Chapter 204: Salin's Skeleton (Part 2)

"What's your name?" Daniel sat opposite him, and the prisoners opposite him also had a chair, but the chair was made of ice, so it was not very comfortable to sit on it.

The captain endured the tingling sensation under his butt and said to Daniel with tears in his eyes: "Great Master, you have asked this question countless times. My name is Rien, Rien! Please, please ask some useful things and I will tell you everything."

Daniel continued with a blank expression on his face, "Okay, then tell me, what's your name?"

Daniel learned this method from Salin. He has been interrogating the prisoner for more than an hour and has asked only one question over and over again. If the prisoner does not answer, he will use magic to sting the prisoner's soul for a while. This stimulation is gradually increasing, and it is impossible for the prisoner to get used to it.

The prisoner rubbed his fingers and did not dare to stand up. He just looked at Daniel with a pleading look. Daniel felt that it was almost done. The method Salin said was useful, and he himself did not want to conduct such a boring interrogation. However, except for him, it was technically difficult for other people to torture.

A guard took the prepared paper and pen and threw it on the table. Daniel said to the prisoner: "I'll go and rest for a while. If you think of anything that works for me, write it out. When I come back, if I don't feel satisfied, let's continue."

After Daniel finished speaking, he left the room. The prisoner lost all his will to resist, grabbed paper and pen and started writing. He wrote a common word, and although it was very different from the popular grammar in the Meers continent, he could still understand it in writing. Fortunately, he was an officer who had read books, otherwise he might not have read a word if he had changed to a soldier.

Daniel did not go to rest. He began to sort out what others interrogated and began to compare and analyze the authenticity of the matter. The records of these interrogations were similar. The captives came from island countries tens of thousands of miles away in the East China Sea, with the purpose of connecting Yuncheng. This expeditionary force had more than 300 warships, divided into more than a dozen fleets, and headed west.

On the way, the fleet encountered a storm and lost several ships. It unexpectedly came to the vicinity of Salin City and found the two warships docked on the island, which led to the subsequent events.

More than 300 warships? If it is averaged, about 1,000 soldiers on a ship would be an army of 300,000. This is just the number of regular troops, not counting sailors and auxiliary soldiers. The combat effectiveness of those armed merchant ships is not good, but the number of loading personnel exceeds that of powerful warships.

But want to conquer the continent of Meles with 300,000 people? Are the kings of these countries crazy?

The team leader Rieen wrote everything he knew on paper, so naturally someone asked him to explain it in spoken language and then translated it into Qin Yin. However, just the confession obtained from ordinary soldiers had already made Daniel understand what was going on.

An army of 300,000 may not be able to conquer the continent, but it is no problem to capture Lianyun City. Lianyun City is a medium-sized city with a population of more than 200,000, with about 20,000 garrisons, and a fleet of twelve ships. In addition to the 20,000 garrisons in Lianyun City, there are also some scattered mercenaries and private soldiers of the nobles, and only more than 3,000 people were gathered together. It is impossible to resist the attacks of 300 warships. Except for armed merchant ships, all warships have magic trenchers on them, which could not be resisted by the walls of Yuncheng.

After seeing the confession, Salin immediately analyzed the results. He became worried again. A warship taken by Rex was still in Lianyun City. Rex obviously wanted to bring some people to Lianyun City and return here from the sea. These people must have a large number of magicians. If her people were in Lianyun City, they would have to help the nobles of Lianyun City resist invasion.

The opponent's mage group is also quite large. If you really go to the battle, every thousand soldiers can be assigned to a large magician, 300,000 people, and at least 300,000 great magicians. The number of large magicians in Rex's hands is very small, most of them are low-level mages. If you really encounter them, Salin knew that many of these low-level mages would not survive.

What bothered Salin the most was that there was no teleportation array between him and Kushui County, so he could not communicate information quickly. If there was a teleportation array, no matter how much gold coins it cost, he would remind Rex that he had to change the route. A warship was nothing, and the low-level mages in Rex's hands were the most important. The money to cultivate those low-level mages is enough to create hundreds of warships.

Now Salin finally understood why many nobles who own cities can only save tens of thousands of gold coins in a year. Although cities can bring huge taxes, they also invest hugely in order to maintain the city. Now he is also considered a huge wealthy person. Others can't get all the rare materials in his hands for the rest of his life. He hunts on the ice sea, which makes the number of magic cores in his hands amazingly huge.

But when a person reaches the level, he will have corresponding huge expenses. Salin needs to raise twenty-four thunder dragons, and he will provide for it at a rate of a hundred times the growth time of normal thunder dragons. He wants to let these thunder dragons grow within one year, and the magic cores and food consumed are simply astronomical.

Because this city must expand, the territory must be extended westward, at least thousands of miles away, to have the significance of development and attract more people to farm and do business, Salin considered building an army that required at least six battalions. For these six battalions, there were 60,000 regular troops, and with auxiliary soldiers, Salin could not afford to support them.

