Lord Highlander

Hathaway's initial impression of Dodan was that it was just a very simple frontier town.

And there is nothing, no noisy opera house, no large auction house, no bustling shopping street, not even a decent restaurant.

Standing at the westernmost end of the street and looking eastward, the line of sight can easily cross the long street and see the tattered plaque of the shop facing the street on the easternmost side.

She was willing to come here entirely to see her fiancé Suldak, to know the real situation of his life here and to have a trace of worry in her heart.

In fact, Marquis Luther was also a little worried when Suldak led a battalion of miscellaneous cavalry into the Bailin plane.

When he suggested that Suldak join the Luthor Army, he had already prepared a cavalry team. The weapons and horses were standard equipment for heavy cavalry, and he also prepared 500 knights.

That's right, they are knights who have received formal training at the Knight Academy and all have official knight status.

Not those cavalry who are civilians and only know how to fight on horseback.

Marquis Luther felt that if he sent it out by himself, Suldak might not be too rare. He hoped that Suldak would propose it himself, and even if he showed a little bit of air, he would go along with the flow and hand over the prepared knights .

Unexpectedly, Suldak actually built a cavalry battalion that was almost a motley army with his own ability, and entered the Bailin plane with such joy, and even put on a fearless look.

Afterwards, Marquis Luther led the Constructed Knights to the Tarapakan area. Although he had no time to deal with this matter, he sent his most trusted follower, Chester Great Swordsman, to the Bailin plane to preside over the situation to ensure that Sur Dak can have enough strength to face the beast tide.

Hathaway was very worried when she heard that a beast horde would break out here.

However, afterward, she received some gifts one after another. Suldak wrote some interesting news about Dodan Town and some local specialties from the Bailin plane. Hathaway felt a little less uneasy.

What shocked Hathaway and Beatrice the most was that Suldak brought back a large amount of hard armor from the Bailin plane, which completely changed Earl Gophero's attitude towards Beatrice and Sulda. gram attitude.

The number of these hard armors is so huge that people can't help but guess randomly, what kind of cruel war can harvest so many hard armors?

That's why Hathaway and Beatrice took a long vacation at the Foreign Affairs Bureau and came to visit Suldak.

...

Hathaway and Beatrice lived in the town, and on the third day, as Suldak said, they began to establish a complete tax system for the town.

At the entrance of the town hall in Dodan Town, Miss Hathaway Luthor and Beatrice Gophero walked to the gate, and the acting mayor Mrs. Luna and the tax collector Bartra immediately greeted them.

They saw the dignified and beautiful Ms. Hathaway wearing an exquisite long dress with her delicate collarbone exposed, so they warmly invited her to the town hall.

Tax Collector Bartra even donated a separate room owned by the tax collector as a temporary office for Hathaway and Beatrice.

"Miss Hathaway, Miss Beatrice, welcome to Dodan Town." Mrs. Luna warmly greeted the two girls.

She has followed Mayor Marko for so many years, although she has no ability, she has a good eye.

"Commander Suldak has informed us that we hope that we can cooperate with the two ladies to establish a financial system in Dodan Town. If there is anything we need to do, just ask!" Batra tax officer saw Hathaway magnificent His emerald-like eyes stuttered when he spoke.

Mrs. Luna looked at the tax officer Batra speechlessly, and continued: "This is our tax officer Batra from Dodan Town. In the days to come, he will fully cooperate with the two of you."

Hathaway walked into the town hall and asked the Batra tax officer very politely: "Batra tax officer, how many tax officers do you have under your command?"

The receptionist at the town hall stood up quickly and bowed his knees.

The Batra tax officer followed behind Hathaway, stammering, "Only...Only me."

Hathaway stopped in her tracks, and asked in surprise in the corridor, "Is there only one tax official in Dodan Town?"

Bartra tax collector hastily wiped the oily sweat off his face with a handkerchief, his thick lips were trembling a little. Hathaway Luthor was the most noble personage he had ever seen in his life. He wanted to try his best to show it. After Miss Sylvia Luthor, she found that her legs were trembling.

He tried to calm himself down, but found it difficult to do.

