Sixty-seven surrendered mercenaries were eating in the open space in front of the manor castle. The food was very simple, just two slices of black bread and a bowl of broth. However, this broth had a large bucket. Whoever wanted to drink it would go to the bucket and spoon it.

When Lorist and Josk passed by, two mercenaries came up.

Josk introduced: "The older one is called Hauski, and the golden bearded one behind him is Jim. They are now the heads of these mercenaries."

Hauski and Jim came up to greet Lorist and Josk. Lorist waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you two come to the castle with us and talk about the treatment of you mercenaries."

After entering the castle, Lorist found a room nearby and brought two mercenaries in. After everyone sat down, Lorist was not polite and said straight to the point: "Although you mercenaries surrendered voluntarily, I am actually very worried about how to deal with you. Killing is not moral, and if we don't kill us, we will waste manpower to take care of you. After all, you have all awakened the fighting spirit, and the lowest is also the Black Iron Level. If you say you will surrender to us, we cannot believe your loyalty, otherwise you would not surrender so easily..."

The two mercenaries were blushing, but they had nothing to say, because what Lorist said was the truth.

"I can't kill you. I'm unwilling to let you go. Maybe if you let you go, you will be hired by our enemies and meet us in front of us for less than two days. Wouldn't we cause trouble? I don't have so much manpower to keep you in charge. After thinking about it, I think I'll just pay to hire you..." Lorist said.

The two mercenary leaders raised their heads in surprise: "Big, sir, are you going to hire us?"

"Yes," Loris nodded: "But don't worry, I hired you not to deal with your old employers. I believe you don't have the face and I don't want to do it in my heart. If I force you, you will definitely not work hard. I have to worry about whether you will fight back."

The two mercenary leaders lowered their heads a little embarrassedly, and it was obvious that Lorist had hit their minds. The older Hauski had also experienced more. He quickly raised his head and asked, "Sir, what do you want to do when you hire us?"

"Come, come and get a territory map." Lorrist shouted.

Lorist set up the map of the territory he sent on the table and signaled the two mercenary leaders to come and take a look: "This is our family's manor castle, this is Kitano Town. We are planning to build a new town in this place, the Populus Beach with a small river. I believe you also know that there are often mountain barbarians in the north, and those savages like to go down the mountain to rob. In order to prevent us from being attacked by mountain barbarians when we were building a new town, I decided to set up a military camp here, that is, at the mountain pass where the two mountains meet, as the first line of defense against mountain barbarians."

"The purpose of my hiring you is to protect this military camp. Of course, I will not ask you to do what you cannot do. If there are many mountain barbarians, you will defend the military camp and light the wolf smoke to send us a message. We will send reinforcements. If there are few mountain barbarians, you will directly destroy them. With your silver and black iron fighting spirit, it should be more than enough to deal with these savages. Of course, I will not let you do it for nothing. A living mountain barbarian savage, we will give a reward for gold coins for an old man in the imperial world. If you die, there will be only fifty imperial silver coins."

The two mercenary leaders looked at each other, and Hauski asked, "Can we go to the mountain pass first to see the terrain? Also, what kind of military camp do you want to build?"

"Of course you can see the terrain. The location of the military camp can be determined by you. As for the appearance of the military camp, you can rest assured that we will not fool you. We must make it strong and durable. I plan to use the 100 barrels of rubber jelly juice that came with the convoy this time to use for the construction of this military camp." Lorist said.

"Okay, we'll take this job," said Hauski. "But sir, how do we calculate our hiring fee?"

Lorist smiled: "Don't worry, I'm more generous than Viscount McEs. There is a silver-level gold coin for the head of the old imperial man per month, and a black iron-level fifty imperial silver coins per month. If you catch or kill the mountain barbarians, you will get another bounty. We will sign this employment agreement for one year first, and you will want to renew the contract or leave in a year. In addition, there is no hurry to build a military camp. It will take about ten days to prepare labor and supplies. But if you sign the agreement today, the employment fee will start from this month."

Hauski and Jim jumped up from the chair: "Sir, I'm willing to serve you."

"Well, since that's the case, I'll ask someone to sign an agreement with you. After signing, you two will take the mercenaries to set up camp at Huyangtan. I will ask someone to take you there, and the supplies will be sent there." Lorist said.

"But, sir, we need weapons and equipment, and horses..." Hausky said hesitantly.

Lorist patted his forehead, why did he forget that these mercenaries were his own prisoners, and they had all confiscated except for the clothes they had on their bodies: "So, after signing the agreement, you can choose the weapons you are good at. In addition, I will provide you with thirty sets of iron chain armor, fifty sets of leather armor, fifty mounts and four large cars. These things are recorded first, and you can repay them with spoils and prisoners, as well as those clothes, bedding, and tents, and other miscellaneous items. Do you think it's okay?"

Hosky and Jim were overjoyed and bowed deeply to Lorist: "Sir, your kindness and generosity are like the sun in the sky, warming the bodies and hearts of us, the lowly mercenaries..."

"Get out! If you don't know how to flatter me, shut up. Do you think I can't hear it by changing the hygwa hygwa's hygwa sings? Hanske, come and take these two bastards away. I'll trouble you if you sign an agreement with those mercenaries. Sign the agreement and ask Manager Sper to give them weapons and equipment..."

