Chapter 538: debate

When Cook looked at the expressions of Shana's father and the elders around Medusa, he knew that these guys doubted his intentions for this suggestion. Cook sighed and said, "Oh, you are wrong!"
"The reason why I suggest you to do this is entirely for you, because the Mekay Empire law stipulates that as long as the settlement reaches the town level, witch doctors and priests will be stationed, and the establishment of a town is more suitable for your Medusa clan.
I know that you Medusas like to live in the swamp, but what I want to say is that the swamp environment is not conducive to the growth of the next generation. "Cook explained immediately.
"Why is it not conducive to the growth of the next generation?" Shana's father looked a lot better, because if there were witch doctors and priests, the situation would be different.
However, Shana’s father had never thought about it. By doing so, Cook had actually dispersed the power of the temple. The priests formerly under the jurisdiction of the temple were directly under the jurisdiction of the empire, and this measure of sending priests to the town was very uncomfortable. The welcome of the orcs people, even if some people in the temple don't want Cook to do this, but without the support of the people, they can't make much waves.
There are a lot of priests of the Medusa Snake People. Only because of the number of the entire race, they are rare. Of course, only the Medusa Snake Priests can be stationed by Cook, because the living environment of the Medusa Snake People is too great. Special.
"I can't explain this clearly, but I just want to say that there are more poisonous creatures in the swamp?" Cook asked rhetorically.
"Oh!" Although Elder Medusa Snake Man didn't quite understand, most of the poison in the swamp was correct.
"Moreover, the establishment of a town is also conducive to protecting weak family members. Each town has a sheriff, and there are also sheriffs who maintain public order. These are the main forces to protect the town. Of course, each race has its own militia!" Cook Then explained.
Shana's father asked suspiciously: "What is a militia?"
"How should I put it, our Mekai Empire implements a mercenary system, that is to say, our soldiers do not need to do other things, what they have to do is to fight..." Cooke explained the answer.
But when she talked about this, she was interrupted by Shana's father: "You have so much food to feed those guys?"
Cook is speechless about this question. Soldiers like the orcs are actually inferior to the militia. Even in the human empire, there are only knights and knight servants. The knight servants are full-time, and the rest of the infantry are gathered by farmers. The nobles believed that the soldiers were like this, because in the eyes of the nobles, the war was that time occupies very little time, so letting a sufficient labor force lay down farm tools would be their biggest loss.
And often the fighting is young and middle-aged, relatively speaking, they eat more. If they don’t work anymore, they will lose more if they come and go, and the orc empire will be even more unbearable, because human farmers will train for a few days a year. Orcs can't train at all.
When a war is launched, each orc tribe will issue conscription orders to various tribes, large and small, and then each tribe will form a small team, and then each race will form a coalition.
Once the war is over, these orcs will go back to their homes and find their mothers, and the weapons and equipment of the soldiers of the orc empire are still prepared by themselves, so you can imagine how low the combat power is, but even so, the orcs are still stronger than The combat effectiveness of elite human soldiers is still high.
"This problem can be calculated by another method." After a while, Cook considered how to say it.
"What's the algorithm? No, you just need to tell us what the militia is?" Shana's father has a headache. You need to know that the orcs have congenital flaws in calculation, so Shana's father doesn't ask how to calculate, but directly asks the militia. what.
"You are militiamen like this. There is a two-month training period each year, and then they are under the management of the sheriff in normal times. But most of the time, the militiamen are still doing their own things. Only after the sheriff has issued tasks Gather together." Cook breathed a sigh of relief. Cook didn't want to make it clear for the time being that the relationship between the militia and the mercenary was very strong.
"Oh!" The elders of Medusa Snake Man said in unison, obviously already understood.
"But this militia..." An elder Medusa hesitated to speak.
"Haha, the militia's equipment and salary are paid by the empire, and as a militia, you can also enjoy tax benefits." Cook continued with a smile.
"Taxes?" Shana's father looked at Cook with a frown.
Cook explained helplessly: "It's not a poll tax or something, but a commodity tax, which means that merchants only levy taxes."
Shana's father and others immediately relaxed, because although the orc empire was huge, there had never been that power that said to collect taxes, including the tribal elders, the imperial clan, and the temple, they had no such power.
This is also why the orc empire only issues a summoning order to the tribes during the war, and then the weapons, equipment, and food are prepared by the tribes themselves, and each tribe will send logistics personnel, in fact, grazing livestock to follow the army.
