Chapter 377: Harvest
Because the base of the 'Black Hand' has not yet been built, and there are more people brought back this time, Iron Mask directly took these people to the wolf's barracks on the island, so that the wolf's head could send someone to help take care of it.
When Wang Yong saw Iron Mask, Shadow Dance and Light Spirit had already arrived, and they were looking after the eight shadow guards at the Ono Arsenal. Wang Yong didn't say a word, and after more than an hour of busyness, he dissolved the spiritual magic for the eight shadow guards.
After Wang Yong left the room, Ying Wu and Qingling went in with a tacit understanding and began to do ideological work. Wang Yong didn't pay too much attention, but found the iron mask, and relieved the spiritual imprisonment for the thirty or so people who were strong in spiritual magic, and then Wang Yong, who was tired and half dead, couldn't stand it anymore, so he casually found a room where no one was, and fell asleep.
When Wang Yong woke up energetically, it was already noon the next day, Wang Yong first went to the kitchen in the barracks to eat a mouthful of leftovers, and then came to the room with iron noodles shaking his arms.
Iron Mask beckoned Wang Yong to sit down, and then called for a tired Shadow Dance and Light Spirit, and the three of them began to report the identities and backgrounds of the hostages.
Most of these people are the families of some city defenders in the Eternal Empire, and the families of those who have been imprisoned by Ono with spiritual magic are some small nobles with low titles but real power, and even the families of the two captains of the Royal Guard are among them.
According to Iron Mask, Shadow Dance, and Light Spirit, the three of them marked the locations of those who were blackmailed on the map one by one, but found a very intriguing thing.
Most of these people are located in the imperial capital of the Eternal Empire and some villages around it, and according to the accounts of the eight shadow guards, they learned that Ono has been in contact with those people, and they are also waiting for the opportunity, planning to launch a mutiny when Prince Xihami returns to the Eternal Empire to seize the throne and directly capture the imperial capital.
With the help of these people, coupled with the transactions of Ono and many other great lords, it is not impossible for Ono to ascend to the throne.
Wang Yong didn't see the eight shadow guards. Curiously asked, Shadow Dance replied, "They are all willing to join us in the Seaside Province, but there are still their relatives in the clan, so I decided to give them two days off and let them go back to meet their relatives." ”
Wang Yong nodded in agreement and said, "This should also be, when they are well rested, let them go to the imperial capital of the Eternal Empire again, and continue to contact those people in the name of Ou Nuo, these people will be of great use to us." ”
Shadow Dance nodded, then said with a look of embarrassment, "What about these hostages?
This is a real problem. Wang Yong frowned and thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with how to place these people.
Because these people Wang Yong did not plan to release for the time being, firstly, because he still wanted to use them to blackmail the nobles of the Eternal Empire, and secondly, these people had already seen the teleportation array and some other secrets on the seashore, so they could not leave for a while.
In the end, Wang Yong found the wolf head, handed over all the hostages to him, and told the wolf head not to embarrass them. The wolf head reluctantly accepted Wang Yong's task. Then he instructed his subordinates to build a compound in the barracks with the wood left over after the construction of the barracks for these hostages, and sent a team of soldiers to guard it.
After Wang Yong, Tie Mian and the others left the burden to the wolf's head, they returned to the base of the asphalt lake with a small song. Wang Yong was about to follow Tie Mian to see how their underground base was built, but he was stopped by the excited Butler Hal. Report on the harvest at the Ouno military factory.
After Iron Mask gloated and left with Shadow Dance and the others, Wang Yong was dragged to the council hall by Butler Hal, and found Shirley, who was also full of red light, and Jesse, the clerk who was pale after seeing the bloody battlefield with his own eyes. began to report with the impact on Wang Yong's ability to bear.
Shirley was the first to speak: "After a few days of inspection, a total of 399,000 gold coins were seized from the warehouse of the underground military factory. There were also 420 other scattered gold coins seized. ”
Speaking of this, Shirley glared at Wang Yong dissatisfiedly, and said angrily: "My lord, I can understand and agree with your sympathy for your subordinates, but next time you want to reward your subordinates, can you drink and discuss with me? After all, those gold coins have not been recorded at that time." Wang Yong was shocked by the number reported by Shirley, and his complaint to Shirley was just a mechanical nod.
Seeing Wang Yong so embarrassed, Shirley, who was in a good mood, did not complain too much, but nodded slightly to Butler Hal, sat on the chair and began to think about the use of these gold coins, thinking about how to make these gold coins play a greater role.
