Lord of Rot

Chapter 201 Trivia and Cavalry

Footsteps came from outside.

Li Qi stretched out his hand to lift the back of Qingtian's neck, picked it up, and rescued the brass dragon from the cat's mouth.

"Okay, let's go out and play first." Li Qi waved to the black cat.

"Meow~" Qingtian meowed, and Pitts probably taught it what this sentence meant, so after hearing Li Qi speak, it meowed twice, jumped off the table and left.

"Oh, you must be careful, Your Excellency Qingtian." Grant's laughter came from outside the door.

Knowing that someone was coming, the Brass Dragon complained: "So, I hate cats and dogs the most."

The moment the door opened, the brass dragon closed its mouth and lay on the table as an exquisite brass dragon ornament.

Grant came in: "Good day, sir!"

"Good day." Li Qi sighed helplessly: "Glen, I guess you must have carefully prepared the trivial matters for me for more than a month."

"Yes, sir, I have put them all on paper for your convenience."

Papermaking technology has not yet been fully developed, but it can already be used by the City Hall and Reacher.

"You are so considerate." Li Qi looked at the thick stack of paper, each page was densely written, and felt a little headache.

The trivial matters of 2000 people should be sent to him in bits and pieces. Those that have been solved must be sent to him, and those that have not been solved must be sent up. This was also Li Qi's previous request, in order to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to corrupt.

In fact, corruption is absolutely unavoidable, and this is the case in human society.

All he can do is tighten supervision and crack down hard every once in a while.

If people feel like they don't care, the people below will only become more and more arrogant.

"The racecourse has been built"

While Li Qi was reading the report, Grant was also dictating the report and explaining to Li Qi: "Lord Crow Camel said he could go to the desert nobles to buy some excellent war horses."

Each region has its own characteristic war horses, just like the fierce-maned horses in the East Gorge, which are a little more fiery and overall more balanced.

Horses with giant feet are smaller in size and have lively personalities. They are suitable for running in harsh environments, but they are not as good as strong-maned horses on open ground.

Enduo's prairie war horses are very large, and I heard they know how to cooperate well, allowing those prairie barbarians to combine man and horse into one, but their charging capabilities are somewhat inferior.

Horses in the north are more suitable for light cavalry and scouts.

Although war horses in desert areas are not agile enough, they have strong adaptability and endurance, making them very suitable for knights to charge.

Nowadays, there are no specific geographical divisions. No matter where in the land, you can see nobles riding various varieties of war horses.

“And it’s more affordable,” Gulen said.

"Then bring in a group of desert war horses," Li Qi said. "Let Kuai Blade arrange a group of soldiers to escort Crowe to Leiweng City."

After arranging the horses, the next step was the issue of the residential area. When it was mentioned when to move, the city hall finally figured out the accounting for demolition and relocation.

Not easy.

When Li Qi came back, he saw that the house was almost finished.

Li Qi said: "The house is still not enough to live in. We will continue to build it next year."

"As for moving, let's wait for a while. Maybe we can move in before it snows this year."

What Li Qi thinks is that when people have some money in their hands, they cannot divide it equally when living in new houses. The more they pursue "equality", the easier it is to become unequal.

The easiest way is to spend money.

Those with money will live in it, while those without money will wait for the second phase of the residential complex to build houses.

So he has to wait a little longer, and then there will be more wealthy people.

If you want to move into a new house at a cabbage price, you still have to pay the cabbage price.

When it comes to building a house, we must talk about dock construction.

"It may be a while before you want to build a watchtower on the coast of the headland."

"Then build the dock first," Li Qi said. "After building the dock, let Pili take the sailors to try it. Otherwise, wouldn't our ship be wasted?"

"Yes" Grant nodded. He also preferred to open the waterway first. When the time comes, he can try to let the caravan go to Donggang City. The transportation will be much more convenient. Moreover, after there is a dock, more merchants who are willing to come to Porcupine Territory will definitely many.

Then there is the problem of the blacksmith factory’s recent orders being dwindling.

Although they are usually tired, they still make a lot of money. Now that they are suddenly free, the blacksmiths cannot make any money and feel a little dissatisfied.

In contrast, the carpenter's workshop and the mason construction team never rested.

Tiring, but making crazy money.

"Let them build a batch of more weapons, as well as the iron pipes I requested," Li Qi said, "and projectiles."

The accuracy of the musket is very poor, but it is not impossible to use.

In the history of the earth, no one has ever seen someone aim and shoot. The real use of a musket is to fire.

Muskets have problems such as inaccuracy and short range.

But compared to its convenience and ease of use, which only requires loading gunpowder and pulling the trigger, inaccurate shooting is not unacceptable. As long as the shooting range is large enough, no matter where I hit, someone will definitely die.

However, Li Qi was not sure how useful the musket would be in the world of extraordinary beings.

