The Swordsman of Faerûn

The key is not the surrender of these flaming creatures, but what they are doing and the powerful military demeanor they display.All the people of Raging Flame are working desperately for their Lord Raging Flame, some are making weapons, some are preparing building materials, some are patrolling law enforcement, and some are training in formation...

Although these flaming creatures have a variety of races, a large number of people, and different jobs, they do not appear chaotic at first glance, which shows how elite the flaming army that Boros saw was.

The generals under William had trained the Flame Legion very well. While he was deeply relieved, he also wondered if those guys had any ideas.

It took Boros a long time to pick up the eyeballs and chin that fell to the ground, and he couldn't help asking: "Your Excellency William, this is yours..."

William said directly: "That's right! This is my hole card, my loyal Flame Legion, an army that even the angel army in the heavens admires."

Boros didn't know what to say, so he could only repeat repeatedly with his mouth open: "But...but..."

William smiled and said, "You want to ask me how I obtained the leadership of the Flame Legion? It's actually very simple. I am a lord, the lord of the flame world, and the flame creatures here belong to me naturally.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that I personally subdued a servant.Turmoo!Where's that idiot in Tulmu? "

At this moment, a flaming dwarf leaned close to William's leg, and said in a high-pitched voice: "My honorable master, Elder Turmu, is attacking a leader tribe that refuses to surrender. That damned stupid flaming giant is a bit rigid. The elder's offensive dared to resist. The master should kill those stupid big guys directly."

Ok!William's most loyal servant, Lord Tuermu, the elder of the Fire Djinn, ran out again to recruit servants for his lord.

It is said that after knowing that his lord is an old Yin man who can live at least 3000 years (the fire dwarf personally used the [miracle technique] to carry out the [truth verification]), Tuermu got a strange disease, Don't recruit servants for his lord, uncomfortable, what he likes most is to capture a group of good guys, and then force them to be loyal to William as servants, but to sign a loyalty contract.

It can be said that most of the flaming creatures under William's hands are younger brothers who were subdued by the leader Tuermu himself.To put it bluntly, William's wealth in the Flame World was basically saved for him by his loyal servant Tuermu. In fact, William himself didn't put too much energy into it. In essence, he just enjoyed what he got.

Turmu is also very good at recruiting others. First, he will choose a target person, especially a guy with very good strength (quasi-legendary or legendary), it is best to have a certain territory, and then he will Take people up and beat them hard, and then persuade them to surrender.

If the other party surrendered directly at this time, Tuermu would accept it directly, but he would not do extra things. Such a soft bone is not worthy of being side by side with our fire giant.

Only those hard bones that refuse to surrender can inspire the elder Huo Djinn's desire to conquer. He will do everything possible to attack his opponents and wear down his opponent's will. You have to surrender and be loyal to him, no matter how long a human being can live, everyone will be free when he dies." As an excuse, he persuaded the other party to temporarily endure humiliation and surrender.

When the "simple and easy-to-deceive" Kaizi really swears an oath and takes refuge in William, the "short-lived erect ape", Tuermu will secretly reveal the truth, and then he can fully appreciate the stupid appearance of those fools .

The tougher the opponent, Tuermu also likes to play with this trick. For him, watching an arrogant leader of the flame giant or the leader of the salamander nobles beat his chest and scream like a defeated dog, it is simply better than the sweet party. It is even more intoxicating to enjoy the sheep excrement honey.

Of course, William is also happy to see the success of Tuermu's little hobby, after all, he is not always the one who really benefits.It was because William was worried that this guy would always do things that made people angry. Sooner or later, he would suffer a lot because of the accumulated grievances. William kindly reminded him several times not to be too public, but he didn't know how much that guy listened to.

But even if Tuermu is not there, it does not affect William to show his muscles to the old Mr. Boros.

It is also a group of fire elves who are responsible for helping William manage the order around the flames, and they are also unlucky ones tricked by Tuermu.These guys are worthy of being Tuermu's kin. After they got unlucky, they didn't become negative. Instead, they wanted to find more unlucky people to suffer together, just like Tuermu.

Moreover, these guys are indeed very capable, whether it is force or intelligence. They managed hundreds of thousands of flame creatures in an orderly manner almost without William's orders.

William ordered a fire elf named Tashar, and asked him to take William's flame legionnaires to show off his muscles to the guests around him.

