Chapter 6: Come to the right place.

Chapter 6 Come in with a good intention

After considering it for several days, Owen finally decided to keep the number of soldiers at around fifty.

This number of soldiers was really nothing, because at least one to two hundred were needed just to guard the castle, not to mention the entire territory.

It can be said that one hundred and two hundred is not too little, and three hundred and five hundred is not too much.

The problem is that Hydra family foundation is too shallow, Owen can’t do too much, besides, fifty soldiers is not a small number, all kinds of consumption is not a small number, if there is no outside supplement, a year down almost need to spend a small hundred points of progress value, he also need to set aside some progress value to develop the territory, can’t use it all here.

Because of the limited recovery speed of progress value, in order to reasonably utilize it, Owen divided the next development of the territory into four phases, and currently it has been conceived to the second phase.

In the first stage, the total number of swordsmen and archers was expanded to twenty, plus the original eight soldiers, a total of twenty-eight people, and then the two servants from before were incorporated, and they were responsible for food and carriages, in this way, as long as there was a need, the thirty people would be able to go to war immediately.

However, when perfecting the first stage, Owen realized that having soldiers alone was not enough, there was also a lack of scouts and doctors.

For the scouts, Owen chose the Imperial era scout cavalry, although the price of the cavalry was higher, even as a light cavalry scout cavalry one needed three progress points, but because the Northland was relatively flat, the horseback riding scouts were obviously more suitable for the environment here.

Doctor words, originally the monks in the imperial era was a good choice, sort of beggar version of the priest, but unfortunately now the maximum can only store ten points of progress value, can not recruit fifteen points worth of progress value of the monks, so Owen can only choose to ride and slash in the companions who are good at healing, although you need to pay a salary, but it’s better than nothing.

The first stage of the planning is completed, to the second stage, the number of system soldiers plus ten, and then mainly exchange farmers and craftsmen, the development of agriculture and economy.

The farmers in the Age of Empires don’t look cheap, but each is a talent, not only will planting, but also logging, quarrying, fishing, hunting, slaughtering, construction, in addition to the combat power is almost, it can be called ten all-rounders.

However, after testing, Owen found that the role of the system farmers is not as exaggerated as in the game, just use the hammer to knock out the walls and buildings, in fact, they can only be called craftsmen, know some of the crafts, but can not talk about how proficient, in front of the real craftsmen can only play a hand.

But after Owen’s research, he found that as long as you remove other abilities before exchanging peasants, the ones summoned will be more specialized craftsmen, such as lumberjacks, miners, fishermen, hunters, butchers, and craftsmen, which will perfectly fill in the vacancies in the territory.

At the same time, the many items in Horseback Riding and Hacking also allow the territory to obtain sufficient supplies, as long as the construction of the blacksmith store, the serfs will no longer need to use wooden sticks as farming tools, greatly improving productivity.

It can be said that these two games alone have put Owen’s territory on the fast track, so if he waits until the system officially opens, won’t he be flying?

Time passed quickly in the busyness, Owen, who had no experience at all, added bricks and mortar to the territory with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, fortunately, the slow recovery speed of the progress value gave him more time to think and not make mistakes in the midst of his busyness.

On this day, the scouts came to warn him, and after listening to the description, Owen suddenly realized.

“It’s quite early this year, it seems like you can’t wait.” Owen sneered as he knew who was coming.

“Have the soldiers gather and all enter the castle.” Owen had long been prepared for the arrival of this day, so he ordered without panic. Owen climbed halfway up the castle wall and raised his brass binoculars as a thick black line in the distance that was originally blurry turned into a caravan.

“Five wagons need this many people to escort them? Heh, this is a bad visitor.” Owen said with a cold smile after counting the number of merchant guards.

Although the merchant caravan makes money, and the profit gained in the Northland is beyond imagination, but the cost in all aspects is not low, resulting in the merchant caravan can’t hire unlimited guards, usually there is a number, even in the Northland border this dangerous place, the ordinary merchant caravan will not have more than two guards for each wagon, because the fellows and the horseman can pick up a weapon and fight when necessary, it is not a small number, and then hiring more manpower will definitely reduce the profit, although it’s not that bad. Hiring more men will definitely reduce the profit, although it is not so bad that there is no money to be made, but for the merchants less profit is loss, so naturally they have to be careful with their budget.

So five wagons with twenty or so guards, plus an equal number of men and grooms, said it was for the sake of peace, Owen would have to be stupid to believe it.

What goods the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce transported every year, Owen knew in his heart, it was not worth the extent of hiring twenty guards at all, now that he hired so many guards, in order not to lose money, he definitely had to earn some extra money, such as capturing a noble’s territory along the way.

No matter who it is, as long as it is not a noble, seizing a noble’s territory is a very taboo thing, the surrounding nobles will unconditionally come to attack the rebels, and then divide the poor guy’s territory.

Even if that unlucky noble is still alive, in order to thank the good neighbors around them for lending a helping hand and letting them put down the knife that is still dripping blood, they will have to hemorrhage to the extent that a hundred years won’t necessarily be able to slow down their breath.

The problem is that the situation of the Hydra family is a bit complicated, the so-called family is only Owen, the only seed, so according to the tradition of the nobles, once he dies, his mother also has the right to inherit.

If the Hare Chamber of Commerce is willing to spend money to operate a bit, there may not be no possibility of swallowing the Hydra family’s inheritance of the title, which is enough for the Hare Chamber of Commerce to take a risk.

As for why he didn’t smooth him over before and instead left, it was of course because this kind of thing couldn’t be messed around with, otherwise once the surrounding nobles caught hold of him, it would definitely be a chicken-and-egg scenario.

Simply put the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce wanted to put on a show to take themselves out and then rightfully occupy the Hydra family, and this required timing and time to set up, hence the delay until now.

Although he knew that Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce was coming from a bad place, but Owen didn’t have the intention of solving it violently, because no matter what the merchants in that world have one thing in common, that is, they don’t do business at a loss, so he didn’t hide it, and when he saw the caravan come to the front of his face, he directly opened the gates of the city wide.

Changing into a clean and tidy nobleman’s clothes, riding on a gentle practice horse, Owen revealed an elegant smile belonging to a nobleman, and brought along all the soldiers to encircle the caravan.

Facing the soldiers’ encirclement, the guards of the caravan were very nervous, although they gripped their weapons tightly, their eyes were a bit flustered, because they knew very well what would happen if they faced a large scale of soldiers, otherwise why would they be so well-behaved in the face of the nobles, but it wasn’t because they couldn’t beat them.

Caravan guards are like this, fellows and horsemen are even worse, even if they are not professionals, the same can see that their hope of winning is lower than the increase in wages, so they are still willing to sell their lives, the worst thing is that they will see the situation is not good and surrender, anyway, to whom they are working is not to eat.

The guards and fellows can see that the situation is not good, of course, the steward of the caravan can also see.

Sword and shield soldiers in the front, followed by spear soldiers, bow soldiers pressure, a fight, their side is certainly a piece of death, so the merchant steward can not stand by and watch the two sides clash, even if they came before the intention is not good, but now they just want to be reasonable, really, do not lie to you.

(End of chapter)