Chapter 369, Hedging Your Bets and Marching Again
The flag got a new appointment, or a deal.
The wealthy temple guards don't really care about the trophies that Qi gets, but they just want to gain their support. Qi just has to do better.
The battle on the front battlefield of Lianyan Province is still going on. The big man in the temple guard asked the flag to cross the river as soon as possible, burn and destroy more, and attract more power from the Youyan people. and attention.
Qi took over the deal.
Resources that were ten times more abundant than what he selected at the Twin Fortresses last time began to gather towards him in the shouts of the rat warriors.
The temple guards did not urge any more. They were much more professional than the rat lords. At least they would not yell at the front line from the back of the war.
What arrived faster than the team sent by the temple guards to transport supplies was a group of chattering guys. These guys appeared from various places and gathered at the foot of this towering mountain. They seemed to be worried. At first, he didn't even dare to get too close until the old big-clawed priest walked out of the fortress on the top of the mountain.
With no worries at all, a simple market appeared at the foot of the mountain, and various rat-men appeared here.
Noisy, noisy.
Strictly speaking, this is not a particularly suitable place for a market. It is really too close to the front line.
But in fact, they came here to cover up nothing.
These guys would raise their heads from time to time, their eyes falling on the fortress at the top of the mountain range, with anticipation, excitement, and greed.
This was also part of the deal. The flag used trading rights in exchange for the slave rats used to open the road.
After the war, more thinking must be done, it is a delicate transaction.
If you have to make a choice, perhaps it is more appropriate to tear up this deal. Even though reputation is useful to the rat people, in fact, except for the oaths made in front of the gods, you'd better be everything else. Pay some attention.
After all, the other party to the transaction is just an old Great Claw Priest.
If these are handed over to the temple guards, although they don't seem to care about the three melons and two dates of the flag, this can also be regarded as a tendency and a way of expressing loyalty.
The flag is obviously inseparable from the temple guards now.
And it doesn’t mean that they will not pay these trophies to the temple guards. The generosity of these guys is obvious to all.
How to choose?
Qi had to think like this. He had to admit that it was the wisest choice to admit the situation he was facing now and to hug the temple guards tightly.
But on the other hand, he could not forget the choice that the temple guards made without hesitation and what happened in the past three years just after the war began.
After thinking for a long time, Qi chose a compromise.
The flag's commission for the rat warriors under his command is not serious. It has not changed from the day it was decided to the present. It is one-tenth, and the flag only takes one-tenth.
During this war, as the rat warriors plundered this mountain fortress, they indeed had a bunch of messy but valuable things in their hands.
Weapons, armor, war equipment, some blue eyes, some messy books, stone bricks with complex patterns, murals, it can be said that everything in this fortress is as long as it can be disassembled , all swept away by this group of fanatical guys.
After Qi chose the default, these guys went down the mountain with large and small bags of things.
Fragments of weapons and armor, these will be bought back for repair, or simply re-smelted. The small weapons workshop in every rat city will do this to supply those There were rat mercenaries running around and rat farmers who were fighting almost all the time.
Siege equipment, the same is true for the same reason. Although the war equipment produced by the rat people is extremely large, most of the war equipment is directly supplied to armies. Those huge rat people The industrial area will not pay attention to these ordinary rat guys.
So after the larger rat mercenaries and farmers had a need for stronger firepower, these things dragged from the battlefield became delicious food.
The blue eyes are real hard currency. Some rat priests are also interested in those messy books. As for the various objects engraved with complicated lines, the rat people have a special interest in those complicated lines. An indescribable love.
The market at the foot of the mountain suddenly became very lively, with rat warriors dragging, pulling, and holding various things wandering in the market.
And some of the things some rat warriors tinkered with were simply too exaggerated.
A rough stone lion seemed to be the symbol of the magic weapon troops in the fortress. It originally stood in the center of the fortress, but it was pried down by this guy, and not just pried off. , and was dragged down the mountain?
How is this done!
It is too exaggerated.
Of course it is not just such an exaggerated and puzzling scene, there are also some interesting things circulating in this gathering.
A rat warrior took out a short-barreled magic rifle from the package behind his back.
This is a very strange thing.
What was even more strange were the words that spewed out from the mouth of this rat warrior.
"This must be a good thing. I found it from the house of the heretic boss. Even the boss didn't find it under the table!"
For his Description, the big-clawed priest standing opposite him fell into thinking.
Tinker with the short-barreled magic rifle in your hand.
As the war continues, both sides actually have certain insights into their own weapons, but there has never been a situation where they fought with each other's weapons.
Whether it is the rat people or the ghost-eyed people, the energy sources they use are incompatible. Simply relying on capture cannot sustain a cruel and long war.
It’s just that such a short-barreled magic rifle does have value.
“I can buy it and pay you the blood mushrooms, but before that I have to try to see if this works.”
“Okay, okay, just give me the blood mushrooms. This is a unique one, only I have it here, it’s absolutely a good thing!”
As he said that, the rat warrior dug out some gray crystal stones from the backpack behind him.
Then he handed it to the big claw priest in front of him.
