led by Rockhoof had developed, and to release the news to the Brotherhood, for a year, his assessment results had already come out and had not been received.

Over the course of a year, the town of Liema has changed even more, thanks to the trade routes of the Kimerley Chamber of Commerce.

Commerce led to development, and the town of Liema became more and more prosperous, and the town doubled in size, and the streets were full of travelers, merchants, and mercenaries, and it was very prosperous.

With the discovery of a small vein thirty miles away, the population of the town of Lima grew rapidly, among which there were many miners, and a small vein represented a huge profit for the major chambers of commerce, and the vein was located in Madi's territory, and he had the right to dispose of the vein.

The major chambers of commerce hope to obtain the mining rights of the ore vein, and have funded the construction of Liema Town to curry favor with Madi, which is also a reason for the rapid development of Liema Town, according to the current development momentum, it may not take a few years for Liema Town to become Liema City.

The distribution of the cities of Lasses was relatively rough, and in addition to the cities planned by the royal family, some small towns could pay a large fortune to the royal family in exchange for the right to build a city if the population and size reached a standard if the number and size reached a standard.

There are many benefits of building a city, first of all, the most obvious is the promotion of status, the status of the town lord and the city lord are very different, after the city is built, there is a great chance that the title will be promoted, in peacetime, the development of the territory is the main way to improve the title.

Cities are far more important than towns, cities allow the construction of moats, town halls, etc., receive financial grants from the royal family every year, and the rate of development snowballs faster and faster, the population increases rapidly, attracting elites to move in, and the various benefits that can be obtained by lords are innumerable.

After a year's absence, Ivo was amazed by the development of the town of Liema, the expansion of the town was strictly distributed, there was already a rudimentary form of the city, the number of guards on the streets had increased significantly, the influx of people represented an increase in taxes, coupled with the funding of the Chamber of Commerce, now Madi was not short of money, Ivo saw Madi's ambition to build a city from the prototype of the outer city wall under construction.

Ivo followed his memory and came to the stronghold of the Hurricane Regiment, in front of him was a four-story building, beautifully decorated, completely different from the tattered appearance in his memory, people kept hurrying in and out, and on the stone tablet at the door, engraved with the five big characters "Hurricane Mercenary Regiment".

Ivo was stunned for a long time before he was sure that this was his hurricane wheal, and walked into the lobby with a lot of confusion, there were many round tables and several counters in the hall, there were many mercenaries sitting next to the round table, and some customers signed employment contracts in front of the counter, what made Ivo care was that these mercenaries had a black badge on their chests, and the badge was engraved with a white cartouche-shaped pattern, as if it meant a hurricane.

"Chief?"

was watching, and suddenly remembered the exclamation in a low voice, Ivo turned his head and saw Gavin standing beside him, looking at him suspiciously, Gavin saw Ivo's face, confirmed Ivo's identity, and said with surprise and joy: "Chief, you are finally back." ”

Ivo tilted his head, "Find a quiet place to talk." ”

Gavin nodded and led Ivo upstairs.

All the way to the fourth floor, Ivo was in the room at the end, where he saw Rockhoof and four unfamiliar faces.

All four of them were high-ranking members of the Hurricane Mass, and looked at Ivo suspiciously, for whom Ivo was also an unfamiliar face.

Rockhoof suddenly stood up from the throne and said happily, "Chief, you are finally back!"

Ivo nodded, looked around, and saw that the four strange members had a suspicious expression, and a faint distance and vigilance, Ivo's heart moved, calmly sat down on the stone hoof, knocked on the table, and said strongly: "Gavin, explain the current situation, why did my hurricane regiment become a mercenary group? Also, who are these people?" Ivo casually pointed to a few strange high-level members.

The four high-ranking members looked at each other, and Gavin said at the right time: "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Ivo is the real leader of the Hurricane Regiment, and we all work for him. ”

At this time, a fierce-looking high-level member sneered: "How come I, as the deputy head of the regiment, don't know about this." As soon as he finished speaking, the other three high-ranking members chimed in.

Ivo looked at him, "What's your name?"

"I don't have to tell you. The fierce man who claimed to be the deputy head of the regiment snorted coldly.

Gavin hurriedly introduced: "This is Manu, the current deputy head of the Hurricane Regiment, these are Luke, Tambor, and S&Nsen, all of whom are mercenary captains. ”

Manu said coldly: "I don't admit that a stranger has become my leader for some reason. ”

Rockhoof roared, "I'm a follower of Mr. Ivo, and of course he's the leader of the Hurricane Regiment. ”

Manu sneered: "The hurricane is the hurricane, you are you, in short, I don't recognize his identity, I won't accept any of his arrangements, let's go!"

Manu stood up, and the other three mercenary captains followed him.

Ivo's face was expressionless: "I didn't let you go, come back, sit down!"

