Chapter 538: Controversy
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As soon as Cook looked at the expressions of Shanna's father and the Medusa elders around him, he knew that these guys suspected his intentions, and Cook sighed and said, "Alas, you guys are wrong!"
"The reason why I did this is entirely for you, because according to the law of the Mekai Empire, as long as the settlement reaches the level of a town, witch doctors and priests will be stationed, and it is more suitable for you Medusa to establish a town.
I know you Medusa like to live in swamps, but I would say that the environment of the swamp is not conducive to the growth of the next generation. Cook then explained.
"How can it be detrimental to the growth of the next generation?" Shanna's father's face looked much better, because if there were witch doctors and priests, then the situation would be different.
However, Shanna's father didn't think at all that Cook had actually dispersed the power of the temple by doing this, and the priests who were previously under the jurisdiction of the temple were directly under the jurisdiction of the empire, and this measure of sending the priests to the town was very popular with the orc people, even if some people in the temple didn't want Cook to do this, but without the support of the people, they couldn't afford to make much noise.
There are a lot of priests in the Medusa snake people, but because of the number of the entire race, it is scarce, and of course, Cook can only send the Medusa snake priests, because the living environment of the Medusa snake people is too special.
"I can't explain this, but I'm just saying that there are more poisonous creatures in the swamp?" asked Cook rhetorically.
"Oh!" Elder Medusa didn't quite understand, but the poison in the swamp was correct.
"And the establishment of a town is also good for the protection of weak families, and every town has a sheriff, and there are vigilantes to maintain law and order, which are the main forces to protect the town, and of course each race has its own militia!" Cook then explained.
Shanna's father asked suspiciously, "What is the militia?"
"How to put it, our Mekay Empire implements a mercenary system, that is, our soldiers don't need to do anything else, all they have to do is fight ....... Cook replied explanatorily.
But when he said this, he was interrupted by Shanna's father: "You have so much food to feed those guys?"
Cook was speechless about this question, a soldier like an orc, in fact, is not even as good as a militia, even if it is a human empire, there are only knights and knight servants, knight squires are full-time, and the rest of the infantry are gathered by farmers, those nobles think that soldiers are like this, because in the eyes of nobles, war is time after all, it occupies very little time, so let a sufficient labor force put down farm tools, that is their biggest loss.
And often the people who fight are young and middle-aged, relatively speaking, they eat more, if they don't work again, then they come and go, the losses will be great, and the orc empire is even more unbearable, because human farmers will train for a few days a year, and orcs will not train at all.
When waging war, each orc tribe will issue a conscription order to the tribes, and then the tribes will form squads, and the brigades and races will form a coalition.
Once the war is over, then these orcs will go back to their own homes and find their own mothers, and the weapons and equipment of the soldiers of the orc empire are still prepared by themselves, so you can imagine how low the combat effectiveness is, but even so, the strong physique of the orcs is still higher than the combat effectiveness of the elite soldiers of the human race.
"The problem is solved in a different way. Half-ringing, Cook thought about what to say.
"What's the algorithm? No, you just have to tell us what the militia is?" Shanna's father had a headache, you must know that orcs have congenital defects in calculation, so Shanna's father simply didn't ask how to calculate, but directly asked what the militia was.
"You are now a militia, with two months of training every year, and then in peacetime it is under the control of the sheriff, but most of the time, the militia is still doing its own thing, and it will only gather after the sheriff has issued a mission. Cook breathed a sigh of relief, the relationship between the militia and the mercenaries Cook didn't want to make it clear for the time being.
"Oh!" the Medusa Snake Elders let out a chorus, apparently understood.
"But this militia ....... One of the Medusa elders stopped talking.
"Hehe, the equipment and salaries of the militia are paid by the empire, and as a militia, you can also have preferential taxes and benefits. Cook continued with a smile.
"Taxes?" Shanna's father looked at Cook with a frown.
Cook helplessly explained: "It's not a poll tax or anything, it's a commodity tax, which means that merchants will be taxed." ”
Shanna's father and the others immediately relaxed, because although the orc empire was huge, there had never been a force that said that it would collect taxes, including the tribal elders, the imperial family, and the temple, none of which had that power.
This is also the orc empire in the war only to the tribe to send a call order, and then weapons, equipment, food are prepared by the tribe itself, and each tribe will send logistics personnel, in fact, grazing livestock to follow the army forward.
