The Swordsman of Faerûn

As the saying goes, if you have food in your hands, don't panic in your heart. As long as there is this fertile soil of "his poison, my honey", human beings will never have to worry about the survival and reproduction of future generations, unless someone can completely wipe out the entire human race in one go. extinct.

As far as William knows, there are still many lands in the world that are similar to valleys left by human ancestors, some of which have been developed and utilized, such as the initial area of ​​the Netheril Empire; Still sleeping in the corner of the civilized world, quietly waiting for later humans to wake up.

Of course, the reason why I said so many digressions is to illustrate one thing, food is the foundation of the people in the valley.Only with food can we support the population, and with the population can we have everything.For the land of Faerun, the valley is equivalent to the Baier Qin Pass in ancient China. It is the foundation of the real king and hegemony, the career of the emperor.

This is also a major reason why William restrained his prodigal nature and didn't mind being the lord of Dagger Valley.After all, all the men who have come out of the Chinese civilization, who hasn't had the ambition of a prince and general?

After harvesting this batch of extra grain, William finally had the real capital to start a business.He immediately told the migrating people to stop their progress and go to the spring valley instead, clearing roads when encountering mountains and filling ditches when encountering ravines. She asked these people to open up a real broad road in the rugged hilly land.

Of course, William is not incapable of directly transporting these grains back. Whether it is the fire spirit armband in his hand, or using a transfer station in the flame world, he can easily transport the thousand tons of grain back.

However, many things in this world are not the most suitable as long as they are done easily and efficiently.

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Question: How to turn a group of improvised mobs into a united and effective team?

Answer: Take them to complete a great feat that is arduous, unique and of great sense of accomplishment.Including but not limited to various hiking treks, grand works, architectural wonders and more.

Question: How to rescue a group of refugees who lack food and clothing and have low morale?

Answer: Give them a job, and then pay them full salary, that is, work instead of relief.

There is a saying that "Things that are too easy to get are not cherished", and sometimes saving people is also true.

If you want to provide humanitarian assistance to a group of people in need, directly giving food and goods to the other party is always the worst way. The best way is to find a long-term and reliable livelihood for the other party.This is the social law that our ancestors have explored through countless practices over thousands of years. It can be summed up in one sentence: it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish.

The group of people under William is just a group of lost people who urgently need to be rescued, refugees whose homes were destroyed by the flood, refugees who were plundered by the slave team, homeless wanderers, and just now. Former slaves rescued from the dark underworld.

If William gave them food and bread directly, raising them for nothing would not only be detrimental to their rebirth, but would also trigger a series of conflicting events because of indiscriminate relief.Our ancestors invented many words to describe these problems, such as Baiyanlang, Shengmien, Doumichou, etc. This is the human heart.

William is not stupid, and he also has ready-made templates and cases that can be copied. In his youth in his last life, he learned a lot of knowledge that seemed useless at the time, but it seems to be very useful now, and he has also seen many practical operations. .

Therefore, recruiting refugees and carrying out infrastructure projects have become the top priority for William.

The first step in doing this job is to establish prestige first, so that those who need relief and reform believe him and are willing to follow him wholeheartedly.

And there is nothing in the world that can calm people's hearts more than food.

Anyone who has the strength to do so is mobilized to carry grain in Quangu.People waded through the water and moved the oats off the magic ship with great enthusiasm, and then transported them to a dry place for storage.

How big is a thousand tons of grain? If it is packed in [-]-jin cloth bags, one ton can hold [-] bags, and [-] tons is [-] bags. A truck with a load of [-] tons needs a full [-].

The migration team of hundreds of people took a whole day and night to move all the food out of the spring valley.Of course, this is mainly because the transportation conditions are too poor and the manpower cannot be fully utilized, which has caused the low handling efficiency.

The reason why the fire dragons don't have this kind of trouble is because they are all strong men comparable to giants, and they can sprint, glide and leap for short distances.

Establishing labor camps and planning the progress of infrastructure projects all require sufficient manpower for deployment. Of course, all of this does not require William to do it himself, although he may do it better than anyone else in person.But if you want to cultivate a team with strong vitality, it is definitely not something that can be done by someone. Zhuge Wuhou definitely has something to say about this.

What William needs to do is to formulate rules, set up a reward and punishment mechanism, and then deploy tasks and arrange people to execute them.William is not afraid of his subordinates making mistakes, he will correct them if they make mistakes, and punish them if they commit crimes. There is nothing to say.The rewards and punishments are generous and transparent, and harsh punishments and laws are not imposed indiscriminately, which has always been the most efficient state.

——The members of the elite team who were originally regarded as the main combat team have all become like contractors this time. They are responsible for accepting orders from William and then issuing them to the assigned workers.The so-called workers' team is a working group composed of former slaves. This time, regardless of strength, virtuous or foolish, all men, women, young and old have become laborers working for cooking.

The reason why even the child arranged work was not because William was really black-hearted. He naturally knew that the child was the real power that represented the future, but William had to do so.These children freed from slavery are excluded from the entire former slave group, which is different from the refugee children in Falls Town.

The children in Falls Town basically have a clear origin. No matter whether the parents of those children are alive or their parents are dead, they are the descendants of their own people to the people of Falls Town. But at least they will not deliberately ignore and bully them.

But those who have just been liberated from slavery are different. A few of them may still retain a kind heart, but most of them have become full of hostility because of the environment and the oppression they experienced. He is absolutely not afraid to use bullying to satisfy his twisted heart.

May I ask who in the whole crowd is weaker and easier to bully than a group of children? !

In fact, from the first day of leaving the town of Dusk, there have been several incidents of adults bullying and robbing children of food in the migration team.At that time, William mercilessly killed the leading perpetrators on the spot, divided those perpetrators into a team, and sent strong personnel to strictly manage them.

However, this cannot fundamentally prevent the continuous occurrence of such incidents. Not only are the later perpetrators not taught by their predecessors, but even those children sometimes cooperate to conceal the truth.

This kind of angry but almost unsolvable question once made William quite annoyed.But he soon understood the reason. Of course, it wasn't what William had figured out, but that he had two capable little spies.

The cat people have a unique ability to make children open their hearts. They listened to the children's voices and then told William.It turns out that everything is caused by the insecure hearts of the children. Children's hearts are the most sensitive. They know that they are the least practical existence among the slave group, and they are also the most cumbersome group of people in the migration team.

Because they can't do work, can't create wealth, but will only drag others down.In their view, the preferential treatment they are receiving now is just the whim of a kind lord. Such a big man will never pay attention to little people like them who are not even as good as puppies forever.

From the perspective of children whose hearts are almost distorted, being able to be bullied is also a kind of value to them.

When William knew what these children really thought, he was really angry.The damn world!This damn world!Although William knew a lot of tragedies, including seeing a hell on earth once in Calimport, he never thought about whose fault these children lived in such a humble way!

William wished he could set the world on fire and purify all the ugliness in the world. Of course, this can only be regarded as an angry fantasy.

However, after knowing the truth of the matter, William was able to deal with it in a targeted manner. By assigning some work within his ability, he made those children who were in a state of anxiety feel needed for the first time.

This feeling is so wonderful that those children even dare to resist the oppression of those psychologically twisted adults.For this welcome change, William did not personally intervene, but secretly arranged for a more suitable candidate——the true heroine of violence and peace—Misha.

Misha'er, who appeared in time, gave the bully who was angry and wanted to commit a crime a lesson, and drove them into the punishment camp as punishment. The little girl took advantage of the opportunity to become the leader of the children's team. She will be responsible for Manage all the kids in the camp.

The correctional camp is a reform-through-labor team specially set up by William to punish those who don’t obey the rules. People who enter the correctional camp have to go to the earliest work every day, do the heaviest and hardest work, and have to be the last to eat every time. They are regarded as cattle. Treating a horse like a donkey means not being treated like a human being.

The only preferential treatment for these punished people is that they are not treated harshly in terms of food, and they can eat as much as they want. Of course, other normal working people also enjoy this benefit.

William arranged the most cruel and ruthless supervisors for the punishment camp. Those who are disobedient and unwilling to work will be honest after eating two meals.Lazy and slippery as a thorn, he whipped him hard with a whip, poured a bottle of holy water with a certain healing effect after the whip, and immediately became a resounding hero again.

So within a few days, everyone who entered the punishment camp became honest and obedient.Of course, they hardly have the energy and thought to do things. The food intake of the people in the punishment camp is almost double or even three times that of the ordinary engineering team. You can sleep soundly when you put down your rice bowl and turn your head down.

As long as they are honest and obedient and willing to work hard, William will never treat them harshly in terms of food and treatment. Wheat rice is definitely enough. Pickles, a meal that William "invented", have won unanimous praise from all workers.Teams that perform well are occasionally rewarded with a meal of stew.

This kind of collective labor with rewards and punishments and fair use of things quickly got on the right track after a few days of running-in.Even if William lets go temporarily, the team can still operate automatically. Although some minor problems are inevitable, it does not affect its gradually blooming vitality.

This infrastructure movement is also a real screening test for the managers and elite teams under William. Who are suitable for management and who can only be the big guns wielding knives? All can be displayed.

As the saying goes, useful talents stand out, and useless silt sinks into subordinates, just like this example.

Of course, some decent talents gradually emerged among the former slaves, and some of them were even promoted to management positions by William, becoming "superior people" who could sit on the same level as members of the elite team. For the former slaves struggling in the "sea of ​​bitterness" (the sea of ​​bitterness here refers to the denial of self in people's hearts, which is very similar to inferiority complex), it is simply a great encouragement and provocation, and they even inspire more fanatical fighting spirit than any other rewards So much so that William had to secretly arrange for someone to cool down these guys with overheated brains.

For example, formulating regulations on regular working hours and overtime restrictions, and then dispatching special personnel to carry out regulatory supervision, but this does not dispel the enthusiasm of people who burst out with enthusiasm. They even regard this as a suppression by some jealous guys, and then give full play to their own Subjective initiative, racking one's brains to fight against regulators.

Regarding the uncooperative behavior of the laborers, William adopted an attitude of not encouraging or suppressing, but for some people who performed extremely well, he still promoted them without a salary increase. This is clearly conniving!

Therefore, in order to suppress the more and more excessive laborers, William had to take refuge for a while and left the labor camp in a fair manner.

With William's departure, the overheated atmosphere in the entire infrastructure camp was stagnant. Of course, this also coincided with the announcement by the interim custodian, Sophie Manassou, that without the presence of the lord, no one is qualified to promote new people to become interim managers. related to people.

As a result, the working enthusiasm of the laborers has dropped suddenly, and many people even have a tendency to lie down arbitrarily.But how can an ordinary little person fight against a cunning devil, and the joyful devil is a real master at playing tricks on people's hearts.

When the vast majority of people have lost their enthusiasm for work, there are also a few people who still work hard and work hard without changing their original intentions.These down-to-earth people were quickly rewarded verbally by Ms. Sophie, and then notified to the nominal supreme leader of the camp—the lord's wife, Phinea.

Feniya acted as the lord's power and gave the honorees the same promotion without salary increase, which made countless "smart people" regret their intestines green.They really wanted to express themselves in front of the lord's wife again, but Phineya was only interested in hunting, and she didn't even bother to look at the daily chores of the camp.

However, after William left the infrastructure camp, he returned to Dagger Falls with a few entourages.Since the reconstruction of Falls Town, refugees and refugees from all over the place have flocked here almost continuously. When William returned, he found that hundreds of homeless people had gathered outside Falls Town.

These refugees made the surrounding area of ​​Falls Town a mess, and even a lot of petty thefts occurred in the city. If this continues, more and worse crimes will inevitably follow.

In this regard, William is extremely dissatisfied with the current administrator of Falls Town, Gilmore Dulind, and other town officials, because they have behaved very substandardly.

However, the generals among the dwarves, these officials who are considered mediocre to William, are considered to be relatively outstanding elites among the entire Waterfall townspeople. William has no choice but to train and practice them more.

Of course, it’s not that there are no outstanding performers. The former clerk Levi is one of the more outstanding ones. It is precisely because of his proposal to send more patrolling security teams that the city does not become more chaotic, and at the same time, people’s hearts are stabilized.

William dealt with the refugees stranded outside the city in one meal.

