total war rise of empire

Chapter 66

The ten-fold price difference is naturally not because Lei Zihao did not treat the Seris people as their own, but mainly because the price of food in Longhan City is indeed pitifully low!
There is a large piece of uncultivated fertile land near Longhan City, and there is a sufficient water source running through the Greek peninsula named Jinlong River by Lei Zihao. In addition, with the upgrade of the main city and the continuous improvement of agricultural technology given by the main task, the mu Therefore, the food in Longhan City has always been more than the consumption of the population. It is only because Longhan City often has a sudden increase of thousands of refugees that there is no phenomenon of a large food backlog!

Naturally, with such abundant food in Longhan City, coupled with the relatively simple merchants and bureaucrats in Longhan City, the price of food is naturally much lower than the average price of human cities in this world!

Therefore, Lei Zihao's increase in food prices to ten times that of Longhan City is only two or three times the price of food in a normal city of the Cyris people. It is a bit high, but it is still within the tolerance range!

If the fleeing Serisians had no money, Lei Zihao wouldn't let them go hungry, just right, the Serisian revival army is in the process of forming and expanding its recruitment!
Participating in the Siris Revival Army will immediately distribute a batch of considerable grain according to the grain price of Megara City, and promise to all young and strong participants in the Siris Revival Army that all future military salaries will be paid for by grain!
For the rapidly increasing population and starving Seris refugees in Megara City, food is undoubtedly more valuable than gold coins!
They all know that during the war period, the price of food is very unstable, and the price increase is inevitable. If it does not double, it is already regarded as a conscientious official and businessman!
For the Seris Kingdom, which is always threatened by half-orcs, there is not much food in reserve!
Even if the Seris royal family is sympathetic to the common people, there is no extra grain to equalize the grain price!
Therefore, the Seris refugees can't say they are grateful for the price of food in Megara City, but they can't say they are resentful either. Two or three times the price of food is already considered the price of conscience in this period of war and chaos!
As a matter of course, the news of the fully enclosed Dragon City is a complete mystery to the people of Seris!
Under the detection of the total war system, it is still easy to distinguish between the civilians given by the system and the indigenous civilians!

Even if the Siris people look exactly the same as the people in Longhan City!
In this way, Lei Zihao used ten times the price difference and the tax revenue from Megara City to pull up a Siris revival army of 3000 people when the information between the two parties was not equal!

This is a ten to one draw ratio!
Lei Zihao wouldn't have dared to do this if it wasn't for the fact that most of the Seris refugees who had returned from fleeing were young and strong men!

The ten-to-one smoking rate greatly affected the development of productivity in the period when productivity was backward in ancient times. It was basically impossible for ten civilians to support one full-time soldier!

However, it wasn't that Lei Zihao didn't want the Siris Revival Army to support himself, but that the Siris Revival Army had just formed and had to go through several months of training before it could form combat effectiveness. No time to farm...

The training of ancient soldiers actually took longer than later cannon fodder relying on firearms to pull the trigger!

Of course, the ancient soldiers here do not refer to the kind of temporary conscripts who don't even know how to form an army, but the real cold-weapon troops!

The Soviet Union's human wave tactics during World War II allowed an ordinary infantryman to carry a gun and go to the battlefield as quickly as possible after entering the recruit training camp for one month. Although this behavior is extremely irresponsible for the lives of soldiers, it can also be seen from the side. It is much more difficult to teach civilians to fight with cold weapons and to teach civilians to shoot!

You know, many modern firearms enthusiasts can shoot normally after holding a gun for three days, but the hit rate is a bit...

It is precisely because the training of the regular army with cold weapons in ancient times was not easy, which led to the uneven quality of the ancient army, and the combat effectiveness between the elite and ordinary conscripts was very different!

There are often examples of elite soldiers defeating ten times or even ten times the mob with fewer victories and more!

This is an example of a battle with the same equipment!
Lei Zihao doesn't need to train the Siris revival army to be an elite with one enemy against ten, as long as they can meet the average standard of the world's regular army, at least they must be strictly disciplined, know how to list the basic army formation!
As for the morale of the Siris revival army, Lei Zihao doesn't need to worry too much. As one of the few oppressed nations in this world, every Siris family will educate their children from an early age, and they must rely on the sword in their hands to become stronger!
This is also the reason why the Seris nation, with a population of less than a million, has been able to persist tenaciously and establish its own kingdom!
However, the current population of the Seris Nation is definitely not as good as before. The Seris Kingdom, which accounts for half of the population of the Seris Nation, was just massacred by the Orc Legion...

The Seris Kingdom with a population of 50 million has basically been wiped out. Lei Zihao estimates that the city of Megara can only accommodate 5 Seris refugees at most, and the rest will die in the mountains and old forests. It just became the shit of an orc...

The upgrade of the main city is not only the change of the city hall, after Lei Zihao walked around the street, he clearly saw the improvement of the spirit of the common people in Longhan City!

They became more confident and happier!
At the same time, the third-level city hall has a very interesting function!

City Hall (Governor's Mansion Level 3 Building): You can recruit "Slave Traders" here.City law and order increased by 15%.

"System, what is the role of a slave trader? Can you guarantee loyalty?"

[Dear Governor, the slave traders are equivalent to a group of armed merchants who specialize in illegal business. When the Governor manifests a team of slave traders, they can be dispatched to areas where slaves need to be captured. They will act on their own, and They can be assigned targeted missions to capture slaves. These people have solid loyalty and belong to the governor's mansion. They belong to the gray area of ​​the governor's force. They are different from the army. The fighting ability of the army is very weak.

If Your Excellency the Governor needs a large number of slaves, you can recruit more and send them to all over the world. As long as it is not a special capture mission, these slave traders are very good at hiding themselves and will not be easily killed by the enemy. 】

"Huh? System, your voice is much softer than before." Lei Zihao did not ask the slave trader, but joked to the system.

[Your Excellency, Governor, with the upgrade of the main city, in order to better assist you, the system will increase your intelligence level to a certain extent, and better make suggestions that are beneficial to Your Excellency the Governor. 】

Lei Zihao's eyes flashed, he became more and more curious about this total war system.

(End of this chapter)