Phoenix Grand Lord

After Luo Wei and Gerlan decided on the plan to build a blast furnace, Annie had just finished refining today's molten steel. While Annie went back to her room to take a shower, Luo Wei found Xia Liz and asked Xia Liz to count 30 elite bell ringers and prepare to go to the Black Moon Forest.

In less than 5 minutes, 30 fully armed elite bell ringers were assembled.

This batch of bell ringers were the first batch of bell ringers in Meilin Valley, and they were all veterans.

The equipment they wore was also the most sophisticated. The armor on their bodies was already full body armor, and the weight of the armor alone reached 30 kiel pounds.

In addition to the armor, each person also had a powerful crossbow with 30 steel triangular arrows, a close-range steel dagger, and a cast iron spear and cast iron shield.

Complete configuration, can fight at a distance!

Although it is not armed to the teeth, it is not much different from the real imperial regular army.

Each of these veterans can fight ten people at once.

More importantly, the veterans' calm mentality can bring infinite positive benefits to other soldiers on the battlefield.

These veterans are the real human wealth in Luo Wei's hands.

Several of them have already shown the combat strength of trainee knights.

Although the awakened knights are all civilians or nobles, the difference between slaves and civilians and nobles is only in status and resource wealth.

As the talent level of the human race itself, there is no difference between slaves, civilians, and nobles.

In fact, the so-called "equality of all beings" has never been about equal status and treatment, but species equality.

In the eyes of humans, there is no difference between the species characteristics of dogs and dogs.

In the eyes of God, there is no difference between the species characteristics of humans and humans-walking upright on two legs,

being able to use tools, and generally living less than a hundred years.

From the perspective of God, there is the famous philosophical saying in the earth world: "Heaven and earth are not benevolent and treat all things as straw dogs."

All the inequalities of human beings are created by humans themselves, not by God.

So there is the second half of the philosophical saying: "The saints are not benevolent and treat the people as straw dogs."

From the perspective of "God", all human beings are the same, but from the perspective of "Saint", he himself is different from other human beings, and all are straw dogs below the saint.

This is man-made inequality.

Of course, this inequality must have its rationality.

In addition to the differences in external factors such as intelligence and physical strength, there are also differences in internal mentality and luck and opportunities.

Therefore, people are bound to be unequal.

As long as human nature exists, people will never be equal.

There will always be capable people, and there will always be weak people.

Any attempt to change the macroscopic inequality can only work for a while.

Let the hardworking people and the lazy people eat the same meal, which is also a kind of inequality in itself.

The macro trend of any era is that the class is solidified, then overthrown, a group of new faces come to power, and then the class is solidified, and then overthrown.

This is called the wheel of history, or the big cycle.

In other words, in the Regan world, whether it is slaves, civilians, or nobles, they can all awaken.

The reason why there has never been a slave knight is that slave owners cannot use expensive and scarce resources on slaves.

This concept of status and hierarchy is deeply rooted in the Regan world.

But for Luo Wei, who traveled through time, this is nothing at all.

Other nobles have everything they want, but Luo Wei is barefoot.

It doesn't matter whether the rules of the ancestors are not rules or the status of the nobles is decent.

Since you want to fight for hegemony, you can't follow the rules they set.

If you follow their rules honestly, you will never get ahead.

You must also have a group of loyal warriors trained from scratch under your own hands.

Not only loyal, but also strong.

If these slaves can really reach the awakening bottleneck from apprentices, Luo Wei will not hesitate to help them be promoted to the first batch of slave knights in the Regan world.

Even if they are opposed by other noble lords, Luo Wei will never care.

When Xia Liz gathered all the veterans, Anne also took a bath and changed into a dry red magic robe.

Before coming to Merlin Valley, Anne looked like a big girl.

Now, with Anne wearing glasses, she looks even more feminine.

"Luo Wei, what are you going to do?" Anne asked curiously while drying her hair with magic.

Luo Wei said, "We are going to hunt in the Black Moon Forest and pick up some wild resources."

Anne was immediately interested, "Black Moon Forest! I've wanted to go there for a long time! It is said that there are many secrets about the origin of magic hidden in the Black Moon Forest!"

At this moment, Anne's focus was on the Black Moon Forest itself, and she didn't realize how explosive it was to "pick up" wild resources.

She thought that the so-called wild resources were nothing more than picking up some mushrooms or something.

Xia Liz frowned slightly, "Annie, we won't enter the Black Moon Forest, we'll just rub around the periphery.

Bei Luo Wei said, "No, we're not just rubbing around, I'm going in this time."

Xia Liz hurriedly said, "Master! No! You can't go in!"

Luo Wei said, "It's okay, I know my limits. "

The several monster strongholds outside the Black Moon Forest have been cleared out by them. If they want to find new monsters to practice with, they must enter the Black Moon Forest.

It would be too fake to find "wild resources" without defeating the monsters.

Moreover, the Black Moon Forest must be explored sooner or later. The earlier it is explored, the earlier the territory of Merlin Valley can be expanded.

The southern area of ​​Merlin Valley has been restricted by a Broken Star River. Beyond the Broken Star River is the territory of the Watch Farm Manor.

Although it is said that after taking over the Marigold Territory, the manor on the south bank of the Broken Star River will belong to Luo Wei, it is separated by the Broken Star River after all, and cannot be forcibly merged into the territory of Merlin Valley Manor.

If it is forcibly merged, it will be very troublesome from the management point of view.

There will also be a lack of strategic buffer space.

If you want to expand the exclusive territory of Merlin Valley, you must open up the Black Moon Forest in the north.

This is also allowed by the Soladin Empire's noble colonization law.

Moreover, the larger the area of ​​the new territory opened up and the more colonized population, the more likely you can apply for a title of nobility from His Majesty the Emperor.

Many nobles' territories and titles were obtained by their ancestors opening up new territories and colonizing.

Now the territory of the Soladin Empire has reached saturation, so there have been basically no nobles who have been exploring in the past hundred years.

The location of the Merlin Valley is a good opportunity for exploration.

Of course, the risks are also very high.

In addition to considering territorial expansion, resource acquisition, and applying for titles, Luo Wei pays more attention to the strategic position of the Merlin Valley after expanding eastward.

Before the development of the Black Moon Forest, the Merlin Valley already had a strategic position.

A Broken Star River is a natural ditch, and the left and right lantern mountains are separated on both sides. It is really an excellent place for development that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But this is not the key to the real strategic position of the Merlin Valley.

The real strategic key is not visible now. It can only be revealed after taking down the Marigold Territory, then taking down the Broken Star River Valley Territory, and retaking the Purple Forest Territory!

At that time, the three major towns will jointly defend the Merlin Valley!

No matter which direction the enemy attacks from, the Merlin Valley can calmly send troops to support it.

If the enemy launches a full-scale attack, then the three major towns retreating to Meilin Valley will be enough to compete with any forces in the northwest!

Considering this long-term strategic position, Meilin Valley must also expand to the Black Moon Forest in the north.

Now, I have so many experienced veterans under my command, and Xia Liz and Annie are serving me. If I don’t go in at this time, then when will I go in?