Then Boros went numb, the kind of scared.

No one can remain normal in front of an army that seems to destroy the world, let alone Boros, a mortal old man who has not seen much in the world, even the well-informed old mage Elminster I can't stand it.

It took Boros a lot of effort to regain his composure. He looked at William with a complicated expression, and said, "Your Excellency William, you have such a terrifying army, not to mention the Unified Valley, even if you wipe out the whole world. It's not impossible to come down!"

William smiled wryly, and then said: "Some time ago I owed Elminster a favor, so I promised him that I would never let this flame legion invade Faerun. Of course, as compensation, Elminster supported me to become the s King."

Boros breathed a sigh of relief immediately after hearing this, but he still asked with some doubts: "With such a powerful background as your Excellency, don't you feel unwilling to be bound by a favor like this?"

William said in his heart, if he was not worried that the Angel Legion would not respect martial arts, do you think I would be willing to be bound by a so-called favor? !

However, he said in his mouth: "What is there to be reconciled to? I am not a particularly ambitious person. If I hadn't caused some disasters in the Mokou Mountains and needed to do something to compensate the people in the valley, I would have even Not even the idea of ​​a unified valley.

Besides, it's just that the Flame Legion is not allowed to fight, but the manpower and material resources here can also help me wait.For example, in the Land of Three Rivers in the Battle Valley, with the help of flame giants and flame dwarves who can build castles in the magma lake, my fortification plan has been guaranteed to the greatest extent. "

Indeed, it was very convenient for the flame construction team to build the city in Faerun, especially in terms of materials. The molten glass liquid lava was simply the best building material, even more convenient than the concrete in William's previous life.The mold frame is made of clay, and then lava is directly poured in. After it cools, a nearly seamless stone city wall is formed.

William and Boros didn't stay in the world of flames for too long. After all, the gate of flames can't last too long, and there are a lot of things waiting for William to deal with in the foggy valley on Faerun.

After seeing William's family property in the flame world, Boros completely believed that William absolutely had the ability and strength to dominate the entire Valley Alliance, and he was also willing to follow the new "King of the Valley" to reproduce his ancestors in the period of the Cloak King of brilliance.

To put it bluntly, who wouldn't want Conglong Zhigong?

Then, as soon as Boros changed his position, he immediately began to plan for William to help him quickly stabilize the situation in Misty Valley.

The first thing that needs to be dealt with is the cavalry servants who just hid in the barracks. Although they are not as powerful as the real Mist Knights, they are also rare cavalry candidates, especially the servants who are nearly half of them are civilians. They all have real skills Yes, it only takes a little training to become a strong team.

Of course, Boros is more sorry for the Mist Knights who went to the Shadow Valley to support them. That is the genuine Mist Knight, but they have no news after they go to the Shadow Valley, and the end is really worrying.

William already knew that the unlucky guy whose armor was stripped off by Charenty was the eldest son of old Boros, so he naturally didn't mind telling the old man that his eldest son and the cavalry he had been thinking about were still alive and well. It’s just that William’s prisoner has been made in advance, and he may be digging hard at a construction site in the Valley of Shadows now.

It's not bad news, at least the old Boros thinks it's a blessing that those unlucky ones are still alive.

The old Boros came forward to persuade him to surrender. At least most of the knights chose to join William. There were also a group of idiots who cursed and refused to surrender. William directly chopped off the three most arrogant guys.These three unlucky ones are also close aides of the councilors directly under Misty Valley, and they are even relatives.

William's cruelty completely frightened these young people. Among the guys who refused to surrender, a few collapsed on the spot. There were many people who were incontinent or crying bitterly. Even those who had surrendered were silent and terrified. look like.

Eventually those who did not surrender were locked up, and William and Boros parted.William and the little girls went to another battlefield, while Boros took the cavalry attendants who surrendered and rode directly to the central bustling area of ​​Ashaban Beach.

The expedition team's raid on the Haresk mansion was also very successful. Although the guards in the mansion were a bit beyond expectations, there were at least 30 capable guards protecting it.

However, in front of the expeditionary army, which has an absolute advantage and is guided by a powerful guide, the opponent's resistance is like a mantis arm blocking a car, and it is directly crushed.

