Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye. The winter snow has melted away. Although the northwest wind still carries a biting chill, spring is still gradually showing in some places. The more flexible water, toes
The tender new shoots on the head have clearly told people that winter is leaving.
Although the northwest is a land of bitter cold, spring can be said to be the best season every day, although it is a bit short.
Most of the relocation work in the City of Miracles has been completed, and the number of people who have officially settled in this new city has reached 100,000. The original Gilliat City is almost empty of people.
The new capital city is located on the shores of Loulan Lake, which has fertile land that is rare in the entire northwest. In addition, it is located on a traffic artery and is closer to water sources. After a series of preferential treatment decrees by Duke Duwei, the miracle city after spring will become even more beautiful.
It shows vitality.
The department responsible for population migration has long queues almost every day. People from all over the Desa Province, even if they don’t plan to actually move, will choose to come and see this place with their own eyes after the ice and snow melt and the roads are clear.
The city was built in just a few months!
Just ten miles outside Loulan City, a new military camp has been built. Du Wei's Tulip Family First Infantry Division has been formed. This 20,000-strong army is based on the 4,000 rebels.
After getting up, batch after batch of new soldiers were added. Later, in order to solve the problem of soldier supply, Du Wei once again sent people to Da'er City and bribed Commander Biedro. In a few months, he brought more
Although Biedero was unsuccessful in officialdom, he still had absolute authority in Dal City. For these prisoners, he only needed to make two random entries on the list, saying they died of illness or were escorted.
Just die from fatigue on the road. In the end, because the number of more than 2,000 people was inevitably too high, Biedero simply reported that there was a plague in Big Ear City, and everyone who sold to Duwei would be killed.
Just use the name of the place where people died in the plague.
A place like Big Ear City. The higher-ups wouldn’t care about it, and if they heard there was a plague, who would be willing to go to a place like that to check? Biedro was even more bold, and even a group of prisoners who were supposed to arrive this spring
, is still on the way to be escorted, and has already been "pre-sold" to Du Wei before arriving at Dal City.
For these prisoners, Du Wei promised to let them serve for three years. After three years, they would be granted freedom. If they had merit, they would also be rewarded with land! Anyway, the northwest Desa Province has a sparse population but a lot of land.
As long as those prisoners have a glimmer of hope for freedom, they can still get their own land. Although most of the land in the northwest is barren, it is genuine land after all!
Now in Du Wei's Tulip Family First Division, there are 4,000 rebels, plus 2,000 prisoners, and more than 10,000 recruits. Among them, except for the 4,000 rebels who were originally regular ace troops,
In addition to the army, the combat effectiveness of those two thousand prisoners is even far higher than that of ordinary recruits!
This is also natural. After all, Du Wei spent money to go and choose the strongest young people in Big'er City, and most of them had their backgrounds checked (actually there is no need to check, since he was sent to that ghost place in Big'er City,
Most of them have no background. Those with background have been rescued long ago.)
Just like Du Wei said, these prisoners who were already desperate, after seeing a glimmer of hope, were really willing to try their best to catch it! Therefore, during the training, these people were particularly willing to endure hardship. In just six months
The time has changed quite a bit. Even from the perspective of Robert Knight, he thinks that although these people have not yet reached the combat effectiveness of the empire's main battle legions, they are not much worse than those ordinary local garrison troops.
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In the past few months, General Tatolo of the Northwest Army sent people to ask for money twice more. The first time Du Wei once again used the word "drag" to fool the opponent away, and the second time, the opponent
The next time someone came, their attitude became much tougher. Du Wei considered that he didn't have the capital to fall out with the Northwest Army yet, and the Imperial Army's annual spring drill was about to begin, and the Northwest Army would be mobilized on a large scale, so he had to be prepared.
In the end, he simply compromised, spent money to buy a safe house, and handed over 50,000 gold coins in military expenses. Only then did he send those guys from the Northwest Army away.
Compared with a complete infantry division that has been formed, the number of cavalry is much smaller. After all, excellent cavalry is more difficult to train than infantry. Although the folk customs in the northwest are strong, Longbottom has no regard for his subordinates.
The selection criteria are extremely strict. At the current position, Du Wei only has a cavalry regiment of 3,000 people, half of which are old subordinates summoned by Longbottom, and the other half are new recruits.
However, Longbottom's training of those new recruits was so strict that people couldn't help but sigh. Moreover, Longbottom assured Duwei that although there were only three thousand cavalry, after Longbottom's abuse of them, the combat effectiveness of these three thousand people
, has barely been able to align with the cavalry of the imperial regular army.
In fact, at the beginning, Longbottom's men gathered nearly 5,000 people in total. However, this guy's training was so harsh that many people couldn't persist until the end and gave up. Others were kicked out by him because they couldn't meet Longbottom's requirements.
His feet were kicked out. And later, Longbottom actually took these thousands of people on a light patrol. I don't know what he was doing mysteriously. He didn't come back until January later, and the number was even smaller.
After Du Wei asked, he found out that Longbottom actually took these people out for "actual combat"! According to Longbottom, "I have never fought with real swords and guns, I have never seen soldiers with blood, no matter how much I practice!"
