Chapter 37: Space-Time Loans

Before he knew it, Zheng Feng found that his castle already felt like a nursery. There are nearly twenty children under the age of ten alone, and more than a dozen are teenagers under the age of sixteen.

Since there are so many children, there is a problem of education, but how can there be any schools in such a mountainous area. So Zheng Feng called a fifth-level mage who originally belonged to the green worm and a sixth-level martial artist who originally belonged to the blood eagle to come over and act as a temporary teacher.

When mages study the laws of nature, they will also learn some other knowledge by the way, and it should be enough to find a more knowledgeable mage to teach children some common sense knowledge. That martial artist came over, mainly responsible for exercising the children's bodies, and at the same time teaching them some war-related content, not to say anything, this is a military force, and this aspect has to be learned sooner or later.

Of course, the two temporary teachers mainly teach the older children, and as for the younger children, a few women will teach them to read. The women who served as kindergarten teachers and nannies were the families of the chiefs, and before the rebellion, they were almost all ladies and noblewomen, and many of them could write poems and songs.

In addition, the two demon butlers would take turns to teach the children etiquette lessons, and the two of them found a lot of books from the mountain bandits' cottages, including monographs on various etiquettes in this world. These books describe in detail the different rituals of various countries in this world, which greatly stimulates the enthusiasm of the two demon stewards to delve into it, and it is obvious that it is not enough to satisfy their interest by studying it themselves, they need to have an audience and a carrier to practice these rituals, so they take these children as students.

Well, although this kind of teaching is mainly for the interests of the two housekeepers, it is also a compulsory subject for these children. The first of Confucius's six arts is etiquette, this discipline is more important than other subjects in ancient times, in ancient times, there were many officials who could not read and write, but a crime of disobedience to etiquette, even the biggest official position may be lost.

Even those princes and generals are relatives of the emperor, once they are charged with disrespect, they may be unlucky, and losing their official positions and wealth are trivial matters, and there are many people who lose their heads. On the contrary, people with insufficient knowledge are still a lot of prosperous officials, and often a certain person is promoted and reused by the peak because of his knowledge of etiquette and proper response. It can be seen that in ancient times, etiquette was important. As a result, etiquette classes have become compulsory for all children, and no matter how big or small, they must pass the basic etiquette exam.

When the children were receiving etiquette education, Zheng Feng would sometimes take a look not far away, and then rejoice that as a master of power, he didn't need to learn those complicated etiquette. Seeing those children doing the same action over and over again, Zheng Feng pouted, which was much more uncomfortable than military training. The training of etiquette is not only to be in place, but also to require the trajectory of the action to be rounded, and the speed must be appropriate, not fast or slow, which is like military training, as long as the force is in place.

In such a leisurely day, more than half a month passed quickly, and the two teams from the north and south also returned to the mountain city one after another. However, the newly surrendered bandits did not all move to the cottage of the Blood Eagle, including the Green Worm and the Blood Eagle, the bandits were divided into two places and stationed.

One of them was a little north of the original Blood Eagle, and the other was south of the mountain city. The two new garrisons were mainly composed of military tents summoned by attendants, and on the periphery of the barracks, fences and antlers were erected by sappers to form a relatively regular barracks.

There were not just two, but eleven such barracks, one every 100 kilometers from south to north along the outer mountains. The northernmost one has a view of the cliff terminal, the southernmost one is not far from the sea, and each barracks is a thousand military tents that can house 20,000 soldiers.

Most of these military camps were built on the location of the original mountain bandit cottages, and they were all positions that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and convenient for sending troops. Although there are basically empty camps now, there is no need to worry about being attacked, and those kingdoms outside will not notice the changes in the mountains for a while.

The Blood Eagle and the Green Worm, plus several other large and small mountain bandit forces, totaled nearly 80,000 people, and 40,000 people were organized from them by Wairis and Huapley, and they were stationed in the nearest two military camps in the north and south. The remaining thirty or forty thousand people are still living in the cottage of the original blood eagle for the time being, and these people are basically family members, and they will not participate in the battle in the future.

And there are now 200,000 soldiers produced by the system, and now they are all stationed in the mountain city, of which 100,000 are newly produced, and the original 100,000 soldiers have also been upgraded, and these soldiers alone have used up nearly 10 million tons of food and 10 million tons of metal.

