"My Lord, this is our newly adjusted knight gear."

Little Truu, blushing and excited, introduced Derek.

It's a standard knight's coat, more elaborate than the one dedicated to Baron Ferreira.

The level of the blacksmith has risen, the number of people has increased, and it has brought fine products.

Although it was not yet that heavy armor, it was almost all encased in steel, from horses to knights

The joints are also wrapped in cowhide for both defense and flexibility.

At the same time, the horse was also covered with a layer of chain armor, which was difficult to damage with ordinary swords.

"The whole set of knight equipment costs more than 20 gold coins, requires a big Smith seven or eight smiths to work together, about half a month can produce a set."

We can only take out two groups of people at the moment, and the production is a little low."

"Try it on me."

Derek, with the help of his servants, put on his body one by one, and with his body now, he also felt a little pressure.

As soon as I started walking, the chain mail at the joint would rattle and rattle, but it did not make people feel noisy.

After trying to move it a few times, he pulled out his sword and swung it.

It's flexible. Some martial arts are definitely limited.

But increased defense can also make people ignore the danger and become more deterrent.

"With the body of an elite knight, it can be worn all day long, except for blunt wounds caused by heavy weapons, ordinary small weapons are difficult to cause effective damage."

Derek evaluated it and found it was worth it.

Compared with the higher cost of heavy armor, the cost of a single piece is probably more than twenty gold pieces, and the cost of a suit is probably more than forty gold pieces.

Not for a while, and few men can afford to fight.

Derek took off his armor, pleased with little Truu's recent work.

"And design a hoplite outfit, and the weight will be based on that."

Hoplites, in fact, are leather and iron armor, but for this era, it is unprecedented super specifications.

Derek is ready to build an arrow elite that can play a great role on the battlefield.

Trou Jr. and others were given a new set of tasks, stockpiling a few weapons, and obtaining some resources through trade with the outside world.

And then I looked at the war horses, the horses that were collected in various ways.

Buy mainly inferior quality horses, ordinary quality riding horses are very few.

War horses may be hard to find, but inferior ones are plentiful.

The North itself has a certain capacity for war horses, and there are a lot of eliminated horses retained by the people.

This one, all loyal confidants are in charge, otherwise people find out the secret, but it is a big trouble.

Derek even reviews the panel every day to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Because this time there's a plan, and Derek's choice for the war horse is the Northern horse, good endurance, good load, good speed, good sprint.

Even if there is some fame, poor quality of the northern horse even if it is improved quality, these characteristics will not change.

Now I have more than 100 horses, and every month about 10 horses are put out for sale as fine quality war horses.

Some of them were kept to prepare better horses.

This number is already at the limit of manpower.

No more, let alone can not watch over, also easily exposed.

A horse, better, a month's ration of three silver coins, the cost of a year is still two gold coins.

It can be no more than three or five gold coins, the profit is very small, and there is risk.

Of course, the cost of skimming the grain and using some pasture instead is only one-third.

There's still some profit to be made for the Northlanders.

But for Derek, the cost is secondary, no matter how many he can afford, but there is no guarantee of safety.

Therefore, can only regret to leave.

This made his need for a fully autonomous territory, preferably where the kingdom's power was weakest.

The barbarians met every requirement perfectly.

Derek's got all his shit together, ready to bang some barbarians.

At last he went to another manor.

At this point it was a complete training ground.

Baron Ferreira did as he said he would, and not only did he send half the family's army, but most of the cavalry and the knights he supported were also there.

Led by his eldest brother, Marco, and trained by Derek's knights, he sweats like rain.

And in addition to this permanent army, a new batch of militia was added every week.

The good ones will all be enlisted in the army, and the eliminated ones sent back to the fields.

Within months, the baron had built up an army of more than three hundred men.

Even without Derek's help, we can train a decent army.

And such an army, the whole North of large and small aristocrats are training, and even some of the children of middle-class families, some of the children of businessmen are training.

News of the war seemed to have spread like wildfire, and everyone in the North was preparing.

Derek watched for a moment, flipping through the panels.

The family's army mostly appears on the panel, apparently accepting the leadership of Derek's men.

And several knights have the level of five or six, which is quite good.

The soldiers in the family who have been training for years also have this level, and the new recruits progress quickly even the third and fourth levels.

That's the result of Derek's water release, otherwise progress would have been faster.

It was thus that Derek discovered a little secret of the panel.

Accumulated experience points will be reduced when the promotion, he had thought of this opportunistic way, such as accumulating 100 experience points, the level is higher to use.

Now that hope is dead.

Brother Marco is also actively training, Derek found that the other level is not bad, not as bad as imagined.

After getting enough for his big brother, Derek waited for him to finish training before getting closer.

"Derek, how long have you been here?"

Mark took the handkerchief handed to him by the servant and wiped the sweat from his face.

Here, he also ignored the noble etiquette, how to enjoy how.

"I just came here for a while, brother, you seem to have made great progress, I believe father will be surprised to see."

"Or your training is good, honestly, where did you get these men from?" I think it's better than a family knight."

Nonsense, these are men who are about to rise to the elite level, and what can a knight supported by a country aristocrat compare?

"What level of excellence is completely because of harder training, you look at my attendants, the amount of training is greater than you, brother, you insist on a few years, the same is not bad."

Derek changed the subject, and Marco thought it made sense

According to his observation, the training intensity of these soldiers under the third brother is indeed very large.

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The two skipped over the subject.

Marco suddenly broke a piece of news: "I heard that the king has given the order to mobilize troops, after the spring ploughing, the south and the center have begun to form legions, ready to move north."

The formation of the army after the spring ploughing will not delay the progress of the ploughing.

