Urban Sims

Chapter 68 Expedition Team

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 10 people to the Free Trade Union within a six-month passage period. Such a huge number of slave miners is even close to one-third of the total population of the Free Trade Union.

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 site, but the update frequency is faster, the amount of information is larger, and the maintenance is more complicated.

Because the threshold for registering as a mercenary is relatively low, the number of registered professional mercenaries in the mercenary union quickly exceeded 5 in just over a year. Barbarians, adventurers from many southern kingdoms, etc., all came to this free trade alliance in the corner of the mainland with the dream of panning for gold.

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 heavy knights.

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. on, swaggering past.

Don't pay a penny of business tax, don't pay a copper toll tax and rest tax, and treat the lords of these territories as nothing.

Are these lords who have been brutally ignored angry?

Of course he was extremely angry, but counting the few dozen knights in his hand, facing this group of well-equipped and thousands of mercenaries, unless it is a lord whose head is overheated or feels that this world is unlovable, basically take this The caravan, guarded by many mercenaries, has nothing to do.

The Kingdom of Arino, which is adjacent to the southwest of the Kingdom of Voris, has become the biggest victim of these large mercenary regiments wantonly passing through. Not to mention the "corridor" and "transfer station" through which the large mercenary group transported goods, even without consent, a fortress-style mercenary station was established within the territory of the kingdom, which became a place where thousands of mercenaries lived and stationed for a long time. place.

The king of the Kingdom of Arino wanted to kill all these hateful mercenaries one by one and confiscate all the merchants...but he didn't dare to do that, because it would be impossible to pull out all the knights in the kingdom. The Arino Kingdom with a knight order of more than 800 people, and considering that the surrounding "big countries" have always wanted to eat meat from this kingdom, they really don't have the strength to be willful.

Seeing that the arrival of the mercenary group and the caravan has a certain stimulating and stimulating effect on the economy of the kingdom, the king of the Kingdom of Arino 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 Union.

The situation is very good.

It was also at the end of this year that Zhou Ming was even more looking forward to the news from the Iron Castle Kingdom.

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

If there is no accident, this seemingly incompetent monarch will die of illness soon, and then around the succession of the kingdom, the prince and the uncle will start a five-year civil war until both sides are exhausted. The surrounding countries took advantage of the situation and after the collective siege, the northeast corner of the continent was considered a kingdom of medium powers. After losing a large area of ​​territory, it would eventually collapse and split into two immortal small countries.

Of course, Zhou Ming would not let go of this golden opportunity to open up a vast land for development for his narrow land and various restrictions on Gran Territory.

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

At least two years later, after the two sides have lost both sides, it will not be too late to intervene by force.

During the two years in between, Zhou Ming decided to implement another new plan of his, an expedition plan capable of changing the world and laying a solid foundation for conquering the world.

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Not long after, on the task bulletin board of the Granling Mercenary Union, Zhou Ming released the first task with a difficulty factor of 3S since the establishment of the Mercenary Union——

Mission Name: Explore a New World
Task requirements: Recruit a mercenary expedition team with 30 people, silver-level and above mercenary level, who have participated in plateau corridor delivery missions many times, and can adapt to the alpine environment
Mission reward: Come back alive, reward 5 gold coins per person, come back alive and achieve the exploration goal, reward 10 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 in the east of Yukonland, and conducted special training for more than three months on a plateau with an altitude of more than 5000 meters in the ice and snow.

During the more than three months of hell-like training, Zhou Ming and his 30-member expedition team became more adaptable to altitude sickness. With their respective climbing records, they constantly break through the limits of their physical fitness, and they also continue to increase their confidence and ambition to challenge and conquer nature!

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