After charging, the magic lines on the body of this short-barreled magic rifle light up slightly.
Already ready to inspire.
While thinking, he pulled the trigger toward the sky.
Then, a huge noise appeared in this market. An extremely thick beam of magic energy burst out from the short-barreled rifle, and then exploded in an instant, hitting everything in front of it in a standard fan shape.
The big-clawed priest sat down on the ground amid such a violent noise, almost rolling over, with obvious confusion on his face.
When the rat warrior carrying a huge bag saw this situation, he realized something was wrong and immediately ran away.
Soon after, the angry curses of the big-clawed priest rang out in the market, but the rat warrior carrying the huge package disappeared in an instant.
Of course, this is not the worst situation for the big-clawed priest. The worst thing is that a group of short ratmen gathered around. Of course, this is not for robbery or anything else. .
Instead, they are doing something very ordinary, tax collection.
The banner's personal guards took the initiative to help him shoulder the task of taxing, and their tax targets were not only the rat warriors who sold the trophies, but also the big-claw priests who bought the trophies.
The most staunch supporters of this group of flags seem to feel that the flags are really suffering too much, or something else. They have always kept a straight face, and the tax collection process was also quite harsh and tricky. .
Just like this, the big-clawed priest who had just finished rolling on the ground and was covered in dust jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on.
His eyes widened.
"I didn't buy it! I don't want this and I didn't pay for the blood mushrooms! Why should I pay taxes!"
Roaring loudly, but he couldn't hold back more and more guardsmen surrounding him. Come over.
Of course, this is not a forced sale, but no matter what, when this thing comes into the hands of the big claw priest, it is a transaction, even if both parties to the transaction do not admit the transaction. established.
They are the guards of the great flag. They will not violate the principles specified by the great flag, but no one can escape what they should hand over.
You don’t have to admit it, but you have to pay taxes. This is what the great flag deserves!
........., a very weird logic.
With a twisted expression on his face, the big-clawed priest finally willingly handed over the tax he was supposed to pay, a blood mushroom, to the rat man in front of him.
As for the short-handled rifle, he threw it onto the trailer behind him.
Maybe the rat warrior was not lying, because the body of this short-handled rifle was indeed engraved with the head of a lion.
Of course, although these miscellaneous things have a certain value, they cannot attract these guys to take the trouble to come here. The most important part of the carving up of this war is those who have been The slaves captured by the captives.
The magic weapon troops in the fortress are indeed tenacious and powerful, but the ordinary militiamen who were recruited just don't have such a tenacious will.
The flag-bearing army captured a total of more than 10,000 Dark Eye human prisoners in this war. In the current stalemate of the war, this is an extremely expensive treasure.
This is also the main purpose of these rat people coming here.
Crazy quotes, jaw-dropping prices were revealed one after another. In the end, an ordinary Youyan human captive was even quoted a high price of five hundred blood mushrooms.
In this way, these guys are still bidding and competing crazily for the captives who were brought down.
Qi's compromise is here. He did not stop his rat warriors from selling these prisoners, but his share, one-tenth of his share, was kept. Come down, soon, these more than a thousand ghost-eyed human captives and the batch of ghost-blue eyes he intercepted will be sent to the Twin Fortresses.
These can be regarded as showing goodwill and getting closer to the temple. On the other hand, his choice also gave an explanation to another group of guys who invested in this war.
In short, Qi chose to be a wallflower, and it was not just a wallflower, because he also benefited from huge profits such as selling prisoners.
After all, his tax is not only levied on rat warriors, those who trade here also have to pay a tax.
No matter what, he is not at a loss at all.
Soon after, as the last batch of captives were sold, the once bustling small market naturally disappeared into silence.
After this trade, Qi and the rat warriors under his command had a lot of blood mushrooms in their hands.
Of course, the one who makes more money is undoubtedly the flag.
The team of temple guards transporting supplies arrived, and all kinds of things piled up in front of Qi, making Qi even more excited.
With these, he will undoubtedly be able to raise more troops and do more things.
This is what he wants when he joins the temple guards.
The arrival of the supplies made Qi become excited, but despite being excited, Qi did not forget what he had to do.
A group of captured Nether-Eye humans, these good sacrifices, were handed over to the rat-man team leader who led the team. At the same time, he also handed over a batch of rich blood mushrooms.
All of a sudden, he and the squad leader started chatting happily. When they parted, the squad leader told Qi that he would bring some good things to Qi the next time he came back.
Since then, everything has been perfect.
Qi gained a lot and finally became rich.
War, or a victorious war, is indeed the best way to get everything you want in the Skaven Empire.
In this very short period of time, Qi has lived up to the failure of the past three years.
Everything is so easy to get.
However, it is not without problems and hidden dangers. After embarking on this path and starting to seize it in the war, the things you can choose will become less and less.
In this deformed country, you either keep winning and get everything, or you get knocked back into shape by defeat.
After a short period of preparation, Qi led a slightly larger army and began to march toward the other side of the river in a mighty manner.
He left this mountain fortress to the old Great Claw priest, he said to the old guy.
"If I come back alive, if I win, then I will come back, come back here, and bring back my exploits and my trophies."
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