Lord of War

45. Sean's Abacus

The war came suddenly and ended even more inexplicably.

The 20,000 troops of the Boulder family had just reached the edge of Mordegg's territory, and they were urgently recalled, not even daring to take a step. Originally, Asuna was expecting that the opponent would be a little bloody, and it was better to fight a fierce battle so that she would have a better excuse, but she didn't expect the opponent to be so cowardly, so the Thundering Front led by Simi invaded After Modeg took over the whole territory, he could only stand still.

After all, it has only been more than a year since the peace treaty between the two countries was signed under strong pressure from some side, so Asuna can't break this rule first anyway." ". After all, Ryan is just a principality, and behind her is the behemoth of the Millennium Covenant Empire. Thinking back to when the fascist kingdom, which was once powerful, was nearly destroyed by the Chinas Empire, how could the Principality of Ryan dare to make trouble with its suzerain country with its strength.

Therefore, Asuna had no way to take the initiative.

Otherwise, what reason would there be to start a war in this world? It is nothing more than trying to find a way to gain a righteous name, and then start a war in a legitimate manner.

But the people of the Boulder family are also very smart.

Since you dare not go to war with Asuna, the only means left for you is peace talks.

Soon, two peace negotiation teams set off from the Tequila Territory, one headed straight to the Modeg Territory to negotiate with Simi, and the other of course came to the Panda Territory. On this point, it shows the shrewdness of the Boulder family, and did not choose to ignore Sean because of his status as a pioneering knight. It has to be said that the Boulder family, which is good at investing, can indeed do things well. It can be called watertight.

Sean threw a sticky note in his hand to Lonnie, and said with a smile, "The Boulder family's reputation for being good at investing is indeed well-deserved, but I didn't expect that you are so important to the Boulder family."

Lonnie glanced at Sean, with a calm expression on his face: "Anyone has a different value in the eyes of different people. Some people have high value, some people have low value, some people can increase in value, and some people can't. It is a constant depreciation. In the eyes of those in the Boulder family, I still have a very high value, and this value will continue to appreciate in the future, so they will naturally attach great importance to it.”

Lonnis had already changed his clothes, it was no longer the tattered aristocratic costumes before.

The new clothes are pure white garments modeled after the military uniform of the kingdom of Darbion. Wearing this set of clothes on Lonnis' body, it highlights his melancholy aristocratic temperament even more, and it lacks a bit of the seriousness and ferocity of the kingdom's military uniform. Coupled with the fact that Lonnis's skin was already good, the pure white Chinese clothes felt unusually sunny, and many women in Baige Town secretly had feelings for this prisoner of war. It's just that no one dared to be too presumptuous due to the deterrent power of Xiao En, the lord.

But in this way. Rather, Lonnis secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

This gorgeous dress. It was Sean who asked the best tailor in the town to make it from the best fabric, and such a suit was only worth a few gold coins. But regarding this point, Lonnis was not dissatisfied at all, because he knew very well that Panda Ling was a waste of time, and it had always been a small town, so naturally there could not be any famous tailors. It's just that from this point, Sean's attitude can be seen.

He really satisfied everything in Langness according to the Marquis's standard.

Of course, it is impossible to be satisfied materially. After all, Xiao En's own life is not as luxurious as in "Emperor ☆ Wuxianghuang".

So it can only be satisfied from other aspects.

The place where Langnis lives now is in Baige Town. Sean didn't restrict his movement, as long as he wanted, he could go out and walk around the town at any time. Of course, in order to prevent some unnecessary accidents and troubles, it must be arranged by Noke, Stalin, and Altdorf. A certain person leads a team in charge of "protection". Regarding this kind of behavior, Lonnis has neither the right nor the right to object. On the contrary, it was beyond his expectation that he could obtain such a high degree of freedom.

"You are very confident in yourself." Sean said with a smile, "After tomorrow, your one-week period of enjoyment will end, how about it? Have you thought about using something new in exchange? ?”

Lonnis gently put down the knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and all his movements looked extremely graceful.

On the dining table, apart from tender veal rib steak, not-so-good brewed maple wine, a plate of vegetable and fruit salad, white flour, jam, and other common meals for nobles, there are three different dishes. Seafood and fish food cooked in cooking techniques.

In fact, these three servings of fish food are the most essential and expensive part of this Marquis treatment.

Although there are quite a few inland lakes on the Miracle Continent, they are really not too many if they are spread over the entire continent. Basically, except for the coastal countries, it is difficult to eat seafood in many other countries, so in some areas, seafood dishes are dishes that only real nobles and dignitaries can enjoy. Take the Darbion Kingdom as an example. Except for the eastern part of the kingdom where seafood can be enjoyed more often, other places, especially the southwest side, have no seafood to eat since the fall of the Black Swan Castle, even if there are occasional opportunities It can be eaten, but it is also seafood shipped from Fengshen Lake, and the price is not affordable for everyone.

Lonnis was able to eat these seafood because Sean had someone fish them from Black Swan Lake and send them directly to the town. Of course, only Lonnis can enjoy it alone. Although other people in the town are also greedy, there is no one who is not open-eyed or brave enough to come to ask for seafood, because they all know that this is a nobleman. The class privileges are definitely not something that little people like them can enjoy.

