Chapter 31 Salt
After that, Artoria, who was originally waiting for Egil to come back to play cards, was invited over. His Highness is also a man who has been through a long battle formation. He was not surprised to see the head of the wind dry. After that, he looked at it carefully and gave a positive answer.
"That's right, it's that guy Cadice. I really didn't expect someone to hunt him in the mountains. It seems that this guy is indeed a little capable." Artoria said to Egil.
"Since the queen said this, it's right." Egil nodded, and then ordered: "Come, take this gift away and send it to York City to the north to show our dwarf allies."
Afterwards, a spy walked to the side quietly, bowed to Egil, then held up the wooden box, and retreated several steps backwards.
"...That guy just now was a very good assassin." At this moment, watching the spy enter and exit silently. Robin Hood was slightly surprised, and he also slightly restrained his pride.
"Robin Hood!" Just as Robin Hood was worried about gains and losses, Egil suddenly called out his name.
"Yes. Your Majesty."
"From today, I will officially appoint you as the chief archer in the Kingdom and the commander of the Kingdom Longbowmen. Recruit all your friends to serve me! No matter what their identities were before, it doesn't matter to hunters, mercenaries, or bandits. From today on, they are my soldiers and warriors of the Kingdom! Did you hear that?!"
Suddenly hearing such good news, Robin Hood was surprised and even forgot how to answer. It was not until Egil shouted out, "Did you hear it?" that he reacted and lowered his head deeply: "From today, I will follow His Majesty for eternity."
Egil stepped forward a few steps and helped Robin Hood up: "Very good, then I'll give you everything."
After this, Egil heard the system prompt: You have obtained a new minion.
Robin Hood: A famous medieval thief, a legendary sharpshooter, whose archery skills are superb. At the same time, he is proficient in small-scale combat in mountain jungles and is an extremely rare tactical talent. There is a term in the archery industry that specifically describes the ability to shoot the first arrow at the bull's eye directly into two sections when firing the second arrow. The archers under his command reload speed +5%, the archers' accuracy +10%, the archers' attack +2, and the archers' archers' forces +2.
At the same time, Egil also received a system announcement that he had an additional team of Sherwood Shooters in the Sherwood Forest near Nottingham.
Sherwood Sharpshooter: An elite Sharpshooter wearing a costume and holding a purple-shirted wooden longbow, his ranged attack ability is the strongest among archers. Regardless of shooting speed, accuracy, and power, they are stronger than ordinary longbowers. At the same time, they are proficient in mountain jungle combat, and can hide their bodies and move forward slowly in the mountain jungle terrain and conceal their bodies and attacks. However, one thing to note is that these Sharpshooters have low defenses and few people. Try to let them avoid melee combat.
Sherwood Archer: 80 people, race: English, equipment: green camouflage outfit, purple-shirted wooden longbow, throat-cutting dagger. Training degree: extremely high, morale: high, discipline: medium.
"Good stuff. Although the number is indeed a little less." Egil sighed. Then he asked the guards to take Robin Hood down to get to know the situation of the camp and then allocate a house and land.
Immediately afterwards, in Artoria's eyes, Egil once again entered the routine daze of every day. Artoria, who had experience in Western history, was not surprised. She directly found a chair and sat down, then snapped her fingers, and asked the servants to send some food to eat. Since she was hungry in the Welsh forest area for so long, Artoria has become a habit of enjoying snacks. It doesn't have to be delicious or can fill her stomach. Just chew it with something in her mouth.
But despite this, perhaps because his combat power has not been restored, Artoria practices every day and spends a lot of time to survive. So she has not gained weight at all.
Similarly, there was no change in the bust.
above.
At this moment, Egil is communicating with the system elves.
"By the way, after seeing this guy, I recalled another person, Yang Yuki, who is known as the number one sharpshooter in the Spring and Autumn Period. That guy is also a powerful archer. Baibu Chuanyang is talking about him. I remember that he didn't want to know who is better than Robin Hood. But I had to ask - is the so-called battlefield cold arrow hero very popular?" Egil asked.
