It feels like an extremely long time to wait for news, but this matter will eventually have an outcome. Xia Duo confirmed the supplies provided by the lord from the town hall. As soon as he returned to the mage tower, he heard some apprentices discussing the development of territory.
Xia Duo grabbed a piece of clothing and it said
The apprentice of "Buzi" asked: "Apprentice Buzi, did you just exclude the mages from the Mage Tower from rotation in the Green Bead Forest?"
"Yes, Master Mage." The apprentice named Buz was suddenly asked by an official mage. He looked a little nervous, but after finding out it was Xia Duo, he relaxed again.
With admiration in his eyes, he said respectfully: "Lord Xia Da, not only the official mage, but also the apprentices have received recruitment tasks, but the number of places is very small."
"Do you know me?" Xia Duo asked doubtfully.
"Yes, I once heard Edrich tell you about Da Rao's deeds. In that arcane competition, you defeated the foreign mage. We all admire you!"
"Yes, yes, me too!" Several apprentices nearby also agreed. Even though Xia Duo had a good psychological quality, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth after being praised so face to face. After a few words of encouragement, Xia Duo returned to his residence in a doubly good mood.
Now that the Tower of Time has prepared for the rotation of mages, it means that the elf mages have not attacked the spellcasters who entered the Green Bead Forest.
Of course, it is also possible that the elf mage only attacks the mage apprentice, but this probability is very high, and Xia Duo is not a mage apprentice.
Now the countdown to the development of Daxia Territory has truly entered. ...Second, Shado first went to the Liaton Chamber of Commerce to find Steward Arman, and learned from him that the recent resource transfers in Savile Territory were very frequent, and it looked like he was going to do something big.
"Steward Arman, how many people have been recruited so far?" Xia Duo asked almost every time about the recruitment situation of the people, but the number of people recruited each time was getting smaller and smaller, but because of the increasing number of people recruited, The less it is, the more he cares about it.
What is the foundation of a territory? There is a saying on earth that can describe it very well:
"If you lose people when you save land, you will lose everything; if people lose land, you will survive everything." The lords of Netheril value territory more, but Shado values people more. Only people can create productivity and use it in the magical world. Only the more people there are, the more spellcasters will appear.
Hearing Xia Duo's question, Steward Arman, who had long been accustomed to it, skillfully opened a stack of documents and said cautiously: "Sir, due to the expansion of the Savile Territory recently, there are fewer and fewer manpower available for recruitment. Not all of them. Everyone has the courage to work hard from scratch regardless of everything.”
"How many people are there?!"
"After your Excellency left at noon yesterday, we recruited two more people. The ones we recruited today haven't reported yet, but -"
"I know." Xia Duo understood what he meant, maybe even today he doesn't have it! Xia Duo frowned and murmured to himself: "There were two yesterday, plus the ones recruited before, there are only 56 in total. We don't need to develop such a large territory. We can't even build a village!" If he is now the Grand Arcanist If so, just go to the mainland and shout casually, and you can at least deceive thousands of people if not tens of thousands!
Too bad he wasn't.
"Arman is in charge, the recruitment cannot stop." After thinking about it, Xia Duo still mentioned the slave.
"Does Liaton Chamber of Commerce have some special channels to get Rao?"
"My lord is——" Arman meant something.
"It's the one you think of! Is there any?"
"Sir, the Liaton Chamber of Commerce has never run this kind of business." But seeing that Xia Duo was unmoved, Arman gritted his teeth and said,
"I can think of a way." As one of the main managers of the Chamber of Commerce, Arman is very aware of the current situation of the Liaton Chamber of Commerce. The elves suddenly lost contact, and now the Chamber of Commerce is just a void. Gold coins but no real industry.
Although he didn't understand why Mrs. Patty would take such a big risk to invest in a territory with nothing, but now that he had decided, he could only do his best.
"Very good!" Sha Duo nodded with satisfaction. He was becoming more and more interested in Arman. During this period, he was responsible for all the connections between the Liaton Chamber of Commerce and Sha Duo.
He works conscientiously, responsibly and in an orderly manner. It would be even better if he could recruit Da Xia Ling. As soon as the words changed, Sha Duo asked another key question: "By the way, Manager Arman, are the ships I need ready?"
"Sir, it is impossible for the local chamber of commerce to sell ships, and renting them is also very unrealistic. Mrs. Patty has arranged for people to go to Shiboden Land to buy them. The shipbuilding industry there is developed. If everything goes well, we should be able to go to Savile Land in the next few days. Now." Arman calmly took out a few more pieces of parchment and handed them to Sha Duo.
"The crew has been recruited. They are all locals from Savile, and the captain has experience at sea." Xia Duo took it casually and didn't pay too much attention to it. It is unlikely that these people will join the Daxia Territory. They can only be regarded as hired workers.
"Hmm -" Xia Duo's casual browsing movement suddenly stopped, and he turned to the previous page as if he didn't believe it. After confirming that he had read it correctly, he closed the information again.
"Steward Arman, is the captain of Jiang Owen's almost 60 years old this year?" 60-year-old old captains are rare even on the earth, let alone Netheril, who is considered to have a long life at the age of 50. Got it!
And judging from this information, Captain Owen is just an ordinary person. Xia Duo doubts whether he can still board the ship at his age!
"Sir, Captain Owen is a bit old, but I guarantee that he can do the job of a captain. It's not so easy to find a captain in his prime!" Arman also had some dissatisfaction in his words. Liaton Chamber of Commerce He had never been engaged in the water transport trade, so it was impossible to recruit a normal captain. Even this Owen was found with great effort.
How could you just deny it!
"Okay, I believe you, just this Irving!" According to Arman's always reliable performance, Sha Duo did not question anything. Anyway, he was going to meet that Irving, and it could not be true.
He actually hopes that Owen can really continue to work, otherwise, it will be troublesome to find the captain!
...Next, Xia Duo looked at the latest figures again, and the series of numbers already made him a little numb.
After leaving Liaton Chamber of Commerce, Shado went to the military camp. The delay in picking up a group of soldiers supported by Lord Savile for so long was actually to save money. Although the lord supported his group of soldiers, Xia Duo had to pay the wages himself.
Not only the salary, but also food, housing, training, equipment, etc. are all his responsibility. Calculating, maintaining a team of 10 ordinary soldiers requires at least 20 gold coins each.
It has been almost half a month since the deal was reached with the lord. If the soldiers were taken first, hundreds of gold coins would be lost.
But now that the territory development is accurate, all it takes is the arrival of the ship to start the operation. Then the group of soldiers can be brought back first, and they can get familiar with it.