Two of the six councilors were killed and one injured in the raid, and the others surrendered on the spot. Only the owner of the mansion, Haresque Malone, took advantage of the chaos and escaped from the tunnel.

In this raid, as the leader of the party, Jieer Liangge played a relatively important role. When she saw William, she was a little proud, and immediately came forward to praise her, and claimed that William would give her A sincere enough reward.

For this kind of local snake who takes the initiative to seek refuge, William is generally more generous as long as the other party's conditions are not too excessive.

But this month, the elf wants to eat peaches a little bit, she is greedy for William's body.If it wasn't for the wrong occasion, William would definitely teach her to be a new person on the spot, and let her remember one thing thoroughly, that a certain person's beard cannot be teased.

The old Boluos quickly settled the ownership of Ashaban Beach. In fact, although the area of ​​Misty Valley is not small, the population is really insufficient. , the remaining people are basically distributed throughout the Misty Valley in units of farms and villages.

With Boros's prestige and ability, it is not difficult to settle a town with only two to three thousand people. After all, Boros still holds a knife handle. Although those young servants are just a dish in front of William, they For most civilians in Ashaban Beach, it is a very difficult force to mess with.

Then William took his expeditionary army, escorted the living MPs, carried the dead MPs, and turned around the main street of Ashaban Beach, making the residents of the entire town realize that their leader was finished. fact.

William declared in front of the residents of Ashaban Beach that the city (town) and the entire Misty Valley had been conquered by him, and everyone would become his subjects. Of course, if anyone is unwilling to be ruled by William, you can directly explain, William Will send him out of the country with generous gifts.

Don't even say it, there are really fools who believe it.

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What is the most precious wealth of a country, one is population, and the other is land.

The biggest problem of the city-states in the valley has never been the issue of land, but the issue of population.

How serious the population problem of the valley city-state is, a simple comparison will tell.The shape and area of ​​the valley are very similar to the SD province in William's previous life, and the valley is even slightly larger.

In ancient times when productivity was relatively backward, Qilu was a province with a population of tens of millions at its peak (Song and Jin dynasties), and it is one of the two super provinces with a population of over [-] million in modern times.

And adding up all the intelligent creatures in the entire valley, including humans, elves, dwarves, dwarves, etc., the total population is only about half a million, of which 50% are humans.If these 20 people are evenly distributed over the entire nearly [-] square kilometers of land, there will be only about two and a half people per square kilometer on average.

This kind of population density can no longer be summarized by the concept of thin population.

The key point is that the wilderness of Faerun is extremely dangerous. All kinds of beasts and monsters emerge in endlessly with the number of individuals several times or even dozens of times that of human beings. They greatly compress the living space of human beings and other intelligent races.

To put it bluntly, if it weren't for the fact that human beings are capable of fighting and living, and there is a cheating device like the magic net, I'm afraid they would have been harmed by monsters long ago.

William is well aware of the importance of population. Killing people on the battlefield is one thing, but how to deal with a group of defeated and surrendered civilians is another.

According to William's vision, he will face a large population gap in the future, because he needs a lot of labor to participate in the infrastructure construction of the entire valley. The source of these labor can be the people under his rule or foreign servants. Soldiers, even prisoners of war, are extremely valuable labor.

So when some naive souls wanted to leave Misty Vale, away from William, the new conqueror, their fate was sealed.

The hard labor camp, this is the place where William specially used to detain those bad elements who opposed him and opposed him. To some extent, the status and treatment of the people in the hard labor camp were even worse than those in the prisoner-of-war camp.

At least the people in the prisoner-of-war camp had the opportunity to be free in a short period of time, and even change their identities, while the people in the hard labor camp would only work until William thought they had received enough punishment.

The purpose of William's capture of Misty Valley is not only to open up the connection of the upper reaches of the Asaba River, but also to connect Dagger Valley, Shadow Valley, Misty Valley, Battle Valley and Deep Forest Valley into one, which has far-reaching strategic significance.

Misty Valley is not a small place, but its population is less than 2 people. As the core of the city-state, the population of Ashaban Beach is even less than 3000 people. Compared with those cities in the Northland with a population of more than [-] people, it is almost a small country in the countryside. Nest, but that doesn't mean Misty Valley isn't important.

On the contrary, Misty Valley is the most indispensable part of the entire valley. The reason is that Misty Valley itself has an extremely important strategic value, and this strategic value is the issue of food.

When it comes to food issues, we have to mention the other two most outstanding food production areas in Faerun. One is the Golden Plains in the south of the Vihon Sea, and the other is the Golden Fields in the suburbs of Deepwater City in the north of the Sword Coast.

The food produced by the Golden Plains once supported the most powerful country that humans have built so far since the collapse of the Netheril Empire - the Jondas Empire.

Only four and a half centuries ago, a terrible rotting plague swept across the Golden Plain, causing fatal damage to the largest granary of mankind. The food consumption of the population led to the sudden outbreak of civil war in the flourishing Jondas Empire, which fell into a state of fragmentation in a very short period of time.

By the way, it was also during this period that the elves of Comanthor defeated the legion of the Jondas Empire going north, and the Jondas people took the opportunity to become independent in the colony of Sembia on the west coast of the Sea of ​​Fallen Stars.

The Golden Fields, the second famous grain-producing area in Faerun, supported the most prosperous city in the entire Faerun world, Waterdeep City with its abundant grain production. Just how prosperous Waterdeep City is in terms of its population alone It can be seen.

Waterdeep City is the only super city in the entire main material world with a population of over one million residents.

The valley area is the third top grain-producing area in the world of Faerun, especially Misty Valley.

Let me give you an example to know the horror of Misty Valley.In Misty Vale, freeholders and hereditary estate owners make up the majority of the population of Misty Vale.They have opened up hundreds of small farms dotted across the Misty Valley.

The most famous of these farms is a place called the Monastery of the Golden Wheat Sheaf, a farm controlled by the priests of Tanthia, the mother of the earth, and also a temple.

The Golden Wheat Sheaf Monastery Farm has nearly three square miles of land, which is equivalent to more than 600 acres. When the priests cultivate these lands, they can almost achieve three crops a year, and the wheat ears planted can grow almost as long as The sorghum ear is about the same size.

It is estimated that the annual grain output of the Golden Wheat Sheaf Monastery alone is enough to supply the entire population of the Valley Alliance for a year's rations.

Even though other farms could hardly match the yield per mu of the Golden Wheat Sheaf Monastery, they were definitely not inferior to other grain-producing areas.

The priests of the Golden Sheaf Monastery attribute the high grain yield of their farms to the gift of the Mother Earth, and use this to exert influence on the political situation in Misty Valley. Among them, the chief priest Eladas is one of the members of the Council of Six in Misty Valley .

It's a pity that the priest of Eladas died in the mansion of Harrex, which is exactly what William wanted.You asked William why he asked his subordinates to kill Senator Eladas, because this pastor Tangia holds the largest granary in the entire valley, literally a granary, which stores enough grain for William's people and the army. You can't finish it even if you open your stomach for ten years. Of course, the premise is that the food can be stored for such a long time.

When the magnitude of food reaches a certain level, it is no longer just food, but a kind of strategic capital. William will never allow this kind of strategic capital to be controlled by a hostile priest.

After stabilizing the political situation in Ashaban Beach, William rode to the Golden Wheat Sheaf Monastery together with his own army and Ms. Jieer Liangge, the leading party who brought her own dry food.

On the way to the Golden Sheaf Monastery, William also took a quick look at other farms in Misty Valley.These farms gave him a very bad feeling. He had a sense of seeing his black buddies slash-and-burn farming on the fertile soil of Africa in his previous life as an old farmer from a rabbit family. What a reckless waste of money!

It hurts!

Black buddies how to plant the land, drill a hole, sow the seeds, go home and wait for one, two, three, four, five (months), and then you can go to harvest.This method of farming is basically planting one scoop and reaping two scoops. If you fool the crops, the crops will fool you.

But in Misty Valley the situation is different.

Farmers in Misty Valley are basically no better than black buddies in farming. In winter, they will use fire to clear the weeds and dry grass in the field, and then use horse-drawn plows to open furrows when the spring thaws, and scatter the seeds into the furrows. Here, bury some soil, and then leave it alone.

When the spring wheat is ripe in summer, they will harvest a crop by picking ears of wheat.At this time, farmers have two choices. One is to ignore the wheat stalks in the field and let them grow wildly. In autumn, they can harvest another crop of wooly wheat (hairy wheat can only be fed to livestock, and it tastes very bad if eaten by humans). It's like cutting leeks.