The only source of wealth for the Orc Empire is the distribution of the spoils, because a part of the loot belongs to the Empire, which is why the Orc Empire likes to wage war.
And in the Orc Empire, after the death of the war, there is no need for the empire to be compensated, but to take it out of the spoils, if there is no spoils, hehe! The empire doesn't care, so the war is a no-loss deal for the royal family of the Orc Empire.
As for the commodity tax that Cook said, Shanna's father and others didn't care, and these guys knew that since the cost of merchants had increased, then merchants would have to earn the same profits, and only price would increase, so it would be bluffing to say that no taxes were collected, but in fact, taxes had already been collected.
"And what exactly is the town?" asked Shana's father again in detail.
Cook explained one by one, this time after several hours of negotiations, the Medusa Snake people decided to build a city, a city of Medusa's own, as for the specific location of the establishment of the Medusa snake people to see the muddy swamp environment before making a decision.
"Your Excellency Cook, we'll do our best to get ready!" Shanna's father said goodbye to Cook as he looked at the group of Medusa warriors.
"Well, I'm waiting for your good news!" Cook knew that migration was not an easy task, especially the migration of millions of people, and all the aspects that needed to be prepared would have to be prepared for at least a few months, and it was already winter at that time, which meant that even if the Medusa snake people were to migrate, it would have to be next year.
"Thank you, Your Excellency, for the gift!"
"Lord Cook, goodbye!" The Medusa snake elders also said goodbye to Cook one after another, in fact, in the eyes of these Medusa, Cook, the mastermind behind the Mekai Empire, is the same as the royal family of the Orc Empire, these elders are not afraid at all, because these elders think that their clan is in their own hands.
However, when these Medusa snake elders thoroughly understood the Mekay Empire, they regretted this decision, but by that time it was too late, and in the end, the Council of Elders and the Patriarch were only nominal organizations, and had no actual rights at all.
The Medusa snake people did not return to the Orc Alliance camp, but went back to the territory directly, and the high-level of the Orc Empire only learned the news after half a month, but the departure of tens of thousands of Medusa was nothing at all for the Beast Army.
In the Orc Coalition Camp, dozens of clan chiefs, as well as the three royal families, the high priest of the God of War Temple and others gathered together, and the Minotaur patriarch asked with a gloomy face: "Can any of you tell me, what happened to the Scarlet Fortress opposite, why did there be an extra 100,000 ogres for no reason, don't tell me that the ogres are under the jurisdiction of humans!"
"We have some information about this, but this information is a bit bizarre. The patriarch of the cat people replied lightly, the cat people are responsible for collecting intelligence.
"Let's talk about it!" the patriarchs of the three royal clans looked at each other, and finally the patriarch of the tiger clan, Silver Tiger, spoke.
"The Empire of Man paid to hire ogres! These ogres came out of the Natal Mountains. The cat-man patriarch hesitated and replied.
"Haha. Haha!
"It's, it's just, the ogre knows how to make money?"
"Oh my God, this ogre has a developed brain and knows about money, but I doubt the ogre can tell the difference between 1, 2, and 3. ”
"Idiot, you actually fool us with such information!" "The patriarch of dozens of tribes of the orcs, the elder laughed when he heard the news, and said everything.
If you want to say what the ogre is, it can only be compared with the bees on the earth, and someone once asked me if your domestic bees sting their own people, I was sweating profusely, and then I replied with a wit: "The name is crazy, you say that stinging people do not sting." ”
Ogres are like this, they don't recognize people at all, and no one says that they can make a deal with ogres or anything, ogres believe in robbing, to put it bluntly, ogres actually occupy a little more of the beast's composition, so the cat people say that humans hire ogres, and the patriarchs of these orc tribes will laugh.
The cat-man patriarch was a little embarrassed, because in times of war, it was even more difficult to collect intelligence, especially when it was separated by a bloody fortress.
Yinhu said loudly: "Quiet, I think it's very possible!"
"Silver Tiger?" The patriarch of the leopard clan and the lion clan immediately looked at the silver tiger in surprise, just like looking at an idiot, don't look at the three royal clans as a pot stirring a spoon, but the contradiction between the three races is not small, because the orc king of the empire is the three royal clans according to the strength competition to decide who does it, and it is changed every three years, so the three royal families are not monolithic, but they have to unite when facing the temple and various tribes.
"Hmph, then do you think that the Scarlet Fortress is occupied by ogres?" asked Silver Tiger angrily, thinking that the cat-man patriarch was covered by a tigerman.