rise of empire total war

Chapter 251

In order to prevent Stephanie from being in a bad mood due to the existence of Raifni, Richard took the initiative to send Raifni to an empty manor outside Nord City and sent her to a very remote place. Richard was reluctant to go far away, so after weighing it all, he could only secretly send her to a place near Nord City, and there happened to be several vacant manors for sale outside Nord City, so Richard ordered her to go somewhere far away. People buy one and have a different world version of a golden house to hide their beauty.

Richard moved very quickly. When Stephanie moved a little awkwardly to find Richard and asked where Raifni was, she could only learn that Raifni had gone. In response, she showed a With a regretful expression, she pouted and said, "I wanted to get to know her better, why did she leave so soon?"

"Uh..." Richard could only respond with a sneer. He couldn't tell Stephanie that he sent the latter away because he was afraid that she would have conflicts with her.

After pacifying Stephanie, Richard sent her back. Then, he looked down at the report submitted by Magnus, which described in detail the process of the Lushino War and the army's It is worth mentioning that, because Richard promised in advance that all the military salaries received by the soldiers would not be handed over, so his final harvest was only one share in addition to the entire share of the silver mine. Ten thousand silver coins.

Don't underestimate the ten thousand silver coins, at least it is almost one-third of the annual income of the Winster Kingdom.

But everything will change now. With the mining of the Arelte Silver Mine and the Sukenya Silver Mine, a large amount of silver ore will be transported by convoys to special smelters, and will be sent to the Royal Palace after the pure silver is extracted. The Mint, which struck the silver mark, the new currency Richard had previously planned.

I forgot to say that the finished product of the first mark has already been completed and has been reviewed by Richard. This silver coin designed and issued by him weighs 1.5 grams, contains 0.7 grams of silver, and its obverse is Richard's side. On the face, on the back is the double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. The double-headed eagle is holding a cross in one claw and a sword in the other. The cross represents Christianity, while the sword represents the martial arts of the empire.

The issuance of the first batch of mark coins will be completed at Christmas this year, and the first economic policy after the establishment of the United Kingdom will be completed by celebrating the festival of the birth of Jesus Christ. This is very meaningful, and Richard can even foresee Let’s see how popular the silver mark, which has borrowed the influence of Christmas, will be.

After the date of issuance was set, the silver mines, smelters, and mints were all busy, and each worker was assigned more tasks than before, but they were also promised higher wages at the same time. Under the circumstances, everyone's enthusiasm and efficiency are mobilized.

At the same time that a large number of new currencies were being minted, the chief financial officer, Volkoma, was also tasked with formulating the exchange system between old and new currencies. This was a very brain-intensive process, because he had to look at the overall situation and grasp every point.If the exchange ratio is too high, no one will be willing to exchange for the new currency. If the exchange ratio is too low, there will be vacancies for the new currency. At least until the new currency is not minted in large quantities, the one-to-one exchange ratio cannot be used.

You know, there are conservatively estimated to be hundreds of thousands of silver terras in the entire kingdom, but the first batch of issued marks only numbered tens of thousands.

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A few days later, Magnus returned to Nord safely with the so-called mercenaries. There were 870 of them before departure. After the brutal war, a total of 620 returned and 240 died on foreign battlefields. Many of the returning soldiers were covered with wounds, which is the most precious medal for a warrior.

For those who died in battle, the Kingdom of Lucino paid generous pensions as agreed, but since most of the soldiers had not yet married and established businesses in this world, Richard could only reluctantly accept them. As for the soldiers who married the locals A lot of pensions were handed over to their families, but their wives became widows not long after they got married.

After the soldiers returned to the team, Richard checked the staffing situation of each company. Among the companies supporting the Kingdom of Lucino, heavy armored soldiers suffered the most casualties because they were the main force of the resistance line in the war, followed by chain armor knights. Most of them were killed in the charge of the last battle, and the civilian archers deployed in the rear output had almost no casualties, so there was no need for replenishment like other arms.

The positions of those fallen soldiers will be filled in the next month, and recruits will be recruited from among the Germans on Kuban Island, which is also to maintain the racial purity of the First Army.

After dealing with the returning brigade, Richard went out of the palace to inspect the cathedral under construction. The construction site of the cathedral was in order, its foundation had been laid, and a large amount of building materials had been transported here. Those shirtless The laborers followed the instructions of the supervisors to transport every material to where it should go. No one dared to be lazy, because what they built was God's secular dwelling in Nord City-of course, those wearing black cross burqas with white background and holding hands The surveillance of the Teutonic knights of Knight Sword also made them dare not make any small moves.

I forgot to mention that before Richard established the Knights, these religious lunatics had nowhere to go. They could only spontaneously come to the construction site of the cathedral and monitor everyone here. If they move, the knight swords in their hands will directly take the opponent's life.

I am ashamed to say that Richard has long forgotten about the Teutonic Knights after traveling outside for so long. Today's inspection just reminded him, and he decided to deal with the Teutonic Knights after he returned to Ippolito Palace. He has already thought about the establishment of the Knights, and the residence of the Knights. There are just a few empty baron castles in Ulifland. Those are the little nobles who were wiped out by Richard in the previous war, and they are not worth paying for. Not to mention, the castle they left behind just gave Richard a chance to use the waste.

After inspecting the construction site of the cathedral, Richard was not in a hurry to go back. Instead, he took a few of his guards to wander around the busy streets of Nord City.After Richard took over Nord, the original poor sanitation here has been greatly improved, so you don’t have to worry about the dirt on his boots with good materials when walking on the street. weird smell.

Not only that, because Richard focused on hygiene and security, the patrol team composed of spear militiamen holding kite-shaped shields and spears and wearing leather armor has also become a unique landscape in Nord City. After 10 minutes, you can see a ten-man team (Richard's new organization in the spear militia company in charge of public security, and eleven ten-man teams are drawn out of 112 people in each company, and the ten-man captain is the last one. The person with the money is in charge—don’t ask who the two extra people are, they are the company commander and flag officer) and walked by.It is precisely because of this that the law and order in Nord City is unprecedentedly good.

(End of this chapter)