The donation of supplies was not only due to Gavin's wealth, but also because the stall their caravan set up on the Dragon Coast was too big. In a short time, a large amount of supplies were traded back. When they were on the road again, some parts needed to be streamlined.
Come on, you can definitely use it as a favor.
Although Gavin rejected Ms. Strategy's title of elector, the two parties became more and more closely tied. Catherine, Zalanda and Veranika, Ms. Strategy's top three followers, all gathered together.
What Gavin values the most is the potential of the Yinhong War College. Will it affect the lower and middle-level officers in Faerun? He must first put his own stamp on it, especially those civilian students who have received his education.
, will make you naturally favorable, which will help recruit your subordinates.
"What are the conditions? Let me tell you." There was a trace of joy that could not be concealed in Catherine's eyes. The Yinhong War College has not been established for a long time. There is a factor that cannot be ignored. Her financial resources are stretched thin.
The Land of Death, where the strategic battle fortress is located, is not a blessed place. It is also an area with frequent wars. The Land of Death, Troll Claws and Troll Mountain are currently occupied by various monster tribes.
Taking the lead, they can strategically fight for the 20 kilometers of land around the fortress that they can protect.
Not to mention that their only path to the southeast of the monster tribe in the High Wasteland is.
Just maintaining the army would cost a huge amount of money, and the strategic battle fortress was completely destroyed before it was recaptured by itself. It has not been completely repaired until now. The preparation of a college that is completely non-production is even more complicated than a college.
Like a bottomless pit, the initial investment is huge, but the returns are extremely slow.
Ms. Strategy's faith has just begun to expand, and there are really few people who can provide them with financial assistance.
Only the church and temple of Tempus are closely related to each other, but the god of war is not the god of wealth. Accumulating wealth has never been a project they are good at, and the donations of three melons and two dates are only a drop in the bucket.
As for Ms. Strategy, as you said, gods are not omnipotent. They also follow the most basic law of conservation of matter. Do the various material creations they create require the consumption of divine power?
There are only those believers who provide her with only a little divine power. She plans to use it every day, so she has no energy to support Catherine.
Doing so will also violate the laws of belief of the gods. No matter how many temples you build for yourself, it will be useless, because it will not play the role of gathering faith at all - if you build enough temples, your own divine power will be lost.
He will become more powerful, and no one can compare with Wo'jin, the goddess of wealth.
She is now unfortunately reduced to a place where her whereabouts are unknown and the priesthood of wealth is temporarily under the control of the goddess of joy.
Is building a temple a process of proving one's faith? Overcoming various difficulties is a process of honing and gathering faith. Only that kind of temple has meaning and can it become a tool for gods to gather strength. Is the same true true for Yinhong Zhan Academy?
Before that, Catherine had heard about Gavin's current wealth from Veranika, but she didn't expect that he would be so generous. He would earn less than three million as soon as he started his business, let alone a lot of follow-up investment. That was no longer simple.
The issue of establishing the Yinhong Zhan College was to make it twice as large as originally planned. The number of students in the first batch was increased from the original five hundred to one thousand.
"First of all, he hopes that Ms. Catherine can put aside secular ideas and accept some more alternative students to study in the academy." Gavin made his first condition. After all, he plans to work in a multi-racial society in the future.
There will be more and more races coming together.
Catherine said thoughtfully: "I'm not referring to the hobgoblin, right?"
Now everyone knows that Blood Gap City was given a hobgoblin knight by Gavin. Relying on the Giant Plains, the power of the hobgoblins and the rise of the city are inevitable.
"That's right, it's the hobgoblin." Gavin nodded and said, "He wants at least 300 students in the first batch of students. Please rest assured that their study fees do not need to be waived. They will study at their own expense.
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After pondering for a while, Catherine replied: "Even if he agrees for them to join the academy, because of their origins, they are afraid that it will be difficult to integrate into other intelligent races. If they simply learn strategies and tactics, there is no need to seek professional training.
When they get to the academy, they can select some instructors from the academy and send them to Blood Gorge City to teach the hobgoblins military strategy and tactics. He guarantees that what they learn from them is exactly the same as what they learned in the academy.
In this way, we can save the academy's resources and we can train more hobgoblin officers at one time."
As the first choice of Ms. Strategist, Catherine naturally has no shortage of ways to adapt. She understands that there is no such thing as red lunch in Tiandong. Since the wrong party has spent so much money to support her, she should get something in return.
This is not the case even if one believes in the same god or not. Even if one does not believe in the same god, there is still a need for courtesy and reciprocity.
Gavin thought about whether that was true and formed a friendship with classmates. It would be enough to have those dispatched students of normal races. There is no need to let the hobgoblins mix in. It can ensure the purity of the hobgoblin army and not be easily
Influenced by external forces, he changed his mind and said: "Originally, he wanted to mention it in the second condition. In this case, he will also add it to the first condition. He hopes that he can open a branch of Yinhong Zhanzhan Academy with the lady, with manpower and material resources.
