Chapter 554

When Victor returned to the study of the Lord's residence, he ordered people to bring the design drawings of the baggage car and light chariot.

The design drawings of the two carriages were actually full of a large box. Victor read all the animal skin paper scrolls one by one and was very satisfied. The contents of these design drawings include all parts of the carriage. There are detailed dimensional data and test data for wheels, axles, chassis, car wall, shooting holes, on-board crossbow and catapult, and even support columns and triangular supports.

For craftsmen who design and manufacture carriages with experience and inspiration, it is very difficult to improve the parameters of assembling carriages and copy and assemble carriages according to the parameters. In order to meet Victor's requirements, more than 200 craftsmen of the York family worked for more than three years and finally built baggage carts and light chariots.

This is the core concept of the Grand Army strategy - standardization.

The grand Legion is not only a military strategy, but also covers many fields such as military, internal affairs, education and training, production and life. When Victor separated the three systems of military, internal affairs and public security, he had to rely on standardization to connect the activities in various fields of the family and implement the strategic goal of the large Legion. Only in this way can the family become an efficient whole. When a mercenary army suffers losses, it can immediately replenish its troops and armaments and restore its combat effectiveness. As long as the foundation of the family is complete, the mercenary Corps will not be completely destroyed.

Faced with an insurmountable military and political bloc, not to mention the alien race in the southern continent, Victor may not have the ability to resist even if the old opponent of the alchemy Empire reappears in the real world.

The premise is that the Lord of glory has indeed pried the laws of the world, weakened the strength of extraordinary creatures and narrowed the individual gap between them and humans.

Various signs show that the Lord of glory is likely to be the highest achievement of the alchemical empire. The main purpose of ancient alchemists and mages to create him is to change the power comparison between alien creatures and humans.

If the judgment is wrong, Victor has no better way. The big Legion is the most advanced strategic thought he can achieve.

Katrina once suggested that the Lord family of Renma hills should build a mercenary corps of 400 or 500 people to avoid the internal friction of Renma hills in the arms competition. Only Victor did not take her advice and resolutely expanded the 3800 mercenary corps to 6000.

The pioneering war is expected to wait more than ten years. At present, there is no major war in the man horse hills, and the first and second legions consume tens of thousands of kinsol every year. Many people can't understand why Victor has to support such a huge army. But how many tricks can a mercenary of 400 or 500 people play?

These 6000 mercenaries may not need to cross the river to expand south in more than a decade, but they will deduce standardized training, standardized tactics, standardized logistics supplies, standardized military ethics and standardized equipment application. Such tactical ideas as infantry phalanx, Longbow phalanx and mobile barracks cannot be practiced by two or three thousand mercenaries, let alone the military standard of establishing a large Legion.

Victor invested a lot of money and time to establish a set of effective standards. Veterans of the mercenary Corps will go to the military school to teach boys aged 8 to 11 wolf combat skills and corps training standards, and two months of militia training every year can ensure that those boys continue to practice wolf combat skills and corps training standards after graduation. When they grow up, they are the source of mercenaries. As long as the recruits master the Corps training standards skillfully, every 600 mercenary veterans can support a new mercenary Corps. 6000 mercenary veterans mean that the Randall family can quickly expand 10 standard mercenaries in the near future.

Randall leader must have royal spies. Baggage carts and light chariots are placed in the camp training ground. It is not difficult for the top craftsmen of kite castle or other forces to imitate it or even improve it, but they don't know how to use standardized production molds, standardized assembly parts and standardized operation methods, just how useful it is to imitate chariot instruments?

Standardization is the essence!

Randall family went the farthest on the road of standardization. When the major forces reacted, Victor had become the standard setter and exporter. In order to achieve this goal, the financial investment of more than 100000 kinsol every year is worth it, because standardization will be Victor's huge political capital.

After picking out the design drawing of the shaft of the baggage carriage, Victor looked at it carefully and agreed that the design scheme of two horses pulling the baggage carriage needs to be discussed.

