Lin and Aini were tempted to talk about the master's affairs. Even so, Aini was shocked by his background. Www!QUaNbEn-xIAoShUO!comHe couldn't help but admire his parents' long-term vision. You know, the Ferletts really bet everything on Salin.
The happiest people are of course Gu Ya and others. As women, the three of them have a higher status in Qin Yin than in other empires, but their future destiny is just to obtain a more reasonable status in the family. It is difficult for them to become clan leaders, let alone be qualified to inherit the title of earl.
Assisting Salin, originally they were motivated by commercial interests, but now it seems. Not only can you make money. There is a real chance to obtain the inherited title.
Saleen pondered for a moment. The construction of Castlevania was almost halfway through, and it would take another half a year at most. Castlevania can be completely built. In another year, around 10,000 demons can be summoned. In other words, when the mage from Srig Island arrived, he could already form a demon army that was beginning to take shape.
With these demon armies, there is no need to equip so many mages in the army, allowing more mages to stay in Metatrin City for construction. In other words, after surviving this year and a half, basically, there is no need to think too much about the defense of Metatrin City.
When the teacher comes this time, he will also bring many battleships, sailors, and swordsmen. Whether on land or sea, there are winged skeletons plus three kings. All loopholes can be filled.
There is no need for these nobles to keep too many private soldiers in Metatrin City.
"Everyone, the Kingdom of Metatrin needs to expand its territory, but we are allies with the Bitterwater County. It is not appropriate to attack Phoenix for the time being, so I will set my target at the Principality of Rhine."
"Four dukes can have one thousand private soldiers and can lead up to 30,000 soldiers. Twelve earls can have 600 private soldiers and can lead up to 10,000 soldiers. Each private soldier can be equipped with three auxiliary soldiers. I can provide the regular army and equipment you lead at cost price. I will set up a joint bank with King Rex, and everyone will have the right to a first-class loan."
When Salin talked about the military issue, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Generally speaking, at the beginning of the founding of the country, it was difficult for lower-level nobles to have the right to have private soldiers or large armies. Salin obviously did not have the military power to control these people. Although the number of private soldiers has been reduced. But the authority of leading troops has been increased.
Moreover, Saleen gave discounts on equipment purchases and was able to obtain loans. This is tantamount to saying that Saleen is taking practical actions to support the expansion of these nobles' power.
With loans, more soldiers could be hired. Lay down the land, the better part of it. It is possible to be rewarded to yourself. "King Rex has returned to the country, and the defense of West Town only has more than 10,000 soldiers. The number is enough, but it is estimated that the Holy See's army will reach the west of Metatrin City in up to two months. I The army has been dispatched to stop the attack. At most, it will cause some damage to the Holy See Expeditionary Force. I estimate that the incoming expeditionary force will still be about 100,000. In two months, you can recruit troops to stop the Holy See's army in West Town. "
"Sir, the money in our hands is somewhat insufficient." The first earl on the right spoke.
"After 10,000 people are stationed in West Town, it can still accommodate up to 40,000 troops. Each of you can organize an army of 3,000 people. With the ten-story magic tower, there will be little pressure on defense. Unless the Holy See's troops are divided. , otherwise you can stick to Xizhen and don’t have to go out to fight
If you think about it carefully, it turns out that it is indeed the case. Xizhen is not large in scale. It can station 50,000 troops, plus 20,000 logistics troops, and has no residents at all. The defense is much simpler, and there is no need to worry about the safety of the residents. In addition to the magic tower that Salin is going to build, there are two ninth-level mages stationed there. The enemy can only attack in one direction from the west. Fifty thousand men guarded a wall only one mile wide. so easy.
As long as the enemy doesn't have huge equipment like war puppets, they won't even have many to defend Xizhen.
Death.
Although it costs his own money to defend Xizhen for Salin, this is his first military exploit at the beginning of the founding of the country. Whether he can become a higher-level noble in the future depends on his performance this time.
When these nobles fled to Metatrin City, they were accompanied by varying numbers of private soldiers, each with a strength of at least three to five hundred people. It is not difficult to expand. After this battle, almost everyone can select good talents in the army. Become your own private soldier.
In fact, Salin allowed them to participate in the battle this time, which also allowed these nobles to begin to expand their strength. Saleen could not spend his own money to expand their army.
Details of current borrowing requirements. Saleen easily stabilized these nobles.
Twelve. The earls went separately to prepare for the recruitment of troops, while the four dukes stayed.
Gu Ya and others are different from these earls. Their family has not encountered any trouble. These young people are just dissatisfied with the rigid rules of the ancient family and want to stand on their own feet. The wealth of these young people is far greater than that of the twelve earls, and the people and materials they bring out are also huge.