If he comes out, he will be responsible for recruiting students. You just need to send instructors. There will be one in Blood Gorge City and one in Battle Valley."
"That's something you wish for." For Catherine, it's not a condition, but a benefit at the door.
Her main purpose of opening the Red War College is to spread Ms. Strategy's beliefs. The bigger the scale, the better. As for teaching humans and other intelligent races, it doesn't matter to Ms. Strategy.
Her priesthood is not limited to humans, but what happens in Faerun and all related matters, including the strategic planning used in the wars of monsters, are limited by knowledge. That is rarely the case.
Happened, more barbaric wars represented by Uthgar.
Even though Catherine was born as an orthodox human and possesses human moral nature, she hopes to use the power of the strategist to protect humans and other kind and intelligent races.
Gavin turned his attention to Aidan, the leader of the Sword Monastery, and said: "Master, there is a war academy in Battle. He hopes to set it up in the Sword Monastery. The restoration and construction of that monastery will be entirely his responsibility."
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Is that the most typical of killing two birds with one stone?
To the east of the Sword Monastery, there is not one but several teleportation gates, which can be the gateway to and from the Battle Valley.
Even if it is not involved in the future war layout, if you simply want to develop and grow in the Battle Valley, you must control it there. Since you chose the Battle Valley as your starting point, the Sword Monastery was raided and destroyed by the drow.
He was not prepared to let it happen again.
The main reason why the Sword Monastery was almost destroyed was not only due to surprise, but also because of its own weak strength. At its peak, the Sword Monastery had only two Tempus War Priests and War Knights.
, three hundred, the number of the drow vanguard is several times that of theirs, not to mention the attached monster corps and summoned demons.
But if you want to get involved in a temple of the god of war, if you don't have a reasonable excuse, then you are simply making yourself uncomfortable.
The best opportunity is right at the door, perfect and impeccable.
"That...that...isn't appropriate?" Erdan didn't expect that such a good thing would happen to him.
The predicament he faced was the same as Catherine's. When it came to swordsmanship, he didn't dare to say that Tiandong was unparalleled, but he couldn't even stand up to his knees. But when it came to making money and managing money, he couldn't even compare to an ordinary businessman.
, their property mainly comes from donations from ordinary people.
But the question is, the Battle Valley is sparsely populated and the Sword Monastery was a lost land before that, similar in nature to the Land of Three Rivers.
Except for the dozens of Tempus believers in the Sword Monastery, there is not a single hairy person in the area of dozens of kilometers. Where did the donations come from? They are now completely relying on their own legs to build there brick by brick, and the progress is extremely slow.
——With their swords and legs, they can start construction not much faster than those farmers.
If they can get help from Gavin and the others, they can just drag a few hundred people over, and the construction speed will increase rapidly, and the scale can be expected within a month.
Gai Wenming asked, "What? Master Eldan is worried that building a war academy for ladies of strategy in the holy land of the Lord of War will desecrate him?"
"Why?" Erdan shook his head repeatedly and said, "The father-daughter relationship between his lord and Lady Strategy is known throughout the world. All war temples must add a lady's shrine to enjoy worship with him. It can be established in their monastery.
A ladies' war college is their greatest honor, since their monastery is in the early stages of construction and most of the area is in ruins. The investment will be quite large by then, and they have nothing to repay Sir."
Gavin couldn't help laughing and said: "Master, I was totally wrong to think that way. What we are building now is not a personal residence, but a temple to the Lord of War. But building a temple for him is not enough for him."
The greatest honor, what does it mean to spend a few worldly possessions?
And the master also underestimated the value of the holy land of God? If he is right, practicing martial arts in our Sword Monastery will increase the speed, and even give Coco a chance to gain enlightenment or activate the grace of the God of War.
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"That's right." Erdan admitted generously, "The Sword Monastery is indeed filled with a lot of war power and has that kind of power."
This is true not only of the place where Tempus descended, but also of the places where the other gods first descended.
Because they did not come normally at that time, but were brought directly from the Kingdom of God by the gods, and were forcibly transformed into the state of saints, causing a large amount of divine power to disperse to the material plane, forming some unique structures unique to them.
Their special fields have effects that are closely related to their clergy. The Lord of War is of course related to war.
"He really wants to ask the master to be the chief combat instructor of that academy, responsible for teaching those students combat martial arts." Gavin took the opportunity to make new conditions.
Tempus can become the god of war in Faerûn. Naturally, he relies not only on opportunism, but also on the strength of force that surpasses Tiandong.
Fighting alone, he begged not to be ranked second, but no one in Faerûn dared to be ranked first.
One by one of his devout followers, they are all experienced warriors with rich combat skills, including those exclusive priests. They prefer warriors more than priests.
