The food is exquisite and delicious, and the lunch ends in the early evening.

During the banquet, Kant and James also had a detailed discussion about the future planning, especially the new village that was to be built on the other side of the old passage, at the mouth of the river.

This is Kant's third village.

It is also the third stronghold of power, a strong castle that is about to develop.

That's right, the new village, Kant intended to be built as a castle with a more significant military purpose.

This is related to the factor of the distribution of power, after all, at the mouth of the river, it is the junction of the Lion Principality, the Silver Plate Kingdom, and the Wasteland Wilderness, among which there are also hidden hidden forces such as the Dark Red Sect, the Resniston River Bandits, and the fleets of human countries.

It can be said that it is located at the mouth of the river, which is equivalent to the cusp of the storm.

Villages are easy to set up.

Development is also easy.

However, it is not so easy to survive the malice and attacks of many forces.

Or even tend to be difficult!

Cities are clusters of buildings for people's livelihood, and although they are protected by walls and towers, they are still slightly weaker than castles that are all military buildings and can be armed with the most sophisticated and sturdy city defenses.

The towering castle is the main body, and there are also walls and arrow towers as a line of defense on the perimeter.

Even if it is breached.

The castle itself alone can continue to resist stubbornly.

In the feudal era, the castle system in Western Europe was simply a turtle shell integrating defense.

In the Cold Weapons Period, even if you have an army of millions and all kinds of siege equipment, you can face a well-built high-level castle, even if there are only a thousand people stationed there, it will not help.

The numerical superiority had no effect on the face of such a building, which was made entirely of huge stone blocks.

This is true even if there are siege engines.

The era of cold weapons.

No army can easily defeat the defenders of the castle with the defenders united and reinforcements, and completely occupy this military building that has an absolute position in the history of defense.

It was only in the age of thermal weapons, that is, with the invention of artillery, that this phenomenon came to an end.

However, the castle had already evolved into a fortress.

The walls are no longer tall.

But it's heavy.

The main body of the castle is no longer huge.

But the scattered military buildings are intimately connected.

With the artillery of the defenders and the muskets held by the infantry, with a well-built bastion, it is no problem to resist ten times the number of enemy troops, which is also a strong performance of the European city defense in Dacheng!

The current Kant troops are elite, but they are small in number, and short-term training cannot achieve numerical superiority.

This cannot be compared with those forces with historical heritage.

Kant was worried about crowd tactics.

If there are 10 natives in exchange for the life of 1 system soldier.

For Kant, it was a loss-making deal, because among his forces, the current army was no more than 10,000 people, which was already his limit, after all, his population was only 25,000 people.

This is equivalent to 2.5 civilians for 1 soldier.

Most of them are cavalry!

So to speak.

If it weren't for the salt trade, which brought Kant a steady stream of dinars.

If it weren't for the countless cavalry worlds behind him, Kant would have collapsed on his own in the face of the huge military force he was struggling to maintain, and completely lost the capital to be able to conquer this world.

The reason why Kant did not directly launch a whale swallowing to sweep the Lion Duchy is worried.

Once the existing trading system is destroyed.

The dumping system in the planned colonies had not yet been established.

The blow to Kant would be fatal, he couldn't maintain such a huge army, and with a maintenance cost of close to 100,000 per week, Kant didn't dare to take risks easily, it was really like dancing on the edge of a cliff.

100,000 dinars per week.

That translates to 400,000 dinars per month.

The salt trade is carried out every two weeks, with a harvest of 250,000 dinars per harvest.

The monthly fiscal revenue is 500,000 dinars, but after deducting the maintenance of 400,000 yuan, and then removing all the daily consumption of food for the military and civilians, as well as miscellaneous expenses, there is basically not much dinar left.

The possibility of continuing the riot was not great in Kant's plan.

Of course.

Rioters must be rioters.

The next step is to deal with the siege of many enemies, and it will be a tragic and bloody battle.

Kant needed to locate the estuary and quickly establish a new village, and at the same time quickly upgrade the village to a fortress, and finally to a castle in the shortest possible time.

This is the kind of reliance that can be firmly established on the ground.

But others don't pretend to ignore it.

Estuary location, close to the Rythniston River.

It can be said that the merchant ships on the Resniston River can look north to find new villages at the mouth of the river, not to mention even larger fortresses or sprawling castles.

It is estimated that the fortress will be built to the point that the enemy's offensive is coming.

Therefore, Kant had to deliberate carefully.

Just build the village.

Then he must supply with all his strength to upgrade this village to the peak level of the fortress.

If you're lucky, it's even more foolproof to upgrade the fortress to the early stage of the castle before the enemies can react, so their tasks are extremely heavy, and they all press on the city.

Aaron, a city in the middle of the Sanwaya Mountains.

Will be the backing of the new village!

Long talk all night.

Kant and James deliberated until late at night before going to rest.

By the early morning of the next day, the desert bandits stationed at the mountain pass post had already galloped on horseback, speeding forward in the Narun desert, preparing to deliver orders to the "Drehem" castle in the sentry oasis.

The castle of "Drehem" was temporarily garrisoned by Manid and Jocelyn.

There are no anomalies at this time.

But they didn't let their guard down either.

Manid, in particular, had completely delegated the salt trade to Jocelyn, the former caravan leader, and asked him to carry out the salt trade with the Jianshi Pass on his behalf.

As for Manid, he led his troops to patrol the Narun Desert.

Centered on the Sentry Oasis.

Up to the salt mine station, down to the central station.

A large number of light cavalry mixed with a small number of elite heavy cavalry, the rolling torrent is extremely intimidating.

However, there was an effective situation, especially at the Salt Mine Station, where the cavalry routed many of the small groups of skeleton cavalry that were still trying to infiltrate the area, protecting the re-established Salt Mine Station.

And near the central post station, many spies sent by the Duchy of Lion were also cleared.

The current Narun Desert is already in danger.

Kant's arrangement is to tear a hole in this encircled predicament, to extend his own power, to truly touch the side of the human countries, and to exchange the suspicion and instability of those human forces for his own rapid development in the balance!

PS: I wish you all a happy New Year's Day~