Chapter 9 Demon Hunting Commander

Author: Horror Yifan

Chapter 9 Demon Hunting Commander

Joy is joy, work is work, and after the feast, people have to get busy and start a new life in Hackland.

Especially for new immigrants, they don’t have time to have fun and the land is still waiting to be reclaimed.

Near the Zar River, Western immigrants are busy developing these excellent irrigated lands. They use the tools provided by the commander to work hard to turn the soil and then sow seeds.

Most of the immigrants were busy with the whole family and the land they allocated to them. The scene by the river looked very lively and was simply crowded with people. Most of the population of Sazha Castle was there.

People worked and sang songs. The northern countries had common cultures. After all, northern humans originated from those ships at first, and many things were common.

For example, the song they sing now is a song that has been circulated all over the north.

There is a reason for everyone's busyness. The lord's subsidy is not forever. If you cannot obtain some food from the land before the next harvest season, it will be very sad.

Hmey's food subsidy has decreased over time, which is also the usual practice when the northern countries pioneered wastelands.

Everyone knows that the newly reclaimed land does not have much food, so they will provide subsidies to allow farmers to survive the most difficult period of the beginning.

However, after the initial period, the subsidy will also decrease over time until it is not available.

This is why the development cost a lot. Hamey hadn't caught up with the great strategy of the Kingdom of Aden for Hackland's development, he would have never been able to get so much resources from King Demawi.

Yes, his pioneering was a national plan, and the king naturally wanted to find the things that Heme could think of, and the benefits contained in pioneering Hackland were huge.

Hmey was very sure that according to the normal development, he was probably here for three or four years and built the environment, and the king would be granted the new nobles.

The arrival of the new nobles was to promote Hackland's development, and on the other hand, to share power from him and prevent his family from dominating the dominance.

Although I have the title of Commander of Hackland, this title is definitely not useful to those newly enfeoffed nobles.

But that was normal. Heme knew very well that the Second Northern War would break out in four years, so he could monopolize Hackland's resources for a long time.

If he couldn't make anything happen for so long, he didn't have to think about the Northern Hegemony. He should live his life in Hackland honestly.

It's good to live a lifetime in Hackland. The land is vast and beautiful, but until the last moment, Heme wouldn't make this choice.

When farmers are busy, merchants are busy, and they are busy selling goods brought from the West in the market, which are very popular on the grassland.

Saza Fort has never been short of Cossacks and Hacklands. They would buy these goods at the first time, which is why less than half a year after the road to Hackland was discovered, merchants began to travel here.

From these merchants, Heme made a good profit of trade tax, but he seemed to be too small.

Not to mention the entire Hackland market, they can't even meet the needs of their own "territories".

However, the most profitable one is Hme. Compared with the private merchant, he is not too convenient to transport goods with his official identity. Moreover, he has the duty-free tax exemption of King Demavi. No matter how he does it, he will make a profit or make a lot of money.

Some of these goods will be sold first to loyal Cossack villages, while the other part will be sold as much as possible. There is no shortage of buyers for Sazaburg.

The dwarf craftsmen continued to build various buildings inside and outside the city, and they formed the main force of the construction workers of Sazza Fort.

Some dwarves are also engaged in ironwork, and the tools and weapons they make can also be sold at a good price.

The iron tools produced in this land of Hackland are relatively inferior. Traditionally, high-quality iron tools come from Serecania in the south, a country that worships dragons. For places in the north, it is very difficult to obtain Serecania weapons.

Now that the Yadians come to import iron tools, they will naturally be purchased by the locals.

But the only problem is that what Hemey mainly obtained was not gold and silver.

In most cases, the Hacklands gave livestock, which is a common resource in Hackland, while the Cossacks gave fur, which is a common resource among them.

Hme also had to transport all these things back to Aden to exchange them for gold and silver. Fortunately, his official identity allowed him to avoid heavy taxes.

Otherwise, he would have to be like those merchants, and after he took these goods back, he would have to be charged a heavy tax that accounts for one-fifth of the total value.

I have to say that King Demawi's vision is very vicious. When he saw the huge price difference in the Hackland trade, he naturally had to take this opportunity to get more resources.

While embracing gold and silver through trade, Hemei did not forget to strengthen her defense.

After all, on the grassland, robbery is always regarded as the first choice.

In order to trade with Sazaburg, the powerful Atamans nearby fought a battle with each other in order to fight for monopoly trade with Sazaburg.

But because everyone's power is similar, no one can do anything to anyone.

The idea of ​​attacking the Sazha Fort was also because everyone was eyeing him and no one dared to practice it. No one wanted to be used as a gun. The continuous struggle on the grassland made this happen very common, and every grassland warlord was strongly vigilant about his neighbors.

But it is difficult to prevent the wolf from eating meat, and someone will have to do it sooner or later.

Hme also knew this, but there was a saying that only a thousand days of thieves were not a thousand days of defense. Before those guys took action, they could only increase the border posts. Fortunately, the enemy attacked and conveyed a message to Saza Fort as soon as possible.

Therefore, Heme would inspect the defense and material reserves of Sazar Fort from time to time, supervise the training of soldiers under his command, and often concentrate all the men in Sazar Fort for militia training.

In addition, he was vigorously recruiting Cossacks and Hacklands on the grassland. There were always armed wandering warriors here. They survived by selling their force. Hme now needs to expand his military power.

But these warriors value reputation. Hemei can be said to be a typical unknown person on the grassland. There are no warriors who come to surrender to him. There are many people who are eating and drinking.