Erdan is naturally not the best among them, especially in terms of sword skills, he is absolutely outstanding, which can be seen from his title of Sword Master.
There is no shortcut to getting that title in Tempus Church. You must use the sword in your leg to prove that you are worthy of that title, be recognized by at least three existing sword masters, and defeat or tie one of them.
, to be eligible.
"That's not his honor." Erdan said without hesitation.
In many cities, war priests in war temples act as martial arts instructors or militia trainers. Their mission is to actively urge people to prepare for war, whether to resist invasion or to prepare for invasion.
Being unprepared is neither the god of war nor the war priests.
Now, can we further improve the specifications and influence an army by teaching a group of middle and low-level commanders? Is this a shortcut to expand the influence of the God of War?
"If it's possible, he wants to send some instructors to our Sword Monastery to learn combat skills." Catherine took advantage of the opportunity and was greatly impressed. No wonder Ms. Strategist was paying attention to the young man's presence. The man's mind was turning too fast.
In a short period of time, he adjusted his plan and took a group of Tempus believers in and tied them to his chariot.
According to the development speed of the wrong party, once the conqueror army successfully arrives in the Battle Valley, the speed and scale of the establishment of their branch may even exceed that of the main hospital she built in the Land of Death. After all, their manpower and material resources are there.
Before Eldan could answer, Gavin couldn't help but smile and said: "Ms.'s request is a bit out of line. The God of Strategy and Ms. Strategy are not separated. When the time comes, the instructors we send to the branch will
They will have the dual identities of instructors and students. After achieving success, they can go to other branches or the main hospital to fight, and they can even engage in small-scale actual combat, whether it is the place of death where the lady is, or where Blood Gorge City is.
The Plains of Giants is a good place to go.”
"Is he overthinking that matter?" Catherine thought for a moment and said, "That matter is settled for the time being. Is the first condition considered finished? What about the second condition?"
Now she was wrong about Gavin's so-called conditions and was full of expectations. Because the starting points were different, the interests between the two were not only not conflicting, but also complementary. The first condition just now, except for the hobgoblin incident, was
, in addition to being somewhat psychologically conflicted, for her, it was actually beneficial, turning their Yin Red War College from one point to three, and the two new ones were purely picked up by red.
"The second condition is an extension of the first condition. Please leave 300 places for him at the main school. He will send 300 students there. For students who have graduated from the main school, he hopes to get an outstanding scholarship.
Quan." Gavin said unceremoniously.
Now that there is a branch in Zhan Zhan Valley, he still chooses to send students to the main campus, mainly because he wants to use these students to interact with other students and create a sense of classmate friendship.
It is convenient for you to recruit later. Even if you cannot recruit, many variables will arise in future encounters on the battlefield.
Gavin believes that the future direction of the war in Faerûn will be guided by the officers trained by the officer school of the Yinhong War College, whether it is with the monster race or the intelligent race itself.
Tempus has vigorously cultivated strategic women, so he can feel the war situation in Faerûn and reach the intermediate point of transformation from barbaric war to strategic war.
Is this the general trend for intelligent life to develop to a certain extent?
Tempus has been the God of War for so many years, and he is definitely a fool. He treated the fool wrongly, and his body has already entered the starry sky and turned into a corpse.
"Just ask me to use normal recruitment methods, he has no objection." Although Catherine hopes that the students trained by the academy will be distributed as widely as possible, because it can affect more people and forces, and better spread the influence of Ms. Strategy.
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But if she borrowed too much power from Gavin's legs, it would be impossible not to give some benefits.
If he pledges allegiance to his master, it means that the wealth will not go to outsiders. If not, he can maintain the current development speed and form an invincible army with the students trained by their academy to conquer cities and territories. This is a kind of strategy for ladies.
Great glory.
Just look at their current army of conquerors and you will know that a war of that magnitude is rare even in Faerûn.
"The third condition, otherwise I hope that Madam can equip them with instructors now. He wants the middle and low-level officers in the conqueror's army to learn and use them as they go. He believes that when they reach the valley, they will be divided into
The airs have basically been raised, isn’t the military camp the best academy?” Gavin felt that the biggest problem for the middle and low-level officers in his group was the lack of unified education, which caused many problems for them to cooperate and connect.
In a small-scale army, this kind of problem is not obvious, but when it comes to their size, it is an out-and-out big problem.
No matter whether they were mobilized or not, there were dozens of messengers deployed, shouting hoarsely every day, and the operation was still not as good as Gavin expected.
This is true for simple migration, but when it comes to war, especially those large-scale mobile wars that require close coordination, big problems can easily arise.
Is that also the significance of establishing the Yinhong War College? To unify some of the knowledge of forming and commanding the army. Even if an army or an organization is defeated or dispersed, multiple organizations can be mixed together and quickly reorganized into a battle-ready force.
Army, even though many of them have no experience in life.