Chapter 774: Conqueror Speed
The first is to deepen the understanding between the two sides, because many estrangements and conflicts stem from misunderstanding and lack of understanding.
Along the way, the army of conquerors has created too many legends, put on countless halos, and all kinds of rumors are flying all over the sky.
The name Conqueror is too aggressive to match the relatively mild-mannered, slow-paced nature of the Valley, and many residents of the Misty Dales are deeply concerned about it, especially since the civil war in the Vale that Lord Lashan of the Scar Valley started three years ago.
They don't know, and they don't care how much political competition there is, they just know that if war breaks out, they will be the ones who will be hit the hardest.
The best way to break the rumors is not to explain them with their tongues, but to let them see, hear, and feel for themselves.
The army of conquerors is mainly composed of bankrupt citizens, farmers who have lost their homes due to monsters, sold slaves and other people from the bottom of society.
It's easy to relate to the inhabitants of Misty Hollow and recognize that they aren't too different from each other.
The second is to carry out a real exchange of interests.
The army of conquerors can be seen as a super caravan, bringing with them the specialties of the Tassel, the Giant's Plains, the Dragon's Coast and the Goblin Frontier, which can be said to be a dazzling array of many Misty Dale residents can find what they need.
The army of the conquerors had to eat food from the Misty Valley, and the bulk was still in the Golden Wheat Bale Abbey.
After finding out the cause of the fire in the middle granary, Gavin did not bite the golden sheave of wheat at the monastery, but signed a supplementary contract to adjust the delivery method of the grain.
This one-time transaction of 3,000 tons of grain, the remaining 2,000 tons, will be replenished after the new grain comes down after the new year.
As compensation, the exclusive priests of the Mother Earth Goddess of the Golden Wheat Bunch Monastery did their best to help the conqueror's army survive the food shortage.
These Cethia sacrifices are called Earth Shepherds, and their exclusive abilities are somewhere between priests and druids, and in addition to being good at casting spells to help with farming, they are also better at using spells such as water-making, food-making, and hero's feasts than ordinary spellcasters.
The exclusive priests of Mother Earth God go to those places where there is a food shortage, and usually use these spells to open the way, help the inhabitants there through the most difficult stages, and help them to resume farming, which is also the reason why Mother Earth Goddess has a good reputation among all intelligent beings, as long as it is not an evil race, her priests will do their best to help them.
If the spell is cast for free, it is only the spell casting materials consumed in the casting process, which is relatively cost-effective, and in the long run, it can replace at least 800 tons of grain, greatly reducing the food gap.
And after they arrive in the land of the Three Rivers, they will definitely not be idle, and they will definitely cooperate with the conqueror's army to open up wasteland and cultivate pastures on a large scale there, which is their sacred duty, and there is no need for Gavin's request at all, so it is not too much of a loss.
You must know that the Golden Wheat Bundle Monastery is one of the three major centers of worship of the Mother Earth Goddess on the continent of Faerun.
Ranked No.1, called Golden Field, is located not far southeast of Anfil Village, built on a piece of land called Golden Field, where there is also a blessed land of Juantia, which is twice the size of the Golden Wheat Bundle Monastery, and it is said that there is a community of tens of thousands of goddess believers, which is currently the largest and most vibrant area for Zenthia believers, and is an out-and-out granary of the Northland.
The second-ranked Harvest Mansion, located in the Kingdom of Am, is made up entirely of female temple sisters, and is an incomparably gorgeous garden, this temple is very ancient, it has stood on this land before the establishment of the Kingdom of Am, and was once the core of the faith of Chentia, but was replaced by the Golden Garden.
But its second position is also being challenged, and the challenger is none other than the Golden Wheat Bunge, which is now known as the granary of the valley, and they are known for their admirable farming skills and helpful industriousness, and the number of priests and priests is naturally not small, there are only a few hundred permanent monasteries, and ten times more scattered throughout the valley, which is a good force.
At the same time, the army of conquerors also ate large quantities of fruits, vegetables, and poultry eggs from the farmers of the Misty Valley, which were not suitable for long-term storage and transportation.
The price of food has skyrocketed, and the price of these perishable foods has only fluctuated, but it is not so exaggerated.
The way the conqueror's army exchanged food from the inhabitants of Misty Dale was not to spend money directly, but to use their vast power to do something that the locals wanted to do but couldn't do.
For example, the country roads along the Wolhae Highway will be widened and repaired.
Another example is to clean up the dangerous places around each village, not only those monster haunts, but also those suspected ghosts and monsters, all of which are swept away.
Another example is the improvement of public facilities in some villages and towns, not only those town halls and the like, but also the repair of irrigation canals, the construction of water storage reservoirs, and so on.
