At the Imperial Capital's School of Magic, Ben Kaul and Rand talk alone in the break room, and the legendary mage who learns of Rand's concerns smiles.

"This is a number I carefully calculated, don't you appreciate it."

Ben pulled out a scroll with a military assessment conducted by the Imperial Capital Knights based on information provided by Arvinni.

According to their estimates, with the current strength of the rand, if they want to block the orc tribe west of the Iowa Pass, they need to borrow at least ten legends from the Red Dragon Rock or the Imperial Capital.

If you abandon the Iowa Pass and retreat to the Iron Mine-West 7 Post Line, then with the blessing of the Magic Turbulence, Rand only needs to borrow 4 Legends.

Looking at the numbers on the scroll, Ben said with a smile: "Now that you are the dependant of Yuyue, and you are in charge of the construction of the new magic furnace, whether it is Red Dragon Rock or the Imperial Capital, it is impossible for you to ask you to hand over the control of Night Qicheng, but if you ask for help, you always need to open up some living areas and let the legends insert their own families in, right?" ”

"Do you think that the members of the Blue Dragon, Lan Yuan, White Owl, and Colomville families listen to you, or do these civilians in the imperial capital listen to you more?

Even if everything goes well and you succeed in keeping the orcs at the border on your own, your Night Kirk City doesn't have 100,000 people now, right? Do you want more people, do you want to find those nobles in Dragon's Tooth City, or do you want to go to Fiat Galloping Horse? ”

Ever since Ben Kaul arrived at the Prancing Plain last winter, he realized that the population there was terrifyingly sparse, and that there were only about 100,000 barbarians on a large plain of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, which was extremely rare in the entire empire.

The barbarian tribes are primitive, and there is no magical agriculture in the entire plain, so they can only rely on trading ores and livestock with the empire, but raising a certain amount of pack beasts and black-scaled horses will also consume a lot of grain.

The lack of food, combined with the magical cold winds that raged from time to time, combined with keeping the barbarian population extremely low, facilitated Rand's unification, but also limited the potential of his territory.

Especially after the Demon Furnace of Night Qi City was activated, the production of food and demon plants increased on a large scale, but there were not enough people to keep these resources, and excessive wealth would lead to the coveting of others.

As Ben Kaul calculated, a blank sheet of paper unfolded beside him, and several quill pens flew up and down the paper, recording the legendary thought process:

"The energy generated by the leylines is faster than you think, and your soybean planting area will be expanded by at least 2-3 times next year, and my previous report did not include the demon rat you just raised, nor did it include the elf living area you planned, these two places can also supply hundreds of intermediate ranks, right?"

Looking at Ben's small ledger, Rand quibbled: "Then there are still a lot of elves in my territory!" ”

Randt's statement, Ben disdained it at all: "Your forest palace itself can also supply hundreds of elves, and now that there is a magic furnace in the palace, the output will only be higher!" ”

Soon, the development report of Night Kirk City, written by Ben Kaul himself, was completed and flew directly into Rand's hands.

"Well, see for yourself, there is nothing I haven't written, according to the development trend of your family at this time, the output of potions in 3 years will be able to feed thousands of mid-level, you won't let the black-scaled horse and the wind wolf reach the intermediate level of the demonic beasts, right?"

Rand took the report up and down several times, Ben Kaul participated in the installation of each of his magic furnaces, and also witnessed him catch a large number of intermediate demon rats, it can be said that Rand except for the station in his dream, other strengths are completely transparent to Ben Kaul, and the reports given by others are naturally detailed and objective.

"Don't you say that the Grand Mentor of Glamorgan will squeeze out Gruena now, Grua now has to draw magic patterns for the magic furnace, arrange fodder for the Dragon Knights and your black-scaled horses, and also pay attention to the cultivation of magic plants in your territory from time to time, how much time and energy can she put into the Galloping Horse Academy?

Besides, it's a matter of time before Grua becomes a legend in the future, Glamorgan is almost 200 years old, will he find an awkward relationship with 30-year-old Gleia? Isn't this that you have lived too long? ”

Rand looked at the form silently, didn't say anything, and re-looked at the proposal of the Tower of Purity from Ben Kaul's point of view, and could only say that people did come up with a solution to Rand's difficulties on the premise that they didn't want to fight for power with you at all.

However, Ben Kaul has no ill will towards the rand, it does not mean that all the departments of the imperial capital have no ill will towards the rand, nor does it mean that there will not be a single spy among the nearly 40,000 people who have immigrated.

After thinking for a long time, Rand could only say, "No matter what you say, I don't have enough money in my current territory, so I can't prepare for war while still pressing a large number of magicians in the academy." Let's start with the current 5 classes, and then gradually increase the number of students. ”

"Then you think about the scale of the school in the future, I think there are a lot of people who want to squeeze into you for the throne of Queen Tenya" Ben said indifferently, for legends, decades, hundreds of years pass quickly, and they don't take the years and months very seriously.

"Will you?" Ben's statement gave Rand some inspiration, "You're saying that even if there is no supply of potions, just relying on the queen's throne can attract people?" ”

……

By the time Rand returned to the western border, Gruia and Cardinal had already taken 200 Imperial Capital students and 20 teachers, and Rand was supposed to only take 5 teachers, but after negotiations and ensuring the supply of monster meat, the Tower of Purity expanded the number of teachers to 20.

If it weren't for meeting Jenny Galloping Horse, Rand would have gone to Night Qicheng first, plus a welcome dinner tonight.

However, Jenny is even more tricky than Rant imagined, and is ready to hypnotize her subordinates as soon as she arrives in the territory, and if she does not negotiate with her as soon as possible, and invite this relative away quickly, she may be mixed with some strange forces in the future.

The evening meeting was arranged on the third floor of the Iowa Town Bar, which has been renovated after Abaidi's Camel Daddy Tavern, with several large reception rooms to facilitate informal negotiations between key people.

When he first saw Jenny Galloping Horse, Rand was also shocked, the girl of the sea monster blood has a special water spirit and fair skin, and gives people a natural sense of charm between gestures.

"I'm Jeanne Galloping, and I've always heard of your deeds, Count Lante, and I hope to take care of you when we meet for the first time today." These were the first words Jenny said when she saw Rand, and although they were all flattering, they were not overly flattering.

"Where, the Marquis of Fiat is the leader of the Galloping Horse family, and if it weren't for the busy border affairs, I should have gone to see him in person." Rand and Jenny exchanged a few polite words, then sat down and began formal negotiations.

(End of chapter)