Once the standard is established, if you want to modify it, it will involve too much scope. If the design drawing of the shaft drawn by two horses is adopted, all the baggage carriages will be equipped with two heavy horses in the future, which is not a matter of increasing a budget, but increasing the burden on the whole logistics supply system.

Baggage wagons and light combat vehicles serve as transport vehicles and combat platforms. Of course, their volume and capacity should be a little larger. For technical reasons, the craftsmen of York family adjusted the volume of the carriage to the maximum, but they could not take into account the balance of animal power, resulting in a situation where one horse could not pull and two horses were too wasteful.

Se Yin can strengthen the chassis of the carriage and increase the volume and load capacity of the baggage cart to the extent that two horses pull it. However, if the design of the baggage car is modified, it will have to be modified along with the light combat vehicle. Victor was not extravagant enough to make carriages with silver.

The feasible method is to replace the livestock pulling the cart. Alchemical dragon lizards don't need to be considered. Victor will only use them as silver war beasts. Red haired bison is a good choice. This strong herbivore weighs 1.7 tons, twice as strong as a heavy horse, and has great endurance. It can migrate thousands of kilometers at a time. They have infinite power, strong physique and fierce temperament. Even barbarians regard them as beasts worth hunting. Every year, Sophia gets some particularly fierce red haired bison from the Wharton prairie, and then transports them to Raven town to give them to the barbarians as a sacrifice for the newborn ceremony.

Tens of millions of red haired bison inhabit the Wharton prairie, but they have never been domesticated. But in this world, there is no imosen wizard, who can't tame wild animals.

Domestication or transformation of red haired bison was automatically included in imosen's research project list by Victor.

Packed up the design of the chariot, Victor called Renault in, told him to return the box full of scrolls to the secret room, and said, "call barrow to see me."

"Yes, sir." Renault left the study with a big box.

Victor went to the window and looked out at the scenery. The lawn in front of the Lord's house was deserted. After all, even the snack goods bertina now has serious things to do. She goes to general education school every afternoon to be a child teacher for half a day. The situation of other small attendants is similar, which just shows that the Randall family is thriving and is gradually on the right track. Now he needs more time and energy to improve his talent and combat skills, and then delve into the secret method of spiritual blood, integrate the Lord family of Renma hill, promote the standardization process of Renma hill, participate in the internal and foreign affairs of Gambis Kingdom, as well as the layout of the gold regiment, search for the relics of the alchemical Empire, infiltrate the masked brotherhood Investigate the movements of ant man and sheep monster. These things are waiting for him to implement one by one.

However, this does not mean that victor will no longer be involved in the affairs of the Randall family. As the guardian of the family, we must have the means to control the overall situation. In addition to maintaining communication with the backbone members of the family, Victor also held a mercury spy who was only responsible for him.

Before long, Barol, the manager of mercury, entered the Lord's study.

He was dressed in brown gardener's clothes, holding a sun proof straw hat in his hand, slightly bent over his body, respectful and humble, with a flattering smile on his face, just like a good tempered gardener.

Good tempered gardeners generally have little ability, and Barol does not have the craftsmanship to serve flowers and plants. He could get a job as a gardener in Yinyue manor because he would please his master.

"Your Excellency, are you looking for me?"

Victor turned around, looked at Barol, smiled and asked, "my vassal's first words when he saw me were congratulations on my promotion, your highness. Why don't you learn?"

Barol bowed and replied, "my Lord, no matter what your status, mercury is loyal to you and only to you."

Victor smiled, returned to his seat, leaned back and said, "I believe you, but your adopted disciples, except monkeys and red wolves, don't know me. How can they be loyal to me?"

"My Lord, mercury manor has trained a group of family spies who are absolutely loyal to you, and the original family spies have grown up. They are now scattered in major towns of various kingdoms and serve as the internal core of mercury, which can replace mia, spider and Fitch at any time." Barol said with cold eyes.

"Being able to replace the core members of mercury at any time is necessary preparation, but it does not have to be implemented." Victor nodded and said instead, "your three disciples should be rewarded rather than punished for their contributions to the development of mercury... Call them back, and I will meet them in person, allow them to reunite with their relatives, give them land and wealth, also allow them to swear loyalty to his highness Randall, and give them strength and power beyond ordinary people."

