The most famous army in the continent of Orodik belongs to the three major knight orders.
The old empire that established the country with the spirit of chivalry for thousands of years and dominated the mainland thousands of years ago, the Royal Knights of Fekrosas, the Red Moon Arcane Knights of the Evert Federation, and the Knights of St. Victoria. The number of these three knights is not large, the Royal Knights has nearly 3,000 people, the Austrian Knights and the St. Victoria Knights are even smaller, and they are all in the early 2,000s.
However, the reason why they can be crowned the top legion in the mainland is not because of the number of people, but because of their high quality.
According to the rumors on the mainland, any member of the three most common knights of the three major knight orders must have a personal occupation level of level seven.
The soldiers trained by the templar knights can all reach six professional levels or more in strength, which is already considered a very powerful figure.
This almost means that if Dane can gather a similar number of people, he will be able to pull out a team that is no less powerful than the three major knight orders in the mainland.
It's just...
Although in the past time, Dane did not let the monastery go all out to train and train priests, but sixty priests, which have been accumulated in more than half a year and nearly a year since the establishment of Auriel. All the belongings. Not to mention, it would take a long time to train these sixty priests to become templars, and it would take a lot of resources to spend—the amount of resources consumed would almost catch up with the creation of two or three battalions of regular troops up.
Dane should be considered relatively rich now, but he is very short of money.
These two sentences are not contradictory at all. After the establishment of the two major workshops in Orienado, although the products can only be exclusively supplied to the Shire United Chamber of Commerce, Shire's demand for these products is so great that it is impossible for the two workshops to satisfy them. .
Bickley now only thinks that the output of the two major workshops is too low, and that Dane's promise to build a third workshop, where Shire mainland sends apprentices to serve as the main force of the work, is too slow to establish.
That's it, just these two workshops have allowed Orienado, whose commercial output was not high at the beginning, to double the money income he can provide Dane every month, and with the two In the workshop, as the number of people working increases, the output also increases.
If estimated according to the current speed, there is no need to wait for the two workshops of alchemy and enchantment to be upgraded to level five. Even if they continue to be at level four, as long as the manpower is fully recruited, the industry can be turned up again. double.
As for the White Wolf Fort, in the equipment workshop, artillery workshop, farm renovation of surrounding villages, redevelopment of two abandoned mine veins, plus the development of new copper mine veins, this one was originally in the hands of Moreno, only eating money. The profitable military fortress is now the place with the fastest economic development in Dane's hands.
Especially in the current three resource veins, the raw ore produced every month is a lot of money. What's more, Dane is no longer satisfied with just producing ore. Under his instruction, several factories around White Wolf Castle have opened up, specializing in processing original ore veins, producing iron ingots, copper ingots, pure sulfur, etc. Finished raw materials.
The selling price of finished raw materials is much more valuable than raw ore.
As for these raw materials, several workshops in the White Wolf Castle can consume a batch by themselves to make artillery and weapons and armor. The other part was exported—most of it was still sold to the Shire United Chamber of Commerce, and a small part was sold to Sequoia, which finally chose to cooperate with the Shawan Port authorities.
As for the two commercial cities of Rotten Wolf Town and Shawan Port, there is no need to say more. Although there have been many turmoil before, when the Glittering Gold Chamber of Commerce was completely defeated and Shire and Sequoia chose to cooperate with Dane, even though Shawan Port has not returned to its peak commercial tax revenue, due to the entire The cities are all under the control of Dane, so the money he can receive in the port city that has not recovered its vitality is even more than that in the most prosperous period of the bay port.
Now, on the empire interface, Dane can see that under his influence, the estimated monthly money income is approaching the 60,000 mark. This is twice as much as when he first took over Morno's power - you know, it's only been half a year!
The continuous increase in monthly income is also the most important factor for Dane to maintain a growing influence and scene. Without this month's income of nearly 60,000 gold coins, what would he use to support the army with a total number of nearly 8,000 people after reorganization
But even though he has a lot of income, he is still very short of money, even after he wiped out Ma Long's forces and took all his manor into his own hands.
Dane made a lot of money in Malone Manor.
Obviously, Malone enjoys it much more than Morneau. Morno has been around for so long, and his own collection in the White Wolf Castle bunker only adds up to a hundred thousand gold coins. And the money that Dane looted from Malone's estate totaled more than 200,000!
If it weren't for some works of art and the like, which were not so easy to sell, this valuation figure might have risen even further.
It was precisely because of this money that Dane dared to spend extravagantly and overspending. Otherwise, a monthly income of 60,000 gold coins may seem like a lot, but after deducting the necessary monthly expenses for maintaining the army, maintaining the city, etc., the remaining net income is actually not much. Relying on this net income, it seems that it is not enough to invest all of it in Dane's army expansion plan, let alone develop the Templar Knights.
This is a difficult choice. To train all those priests into a team of templar knights will definitely disrupt Dane's steps. The training of the Templars requires him to invest a large amount of reserve funds, which is likely to affect other development plans.
How to choose
Dane thought for a while, then thought of Governor Conley's dark spirit warrior group, and finally made a decision:
"Come on, let's develop, train all the priests to be templars for me! I want to see, when I hold such an elite squadron in my hand, what kind of enemy can stop it!"
Under his decision, the monastery, which had been vacant for a long time, began to run at full speed. At the same time, Kexier, who had been idle for a long time, also began to get busy crazily.
Meanwhile, shortly after he made plans to train a squadron of Templars, Falor approached him.
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I didn’t update yesterday, and today’s update is also very late. This is because... I’ve been really tired these two days... When I got home yesterday, I wanted to lie down and code for a while, but when I got up, it was dawn... (To be continued.)