Urban Sims

After opening up the plateau corridor and successfully carrying out a trade, the free trade alliance, which received a large number of slave miners and capital injections, made the originally depressed economy become full of vitality again.

In the second year, through this plateau commercial road, which has been paved with wooden tracks on most of the roads, with higher transportation efficiency, it brought nearly 100,000 people to the Free Trade Union within a six-month passage period. The number of slave miners is so huge that it even approaches one-third of the total population of the Free Merchant Alliance.

In order to effectively manage these large numbers of slaves, the member leaders of the Free Trade Union have carried out military system reforms one after another, imitating the "leader" system of the Glanland, and expanding their military strength.

This year, the mercenary trade union headquartered in Grandland developed even more rapidly, opening mercenary branches throughout the Free Trade Union, and setting up a mercenary station and information release center in each member's territory. The task release and information exchange mechanism is the same as that of the business website, but the update frequency is faster, the amount of information is larger, and the maintenance is more complex.

Because the threshold for registering as a mercenary is relatively low, the number of registered professional mercenaries in the mercenary union quickly exceeded 50,000 in just over a year. Barbarians, adventurers from many kingdoms in the south, etc., all came to this Free Trade Alliance in the corner of the continent with the dream of gold mining.

The number of registered mercenaries in the mercenary union has expanded to such a large number. Naturally, some mercenary organizations with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, because they have been effectively organized and Training, and after buying some plate armor, steel spears, steel crossbows, forged swords and other weapons at a discount from the blacksmith shop next to the mercenary union, the weapons and equipment on some mercenaries are not even weak. For the heavily armored knight.

As a result, there began to be some mercenary groups with a large number of people and excellent weapons. In order to get more rewards, together with some bold traveling merchants, they carried a large amount of merchant alliance goods from the territories of barons and even earls in some non-free merchant alliance areas. Go up and walk swaggeringly.

Not paying a penny of commercial tax, not paying a single copper in toll tax and rest tax, treating the lords of these territories as if they were nothing.

Are these ignored lords angry?

Of course he is extremely angry, but considering that there are only a few dozen knights in his hand, facing this group of well-equipped mercenaries with more than a thousand people, unless he is overheated or a lord who feels that this world is hopeless, he will basically use this The caravan guarded by many mercenaries was helpless.

The Kingdom of Arinor, adjacent to the southwest of the Kingdom of Voris, became the biggest victim of these large mercenary groups' wanton travel. There were only 6 counts in the country, and the Kingdom of Arinor, which was bullied by the surrounding "big powers", became Not to mention the "corridors" and "transit stations" through which large-scale mercenary groups transport goods, a fortress-style mercenary station was also established in this kingdom without permission, becoming a place where thousands of mercenaries can live and be stationed for a long time. place.

The king of Arinor Kingdom wanted to kill all these hateful mercenaries one by one and confiscate all the goods... but he didn't dare to do that because he couldn't do it even if he pulled out all the knights in the kingdom. The Kingdom of Areno has a knighthood of over 800 people, and considering that several surrounding "big countries" have always wanted to take advantage of this kingdom, they really don't have the strength to act willfully.

Seeing that the arrival of mercenary groups and caravans would have a certain stimulating and stimulating effect on the economy of his kingdom, the king of Arinor still chose to turn a blind eye and pretend not to care.

Therefore, this year, in addition to the plateau corridor, the trade routes opened up by large mercenary groups also brought a large amount of necessary materials and huge profits of more than one million gold coins to the Free Trade Alliance.

Things are looking great.

Also at the end of this year, a piece of news came from the Iron Castle Kingdom, which made Zhou Ming even more excited.

Because of being infected with wind and cold, the old king of the Iron Castle Kingdom became seriously ill and his life was in danger.

If nothing unexpected happens, this seemingly incompetent monarch will die of illness soon, and then the prince and his uncle will start a five-year civil war over the succession of the kingdom's throne, until both sides are exhausted. Neighboring countries took advantage of the situation and launched a collective siege. This kingdom in the northeast corner of the continent, which could be regarded as a medium-power country, would eventually collapse after losing a large area of ​​territory and split into two small countries that would not stop fighting.

Of course, Zhou Ming would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open up a vast development land for his small and restricted Glenland.

However, even if he knew that a civil war would break out in the Iron Castle Kingdom, Zhou Ming would not hastily intervene in the war at the beginning. That would be courting death.

It will take at least two years, after both sides have fought to the death, before it is too late to intervene with force.

During the intervening two years, Zhou Ming decided to implement another new plan of his, an adventure plan that was enough to change the world and lay a solid foundation for conquering the world.

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Soon after, on the task bulletin board of the Glenland Mercenary Union, Zhou Ming posted the first 3S-level task since the establishment of the mercenary union——

Mission name: Explore the new world

Mission requirements: Recruit a mercenary expedition team of 30 people. The mercenary level is required to be at Silver level or above. They have participated in plateau corridor transportation missions many times and can adapt to the alpine environment.

Mission reward: Come back alive, reward 50,000 gold coins per person, come back alive and achieve the exploration goal, reward 100,000 gold coins per person, upgrade all mercenary levels to legendary mercenaries (mercenary levels above Platinum level)

Mission Difficulty: SSS

Contrary to Zhou Ming's expectations, less than two days after this task was posted on the top bulletin board of the mercenary union, there were a lot of mercenaries who came to sign up, and they were extremely enthusiastic.

For these registered mercenaries, Zhou Ming conducted a screening according to the task requirements. After eliminating 80% of the applicants who did not meet the requirements, the remaining 100 mercenaries who met the requirements were interviewed one by one. Finally, the top 30 were selected and formed their own expedition team.

Coincidentally, among the 30 people, some of them are "old friends" Zhou Ming knew in his last life, such as Jie Luo, a thief who is now a gold mercenary. Axe Johnson, who was successfully promoted to silver mercenary, Leondo the one-eyed man, and the enchanting snake girl are also in this expedition team.

The dwarf Dom, who is good at digging traps, is not in this expedition team because his mercenary level is still black iron. Instead, he is an outstanding thief Biro who is somewhat related to the thief Jero. He is now a Platinum-level mercenaries are the highest-level mercenaries in the 30-member expedition team.

The staff is fully equipped, because it is the middle of winter at this time, and there are still more than four months before the snow mountain melts. During this time, Zhou Ming led the expedition team of 30 people and prepared various tools. , Came to the foot of the Ural Snow Mountain east of Yukonland, and conducted special training for more than three months on a plateau with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters in the ice and snow.

During the more than three months of hellish training, Zhou Ming and his 30-member expedition team became more adaptable to altitude sickness. Impacting their respective climbing records, constantly breaking through the limits of their physical fitness, and constantly increasing their confidence and ambition to challenge and conquer nature!

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