After the two mercenary leaders left, Lorist breathed a sigh of relief: "I finally got something done. Let's go, Joe, I'll take you to meet the boss Cres."

...

In the evening, in the study, Lorist was drinking the wine treasured by the family and telling the problems faced by the family. Of course, Lorist couldn't help but complain. Some things were taken for granted in the city of Moriente, but they were rebellious in the family territory, which made Lorist very uncomfortable and felt very uncomfortable.

"Sometimes I really can't figure it out. The family has fallen to this point and still holds traditions. Didn't you see it when we went to see the boss manager today? The boss manager even scolded me for not giving so many servants and employees the opportunity to learn how to awaken the fighting spirit. He said that the family used to reward loyal servants and employees to send people to teach them to awaken the fighting spirit and then improve their status. Teaching all servants and employees to awaken the fighting spirit like me is to subvert the tradition. In fact, I wish even the maids could awaken the fighting spirit. How can the family improve their strength? Rewarding two or three servants and employees every year to learn the fighting spirit is hard to say whether they succeed. It's useless to do that..."

Lorist seemed to be a little drunk and spoke a little rudely.

The knock on the door rang, and Lorist said, "Come in."

Pat came in and said, "Sir, Manager Spel and Manager Hanske are here."

Lorist touched his face hard to make himself more awake: "Please come in."

Lorist did not expect that Manager Spel and Hanske were here to protest, because Lorist generously allocated thirty sets of iron chain armor to the mercenaries today, which made the two managers feel very distressed.

"Sir, the North Metro Armor is so precious. Many families treasure it and are reluctant to take it out. Even if we have 170 sets, you can allocate thirty sets to those mercenaries at once. This is really too generous and wasteful. Sir, can you get those chain armors back?" Manager Sper said reluctantly.

Lorist and Josk looked at each other, and the two couldn't help laughing, especially Lorist, who laughed so hard that they turned back and forth, laughing for no reason.

After finally stopping his smile, Lorist said, "Okay, this matter ends here, don't mention it again in the future. Manager Spel, you have to understand that these iron armors are actually the most common equipment. If you go to the castle construction site in the Malgen Hills, you will find that the guards there are wearing two sets of iron armor, inside is chain armor and outside is chain armor. For our family, what is precious is the lives of these guards, not these iron armor."

"By the way, these iron armors are all made by ourselves, because we have an armor-making master. The only thing that puzzles us now is that there is no iron ore found in the family territory, otherwise our iron armor will continue to fill all your warehouses in less than a year. At that time, you will be worried that there will be no more people to wear these iron armors."

Spel and Hanske looked at each other. They never dreamed that these iron armors were produced by themselves, and Lorist also said that the family already had an armor-making master, which was beyond their expectations. This was really great news.

"By the way, Manager Spel, how many pairs of iron armor did our family have before?" Lorist asked.

"Sir, there are seventeen pairs of iron armor in the family warehouse, two of which are the full-body armor of the knight. These two sets of full-body armor are the special armors of the former master and the eldest master. In addition, there are four series armors, seven mails, two scale armors, one plate armor and one iron chain armor." Manager Spelle knew the family's hiding, and reported the quantity and type without thinking.

"Well, you come here tomorrow with six pieces of mail and two pieces of scale armor. The eight guards here should also replace their equipment. Six bronze-level guards are equipped with mail, and leather armor is worn outside. Two black iron-level guards Mess and Aceh will wear scale armor. In addition, Manager Spel, please inform the Knights of Pachico and ask him to go to the warehouse to choose an armor. By the way, Pat, he will also choose one. The 170 sets of iron chain armor shipped today, and after thirty sets of mercenaries, there are still 140 sets left. I am going to use it.

Come and equip the 120-person guard team that has just been formed in the Manor Castle. You will distribute the iron chain armor tomorrow. The remaining twenty sets of iron chain armor will be stored in the warehouse first. After a while, some iron chain armor will be transported from the castle construction site on the Malgen Hills. I will reward the veterans who are over forty and now teach each one, to commend them for standing up and never leaving each other when the family is at its most difficult time." Lorist stood up and said while walking around the study.

Manager Spel lowered his head: "Okay, sir, I will arrange it according to your wishes."

"Also, have you shipped about 700 pieces of leather armor today? You can choose 400 sets of similar styles to prepare 400 spears at night, and prepare 400 spears. The imperial silver coins are also ready to pack 4800 pieces. Then put all these things on the carriage. Qiao, you will accompany me to Kitano Town tomorrow. I have to urge them to send people to me as soon as possible, and do not delay by rushing to avoid any more accidents in the long night." Lorist touched his chin and thought.

"Sir, is it too cheap to give these weapons and equipment to the garrison in Kitano Town?" asked Manager Hanske.

"If this is not the case, they cannot be at ease. Just like fishing, you have to put bait on it. These weapons and equipment are baits that lure the garrisons to take the bait. After they swallow the bait, we have some ways to manipulate them. At present, we can only endure it first and rest assured. Then I will let them spit out these benefits again with the principal and interest. Besides, our family soldiers are equipped with iron armor, and it is useless to put these leather armors on it. Let's use them to comfort the garrisons." Lorrist said.

"Okay, sir, as you did."

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Chapter completed!