There is even a great magician beside Gu Ya and others. The power of a quasi-sword master. Now they are sealed. Obtaining a new family crest is equivalent to becoming independent from the family. The title that Saleen prepared for them was "Third Class Craftsman". Fan Jingkuan took the title of the most powerful person in their family "※
This makes it impossible for their original family to re-absorb them. They are already dukes. When they return, should they be allowed to become clan leaders? If this were possible, Gu Ya and others would not want to leave the family.
Of course, the price of leaving the family is not only to have a place like Metatrin City for them to develop, but those losses are nothing, and the four major families have no way to solve this problem through violence.
Salin is no longer afraid of offending the four major families. Because of Metatrin's magic core resources and metal resources. It is enough for him to trade with any party on the continent, without having to consider the faces of these four families.
Salin also knew that the twelve earls were short of funds, but Gu Ya and the others were very wealthy. After breaking away from the family completely, including Aini, they all transferred all available funds to Metatrin City. Salin left them behind to talk about investment in the arena.
Even though Gu Ya and others were all women, including Elaine, they all expressed a strong interest in the affairs of this arena.
Salin has already put the infrastructure in place. The largest part of the remaining investment is about setting up gambling. Qin Yin's attitude towards gambling was very strict. This kind of open gambling organized by nobles only existed in the Fourth Dynasty. But that was also when the Fourth Dynasty began.
It turned out that Salin thought it was a simple question. We talked about it all night, but nothing came of it. It's not that Salin doesn't want to monopolize it for himself, but he must get support for such an approach that is seriously out of touch with the Qin people's ideas. Fortunately, the matters regarding the arena were settled over an afternoon, and all that was left was about the gambling.
Unexpectedly, during dinner, Elinor, who had been practicing behind closed doors, gave Salin a solution.
What Salin wants is to obtain more funds through arena competitions, not to lose money to do this. Eileen said bluntly: "You can sell tickets, just like the theater in the Yunliu Empire. As long as you spend a few silver coins, you can enjoy a competitive match.
silver? Saleen was stunned for a moment. The largest arena has tens of thousands of seats. If each seat sells for two silver coins, all seats can be sold out in one game. It's close to 100,000 silver coins, and there are also thousands of gold coins.
It doesn't look as good as hunting monsters in the sea. However, the sale of magic cores is limited by market size. The more you sell, the price will drop.
But would the people of Metatrin City accept the price of two silver coins? This is too high! People here work hard and can earn more than a dozen gold coins a year, but their income is only one gold coin a month. Spending one-fifth of a month's wealth to buy tickets is a bit of a luxury.
Eileenor said: "The largest arena has a total of 50,000 seats. Each seat sells for two silver coins, which is 100,000 silver coins, equivalent to 10,000 gold coins. This is of course too expensive. But the tickets for each person, It can be used as a betting chip. When purchasing, you can make competitive predictions. If all predictions are accurate, you can get a reward of one gold coin or even more gold coins."
"You're not going to have to pay for it!" Sika couldn't figure out what was going on here and immediately objected.
"How is that possible?" Salin smiled. He immediately understood the key here. This is also a standard question in Figaro's magic formula. When a magic sequence has two possibilities. Any result is 50% accurate. This is the most difficult part of Figaro's magic formula, called indeterminate magic.
It seems that the first choice has a 50% chance of being correct, and the second choice has a 50% chance. In fact, the chance of picking it right the second time is less than 25 percent. The more guesses you make, the more horribly the probability decreases.
Even if Salin does not manipulate the results of the games, it is still very difficult to predict all the series of games accurately. It is a miracle that there are a few hundred lucky people among 50,000 people.
Ordinary people will not understand this principle. Only magicians who have strictly studied calculation formulas can immediately see the secret behind it.
"Two silver coins can also include a meal, tea, etc. What most people see is the bonus, not the price of the ticket," Nania said.
"No, I only sell it for one silver coin." No, fifty copper coins! "Salin Xun analyzed the profits here. According to the original plan, he only arranged a competitive game once a week to avoid the high expenses for the city people. But with only fifty copper coins for the ticket, he could do it every day Arrange the game, and every game will be full. Each seat is fifty. Copper coins are tickets for 2.5 million copper coins. Converted into gold coins. Divide by one thousand, there is still more than 2,000 gold coins in revenue. Half of it is used as a bonus. The temptation for the audience is immense.
In this case, I will have an income of one thousand gold coins a day. In a year, I will get hundreds of thousands of gold coins in terms of tickets for just a large arena.
"Elinor, your idea is great!" Salin admired sincerely.