The only source of wealth for the orc empire is the distribution of spoils, because part of the spoils each time belongs to the empire, which is why the orc empire likes to start wars.
Moreover, in the orc empire, after the death of the war, there is no need for the empire's compassion, but it is taken from the spoils. If there is no spoils, hehe! The empire does not care, so war is a no-loss business for the orc empire royal family.
As for the commodity tax that Cook said, Shana’s father and others didn’t care, and these guys knew that since the cost of the merchant has increased, then the merchant has to make the same profit, only the price increases, so they don’t charge it. Taxes are simply bluffing. In fact, taxes have long been collected.
"So how is the town specific?" Shana's father asked in detail again.
Cook explained one by one, this time after several hours of negotiation, the Medusa Snakeman decided to build a city, a city of Medusa's own. As for the specific establishment of the location, it must wait for the Medusa Snake. People look at the muddy swamp environment before making a decision.
"Your Excellency Cook, we will be ready as soon as possible!" Shana's father looked at the team of Medusa fighters and said goodbye to Cook.
"Okay, I am waiting for your good news!" Cook knows that migration is not an easy task, especially for the migration of millions of people, and all aspects that need to be prepared must be prepared for at least a few months. It was already winter. , Which means that even if the Medusa Snake is to migrate, it must be next year.
"Your Excellency, thank you for your gift!"
"My Excellency Cook, goodbye!" The Medusa snake elders also bid farewell to Cook. In fact, in the eyes of these Medusas, Cook, the master of the Maykai Empire, is the same as the royal family of the Orc Empire. The elders are not afraid at all, because these elders think that their tribes are in their hands.
However, after these Medusa snake-men elders thoroughly understood the Maykai Empire, they regretted this decision, but it was too late at that time. In the end, the elders and the patriarchs were only nominal organizations and had no actual rights at all.
The Medusa Snakeman did not return to the orc coalition camp, but directly returned to the territory. The orc empire's senior officials learned about the news only half a month later, but the departure of Medusa, which has tens of thousands of people, is for the orc army. , It's nothing at all.
In the orc coalition camp, dozens of patriarchs of tribes, as well as three royal clans, high priests of the Temple of God of War, and others gathered together. The tauren patriarch asked with a sullen face, "Who can tell me, what exactly is the Scarlet Fortress opposite? What happened? Why are there more than 100,000 ogres for no reason? Don’t tell me that ogres are under human jurisdiction!"
"We have some information on this, but this information is a bit weird." The cat patriarch faintly replied, and the cat is responsible for collecting information.
"Tell me!" The patriarchs of the three royal clans looked at each other, and finally the tiger clan patriarch Yinhu said.
"The human empire paid for the ogres! These ogres all came from the Natal Mountains." Patriarch Catman replied hesitantly.
"Haha. Haha! It's so funny!"
"Yes, that is, ogres also know to make money?"
"Oh, my goodness, this ogre has developed a brain and knows money, but I doubt if the ogre can distinguish 1, 2, and 3."
"Idiot, fooling us with such information!" The patriarchs and elders of dozens of tribes of the orcs laughed loudly after hearing the news, saying that there are all kinds of things.
If you want to talk about the ogre statue, it is only compared with the bees on the earth~EbookFREE.me~ Someone once asked me if the bees in your house sting themselves, I was sweating profusely, then Ingeniously replied: "The name is lunatic, you say sting people, not sting people."
Ogres are like this. They don’t recognize people at all, and no one says that they can do business with ogres. What ogres believe in is robbing. To put it bluntly, ogres actually occupy more of the beasts, so cat people Saying that humans hired ogres, the patriarchs of these orc tribes would laugh.
Patriarch Catman was a bit embarrassed, because during the war, collecting intelligence, especially when there was a Scarlet Fortress, made intelligence gathering even more difficult.
Yinhu said loudly: "Quiet, I think it is very possible!"
"Silver Tiger?" The patriarchs of the Leopard and Lion tribes immediately looked at Silver Tiger in surprise, just like an idiot. Don't think that the three major royal families are in the same pot, but the contradictions between these three races are also It’s not too small, because the orc kings of the empire are determined by the three royal clans based on their strengths. They are changed every three years, so the three royal clans are not monolithic, but have to unite in the face of the temple and the various tribes. together.
"Hmph, then do you think that the Scarlet Fortress is occupied by an ogre?" Silver Tiger asked angrily, thinking that the Patriarch of the Cat was covered by a tiger.