Summoning Total War

Chapter 56 Harpy (Part 2)

The rainy season has passed, and the southern plains have ushered in a period of sunshine.

It is already the beginning of summer, the breath of spring is gradually fading away, and there is a faint heat brewing in the air. The construction progress of the town of Athens was not delayed at all due to the weather. After the blacksmith shop was completed, the town residents arranged for Murphy to dig canals to divert water and plan the drainage channels for the entire town. This includes the prototype of the Ring City River and the design of future public toilets and public baths.

The construction progress of the temple has temporarily entered a peaceful period. Due to the population of the territory, it has not yet met the requirements for expanding the temple again. For now, they are just renovating according to the original progress, replacing most of the wooden structure with more magnificent marble!

In addition, the most busy construction area is the shooting range.

Because the stable does not have many horse resources at the moment, Murphy has not yet invested in the construction plan. However, due to the emergence of the Centaur Longbow at the shooting range, he had to change his plan and build the shooting range first. For now, the territory urgently needs a group of archers to increase long-range lethality!

The construction of a low-level shooting range is not complicated. All you need to do is plan a spacious space and give the archers a place to practice.

There is a lot of sand and gravel near the lower channel of the Nidolia River. The sand is very fine and can be used for paving roads and so on. The ground of the shooting range is paved with this sand, surrounded by wooden fences and targets. The shooting range covers an area of ​​about 60,000 square meters, which is a space about 400 meters long and 150 meters wide.

The shooting range is built next to the town's military camp, and it can be regarded as one of the military camps.

Murphy plans to gather all military training buildings in this area and then block it from the outside world.

The military camp is an important place, no one can get close to it!

It was about nine o'clock in the morning.

The location is a deep mountain forest in the southern plains bordering the Karazhan Mountains, nearly fifty kilometers away from Murphy's town!

The imitation of the centaur longbow was not successful. The reason was not because of the craftsmanship of the longbow, but because the wood quality that could be found near the town was not up to standard and could not meet the stringent requirements for making a longbow!

In fact, after the craftsmen in the town saw the centaur longbow for the first time, they learned the secrets of making it. The manufacturing process of a longbow is not complicated. What is difficult is the requirements for longbow users. But despite this, in the subsequent imitation process, the imitations produced were not up to standard! The problem lies in the wood. The wood required for making a centaur longbow is very hard and elastic. On Earth, the best wood for making is yew, but the wood used in the centaur longbow is somewhat similar to oak. But if asked what kind of wood it is, Murphy really can't recognize it.

In order to find alternative wood for making the centaur longbow, Murphy had to spend time to find out information about the wood-making of trees in this world from the experienced aborigines at the port. He also summarized the wood that could be found near the territory and tried to find a substitute for making a long bow.

Hard work pays off!

After spending two full days, Murphy finally learned from an aboriginal mercenary who had worked as a carpenter that there was a rare tree called 'ebony' on the outskirts of the Karazhan Mountains. This kind of tree was hard and It has elasticity and was once widely used by the elves to make bows and arrows. However, it is not easy to find this kind of wood, because most of them grow deep in dense forests, where ferocious beasts and some dangerous creatures are active.

And according to legend, some terrifying 'man-eating' plants will grow near the ebony!

The mercenary couldn't tell what it was specifically, because he had never personally looked for Ebony. However, according to Murphy's estimation, it should be some carnivorous plants similar to man-eating trees and man-eating flowers. This plant is not too dangerous, so as long as you are careful, there shouldn't be any big problems.

Now that we have clues, things will be easier to handle.

The wood elves living near the Karazhan Mountains migrated a long time ago. Therefore, if those ebony trees had not been destroyed, they should be near the elves' gathering place on the outskirts of the Karazhan Mountains. According to Murphy's estimation, considering the elves' preference for nature, the possibility of them destroying Ebony is not high. After all, the elves have the highest love for flowers, plants and trees among all races!

In the past two days, Murphy had a sudden idea to conduct an assessment on the literate and knowledgeable citizens within the territory. To his surprise, he actually found a talent among them.

Subsequently, the "Total War" auxiliary system gave Murphy a prompt to discover talents that could be recruited as followers.

This talent is young, about 25 years old. He comes from a merchant family and has a very good talent for trade. After testing his ability, Murphy, who had always been troubled by the lack of manpower around him, immediately promoted him to financial officer to assist in the management of territorial tax statistics and trade statistics. Murphy has to complain here. In the older era, it was not easy to find a talent with excellent arithmetic skills and statistics!

After the appointment is issued, the follower statistics listed in the auxiliary system are somewhat different.

Because what is displayed on the entourage page is the position appointed by Murphy - Financial Officer, but there is something interesting in front of these three words.

"Qualified financial officer (this person has a good business acumen. With his help, you can manage the territory more easily. Management +1, trade income increased by +10%)"

qualified!

This is the crux of the matter!

Murphy suddenly understood why several previously appointed territorial officials had not obtained the statistics of the auxiliary system. The key to this lies in their abilities!

The abilities of the previously appointed personnel did not meet the requirements of the "Total War" support system, so they were not worthy of being included in the scope of the followers.

Qualified financial officer!

Only qualified financial officers can increase the lord's management capabilities and truly help the lord manage the territory. As for those who are unqualified, of course, they can only be used as if they are not available.

With a qualified financial officer, Murphy was suddenly liberated from the tedious affairs of the territory!

He finally didn't have to personally calculate the material budget and inventory balance. Now he only needs to browse the statistical reports handed over by the financial officer regularly every day, and then make the next arrangements.

It is precisely because of this that Murphy now has time to personally lead a team to the outer reaches of the Karazhan Mountains to search for Ebony.

General Leo Dallie accompanied Plife to the Centaur tribe living in the Salma Basin to conduct trade. Currently, there is no manpower in the territory that can reassure Murphy. He had to make a trip himself before the new general was discovered.

To avoid trouble, Murphy brought only the cavalry of the general's guard.

In this way, if he encounters any danger, he can rely on the speed of his horse to escape.

Now, he had to find Ebony first. Then figure out how to ship them back.