"Lord Allen, please take a look, this is the latest income and expenditure." Chordak handed a book to Allen, frowned, and said, "I know that the adults want to support the hungry wolf to lead it, but it seems that you are dumping a little too hard. If this continues, it will soon affect the balance of the territory. Although all your investment in the past few days is your own private property, and your selflessness and generosity are admirable, I still have to remind you that it is time to put together the output of resources. ”

Alan opened the account book and saw that in the past three days, he had spent nearly 1.7 million gold coins, which was already about half of his private property. He nodded and said to Jordak, "Your mention is very timely, I know what to do." However, in the past few days, I have done the things that need to be done, and then I have to run the territory on its own. Construction and benefits are not visible in a short period of time. ”

"That's true, just like our Castle of Dawn, it has been through the hard work of our ancestors for several generations that it has reached its current scale. In my opinion, the resources you invested in the early stage are enough, and with the situation of the hungry wolf leader, it can fully support their early development, and as for the subsequent operation, it will take time to test. ”

Alan nodded, "Then next, it's time to expand the army." Chodak, in the past two days, I will sort out the information of the army. Including the number of people, equipment, etc. I'll decide how much to expand depending on the situation. ”

"I'll do it for you, sir."

Watching Jordak go down, Alan stretched. Jordak is also a man, he knows a lot about the management of his territory, but all he lacks is experience. Now is the time for him to train, and Alan needs that kind of talent. After the power here stabilizes, he will continue to expand into the hinterland of the empire in the future, and his center of gravity will definitely be tilted. Then the territory in the rear needs someone like Chodak to take care of it for him.

Despite having such a suitable helper as Edward, Lovely Edward's ability is not limited to the management of one or two territories, and Alan needs him to contribute in more ways. He had already thought about it, and when everything was arranged here, he returned to Storm City, and Edward had made a good cover for his identity; the second is to transfer Rins and the weapons workshop; The third is to let Edward and Father Miró and others move to the new territory.

Here, there is more open space for Edward and Father Miró to play. The latter, in particular, believed that the soil here was more suitable for the growth of the Church and the Crusaders.

It was true that Chowdak's efficiency was not to be said, and two days later, he had compiled a detailed and accurate army report for Allen. Judging by the current situation, it is clear that Allen's army is a little too small. After all, compared to the vast space of the three territories, an army of less than 1,500 people could not help but make people feel that they were strong on the outside. Among them, the miscellaneous soldiers brought by Allen before are also counted.

After reading it, Allen could only smile bitterly, he didn't feel that there was anything when the army that pulled less than a thousand people before turned to various territories, but now that it is stable, the number of this army is too small. Normally, the number of troops needed for the three territories should be around 3,000. At worst, it would take an army of about 2,000 men to be able to deploy flexibly when needed.

Now Allen's army is clearly not up to the standard quantitative requirements. Although there is no doubt about the quality of the army, when the territory is expanded, a corresponding number of soldiers is also necessary. Therefore, Allen decided to speed up the pace of army expansion, and with a stroke of his pen, he took out the million gold coins in his name as the early stage of the army expansion. With this fund, a wave of conscription soon set off throughout the territory.

Allen's military benefits have been widely circulated. Nothing is more talked about than when you fight the coalition of two knights outside Sunset City. Allen's miscellaneous army erupted with a terrifying momentum, and gold coins were at work. After all, it's not an army that can offer a bounty of one gold coin for the head of a person. At that time, Ryfus's army was rewarded with ten gold coins to boost morale, but when he heard that the enemy's reward was ten times that of his own, it had to be said that the morale of Castle of Dawn was severely damaged.

Now, Eren has removed the special reward of 100 people for 1,000 gold coins. After all, with the expansion of power in the future, the scale of the war will only increase. Killing 100 enemy soldiers in a single battle is not necessarily an exception, and if this reward is kept, then Allen's purse will have to shrink continuously. However, the most basic reward remained, the reward of exchanging a gold coin for an enemy soldier, and many enthusiastic young men enthusiastically signed up for the army.

Within a few days, Allen had added five hundred recruits. And this is almost all the blood of recruits in the three territories now, but it is still not enough for Allen. So after a few meetings, the content of the conscription was adjusted a little. The army was wide open, not only to ordinary people, but also to slaves. In Allen's domain, as long as there are slaves willing to join the army, then they can get rid of the status of slaves. And after three years of service, he can be freed. At that time, they can choose to retire from the army, or continue to stay in the army, enjoy the treatment of regular soldiers, participate in the competitive system, and so on.

As soon as the news spread, the territory almost exploded. Slaves are not stupid, as long as normal people know how to choose. However, not everyone supported Allen's policy, and the big merchants and slave owners strongly opposed it. Eventually, Alan and they agreed that as long as the slave was willing to join the army, he could pay the slave for the ransom first. As for this money, it was repaid to Allen in the form of service after the slaves joined the army.

In this way, those businessmen don't have much of an opinion, after all, they don't necessarily have much to lose. And after a large number of slaves joined the army, they first brought nearly five hundred recruits to Allen. At the same time, it also indirectly creates a large number of job opportunities for those ordinary collars. After all, the slaves are gone, but the business of the merchants is still maintained, but the work that used to be done by slaves is now done by the people. Inadvertently, it also stimulated the development of various industries in the territory.

In this way, Eren had a thousand more recruits, and they were scattered to two military camps in Dawning Castle and Sunset City for training. It was Roy and Bloy who trained them. By the time the training was over, Allen's army had numbered around two thousand five hundred. This amount is enough to maintain the security of the territory.

