Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

During his recovery, John did not forget the commander's words and told them to Bolian X word for word. However, he only received a reply of "I will consider it" and there was no more news.

After John waited for half a month, Mitlan and Yoda were finally ready to negotiate on the Barden issue.

Midland sent Count Milo and the royal envoys, Yoda sent their diplomats and generals, and Barden sent Prime Minister John to listen in. Anyway, he had already got what he wanted, so it didn't matter what they talked about.

After a heated debate, Mitlan, Yoda, and Bardon finally signed an agreement:

1445. Restore the borders of the Kingdom of Bardun before the spring of .

2. The armies of the two countries withdraw from the Kingdom of Balden.

3. Restore the trade routes between the Kingdom of Balden and Mitlanyuda.

50. The Yoda Empire will compensate the Balden Kingdom with gold coins for post-disaster reconstruction.

5. The issue of Yoda's capture will be negotiated by Midlan and Yoda at another time.

In short, both countries don't want to fight in Balden anymore. Instead of continuing to fight, they should stop the losses in time and go back to their own homes. Fighting further may not produce any results even if they fight themselves to death.

In this Battle of Balden, the Yoda Empire lost 50 gold coins and a bunch of prisoners, the Balden Kingdom had a bunch of villages that needed to be rebuilt, and Midland lost soldiers and money, but the goal was achieved.

So, with the farewell of King Balden and the Balden people, the Midlan people led their army all the way west back to Midlan. In a few years, this land may have returned to its original state, and only the weapons left on the battlefield ruins can prove that a war was fought here.

John crossed the river in a carriage, bypassed Binsey, passed through one village under construction after another, and after a few days he saw the forest in front of him.

"Finally back to the old nest," thought John.

But now, John's biggest concern is how to place his soldiers. This time he brought more than 8000 soldiers from Balden, and another 2000 people were dispersed by John in various villages in West Balden. They changed into Balden soldiers' clothes and became guards for the knights.

Among these 8000 soldiers, 2000 were injured to varying degrees, and 500 were directly disabled and could no longer fight. These people must be laid off, but if they are just given money, they will spend all the money and how will they live in the future?

While John was thinking, the carriage had arrived at Johannesburg. At this time, he met Simon who had returned and wanted to ask if there was any work that a disabled person could do.

Simon thought for a moment, then said, "Sir, I think that if we want to give these retired soldiers jobs, we should at least give them a prosthetic limb so that they can solve their daily life problems. There are many shops selling prosthetic limbs in Mond. If necessary, I can go to Mond to find a suitable prosthetic limb merchant for you."

"Then go as soon as possible, I need it urgently now." John said quickly.

Now that John is rich, he has become generous, so he plans to build a school outside Johannesburg. However, he is so short of people who can read and count, and he has to handle some small matters personally, which means that John does not have much time to rest, so he needs to train some people. Of course, John needs to find talents himself in a short period of time.

Then John had some huts built for these retired soldiers to live in. Now these retired soldiers need to heal their injuries first, and then replace their prosthetic limbs before they can find a job.

A week later, Simon came with a group of merchants who made prosthetic limbs. After John explained the situation to them, the merchants quickly said:

"Sir, we need to wait until their wounds have healed before installing prosthetic limbs. If we install them rashly now, it will slow down the healing process and even worse, the wounds may get worse."

John thought about it and realized that this was the truth, so he ordered: "Then go and measure the size of the prostheses my soldiers need, and then go back to customize them. Don't worry, I won't owe you money."

As he said this, John gave the leader a purse.

"The gold coins here are my deposits for you. There will be rewards after the work is done. After you have measured and collected the data, go back to Mondstadt to make it. Don't think of taking the money and running away. Anyone who dares to do so will have his head hung on the wall of Mondstadt tomorrow!"

John said and let them go.

Back in the room, John looked at the buildings he could build in the system. He found that the construction of John Castle and other castles this year was biased towards military rather than civilian life, resulting in the fact that all civilian occupations in the entire castle were very backward. So John began to build some markets to guide the people in the territory to buy and sell goods in the market. In addition to solving some problems of random stalls, the construction of the market can also drive the surrounding development, thereby deriving more occupations to solve the employment problem of retired soldiers.

In addition, John also needs to deal with the issue of how to deal with the remains of soldiers who died in battle. These corpses are basically collected on the battlefield after the war. If it is urgent to collect them, the generals of various countries will take away the bodies of soldiers from various countries. However, most people will not touch these corpses because they feel it is unlucky, so a special profession was born - battlefield corpse carrier.

People who work in this profession usually can't stay in it for long. They are always sick after dealing with corpses for a long time, and many soldiers will stay away from them because they think they are bad omens.

Although they did touch the corpses, it was after the war. During the war, touching the corpses to make money was John's old job as a war supervisor. By the time they went up to touch the corpses, there was nothing left.

Even after the bodies were collected, only the nobles could have the army pack them up in coffins and transport them home for free. For the rest of the wealthy, the soldiers would notify the deceased's family. The wealthy would give the soldiers some money and tell them the name, height, weight, appearance, and armor of the body. After the soldiers had counted the bodies, they would look for them in the pile of corpses. If they found one, they would put the body back in a coffin. If they couldn't find it, they would say they didn't know.

As for those who have no money, it is easier to deal with. Just burn them all into ashes, and then find a bunch of small boxes and put some ashes in each one. Send them directly to the family members without even writing their names, and bury them hastily.

Fortunately, a piece of vacant land that had been cleared earlier could be used as a cemetery. John did not have the time to buy coffins, because by the time they were ready, the corpses would have already become smelly and would have caused plague.

So John had no choice but to order the soldiers to set up several earthen stoves, put the soldiers' bodies in and burn them into ashes, and then store their ashes in a small jar, bury it in the ground, and put a tombstone on it.

Amidst a long and sad music, bodies were sent into the crematorium one after another. When they came out, they were put into jars and finally buried under the land.

When the bodies were being burned, many villagers came. They had all received help from John's army to varying degrees. Some of them placed a white flower in front of a tombstone after burying it.

Looking at the corpses one after another, John couldn't help but think that more people might die in the days to come. This was how it was in the Middle Ages. In this era when if you were well fed, others were not, if you didn't kill others, others might kill you.

But life had to go on, so John could only ride back to the castle to continue working so that the survivors could live a little easier.