Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Marshal Erstein's open-source plan made Su Li's heart flutter a bit.

At the end of the day, improving finances is nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. Thanks to the blessings of the Sun Goddess, each of the two thousand soldiers in the army now possesses eagle-eye vision and kill marks, which can be said to be badges of honor for participating in this epic victory. Each of them is a battle-hardened veteran with outstanding combat power.

Since cutting them down isn't a wise move, that only leaves increasing revenue as an option.

The key is that increasing revenue really fits the territory's current situation. A major reason why ordinary armies find it difficult to expand outwards is that once it comes to marching and fighting, military supplies become a gold-devouring beast. Especially when mobilizing troops, the daily consumption of food and grass is tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of pounds, and the monthly loss of military equipment is tens of thousands of pieces. Add to that the cost of conscripting laborers and transporting vehicles and horses, and it can be said that gold coins are consumed like flowing water, costing thousands of gold coins per day.

However, the territory's current range of conquest is relatively limited, mainly within the Black Forest Territory and the Black Forest foothills, in the blank areas between those power centers, such as the Beastman Wanmo Rock hidden in the valley, the Greenskin Warlord camp, Goblin tribes, and raider camps.

The fertile foothill land makes the blank areas between the various pioneering territories full of dangerous magical beast groups and monster warbands.

As long as Erstein can guarantee victory, he will always have targets to clear.

After thoroughly clearing these targets, the territory's settlements can expand outwards from the core area close to the town, gradually squeezing into the power vacuum areas where monsters previously lived.

When the territory's scale gradually expands and the territory connects to other pioneering territories, then naturally it will be time to expand the territory and conquer all directions.

However, before that, the thing Su Li craves most at the moment is undoubtedly to enjoy a period of free and unrestrained life!

The Green Dragon crisis has finally passed, and the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head has been lifted. He must indulge himself to the fullest and enjoy himself wantonly for a while. That's the meaning of being a lord!

So, after briefly discussing the territory's revenue-generating matters with Marshal Erstein and asking Erstein to formulate a sweep plan, Su Li led him into the banquet hall.

Moonlight, like flowing silver gauze, washed over the stained glass, reflecting the banquet hall in mottled light and shadow. Whale oil candles in the bronze chandeliers flickered as the iron chains swayed, echoing the leaping bonfires in the three stone fireplaces in the corners of the hall. The firelight illuminated the twelve gold-embroidered battle flags hanging from the dome, making them look like burning banners.

As is the style of imperial banquet halls, at such festive moments, the long tables were moved to the walls, freeing up space for the knights' grappling and wrestling.

The knights used their swords to skewer roasted chickens and lamb legs for grilling. Oak barrels that took three people to hug were pried open, and amber-colored malt beer flowed gurglingly under the hacking of the dwarves' copper battle axes. A talented knight was carried on the shoulders of drunken soldiers, and a musician with foam on his beard blew a modified triumphal tune on a bull horn.

As soon as Su Li entered the hall door, he was hit full in the face by a wave of cheers. A silver-horned wine goblet was immediately stuffed into his palm, and the soldiers beat their shields with the backs of their swords, sending out bursts of enthusiastic cheers to him.

Everyone's eyes were burning with fanatical flames. When Su Li entered the arena holding the wine goblet, the knights simultaneously drew their long swords, and the clanging sound momentarily drowned out the boiling crowd. The bright sword blades reflected the golden emblem of the Zijinghua family on the dome's battle flag.

This was the commander who had led them to victory time and time again. No matter how desperate the situation, no matter how large the scale of the enemy, this young commander could always lead them from one peak of victory to another, and the glorious victory of this battle had reached its peak!

How could this not make the knights crazy? They all firmly believed that following the lord would inevitably lead to unparalleled glory!

Then the knights cheered, and all kinds of praises converged into one voice: "Chosen of the Sun God! Star of Light!"

"Lord, say a few words to us!"

"Lord, we are eagerly awaiting every word you say!"

"Yes, Lord, we await your every instruction."

Amidst the cheers of the knights, Su Li walked towards the main seat of the banquet hall, his generous voice as clear as an eagle: "My loyal soldiers, has anyone among you counted the number of green dragon claws and teeth? When those scaly bastards poured out of the forest like maggots, even the sky was dyed the color of plague! When those sky-covering dragon wings stretched across the sky, whose prayers tore through the poisonous fog?"

"It was the Sun Goddess! When the holy fire of Violetta infused into us, our swords were sharper than dragon claws! When the sacred hymns of prayer sounded, our spears could pierce through dragon scales and city walls!"

"Three months of bloody battle, ten times more green dragon claws and teeth than us, so what? Ha! How can those mossy beasts stop our iron cavalry that implements the belief of the sun? All the monsters were turned to ashes under our blades."