Among these people, Bloy can pick a few people he thinks fit to join the King of the Mountain and become the new members of that special team. As for the inch fire, Allen thinks that there is no need to expand, and now there are about 100 people in the inch fire, and each person has a set of equipment for the flame soldiers, which is not something that Heaven Star can get. However, it is a good choice to set up a reserve force, once a soldier is killed, as long as their equipment is not too damaged, they can be replaced by reserve fighters, so as to maintain the combat effectiveness of this army.

In fact, it is the Darkblade unit that needs to be expanded urgently. Now there are obviously not enough members of the Dark Blade of about twenty people, but Belmode, who can train this force, has not returned, and Alan can only give up. When Belmode returns, let him select qualified members to join the expansion, and at least expand the Dark Blade to about fifty people, which is in line with Allen's ideals.

Fifty highly skilled Darkblade warriors can act as assassins and spies, whether it is assassinating important members of the enemy, or spooping on intelligence and military intelligence, they all play a vital role.

It was only now that Alan felt that his career in Heaven Star was finally taking shape. But I don't know how long it will take to turn Paradise Star into my own colony planet. At least, there can be no real colonization until this human empire is in your pocket.

However, this planet is unexpectedly vast, and in addition to the known Balgaon Empire, there are behemoths such as the Goblin Court and the Shadow Park. Such a vast planet, even if it is handed over to the Federation to develop, it will be a matter of many years. What's more, Eren is only a member of a family, so the process of conquest will be even longer. However, it is the hardships of the process that make the fruits that have been obtained even more evocative.

When Allen was making a big deal and making every effort to develop the territory from commerce, agriculture and even the military, Jora, who had already arrived in the Bauhinia Territory, had a bit of a laissez-faire taste for the territory. She left much of the civil affairs work to Glar, and she either went in and out of the barracks or stayed in a small three-story building prepared for her. In this way, Glaal was tired, and he thought that Lord Viscount had just lost a large sum of money for no reason not long ago, and he was in a bad mood. I had no choice but to come to Bauhinia because of Oban's order, but I still had to fight against the endless work every day.

Fortunately, Oban brought his own staff out to help, otherwise Glar would not have known what to do. Bauhinia can be much larger than Sunset City's territory, and a larger territory naturally means more work. And when he thought that he didn't actually have real power here, Glar regretted that he shouldn't have agreed to Oban to take the job at that time.

However, complaining is complaining, and the work is always done, so Glaar gets up early and is greedy for night, and the diligence that he had before is active in front of others. Jora wasn't ignorant, she just looked in her eyes and smiled in her heart.

I thought that life would go on so uneventfully, but when Oban sent Daniel a third invitation to negotiate, Bauhinia Collar changed suddenly.

It was evening, and the afterglow of the setting sun would dye the mountains golden. Some farmers are planning to go home for a hot dinner after a day's work in their fields, and then rest early to prepare for the next day's work. The life of ordinary people is so ordinary and repetitive. However, in this seemingly boring life, there are also their own fun.

For those who did not possess great power, erudition, or military talent. Living a good life so that your family can eat and drink enough is the greatest achievement in this life.

When the sun was setting and the sky was lightened by the red glow, the three or five peasants came out of the fields. Say hello to each other, don't forget to make a few jokes, and then go home. Suddenly, a man stopped. As if hearing something, he turned to look to the other side of the mountain. There, the setting sun brings everything together into a silhouette. The silhouette was already dark, but under that silhouette, a darker figure appeared.

A horse neighed.

The rest of the peasants also turned around, so the expressions on these simple faces gradually changed from surprise to panic. In their eyes, there was a frightening picture. In the silhouette of the setting sun, there was first an extra war horse with a pitch-black body and a black iron harness. On top of the horse sat a knight, dressed in a black cloak with a crimson inside.

When the horse turned sideways, the cloak rose in the sun, and from the inside of the cloak, there seemed to be a tide of blood gushing out.

Covered in hideous spikes and adorned with dark red curves, the knight looks like a demon god from hell. He drew the richly decorated black greatsword at his waist and pointed in the direction of the village.

That's like a signal, a signal to attack!

Suddenly, behind the knight, more cavalry with black horses and black armor poured out, and a total of nine black knights galloped on horseback. Behind them, there were more infantry soldiers. Their banners and spears formed a moving forest of steel, and they charged at a constant speed towards the small village that belonged to the Bauhinia Collar.

The black steel forest soon spread to the village, and the small village disappeared like a wave in the angry sea, quickly overwhelmed by the steel army. The houses in the village were razed, the men who resisted were killed, and the women and children were gathered together by the wolf-like soldiers and imprisoned in the cells that accompanied the army. Then, the demonic leader himself set the village chief's house on fire. Soon, the village was burned to the ground, including the fields that had been the result of the farmers' efforts.

When the black iron forest moved again, the village was reduced to ruins under the flames.

Three villages in a row were razed under the iron heel of this army, and soon the news reached Jora's ears the next day. As soon as it was dawn, Glar was woken up and invited into the chamber. As soon as he stepped into the chamber, he felt that the atmosphere was solemn, especially the earl's sister, who had been lazy since coming to the territory, was fully armed today, and Glaar knew that something big must have happened.

After he sat down, Jora's sword-like gaze swept over the faces on both sides of the table, and he said in a deep voice, "Just last night, three villages in our territory were attacked by destructive people. According to the information we have obtained, the other side is under the banner of Daniel. As for the true situation, we are still investigating. But judging by the trajectory of that army's movements, they will eventually get here. So guys, let's get ready for war! ”R1058