Lord of Scourge: Begin as a Demon Archduke

Anol's eyes lit up, but then his face was a bit bitter.

"Lord Lauren, although Decker City does not lack refugees, it is really too difficult to open up wasteland in the endless wasteland.

Few refugees are willing to take risks in a newly established territory, after all, no one wants to court death.

This is also the reason why the lords of the wasteland often come to buy slaves first..."

Lauren didn't feel depressed when he heard the words. After pondering for a moment, he looked at Robert with burning eyes.

"President Robert, if a high-ranking nobleman from Silver Moon Capital,

Carrying a large amount of funds and platinum-level top powerhouses to the endless wasteland to establish a territory,

Now we need to recruit civilians to join, how many people do you think will be willing to join? "

A few people's eyes lit up, this idea seems to be good, but in the next second, they changed their opinion.

"Furthermore, that benevolent noble lord has decided that all commoners who follow him can obtain land for free cultivation.

And within two years, no tax will be collected from civilians.

The ambitious nobleman who has the support of his family and wants to build a second city of Decker in the endless wasteland is the descendant of the Bauhinia family—Lauren Grant."

As soon as this remark came out, Fianna, Arnold and Robert looked at Lauren in shock.

"Land for free?? And no charge to civilians for two years?"

Robert's tone was unbelievable.

"Master Luo Lun, if your words are spread, I'm afraid it will cause a huge sensation!!"

Arnold looked at Lauren with even more horror.

After the expansion lord establishes a territory, the fastest way to obtain funds is to sell the land and collect taxes at the same time, which is the foundation of the development of the territory...

"Master Lauren, doing this is too contrary to the rules and common sense..."

The lord provides military protection, and the residents provide taxation. This is a rule that has never changed for millions of years.

Land and taxation are the lord's greatest wealth. Once the land expansion lord gains a foothold, he will often choose to sell the land in his territory to obtain funds.

And some nobles or civilians who can't survive in other places will choose to buy land from those powerful land expansion lords.

Now Lauren directly wants to distribute the land for free, and at the same time not collect taxes for two years, which directly challenges their inherent philosophy.

Even Fianna, who didn't care much about these things, looked at Lauren with a puzzled expression.

Robert couldn't help but speak persuasion.

"Master Lauren, if you do this, the people in the territory will have no income for a long time, and your investment cost may increase ten or twenty times..."

Even if Lauren is a descendant of the Bauhinia family, he can't do things so out of line...Distribute the land to those lowly commoners? !Why? ?

And without the land, what kind of land reclamation lord would you do?

Goddess, the devil must have blindfolded him! !

Lauren looked at them in surprise. Don't these guys know that people themselves are the most valuable asset?

Now everything in Gray Eagle's territory is blank, there is nothing, no one will develop and guard those lands, what's the use?

If you can use the method of free land distribution to gather a large number of residents, it will definitely be infinitely better than just watching.

Only with people can we have everything.

As the most important means of production, people are definitely not comparable to other things.

As a modern person, Lauren's vision has long gone beyond the confinement of the inherent concepts of this world, and Robert and the others have been too deeply influenced by the rules formed by the main plane of Noel for millions of years...

[19.Chapter 19 Mission: Conquer the Impossible, Battle Will Boiling]

Robert and the others tried their best to explain the harm of Lauren's actions, but in the end they still failed to convince Lauren as they expected.

Instead, a few words from Lauren shook their hearts, and felt that the whole world was shaken.

"Are the rules formed over millions of years necessarily correct?"

"What if it's the world that's wrong?"

Looking at the few people with confused eyes, Lauren didn't bother to explain to them what liberating productivity was.

When people encounter something that they cannot understand in most cases, they will often not choose to accept it, but will try to deny it in order to maintain the rationality of their ideas.

Human weakness.

When the servants around heard this, they were in mixed moods. Some looked at Lauren like a madman, and some wondered whether they should inform the family. If the noble lord is really willing to distribute the land for free, then the advantage is not in vain. Don't take it.

"Master Lauren, I believe that your wisdom will not go astray, so we won't say more."

Under the shock of Robert's mind, he quickly changed the subject. Lauren's idea was too outrageous, and it was difficult for him to accept the values ​​he had formed for decades.

"Do you need to buy all these human slaves?"

Lauren nodded.

"Send someone to check their abilities, and I will take away those with special skills."

After speaking, he glanced at the weak orcs in the room, and shook his head in disappointment.

"Do you have a channel to buy strong slaves? Bronze-level best..."

Silver-level slaves range from 15 to 20 a piece, and he can buy more than 100 if he spends all the money in his hand.

In contrast, 5 bronze-level slaves are much cheaper, and it doesn't hurt to buy two or three hundred slaves.

And as long as he is given a period of time to develop, he can upgrade these soldiers to silver and gold.

"Strong slave?"

After Robert thought for a moment, his eyes lit up.

"Master Luo Lun, the Golden Knights of the city lord went to siege the dragon half a month ago and captured a large number of mountain barbarians..."

"I heard that the mountain savages are extremely powerful in combat. At the same level, only humans who have awakened the power of their blood can fight with them. It fully meets your requirements..."

Then there was some hesitation.

"But those savages are unruly, as stubborn as rocks, and difficult to submit.

