Chapter 1148 I Want to Buy 100,000 Tons of Yueming Sand. Where Can I Buy It?
"How many troops can we mobilize?"
Before deciding to send troops, of course, you must do a thorough research. Governor Martinez asked the young priest to go back and spread his message, asking the archbishop to calculate the strength of the church system, and he also called in the staff of the Governor's Palace:
"How much can high-level soldiers use, how much can ordinary knights use, and how much can soldiers use? In addition to people, how much power can be extracted from related war materials?"
When the governor gave the order, of course the staff went to work like crazy. If an action succeeds, they may not get credit for it, but if the action fails, the blame will definitely fall on them:
Who said your intelligence collection was incomplete?
Who said your plan was imperfect?
It's not your fault, but is it the fault of the powerful, glorious, legendary swordsman Governor Martinez, the pillar of the kingdom? !
Look at the failure of the Storm Islands operation and what happened to those unlucky staff officers!
In view of this, the 15-member staff team of the General Staff Department of the Governor's Palace turned over and over the map of the Governor's Palace, the tax information, the army roster, and the material list.
The chief of staff kept urging:
"Hurry! Hurry! The governors of the Holy See have asked the archbishop to do the statistics! If we can't come up with the numbers when their results come out, the governors will skin me, so I'll skin you guys first!"
"Work! Work all night long! You bunch of useless civil servants are not spell casters. How can you be so delicate! Even if you stay up all night for two consecutive days, you still have to come up with the numbers for me!"
"But Lord Balvik," a young staff officer who had stayed up all night and had red eyes protested weakly. As soon as I opened my mouth, there was a strong smell of low-quality coffee, which mixed with my breath and spurted out:
"With this little time, we don't even have enough time to check the warehouse! If what is written on the schedule is not in the warehouse, wouldn't we be unlucky in the end?"
"this……"
Chief of Staff Balvik hesitated. He hesitated for a moment, and then he immediately continued to curse:
"Idiot! Who asked you to check the details of the warehouse! We just make plans according to the things in the booklet. If we can't hand over the things when we set off, it's the pigs in charge of the warehouse! If we have to explain it, they have to explain it to the headquarters. !”
"oh……"
The staff members exchanged subtle glances with each other. I understand, I understand. Those who manage warehouses have always been fat men. People who can manage warehouses have various backgrounds——
Going to inspect the warehouse now and offending those people with a back-up for no reason is completely unworthy.
Anyway, if you can't hand over the things at that time, whether you find a scapegoat or perform a fire dragon to burn down the warehouse, it's all the fattened pigs' own business and has nothing to do with their general staff.
Under the guidance of this all-paper work, the entire mobilization plan was written back in three drafts, revised in two drafts, and finally submitted before the Governor's patience ran out. Governor Martinez took one look and frowned:
"Only 3,000 people can be used? I remember that the kingdom has at least 50,000 people stationed here, right?"
"There are indeed 50,000 troops stationed in the governor-general area of the kingdom." Chief of Staff Balvik opened a pair of blood-red eyes and calmly explained to the governor:
"But these 50,000 people are scattered across millions of square kilometers of land from the Storm Islands in the north to the edge of the indigenous kingdom in the south. At least 10,000 of them are navy. These navy certainly cannot allow them to climb the plateau."
Governor Martinez nodded reluctantly. The chief of staff continued to explain:
"Among the remaining 40,000 people, there are 5,000 troops stationed at Polosi Yinshan and Polosi City. Yinshan is the foundation of the governor-general. Unless it is a last resort, this army can only be strengthened, not weakened."
"There are still 35,000 people." Governor Martinez sat down across from the heavy teak long table, crossed his fingers, and bent his palms to support his chin. Under the thick black eyebrows, the eyes have become slightly softer:
"Not necessarily, we can only draw 3,000 people, right?"
"Mr. Governor, you want to see how many cities and minerals we have in our hands." Mr. Chief of Staff sighed helplessly:
"Come on, let's do the calculations one by one... Kama Port is the largest port nearby. It is responsible for transporting the products of the governorate. There are 1,000 troops stationed in this city. It's not much, right? It can't be any less, right?"
"really……"
He counted them one by one, cities, mines, fortresses, 100 people, 50 people, 30, 20 people. After finishing the round, he sighed to the Governor:
"This is the maximum number of troops that I can calculate. Including the guards of the Governor's Mansion, it is exactly 3,000. If you still don't think it is enough, you can only recruit veterans and adventurers who are never satisfied."
"Those people... let me think about it again." Governor Martinez frowned. The Governor-General of Pelou has been established for several decades, and indeed many veterans have retired from the army, got married, and had children there. However, their fighting power...
