Chapter 190

"My lord!"

Emily let out a sweet cry, her eyes were shining, and her eyebrows were squeezed together.

Ren was trembling when she called him, and he knew her thoughts perfectly.

It was previously agreed that the Dragonstone Mercenary Group could take one-tenth of all the taxes collected in the territory.

The one million gold shields he forced the nobles of Modu to hand over, he made it clear that it was a back payment of taxes, and naturally they had to be distributed to the Dragonstone mercenary group, so there was no way to deny it.

"Don't worry, I won't hack your money."

Ren was a little depressed, took out the gold ticket from the ring, and prepared to count out 20,000 gold shields.

"I know that the lord is a person who keeps his promise." Emilys smiled sweeter, looked at the golden ticket in Ren's hand, and asked: "I don't want the golden ticket, can you give me the golden shield?"

Ren paused, nodded and said, "Yes, but the Golden Shield needs to be counted..."

"It's okay, leave it to me." Emilys couldn't wait any longer. When Renn took out a box, she immediately opened it and counted it, with a satisfied expression on her face.

In just a few minutes, she counted out five thousand gold shields and reluctantly handed them to Ren.

Then take the remaining 20,000 gold in the box.

Ren watched the box disappear into Emily's hands, and couldn't help feeling a little pained. The money became someone else's before he warmed it up.

Thinking about that every year the nobles of Modu gave him 200,000 gold would be given to Emily, Ryan felt very distressed.

Not to mention that during the period of cooperation with the Dragonstone Mercenary Group, the tax collected will still be shared.

"Damn, what a loss!"

Ren thought to himself that he should establish his own armed forces as soon as possible and end the employment relationship with the Dragonstone Mercenary Group. In the future, the 200,000 gold shields per year may not be divided.

"Amiris," he said with a roll of his eyes, "you have earned so much money for nothing. You promised me to expand the mercenary group to 300 people. Shouldn't you add more people?"

"No problem." Emily was in a good mood, easy to talk, "How many people do you want?"

"Expand to five hundred people."

Ren spread out his palms, made a "five" gesture, and said: "Next, I will rectify the affairs in the territory. If it is not suitable for all centaurs, you'd better equip some human mercenaries to facilitate communication. .”

After all, the centaurs are alien races, and most of them have bad tempers. It is no problem for them to patrol and guard, but it is more difficult to do other things.

And there's the language issue.

Centaurs have their own ethnic language, and sometimes they cannot communicate with each other between different tribes. Only a few centaurs can speak Orion, and it is almost impossible to rely on them to manage their territories.

Emily pondered for a few seconds: "I tried my best to recruit people, but it will take half a month for them to arrive in Modu."

Ren nodded.

He already roughly guessed where Emily's base is.

As expected, it should be near the Wansongling Mountains in the northeast of the empire, which borders the prairie in the north of the empire and is the origin of many centaur tribes. From Wansong Ridge to the north, all the way along the coast in the "Northern Wind and Cold Land", you can reach the mainland of Congatro, which is the hometown of Emily.

The centaur crossed the Wansongling Mountains to the east, and went south by boat near the coast, crossed the strait of the Gogolly Peninsula, and entered the sea area of ​​​​the empire. It took almost half a month for Damodu.

However, Emily didn't seem to want to hide anything.

Ren didn't want to ask, and started to take over Yangshui Port.

There is also a port company in this port. Because it is not forcibly occupied, the superman of the patrol team has been taken away by Perino Aiden, so the port company, from the supervisor to the ordinary employees, is very obedient to the new lord. .

Ren left fifty centaurs to take charge of the security of the port, and then got on his horse and left.

The dragon-horned warhorse ran smoothly on the main road.

Ren patrolled his territory.

There is endless fertile farmland beside the road, and there are plantations one after another. Although spring has just started and nothing has been planted in the field, I am still very happy to have such a large piece of land that belongs to me.

How to manage the Territory of Glamorgan in the future, he already has a plan.

However, these reforms require a lot of manpower, and we will maintain the status quo for now, and wait until the task of Master Xi'an is completed and the situation stabilizes before implementing it.

Halfway through the journey, suddenly, a building covering an extremely large area appeared in front of my eyes.

"Devil Soul Farm?"

On the road outside, Ren could hear the sounds of various monsters coming from inside. Looking around, there were many herbivorous monsters grazing behind the long iron fence.

"Fabian."

Ren subconsciously called out, wanting to ask about the situation, but found that Fabian did not follow.

The half-elves are at Highbridge Harbor today to sort out their accounts.

"Boss?" Sicarius stepped forward and responded. He carefully held the Rambo gun and trotted all the way to follow Ren.

"Sicarius, do you know this devil soul farm?" Ren asked.

"Yes, I've been here before." Sicarius replied: "This is the blood hoof farm, the largest farm in Modu, where tens of thousands of demon soul species are raised. It is said that in the entire empire, the blood hoof The number of farms can rank among the top three.”

Ren suddenly realized that he had heard of the Bloodhoof Farm.

There are several demon soul farms in Glamorgan Territory, but this one is the biggest.

He looked at the Ultramarines who were still running on their legs, and suddenly became interested. He patted the dragon-horned horse, and said loudly: "Come on, let's go in and have a look, and check their tax status by the way."

Such a large team, just approaching the gate of the farm, immediately alarmed the boss.

