Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords.

Chapter 66 Preparing for War
After experiencing a series of wars, all the barbarians are fourth-level soldiers, and there are even eleven fifth-level soldiers.

Levi looked at their standard equipment in each stage and found that in terms of weapons alone, the battle axes and hammers made of fine steel bought from the dwarves were not much worse than the standard weapons of the fifth-level troops, and there was no need to replace them.

After comprehensively comparing the standard armor of the fourth-level and fifth-level troops, Levi found that the defense gap between the two was not very large.

The fourth-tier soldiers wear chain mail inside and a layer of ziplock mail outside, while the fifth-tier soldiers wear a full set of plate armor.

However, the price difference between the two is huge. The former only costs 30 gold grams per person, while the latter requires nearly 80 gold grams.

After a little thought, Levi decided to exchange for forty sets of fourth-level armor.

The barbarians will definitely upgrade later. First use the fourth-level armor to make a transition, and then when they are all at the sixth level, you can directly buy the sixth-level standard equipment.

One thousand gold grams is definitely a huge sum of money in the eyes of ordinary people. It is enough to buy a few maids and a manor to live a leisurely life, but it is only enough to arm an army.

In the blink of an eye, the one thousand gold grams given by Bai Ruishina disappeared, and she had to pay two hundred more.

A famous person once said that war is a waste of money, but Levi thought that was nonsense because money does not burn that quickly.

The development of Gaoyabao is like a money-eating beast, and the rewards are currently nowhere in sight.

It is said that the Kingdom of Derby invests millions of gold grams in the military every year. Of course, it is unknown how much of this actually goes into the military.

Levi slumped in the recliner, feeling hopeless. He had thought that after becoming a lord he would be surrounded by maids, ladies and endless parties.

As a result, this lord was worse than when he was a mercenary. At least Mrs. Filia never charged him for drinks, and sometimes she even paid for them.

"Alas, after this is over, we must quickly develop the military industry in High Cliff Castle, and then make a lot of money in the wilderness."

The Lord thought gloomily.

Levi never thought about opening a restaurant like in his previous life or making soap or something like that. There was no way he could make as much money from those as from making arms.

An iron weapon is estimated to cost dozens of silver grams in Derby, but in the wilderness Levi dares to sell it for a few gold grams, with a profit of at least five times more.

Debe strictly prohibits the sale of weapons and equipment to the wilderness, which leads to extremely high prices of these things in the wilderness.

Levi was not afraid that these wilderness natives would become weapons and pose a threat to High Cliff Castle.

He has strict targets for selling weapons.

Eliminate one generation, fall behind one generation, mass-equip the third generation, elite arm the fourth generation, research the fifth generation, and plan the sixth generation.

He only sells out this backward generation.

Besides, how can we allow them to live in peace if we sell weapons to them?

For example, Levi decides the number of people who will buy weapons from him, and when additional people want to join in, he just says something.

"I'm sorry, Highcliff Castle's production is limited. We have already signed agreements with three tribes and cannot sell more weapons. It's difficult for me to do this."

These wilderness natives will definitely start a dog-eat-dog fight. After all, you are right next to me and are now well-equipped. Who knows if you will suddenly attack me?

It’s better to strike first and grab this spot.

When a bunch of tribes start fighting each other, the more fiercely they fight, the more Levi earns.

Soon, Zat was called in. When he looked at the wooden boxes on the ground, he looked confused. Levi kicked open one of the boxes.

"Is this armor?!" Zat took out the armor from the box and was surprised and delighted when he found that the size was exactly the same as the orc's body.

You have to know that armor can be said to be another life. Just talking about its importance, a soldier wearing heavy armor can at least be worth ten soldiers without armor.

The barbarians only had twelve sets of iron armor, and the rest were all leather armor. Zat didn't expect that the boss would make so many. Looking at this number, it was just enough to arm the remaining orcs.

Although the survivors of Fed also have some iron armor, it is too small and they, with an average height of 2.3 meters, cannot wear it at all.

And it is obviously impossible to buy it back at this time.

So it couldn't figure out where the boss got the armor out of thin air.

"Mars……"

Facing Zat's puzzled eyes, Levi just smiled mysteriously, uttered two words, and pointed at the survivors of Fed passing by outside and made a gesture to silence them.

Zat immediately understood and nodded, then went to find the barbarians to get their equipment as if nothing had happened.

……

Time flies, and two days pass in the blink of an eye.

Levi did some calculations and found that the cost of upgrading the barbarians was actually nothing, the biggest part of it was always the equipment.

A level six troop would require at least over 100 gold grams to assemble. If there were 1,000 soldiers, it would require over 100,000 gold grams.

And this is not a one-time deal. Although the first time the money is spent is the highest, the next thousand soldiers will also cost 10,000 gold grams per year to support.

Just like buying a car in the previous life, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on it does not mean the end. You will still have to spend thousands of dollars every month on maintenance, refueling and so on.

Debe's military expenditure is over one million gold grams every year. If all of it is used to support soldiers without any discount, it can at least support hundreds of thousands of people.

But in fact, there were only tens of thousands of elite soldiers at most, and together with the miscellaneous troops, they could only make up about 100,000.

If Levi had this one million gold grams, it would be enough to recruit an elite force of 50,000 soldiers, all at level six. Although these soldiers could not sweep across the Medieval Continent, at least they could easily attack Debe.

Thinking of this, Levi felt much better and comforted himself, this is what it means to take the elite route.

If he also learned from the Kingdom of Derby, one thousand gold grams could at least arm a team of several hundred soldiers, but the combat effectiveness would naturally be compromised.

"Sam, does this magic work?"

When Levi went out to the settlement planned for the barbarians, he heard a chaotic conversation. When he went over to take a look, he saw that it was a group of barbarians surrounding the old man Sam.

"What's going on?" The lord looked at Sam muttering unknown bytes quickly, and then a gray light flew out of his hand and landed on a goat.

"Sam insisted on showing us his magic, saying that he wanted us to see the power of magic." Mutuo spread his hands with a smile on his face. "The old guy said that if the goat he cast a spell on could be skinned, he would let us whip it ten times."

"Really?" Levi smiled and became interested.

"Any of you can come, if you can cut the skin, I will let you whip each of you ten times."

Sam, who was surrounded, spoke with great confidence. His stone skin technique could be directly applied to hundreds of people. Now he added all the magic power to a goat, and its defense was no different from that of a stone.

　Sorry guys, I thought I updated two chapters yesterday, but now I found out that I didn’t, so I added them here.

　　
　
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