I can only continue to stammer: "In fact, it's officially like this. In the past, we had very little taxation. Many nobles didn't need to pay taxes when they were doing business. At the same time, those commoners couldn't pay taxes, so I alone is enough. .”

He said truthfully: "Now Commander Suldak requires all business groups in Dodan Town to pay taxes, so I have become very busy recently."

"In that case, the town must recruit some tax officers..." Hathaway said very skillfully.

Batra tax officer quickly agreed.

It's just that the town recruits tax officers, which cannot be done by Batra tax officers alone.

In addition, to establish a sound tax system, there must be a corresponding regulatory department. Someone must keep an eye on these tax officers, otherwise, if they act recklessly like wild horses and pocket some tax revenue, they will definitely become the city of Dodan. Biggest moth ever.

Suldak hopes that the town of Dodan can become prosperous with the help of this beast tide.

If a small town wants to develop, it must have money.

After all, whether it's infrastructure costs, maintenance costs, or the salaries of officials in the town hall, I'm afraid they all depend on tax revenue.

Only when the town of Dodan develops and grows gradually can more residents be gathered, so that he has enough manpower to develop the Invercargill Forest.

Hathaway walked into the office that Batra tax officer moved out, sat on a chair, looked up and could just see the majestic Thorny Mountains outside the window, the peaks were covered with snow and clouds, and countless thorny stone pillars grew from the middle of the mountain. When it comes out, it looks like a thick piece of dead grass from a distance.

Beatrice took out the tax returns from the reference room over the years, and the two young noble ladies began to get busy.

...

During this period, Hathaway and Beatrice only came to the barracks occasionally, and they usually only sat in the small building for a while, had lunch with Suldak, and then left by car.

Suldak will go out of the city with the cavalry battalion to hunt ghost-print red ants in the past few days. This beast swarm is like a development opportunity for Duodan Town, and it is also an opportunity for the cavalry battalion to grow stronger. After all, when everyone resists the ants After the impact of the tide, you can wait for the opportunity to harvest some monster materials.

Even though the huge amount of monster materials caused the continuous depreciation of hard armor in the magic market in Wilkes City, the enthusiasm for hunting ghost-striped red ants here continued to rise.

During the beast tide ten years ago, the Benar Legion was in charge of guarding the Thorn Mountain Range. At that time, almost all the wealth was divided between the Benar Legion and the merchants.

They didn't think about building this border town, and they didn't even think about how long they could stay here. They just thought that blocking the tide of beasts would make a fortune, and that the development of the next plane area would require the local nobles and lords to do these things.

Suldak wanted to build the town of Dodan, mainly because he wanted to include a large area of ​​Invercargill Forest into the territory of the Green Empire, and his original purpose was only to occupy those two mine veins and become a mine owner.

The cavalry battalion has been cleaning up the red ants in the hills and mountains for two consecutive weeks.

The ant colonies in the hills and mountains at the north exit of the Dodan Canyon are about to be cleaned up, and many ant colonies are migrating to the east and west sides one after another. If the cavalry battalion wants to hunt a large group, it needs to go east along the Thorn Mountains Walk all day and enter the area on the north side of the trail in Plantos Town.

The mountain path was full of colonies of ghost-striped red ants, and Suldak's cavalry battalion occupied the entrance at the northern end of the mountain path, completely blocking the colony of ghost-striped red ants in the mountain path.

After so many battles, Lance finally understood how unrealistic it would be to rely solely on a mercenary team if he wanted to hunt down the ghost ant queen.

The queens always hide in the deepest part of the ant colony, guarded by dozens of male ants larger than the magic caravan, and surrounded by tens of thousands of soldier ants and worker ants.

Only through the continuous charge of the cavalry in the cavalry battalion to nibble at the red ants on the edge of the ant colony, can these ant colonies be finally digested.

Of course, if he could master large-scale attack magic such as meteor fire rain, lightning waterfall, and falling meteorite, he might be able to wipe out these ghost-striped red ants in an instant.

These cavalry are like a group of never-tiring war machines in the hills and mountains, always running alternate charges.

Regardless of the cavalry, or those horses with hard armor, they continued to fight like this, and the merits of the cavalry were calculated according to the number of ghost pattern red ants hunted.

