Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 13
In the early morning, Rand walked out of the barbarian tribe's main tent. Unexpectedly, several knights and reserve knights all got up.Greyhound took a preparatory knight to count all kinds of livestock; Rolle took a man to meet Walker; Albert began to interrogate the captured non-magic; Greyhound's son and another knight searched for the spoils next to the tent .

Everyone greeted with a smile from the bottom of their hearts when they saw Rand. They were smiles full of hope.

Rand is also very happy, much happier than when he became the baron (agent). He came to another world for a few days and ran for his life every day.Although today is more hit and less, but finally saw hope.

In the morning, before the barons moved over, Rand knew the results of the night raid: a total of 38 non-magic people were captured, 2 were over 35 years old, 12 non-magic men, 17 women and 7 children , and 12 black-scaled horses, 15 pack animals, and 50 long-haired sheep.

In addition to people and animals, there are 8 carts and 12 tents in the camp, about 10 gold coins, 100 silver coins and more than 200 copper coins, 3 sets of armor suitable for intermediate knights, 400 kilograms of grain, 20 kilograms of salt, 20 There are more than 10 kilograms of monster meat, more than 30 spears, long knives, some monster cores, more than [-] animal skins, and several iron pots.

The food and livestock harvested this time have greatly relieved the food pressure on Rand, but Rand still has doubts about why there are so many black-scaled horses in this camp. According to the number of tents and horses, there should be 10 horses in this camp. Demon possessors with more than one person, where are these demon possessors now?

Rand and Albert decided to question two of the captives who were "senior" over the age of 35.According to the account of the two, there were originally 10 demon possessor barbarians in this tribe. Half a month ago, the leader of the Gray Goose tribe sent a letter, asking the leaders of the surrounding tribes to go to the Gray Goose Alliance.

Because this tribe often participated in the meeting of the Gray Goose tribe, they thought that this meeting would be the same as the previous ones, mainly focusing on hunting and business, so the leader of the tribe took 4 barbarian cavalry to the meeting, but walked several times. God, they didn't hear about their leader either.

The Gray Goose Tribe and the Brown Bear Tribe are the two largest tribes in the south of the Benma River. The Brown Bear Tribe relies on an iron mine in the west. The scale of the tribe is larger, and the leader of the Brown Bear is also stronger.

However, the gray goose tribe, which relies on salt mines, is more aggressive than the brown bears.

Relying on the salt mines in the northeastern region, the Gray Goose Tribe had regular trade with the human nobles of the Dragon Kingdom in the south, and the Gray Goose used the export trade to control the surrounding small and medium tribes.

Every spring and winter, the Gray Goose tribe will call the surrounding small and medium-sized tribes for alliances and hunting. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the alliance, the tribes who go to the alliance can get a small amount of salt, and can exchange salt with fur and black scaled horses , ironware, grain and other inland commodities.

The Gray Goose Tribe's alliance had lasted for seven years until 996. In the first two years, most of the tribes who went to the alliance were frightened by the Gray Goose Tribe's large numbers of people, and even feared that the Gray Goose Tribe would take the opportunity to eat other tribes.

However, two years later, the small and medium-sized tribes discovered that the Gray Goose Tribe only wanted to buy their one or two-year-old black-scaled horses. Stallions are provided during the alliance.

So in the past two years, the small and medium-sized tribes around the Gray Goose tribe have become suppliers of black scaled horses.

The breeding period of the black scale horse is half a year, and it takes another year to mature after giving birth.

During the meeting 3 years ago, many tribes saw that the tribes who traded horses got dozens of long-wool sheep and a winter's grain by relying on 5 or 6 black-scaled horses. Soon the surrounding tribes were in the next meeting. Brought in mares and stallions, sold old horses, set to make a fortune two years from now.

This year's Winter League is officially the day when small and medium-sized tribes bring their two years of breeding and horse breeding results to the Gray Goose Tribe to sell horses and cash out.

The above information is summarized by Albert from the interrogation of the captives.

After hearing this, Rand was greatly shocked. He felt that if the leader of the Gray Goose Tribe lived in his own time, he would be a business genius. It is not uncommon to rely on salt to eat salt. Enveloped.

Let a group of nomadic barbarians become a cooperative farmer, and what this leader really does is not a breeding business, but in the name of breeding, let the tribes of the grassland help him hoard a large number of horses. The horses and the barbarians on horseback came together and became again a gigantic force of cavalry.

