The Queen's Engineering Army

Chapter 45

Su Lin didn't expect the trade to go so smoothly, so he sold eight carts of goods that day, and Zheng Gan promised to bring three carts of salt and two carts of tea tomorrow.

Salt is a material that is in short supply and consumes a lot, but the demand for tea is not so great.

Let Ma Yun tell Zheng Gan that if he wants three carts of salt and one cart of tea, can he pay for the rest.

Zheng Gan also couldn't laugh or cry. The extra cart of tea was originally a gift, just for the long-term cooperation in the future.

The other party actually returned the tea leaves and exchanged them for cloth coins, which felt wrong no matter how they were calculated.

After exchanging a thousand cloth coins, these more than 30 people booked a remote inn in Nanzheng City. They booked a total of ten rooms, but it was only fifty cloth coins, which was quite cheap.

The best room in the inn where Su Lin stayed.

At night, Su Lin tossed and turned in bed and couldn't fall asleep. Recently, he kept having the same nightmare. Coupled with Yue'er's disappearance, he felt more and more irritable.

"The Black Armored Army should be the Qin Army. I have the same dream every day. What does it mean?"

Su Lin lay on the bed, looking at the roof, trying to understand the mystery of this nightmare.

If you can't sleep, just find something to do. Sulin clicks on the information interface to check the detailed information.

Monarch: Surin.

Level: 2.

Gold: 9350
Population: 392/400.

Territory: None.

Generals: None (recruited by building a tavern).

Soldiers: Militia 108.

Villager: 264.

Buildings: Village Center (Level 1), Residential Houses (317), Warehouses (Level 1), Mills (Level 1), Blacksmith Shops (Level 1), Barracks (Level 1), Docks (Level 1)….

Wood: 940.

Food: 9848.

Metal: 5585.

Stone: 3470.

During this period of time, a lot of wood was consumed, whether it was making furniture, fishing boats or residential houses, a lot of wood was needed.

Although there is no shortage of wood in the mountains, the felling cannot keep up with the speed of consumption.

Check out the details column for experience gained.

You can view the experience and gold coins gained from building houses, making furniture, and hunting wild animals.

There are also gold coins harvested by the houses every day. Now that the militia has stopped recruiting, a lot of gold coins are produced every day, almost breaking the [-] mark.

"The upper limit of gold coins is 1 plus the level multiplied by [-]. You can carry up to [-] gold coins at the moment. If you reach the upper limit, it will stop increasing." Sha Niu reminded.

"I'm dizzy. Fortunately, I checked it, otherwise it would be a waste. Hurry up and buy it."

Regardless of whether he needed it or not, Su Lin packed and bought all the furniture drawings he could buy, as well as the drawings for making weapons in the blacksmith shop.

A drawing of 50 gold coins to 100 gold coins, more than 8000 gold coins were removed at once, and the gold coins bottomed out.

"The population is about to reach the upper limit. Is there no other use for gold coins besides purchasing blueprints?"

Su Lin felt that the role of gold coins should be great. Resources such as wood can be collected, but the growth of gold coins is indeed fixed.

"After you build the tavern, you will need to spend a lot of gold coins to recruit generals. The special units of the barracks also need gold coins, and the price of the subsequent architectural drawings will be much higher, so the gold coins are still very useful." Sha Niu reminded.

……All right.

What Su Lin is looking forward to most is the generals system. If he can recruit the most powerful generals in history, such as Lu Bu, Guan Yu, and Napoleon, wouldn't it be amazing.

"Ahem, just a reminder, foreign countries cannot recruit, nor can they recruit generals who have existed in this time and space for plus or minus 200 years."

Sha Niu is very polite to play Duan Su Lin's unrealistic fantasy.

"Oh, foreign ones won't work, then Lu Bu and Guan Yu can also make do with it." Su Lin also felt that it was a bit too heaven-defying to be able to recruit foreign generals.

"Lu Bu, Guan Yu is a legendary general, the chance of being recruited is very small, so you have to have a psychological expectation." Sha Niu said.

"Legendary military general? What do you mean?" Su Lin asked with a question mark on his face.

"Generals are divided into four levels, ordinary (white), elite (blue), epic (purple), and legendary (orange). The higher the quality, the harder it is to recruit. As for the details, you will know when you build the tavern." Silly girl explained.

"So this is ah."

Su Lin is more and more looking forward to recruiting generals, and it seems that he will not give awesome generals from the beginning, it should be a long-term development of generals system.

I chatted with Sha Niu for a while, and felt that the time passed quickly.

After chatting until midnight, Su Lin let out a sigh and fell asleep.

The next day, Su Lin got up early with dark circles under his eyes, and was going to hand over Zheng Gan's caravan, so he got up very early.