Currently, with the help of Claude's caravan, the price of basic gunpowder materials has dropped a lot, and he also plans to move the musket to the stage.

"Yes." Grant didn't understand the function of the iron pipe, but nodded obediently. Anyone who had seen Li Qi's inventive ability would not doubt his decision.

"besides……"

More than a month of squeezing was enough to crack Reacher's head.

For example, the strictly forbidden sexual intercourse between men and women has begun again.

There is always a single woman or a single man who cannot restrain himself.

"It must be strictly controlled!" Li Qi emphasized again and again: "I usually pray to the four gods one by one, but at this time, I started to indulge again, right?"

It's not that he doesn't understand that people have physiological needs, but a chaotic relationship between men and women will only breed disease.

Not only is the current medical level unable to cure it.

Chaotic relationships are also how diseases spread.

"If it doesn't work, just go on a blind date and let them get married," Li Qi said.

"Blind date?"

"It's similar to a noble dance," Li Qi explained.

The most famous dating culture is the aristocratic dance. You can try to communicate with any lady you like. As for how deeply you can communicate and whether you can communicate at a distance, it depends on each person's ability.

But when civilians go on a blind date, they are just going through the motions. It depends on the compatibility. The eldest brother should not dislike the second brother.

Grant nodded: "If we can hold a party that everyone in the Porcupine Territory can attend, it will definitely inspire people."

He said: "Among these, it would be best if someone can find his or her partner."

It is human nature to seek excitement. As the saying goes, a wife is worse than a concubine than a steal, and a steal is worse than not being able to steal.

However, strictly prohibiting triggering can also effectively prevent the birth and spread of diseases.

Blocking is worse than sparseness, and the "sparseness" Li Qi gave means marriage.

There are currently more women than men in the porcupine collar. Let every man have a wife first and then solve some of the needs.

As for the rest... we can only increase the population.

"There are not enough men."

Li Qi sighed.

They had just finished giving orders to Grant, and Qiao had arrived over there. His question was quite simple.

Need to scale up.

Porcupine wine business is very good, and Claude is already asking for more money to buy more.

The sales of honey are not bad, but winter is approaching and bees need to survive the winter, so honey will not be produced in a short time.

"The caravan from Sancha River also came to inquire, hoping to buy some wine."

Nothing would make Li Qi happier than asking about the caravan arriving.

Sanchahe Land is also the aristocratic territory of the East Gorge. As its name suggests, it is surrounded by Sancha River and is rich in waterways and ecological resources.

There are also mineral veins, and I heard that precious alchemical resources can often be mined.

All in all, Baron Porcupine is envious of him, and he is also a rich man.

"Expand the scale." Li Qi slapped the table and immediately made a judgment and said: "Continue to expand the scale. In terms of employment, first hire local civilians from the Porcupine Territory, especially those whose families live in the Porcupine Territory, get married and have children."

"Yes."

As long as the market demands it, we will produce like crazy.

But food cultivation cannot be left behind. Food is the foundation. Otherwise, raw materials also require people and will only be controlled by people.

"There is still a shortage of people. We have to find a way to recruit more people."

The senior management of the porcupine collar came in line, and as soon as Joe left, the quick blade came again.

Quick Blade is very direct: "Sir, do you want to buy a war horse?"

Although the racecourse is far away from Porcupine Castle, as long as you are not deaf, you can definitely hear the construction plan.

"What suggestions do you have?" Li Qi asked after taking a sip of honey beer.

Judging from Kuai Ren's expression, he knew he was well prepared.

Li Qi knew clearly.

He wanted the racecourse just for the cavalry.

The role that infantry can play is really limited.

Especially when he was preparing to bring highly mobile musketeers onto the battlefield, Qi Jiguang's musketry cavalry was his initial target.

"hey-hey"

Kuai Jian smiled: "I don't have any suggestions, but sir, didn't you say you were going to form a cavalry before? Those bastards under my command want me to come over and ask about the cavalry."

Speaking of cavalry, Li Qi often used the excuse of picking cavalry to fight, and it was a one-on-one fight.

But every time he finished the beating, put on his trousers... He patted his butt and left directly, which made the soldiers under him jittery, and there was no certainty, but he was the lord after all, even if he put on his trousers... They didn't dare to say anything even if they didn't care about their pants.

Coincidentally, now that they heard that Li Qi was going to buy war horses and build a horse farm, the soldiers' interest in riding horses became active again.

"Well," Li Qi said, "Then we will select another hundred soldiers, and then the veterans and recruits will be trained and selected together."

100 soldiers were not enough, so Li Qi wanted to expand the team size.

"Ah?" Kuai Ren was stunned, and then quickly responded: "Yes!"

Recruiting another hundred new soldiers means that the number of cavalry will also increase. Veterans have greater opportunities than new recruits.