When Steward Hal saw that Shirley had finished reporting, he got up and coughed lightly, and said proudly: "We have gained a lot this time, first of all, we have found a total of 9,500 finished repeating crossbows, almost 1,000 semi-finished repeating crossbows, and almost 100,000 matching crossbow arrows. Also, the weapons and armor of the Ouno guards were captured."
Hearing that there were almost 10,000 crossbows, Wang Yong, who had already been mentally prepared, was still stunned, causing Wang Yong to pay attention to what Steward Hal said later.
Wang Yong thought to himself: "10,000 repeaters, this is 10,000 repeaters! If these repeaters are all equipped with troops, they can be equipped with at least five legions, and if according to the practice of the mainland, hand crossbows are only equipped with hoplites, then these repeaters can definitely meet the needs of a big empire." ”
However, Wang Yong did not plan to do so, Wang Yong planned to follow the previous plan, all soldiers are equipped with hand crossbows, which although the cost is huge, but it can improve the combat effectiveness and survivability of the soldiers.
In addition, if time comes, Wang Yong plans to equip the entire army with uniform steel armor, so that all his soldiers will become hoplites or cavalry.
As for the load-bearing capacity of the soldiers, or the carrying capacity of the mounts in the cavalry run, Wang Yong also had a preliminary idea to solve it.
After Wang Yong calculated the future equipment of the troops, Butler Hal was almost finished, but Jesse was sitting behind Wang Yong, with his head down and recording these numbers that made his heart tremble.
After Steward Hall's report was over, Wang Yong couldn't wait to ask, "How many armors or standard clothing of the Ouno guards have we seized?"
Butler Hal was slightly stunned, not knowing why Wang Yong was only so interested in these worthless things, and these had already been reported just now, but Butler Hal still replied: "They basically don't have any standard clothing, only leather armor is a uniform style, and there are almost four hundred sets that can still be used." ”
Wang Yong nodded, then turned his head and asked Shirley: "These gold coins we seized are the deposit for Ou Nuo to sell the repeater, have you found the order for the repeater or the receipt of these deposits or something?"
Shirley didn't know the order or the receipt, but she probably knew what Wang Yong meant, so she nodded, and then rummaged through her spiritual void ring for a while, and finally handed Wang Yong a stack of contracts.
Shirley didn't know what Wang Yong was going to do, but she still reminded her: "Ivan, although we got a lot of gold coins this time, but the daily expenses of our territory are also huge, and these gold coins can last for up to half a year, and it is already very good to be able to hold on until the seaside city is completed." I suggest that Daisy's seaside caravan start working as soon as possible, even if they can't earn too much gold for the time being, but at least let more people know about our seaside province and the goods we sell. ”
Wang Yong didn't answer immediately, but frowned and thought for a long time before saying to Jesse behind him: "Find Mu Sen and Ryan to come over, just say that there is something to discuss with them." ”
Jesse nodded, got up and walked out of the council hall, and after instructing the guards at the door to inform the two, he sat in his place and waited to record important information.
After Mu Sen and Ryan arrived, Wang Yong first told the two of them about the harvest this time, and then said straight to the point: "I have an idea, since those city lords have already paid the deposit, should we help Ou Nuo complete this transaction?"
Mu Sen was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said in pain: "Ivan, you don't want to sell those crossbows, do you? These classes are all good things." Didn't you just get a lot of gold coins?Isn't our territory going to exchange these armaments for money?" Not only Mu Sen, but even Steward Hal and Shirley were in disbelief when they heard Wen Yan's thoughts.
Ryan looked at Wang Yong and asked with a smile, "Are you going to let us be robbers again?"
Wang Yong smiled and said, "Make a cameo occasionally, hehe." Butler Hal had a look on his face when he heard this, and then nodded in agreement.
Wang Yong saw that Mu Sen and Shirley were still at a loss, so he opened his mouth to explain: "I don't plan to sell those repeaters, I think so, since military equipment is strictly forbidden in various empires to trade privately, then Ou Nuo will definitely find an inaccessible place when trading with these people, so can we come to the black and eat the black?"
Shirley thought for a moment and said, "That's a good idea, but how can you be sure that those buyers won't choose to trade in an area that you have full control? ”
Wang Yong didn't answer and asked: "If it were you, would you agree to trade on someone else's turf?" Shirley thought for a moment, and then didn't question it again.
Ryan smiled and said, "Ivan's idea is very good, I have even thought of some details of the whole process, I think it is feasible." ”
Mu Sen is not a stupid person, he also smiled and said: "Yes, if it was before, this idea is very unrealistic, because even if we have an absolute advantage in powerlessness, but we can't get by just at the border of the Eternal Empire." But now, we have a teleportation array, these are not a problem, and even at critical moments, we can harass the enemy's rear through the teleportation array. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )