Although 200,000 gold coins a month does not seem to be enough for the development of a city.
Just recruiting soldiers, buying military rations, building houses, shops, paving roads and other infrastructure costs a huge amount every month.
Su Ya relied solely on selling specialty products to survive the most difficult early development period.
With four sets of components of the Golden Elephant of the God of War, Xu Lai was even more impatient to face the Hand of the God of War, which only had one piece left and still had the map.
He built Mingyue City underground for this reason.
Without understanding the underground exploration, it would be impossible for him to find the burial place of the God of War's Hand, so he must have an underground supply location.
It is impossible for large troops to enter and exit slowly through underground passages every time. After there is an underground city, he can rest directly in the underground city.
“Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Baiyang, go back and have a good rest.”
“This is what I should do.”
The original Xiao Baiyang still had a clear voice. Cute girl.
Now Little Baiyang has become a huge tree man with a rough voice, and he doesn't know if he will have a chance to change back again.
Anyway, Xu Lai still keeps a super experience book.
It was too late, Xu Lai quietly found a room to sleep without disturbing anyone.
Su Ya only found out that Xu Lai had returned when she saw Elvi and the others the next day.
Although Su Ya was very happy to see Xu Lai coming back, she was worried that no one would take care of Mingyue City, so she hurriedly wanted to go to Mingyue City.
Xu Lai smiled and pulled her, saying:
"I left Yu Lan there, and Mingyue City recruited archers, crossbowmen, trainee knights, infantrymen, and spearmen for two months. That.
In addition, I gave Dill and Jian Yuan instructions to take the infantry regiment and the archer regiment to Mingyue City to take charge of the work. "
It is different from Qingfeng City. , Mingyue City is underground and must go through underground passages.
So, Xu Lai plans to make Mingyue City a secret city that belongs entirely to him.
Although Qingfeng City also belongs to Xu Lai, it is also the city of Lazi, Big and Little Aiboka, and they are also residents of this city.
As for Mingyue City, Xu Lai only allowed people who he trusted 100% to participate, that is, Tahan, Elvi and the others.
In addition to them, he cannot completely trust even Wei Yihong and Aaron, the first people who followed Xu Lai.
Su Ya was wearing Vulcan armor, with two artifact-level daggers named Butterflies stuck behind her back.
Noble ring, devil's whisper, power shoes that switch to power state, Bartos ring, pseudo-dragon tooth necklace and a space ring.
There are also dodge amulets, magic shield amulets, life amulets, life stones and other jewelry blessings.
The space ring also contains spare equipment such as shadow trousers, reinforced recurve bows, and heavy armor-piercing arrows.
Unknowingly, even Su Ya was trained by Xu Lai to become a super general.
After being promoted to level 27, Su Ya, as a special professional all-rounder, would have 20 points of all attributes.
The noble ring once again has +3 in all attributes. It is located in Qingfeng City and is blessed by the God of War, which is equivalent to +5 in all attributes.
The power shoes add 8 points of strength, the butterfly adds 30 points of agility and 25 points of attack, and the devil's whisper adds another 5 points of agility.
The Ring of Bartos increases intelligence by 3 points and spirit by 3 points.
So, even if you don’t count the magical effects conferred by these equipment, such as the enhanced attack speed of the butterfly, the fire damage of the Vulcan Armor, the spell rebound of the Bartos Ring, etc.
Only counting the basic attributes, Su Ya’s attributes related to combat are as high as 36 for strength, 28 for constitution, and an exaggerated 60 for agility.
As a dagger, the butterfly does less damage, but it also increases the base attack speed by an additional 25 points.
60 points of agility only results in 20 points of basic attack speed, which shows how exaggerated Butterfly's improvement in attack speed is.
Even if Xu Lai is not by his side, with such a high attack speed, coupled with the 25 points of extra fire damage from the Vulcan Armor, the output capability is astonishingly exaggerated.
Furthermore, Su Ya’s damage can’t be considered low.
With the bonus of strength, the basic attack can reach almost 50 points, the butterfly increases by 25 points, the pseudo-dragon tooth necklace increases by 15 points, plus the blessing of two-handed weapon skills, the damage is also 100 points. above.
Xu Lai is equipped with such a luxurious artifact and treasure, but his average physical defense is only 150.
If Xu Lai is by his side, Su Ya's offense, defense and attack speed will increase to an even more exaggerated level.
Xu Lai came back this time without alarming anyone.
Tahan took Xu Lai's order and was responsible for separately interrogating the prisoners brought back yesterday.
But Xu Lai knew that there was another huge gang of horse thieves who were staring closely at his caravan.
Originally, Wei Yihong had given up his plan to form a large caravan because of the threat of horse thieves.
However, Xu Lai secretly asked Su Ya to secretly find Wei Yihong and ask him to organize a large caravan to go to Fort Kaunaston.
Although it has not been officially made public, Count Aini does have deep hostility towards Xu Lai.
It is not a good choice for Qingfeng City’s caravan to go to Fort Kaunaston. However, Kaunaston Castle is already the most prosperous city in the entire grassland.
Unless it crosses the border, it is impossible for a large-scale caravan to go to other small cities.
Following Xu Lai's instructions, Wei Yihong first spent a lot of money and cleared away the goods of all the residents in Qingfeng City.
As small as the food grown by everyone and the clothes made, as large as the Thunderbolt Ballista just produced in the blacksmith shop.
Wei Yihong deliberately loaded these things into the truck at the big market, along with boxes and boxes of glittering gold coins.
There are hundreds of loaded vehicles alone. During this period, the guards recruited by Wei Yihong and Urdola also gathered from major caravans.
There are more than 300 mercenaries with an average level of 4 or above, but it is still not enough. In order to show the importance of this batch of goods, Su Ya, the lord of Qingfeng City, actually wants to personally fight the battle.
Of course, she did not use Qingfeng City's defense force, but only brought Giselle, Nofa and two temporarily hired mercenary groups.
Qingfeng City does not have its own mercenary union yet, but Qingfeng City does have other mercenary groups besides the mercenaries brought by Xu Lai.
These mercenaries were responsible for guarding the caravans that came to Qingfeng City. Now Su Ya paid twice the price to snatch these mercenaries from those small caravans.
300 caravan’s own guards, plus 500 coachmen, combat and porters, and more than 200 mercenaries.
The entire caravan has a thousand people, plus other caravans who have expressed their willingness to pay to leave with them, the entire caravan has more than 1,500 people.
Among them, at least half are combat professionals above the intermediate level.
Even if they are not, the rest are at least professionals, with at least level 1 or 2 abilities, otherwise you will not be able to do odd jobs in the caravan even if you want to.
With such a huge team, generally speaking, even the leaders of the four horse thieves running rampant in the grassland would not dare to make any decisions, except for the king of the grassland.
Even the King of the Grassland would not dare to attack such a huge caravan rashly.
Horse thieves pay attention to a quick victory, not only to break through the enemy's defense in a short time, but also to seize enough goods in a short time.
Finally, before the support of the nearby nobles arrives, bring a full load of goods and leave as soon as possible.
Otherwise, once they are surrounded by an army of nobles, they will not be polite.
The merchants don’t have to worry too much about the nobles being unwilling to rescue. Since their trip is required by the noble law, the merchants will not let the nobles suffer.
If someone refuses to save, there will always be such people.
The reputation of this noble will be spread as quickly as possible, unless those horse thieves are so strong that they will not even leave a single person alive.
Therefore, the people in the team, except Su Ya and others who had been frowning, the other caravan bosses were very happy.
Compared with the cost of hiring mercenaries, taking a ride in Qingfeng City is less than half of the usual cost.
The reason Su Ya frowned was naturally because she knew very well that this time the caravan would definitely be robbed.
Ordinary horse thieves may not dare to make up their minds, but the King of the Prairie is bound to come.
Otherwise, if he just let it out, wouldn’t it be a fart?
Besides, Xu Lai deliberately let Wei Yihong show off his wealth in front of so many people, just to attract horse thieves to come and plunder.
Originally, Su Ya was very satisfied with Xu Lai's plan to lure the snake out of its hole.
Until she knew that Xu Lai was also going to participate, and that he would not bring any of his bodyguard knights with him.
No way, Xu Lai’s knighthood is also famous now.
Especially more than half of them are Paladins and Holy Light Knights. Taken alone, these are great figures anywhere.
Therefore, this knight group has always been closely watched by interested people.
Simply, Xu Lai left the knights in Qingfeng City. He even asked Wei Yihong to pretend to be himself and temporarily guard Qingfeng City on behalf of Su Ya.
As a lord, Xu Lai should guard Qingfeng City. If he didn't move, Xu Lai's bodyguard knights should not move either.
However, although this is reasonable, it makes Su Ya very nervous.
As the saying goes, the son of a rich man cannot sit down in court, but the situation in Qingfeng City is far from the point where the core figure Xu Lai is required to personally take risks.
But no matter how hard Su Ya refused, it was useless. Xu Lai was the one she could never bear to fight against.
Of course, Xu Lai also had something to say in order to convince Su Ya.
Xu Lai organized such a huge caravan. Although time was tight, Prairie King Beiro might not be able to assemble too many teams.
But there is still a possibility of being besieged by the Prairie King or even the other three horse thieves.
At that time, the caravan's defense force was simply vulnerable.
Even the nobles from the surrounding cities would not dare to come to the rescue.
At that time, instead of luring the snake out of its hole, it will be a meat bun beating the dog, fearing that Bello will wake up laughing in his dreams at night.
Furthermore, Xu Lai also said that he was by no means the only one who had sneaked into the mercenary group, and he had absolute confidence to face all challenges. (End of this chapter)