Because skills are not developed in the military camp, some guys who are very brave in normal times wet their pants when they go to the battlefield, and some people who look like ordinary people in normal times can become excellent soldiers on the battlefield!"
So Longbottom took these thousands of people on a light patrol, without any luggage and only a few days of dry food, along the Qilima Mule Mountains to the northwest, passing through the territory of the Desa Province, entering the Northwest Corridor, and continuing
I ran to the desert outside the corridor and fought several small groups of horse thieves. This gave these new recruits some real combat experience.
Sure enough, when they came back, the temperament of these recruits was greatly different. Everyone seemed to have lost their original youthfulness, revealing a bit of majesty bathed in blood.
Although Longbottom led the troops harshly, he was absolutely kind to his men. After they returned to the City of Miracles, Longbottom, as a general, took a group of people to visit a brothel. There were several disputes in the process.
, which gave Dardaniel, who was the first garrison commander of the new capital, a headache. However, Du Wei had told him that as long as things were not too outrageous, he should leave it to the 250-year-old general as much as possible.
In the early morning, a carriage was running on the road to Loulan, the new capital. A dozen cavalry were guarding the carriage, skillfully controlling the horses, and everyone looked serious.
Du Wei was sitting in this carriage with a tulip badge. He received the news last night and hurriedly set off early in the morning for Loulan New Town.
In fact, Du Wei's Duke's Palace has already been moved to the new capital. The new Duke's Palace in the new capital, built in imitation of Luolin Castle, has become Du Wei's new home. However, these days, Du Wei has always been there.
He stayed in the abandoned city of Giliyar.
Gilliar, in this abandoned city, all the original population has moved away! In the end, Du Wei did not let this empty city be abandoned. He even spent some manpower and material resources to repair the outer city walls.
, the parts that originally collapsed were rebuilt.
In Duwei's view, the city of Giliyar is extremely unqualified as a capital city. Because it is located in a remote place, backed by the Kilimaro Mountains, it is unable to cover the entire Desa province. However, this remote city is very important to the city.
Du Wei has other functions!
As early as a month ago, after the last batch of residents moved out, Du Wei ordered the entire city to be cordoned off and then started construction in the city!
Because, in Du Wei's plan, this geographically remote and extremely safe city will be his best backup production base!
Of course, this is not a place where ordinary weapons are produced. This broken territory in the northwest has no minerals and lacks iron ore, which makes it impossible for Du Wei to make his own weapons on a large scale here. But... Du Wei still needs many other things.
Create! Some shady secret weapons that you don’t want to expose for the time being!
Moreover, what could be more suitable to be used as a production factory than an empty city?
The original Giliyar is still a city no matter how broken it is! All the living facilities are extremely complete. The city wall repaired on the outside is the best defense. As long as the city wall is guarded, no spies or spies can get in or out!
People in the city don't need to go in and out. The city has complete living facilities, water wells, and housing. Du Wei even opened an open space to serve as farmland. In this way, the people inside can live completely self-sufficiently.
Self-sufficient! Fully enclosed production is enough to meet confidentiality requirements!
As for this abandoned city, now the production base, Duwei completely left it to Solskjaer and Seth, two magic invention geniuses.
Later, thousands of slaves were bought from Dal'er City, including men and women, old and young. Du Wei had only one promise to these people: after working in the city for five years, they would be free! And after freedom,
You can also get your own land!
And these people, from being slaves, became workers at the Duweidi production base.
What frightened and surprised these workers was that they originally thought that what awaited them would be extremely heavy labor... Many prisoners died in this kind of heavy labor. But in the production base of Giliyar
Here, the work is far from as hard as imagined!
They even have very comfortable places to live (the residents who originally moved away left large tracts of empty houses), and delicious and sufficient food. Du Wei even ordered these people to work until sunset every morning after getting up in the morning.
You can take a break, and you can take a break at noon every day.
And the content of the work was not too heavy, just a little weird... In several workshops built in the city, they followed Lord Solskjaer's orders to combine many medicinal materials and powders that they did not know.
Then they are produced in large quantities...
Of course these people don't know that those things made with various unknown pharmaceutical powders are Solskjaer's biggest invention "Magic Fire Element", which is the kind of gunpowder Duwei relies on.
The work content of the people managed by Lord Seth was even more bizarre. They opened a piece of land in the city and planted various trees, and Lord Seth taught them how to graft and plant... and then some from the prisoners
The skilled craftsmen selected here will devote themselves to the next process...carving!
In this production base, the regulations are not too strict, and food, rest, and safety are guaranteed. However, Du Wei only issued a strict order: no one is allowed to leave the city!
During this period of time, only one guy who didn't know whether he was alive or dead tried to escape secretly, but he was caught by the soldiers before he reached the city gate. Then Du Wei was cruel and broke his legs in public.
"I can give you hope...but I can also take away your lives at any time!" Du Wei announced to these people: "So, within five years, you'd better keep this in mind!"
Early this morning, Du Wei had to leave the production base because he received news that the younger brother and sister of Marquis Liszt had entered the Desa province. According to the news passed along, they would arrive tonight.
Arrive at the City of Miracles.
In view of the good relationship with the Liszt family, Du Wei, the owner of the Desa Province, of course had to rush back to greet him properly.
In particular, he was very curious about the sister sent by Marquise Liszt to seduce him...