The cost of a set of infantry armor is more than ten gold coins. According to Salin's standards, even a hundred gold coins cannot be defeated. These armors will wear out during training and need to be maintained and repaired every week, which is another investment. In contrast, feeding these soldiers is even more throwing money every day. If the soldiers are fighting, the food they eat cannot be bad, and they have to add meat every meal.

Want to eat meat? Then you have to buy a lot of money, build your own ranch and raise cattle and sheep. How much land does it take?

These soldiers and their families. If they want to make the soldiers fight with peace of mind, the families of these soldiers must also be taken care of. Private soldiers and ordinary recruited soldiers have different concepts. The families of these soldiers are equal to your subordinates. No matter who the enemy is, even if the Pope stands in front of them, they will slash over with a sword without hesitation.

Why are private soldiers so loyal? Because their family depends on you as the leader. As long as the nobles do not die, they will always be responsible for the families of private soldiers. The empire limits the number of private soldiers, and after all, they are afraid that the nobles will rebel.

Salin is now calculating all his money. Rex has not come back for a long time, so his investment is limited after all. Now he has more than 2,000 Caucasian warriors, which is already a powerful force, but it is still not enough to protect such a large city. There is no real teleportation array in his city. The teleportation array on the Pan Turtle Alchemy ship can only teleport a few meters away. The real teleportation array can be used even at a distance of thousands of miles.

For plane teleportation, you have to have something like the Shinra Ring in Rex's hand to complete it, which is not a problem that money can solve.

Fortunately, he found an island of great value. It has abundant iron ore and many companion mines on it. Otherwise, Salin's money to purchase resources would give him a headache. Although it was a huge cost to travel back and forth to the frozen sea, if he asked him to buy equipment directly from the four major families, Salin would still kill him.

No matter how good Aini had a relationship with him, he would not dare to sell any equipment to him at a low price. It was strictly forbidden by the Empire. A large part of the income of the Clyde family had to be paid taxes, otherwise how could the emperor trust the four major families? Other more powerful families did not intervene in this kind of business because the emperor did not want to hand over such things to higher-level nobles. Once any duke could run the mine, it would sooner or later become a major concern of the Empire.

The minerals discovered by Salin do not need to be exploited by the Holy Rock City. Anyway, it is not an imperial territory. He can completely regard it as his own magical territory, just like Alchemy City does. There must be precious minerals in the islands overseas of Alchemy City.

Originally, Salin didn't pay much attention to that mineral. After hearing Enni explain the relevant issues with him, he suddenly realized that in contrast, the income of the magic core is not important. Although the magic core seems to be much more expensive than metal, no one can control this thing at all, and it cannot be controlled.

If Salin does not have a huge iron ore, if you want to buy weapons, you have to bear the expensive price. No matter how much money you have, you can't withstand the price increase.

Salin became eager. In his room, more than eighty skeletons stood there honestly, motionless. They had to quickly create more small ships and let these skeletons go overseas to explore the mineral veins. There is no need to do too many. If there are three or five islands of that kind that he discovered, Salin can ensure that the supply of weapons will no longer be controlled by others in the future.

He is not at ease with anyone who has this kind of thing left. Fortunately, the winged skeletons can train these evolved skeletons. These skeletons must be transformed in the spirit pool as soon as possible, otherwise their lifespan will soon end.

Alas, if this continues, I will become a necromancer.

Salin sighed in his heart, the undead mage is so happy, there are many undead people who can trust. The contract between the two parties is mutually beneficial, but what about the elemental mage? There is no support except the magic string.

He is still too young, and he thinks that building a city is too easy. He thinks that the support of his teacher and the help of Rex is not a big problem. But until now, his city wall has not been built yet, and the city center has been built. The construction of the harbor took him time to look at it. If the entire city was supervised and built by himself, he would no longer have the energy to practice magic.

No wonder there is no magician willing to do noble things. For magicians, it is really stupid to waste this time.

But who can do this kind of thing around me? Zola and the Warcraft Swordsman have good combat power, but unfortunately they don’t have this ability. Shika? I have to manage the Caucasians. In the future, there will be more and more Caucasians. Without Shika, Salin may not be able to directly command them. Barbarians should not expect them, they will hunt and fight. Where is Neris? When she is in a bad mood, she doesn’t care about any future issues. She can kill all her people directly, and the demon must be controlled by her side.

Don't count on magicians on Srieg Island. These people can be trusted, but they cannot be used as administrative talents. Srieg Island's swordsman is loyal, but he will not care about other things except fighting.

The person you can count on now is Aini. Without Aini's reminder, I probably wouldn't pay much attention to that island. People from this kind of business family are suitable for management. But Aini is also a mage and will not invest too much energy in this kind of thing.
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