Summoning Total War

Chapter 32 Slave Trade (Part 1)

Within two weeks, the town of Athens seemed to have returned to its former prosperity and busyness.

Because the materials are all transported from the migration point, the time it takes to build a new town is not too long. The felled trees can be recycled, and after one or two months of cultivation, the town residents have mastered quite skilled construction skills!

At least when it comes to woodworking.

Murphy made great changes in the new town plan. He divided the prototype of the town into two parts, one part was the large port, and the other part was the newly planned urban area.

The fenced town on the high ground was divided by Murphy into three large sections, namely residential areas, temples and barracks.

As for the original commercial area, Murphy took it out and placed it on the port, which has been expanded several times.

Murphy's idea was to use the port as a trading area for trade, with the town itself as a tight semi-enclosure. Using the port as a buffer can reduce the exposure of the secrets of the town itself, and can also prevent the impact of the indigenous people on the town itself to the greatest extent! It is normal for cultural exchanges to create conflicts. Murphy, who is currently strong, has no intention of opening the door to face the ideas of the aborigines.

That's why he found a way to handle all foreign trade matters at the port, and he even planned to build a smaller governor's palace at the port.

The port is about three hundred meters away from the newly built town. The road has been repaired and is a five-meter-wide avenue covered with gravel and sand. It can drive any carriage and transport goods smoothly.

On the harbor, Murphy laid out a commercial area and built an additional blacksmith shop.

Of course, this is just a prototype.

In fact, Murphy's plan is to build the town and port of Athens into a terrain similar to that of Xiapi and Xiaopei during the Three Kingdoms period, forming horns with each other!

As a trade center, the port does not need to spend much energy on defense capabilities. Its main role is to seek trade development. The establishment of a fleet was inevitable in the future, so Murphy did not even plan to erect a wooden palisade for the harbor. As the center of everything, this town, which is a newly built town on the highlands, was built by Murphy into a semi-enclosed private territory that is not open to the outside world.

Other people entering and exiting the town need to be strictly interrogated, and activities such as military training of weapons, construction of temples and sacrifices will be concentrated in this semi-enclosed inner city.

The port is only about three hundred meters away from the town, so Murphy has no worries about being unable to assist and retreat when encountering enemies.

As long as the materials and population keep up, Murphy will immediately start digging the river around the city, and then use the port as the periphery to build an inner city out of thin air.

This is a construction plan that can advance, attack, retreat and defend.

Because in the future, the port can be expanded as a side of the outer city.

Murphy's final idea is to build a large river city. For such a river city that mainly focuses on trade, the proportion of ports is very large.

Town residents are building houses in full swing. Because of the trade routes opened by the Marquise Elizabeth, there are not many aborigines coming to the port for slave trade.

Murphy wanted to build a series of hotels and expand the original business district.

Maintaining law and order were two teams of Greek infantrymen who had experienced the Jackal War and had rich experience. The wounds on their bodies and the resolute expressions on their faces all told the indigenous people that they were powerful warriors who had experienced bloodshed and killing. soldier!

This is force deterrence, which is very important to ensure public security!

Murphy once again found that he had underestimated the woman Elizabeth Marchioness.

Because of her talent, even Murphy couldn't help but be amazed!

This woman has an extremely good business acumen, and her sophisticated communication skills have also won her a lot of bonus points. This woman sold more than 900 jackal slaves in just seven days, and successfully created a slave trade boom in the southern plains.

Here, it must be explained in detail.

First of all, the furs of more than a thousand gnolls were the first to be sold off.

Black marketers are very welcoming of this kind of thing, because they have no worries about the sales of fur coats, even if it comes from a humanoid creature. This just makes it easier to work with and saves you a lot of manual labor!

For the poor living at the bottom and people living in some poor areas, the value of a dozen silver coins is only equal to two sheep.

Two sheep can't get you through a cold winter safely.

But a gnoll pelt does!

These biological furs, which are more than two meters tall, can keep humans warm in all aspects, and they are absolutely pure natural furs.

The sale of the gnoll fur gave Marquise Elizabeth a fund of more than 10,000 silver coins!

And the funds of these 10,000 silver coins are the starting point for her next plan.

As an aristocrat, this woman has the political acumen to match. In the following time, she mingled in the aristocratic circles within human beings, and successfully aroused the anger of the nobles who lost their territories and the sense of crisis among the nobles in the internal territories.

Of course, all nine hundred gnoll slaves were quickly ordered by the arena!

If it were just these, Murphy wouldn't be so amazed by this woman. What surprised Murphy the most about this woman was that she actually found a way to gain the approval of the noble council, and then gave them a desperate plan to deal with the jackals!

As we all know, the kobolds in the southern wilderness are causing trouble behind the human rear, which also prevents the human beings in the entire southern plains from concentrating all their efforts to defeat the gnoll army on the front line. The hindrance in logistical support forced the city-state coalition to be in an embarrassing position of passive defense. It was not that they did not want to attack, but that any action when they were attacked from both sides would likely lead to an irreversible disaster!

Of course, it would be better if this situation were postponed until the autumn. By that time, the new army would have been trained. With the human population of three million in the southern plains, there would be enough power even for a two-front attack.

However, the continued military inaction has also angered the young nobles who like military achievements.

In order to break the deadlock as soon as possible, they agreed without hesitation to the desperate plan proposed by the Marquise Elizabeth.

In fact, the plan of the Marchioness Elizabeth is very simple.

That is to support the nobles and vigorously promote the gnoll slave trade.

Whether it's a dead Gnoll or a living Gnoll, as long as you can bring it back, you'll get a reward!

Selfish desire is the greatest driving force in the human heart!

As we all know, slave traders have a very good armed force in their hands.

This group of armed forces only serves their private interests and their interests. So if you want this group of armed forces to be effective, you need to come up with enough benefits to attract them!

The number of humans who collapsed on the front line exceeded 200,000, and their hatred for the jackals was able to maintain the original basis of trade.

As long as the benefits are great enough, civilian slave traders and adventurers will flock there. These profit-seeking people will carefully avoid the Jackal army and attack the weak Jackals in the rear as much as possible!

And these are enough for the Parliament of Nobles.

The total number of jackals is only about one hundred thousand. Even if one jackal costs twenty silver coins, ten thousand jackals will only cost two hundred thousand silver coins. This amount of money is already a very small amount compared to the military expenditures and pensions consumed.

And losing 10,000 people is definitely a traumatic experience for the Jackals!

In fact, the noble council did not take into consideration the overly beautiful reverie of the Marchioness Elizabeth.

What they really valued was the harassment it would cause to the Wolfmen's rear.

As long as this kind of trade reaches a large scale, panic will definitely spread behind the Wolfmen.

After all, even wild beasts will feel scared and frightened when they see their own kind being stripped of their fur and sold as goods!

This is what the noble council wants most before the new recruits are trained.