In the Viceroyalty of Pellew, in fact, in. All the viceroyalties shrouded in the glory of the Holy See have a tacit chain of contempt:
The natives from the Old World are first-class people, and the native white people who were born and raised in the New World, here refers to those whose parents are both white, are the second-class people.
The father is white and the mother is a local aboriginal - whether they are aboriginal nobles or ordinary aborigines, in short, those with some local blood are third-class people. As for the local aborigines, there is no doubt that they can only be fourth-class people. .
Want to recruit soldiers from the second and third classes?
Not to mention their reliability, their combat ability alone is enough to make the Governor frown. After all, if a warrior is strong enough, he will never be unable to find a wife in his native land!
"Where are those indigenous nobles?" he asked reluctantly:
"Having taken so many benefits from us, and even intermarried with us so many times, when it's time to contribute, you don't have to do anything, right?"
"The transfer of indigenous nobles does not fall within the purview of the General Staff." Chief of Staff Balvik bowed gently with a soft smile and skillfully passed the blame:
"Of course, the staff has not discussed this issue. The assessment result is that this war is not a war between kingdoms to seize territory and resources, but to attack their gods. The beliefs of these indigenous nobles... may require Sort it out further.”
In fact, in order to quickly annex the indigenous kingdom and establish the Governorate of Pellu, or in order to quickly exploit the Polosi Silver Mountain, the Governorate of Pellu adopted a completely different governance method from the Governorate of the Storm Islands.
The Governor-General of the Storm Islands killed all the local nobles, chieftains, and anyone with a little bit of resistance. Then, plantations were established on the islands and slaves were driven to grow various cash crops. If there are not enough people, they will be transported from the Black Continent;
The Governor-General of Pellu, on the other hand, handed over a large amount of ruling power to the local indigenous nobles. Use marriage - mainly marrying indigenous noble women to bring the power of the indigenous nobles under their control.
kingdom? Kingdom power? In addition to maintaining armaments and maintaining local suppression, basically all we have to do is sit back and collect taxes...
Of course, such rule must make concessions to the local indigenous people. Over the past few decades, the indigenous nobles have also entered churches and worshiped the Lord of Glory, but how much of their original faith is left? Well...
Anyway, even the Glorious Holy See basically turns a blind eye to the faith issues of these indigenous nobles.
"I understand. The archbishop and I will discuss it further." Governor Martinez rubbed his temples and sighed. Alas, the Governor's Palace doesn't care about these indigenous nobles because "the faith of the Lord belongs to the Lord." The Holy See doesn't care about these things, so...
There is a limit to how much money you can make, okay?
The preparations for dispatching troops at the Governor's Palace in Pellu are proceeding slowly and stumblingly. On the other side of the plateau, the elves' purchase of borax is also proceeding slowly and stumblingly...
"You want ten...ten...one hundred thousand boxes?"
Aya Mank felt like his tongue was tied. The distinguished outsider in front of him opened his mouth and said 100,000 boxes!
How much is 100,000 boxes?
Aya Mank exhausted his imagination and couldn't figure it out. Is it enough to fill this warehouse?
Is it enough to fill the entire mine?
Or, fill up this small town established for the purpose of trading ore?
"No, not that much." The young nobleman, who had seen his daughter away and stayed up all night, shook his head vigorously with red eyes:
"Moon sand is not a commonly used thing, and you can't use that much in a year. In our small town, it's pretty good to be able to sell five or ten boxes of moon sand a year. There really aren't that many. "
"What about the mining area?"
Udian didn't think about buying everything in one place. Hearing this, he was not impatient. He threw out a few coins at random, swept away ten boxes of Yueming Sand in the warehouse, and followed the clues and asked:
"Where is the largest mining area nearby? Who is the mine owner? If I go to the mining area to purchase, or go directly to the mine owner, can I buy the amount I need?"
"...I'm afraid I can't buy it." Aya Manke thought about it carefully and shook his head with confidence:
"Dear guest, although moon sand is not a particularly valuable thing, it has not many uses. Apart from casting gold and silverware, making some utensils and medicines, it is rarely used. As far as I know, there are several mines nearby. Altogether, the annual output does not exceed 100 boxes.”
We elves don’t use it very much either. Idian complained silently. Therefore, how much you can buy in the end depends on the reserves in the mine?
"Can you take me to the mine to have a look?"
"Of course, of course, distinguished guest." Aya Manke nodded. Idian breathed out, turned around and raised his voice:
"Grete, Serira, let's go! Whatever you want to see, you can see it on the way!"
"coming!"
Gretel shouted from a distance. He agreed and looked back at the silver dragon girl:
"Serila, stay away from them. If they don't want to play with you, don't hug them... eh!"
late.
The frightened alpaca made a sound and sprayed saliva all over Cerela's face.
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