The other is to directly burn the growing wheat stalks and replant other crops (of course, it can also be wheat or oats).

With this method of growing crops, weeds in the crops are naturally indispensable, and the wheat seedlings are uneven. It seems that William, who is born with agricultural skills engraved deep in his soul, always feels almost obsessive-compulsive when seeing this situation. General awkwardness.

Fortunately, William knew the priorities. What he needs to do most now is not to teach the local farmers how to plant the land, but to go to the Golden Sheaf Monastery to receive food.

What?You ask if the people in the Golden Sheaf Abbey will give food to William?Also, does William have that much money?

Sorry, William felt that as long as his knife was sharp enough, the priests in Tangia would definitely deliver the grain to him at a very low price.

The periphery of the Golden Wheat Sheaf Monastery is a natural wall surrounded by poisonous thorn bushes. The wall divides the land of the monastery into 12 yuan, and each piece of land corresponds to a huge castle-like granary.

William was sitting on horseback, separated by the thorn wall that was as tall as a person, and could just see the condition of the fields and crops in the monastery. The fields were flat and straight, and the crops were densely planted in rows. However, the beauty of this kind of intensive farming is amazing.

William even had the illusion of dreaming back to his hometown in the countryside in his previous life.

Pastor of Tanthia!I really want it!

William felt that he seemed to have discovered a group of rare agricultural technical talents.Of course, the premise is that these people are willing to work for him.

The noise caused by hundreds of horses marching was enough to alert everyone in the Golden Wheat Sheaf Monastery, but for some reason, the priests in the monastery did not come out to check the situation, even William was opening a castle-like granary to check the grain At that time, no one ran out to stop it.

The granary was huge, and the amount of grains piled up inside was dizzying. It was the first time William had seen grains of wheat that were almost as big as peanuts, and the golden sprinkles almost covered half of the barn.The other half of the barn is filled with a grain called elf rice.

Elf rice is also called Oromi. It is a kind of emerald green grain with crystal texture. Its plant is similar to mung bean, and it bears pods. Love, so it is called elf rice by people.

The bread made with this elf rice has a texture as light as cotton wool, a taste as sweet as honey, a taste as delicate as a cake, and high nutritional value. It can be called one of the top breads in the world, and of course the price is extremely high expensive.

It is even rumored that Elminster was more fond of this delicious bread, and thus gained a long life.Of course, many people understand that this is just a false advertisement, and the source of the rumor is Aurora Bakery in Shadow Valley.

Elves like to grow elf rice, but the yield of elf rice they plant is not high. The reason is that elves always like to grow elf rice as flowers, which is very different from human intensive agricultural planting. .

There is so much elf rice stored in a barn in the Golden Wheat Sheaf Monastery. Obviously, they already have the ability to control the elf rice market, or they are already manipulating it.

William stroked the fairy rice, but felt that there was a vague and inexplicable vitality flowing in it. He felt something was wrong, and immediately turned his head to leave, but he didn't want the fairy rice pile to separate into a gap like waves and sand. A woman in a golden dress emerged from it.

This is a woman who is completely different from any woman William has seen before. She has a slightly plump body shape, but she is not bloated at all.The beautiful, graceful and kind appearance exudes an inexplicable and friendly charm. Anyone who sees her can't help but relax her vigilance, and just want to lean in and snuggle.

What made William even more vigilant was that this woman exuded a kind of earthy fragrance that was almost grassy and woody, which smelled very good, but it made people feel uncomfortable as if the body was on fire.

The perfume on this woman is poisonous!The kind that kills people!

William resisted the eager thoughts in his heart, turned around and started to leave.

The woman suddenly said in a magnetic voice, "William, do you really want to leave?"

The sound was so beautiful that it felt like bones were brittle when it was so exciting, and the steps that William had just taken could never be let go.

William's Adam's apple trembled a few times, and his rationality told him that at this moment, he should draw a knife and slash people, but there was another voice in his heart warning him that killing could not solve all problems.

William asked in a shy voice, "Who is your Excellency? Why are you trying to count me here?"

The woman has a heart as broad as the sea. She untied the shackles and showed William the boundless wonders in the sea, and said softly: "I am the owner of this wheat field, Ninas. William, my brother told me you He is a peerless hero, so I have been waiting for your visit."