Barol said respectfully, "Your Highness, you are really a generous and kind Master."

Victor blinked his eyes and said solemnly, "I can understand that this is a praise for my strength, wisdom, wealth and power. Because a poor nobleman has no ability to be generous and kind."

"Your Excellency, you are so wise!" Barol said convincingly.

Victor laughed, shook his head and said, "you're not half as good at flattering me as Nelson."

Barrow smiled bitterly and continued to show off his explicit flattery: "dear master, I also worship your wisdom and strength."

"All right." Victor waved, smiled and asked, "how's Mercury now?"

"Mercury has developed very rapidly. There are 157 family trained spies as the core members of mercury, with more than 1800 internal contacts and countless external contacts. MIA hides in Dengshi City, nominally leads the mercury organization of Dodo Kingdom, with 62 core members and more than 600 internal contacts; spider hides in Tongji City, responsible for the mercury organization of Sassanian Empire, with 34 core members and 30 internal contacts More than 0 insiders. Fitch assisted Todd to develop mercury in rainbow city in the north of Susi kingdom. He has 8 core members and 34 insiders. The rest are mainly distributed in the main towns of Gambis. "

Barroll paused and further explained: "In the past two years, the free private lands of various kingdoms have been persuaded to leave, disbanded and incorporated, but a large number of refugees have flocked to the main cities such as Tongji city and Dengshi city. There are signs that the great lord secretly hired bards, Rangers and free mercenaries to publicize to the refugees. The main city is rich and prosperous, with tenant recruitment points, and the big family regularly recruits tenants from the refugees. Therefore, many The refugees want to take a chance in the main city and see if they can become tenants of a large family. "

Victor said with a smile, "this is the big Lord robbing the tenant population with the small Lord below."

"Yes." Barol continued: "a large number of refugees poured into the main city. The Lord needed time to turn them into tenants. The local underground forces were first impacted, and new gangs continued to appear. In addition, the urban free people needed more goods. Relying on the goods of the Bucks chamber of Commerce and smuggling caravans, mercury quickly developed our own underground forces in the main city."

Victor nodded and mused, "the development of mercury in the kingdom of SUS doesn't seem to be going well?"

Barrol bowed his head and said: "Sir, the underground forces in the main city of the kingdom of SUS are all under the name of the masked brotherhood. There were more than 100 thugs under Todd and Fitch, and dozens of people died in the process of infiltrating the SUS gang... Todd and Fitch saw that the situation was bad, so they took the rest to the Maowei town north led by Duke medin. That place was an outpost town against the nightfall jackals, mercenaries The gathering place of, Rangers and exiled knights, with complex underground forces, is only five days away from Prince meting's Rainbow City. Fitch hides in Maowei Town, remotely controls the inner line of mercury and tries to infiltrate into Rainbow City. "

Victor frowned and asked, "why did you choose Prince meting's Rainbow City?"

Barrow replied: "Sir, Susi's situation is different from that of other kingdoms. There are many plains, lack of mountains and forests, and there are few refugee camps and mountain people's camps. Without refugees, there will be no tenants. The gangs in major cities and towns are calm, and it is very difficult for mercury to penetrate. The thugs we sent out joined the local gangs, but they were regarded as meat rabbits, so many people died..."

Gangs have their own way of survival. There are different limits on how many thugs a town can feed. Outsiders almost want to join the gangs. When barrol fooled around in Heibao Town, he once instructed his men to lure new refugees to test Victor's goat hotel. Those refugees finally died in the hands of gangsters, so as to blackmail the goat hotel This kind of newcomer is the meat rabbit in the mouth of the gang.

The Susi gang had no spare place, and the goods of the smuggling caravan could not be delivered. It was not surprising that Fitch and Todd were badly beaten.

"Only prince Meredith's Rainbow City is recruiting refugees from the eastern alliance. According to Fitch, Rainbow City has hosted more than 20000 Eastern refugees. With the help of these people, mercury can occupy a place in the underground forces of rainbow city."