"It's a pity that you want to maintain enough judgment and maneuverability on a complex battlefield, and specifically snipe the enemy's generals... It's a pity. The general you just conquered Robin Hood really has this ability." The system elves replied.
"...Why do you still regret having this ability?!" Egil complained.
"Do you think I'll be happy when I see you?" asked the system elves.
"...Okay, the next question." Egil understood that the system elves were indeed the kind of person who liked to gloat and could not see others doing well. So he decisively stopped this matter and began to ask another question: "Sherwood Swordsman is indeed a good army. But the number is too small. I just looked at the recruitment of the troops in several cities I had. He actually had no upgrade to the Guard Barracks. Is there no place for Sherwood Swordsman to recruit?"
"Well. Because Sherwood Shooters are a very rare special military service, they cannot be recruited in ordinary military camps." The system elves said: "The way to recruit Sherwood Shooters is to build a Rangers Guild, and then recruit Sherwood Shooters in the Rangers Guild. There is a limit on the number of recruitment. It is very difficult to form an army."
"Ranking the Forest Raiders Guild..." Egil looked in the system's building column. In addition to the Forest Raiders Guild, there are many other types of guilds that can provide special bonuses. It seems that commercial guilds can increase trade volume and indirectly increase tax revenue. Forging guilds can upgrade weapons and increase attack power. The Wrangler guilds can cultivate excellent war horses, increase cavalry strength, etc.... But most guilds have the words "Construction conditions have not been met."
"What's going on?" Egil asked.
"That's it." The system elves replied.
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"Okay OK, I'll explain it a little, so that you, a barbarian who is not smart enough to understand the level of a gorilla--"
"——Stop. No, I'll just take a closer look." Egil immediately stopped the system elves' attempt to continue to ruin his image.
Horse Wrangling Guild: More than five types of horse breeds are needed to concentrate and have more than fifteen horse breeding experts.
Forging Guild: More than ten melee weapons are needed to develop and have more than fifteen forging masters.
The Rangers Guild...Okay, this can be built. It requires three thousand long bowmen under its command to occupy Nottingham and Sherwood Forests and get the surrender of the thief Robin Hood.
It costs eight thousand gold coins. Construction restrictions, England, and cities with large forests in the territory.
"There are actually construction restrictions..." Egil was a little powerless to complain.
"Of course, so I said this is difficult to mass produce."
Despite the system elves saying this. However, seeing such a kind army, Egil finally made up his mind to withdraw some of the taxes for December and set up a ranger guild in Nottingham. He spent 1,200 gold coins again to recruit 120 Sherwood Sharpshooters. At least, the number of Sherwood Sharpshooters was expanded to 200, which was barely considered a squad.
Afterwards, Egil recovered from this state of dazedness (the perspective of Artoria next to him).
"Okay, go back to play cards." Seeing that the matter was done, Artoria grabbed Egil's hand and wanted to go back to her room.
However, Egil did not move.
"What's wrong?" asked Artoria.
"I didn't expect that someone could hunt a powerful elf magic shooter in the mountains and forests." Egil sighed like this.
"So?" asked Artoria.
"So...you said, how should we deal with the elves tribes in the Welsh Jewelry in the future?" Egil asked, "How did you control these elves to work hard for you before?" Egil asked the question that he had just thought of.
"Salt." Artoria's answer was simple and clear, and she was much better than the system elf who was long-winded and sarcastic and could not speak the key points.
"So that's it." Egil suddenly realized. Norway and England are all forces close to the seaside, and Egil has also heard that the dwarves have several salt mines in the mountains. Therefore, there is no need to worry about eating salt. However, it seems like an elves tribe, and they can't cook salt and have no minerals. If you don't die because of the lack of minerals, you can only use Artoria as a cattle and a horse.
"So, those elf mercenaries, do you also use salt to pay commissions?" Egil continued.
"It's just a small part. After all, the Elf Tribe also has its own other trading channels, so in fact, the number of Elf Tribes I can control is not very large." Artoria further explained.
Chapter completed!