The importance of food to a country cannot be ignored.

Wait for them to build up the army, and then rush to the north after two or three months, and it is estimated that the time for the autumn harvest in the North is almost.

This was enough time for the Kingdom to launch a wave of attacks and then stabilize the situation before the snow fell, and the barbarians could not launch a counterattack in winter.

Obviously, the great aristocrat above is very sober, not to the extent of not eating minced meat.

Even Derek didn't expect to fail.

To some extent, from the Holy United Kingdom, all the way to the present divided Three countries, have looked down on barbarians.

The general perception of the aristocracy is that the barbarians took advantage of the division of the kingdom to steal chickens and succeed.

Now that the three countries have stabilized and reached a new balance, they know that it will not be easy to eliminate each other.

As a result, most eyes are on the barbarians.

You know, the barbarians took over a lot of the land and population of the old country.

Land, for the nobility, was a strong foundation.

The news revealed by the eldest brother Marco must have been known by many nobles now.

Mobilization in the south and center means that the northern provinces will soon follow.

After all, it is the kingdom possession closest to the barbarians, and this battle must occupy a very heavy weight.

The aristocrats who had lost their family territory also had a chance to get revenge.

Derek can already see what's coming.

Practice! Keep training!

Derek's so motivated, at this point it's too much to care about attracting attention.

And today's environment is such that a big move will not cause suspicion.

As can be seen by the naked eye, the price of weapons and equipment on the market has increased greatly.

Word of the barbarian expedition to the north is spreading.

As for the children of nobles, merchant families, and even some city residents, they began to prepare.

Although Derek had started stocking up early, he soon ran into difficulties.

"Iron ore consumption is too high."

Little Tru went to Derek and complained.

With the expansion of the ranks of blacksmiths, the number consumed was more than ten times that before.

Some refined steel consumes more.

A set of tens of pounds of full knight equipment may require nearly a thousand pounds of ore.

What Derek has, and what the Ferreira family has, it's not enough.

Even if the weapons can be exchanged for a little bit, the amount of ore on the market is still very small.

Belonging you can't buy.

Even if you had gold in your hand, you couldn't spend it.

The Ferreira family wasn't very good at smelting, and they didn't own mines.

Even among relatives, there is little contact with such business.

I found some connections, but they couldn't get enough raw materials.

This problem, or from the source of the problem.

The families that control the source of the ore have deliberately tightened supplies in the hope of making excessive profits.

"If I have to, I will lead my men to rob them."

Simon has a fierce look in his eyes. He has risen from the bottom, and though he has learned some manners, he will not remember the cosmetic things at the crucial time.

To be honest, Derek was a little tempted, but he quickly shot down the appealing idea.

Now the north is ready for battle, troops are everywhere, and the kingdom is more powerful than ever, unless it is mentally ill, who dares to make trouble?

Don't you see how much more honest Lloyd is now?

Bandits around the world, but also disappeared, for fear of becoming the target of the army practice.

"Make a list of all the families that can supply ore, and I'll visit one by one, hoping to get a share."

Derek immediately started networking, looking for connections that would make sense.

The circle of the northern province is so large, and a few more people can always pull on the relationship, not play any role, can pull on the relationship on the line.

Derek's business was not for nothing, and he soon found some referrals.

Then visit one by one.

The families who owned the lode were also very polite, though not giving away much of it.

But this one car a month, that one to give a three to five cars at once, equal to polite refusal.

A lap down, what problems have not been solved, seemingly a lot, but not enough consumption.

And he's got all the chips, all the weapons, all the blacksmiths that can control the mines.

War Horse. Derek had so little to offer, there wasn't enough to trade for resources.

"No, in a month all the stock will be gone."

Derek was getting impatient, and before he took the plunge, there was some good news.

"There are not many families who have mastered the mine, but there are also many, and those big mine owners on the market will not ship, but there are some small mine owners."

With iron ore prices high, there must be someone willing to ship."

It was the idea of Baron Ferreira, who had seen enough in his life to know other ways.

In addition to the fiefdom nobles, even some merchants with court titles owned some mines.

Then Derek started visiting.

Maybe some small mines, mining a year or two dried up, and the quality is different.

But Derek doesn't, even if it's a car or two a month, he'll take it.

Even, let him discover a new mine.

The Garcias are a family of fiefdom barons, but unlike the Ferreira family, modern-day Garcias serve the kingdom with the title of viscount.

Although this viscount cannot inherit, it also represents the status of the other party.

The Garcias belong to one of the new families, and the previous strength is estimated to be very different from the Ferreira family.

But recently, a large lode was discovered in their territory and began to produce ore.

The Garcias, already powerful, suddenly became the hot ticket.

But just because of the discovery of the mine, the Garcia family's heritage is insufficient, there are not many blacksmiths.

A few low-grade blacksmiths in the east and west cannot bring more profits at all.

As a technical work, even a technical work that is consciously blocked by everyone, without two generations of efforts, it is impossible to achieve certain results.

So Derek came knocking, hoping to secure a new source of ore.

But when it came to the door, there was no news.

Derek waited for three days, and finally a servant invited him to the house.

As a new family, the Garcias' residence is a manor, not even their own castle.

Although the manor was well armed and even had a high wooden wall, it was still somewhat shabby.

Adrian was so upset that a family like this would neglect their own?

Derek calmed the emotions of those around him, and now he's demanding and angry.

But Derek got a little angry when he saw who he was meeting.

"Harvey Garcia?"

After listening to each other's introduction, he is not the boss of the Garcia family.

In the absence of Vicomte Garcia, this business must be conducted by an heir, not by a second son.

And the attitude of the other side is arrogant, and the nose is almost in the sky.