Urban Sims

After opening up the Highland Corridor and successfully conducting a trade, the Free Business Alliance, which received a large number of slave miners and capital injections, and the originally depressed economy became full of vitality again.

In the second year, through this plateau business road that had been paved with rails on most of the road sections, with a higher transportation efficiency, within a six-month transit period, it brought nearly 100,000 people to the Free Business Alliance. The number of slave miners is so large that it is close to one-third of the total population of the Free Business Association.

In order to effectively manage these large numbers of slaves, the members of the Free Business Alliance have carried out military reforms, imitating the “leader” system of the Grand Collar, and expanded their respective military strengths.

In this year, the mercenary trade union headquartered in Grand Collar has developed more rapidly, and the mercenary branch has been opened throughout the free business alliance. Within each member’s territory, a mercenary station and information publishing center have been set up. The task release and information exchange mechanism is consistent with the business station, but the update frequency is faster, the amount of information is greater, and maintenance is more complicated.

Because the threshold for registration as a mercenary is relatively low, within a year, the number of registered mercenaries in the mercenary union has quickly exceeded 50,000. The source of mercenaries is from all over the world. There are wild people in the north and those in the west. Barbarians, adventurers from many kingdoms in the south, etc., all dreaming of digging for gold, came to this free trade union on the corner of the mainland.

The number of registered mercenaries of mercenary unions has expanded to such a number. Naturally, some mercenary groups with dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people have also sprung up because of the effective organization and After training, from the blacksmith shop next to the mercenary union, preferential purchases of plate armor, steel spears, steel crossbows, fine forged swords and other weapons that originally required sky-high prices. The weapons and equipment of some mercenaries were not even weak. Yu reload the knight.

As a result, there were a large number of well-armed mercenary groups. In order to get more rewards, they carried a large number of business alliance goods with some bold businessmen, from barons and even counties of non-free business alliance regions. On the walk, swaying across.

Not paying a penny of business tax, not paying a copper transit tax and rest tax, treat the lords of these territories as nothing.

Are these ignorant lords angry?

Of course it is extremely angry, but it is calculated that there are only dozens of knights in the hand. Faced with this group of well-equipped and over 1,000 mercenaries, unless the head is overheated or feels that the world is irresistible, this lord is basically taken. Caravans guarded by numerous mercenaries have no choice.

The Kingdom of Arino, which is adjacent to the southwest of the Kingdom of Wallis, has become the biggest victim of these large mercenary groups. The territory has only six counts, and the Kingdom of Arino, bullied by the surrounding “Great Powers”, has become The “corridors” and “transit stations” through which large mercenary regiments transported commercial goods did not say, and even without consent, a fortress-style mercenary station was established in this kingdom, and thousands of mercenaries lived there for a long time. local.

The king of the Kingdom of Arrino wanted to kill all these wicked mercenaries one by one and confiscate all the merchandise … But he dared not do that, because he could not pull out all the knights in the kingdom A Kingdom of Arrino, with more than 800 knights, came out. Taking into account that the surrounding “big powers” have always wanted to eat meat from this kingdom, there is really no way to be willful.

Seeing the arrival of mercenaries and caravans again has a certain stimulus and pulling effect on the economy of his kingdom. The king of the Kingdom of Arino chose to keep his eyes closed, pretending not to care.

Therefore, this year, in addition to the plateau corridor, those traders’ roads opened up by large mercenary groups also brought a large amount of necessary materials and huge profits of more than one million gold coins to the Free Business Alliance.

The situation is very good.

Also at the end of the year, a message from the Iron Fort Kingdom made Zhou Ming look forward to.

Because of the cold, the old king of the Iron Fort Kingdom became more ill and his life was in danger.

If nothing goes wrong, this monstrous incompetent monarch will die soon, and then around the kingdom ’s succession to the throne, the prince and uncle will start a five-year civil war until the two sides are exhausted, The neighboring countries took advantage of the situation. After the collective siege, the northeast corner of the continent was regarded as a kingdom of medium power. After losing a large territory, it would eventually collapse and split into two endless small countries.

Of course, Zhou Ming will not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open up a vast area of ​​development for his narrow-grained and constrained Grand Collar.

However, even if you know that the Iron Fort Kingdom will have a civil war, Zhou Ming will not rush into it at the beginning of the war, it is looking for death.

At least two years later, after the two sides fight for both defeats and injuries, they will intervene by force.

In the middle two years, Zhou Ming decided to implement his other new plan, an expedition plan that was enough to change the world and lay a solid foundation for conquering the world.

Uh …

Soon after, on the task bulletin board of the Grand Collar Mercenary Union, Zhou Ming posted the first task of a mercenary union so far, the first difficulty coefficient is 3S level-

Mission Name: Explore New World

Mission requirements: Recruit a mercenary expedition team of 30 people, mercenary level required to be silver level or above, many times participated in the plateau corridor transportation mission, can adapt to the cold environment

Mission reward: come back alive, each person bounty 50,000 coins, come back alive and achieve the exploration goal, each person bounty 100,000 coins, all mercenary levels are upgraded to legendary mercenaries (mercenary levels above platinum level)

Task difficulty: SSS

Unlike Zhou Ming’s expectations, UU reads www. uukanshu. Less than two days after the com mission was posted on the bulletin board of the mercenary union, there were many mercenaries who came to register and were extremely enthusiastic.

For these registered mercenaries, Zhou Ming first conducted a screening according to the task requirements. After excluding 80% of those who did not meet the requirements, among the remaining more than 100 qualified mercenaries, an interview was conducted. Finally, the best 30 were selected to form their own expedition.

Some coincidences are that some of these 30 people are still “old friends” that Zhou Ming knew in his last life. For example, Jero, a robber who is a golden mercenary, is of strong stature and has a high mission. The great axe Johnson, whose success rate was promoted to the silver mercenary, and the one-eyed Leonardo, the demon and charming snake girl, are also in this expedition.

The dwarf Dom, who is good at digging traps, is still a black iron, so he is not in this expedition team. Instead, it is a devil Biro who is superior in ability and has a little relationship with the big robber Jero. He is now a The platinum mercenary is the highest mercenary of the 30-man expedition.

The staffing is complete, because it is in the middle of winter. Before the snow mountain melts, there is still more than four months. During this time, Zhou Ming brought the 30-person expedition team with various tools prepared At the foot of the Ural Snow Mountain east of Jokken, on a plateau of more than 5,000 meters above sea level, in a icy and snowy field, a three-month special training was conducted.

During these more than three months of devil-like training, Zhou Ming and his 30-person expedition team became more adaptable to altitude sickness. On a snowy mountain with an altitude of more than nine kilometers, Shocking their respective climbing records, constantly breaking through the limits of their physical fitness, and constantly increasing the confidence and ambition to challenge and conquer nature!