Chapter 68 Crete's Long Bowman (Part 2)

The average height of men in Athenian towns is about 1.65 meters, while the height of soldiers is 1.7 meters or more. Women are petite, floating between 1.5 meters and 1.65 meters. Some women who can keep up with nutrition are even much taller than men.

The so-called ancient people's cowardly body is nonsense at all.

Perhaps the overall height quality is not as good as modern people, but no matter whether East or West is in the middle and upper classes, they are not shorter than modern people. In ancient Middle Earth, there are many people with a height of seven feet or eight feet, one foot is 23 cm, and eight feet is 1.84 physique. Among the weapons unearthed during the Han and Tang Dynasties, there are many people with long weapons of one meter or even one meter and two meters. Do those who deliberately belittle the ancients, think that such long weapons can be used for height of one meter and four meter and five?

In Middle-earth, the real reason why the Han people's physical body regressed was the Qing Dynasty, which was during the Hundred Years War and the Opium War. Until the founding of the country, the nutritional level gradually kept up, and the Han people's physical body began to soar. Often, a generation can see the changes in physical shape between their fathers and children.

As for the so-called modern people, they are much smarter than ancient people, it is even more nonsense.

The wisdom of modern people comes from the accumulation of the times. They stand on countless giants and are the product of the explosion of scientific and technological knowledge. You, a scholar, cannot compare your IQ with the ancient farmers who are ignorant of their IQ!

If you really have the ability, you can compete with ancient scholars and see who is scheming and who will kill him!

Simply put, since the emergence of civilization, the upper limit of human wisdom has not changed much. The key is the development of civilization and the popularization of knowledge.

Generally speaking, anyone who has a history knows it.

The period when human true civilization was the most brilliant is not the modern era, nor the so-called Han and Tang dynasties and Renaissance.

The truly most dazzling era of human civilization was the period from 800 BC to 150 BC!

That is, the period when ancient Greek civilization influenced the Western European world, and the various schools of thought contended in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period!

It was that era that laid the foundation for human civilization.

Whoever believes that he is evolved by monkeys, just don’t mention me...

Time continued to move forward for a week.

A heavy rain occurred in the southern plains. It took three days to rain. The Nidolia River was 20 centimeters higher. Fortunately, the river channel was very wide and no disaster occurred.

During this period, the construction of the territory had to stagnate, and the soldiers' training was temporarily put down, so they could work hard at home to work hard.

The training and organization of the cavalry units are almost completed, while the Crete Bowman completed the organization the day before yesterday and was included in the data statistics by the "Total War" auxiliary system.

Army recruitment interface:

Army: Crete's long bowman

Number of recruitment rounds: (0)

Soldier size (80), experience (1).

Ranged attack (16), melee attack (5), charge bonus (3), weapon type (longbow).

Total defense (6), armor (4), defense skills (2), shield (0).

Vitality (1).

Morale (8).

Recruitment costs (750), maintenance costs (210).

Ability: ultra-long range, good endurance, fast movement, fire attack, digging tunnels, and good morale.

Explanation: These Cretans who are skilled in shooting have gradually adapted to their new weapons, and the centaur longbow with powerful lethality. The Cretans have been trained to be excellent archers since childhood. No one is more suitable for using this weapon than them. The centaur longbow can only truly exert its power in their hands! The powerful and powerful arrows they shoot can easily penetrate the enemy's body!

Crete long bowmen are equipped with leather armor and daggers, and their melee ability is still very low. So please protect these long bowmen.

The reorganized Crete Long Bowman has an extra ultra-long range attribute.

This attribute comes from the extremely high range brought by the longbow, which is extremely high than that of ordinary bows and arrows. They can shoot arrows that are farther and more powerful than ordinary bows and arrows!

As the season enters summer, with the hot weather and heavy rains, most of the werewolves began to shrink into the forest.

In the hot summer, these creatures will become very lazy and like to stay in a cool place.