He summoned all the refugees, and then publicly announced in the name of the lord: Those who are willing to obey the lord's arrangement and work for him, he will provide them with food, shelter and even land for them to settle and establish a business in his territory.Those who are unwilling to obey the arrangement will be immediately deported.

In order to show everyone the effectiveness of his words, William released a ship in a bottle, claiming that this magical ship was the means of transportation to forcefully escort the deportees to the mouth of the Tessa River.

At such a time, no one would foolishly confront the local lord.Almost everyone obeyed William's dispatch, and they will be filled into the infrastructure camp and become part of the labor force.

However, a sore refugee rejected William's arrangement, and she even claimed that she had important letters to deliver to him.

William was a little puzzled about this unknown guy, but he still arranged for someone to fill the poor woman with two bottles of concentrated holy water, and then saw countless black smoke coming out of this refugee's rotten sores.

As an assistant, Cheval Starcloak told William that this person was cursed by evil magic. Although the holy water would help her lift the curse, an overly violent reaction might kill her.

William did not hesitate to bless this poor woman with a flame full of vitality, allowing her to survive.

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Hats off to you!Dear Lord of Daggerdale:

First of all, congratulations on your legal acquisition of the dominion of the god-given land of Dagger Valley, which is a great responsibility and honor.

As your neighbor, I want to inform you of a dreadful event.My domain is under attack by a horde of demons and monsters, there are too many of them, my soldiers are exhausted, there is not enough strength to protect my people, they are being slaughtered.

Believe me, if these monsters breach my fortress, cut off my head, and kill my people, they will not hesitate to rush into your territory and continue to do what they are doing to my territory and my people All in all, you certainly don't want to see this kind of tragedy happen on your territory.

My dear neighbor, in the past, my ancestors fought side by side with the people of your land against the evil invasion from the north.Now is the time for our generation to fight shoulder to shoulder.

My people and I would be grateful if you would send an army to Shadowdale to help us fight the enemies of man.

My dear neighbor, if you are willing to lend a helping hand, please do so quickly!MY soldiers are bleeding and MY people are dying.

your friendliest neighbor

Rightful Lord of Shadowvale

Huxgaard Moglin

May the gods who are watching us in heaven bless us!

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This is a call for help from Shadow Valley.

After Xieval Starcloak finished reading the letter written in beautiful elf artistic style in front of everyone, everyone present fell into deep thought.

To be honest, the relationship between Dagger Valley and Shadow Valley has not been very good in recent decades.

This is due to the fact that the two sides encountered different situations when they were simultaneously attacked from Zhentil Fort in the past 30 years.For Dagger Valley, the Zhentil Castle directly launched a military attack and successfully exiled the then lord Randall Morn.

On the other side, the Shadow Valley was infiltrated by spies from Zhentil Castle, and the most successful spy even succeeded in taking the position of the Lord of Shadow Valley, and worked against it for as long as six years.

So when Dagger Valley encountered the threat of war, Shadow Valley at that time not only chose to stand by, but even deliberately cut off the foreign trade channel of Dagger Valley.

When the situation in Shadow Valley was brought out of order, Dagger Valley had already fallen, but the people of Dagger Valley will always remember the people of Shadow Valley's falling into trouble.

Of course, those big figures who were full of hatred for the people of Shadow Valley are basically dead now. Although the current Dagger Valley officials don’t hate Shadow Valley so deeply, they must be made to bleed and sacrifice for the people of Shadow Valley , really few people are willing to do it.

But the one who can really make the decision now is William, their powerful new lord.In front of this unparalleled lord, few people dared to go against his decision.

Seeing that everyone was silent and no one was willing to express their opinion, William felt a little disappointed.well!The people here are really hard to impress, we don't expect you to produce outstanding figures like Zhuge Wuhou and ghost Guo Fengxiao, even Wei Zheng who is tough and dares to speak!

In desperation, he could only open his mouth and said, "Everyone, what do you think about the request for help from the Lord of Shadow Valley?"

The dog leg, former clerk, and now the acting clerk of the public security team, Levi, hurriedly stated: "My lord, we will follow all your decisions! Your will will be the only guiding light for all of us!"