However, Rand still can't figure out some problems. According to the current trade between the Galloping Horse Plain and the Dragon Kingdom, the black scaled horse alone is enough to offset the food consumption of the barbarians. Then why did the barbarians attack the Dragon Kingdom? Woolen cloth?Is there anything that cannot be obtained through trade and exchange?

"There really are demon possessor slaves of the human race." The prisoner answered Rand's question. The only "senior" non-magic man over 35 years old in the camp was Yohe, who used to be the steward of a baron in the Dragon Kingdom. , 6 or 7 years ago, the family was ransacked by barbarians in the process of doing business.

In this camp, the general non-magic people were newly captured from the human race in the past two years, and more than half of the remaining non-magic people were exchanged or purchased in the past 9 years, so most of the captives They are all human races, and the rest are non-demon descendants of human races and barbarians.

Most barbarians have no particular obsession with killing, but the barbarians in the south of the Galloping Horse like to prey on human demon possessors.According to Joch's account, the barbarians plundered the human race and left the non-monsters as slaves, while the demon-holders were sold to large camps such as salt mines or iron mines.

His family was attacked by the Gray Goose Tribe that year, and the owner of the family was taken away by the leader of the Gray Goose Tribe, and the remaining non-monsters were brought to the alliance and sold to small and medium tribes.

According to Joch, the salt mines of the barbarians require a large number of miners, and the non-monsters cannot carry out long-term and high-intensity mining, and the barbarian demon-owners themselves do not know how to mine, so every time they attack a dragon, they will capture a large number of miners. Sent to the mine for the demon possessor to mine, and the non-magic for cooking salt is the division of labor in the salt mine.

Rand was shocked when he heard about it, thinking that the nobles of the Dragon Principality claimed to be demon possessors and lived the life of feudal landlords in the Middle Ages. The whole kingdom had no iron or horses.

The savages, on the other hand, seem to live a primitive tribal life, but they are actually a group of high value-added industrial owners and mine owners who carry swords and do business.

The point is that in the eyes of the barbarians, the nobles are actually a group of hard workers.Lante felt that his demon-owning life was very similar to the group of big cattle next to him, but he didn't expect the barbarians to think so too.

This different world is indeed magical enough, the mage was silent when he heard it, and the capitalist shed tears when he heard it.

However, from Joch's mouth, Rand also found a few key points. One is that the main force of these small tribes have all gone to the Gray Goose tribe, and the other is that there are a large number of human races among the tribe's non-monsters. In other words, I don't have to worry about capturing the new barbarian camp and causing trouble to myself from the captured barbarian demonless. On the contrary, I will be the savior to save them from the barbarians.

Thirdly, these barbarians kidnapped the demon possessors of the human race as slaves, that is to say, their cheap father and elder brother might be working as coolies.

"Albert, knights, according to Joch's information just now, maybe we can attack a few more barbarian camps, and maybe we can find my father and brothers." Rand raised his thoughts.

"It's a way, but will the Gray Goose Tribe give us such a long time? What if we are on the Galloping Horse Plain for a long time, what if we are encountered by their main force?" Albert expressed his worries
"It is indeed possible, but I think it may take a long time. Now that the Gray Goose has gathered so many barbarians, it is not for business to go south of the Cornico Pass.

What they want are demon-owner slaves. Now that the people in our territory have withdrawn, they will go back to snatch Rottland, but there are only a few dozen people in Rottland, can they satisfy the appetite of Gray Goose? "

"But further inland, there is the Earl's Knights." Kaul expressed his thoughts at this time, "The Earl's Knights are not comparable to those in the Roth Territory. The Earl can also summon mages and priests."

"It doesn't have to be head-to-head," Lanter said. "The Earl of the Northwest is so big. If the Earl divides his troops and garrisons, he will be defeated by a large group of barbarians. If he gathers together to confront the barbarians, it will give the barbarians a chance to sweep the rear."

How to deal with highly mobile nomadic tribes?The idea of ​​many agricultural kingdoms is to stick to the city and retreat when the food carried by the nomadic tribes is exhausted. However, in the dragon kingdom, the most suitable castle to defend against the barbarians is the castle of Rotland.

The castle is located on the tributary of the Benma River, surrounded by water on three sides and the castle tower can be supervised to the Cornico Pass, which can be said to be the best defensive stage.