Manu sneered, ignoring Ivo completely, and walked to the door, about to push it open.

At this moment, a blazing heat wave suddenly erupted in the room, and the entire room instantly turned into a dark blue sea of fire.

The door was burning, and Manu hurriedly stepped back and looked at Ivo in shock, who was pouring out a steady stream of blue flames, but he was sitting in his seat, not moving.

Ivo gestured to his seat, and said in a strong tone, "Sit down." ”

Manu swallowed and sat down obediently, the other three mercenary captains were even more terrified, they could feel the terrifying temperature of the blue flames, as if Ivo could kill them with a single move.

As soon as they sat down, the blue sea of fire suddenly vanished, and there was no trace of scorched blackness, as if it was an illusion, and they were even more shocked by Ivo's methods.

Ivo knocked on the table: "I don't care what it used to be, from now on, everyone in the hurricane will obey my orders." ”

The four mercenary captains were silent, and in the face of Ivo's unfathomable power (at least in their opinion), they did not dare to refute.

Ivo was actually a little dissatisfied in his heart, a year ago he asked Rockhoof to establish a hurricane regiment, he didn't want to be high-profile, just become a mercenary regiment in the city, it seems that Rockhoof does not fully control the hurricane regiment at all, he wants an obedient force, after deterring the four Manu, he looked at Gavin with questioning eyes.

Gavin glanced at the four Manu first, Ivo raised his eyebrows, and became interested, he looked at the door of the house, and the four Manu left in a hurry as if they had been pardoned.

There were only three people left in the room, and Gavin wiped his cold sweat and hurriedly explained the trajectory of the hurricane's wheal over the year.

A year ago, after Ivo left with a sum of money behind, Gavin began to assist Rockhoof in establishing a foothold in Liema Town. In accordance with Ivo's plan, they began to recruit people, inquire everywhere, and lay out an intelligence network.

The beginning went well, and the prosperity of the town of Liema helped their plan greatly, and the movement of people was an important factor in the transmission of intelligence, and the intelligence network of the hurricane group gradually radiated to the small southwest half of Lasses.

But they soon encountered a financial problem, the intelligence network is a very money-burning thing, there are too many people to hire, the division of layers must be strictly planned, the transmission of intelligence also costs money, and the secrecy of the intelligence network is very important, these expenditures seem to be fragmented, but as the intelligence network gets bigger and bigger, the speed of burning money is geometrically rising.

It's a spider web structure, and the larger the area covered by the intelligence web, the more terrifying the cost of daily maintenance.

Maybe you only need to spend 100,000 Benas a month in the first month, and it is likely to cost 300,000 in the second month, layered on top of each other, so the intelligence network is not something that ordinary people can afford to play at all.

In just two months, Ivo's funds were squandered, and the development of the hurricane group was in a bottleneck, and the caravan protection fee alone could not fill the hole.

Rockhoof is strong, and several missions have been completed well, and gradually make a name for himself in Liema Town, and the hurricane mass begins to expand in size. Now there are two or three hundred mercenaries in the regiment, and the speed of making money can only barely fill the hole in maintaining the intelligence network, and it is unable to expand.

The Hurricanes claim to be a mercenary group, but only Gavin and Rockhoof know that they are actually building an intelligence organization.

Ivo touched his chin, he could still accept such a result, for the hurricane group, funds are the biggest bottleneck, Ivo thought about it, took out more than half of the money on his body, three million Benas, and put a few money bags on the table, Ivo asked, "How long can this money last?"

Gavin's eyes lit up, he thought for a while, and said, "It can make our intelligence network radiate half of Lasses's border, the scope is five or six times larger than now, and it will take one million to expand, and the monthly maintenance expenses will increase to seven hundred and fifty thousand." ”

Ivo frowned, the speed at which the intelligence network burned money was somewhat unexpected, Lasseth was only a kingdom of Flicga, and it occupied a very small area of Frigga, and the intelligence network covered half of Lasses, and three million could only last less than three months.

Although he still has one or two million on him, it is obviously not enough to spend, Ivo nodded his forehead with some distress, he did not expect that there will be a day when he will worry about money, although he can use the assets of the Dark Eye in Lasses, he is not willing to do so.

The reason is very simple, although his authority in Lasses has become higher and he can greatly embezzle the wealth of the Dark Eye, but the flow of every fund is supervised, which will make the hurricane group attract the attention of the dark eye, and will even be infiltrated and monitored.

Money is like cleavage, there will always be a squeeze.

Making money is on the agenda.

Overall, Ivo was quite satisfied with the development of the hurricane mass, saving himself the trouble of finding information, and a thick pile of information for a year was placed on the table, leaving Gavin to pick only the major events that were worth noting, and in the end there were more than a dozen pieces of paper left.

(To be continued.) )