Flatterers!This is the only evaluation of Levi in ​​everyone's mind.

William is also a little annoyed by this capable flatterer, damn it!Just when I wanted to brainstorm ideas, you came up to make trouble. Do you really think I'm a boneless idiot?

William opened his hand and pointed to the outside, and said angrily to Levi: "Get out! Go and manage the refugees who are being registered, and then send them to the construction site of Dagger Hill and hand them over to the administrator Sophie Manaso. If There was an accident, see if I don't peel your skin!"

Levi left with a smile, not paying attention to the Lord's scolding.Because he knew that as long as he didn't make a principled mistake, Lord William would never hurt him. This is a hero who truly possesses the spirit of a king.

What Levi wants is to move forward and make his life more glorious.But it's been hard, and he's made it harder than anyone else, and the reason is that his big, flimsy yordle bastard, whose misdeeds in the Frontier Woods have left the Levi family in the A very bad impression was left in the heart of the lord.

However, the former clerk did not despair, he had a very reliable plan.Of course, it's not about being a flattering minister. This kind of role is simply unacceptable in front of a real king.Levi's plan is to show his ability to the lord, so that he can become an indispensable and capable minister under the lord's command.

——The reason why Levi behaved so vulgarly this time was that he was hiding two inhuman thoughts, one of which was to test Lord William to see if he was as wise as he judged. Obviously Levi's judgment was not wrong.

Of course, this is just a passing purpose, Levi's real purpose is to target his colleagues.

As long as William's power begins to expand, talented people from all walks of life who want to make a difference will inevitably gather under William's command like crucian carp crossing the river. Among them, there must be many outstanding people whose abilities and talents surpass Levi's. exist.

But Levi will never regard these people as his opponents, because it is difficult for them to threaten Levi's position under William, because he is a veteran, the first group of veterans to follow William, he and the same period This group of people will be the foundation of William's entire career.

In this way, it becomes clearer who Levi's opponent is, it is these colleagues in the town of Dagger Falls today.It can be said that whoever can stand out from this group of people and become the leader of the veteran faction is qualified to occupy a place in the future hegemony of the lord.

So Levi's flattering words are actually deliberately putting eye drops on the big guys.Well, we have expressed our determination to His Excellency the great lord, I see you fellows—how dare you make a different sound!

After Levi left cheerfully, no one really dared to express their opinions.No way, since the rebels were executed at the execution ground, Lord William's power has become more and more frightening, that bastard Levi sang a disgusting high-profile, if anyone present expresses an opinion, it's okay to agree with the Lord's mind If it's the opposite, then some people have to think about it carefully.

Of course, there are also some people who hold that more things are worse than less things. After all, it is up to the lord to decide whether to save Shadow Valley. That damn flatterer is not a son of man. Lord William decides.

William actually hoped that someone would stand up and express his opinion at this moment, even if he refuted Levi's flattery.However, his subordinates were all dumbfounded and pretended to be dead, so he had no choice but to ask questions first.

William asked: "Baird, how many soldiers can we use now?"

Baird, who had just returned to Falls Town with William, immediately replied: "Your Excellency, there are 130 nine armed soldiers in Falls Town, of which 47 members of the elite team stayed in Dusk Town and the Infrastructure Camp. 54 low-level soldiers (referring to quasi-professionals who have not yet completed the extraordinary awakening) are serving as public security teams in towns.

There are only 38 soldiers we can really deploy at any time. "

William nodded. He was very satisfied with Baird's serious and responsible attitude. This is indeed a good general seedling.He asked again, "Lethera, how are our food reserves?"

Another Cleric Woking with crystal eyes and a bookish face stood up and replied: "Your Excellency, taking advantage of the timing of the salmon migration season, we have organized a fishing team of more than 300 people. , nearly [-] pounds of standard fish can be harvested every day (referring to after cleaning the internal organs), but our daily fish consumption is also about [-] pounds.

The harvest of our hunting team is better than nothing, and the stock of dried meat has dropped to a dangerous level, which is not even enough to support the food consumption of the entire town for three days.

We have even less corn in stock, less than ten thousand pounds in all, and porridge is now considered a luxury in Falls.