In autumn and winter, it is the most aggressive period for the werewolves, especially in winter, where these creatures frequently attack human territory.

Murphy's territory won a rare respite. At least until the weather cooled down from summer to autumn, he didn't have to worry about these gnolls coming out to make trouble. Not only did the gnolls in Murphy's territory become peaceful, but the Kazart gnoll tribe, which had been glued to the human city-state, gradually contracted its defense line as the weather became hot, and gave up part of the territory that was against humans and turned to defend themselves.

The human city-state seized this opportunity to train troops, preparing to harvest the wheat of winter wheat after autumn to compete with the Kazart Gnoll Tribe!

Currently, the main crops in human city-states are wheat and a high-yield crop similar to corn.

Winter wheat is planted in about October. After sowing and seedlings, the weather turns colder and the wheat hibernates overwinter. When the flowers bloom in spring, the wheat returns to green and grows rapidly, and is harvested around June. The yield of winter wheat is much higher than that of spring wheat. After harvesting in June, human city-states will plant a crop that is very similar to corn produced in the hands of elves. This crop yields good and carries sugar. Generally, it is planted with potatoes in turn.

Although the main development direction of the territory is fishery, farming is the key to the growth of human race.

Fishery income can bring meat, but the main production direction is still mainly arable land. Because spring wheat has been missed, Murphy’s newly reclaimed land is mainly planted with potatoes and elves-cultivated corn.

For six months, Murphy could not have been stupid enough to abandon the cultivated land there.

As early as after the trade began, Murphy sent farmers to the rear of the southern plain to learn about what crops were planted by humans in this world. After some understanding, Murphy found that in addition to the extra corn-like crops they cultivated by the elves, the others were basically consistent with Western crops. In order to ensure that there was a harvest in the autumn and winter, Murphy immediately ordered half of the newly reclaimed 3,000 acres of fertile land to grow corn and half of the potatoes.

At present, the grain in the territory is mainly purchased from human city-states, and the grain in the treasury, as a reserve resource, has not been used yet.

The advantage of an emerging territory is here.

Everything in the territory was dominated by Murphy. It can be said that more than 80% of the territory's resources were controlled by Murphy personally. At least before the nobles of military merits were rewarded, the land reclaimed in the territory belonged to Murphy, and half of the grain income had to be handed over to the treasury.

The farming method of the territory is now developing towards collective farming, that is, all urban residents use farming tools, work together, and then distribute food according to the population.

This cooperation method is still feasible in the short term when the population is small, because Murphy personally has a very strong influence in the town! However, once the territory is upgraded to a city, it is still necessary to allocate arable land to citizens. Soldiers obtain land for military merits, and the military merits and aristocratic system gradually emerges, and the classes within the territory will be gradually improved.

Murphy's current budget is divided into three levels: aristocrats, citizens and poor people. Slaves are not included in the statistics.

The aristocratic system consists of generals and officials at all levels, all of whom are talented. Citizens are professions and soldiers in various industries, and they are all skilled people. The poor are relatively mediocre people among the citizens. They only own a small amount of land and have no right to speak in the territory.

Murphy is not tempted by a brain for everyone to be equal.

Otherwise, I would never do it!

Ability determines social status, and talented people naturally have to be above others.

In fact, to put it simply, after the territory develops into a city, Murphy will plan a first-class citizenship class to stimulate the motivation of urban residents and allow them to strive to gain a higher status.

In terms of focus, because this world is in a relatively primitive world with frequent wars, Murphy will focus on the military merit system.

That is, Murphy will deliberately elevate the social status of the soldiers. For example, as long as one person joins the army in a family, the entire family will become a citizen class, own a certain amount of land, and pay less taxes than the poor class. Murphy deeply understands that in this turbulent world, the army is the foundation for everything!

These are just his current general plans and will change with the specific situation.

The only thing that remains unchanged.

That is, he will always maintain his dictatorship!
Chapter completed!