Rise of the Empire Total War

Maximilian Mandorf has shoulder-length blond curly hair, a hooked nose with Germanic characteristics and a sharp-edged face, making him handsome, and his blue eyes are charming and deep. He was tall and strong, wearing the exquisite general armor, which was particularly heroic. His appearance was good, but he didn't know how much actual ability he would have.

Richard dared to bet that if Maximilian was bothered, he must be a famous woman killer.

Along with Maximilian, who came to meet Richard was the one-star spy officer Renard Erlach. The image of the latter was similar to that in the game, and he was dressed in linen clothes that were no different from ordinary civilians. On the outside, he wore a black hooded robe.

"Your Majesty Caesar."

When they saw Richard, they both knelt on one knee and shouted.

After letting them get up, Richard first asked the two to introduce themselves. Compared with the information given by the system on personal attributes, he preferred to listen to the characters themselves.

"Your Majesty Caesar, I am from Hamburg in the Principality of Saxony. Before accepting your call to come here, I served as the military chief of the court of Adalbert, Bishop of Bremen." Maximilian said.

"Your Majesty Caesar, I am from Görlitz in the Principality of Meissen, and I am just a junior member of a very ordinary local thieves' guild."

"The thieves' guild?" After listening to Leonardo's reply, Richard's heart moved. If he remembers correctly, the thieves' guild is also one of the guilds he can build, but in the game, this guild and business Guilds are also useless in his eyes-but commercial guilds can at least recruit caravan guard cavalry.

As for the arrangement of the two, Richard had already figured it out in his mind. He tapped his fingers on the table unconsciously and slowly, making a clear and crisp sound, and said, "Maximilian, I want to appoint you as the governor of Leuven City. , build this place into an important pillar for the rise of the empire."

"I will leave you five thousand dinars as a start-up fund, and the feudal knights and chain armor knights on foot will be at your disposal—although this force is obviously insufficient to defend the city of Luwen, you can recruit spear militia later. Or town militias to strengthen city defenses."

"Your Majesty Caesar, I am very grateful for your trust." Maximilian knelt on the ground again and said sincerely, "I swear in the name of God that I will definitely protect the city of Luwen and build this city into the most solid city in the empire. backing!"

"I believe in your ability." There was a smile on Richard's face, "Besides, I will also send the royal businessman Volkoma to take charge of this trade, and Renardo." He said, He looked at the spy at the side again: "You have to establish a mature spy network in Luwen City. I don't require you to master the underground world of this city, but at least you must fully integrate into it. This can also exercise your ability."

"Understood, His Majesty Caesar." Renardo promised with a stroke of his chest, and then asked a new question: "Then the funds needed for the operation..."

"You can ask Maximilian to reimburse you." Richard pointed to the new governor beside him, "At the same time, you should also report the information you get to him to help him further manage the city."

"Understood." The two replied together.

Then there was another conversation, and Richard asked them to retreat to do their own things-by the way, the first task Richard gave Maximilian was to hand in a method to deal with urban sanitation problems.

Although the environment where Maximilian was born was no different from that of Leuven City, Richard still asked him to find a way to change all this, which could be regarded as a test of his ability.

After letting the two retreat, Richard opened the details of the city again. Just now, he was only interested in meeting his newly acquired subordinates, but he suddenly forgot to arrange for the construction of Luwen City.

Looking at the column of buildings that can be built, Richard suddenly encountered a difficulty. Like Nuremberg, Leuwen City can build two system buildings at a time.

He pondered in his heart and had an idea about the Chanting Academy.

The chanting house is the first level of religious buildings, and only after building it can Richard preach to the citizens-yes, mission.

On the way to Leuven City, Richard thought about the possible religious conflicts in the future. As we all know, Catholicism, which believed in God in the Middle Ages, was extremely aggressive towards other religions. Apart from converting the so-called heretics, they only massacred them and never tolerated the existence of heretics.

And after the Catholics who believed in God entered the city of Luwen, religious issues would definitely become a new sharp conflict. So Richard wants to convert more people to believe in God before the conflict breaks out, so that there will be no situation where Christians are outnumbered when the conflict breaks out.

There is one more thing that I didn’t mention. Richard has inquired about the efficacy of religious buildings. With the support of the system, the efficiency of religious buildings and priests’ preaching has been greatly enhanced. It also helps to improve the security of the city.

The importance of this is self-evident for Lu Wencheng, whose current city order is only +85% and still in a yellow-faced state.

After various considerations, Richard spent 800 dinars to build the chanting house, and for the second construction space, he chose the third-level building of the city barracks, which is the garrison barracks that can only be built at the city level.

Compared with the Militia Barracks, the Garrison Barracks has added a new recruitable unit, the Crossbow Militia. Richard, the crossbowman militiaman, was very impressed. In the decisive battle with the Moor pirates, the only team of crossbowman militiamen given by the system drew their swords to join the melee after shooting the crossbow bolts, and finally almost wiped out the entire army.

After spending 2,400 dinars to build the garrison barracks, the system suddenly popped up an interface, and the above prompt made the corners of Richard's mouth twitch.

[When you capture an indigenous city, you must convert the residents of the city to Catholics before you can recruit soldiers from the system]

OK, it makes sense.

Richard was speechless, but after thinking about it, the system’s tricky operation actually made some sense. Those indigenous people who were converted to Catholicism would be more reliable than those who believed in the original belief, because the system could Controlling their minds to a certain extent through their beliefs keeps them loyal to Richard.

Furthermore, if a very few soldiers who believe in the phantom deer suddenly appear in an army that almost believes in God, he is likely to be forcibly converted or even squeezed out and bullied, which is not conducive to the unity of the army.

When his consciousness returned to reality, Richard stretched himself, took the general guard and walked towards the militia barracks not far from the city gate. He has never seen the majestic feudal knights in the game until now, and he said in his heart that it is impossible to have no expectations.

May I ask which man has not longed for knights?