"Sir, it turns out that the legend about your army of conquerors is not a simple legend, and what you have done is even more exaggerated than the legend."
"Sir, you have completely refreshed our understanding of construction, and in one day, you were able to link it to the progress of many construction projects, hundreds of kilometers of road repair, the construction of more than a dozen water storage dams, and the excavation of dozens of kilometers of drainage canals."
"The spirits who clean up the shrubs and weeds, the kobolds who perform the blasting, the treants and giants who are responsible for all kinds of heavy work, the large number of humans who provide all kinds of technical support, and the large number of spells and spells that make it difficult for them to build slowly, and this situation is not even possible for the long-dead Myszzonor."
"We have opened our eyes today, we never thought that the spell could be used like this, compared to it, we were too conservative and pedantic before, guarding the huge treasure and not knowing how to dig it, this is definitely our biggest dereliction of duty, if we had implemented this concept of Jazz earlier, the food production of the Misty Valley would have doubled."
"It's not too late, and I'm confident that with Jazz, we'll make great strides in this area."
The councillors of the Misty Valley, who coordinated from village to village, town, and settlement, were truly eye-opening, and whenever they saw Gavin, they were full of praise for the speed with which the conqueror's army was building.
They had seen what it meant to be a miracle of construction, what it meant to be a conqueror's speed, and their last doubts about governing the Ashaba River had completely disappeared.
The construction of the Ashaba barrage was an impossible task for them, but not for the army of conquerors.
They finally understood the meaning and weight of the word conqueror, they were indeed conquering, but they were not using force, but the speed of construction in terror.
In this way, they can be considered to be one of the conquered members of the Misty Valley, and they are willing.
There is no need to say more about road repair, the army of conquerors is definitely professional in this aspect, even the main trade road like the Moon Sea Highway, they can pave and repair hundreds of kilometers every day, not to mention the country roads such as the Misty Valley.
The army of the conquerors did not need to be dispatched at all, but was directly divided into dozens of road repair teams, and repaired several roads at the same time, all of which were standard two-lane bark roads, and when the construction was completed, it was only natural to erect a statue of Gavin's medium-sized road god as a memorial at the intersection of those villages and settlements.
No matter how small the mosquito's legs are, they are also meat.
Faith is more of a long accumulation of trickles, like the previous large amount of money, there are not many opportunities.
Now that Gavin has a good reputation in the surrounding valleys, it's time to put them to good use and make them his potential followers.
Even if they don't believe in Gavin, as long as these paths exist and enjoy the convenience it brings, they will continue to bring divine power to Gavin, which belongs to the conceptual part.
These well-informed councillors were stunned, not to mention those residents of the Misty Valley, looking at the speed of construction, and then looking at the little food they took out, even the most thick-skinned people were a little embarrassed, not to mention these simple people, naturally doing their best to take out the best things in their hands to entertain the conqueror's army.
When the army of conquerors left the Misty Valley, they took not only many things from here, but also countless things left behind.
They took away countless fruits, melons, vegetables and grains, not only the large and small trucks and pack horses were full of boarding, but many of them even had backpacks of all sizes on them, which were full of food, which carried the friendship and expectations of the people of Misty Valley, hoping that these simple people from Tassel could gain a firm foothold in the Battle Valley and build their new homes.
They have left traces of their past visits, construction legends that are difficult to break for a while, their new construction and planting concepts, and their unswerving belief in building a beautiful new home.
Crossing the Ashaba River from Ashaban Beach is out of the Misty Valley, but not yet in the Battle Valley, which belongs to the Great Forest of Comanso.
The road here has to be built in a new way, because it is a forest road with towering trees everywhere that shade the sky, and many of the trees close again at the top of the road, so that there is no sunlight here all day.
If you want to widen and trim this place, you have to make way for those trees.
If it were a human, it would have to be cut down with a knife and axe, which would inevitably provoke the wrath of those natural spirits, and it was inevitable that the two sides would clash over it.
These roads through the forest are no less dangerous for many people than those of the mountains.
This danger comes not only from the hunting monsters that lurk in the forest, but also because of the forest spirits, many of whom lived in the forest even before the road was built, and they are still angry at the construction of the road through this place.
Sometimes, they will take out this anger on the travelers who pass by, not necessarily to hurt them, but to lure them into the depths of the forest, to lure them in with various charms or unique natural scenery, and to keep them here for a while.
The concept of time of these long-lived species is not the same as that of short-lived human beings, and the period of time for human beings is often a lifetime, and many of them return to the human world again, and it is already decades later, from teenagers and girls to gray-haired old men, giving people a feeling that they have fallen into the magic of time.
This is the case of the Rosavier Way, which passes through the Battle Valley and connects the East Road with the Moonsea Highway.