Lonnis glanced at the dining table, and felt that the only pity was that there was no honey, that kind of stuff tastes great when spread on bread.

"I did some research on steam science before, but the time was too tight, so I didn't go any further." Lonnis stood up, went back to his room to get a few blueprints, put them on the other end of the dining table, Spread out one by one, "But because I've been busy recently..." At this point, Lonister glanced at Sean, and the meaning was self-evident: "So I will improve my previous research and ideas, It's a pity that I can't do experiments, but according to my theoretical data, the success rate of this method is close to 90%. So I will improve the blueprint of the impact shield by a small amount..."

As he said that, Lonnis pointed to one of the blueprints, which contained a bunch of densely packed gadgets and formulas, but it was obviously impossible for Sean to understand.

"I kept only the key parts of this steam-powered engine, and then transferred it to the internal structure of the shock shield, so that the shock shield can be driven into studs within ten seconds after it is activated, making it even stronger, but that's it There are disadvantages as well as advantages." Lonnis gathered all the blueprints in order and integrated them, then spread them and pressed them hard, and this extremely bó paper was printed layer upon layer. Integrating all the structures of the entire impact shield, it looks clearer and more obvious. "The advantage is that as long as it succeeds, it can be put into use immediately, instead of just staying in the unfinished state like before. And its unique triple composite shield I dare say that the structure is definitely the highest peak of the current forging technology. But the disadvantage is..."

Sean frowned slightly, and took Lonnis's words and said: "The people who use this kind of impact shield have extremely high requirements on arm strength. Even ordinary heavy infantry will definitely not be able to bear such a heavy thing... And you will use the steam engine The core shrinks. There are also high requirements for the level of craftsmanship in production. In addition, there are requirements for the production ability of blacksmiths. In addition to the cost...not counting the training cost, just say such a shock shield, it is Yes, the cost is nearly 5,000 gold coins, which is even enough to equip hundreds of tower shield heavy infantry, and it still includes training costs."

"Yes." Lonnis said in a deep voice. "However, I have also calculated that if instead of buying the core of the steam engine power source, the goblins provide the materials themselves and the dwarves are responsible for the shield embryo, the cost can be reduced to about 3,000 gold coins. If so If skilled technology can form the current unique arsenal assembly line operation, the cost price can even be reduced to less than 2,000, plus the funds required for a year of training and other supporting equipment, each The cost of a hundred heavy infantry equipped with shock shields is about 300,000 gold coins."

"The size of one hundred people is not enough to form a combat force." Xiao En silently calculated, and then frowned deeper, "According to the minimum configuration, at least five hundred people are needed to form an army, so the cost is one hundred Five hundred thousand."

Lonnis also opened his mouth to retort: ​​"But don't forget, as long as there are 500 people in such an army, the combat strength they form is almost a heavy infantry regiment with a size of 3,000."

"But you also need to know that the standard configuration of a heavy infantry is less than 300 gold coins even if it is required by the standard of sophisticated equipment, and 3,000 soldiers are only 900,000. ... If it is of ordinary grade, Not even a hundred gold coins."

"However, the training period for any heavy infantry is more than three years, and the elite ones even need five years of training." Lonnis said calmly, "But the heavy infantry equipped with shock shields only needs one year of training." The most important thing is that this kind of heavy infantry is extremely easy to replenish. Besides, as long as it can block the charge of cavalry, do you think such a heavy infantry Are infantry worthless?"

Sean sneered and said: "But don't forget, your assumption is based on the fact that there are goblins and dwarves and they are proficient in making them. Without all of these, the cost of the impact shield would be more than 5,000 gold coins .500 people, you can figure out how much it is.”

As a result, Lonis was a little discouraged for a moment, so he said helplessly: "Indeed....You guys, are you not interested in this blueprint?"

"Forget it, talking is better than nothing, anyway, I guess you won't be able to come up with any good products." Sean curled his lips disdainfully, "Well, let's convert it into three days. You still have four days to enjoy, if you arrive If there is nothing to satisfy me afterwards, I will put you back in the cage."

Hearing Sean's words, Lonnis looked depressed, and even lost interest in looking at the delicacies on the table.

But Sean ignored Lonnis's thoughts, and he took away the blueprint for making the armor together. If Lonnis is still in the mood to observe Sean at this moment, he will definitely be able to find Sean's clenched fists, which is a manifestation of his inner excitement.

dwarf? Goblin?

Unfortunately, there are just these two types of people in the strange army that Sean just obtained.

The construction of military factories?

Hey, in Sean's lord system, there is an item about the military classification, which happens to be the construction of a military factory, but it can't be built yet.

As for the soldiers?

Well, the discussion between Sean and Lonnis naturally used humans as a model, but now Sean has bears and tauren, these two races are simply reckless if they are not heavy infantry.

With so many resources available, it would be really stupid for Sean not to use them. (To be continued) [This text is provided by Qihang Update Group @无相煌] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.