"My lord, you didn't sleep well yesterday? Why don't you go to hand over the goods, my lord, let's take a rest." Seeing that Su Lin's mental state is not good, Ma Yun stepped forward and asked with concern.

Su Lin let out a breath and waved his hands: "No, let's set off to deliver the goods quickly. We'll go back when we go down the street to buy some clothes."

The journey is relatively long, and we should start before noon, otherwise we will not be able to reach Dahan Village in the middle of the night.

Walking to the street, I felt that the atmosphere in the city was different.

There was an atmosphere of tension, panic, and even heaviness.

Su Lin sensed that something was wrong, and quickly asked Ma Yun to inquire about what happened.

Ma Yun took the order and went to a tavern, and came out not long after.

"My lord, I found out that the people in Nanzheng are discussing the Chuyue war, and just last night a new military situation reached Nanzheng."

"Two days ago, Chu State dispatched 25 troops, and Yue State dispatched 20 troops to fight at the border. As a result, Chu State was defeated, with 5 casualties. Now the Chu army has tightened its defenses and retreated, losing five cities."

Ma Yun handed over his hand and reported what he had learned.

"What? Chu was defeated?"

Su Lin frowned, shouldn't, and felt relieved after thinking about it.

Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs. As long as it is not a deterministic war of annihilation, one or two defeats cannot determine the final result.

In the end Chu State will still win.

"It seems that we should set up a stronghold in Nanzheng City, so that we can grasp any situation in time."

Su Lin was also thinking about this while sitting in the bullock cart.

Rent a large shop here and sell furniture and even weapons made in Dahan Village. Salt and iron are strictly controlled in various countries. If Mr. Zheng Qian helps, it should be no problem to open a shop.

Soon they arrived at the courtyard where Zheng Qian's caravan was located. In this large courtyard, there were more than 30 trucks, large and small, lined up neatly. Some were loaded, and some were empty.

I heard that this big courtyard is also Zheng Qian's property, really rich.

It was not convenient for Su Lin to come forward, and he was afraid of trouble, so the handover was handed over to Ma Yun.

"Director Ma, I wish our cooperation in the future smooth."

When Zheng Qian said goodbye to Ma Yun, Ran's servant prepared two bronze wine barons, poured fine wine, and drank with Ma Yun.

"Duke Zheng is too polite."

Ma Yun was not stage-frightened, so he picked up the wine jug and drank it all in one gulp.

"Haha, walk slowly."

Zheng Qian also drank all the wine in Jiujue and saw Ma Yun off.

"I bid farewell, I will see you later."

Ma Yun handed over his hand, got on an empty ox cart, and the group returned to Dahan Village.

Watching Ma Yun and his party walk away, the strong middle-aged guard next to him asked puzzledly:

"My lord, a villager from the countryside, how about such preferential treatment?"

Zheng Gan is a well-known rich man in Chu State, and he also has property in various countries. Besides, he is over 60 years old. It feels too embarrassing for them to come here to see Ma Yun off in person.

"You don't understand, they are not ordinary people."

Zheng Gan narrowed his eyes slightly, and there was a gleam in his eyes.

"Not an ordinary person?" The guard was puzzled, how extraordinary it could be.

"Hehe, let the housekeeper tell you."

Zheng Gan chuckled, this guard is also someone close to him, so he can know some things.

The old man in black standing behind, about 50 years old, with gray hair, felt rather gloomy. He stepped forward and said slowly:

"Master asked me to investigate their caravan. I spent one night and found out some clues. Among them was a guard named Wei Qi, who was the son of Lord Shang of the Qin State. He was chased and killed by the son of the Qin State more than a month ago. One of the members of Shangjun clan was Wei Qi, who was rescued by a group of mysterious people when he fled to Luofeng Valley on the border of Qin and Chu, and killed more than 100 cavalrymen of Qin State."

"Until now, the State of Qin has not found out who saved Shang Yang's clan."

After the steward finished speaking, the guard was shocked, "Killed more than 100 elite cavalrymen of the Qin State? How many of them died?"

As a martial artist, the guard knew the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Qin army. It was impossible to kill more than 100 cavalry without paying a higher price.

"It is said that the other side ambushed the cavalry of Qin State, with zero casualties." The butler said after pondering for a while.

"This group of peasants is really not simple." The guard finally understood why the master valued these people so much.

If Su Lin heard it here, the trade union would definitely feel his scalp go numb.

This intelligence ability to collect information is too terrifying.

There was something that Qin State had not found out for such a long time. The old man just felt that Su Lin's caravan was a little unusual, so he sent someone to check it out. So much information could be found out in one night.

It's so terrifying.

(End of this chapter)