Then Su Li raised his glass and shouted to everyone: "Soldiers, drink this cup to the fullest. Today we are not only drinking to victory, but also solemnly declaring that when the Sun Iron Cavalry steps on the land, even the land of chaos will bloom with flowers of light!"

All the knights immediately cheered enthusiastically, and the atmosphere of the banquet reached its peak in an instant.

Su Li then ordered the knights to enjoy the revelry of the banquet to the fullest. With his order, the doors of the banquet hall were opened, and the servants filed in, dragging silver plates covered with Zijinghua forged patterns.

The main course was surprisingly roasted dragon ribs mixed with the fragrance of spices. As soon as it entered the banquet hall, the fragrant aroma made a large number of knights excitedly stand up, and even impatiently reached out to grab it from the hands of the servants. For the sake of this delicious wyvern rib, several people excitedly fought.

In this battle, humans killed a large number of wyverns, and that wingless body of the dragon left the territory with a wealth of delicacies!

So the number of dragon meat is absolutely sufficient, just like the knights cheered, turning the forest monsters into our granaries and butcher shops!

Twelve halflings carried a three-elbow-long cast iron grill into the gate. The grease from the roasted dragon meat dripped into the charcoal fire, making the fanatical atmosphere even more intense.

Su Li celebrated with the knights for a while, pushing the lively atmosphere to the extreme, then walked to the dazzling female knight commander Freya in the middle of the banquet hall with a wine glass.

This ice-cold female knight is a powerful champion knight in the territory with both beauty and strength.

In the battle with the Green Dragon, she rode a griffon and led the Knights in a wild and fierce attack. Every impact on the monster line was opened up by their griffon knight regiment for the territory's elite knights.

More than two hundred monsters died in her hands, truly stained with life.

At this moment, she was holding a glass of golden brandy, her clear eyes staring at the duel between the two knightly orders in the middle of the banquet hall.

The members of the Scarlet Night Knights performed excellently in this battle and received the generous divine grace of the Sun Goddess.

A high-level elite knight who had trained in Zijing Fort for nearly ten years without being able to break through, broke through to the champion level in one fell swoop.

This made them overjoyed and further confirmed the rumor that had been circulating in Zijing Fort for a long time that following Young Master Su Li could obtain a large number of opportunities for breakthroughs.

This made many knights excitedly write letters back to their relatives in the Zijing Earl Territory after the war, asking the ranger knights of the family to go south quickly and come to Black Forest Fort to look for opportunities.

As everyone knows, the number of ranger knights in the empire is seriously oversupplied. The entire empire is full of trained, high-quality, knight-educated, and nowhere-to-go, nothing-to-do ranger knights. They cannot find a kingdom knight to be loyal to, and a crusade to plunder... and to uphold justice.

Even a job as a stable security guard for a kingdom knight has a dozen chivalrous knights vying for it.

After determining that Black Forest Territory was full of opportunities, these ranger knights would definitely flock here madly to find a better way out for themselves.

While they were summoning reinforcements to the rear, they did not give up the idea of challenging the Corona Knights and the Black Forest Guard Knights.

After all, there are only so few knightly orders in the territory. The combat power of the Vengeance Sun Knights is a bit too high, with an average champion knight level, plus griffons as mounts, which is really not something that the Scarlet Night Knights can shake.

Moreover, in any imperial territory, the Griffon Knights are the elite of the elite and the ceiling of the entire empire's combat power. The members of the Scarlet Night Knights can accept losing to the Griffon Knights.

However, when facing the Corona Knights and the Black Forest Guard Knights, the Scarlet Night Knights couldn't help but want to challenge them.

Before Su Li arrived, there had actually been several duel performances in the banquet hall, and the Scarlet Night Knights had successfully proved their strength! After they also obtained the dragon blood stone and light scale fish provided by Su Li, their strength also rapidly improved.

Of course, Su Li is willing to spend money and invest in secular knightly orders. Especially since the Scarlet Night Knights were formed by the Zijinghua family and only accept orders from the lord of the Zijinghua family. Su Li's investment in them is much larger than that of the church knightly orders.

So their strength and equipment are not weaker than the church knightly orders, which are known for their wealth, especially in terms of rings and amulets. Su Li gave them a very generous reward after this battle.

This led to the Scarlet Night Knights fighting a beautiful turnaround in this banquet, with 2 wins and 3 losses in the battle with the Black Forest Guard Knights, and 3 wins and 3 losses in the battle with the Corona Knights.

And the battle currently underway almost represents the peak of the combat power of the Corona Knights and the Scarlet Night Knights. Both participating knights are champion-level powerhouses.

