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Chapter 5 To upgrade

Whether it is salt or steel, the price is appropriate, there is no need to worry about sales in this Warlin King City. At a price of 20% or 30% below the market price, ten tons of salt and twenty tons of steel plates were sold soon.

Is the reason? First of all, the Warlin King City is not a salt production place or a steel production place. It was originally necessary to import salt and iron at high prices. Now, there are cheap salt and iron to buy it for self-use or stockpile. Second, salt can be stored for a long time. Even if the steel plate is oiled and maintained, it will not rust. It is not available now and cannot be sold or lost.

As for getting the payment, Lin Kaixin and Molin Mercenary Group also signed a long contract. The Anchor family fee was 200 small gold coins, and the hotel owner's signing fee was 10 small gold coins. Molin naturally had to pay back the debt of the more than a dozen small gold coins owed to the proprietress, and then most of the remaining gold coins were used as the Anchor family fee and distributed to the mercenary group members.

There are thirty-four people in the Molin mercenary group, including twenty men and fourteen women. The mercenary business depends on the level regardless of gender. The second highest mercenary group is the female deputy leader Murphy.

Originally, Mo Lin's opinion was to buy a batch of steel plates at a discounted price from Lin Kaixin to exchange equipment for the mercenary group, but Lin Kaixin felt it was too troublesome. It took several months for this world to hammer and make a piece of steel armor. Not to mention that the blacksmiths in the King Warlin City are busy now, and they are going to complete the new equipment and weapons of the King's noble knights.

After measuring the figures of the mercenary group, Lin Kaixin returned to the earth and sent the orders to the factories. Then, the plate shearing machine was pressed a few times and produced a prototype of the steel plate armor. After polishing and stabbing by the grinder, he sent it back.

This is just the prototype of armor. To make qualified armor, a layer of leather armor must be placed inside and riveted with rivets. Mercenaries have to do this by themselves. Maintaining weapons and armor is part of the mercenary and soldier professions.

As for the underwear of the mercenary group, Lin Kaixin was also ready. The multi-layered underwear of all silk. The Grand Duke Ferdinand and his wife who were assassinated before World War I wore a bulletproof vest made of this type of multi-silk underwear - but unfortunately, the Grand Duke Ferdinand and his wife were hit on the head by bullets, otherwise they could still block two shots.

In addition to these armors, each person also has a round steel plate arm shield, which looks nearly one square foot in size, which is not too big for the whole person, but it is still very effective when used to defend against bows, arrows and bayonets.

In terms of weapons and equipment, each person needs to have a pulley bow, each person has a quiver with thirty-six arrows and two spare quivers. Such long-range strike ability and anti-strike ability are already very strong.

The long spears, long swords, close-up swords, and daggers used for body protection were all armed to the teeth like Lin Kaixin.

On average, each person has three mules. The mules in this world are also very endurance. They usually carry seven or eight hundred kilograms when walking. They can also walk long distances, walk mountain roads, and are resistant to rough feed and are not easy to get sick. The four-wheeled cart forest can be bought, but the road conditions here are only suitable for mules to carry goods, and it is inconvenient to use large carts.

One mule is ridden by a man, the other mule is food, weapons and equipment that carries mercenaries and mules. The remaining mule is goods that carry the mercenary group - coarse salt.

There is a saying in this world: Use swords to travel business. In other words, unarmed caravans are destined to go far. This world is so chaotic. Not far from the city, you almost reach the territory of the bandits.

The royal city and the cities directly under the jurisdiction of the Count have to undergo one or two bandit suppression activities against local neighborhoods almost every year, but the problem in this world is that as long as the poor are not eliminated, the bandits will not be eliminated either.

The source of bandits is also very complicated. There are mountain people who live in the mountains all year round, soldiers who fled on the battlefield, young people who are unwilling to die in the city and villages, and there are also noble armed forces who occasionally make guest appearances one or two.

After the mercenary group signed the contract, they rectified the city of Warlin for seven days. During these seven days, everyone was familiar with new equipment and purchasing mules. Lin Kaixin, who bought a large number of mules, led a caravan with thirty-five people, totaling 105 mules, of which thirty-five mules left Warlin for carrying 15,000 kilograms of coarse salt.

There is no way to escalate in the royal city. The right to execute prisoners is in the hands of the king of the royal city. Similarly, nobles from all over the country controlled the right to execute local criminals. This is how the nobles can quickly increase their level by relying on laws.

However, foreign businessmen like Lin Kaixin can't do this. This is also the reason why Lin Kaixin is thinking about getting a title, preferably a title with a fiefdom.

In a level-based world, upgrading is still very important.

Thirty-five mules riding men are easier, each of which is only more than 200 kilograms of equipment and weapons. Among them, mules carrying spare weapons and equipment and food are the most, and each mule carries five or six hundred kilograms of this batch. However, food and water are consumed in large quantities every day. One mule eats dozens of kilograms of forage, several kilograms of beans and taels of coarse salt a day, and drinks more than ten kilograms of water. More than one hundred mules have to eat thousands of kilograms of forage, hundreds of kilograms of beans, more than ten kilograms of coarse salt and thousands of kilograms of water a day.

In the royal city, forage is bought with money. Even if you collect it in places where you can mow grass in the wild, it also takes a certain amount of time and effort.

Relatively speaking, thirty-five people eat much less. Two pounds of meat and cakes per day is enough for a mercenary. In this day, thirty-five people also have more than one thousand pounds of staple food.

Since you have become a mercenary and fight in a war, you naturally have to eat enough. The soldiers who fight on hungry can only fight repeatedly like the late Ming Dynasty.

On the first day, it was quite safe. Before the sky was dark, the mercenary group began to find a place to camp. The mules and goods were placed in the middle, and four bonfires were lit on the four corners of the four corners. The firewood was cut back with knives by the mercenaries. For a middle-level (level 15 or above) mercenary, it was easy to cut two hundred kilograms of firewood in more than an hour, and it was also a habit.

Of course, a boss like Lin Kaixin doesn't have to do this kind of rough work. Seeing the mercenaries skillfully set up four large pots to cook broth, and then start to mix pasta pancakes. For the mercenaries, when they are on their way, they can only eat some hot meals in the evening and in the morning and drink some hot soup. In order to get on the way, they have to eat dry food at noon.

In order to let the mules rest well, the goods on the mules' back had already been taken down, and a dedicated person was feeding and feeding the mules. The entire camp was not big, but it was orderly.

After dinner, the regiment commander Mo Lin showed Lin Kaixin a simple map. On the map, the mercenary group had been walking for a day and used black lines to trace it. The regiment commander Mo Lin said: "We walked at a good speed. If there were no accidents, we would arrive in Marin City in six days."

Lin Kaixin looked at the distance of the map: "If the scale of your map is correct, you will be here in four days."

Molin: "Don't worry, there will be some surprises on the road, at least six days."
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