total war rise of empire

Chapter 115 Construction of the Arena
Lei Zihao has already learned from Li Qingmei that in this world where the jungle follows the law of the jungle, the power of commerce and capital is very weak, and there is often a powerful force standing behind a real big businessman, at least one with a reputation Yuanyang's military support is all it takes!
A caravan without force support will only become a fat sheep in the eyes of bandits and knights, and they will rob you without any negotiation!
Materials with real strategic value, such as iron ore, gold ore and other resources, are directly controlled by local lords and even churches. If there is no relationship and status, no amount of money can buy them!

Therefore, there is no market for capital war in this world. If you want to promote your own currency, you can only rely on swords and courage!

Many people can see the profit of minting coins, but in the human world, only the standard coins minted by the church are really popular. The coins minted by other nobles privately are at most circulated in their own territories. , the value of the currency will drop sharply, to the point that merchants would rather melt it and use it as gold bars and silver bullion...

In this world where force is paramount and the rights of nobles and theocracy are unlimited, Lei Zihao naturally doesn't have to worry about the disastrous consequences of the mandatory implementation of monetary policy, not to mention that things like gold are precious to ordinary people. Currency that is hard to come by can only be used in large-scale trade between merchants.

In the daily life of ordinary people, copper plates are the most used. Small silver coins are equivalent to large-value banknotes in later generations, and large silver coins are equivalent to the purchasing power of four-digit banknotes in later generations!

In this society where supplies are scarce and the currency has to be deflated, coins are really valuable!

After all, the role of metals such as gold, silver and copper is not only used as currency. Nobles and clergy who like ostentation often use gold and silver furniture and daily necessities on weekdays. Compared with art Due to the high profile of the products, those vulgar nobles prefer the intuitive gold and silver products, but the metal copper is not very popular in the upper class, and naturally, it has become the currency material commonly used by the lower class commoners!
Shortly after the mint was put into use, the buildings that were started during the same period received notifications of completion one by one!
This is the advantage of squandering gold resources and starting collective construction at one time. Lei Zihao can selectively accelerate construction according to the difference in construction period and importance, and then shortly after the completion of the first building, one building after another can be built one after another. Let all the buildings under construction be completed, ushering in an improvement in the overall attributes of Longhan City in a short period of time!

To be honest, Lei Zihao really likes the thrill of an explosive upgrade in a short period of time!
With the completion of the public bath, the last building other than the arena, Lei Zihao finally received the long-awaited notification of the completion of the small arena!
The small arena is a self-financed building. When training slave gladiators and champion gladiators, it will openly let slaves fight life and death in various senses, and collect tickets for the common people in Longhan City to maintain the arena. Operation!
It can also provide Lei Zihao with an extra tax!
Of course, the number is not much, after all, training slaves also costs money!

Slave gladiators are equivalent to the level of veterans who have experienced life and death among human soldiers, and they can be regarded as ordinary people who are dedicated to killing!
A champion gladiator is equivalent to the force of an ordinary trainee knight in the human world. The champion is just talking nicely, and it is used to increase the pleasure of the audience!
The size of the small arena is limited, and slaves can only be used to produce slave soldiers equivalent to apprentice knights...

According to the description of the total war system, the reason why the slaves in the arena can improve their physical fitness through life and death fights is mainly because the slaves who win in the arena can absorb the leftover life essence from the corpse of the loser!
After a long period of time, you can stack up a slave warrior who has experienced life-and-death battles, has sufficient fighting skills, and has improved physical fitness!

The most amazing thing about the arena is that the total war system penetrates the thoughts of the slaves in the arena through long-term constant fighting and tense nerves, and constantly implants the thoughts of loyalty to Lei Zihao!

The more times you fight during cultivation, the more this kind of loyalty is implanted, and the stronger the loyalty becomes!

For example, a slave gladiator that needs to consume a hundred strong slaves can only have a loyalty of about 5 stars, but a champion gladiator that needs to consume about 500 strong slaves can guarantee at least a loyalty of six stars!

However, whether it's Lei Zihao's opinion or the suggestion of the total war system, the two types of slave fighters produced in small arenas are all of the kind with extremely low cost performance.

Lei Zihao really looked down upon these gladiators, each of whom would consume hundreds of slaves, and could not even reach the combat effectiveness of a formal knight!
Even if these gladiators are completely born for killing and are more suitable for battlefield fighting than ordinary trainee knights and veterans, they still cannot make up for the cost-effective loss of so many slaves!
500 slaves, even if they are used as cannon fodder for meat shields, are better than a lonely trainee knight...

The real effectiveness of the gladiatorial arena is after being promoted to a level 4 large-scale arena. The large-scale arena can recruit gladiatorial berserkers who are equivalent to the combat power of formal knights, as well as bloodthirsty ones whose physical fitness is at the bottom of the great knights!
Even if he is at the bottom of the Great Knight Rank, he is still a serious Great Knight!

Every great knight is a guest of honor in front of the noble lords in the human world, and can be completely equal to the small nobles, or even more valued!

Whether it is a guard or an army's charge arrow, a great knight is quite a good existence. After all, there are very few real knight mentors in the human world, and their status is noble. If they reach the realm of knight mentors, they don't need to work for noble lords. After all, As long as the knight mentor is willing to pay the price, it is no problem for one person to enter the castle of an ordinary noble lord and slaughter the noble family!
"It seems that it is better to use this small arena after the main city has been upgraded to level 4. Let's keep those slaves for a while longer. It just so happens that the population limit of the city hall has been upgraded to level 4. , The gold coin resources saved during these days should be saved to upgrade the arena first, the temple of love and the temple of wealth, it will not be too late to build it when there is more money in the future..."

Knowing the benefits of the arena, Lei Zihao decisively postponed the Temple of Love and the Temple of Wealth, which were not built yet. I wonder if he will regret it when he knows the functions of these two temples?

(End of this chapter)