The champion knight of the Corona Knights wields the perfect-level rune weapon [Star Battle Hammer], which emits a thunderous sound when swung. The hammer head made of vibrating gold is inlaid with powerful dwarven runes, and at this moment it is oozing liquid light outwards. When the Scarlet Night Knights' streamer spear strikes through the air, the golden trails swept up by the battle hammer almost condense into corpses in the air.

"Your night shadow tricks should come to an end!" With his roar, the blazing sun emblem on his armor burst out with dazzling golden light, and then his war boots heavily stepped on the ground, and dazzling runes bloomed on the ground, evaporating all the ice and cold steel psionic energy of the Scarlet Night Knights into holy flames and mists surrounding the battlefield.

This move immediately caused a burst of cheers from the surrounding knights, and the knights of the Corona Knights raised their glasses and cheered.

However, the champion knight of the Scarlet Night Knights was not disrupted by this dazzling light at all. He leaned back to avoid the fatal arc, and sneered under his mask: "The sun is always so irritable."

Between the interlacing of the hammer shadows, his backward momentum suddenly stopped. In an instant, he suddenly used a phoenix piercing flower with his right hand holding the spear shaft, accurately passing through the heavy hammer shadows and hitting the chest of the Corona Knight with one blow, completely interrupting his offensive and making him stagger back. But once the distance is opened, that is the advantage rhythm of the long halberd!

This immediately caused the knights of the secular territory to burst out with a burst of enthusiastic cheers that almost lifted the roof.

Even Su Li, an elite knight, could see the perfection and elegance of this blow, which was as ingenious and tricky as an antelope hanging its horns.

Then Su Li raised his glass and said to Freya with a smile: "This scene is familiar. After such a tragic war, isn't it the most gratifying thing to relive the old days with old friends? Commander Freya, would you like to bet again?"

Freya's clear eyes withdrew from the field of vision, looked up at Su Li, and the corners of her cold face raised slightly, and said lightly: "Lord, do you still remember what you said back then? When a heterosexual takes the initiative to make a bet with you, you have already lost."

"Oh, really?" Su Li said with a smile: "But didn't I tell you another sentence later? When a woman bets with a man, in fact, whether she wins or loses, the man wins."

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Freya stared at him, her eyes flickering with cold and gorgeous light, and then said lightly: "Then I see that I will never let you lose. What does the lord want to bet on?"

Su Li took out the Slaanesh's brass bell from his pocket, then reached behind Freya's bun, and tied the brass bell on her hairband, and said, "Just like the previous bet, bet on who of the two of them will lose or win. If you win, this brass bell and hairband will still hang in this position. If I win, you have to listen to me in everything, and I will put them in the right position."

This brass bell is the thing on the Slaanesh poisonous snake. The poisonous snake is nicknamed the breast snake by the imperial soldiers. This bell is not hung on the head, nor on the neck.

But a very exciting position, in the middle of a piece of snow white.

It was when Su Li tied Freya's hands to the head of the bed with her hairband that Su Li was able to hang this brass bell on her.

Freya frowned, looked at him and asked, "Is it that simple? You have done these things before, are you now satisfied with just doing these?"

Of course more than that!

But when Freya's hands are tied up with her hairband, isn't the rest up to Su Li?

Su Li did not answer, but looked at the center of the field and asked, "If you don't choose again, the battle is about to end."

Freya glanced at the battle and said, "Of course I still choose the champion of our Knights."

"Then you lost!" Su Li then raised his hand, took off her blue hairband, tied her white hands together, and led her up.

And sure enough, behind them, the knight of the Scarlet Night Knights successfully defeated the Corona Knights and won back a round of honor.

All of this was within Su Li's expectations; Freya wouldn't let her lose.

"Where are you taking me?" Seeing Su Li leading her away from the banquet hall with a hair tie, not towards the bedroom, Freya immediately sensed something was amiss.

Su Li's lips curved into a smile as she said, "You'll find out soon enough."

When Su Li pushed open a wooden door engraved with a golden statue of Sharr, the steam inside shimmering like a silver veil in the moonlight, Freya instantly understood where they were.

The newly rebuilt bathroom in the territory! Freya just didn't understand why Su Li wanted to bring her here today. They had taken baths together before.

But Su Li didn't explain, directly leading her by her bound hands into the bath.

The warm spring water gradually rose past Freya's shapely legs, reaching the slender waist of the female knight, making it even more difficult for the bound knight to move, even turning around was difficult.

Su Li stood behind her, her fingertips brushing over the clasps on Freya's armor. The tinkling sound of metal pieces falling into the bath echoed as the curve of the female knight's shoulder blades appeared and disappeared in the steam, like a snowy white swan about to spread its wings.

