Chapter 36: Slaughter (Part 1)

It was late spring and early summer, and the entire southern plains ushered in a week-long rainy season.

Time is moving forward slowly, and the wheat in the fields has sprouted, and after this period of precipitation and accumulation, the trade resources recognized by the Total War auxiliary system and conducted data statistics are also listed. These developed trade resources have brought a steady stream of income to the towns and attracted aborigines from other cities in the southern plains to trade.

On the auxiliary system strategic map, there are four types of trade resources marked clearly within the Murphy territory, namely wood resources, coal mine resources, slave resources and wine resources.

These four trade resources have made the port prosperous all of a sudden. In just one month, more and more ships entering and leaving the port.

However, after obtaining fiscal revenue, Murphy found that the largest trade income was not in the wereggar slave trade, but in the coal mine and timber trade. These two trades accounted for almost half of the total urban income!

The logging farm was expanded twice. Because it was close to the Karazan Mountains, the quality of the wood produced in the territory was very good! In the past, this was also a larger timber trading base on the southern plains. The mining of open-pit coal mines was not difficult. Due to the slave trade, Greek residents in the town had become slave merchants. They bought a batch of kowtow slaves from the rear of the southern plains through other channels, with a number of about 300 people, and had been initially domesticated by slave merchants!

These dog-pit slaves, who are only about one meter and two in height, do not have much combat power. However, they are better because they are cheap and hard-working (greedy for life and fear of death and have no temper). The mining of open-pit coal mines is undoubtedly a very cost-effective investment. In Athenian towns, the benefits brought by the open-pit coal mines alone are now 1,200 silver coins per month, which is equivalent to the capitation tax in the territory in the past three months!

The income of the entire territory is divided into three sectors. The first is the capita tax, which is the most basic source of taxation. The second income is agricultural income. At present, there is no agricultural income yet. The main source that supports towns is fishery income. The third income is trade income, which is the big one, an important source of funds for urban development and the key to Murphy's vigorous development in the future!

Just now, the total monthly income of Athens towns can reach about 3,000 silver coins. In addition to maintaining the salary of soldiers and further building territory, this income can also allow Murphy to upgrade and replace the original equipment!

The construction of the blacksmith shop has been completed, and further tempering of iron tools is underway.

According to the prompts given by the current auxiliary system data, it will take about a week before the troops in the town can complete the replacement of weapons.

More than a dozen newly trained blacksmiths are re-smelting the imperfect iron tools forged in the past and starting to build the first batch of half-body armors. The pattern of these half-body armors comes from the fine iron half-body armors that dwarves aid human city-state and were then handed over to Murphy. Although the steel refining technology cannot reach the level of the dwarf clan, there is no problem using existing materials to roughly imitate them.

These simplified versions of half-body armor were prepared in advance by Murphy to train Greek heavy infantry later.

After all, auxiliary systems cannot replace reality!

Murphy had to make plans for these material reserves in advance.

The iron ore has reached trade with the rear of the southern plains and the aristocratic network of Mrs. Elizabeth, it is not a problem for the time being.

But there are really not enough horses in the town now!

The originally reserved horses in the town looked like eighty, and these horses were first recruited by Murphy to become the general guard. Then, a group of horses were consumed by promoting Hammerton to general. After Hammerton died in battle, his father became the new general, and the new general guard was formed again!

In this way, the horses originally stored in the town were almost consumed.

This led to Murphy's discovery that after building the blacksmith shop, there was no horse resources in the town for recruitment - the scythe chariot!

This is a really bad question.

Fortunately, it was not too bad. Murphy learned from Mrs. Elizabeth that on the other side of the territory, on the other side of the Nidoria River, there was a vast basin. On that land called the Sharma Basin, there were more than ten ethnic groups of centaur tribes living! Most of the horses in the southern plains were brought about by trade with these centaur tribes.

The only thing that is more difficult to deal with is that these centaur tribes are not very friendly to humans.

And if you want to reach a trade with them, you must first pass a region called the Waste Stone Highland, which is a scattered place of a large number of goblins.

Just like the dog-headed people in the southern wilderness, a large number of goblins scattered on the deserted rocky high ground like wild dogs.

The number of these goblin groups ranges from 500 to 3000, and they attack all the travelers who can defeat them. For a period of time, the goblin slave trade also emerged, but because this creature is too lazy and has less cost-effective than the cost-effective one. In addition, the number of goblin groups is relatively large and investment and harvest is disproportionate, the slave trade was quickly decisively abandoned by the black market merchants!

In contrast, creatures like the kobold, which are naturally capable of digging holes, are much more popular than creatures like goblins in many industries that require slaves, such as mining and mining.

Market demand determines value!

Of course, goblins are much smarter than kobolds!

Some scholars have discovered that some smart goblins have understood some simple human language through learning and imitation! Some scholars even suggested that in the near future, such creatures with great wisdom and cunning nature may evolve into new groups of wisdom!

All of this is the hypothesis of anthropologists.

Slave merchants will only sneer at this!

They only care about the gold coins in their pockets. As for slaves, it is better to be honest and obedient.

What should a slave do so smartly?

Rebellion?

As of now, the slaves in the human city-state are composed of three major ethnic groups, kobolds, goblins and human slaves!

The last one is mostly prisoners who will not die of sin, soldiers who fled on the battlefield, and robbers who fled in the wilderness. Among them, soldiers who fled on the battlefield are the most common, because according to the laws of human city-states, cowardly deserters have only two choices, hang or become lowly slaves!

The only difference is that after the soldiers became slaves, they had another chance to win courage and respect.

Human beings in this era have not been completely corrupt, and the crisis of survival has allowed them to actively seek space for development on the mainland.

The law allows fugitive soldiers to get a chance to prove their courage!

They can enter the arena and become a gladiator.

Prove yourself to everyone in the battles of life and death, and prove that you have regained the courage you lost at the beginning!

There is a saying in the ancient East: Know your shame and be brave!

And these people who have experienced the arena and survived are the most elite warriors in the entire human city-state!

They are - the Fearless - the Hand of Slaughter - the Gladiator of Camona!

It's noon.

The busy crowd was resting, and some women and children had prepared a rich and delicious lunch for them.

The rainy season for a week has made the road muddy. Under the order of the noble Governor, the residents of the entire town are repairing the road and continuing to widen and lengthen to the original extent!

The prosperity of towns brings hope to the people, and they work hard toward a bright future.

There is food and the house.

The Governor promised that all men who have participated in the battle will receive land rewards.

If you join the army, the entire family can be exempted from labor!

Murphy stood on the mail tower and patrolled his territory, with a smile on his face, which was a sense of accomplishment from the heart.

"Governor General! General Leodal is back!" The knight of the general's guard came to him. The knight was covered in mud, obviously in heavy rain.

"Come back so soon?" Murphy looked happy, and turned over and jumped off the whistle.

He has been waiting for news about Leodale for three days!
Chapter completed!