Chapter 383 The Great Harvest and the Envoy from Jinhe Township
Jinhe Township, Black Mountain Fort.
In the open space near Black Mountain Castle, a carriage loaded with gold, silver and spices was parked.
These complex carvings and artworks that originally showed nobility and religious status were all torn down by the Salvation Army, packed up, and awaiting transportation to the dock.
The merchants and citizens who had been waiting there for a long time were holding bonds, paying the bonds with one hand and receiving the goods with the other. They were not willing to curse the sailors and servants and leave until the waterline reached the limit of the cargo ship.
The original craftsman settlement near Black Mountain Castle has been occupied by the wizards led by Paslik and the armory monks of the Salvation Army.
With the sound of clanking, a large number of precious crystal products were smashed into pieces and turned into pieces of electric gold used in war.
The production of this kind of electric gold is equally strange. It requires the use of a material called golden wool. It is not only a fine textile fabric, but also a necessary material in alchemy.
This kind of golden wool comes from the gravel plains in the north. Due to the climate, there are often storms in the gravel plains. As a result, a kind of monster sheep that can guide lightning often appears.
After this kind of monster sheep was crossed with ordinary sheep, golden sheep were gradually born.
Wrap this kind of golden wool around the crystal, use the vibration technique to continuously rub the wool with the crystal, and finally roast it with flames. Combined with the alchemical ritual, electric gold can be magically born.
Hearing the clanging sounds coming from the craftsman's shop, Horn calmed down and distributed the battle reports in his hands one by one.
In the banquet hall on the second floor of Black Mountain Castle, the windows were wide open and the curtains were blown back and forth.
Sitting at the long table are basically the regimental commanders of the Salvation Army and other senior officials. Basically all the regimental commanders who participated in the war are here.
They were sitting in front of the table, still chattering about military affairs.
However, the Salvation Army is too far away and there are too many people. The food road is temporarily unable to provide relief. Moreover, they have to send troops to the surrounding areas to capture small castles, churches and monasteries to consolidate the results of the victory.
So, apart from moving forward ten miles to build fortresses and outposts, there is not much action at present.
Originally Horn's plan was to continue to push forward. After all, the backbone Niedersall was dead, and even if more than ten or twenty Nicosacks escaped, they would not be able to survive.
But now Niedersall is still alive, but many variables have been added, and his plan is slightly more cautious than before.
The casualties in this battle were not too great, but Niedersall was indeed an opponent that could not be underestimated, and it was even more difficult than Boolo.
If he really drags other extraordinary knights from Jinhe Township to hide in the fortress and become a bastard, then Horn really has no other way but to continue the fortress advancement strategy.
This does not affect Horn's current superior position, but it slows down the overall pace of the war and greatly increases the possibility of fighting on both sides.
This undoubtedly means that the war will last significantly longer.
After reporting this news, there was a lot of silence in the entire conference hall. After many previous meetings, they all began to gradually realize that Lower River County and Longsand County were closely related.
If Rapid City hadn't attracted the firepower of the Order Company from the front, I'm afraid they would have faced the dilemma of being attacked from both sides.
"Stop being so sad, it's not like there is no good news." Horn threw out a few documents, "See for yourselves."
These senior leaders of the Salvation Army whose culture is in sync with the second grade When he took a closer look, his eyes were filled with surprise.
This year’s Kushland and half of Jinhe Township ushered in a miraculous harvest.
According to the sampling statistics of the Holy Scythe Monastery, the average yield of wheat and rice crackers in Kushland is estimated to be more than 100 pounds per mu.
Especially in the new mountain potato root fields, potato roots are a crop that can still grow everywhere even though it was shoveled every day, had no fertilizer and was left to fend for itself.
With fertilizers and tillage care, the yield per acre reached a terrifying 1,200 pounds per acre in the first planting period.
Abbot Chilvis of the Holy Sickle Monastery even shouted the slogan "A potato root weighs a thousand pounds and two horses cannot move it".
The 40,000 acres of potato root fields controlled by Guangsheng Hoe Monastery produce more than 25,000 tons of potato roots. However, the potato roots cannot be eaten directly and need to be cooked and washed. As a result, the demand for fuel in Langsander County surged again, and the price of peat in Daze Township also increased.
The batch of potato roots from the Holy Hoe Monastery has been processed and reprocessed, and there are still about 16,000 tons of edible parts.
Some of the 16,000 tons of potato roots were used to feed livestock, and some were made into starch products for sale and to supplement military rations.
However, they were used to supplement military rations just in case. After all, farmers did not need to pay rations this year.
It is precisely because of this policy that the Salvation Army Government even needs to purchase additional food from farmers.
"Do we have enough funds?" Coleman raised his hand and asked, "The army has just been expanded, and military rations are not a small sum of money."
"You don't need this. Worry, there is still enough money to buy military rations," Horn said confidently.
Surprisingly, the price of food in Langsand County this year is much lower than before, and it has plummeted compared to the flood period.
There are two main reasons. One is because of the bumper harvest and the high yield of potato roots. As there is more food, the price will naturally go down.
The second reason is that Langsander County is sealed inside and outside. Foreign merchants cannot come in, and the people inside cannot get out. Only the Salvation Military Government and the North people are willing and able to buy food.
However, out of distrust of outsiders, farmers are still more willing to sell food to the Salvation Military Government.
Most of the money earned from selling grain has been turned into farm tools and building materials. The former is for transforming the land to facilitate farming, and the latter is for reconstruction.
In previous floods, many people's houses and homes were destroyed by floods. Later, they continued to experience wars and had no time to repair them.
Although there is a war ahead, you can't keep looking at the hole in the roof. It will be the rainy season soon, and it must be repaired quickly.
In addition to buying farm tools and building materials, some clever villagers also used the money to buy jihad bonds, while other farmers collected them just in case.
However, according to the current Cheka investigation, due to various reasons, some farmers still have harvest failures, etc., and even private loan sharking has occurred.
This time the usury is not collected from small farmers by citizens or wealthy businessmen, but from farmers who have had a good harvest from farmers who have had a bad harvest.
Although the Holy See Bank can provide low-interest or even interest-free loans, these farmers insist on borrowing from their neighbors, which makes Horn really helpless.
But in any case, there is no problem at all in saving the military government on military rations.
There is no problem with military rations, but it does not mean that there is no problem with anything else.
Due to maintaining a high proportion of troops, as well as a series of transportation costs and losses, in addition to food, Horn's holy treasury was still decreasing at an extremely fast rate.
Had it not been for the jihad bonds and the revenue-generating revenue from building churches on newly acquired land, Horn would have gone bankrupt before he could swallow up Jinhe Township.
To put it bluntly, at least three months of raising military rations has been completed, otherwise Horn would not have proposed expanding the army to 10,000 people again.
Thinking of this, Horn opened the statistical list of soldiers in his hand.
Oddly enough, he thought that after this battle, there would be a large number of new holy ones like last time.
But the fact is that the number of Holy Beloveds appearing is actually the same as the original speed. He is really not sure what the channel for the spread of this Holy Power is.
It is illogical to have more casualties to give birth to more Holy Beloveds. Horn touched his chin, always feeling that there must be other connections, but he didn't find it.
The next step of the war was still being discussed here, but a boy soldier ran quickly from the door, lay on Horn's shoulder and whispered for a while.
Horn raised his eyebrows and walked slowly to the window.
"Messengers sent by the nobles of Jinhe Township?" Horn looked at the five carriages outside the camp, "What are they here for?"
(End of this chapter)