"Lord, you should know," Freya leaned back against Su Li's chest, golden ripples spreading from her hair on the water's surface, "that the body and soul of a church knight are dedicated to the goddess."

But in her voice, the armor had already clattered to the ground, her fair body hidden in the mist.

Su Li moved closer from behind, wrapping her arms around her, tying the prepared brass bell onto a certain soft, snowy white place, the coldness of the metal sending shivers down Freya's spine, the soft sound of the bell's tongue striking the inner wall especially clear under the dome.

Su Li said with a smile, "But female knights also need decoration, just like statues always wear pearl crowns."

"This is blasphemy…" Her rebuke was dissipated by the sudden closeness of body temperature, she hadn't adjusted to the sudden intimacy, when she suddenly felt unsteady, her whole body firmly trapped in place.

The next moment, she saw what was binding her, magical vines were quietly growing from the cracks in the bath, the verdant stems with dewdrops climbing up the female knight's ankles. Freya wanted to retreat, but found herself already trapped in a net woven of vines—thorny rose branches twined around her knees, honeysuckle tightened into a delicate slipknot at her waist, each leaf precisely covering the stigmata that should not be shown.

Moonlight streamed through the arched window bars, casting prison-like shadows on their entangled limbs. The hair tie fluttered in Su Li's fingers, binding Freya's wrists to the obsidian griffin head decoration on the wall. This symbolic posture made the female knight bite her lip—she finally knew why Su Li brought her to this bath, it was simply a meticulously crafted water prison!

In the misty haze, Su Li stroked the faint red marks left by the vines: "These are the spoils we obtained from the treant in this battle. According to Lunadesan, its name is St. John's Wort Vine, the best carrier for the Tal's foot binding technique."

Then she whispered close to Freya's hot ear, "Do you know why I chose this plant? This magical plant only grows on creatures tainted with green dragon blood. The more you struggle, the stronger the floral fragrance."

Freya immediately bit her cherry lips, this was simply an enchanted item perfectly designed for her.

Su Li's fingertips brushed over the verdant veins of the St. John's Wort Vine, the vines seemed to sense the dragon blood aura, and pearl-like buds bloomed on Freya's ankles. The rising mist carried the sweet scent of honeysuckle, tingeing the female knight's usually cold breath with a damp tremor.

"The seventh hymn of the Holy Scripture…" Freya tried to calm her chaotic heartbeat with prayer, but was choked by the sudden tightening of rose thorns. Dewy thorns were traveling up her spine, weaving secret scriptures in the shadows where the moonlight couldn't reach—each vine pattern precisely covering the stigmata strictly forbidden to be depicted under the church knight's robes.

The obsidian griffin on the edge of the bath suddenly opened its ruby-encrusted eyes, reflecting Freya's chest bell like a burning sun. The Sharr statue that Su Li had already arranged began to take effect, the greatest effect of this statue was to increase the toughness of the creature. Whenever Freya struggled to close her knees, the brass bell clamped on her fair body would vibrate with the toughness-enhanced vines, the fine, clear sound spreading golden ripples on the water.

Soon the St. John's Wort Vine grew wildly, stretching Freya's slender neck into a bowstring under the moonlight. Leia instinctively tensed her waist, trying to break free, but more vines climbed up her fair body. Moonlight cast the tangled vine shadows on her snow-white skin, like some ancient tribe's secret纹身. When the thorny vine tips grazed her waist dimples, she finally let out a suppressed groan, the arc of her neck arched back like a swan dying on the battlefield.

"Shh﹣-" Su Li's thumb pressed against the center of her violently heaving collarbone, where the brass bell she was wearing floated, "The captain of the Knights should remember with her body that some battles don't need swords and shields."

Freya's teeth suddenly loosened from her bitten lower lip, realizing that the sap of the vines was seeping into her blood through the wound. Something hotter than dragon blood coursed through her veins, turning the humiliation of being bound into a trembling pleasure. When she realized that she was actually pushing her wrists deeper into the hair tie, the fire flickering in Su Li's eyes was illuminated by the moonlight—a light more dangerous than any chain.

"Now," Su Li picked up a goblet filled with wine and a love potion from the table next to the bath: "It's time to test the piety of the Sun Knight." The bright red wine flowed down the mouth of the cup, forming a stream on Freya's slender collarbone, when the first drop of wine slid from her collarbone and dripped towards the bell, the entire bathroom was filled with a misty fog.

The water surface vibrated violently, and streams of water shot into the sky, in the falling curtain of water droplets, the bell on the female knight's chest played a triumphant tremolo, unveiling the prelude to Su Li's beautiful life for the next period of time!