A huge figure came forward.

Ren saw the other party from a distance and couldn't help being a little surprised.

This is a tauren with hoofed feet, arms thicker than ordinary human legs, only three fingers, covered with thick brown hair, a huge bull head leaning forward, with long black horns on both sides of the head, and inlaid nostrils. Copper rings, long beards on the chin are braided, a row of thick mane grows from the back of the head, extending to the back, and a flexible ox tail is dragged behind.

His figure is a bit hunchbacked, and he is taller than the Ultramarines if he doesn't stand upright, more than 2.3 meters by visual inspection!

If you stand up straight, you should be able to reach 2.5 meters.

The tauren trotted all the way, the heavy hooves shaking the ground.

When Ren entered the door, the tauren bowed and saluted, with two puffs of white gas from his nostrils, and a deep and thick voice sounded:

"Mother Earth is protecting you."

"Habu*Bloodhoof, welcome Lord Lord to the Bloodhoof Farm!"

Riding on a dragon-horned warhorse, Renn looked at the strong tauren like a hill, who stood on the ground almost as tall as himself, and felt very novel in his heart.

A Tauren came down from the Tyerlun Plateau all the way, and opened a demon soul farm in Modu.

And it's so big.

The eyes of the soul can see that this tauren is very powerful, already in the realm of legend, and his occupation is "earth walker" unique to tauren.

Land walkers are known for their strong defense, top-notch strength and endurance, stronger than iron guards, but they are not pure melee classes.

The Tauren are favored by the Mother Earth Goddess, and are born with the ability to be close to nature. After training, the Earth Walker can draw strength from the earth, amplify himself, heal injuries, have extremely long physical strength, and have a certain ability to cast spells.

The "Earth Sisters" in the Earth Church are human beings who imitate the Earth Walkers.

Ren jumped off his horse and said, "Mr. Bloodhoof, I'm just passing by for a visit. I won't cause you any trouble, will I?"

While speaking, he took two steps forward and wanted to pat the tauren on the shoulder, but found that he couldn't reach it. The other party immediately bent down cooperatively and let him pat him twice.

"of course not."

"It's my honor to be able to come to the Bloodhoof Farm, Lord Lord. Please call me Habu." The tauren shook his head, the braid on his chin dangling, a little funny, but his eyes like copper bells were full of laughter. It is sincere.

"Okay, Habu." Ren could see that the tauren didn't have any guilt.

It is estimated that the tax situation of the farm is very good, so I am not afraid.

"Lord, please follow me." Habu turned and invited Ren to enter the farm.

Ren let the centaur and the silver knight wait in place, and only brought the Ultramarines in, but Emily followed up by herself.

Wandering around the Bloodhoof Farm, Renn's eyes were wide open.

Many demonic soul species that have only been seen in the "Book of Thousand Souls" can be found here. The variety is rich, not only in large quantity, but also in surprisingly high quality.

There are more than a dozen high-level monsters alone.

Even, Ren saw a group of dragon descendants and demon species kept in huge iron cages, as well as many unnamed creatures.

This tauren is really capable and has put a lot of effort into it. He is definitely a master of taming.

After visiting a group of ferocious dragon-toothed wolves, Ren asked, "Habu, do you have any suitable mounts for them in your farm?"

He pointed to the Macragge beside him.

Habu took a look at them, nodded immediately and said, "Yes, Lord Lord, please follow me."

A group of people followed him out of the barn to the pasture outside, and soon saw a huge animal in the grass fence in the wild.

Its body length is more than five meters, and its height is more than two meters. It looks like it weighs seven or eight thousand pounds. It is shaped like a rhinoceros, with thick limbs on the ground, a horn-like horn on its head, and thick skin like armor. The scales overlapped layer by layer, with a big tail dragging behind.

Several thick iron chains are tied around the abdomen to fix the saddle, and then looped from the bottom to the head and pulled up to become the bridle.

At first glance, Ren thought it was a Thunder Lizard.

Habu proudly introduced: "My lord, this is a Kodo beast, a mount unique to our tauren. It can carry two thousand pounds. Its speed is no less than that of a war horse. It also has good endurance and can run continuously. It will not fall down all day long, and it has a gentle personality, just eat grass like a normal horse."

Ren observed with the eyes of the soul, this Kodo beast is equivalent to a mid-level monster.

There are three elements in its soul, Level 2 Strength, Level 3 Endurance, and Charge. It's not bad to fuse it as a demon soul.

A Kodo can even carry a Tauren, especially the Ultramarines. It is indeed an excellent mount.

Ren immediately asked, "How much does a Kodo sell for?"

"Eight hundred gold shields." There was an imperceptible shrewdness in Habu's eyes, which contrasted with his simple and honest appearance.

Ren's eyes froze. This is more expensive than many middle-level rare demon souls.

Before he could open his mouth, the tauren explained: "My lord, it takes five years to raise a Kodo beast to become an adult. We have to tame it and train it into a mount. It takes a lot of hard work."

"It is indeed expensive to sell 800 gold shields for a Kodo beast, but I don't make much money. If the lord buys more than ten, I will give two years of after-sales service for free, and send a tauren trainer to the lord's castle every day. Help with feeding these kodos."

"My lord, how many do you think you want to buy?" Habu rubbed his hands and asked expectantly.