Chapter 31: Centaurs
Centaurs belong to a relatively powerful race in this world, this race is a natural cavalry, and they are proficient in raising horses and are good at bows and arrows. The Centaur Longbow is famous in the human world, second only to the Elven Longbow and comparable to the Half-Elf Bow and Arrow.
The horses in the Thunder Knights, the strongest in the Kingdom of Florence, were purchased from the Centaur tribe. The horses of these centaur tribes are fat, strong, tall, and heavy-loaded, making them some of the best horses that make them ideal for heavy cavalry mounts.
Of course, there are many better mounts than this horse, such as Warcraft. The kind of powerful magical beasts that transcend the category of beasts, such as unicorns, nightmare beasts, etc., if formed into a knight order, are definitely stronger than all the knights on the entire continent, but there is a key problem, whether it is a unicorn or a nightmare beast or other magical beasts, the number is too small.
Unicorns are friends of elves, and living in the legendary Elven Forest, Nightmare Beasts are even rarer. Some other Monsters are also available, but they are also hard to obtain.
Therefore, only a small number of noble knights will look for magical beasts as mounts, and as a knight order that needs a large number of mounts, they can only use ordinary horses, and humans themselves have also domesticated a large number of horses, but the quality is not as good as the horses bred by centaurs, even if there are occasionally one or two horses with divine horses, it cannot change the entire group of horses that are not as good as centaur breeding horses.
Surren knew that Owen's caravan was going to trade with the centaur tribe, and now he only had these barbarian warriors in his territory, and he also needed cavalry and longbowmen.
It's just that now his territory is poor and white, and if you want to trade with the centaur tribes, at least you have what they need. How do you trade with people without anything?
Suren also scratched his head a little, but he also had an advantage, now this territory is the only territory in the trade route of the Florentine Kingdom to the centaur tribe, as long as you pass through his territory, it's not normal to pay a toll, and it's normal to collect some centaur longbows and horses.
Owen's caravan transported a lot of materials this time, including a lot of iron tools, the rest are grain, although the centaur tribe is very strong, but the quality of the smelted iron tools is average, and the iron ore in the wilderness is scarce, the price of iron tools in the wilderness is very high, as for food, the centaur tribe belongs to the semi-nomadic people, the farming ability is very poor, and the grain production is also low.
In such a comparison, Su Lun suddenly found that his territory was still very advantageous.
Owen is also very curious about Su Lun, as the steward of the Bauhinia Chamber of Commerce, he has been walking on this trade route for more than ten years, and it is not that there are no pioneer nobles who have come to this area to develop their territory, but until Su Lun arrived, no pioneer nobles have successfully established themselves here.
Unexpectedly, in just one month, a pioneer nobleman came here and successfully established himself here, which surprised Owen. What surprised him even more was that the strength of this lord, he had walked through the wilderness with the group of barbarian women and children before, and naturally encountered many wilderness bandits along the way, among which the barbarian leader took two equally powerful barbarians to directly crush a group of bandits.
That kind of overwhelming and invincible posture impressed him very deeply, none of the mercenaries under him were his opponents, and there were not even a few who could catch him with a few axes, this strength had reached the rank of a great knight. Moreover, even the remaining two barbarian warriors had reached the rank of Great Knight, and for this kind of warrior with great strength, his first thought was to recruit.
In order to recruit them, Owen promised to give up the land and Kinnar to settle the barbarians' women and children. It's just that what disappointed him was that these barbarians directly refused, and even if he kept raising his conditions, those barbarians did not waver.
Just as he was thinking about increasing the price, the caravan came to Suren's territory, and when he arrived, he realized that this barbarian was actually the pioneer nobleman, and that this young nobleman had actually gained a foothold in this wilderness with only those barbarian warriors.
Owen sat cross-legged on the carpet in the tent, the carpet from the desert kingdom was not only beautiful, but also soft and comfortable to step on, a low table was placed on the carpet, and several leaders of the caravan guard were sitting respectfully not far away, each with a glass of ale in front of him.
The temperature in the wilderness is very low at night, and alcohol is the most popular drink in the Northland, and on a cold night, a glass of ale wine is in the stomach, and the belly is hot, and the body that was originally frozen and a little stiff is quickly warmed up.
"Alec, what is the strength of the other barbarians except for the three barbarian warriors who came with us?" Owen asked, putting down his glass.
"Very strong. The mercenary with a long scar on his face said in a deep voice, "Those barbarians all have an aura on them, and this kind of momentum has only been seen in those knight-level powerhouses. ”
After speaking, he lowered his head and took a sip of ale, the spicy ale wine was a little bitter, he didn't like this kind of cheap ale, but he subconsciously wanted to hide the shock in his heart, although he didn't want to admit it, but with his years of experience as a mercenary, it is not difficult to see that each of those barbarian warriors in this territory can be called a strong one.
"It's impossible, how could more than thirty strong men who were at least knight-level be willing to stay in this broken territory where they had no money, no one to ask for people, and they had to face attacks from monsters such as jackals all the time?"
Although these barbarians are not knights, their combat effectiveness is no better than that of knights, and if they are willing to be loyal to the nobles, even if they cannot obtain the knighthood, their treatment is definitely ten times better than here. In this world, strength and status are directly proportional, and none of those high-level warriors are supported, but this warrior who is a territory is like an ordinary soldier, which is completely unreasonable.
Owen had a lot of thoughts in his heart, and the wine glass made of bamboo tube in his hand unconsciously turned in his hand.
"Could it be something else?" said another emaciated mercenary with a cold face and a dagger in his hand while everyone else was silent.
"These barbarians have no idea what kind of treatment their strength can get in the kingdom?" the mercenary said slowly after several people around him looked at him.
"Smack!"
Owen clapped his palms, stood up excitedly and said, "Yes, how can those barbarian buns know the value of a hundred gold narls, and only this can explain why they are staying here!"