I heard that after being captured by the city lord's Golden Knights, the barbarians have killed or injured hundreds of people because of their resistance..."

Lauren's eyes lit up.

The barbarians are a race that lives in the cold areas of high mountains. They are burly and strong, and they can fight tigers and leopards naked in the ice and snow. They are barbaric and crazy.

They regard death as their destination, like to fight, worship the strong, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

A natural warrior.

It fit his requirements very well.

"Come on, take me to see it."

Seeing Lauren's excited expression, Robert nodded with a smile, and immediately turned to lead the way.

Fianna, who had been silent all the time, followed behind Lauren with sharp eyes, scanning the left and right all the time to prevent any danger.

But their group was dressed so well, and no one dared to get too close.

Ten minutes later, after passing through the crowd, Robert stopped in the most central area.

A separate five-story boulder building in front of him is the largest chamber of commerce in the slave trading market—the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce.

It is said that the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce was named after the first city lord of Decker City after his mount - a black griffin.

Relying on the backing of Decker City, the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce has already become the largest chamber of commerce in the northern border.

From slaves to silk and cloth, from grain to salt and steel, there are traces of the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce in almost all industries.

At the gate of the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce, Lauren saw many young nobles wearing noble robes like him, gathering in twos and threes to chat.

Among the reception staff at the door, an obese steward warmly greeted Lauren immediately after seeing the impressive Lauren.

Seeing the aristocratic crest on his chest from the corner of the eye, he was slightly taken aback. Why does this aristocratic crest look so familiar? ?

"Dear noble lord, welcome to the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce. Could you please tell us what you need, and we will immediately arrange for someone to prepare for you."

Robert was envious when he saw this scene. In the past, when he came to the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce, let alone being received so respectfully, those guards would have regarded him as a great thing.

In contrast to the two, Robert felt the comfort of having a backer for the first time.

Subconsciously straightened his chest, showing pride...

Lauren was already used to this, and didn't respond at all.

"I heard that the Golden Knights of the city lord captured a group of high mountain barbarians. It just so happens that my territory needs a group of slaves."

Hearing this, the obese middle-aged male steward in a tuxedo was taken aback for a moment, with a strange expression on his face.

"My lord, those savages are still being imprisoned... If you need it, I will take you to see it right away."

What Lauren didn't know was that in front of him, there were already dozens of nobles who wanted to buy barbarians...

The reason why the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce did not sell those barbarians was because those guys were too stubborn to be tamed at all, they were as smelly and hard as stones.

Moreover, the other party was not afraid of death. Almost two-thirds of the captured barbarians had been killed, but they still couldn't make them surrender.

But what's interesting is that because of the stubbornness and fearlessness of the barbarians, many nobles were attracted to come and want to tame these barbarians.

But the result was surprising. All the nobles who came came back without exception.

This directly boosted the prestige of the barbarians, and even the younger generation of nobles were secretly competing to show their strength by taming the barbarians that others could not tame.

And today there was a competition among the younger generations of nobles, and the fat steward subconsciously thought that Lauren was one of them when he arrived.

Although there was still a smile on his face at this time, he looked down on Lauren a little in his heart, and he was also a son of a nobleman who didn't know the heights of heaven and earth.

That is a barbarian, powerful and fierce, a powerful warrior who is not afraid of death!

Even the Lord City Lord's Golden Knights can't make the other party surrender, so how can you tame the other party?

Lauren didn't know about these messy things, he had very few sources of information, and Arnold was just a low-level thief, so he didn't know about so many nobles.

A group of people followed the fat steward into the Black Feather Chamber of Commerce.

After some detours, Lauren and the others were brought to an open-air spacious area.

There are not many guests here, only some staff in uniforms are shuttling.

There are hundreds of iron cages neatly arranged all around, and all of them are forged from wrist-thick steel. Only a giant dragon can break free with brute force.

The number of iron cages in which slaves are held is not large, but they are all extremely ferocious races.

At this time, in front of the iron cage in the most central area, dozens of gorgeously dressed young nobles looked excitedly at the slaves in the iron cage.

"Is this the barbarian captured from the lonely mountain?"

"What a strong body!! The City Lord's Golden Knights are probably not so strong!"

"Look, that barbarian chief is at least two meters tall, he looks like a bull!!"

"I heard that even Acton is going to make a move today??"

"Acton is a gold junior fighter, tsk tsk tsk, I wonder if he can tame these stubborn guys today..."

Under the guidance of the fat steward, Lauren came to the iron cage like the nobles. Hearing the discussions around him, he became a little interested and looked inside.

The group of savages sitting silently on the ground made his eyes shine.

Strong, extremely strong, this is his most intuitive impression of barbarians.

These savages are dressed in clothes made of animal skins, with obvious muscles that make the clothes bulge up.

Those muscles exposed to the air were full of explosive strength, and scars of all sizes were clearly visible on them.

The sharp eyes are like a hunting wolf, capable of tearing the enemy into pieces at any time.

And according to the speculation of the two barbarians leaning on the iron cage, the height of these guys is generally over 1.9 meters.

Even the strongest exceeded two meters.

With some curiosity, Lauren used the Eye of Reality to check.

barbarian

Level: Bronze Advanced