However, even if the earl, who didn't know it, lost the best time to send troops because of suspicion and hesitation, Rand didn't think the earl could help defend the viscount's castle.

Because in history, large-scale barbarian invasions were unable to defend the Roth Castle: the magical turbulence on the Galloping Horse Plain was blowing straight to the Roth Territory with the north wind, and it was difficult for the extraordinary human race to exert their full strength in the entire Roth Territory. .

Without the blessing of magic, low-level human superhumans can't beat ordinary barbarian cavalry.

"The only regret is that I couldn't see the Gray Goose tribe break through Roth Castle with my own eyes, and I couldn't witness the fate of the traitors." When Rand said this, he seemed to have sentenced his relatives to death.

When Rolle and Albert heard this, they also felt chills down their spines, but they also admitted that today's Rott Territory needs to face hundreds of barbarian cavalry alone. Even if Baron Bob has managed well in recent years, at most Gradually accumulating, and the Gray Goose tribe is engulfing the entire southern part of the Benma River to advance and retreat together. I am afraid that Bob's Rott Territory really cannot be kept.

In the afternoon, Rand's two camps finally converged.The excited expressions of the leaders were full of surprise and admiration. Rand was the first person in several generations of families to enter the Benma Plain and defeat the barbarian tribes. Rand's harvest in one battle surpassed that of Huck several times. years of business income.

"You are really amazing, Rand." Nila was finally relieved when she saw Rand, "Master Huck's accumulation in this year is not as much as yours in one night."

"But we haven't safely returned to the Northwest Earl's Territory yet, and all the gains now may disappear in one night." Rand is very clear that his action is a big gamble. This victory is only the first round. Before Baron Galloping, anything was possible.

"Master, it's good that you're fine. I never expected you to have such a harvest in one night. Master Huck must be protecting us." Mei Wennan was very excited. In his eyes, Huck, Ryan and Obote were outside Being taken captive was like the sky falling. Although Lant, the youngest in the family, was promoted to a junior knight, Lant was the fourth son of a baron who stimulated his blood at the age of 14 and became a reserve knight at the age of 18. This talent is in the Dragon Kingdom Zhong can only be regarded as a hindrance.

Generally, if you become a reserve knight at the age of 18, it means that this person will be a high-level knight at most in the future, and the family needs to invest more resources.

But now, this fourth son with low potential has taken down a barbarian tribe with the remaining territory.This is a big event that can be written into the Earldom Journal.Mei Wennan burst into tears with excitement.

The joint venture went more smoothly than Rand had imagined. According to Albert's request, all the newly captured non-monsters, livestock, and finances belonged to Rand. As the lord, Rand led his men to defeat the barbarians, but the galloping horse Everything in the camp originally belonged to Huck Runner, not to Ranter Runner, who, as the leader of the battle, had nothing of his own, in which case all the spoils should come first to rand.

For Rand, the current harvest is to earn a population of knight territory for himself. Although these populations are not his own people, after returning to the territory in the future, they can be replaced with several families.

So the original barbarian leader's big tent became Rand's tent, and Yoh was tentatively appointed as the housekeeper, and he studied with Mei Wennan, and the current Wumoren was temporarily under the management of Nila.

After the issue of ownership was determined, the first thing Rand did was to cook sheep to celebrate. After fleeing for so many days, everyone was eating vegetarian pancakes, wild vegetables, or wheat porridge. The knights had a great demand for meat, so they had to eat more Meat, or even eat more monster meat to have combat effectiveness.

Rand also tried on the iron armor of the barbarians. According to the tradition in the territory, only family knights will buy a pair of armor from the territory when they reach the junior knight level. It is not even a full-body armor, but a leather armor with iron skin. Now the three The set of iron armor is full body armor, chain mail lining, adjustable half body armor and skirt armor are all matched.

Such a set of armor usually costs between 100 and 200 gold coins in the kingdom of the dragon. If the armor material is good enough to carry runes, the price will be even more expensive. The iron armor on the Galloping Horse Plain comes from the iron mines in the southwest. Excellent quality.

Rand wore one for himself, and let Roll and Greyhound wear one each. They were the two hardest workers these days, but they were still flattered to get two sets of armor.

Of course, other people can't ignore that Rand distributed 20 catties of Warcraft meat to several low-level knights and reserve knights.

(End of this chapter)