It was forcibly cultivated by the Sambian merchant Rosavier three hundred years ago, and in the process, countless trees were cut down, and countless spirits and beasts fell under the swords and magic of the Sambian mercenaries.
The elves allow the road to pass within sight of the standing stones, meaning that the elves' friends, humans, do not need to resort to violence to listen to them.
Humans are not allowed to leave this path without permission, and if they desecrate the sacred souls of the forest, they will bear the consequences.
In this area, Gavin has always paid great attention to it, after all, there are a large number of natural races in the army of conquerors, and along the way, they have made great contributions, whether it is those spirits or those tree people, who have migrated more than 3,000 kilometers with them, and it is estimated that among their companions, this is a unique thing, many of them will not be able to walk so many roads in their lifetimes, especially the tree people.
It is also the existence of these spirits that gives them more choices, and makes extensive use of spells such as activating plants and bending trees to move these trees to a more suitable position, or get out of the way they need.
This relatively mild method, although the construction progress plummeted tenfold, was also tacitly approved by those natural races, and no spirit jumped out to obstruct it.
Turning from the Moonsea Highway to the Rosavier Road is considered to have stepped into the Valley of Battles, and the long journey of the conqueror's army is nearing the end and is only one step away from its destination.
This time, it was no longer Gavin who ran to the front of the conqueror's army to meet with the Battle Valley Lord Ilmet to discuss the affairs of this great migration, but the Lord of Ilmet took the initiative to meet Gavin, but the meeting place was neither in Ezebla, the capital of the Battle Valley, nor in the Vizeme Manor in the Land of Three Rivers, but in Standing Stone.
When it comes to the valley, standing rocks are inescapable.
Even for the entire Faren Continent, the Valley Standing Stone was a big event.
The valley calendar that Faeron now uses starts with Standing Stone, which is the first day of January in the first year of the valley calendar, and on that day, the elven court in the Great Forest of Comanso signed a valley contract with the new immigrants in the valley.
In this contract, both sides made commitments and concessions.
The Elven Court allows the newcomers to the valley to settle in the clearings of the Great Forest of Comanso, and in exchange, the new settlers from the Valley must protect the Great Forest of Comanso from being destroyed by more evil forces, let alone cutting it down unchecked.
This pact symbolizes the official entry of the valley as a force on the stage of history, and they inscribed it on a stone tablet and erected it in the very center of the Comanso Great Forest as a symbol of the oath of both parties.
Since then, there has been a saying that the standing stone is the alliance, and later the standing stone is the boundary.
Originally, Tateishi was not allowed to be visited by humans, but as time went on, more and more merchants from the kingdoms of Turmis and Jondas saw the opportunity in the Great Forest of Comanso and began a new wave of immigration.
Only this time the main body of the immigrants is no longer the poor farmers, but the merchants, who do not come alone, they carry caravans, mercenaries and torches and axes, they sneer at the so-called valley contract, mercilessly trample under their feet, and carry out a frenzied felling of the great forests of Comanso, wantonly harvesting the forest wealth accumulated for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
This allowed them to have more money, and to hire more lumberjacks, shipbuilders, and mercenaries from Turmis and Jondath to establish their own settlements, towns, and even cities in the newly cleared land, until they developed into a kingdom.
There were countless wars between the two sides, large and small, and the blood soaked every tree and every inch of land that the merchants plundered.
But with the support of the two old empires of Turmis and Jondas, and the constant plundering of the resources of the great forests of Komanso by the merchants, these guardians of nature are slowly being drained and retreating.
This culminated in the fall of Mistron, which led to the evil merchant nation, once unscrupulous, to take Moonvalley from the Vale Alliance, and even build its own capital there.
From the very beginning, the kingdom of Sambia was a kingdom of bandits built on the bones and blood of others, and aggression and plunder were instincts that went deep into their bones, and they were, and they still are.
It is extremely ironic that what curbs the crazy expansion of this evil merchant country is neither the union of the good people of the entire Comanso Great Forest, nor the interference of the Cormier Kingdom, but another more evil force that has risen in a crazy posture in the north of the Comanso Great Forest, the Moon Sea area, and they also take a fancy to the value contained in the Comanso Great Forest, and do not want the Sambian merchants to monopolize it, so they secretly interfere and obstruct it.
Who this new force is, there is no need to say more, it is the Santalin Society, which is known as the dark intelligence network.
The Great Forest of Comanso has not completely turned into an empty field, and the two evil forces and the good forces of the Cormier Kingdom are a very crucial factor in containing and balancing each other.
Of course, the forces of nature in Comanso and the perseverance and perseverance of the people of the valley are also factors that cannot be ignored.
(End of chapter)