Lance has seen the Constructed Knights of the Grimm Empire, as well as the Heavy Cavalry in other legions.

Compared with the constructed knights in the constructed knights, the cavalry in the cavalry battalion still lack some explosive power and lethality. The constructed knights do not need this kind of cannibalism tactics. They can directly carry out a few rounds of charges, and they may be able to These ant colonies dispersed.

Compared with other heavy cavalry regiments, the cavalry in the Surdak Cavalry Battalion are... full of resilience.

Whether it is cavalry or war horses, they all have extremely abundant physical strength.

In addition to having three second-rank strong men in the cavalry battalion, this may be the biggest advantage of the cavalry battalion.

Lance found that Suldak always held a blessing ceremony before going out, and all cavalry and horses had to be baptized by the Holy Light before going out.

And this kind of holy light baptism can usually last for three days. Under the holy light baptism, both strength and physical strength will be greatly improved, and the cavalry can fight tirelessly.

In fact, such a battle is also a kind of extreme physical exercise for the cavalry.

Frequent battles that exceed the limit of physical fitness and extremely good resilience can continuously enhance physical fitness. This is how many veterans have the opportunity to be promoted.

Several magicians have collected a small part of their achievements. In fact, there are more than a dozen ghost ant queens hunting these days, and even more than ten high-level magic crystals have been harvested.

The cavalry battalion has achieved a lot.

Of course, these mages are not idle, and they have provided many magic scrolls for the cavalry battalion. Among them, Ge Lianna, who is a water magician, will lock herself in the wooden house almost all day long, drawing "hydrotherapy" Magic scroll, this kind of healing scroll is the most practical on the battlefield.

In addition, since Suldak contacted that indigenous tribe, he has successively hired more than a hundred young indigenous warriors from that indigenous tribe.

Suldak also exchanged some standard weapons for some low-level magic herbs from the indigenous tribes. Some of these magic herbs are silver leaf grass and kudzu root, which can be used to configure secondary life potions.

This is also the real purpose of the spectacle magician who came to the Bailin plane. Now, as a magic pharmacist without the support of noble lords and business groups, he wants to go down the road of magic potion refining. How difficult.

Magic herbs are almost in the hands of the noble lords, and these things are rarely leaked out.

Therefore, if other magic pharmacists want to refine magic potions, the most difficult thing is to get the herbs. Now the spectacle magician has made the secondary life potion as he wished, and picked some swifts from some herbs. , made a bottle of antidote.

This potion is simply too practical.

The most difficult thing for the cavalry to defend against the ghost-striped red ants was the sour liquid that the red ants spewed. Now they had antidotes, which happened to be effective against this sour liquid.

At the beginning, the cavalry were very dissatisfied with the magician throwing fireballs at will during the battle, because the sparks splashed by the fireballs always had some accidents.

Therefore, the cavalry had a lot of opinions on these magicians, but they were friends of the Commander and distinguished magicians.

At best, the cavalry do not communicate, and silently avoid...

But after Ge Lianna's "hydrotherapy" magic scroll successfully healed the injured cavalry, everyone became enthusiastic about this beautiful female magician.

It was precisely these secondary healing potions and antidotes in the glasses magician's hands that made the magician turn around.

Afterwards, the two sides came into more contact. Through mutual communication, Lance also found his position on the battlefield. Magicians often act together with archers, but the role of magicians is far greater than that of archers. In night battles, they provide 'micro Illumination', pointing the way in battle...

...

As Suldak's cavalry battalion opened up in the hills and mountains, the mercenary group in Dodan Town often organized some red ant hunting operations.

The mercenary group in the small town harvested the materials of Warcraft, so more caravans and adventure groups gathered towards the town of Dodan.

In just half a month, the hotels in the town were full of outsiders.

Many adventure groups chose to rent houses in the small town. The town of Dodan is not big, so many outsiders flooded in, and the town was overwhelmed in an instant.

Even this failed to stop the enthusiasm of outsiders, there were still some caravans and adventure groups entering Dodan Town in carriages.

At the entrance on the south side of the town, the hard carapaces of six ghost-striped male ants are now lined up side by side, making the outsiders who have just arrived look sideways...