At the same time, during these periods, the harvest of the bandits was quite large, with 15 million tons of grain, 14 million tons of metal, and 1.8 million taels of gold. In addition, the three million tons of metal, 500,000 grams of rare minerals, and more than 16 million taels of gold are mined by the people these days. There are also demonic beasts hunted in the outer mountains, which have also transformed 30 million tons of grain and 20 million tons of metal.

In this way, the resources in the system include more than 60 million tons of grain, more than 30 million tons of metal, more than 18 million taels of gold, and more than 13 million grams of rare minerals. Unfortunately, within the detection range of the system, there are no gold and silver mines, and it is difficult to say whether there are gold and silver mines in other places and how many gold and silver mines.

Zheng Feng hesitated for so many days, and finally waited until all the gold and silver mines that had been detected were mined, and after doing the math, it was really enough to summon the fourth- and fifth-level war group heroes. As a result, Zheng Feng issued instructions to the system to embody these two levels of war group heroes.

The heroes of the fourth and fifth levels of the war group need a total of 165 million tons of food, 155 million tons of metal, and 8 million taels of gold, plus 1.5 million grams of rare minerals. Coupled with the upgrades of those heroes in front of them, a total of 24.3 million tons of grain, 20.7 million tons of metal, 9.81 million taels of gold, and more than 670,000 grams of rare minerals are needed. This consumption is still in the case of those three level 7 heroes who do not level up for the time being.

Obviously, the current resources are only enough to upgrade the previous heroes of level five or six, and it is far from enough to produce two new groups of heroes. So, why did Zheng Feng issue this order, it was because he could borrow.

This is a special kind of borrowing, called space-time borrowing, which is to use the resources that the system will get in the future in advance. And this way naturally cannot be gratuitous, its interest reaches one percent per day, and whether it is borrowed or repaid, it is calculated at one time and cannot be separated. At the same time, this may also be the only opportunity to borrow, it is said that when the system and the rules of the world merge, there is a little bit of chaos, and it may have something to do with the fact that the system has advanced two levels in such a short period of time.

That's why Zheng Feng hesitated, because he really wanted to upgrade those seventh-level heroes first, but they were too expensive, just the cost of the three of them, almost all of them were more than enough for a total of eighteen people in two groups. And borrowing a little more means that it will be a little later to make up the cost of repaying the debt, and one day a day every night means that you have to repay one percent more, this interest is too high, so Zheng Feng still didn't let these seventh-level heroes upgrade in the end.

In addition, there is another problem is gold resources, the mineral deposits of this kind of thing are not evenly distributed, and it is not certain whether new gold and silver mines will be found in the later exploration, if you can't repay the debt because you can't find gold and silver mines, then once it drags on, the interest will accumulate more and more, and it is likely that it will never be repaid, so gold this resource can not be borrowed.

Therefore, Zheng Feng waited until the minfu had mined all the gold and silver mines they had discovered before, and found enough to summon these two groups of heroes and upgrade the heroes in front of them, before he advanced the insufficient part of food and metal to the system. As for where to collect food and metals, this is easy to do, and a large amount of resources can be stored in a short period of time. Because Zheng Feng wants to summon the heroes of the war group first, he wants to send them to carry out a wider range of demonic beast hunting activities.

Based on the previous situation, there is about one seventh-level demonic beast for every 10,000 square kilometers, plus other middle- and low-level demonic beasts, you can almost get 10 million tons of grain and metal. If there are twenty heroes of war groups, each leading 10,000 soldiers, hunting a range of ten kilometers and marching fifty kilometers a day, then a day can hunt a range of 10,000 square kilometers.

In this way, it will only take about fifteen days to collect the amount of resources advanced, but it will take eighteen days from the time the resources advance starts to summon these heroes, so the time required to collect resources will be at least twenty-four days. And these days are all to calculate interest, even if there is no accident, it will take thirty days to repay those advanced resources and interest.

After the plan was made, Zheng Feng issued the order of advance and summoning, and for the rest of the time, he waited for the new heroes to be manifested every day, and then left with the soldiers assigned to them. This time the hunt can be said to be fully dispatched, not only these twenty generals with troops, but also three scouts in front of the team responsible for the search mission.