my fortress

Chapter 9 The Importance of Money
"Tom, who is stronger between your swordsmen and their light cavalry?" After a while, Yifei recovered from his fantasy, looked at Tom at the side, and asked with a smile.

"My lord, of course our swordsmen are amazing!" Hearing Yifei's question, Tom said very proudly.

"Hehe, my lord, don't believe Tom's words. Swordsmen and knights are different types of arms. There is no way to compare them together. If you really want to compare, in terms of individual strength, the strength of swordsmen is stronger; But when the group army is fighting, if there is no gun wall of the halberd soldiers, they will not be able to withstand a surprise attack by the cavalry." At this time, the armed sergeant Robbie standing aside suddenly said.

After listening to Robbie's words, Yifei figured out what was going on. Although the light cavalry didn't wear iron armor, he was still a cavalry. The force of the collision brought by the galloping horse was still not something human could resist.

And swordsmen with the cooperation of other arms can easily kill knights whose number is several times that of their own, but just like a single arm confronting head-on, they are the targets of being raped!
After figuring this out, Yifei finally understood why in those large-scale battles in history, the side of the pure knight army was always the loser. The speed of the cavalry is greatly weakened, and the cavalry without a speed advantage is a dish to be slaughtered one by one!

However, in certain environments suitable for cavalry, cavalry is invincible, especially the heavily armored knights, who are more like steel monsters.

Time passed day by day, and seven or eight days passed in the blink of an eye.

Yifei has a deeper understanding of the difference between the system in his hand and the previous game, and found the most significant difference.

First of all, soldiers did not consume any food in the previous game, but in reality, these soldiers are large food consumers. For this reason, he had to build some buildings that produce various foods to meet the consumption of soldiers. , the whole city suddenly became more crowded.

Except for the open space by the bonfire at the gate of the fortress, there is no open space in the castle anymore, and there are some more buildings outside the city next to the city wall.

The second is that he can give orders in the virtual game interface just like the game. As long as he is within the visible range of the map, any of his thoughts can be immediately conveyed to the soldiers created by these systems.

Finally, there are various needs of soldiers and residents. In the game, as long as the total happiness value is not negative, taxes can be collected, but in reality, taxes can still be collected, but the method has changed.

Every day, he has to pay the workers and soldiers in the territory. The total monthly salary of the soldiers is equal to the price of recruiting them, and the workers are all five gold coins a month.

And those workers and after receiving their wages, take the money to buy food in the barn, buy various daily necessities in various workshops, and pay rent in the meeting hall. In a series of transactions, he can extract some taxes.

At the same time, although the gold coins they paid will flow into his treasury again, but he can't force those leaders to spend all the gold coins they receive every day; Soldiers, he not only has to take care of food and housing, but also pays wages!
In this way, after entering and exiting, the gold coins remaining every day are basically better than nothing, and what you can receive every day is only a few gold coins, thanks to those workers, some soldiers and their families, if it is really the same as the game Same, if they are all bachelors, he might have to cry!
In the following days, as the number of soldiers increased, he found that his income had become negative. If he hadn't sold candles in the store to make some money every day, he might not even be able to pay his wages!

After discovering this situation, Yifei felt that the most important thing at this time was to get money!But where to get the money?

Increase the population of the territory and then levy taxes?
Unreliable, because some of the increased population is homeless, that is, those squatting by the campfire waiting for job assignments. They will not pay a penny of taxes, but will consume bread instead.

Just like those unemployed talents in an enterprise, they exist there, waiting for job assignment, and the basic salary is still essential.

Produce various commodities and sell them to the system?
This is even more deceitful, the system store gave a cheap purchase price and an unscrupulous selling price, which made Yifei instantly dispel this idea, and resolutely refused to do business with the system until there was no way out!

After much deliberation, he found that the only feasible way was to do business, to do business with people in this world.

Why did he have this idea? It was thanks to the harvest he got when cleaning the battlefield a few days ago that gave him a hint.

After repelling the attacking orc attack a few days ago, he sent some soldiers out to clean up the battlefield, and according to the statistics after the battle, he got more than 500 gold coins, more than 300 units of iron ingots, more than 1000 units of meat and a large Pile of useless hides.

In the heart of unexpected gains, he sold those useless animal skins directly to the system, but sold more than 1 gold coins, which immediately bulged his deflated pockets.

Thanks to the support of those harvests, he still has thousands of gold coins in his small treasury, otherwise he would have gone bankrupt long ago!

After discovering that the materials in this world could be converted into materials in the system, he hoped that the orcs outside the city would donate a little more.

Although they are very poor, and the wolf skins of more than 1000 war wolves can only be sold for more than 1 gold coins, but mosquito meat is also meat. For him who is so poor that he wants to get into the eyes of money, it is also a harvest!
But a week passed, and the orcs stationed outside the castle did not move at all, and they were not as brave and fearless as described in the novel.

In fact, this is also due to the fact that the previous archer was too tough, and it has something to do with some buildings built behind him.

Wald, who was blocked from attacking, originally thought that after the tribe sent some reinforcements, he would destroy the small castle in front of him, which brought him shame, and then pull Yifei on the high platform out to light a sky lantern, so as to cleanse his heart. anger.

But with the second day, the third day, the fourth day..., in the small castle in the distance, a tall tower appeared out of thin air every day, and the several hideous defensive devices placed on it made people who had experienced many wars He recognized it at a glance, and immediately made him give up his thoughts completely.

At this time, he didn't know what he was thinking, so that no matter how provocative Yifei might be in the next two days, he just didn't attack, huddled in the camp, and ignored it.

And Yifei, who was focused on safety first and was constantly strengthening the defense of the castle, did not expect that he gritted his teeth and vomited blood. He built tower defenses one by one, and then expected to make more gains when the orcs attacked again. Instead, the orcs forward General Wald completely gave up his desire to attack.

If he knew what was going on, he would definitely vomit blood!

As time passed day by day, the amount of gold coins in his hands became less and less day by day as he was sitting and eating, and seeing the orcs outside the city had no hope of attacking at all, Yifei frowned even tighter.

I have no money, I am running out of money, and I feel panicked!Why don't the orcs outside attack yet, what about your bravery?Are you fearless?

But no matter how he murmured in his heart, the situation outside was still the same, and the orcs were still huddled in the camp.

Seeing this scene, Yifei had no choice but to send someone to look outside to see if he could find a way to get money.

After thinking about it, he decided to let the newly recruited light cavalry complete a task, which was to ask for help while claiming credit.

He wrote a letter, writing some news about the orcs' attack. Of course, the signature was to leave his name and press the pattern on the ring he picked up.

It is for the light cavalry to send this letter to the rulers in the rear. The purpose is of course to cheat some rewards!

From the previous series of actions of the orc, he analyzed where the orc should want to raid, but he was blocked by himself who suddenly appeared in this world.

It is a fool not to invite meritorious service!
As an otaku, Yifei is of course not a fool, and he is as shrewd as a petty citizen, so he exaggerated his own deeds in his heart, exaggerated his losses, and exaggerated his enemy's situation. Yes, he also asked the people below to fix a set of blood-stained, tattered battle uniforms and a broken sword full of gaps for the light cavalry.

In this way, after everything was ready, the light cavalry embarked on the journey with his hope!
(End of this chapter)