But Heme still accepted them. In any case, what he needs most now is manpower.

These people didn't care about allegiance to the noble Heme, or the atmosphere on the grassland was like this. It was not loyalty to anyone, and there was no resistance at all.

Of course, for Hme, the most important thing is to make more Cossack villages obey the rule of Sazhaburg and strengthen the obedience of surrendering to the villages.

This is inevitable to meet the heads and elders of various villages. Heme had a good talk with them before taking advantage of these people to come to worship him as the nominal lord.

Then he understood why Dunwa felt troublesome to deal with this group of people. After smelling all his requests, these heads and elders immediately began to ask for the price, which made Heme extremely bored.

If they want to give more, they have to pay more supplies. The residents of Hackland are so realistic.

However, they also said that they would fight for Heme, which was already agreed. They would fulfill their obligations and would bring male soldiers to help after receiving the call from Sazaburg.

In this regard, the residents of Hackland are still very simple, at least better than those tricky people in the north, but I think this is also due to their better living environment.

In this hills and forests, the Cossacks just don’t farm and can barely survive by collecting them. This is why the struggle between them remains the bottom line of not killing them.

Because although the loser fails, he can still survive, so don’t get rid of the roots. I may not be able to encounter such a situation in the future. Then everyone will be merciless.

Therefore, they were able to devote more time to honing their martial arts, which is the most important thing in survival in Hackland.

Therefore, after all, Hemey still obtained some things, such as asking these villages to agree to pay some food for Sazha Castle, but the amount was very pitiful, but it was better than nothing before.

Hemei was also very helpless about this situation. In the final analysis, he is still weak now and has a great demand for local forces. He can only use this method to gain allegiance.

If it weren't for the huge profits that trade could bring, Hme wouldn't have been here for long.

"Oh, I am a lord, I don't look like a lord, but I look like a lord who no one dares to offend."

After another quarrel with a Cossack man, like a village woman quarreling with each other in the market, he wailed like the above.

"The grassland emphasizes strength as the most respectful, and Heme commands. Only strength can make you respect. Now the people in your territory regard you as a projection of the power of the Kingdom of Aden and have no respect for you. It can be said that if you want to do something, you must first gain reputation on the grassland."

Marlendo said that now this young man who knows the Hackland Prairie has become his guard captain, handling various affairs around Heme.

Regarding his calling Hmey the commander, it was because Hmey liked the empty title of Hackland. Compared with the baron, Hmey prefers people to call him the commander. The people below naturally submit to the preferences of the rulers and call him the commander.

"Famous, yes, fame."

Hemei was muttering this word, and the confusion and depression in his voice became less and less. He thought of something, how could he forget the theme of this world?

"I can no longer just stay in this main castle, there are still tasks waiting for us outside."

After finding the target, Heme immediately started the action. He sent envoys to various villages to find out if there were any monsters that needed to be dealt with.

Yes, monsters, the residents of this world have always been troubled by various monsters. After all, the novel that carries this worldview is called the Demon Hunter.

There have always been many monsters on the Hackland Grassland, and since there are very few witch hunters here, the task of killing monsters fell on the warriors.

Hunting monsters is regarded as glory by everyone, and none of the powerful Hackland rulers in history have not hunted monsters.

When they checked the territory, they found that there were indeed many monsters, such as there were evil ghosts everywhere, there were ghoul activities everywhere, and there were Qiqimo and Andregg rampant everywhere. Even with the fierceness of Cossacks, they could only stay away from the places where these monsters appeared.

After all, there are abundant forest resources, so if you don’t have to change the place, you’ll just walk more roads and don’t need to lose the staff in the village. But people are definitely disgusted by the existence of monsters.

Because some monsters will hide and hunt humans on their own initiative, and humans are likely to walk to the monster's nest without knowing it.

And I really don’t know if I don’t look at it. I was shocked when I saw it. To be honest, there are really a lot of monsters on the territory.

Since everyone knew where there were monsters, Nahme began to kill demons and eliminate demons. Starting from Sazha Fort, he began to lead his army to sweep away the monsters that were discovered.

Hme organized a team of forty people, and the essence of Sazaburg was here, and there were several dwarves who had participated in the major cleaning in Mahakan.

The so-called big cleaning is the Mahakan dwarves then melt the ice and snow, and the monsters are expelled from them when they emerge. Therefore, the dwarves have extremely rich experience in dealing with monsters.

After learning from the dwarves' experience, Heme and his team used flames, swords and crossbows to fight against monsters. With good cooperation, they can often easily wipe out monsters.

After all, it is no longer the era when humans have just landed. Although the monster density in Hackland is even more exaggerated than in the north, the situation is just like that, and it cannot stop the organized hunting team.

Every time they return to the city, Heme and the others will bring back the monster's corpses and show their achievements to everyone.

At first, not many people cared about their actions, because at that time they brought back only weak monsters such as evil ghosts, and they also suffered casualties.

At that time, Heme was ridiculed, "The great knight wore armor to kill those little evil spirits, but unfortunately he overturned the car and even died."

But what Herme brought back were monsters such as Andereg, ghouls, and everyone's reputation also changed.

The Cossacks, who were disdainful of Hmey's behavior, also valued his actions, and as the natives of this land, they knew the dangers of these monsters.

Gradually, Cossack began to join his team and hunt monsters together. The number of people in Heme's hunting team unknowingly doubled, becoming a large team of hundreds of people.

During the battle, Heme always stood on the front line to command, and even participated in the battle himself, which left a deep impression on the Cossacks.
To be continued...