Victor knocked on the table, nodded and said, "as the great Lord in the north of suss, Duke medin has the desire to continue to explore the twilight forest. He really needs to gather the refugees and become tenants... Do you believe that there must be a core member of the masked brotherhood among the more than 20000 Eastern refugees?"

Barol said in a deep voice, "Sir, isn't it Mercury's task to infiltrate the masked brotherhood and find out the wizard organization behind them? Don't worry, except Todd and several family spies, other mercury insiders, including Fitch, don't know the relationship between mercury and the Randall family. Even if they are exposed, those wizards can't find your head."

Victor smiled disapprovingly and said, "the abilities of wizards are strange. Who knows if they will find it on my head?" After a pause, he asked, "what's Todd doing?"

"My Lord, Todd, alias Duncan, is registered as a Ranger in Maowei town church as a wandering knight. He is hired by the local Lord to deal with the monsters in the dusk forest." Barol said respectfully, "you can find his name in the Ranger roster of the church, but his ranking is lower."

Rangers have a special status. They often have to deal with mercenaries, gangsters and bards. They can also talk to priests and nobles. They can be said to be a well-informed group. Moreover, Rangers registered in the church belong to the knight noble class. Wizards must be very careful when they want to deal with a Ranger.

Victor was stunned, smiled and praised: "Todd has a lot of ideas... Fitch is more dangerous. You transfer Fitch back first, and then order the mercury spy of the kingdom of sus to sleep, leaving only two lines for Todd."

Barol raised his head and said, "Sir, in this case, the development of mercury in rainbow city is too slow..."

Victor raised his hand to interrupt his words and said, "Duke meting promoted the marriage of his daughter Princess Celine and the eldest son of the eldest Duke of Peter of Borui Kingdom... The eldest son of Duke Peter, Raymond Peter, once sent someone to assassinate me."

Barol's pupils contracted in an instant, his eyes were sharp like hawks and falcons, but he stood still and listened quietly.

With a look of appreciation, Victor continued: "Of course I won't let Ramon go, but this guy sent people to assassinate the blood aristocrats of the moon elves, which is likely to be bewitched by the wizard organization. I guess he is the spokesman of the eastern wizard organization... According to this assumption, there must be members of the wizard organization among the refugees in rainbow city. Mercury develops underground forces in Rainbow City, and the probability of meeting wizards is very high, and I ask mercury Put a nail next to Raymond Peter. I don't want to scare the snake because of other things. "

"I issued this order in Neville... Do you have a specific plan now?" Victor leaned back in his chair and asked with a smile.

Barol gritted his teeth and said truthfully, "Sir, we don't have a clue at all... Mercury takes the bottom line and doesn't understand the rules of the big family. We don't even know Ramon Peter's age, appearance and personality preferences. Even if Todd is a Ranger now, his identity is too far from Ramon to touch."

Victor said coldly, "Mercury wants money, money and people... If you can't do it, I'll let the spy of kite Castle do it."

Barol exuded sweat from his forehead and saluted respectfully: "Sir, please give me five months to make a plan. I also need Raymond Peter's information, especially about his assassination of the blood aristocrats of the moon elves. In addition, I want to use Paul."

Paul is the most proud student of Barol. Because of his outstanding appearance, excellent intelligence and aristocratic style, Victor sent him to study in the silver and white tower. At the beginning, Paul was discriminated against in the silver and white tower. With Victor's growing identity and reputation, Paul became the object of high tower students. Victor even asked the church to reshape Paul and another little spy studying in the tower twice.

Victor thought for a moment and said, "I'm not going to let Todd or Paul lurk around Raymond. The nails I want must be unknown... The elite guards of the family can't be sent."

Barol said, "Sir, I understand your concerns, and I am also very afraid of the means of wizards... I use Paul to ask him to give advice and find nails. Because he is the person who knows the upper class best."

"Yes."

Victor nodded in agreement and asked:

"I asked you to go to the RAND Empire to investigate the hunting manager of Baron Thornton's family 18 years ago. Has the matter come to an end?"