In a flash, a month passed.

Open the panel again, because the training is more intense, and Derek is more demanding, and all 11 recruits have a militia level five or higher.

Little Truu, on the other hand, is a little slower, only reaching level three.

After level 3, experience acquisition slows down again.

At the current pace, it will take at least another month to upgrade.

Trout

Occupation: Army Blacksmith Level 3 (11/100)

Experience Pool: 0/100

Building weapons and equipment, after all, there is a daily limit, far less than training.

And the later, the more difficult it is to acquire experience.

After level 3, the spearhead created by small Truu has been enough, the cost is only about twenty or thirty copper coins, and it can easily sell for seventy or eighty copper coins.

Every day, little Truu can make three or five spearheads, and basically the profit is around 200 coppers.

The official exchange rate is 1 gold for 10 silver and 1 silver for 100 copper.

But the so-called official price is of little use, and the private exchange rate is constantly changing.

One gold coin is worth about 15 to 17 silver coins, and one silver coin is worth 120 to 130 copper coins.

In other words, a qualified blacksmith can earn more than one and a half silver coins a day.

He earns two or three gold pieces a year, three times what the average soldier earns.

You get better at your craft, you make more.

But little Tru signed an indenture, so you can't run away.

Little Tru himself felt that with the help of God, his craft improved very fast.

It was a feeling he had never experienced before, and each day brought a new inspiration.

Continuous improvement, continuous progress, and even feel like his father has almost the level.

"What if... Is the old man too poor to delay me?"

Technology is advancing fast, and naturally there are some bloated ideas.

The good news is that the gradual progress is getting slower and slower, and Derek is trying to control it, so he doesn't completely expand.

A month is still too short a time, and even the rest of the family did not think he could make a difference in a month.

But Derek figured sooner or later he'd have to get out.

With the data panel, one month of development is worth six months of others, and it's boring to stay here all the time.

Besides, how can we grow fast without opening up a source of revenue?

By little Tru? One or two gold pieces a year is still too little.

In the last few days, twenty or so cast-iron spearheads have been accumulated, which is not enough for cargo at all.

I had concerns before, so I was a little conservative, and the next thing is to change the gold in my hand into strength.

Leaving some expenses, the monthly salary of each recruit is 80 copper, lower than the normal level.

Little Truer is currently a silver coin. He's a follower, after all.

The monthly wage cost was less than eight or nine silver coins, and with rations and various losses, one gold coin was enough.

Leave 10 gold coins for emergency, at least 40 gold coins can be used, which is a large amount of money.

"20 more people?"

Andrew felt that his nephew has gone crazy, dozens of people eat and drink and increase wages, how long can he maintain that little money?

"Derek, you need to train a group of fighters first, and then find a way to make money.

Trust me, it's easy to recruit soldiers, but you have to feed them.

Otherwise, no loyalty can be maintained."

Andrew spoke from experience.

The Ferreira family is powerful, with more than a hundred regular guards, seven or eight knights, plus temporary militia, and a team of five hundred men every minute.

But it is all sustained by a great deal of property, thousands of neighbors, a great deal of estates and properties, or else it will go bankrupt today, and tomorrow it will all be gone.

Derek knows, of course, but he's adamant.

In order to avoid Uncle Andrew's interference, he even concocted a white lie: "Uncle, I have received a long-term escort list and will leave soon."

I need men. These soldiers will be kept here for training until next time."

"You haven't been cheated, have you?" Andrew couldn't believe it. It was such a good thing.

"On Derek's honor, absolutely not.

This is the relationship on the Count Perez side."

Derek made a mysterious disclosure, and Andrew immediately imagined a good play.

"Or you've got it in you. You've made some reliable friends on the outside." Andrew was a little depressed, but no longer suspicious, after all, his nephew did not look like he had lost his mind.

To be honest, aristocracy has its pros and cons, and in the Perez family's territory, conscription is not really practical without the cooperation of the sheriff.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if little Tru isn't Andrew, how can he volunteer?

We've cleaned out the best young men in the village, so next time we want to keep recruiting, we're gonna need to lower our bar a little bit.

The training was arranged, and two apprentices were assigned to little Truu, and he was clearly told to train new people.

In this day and age, technical work is a family secret, and little Truu wouldn't want to do it, but you have to do it with a knife to your neck.

Derek knew that little Truer wouldn't do his best at first, but it didn't matter. Time would teach him how.

Data panel can only give yourself an advantage over others, other things while learning to do, there are always more opportunities than others to make mistakes.

After a few days of counting everyone in the panel, Derek took a team of recruits on the road, and the rest of the experience was accumulated step by step.

This time, the target is the Watchcity.

It is the largest city in the neighborhood and the second largest city in the northern province.

It was administered by officials sent by the Kingdom and even housed a kingdom army.

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Of course, Derek didn't hit the road empty-handed, carrying a cart and a thousand pounds of bran.

Here wheat bran a catty more than two copper plates, the purchase price is lower.

But to the watchcity, that is half a coin a catty profit.

A car full of five hundred coppers, although the income is small, after all, it is easy to earn.

As for why not bring more grain, I'm sorry... Grain is the Ferreira family's business.

At least in family territory, no one can beat them.

Derek picked this up from scratch.

If it weren't for Baron Ferreira's son, his body would be in the gutter by now.

Derek's main purpose is not to make money, but to accumulate experience, first hired a groom, bought a carriage, is a fixed asset.

This simple caravan, no one is on its way.

Soon the news appeared on Baron Ferreira's desk.

The latter light look at a glance, no context.

...

Along the way, Derek would like to meet some bandits and practice.

Unfortunately, the guard standard is a little over specification, and no one goes crazy for more than a dozen silver coins of food with a dozen soldiers.

It took ten days to get there.

City of Watch, this is the first time Derek came to this world to see the real city.

It's sad to say, but it's the truth.

Even Count Perez's castle is a few laps smaller before the Watchcity.

When the soldiers guarding the gate saw the caravan, they naturally saw the pennant representing the nobility.

After receiving an entry fee of fifty copper coins, Derek entered the city.

And then... Who the hell pees in public?

Derek was sick to death when he stepped on unknown feces.

The sanitary conditions in the country were already troubling him, and he had always been strict in his own territory.

But the entrance shattered all his illusions.

"The world is completely different."

Derek adjusted his mentality, sold grain at a low price to the Ferreira family's store, and found a place to live.

The purpose of his coming here is to meet the world as a training, and the second is to find a reliable way to iron ore.

Derek left the base, but the training continued.

The training of the recruits is led by the former militia.

The efficiency is much lower, but with the support of the data panel, it is not slow.

On the contrary, progress was slow with little True.The blacksmith apprentice was fine for a few days, but as soon as Derek left, progress dropped to less than half that.

But the data panel plus, the overflow experience plus.

Ten days have given them the official rank of army blacksmith.

Little Truu soon discovered that his new apprentice was just as talented as he was.

No, he remembered what Lord Derek said. Genius? No, a pig can be a good blacksmith with the right materials.

He had sneered at Lord Derek in secret, but now it seemed foolish of him.

In an instant, his attitude changed.

Since blacksmithing can't be the exclusive secret recipe, then be honest and obedient, save being cleaned up.

That makes little Tru young, and old Tru wouldn't be so easily convinced by himself.

If the data panel had loyalty, then Little Truer's loyalty would have gone up by at least 50 percent.

Derek's in the Overwatch, and he can probably guess what's going on through the data panel.

So, it worked out pretty well for the driver, huh?

Playing with the son of a country blacksmith is obviously unfulfilling.

Derek began to sweep the streets the next day, and the Watchcity was so populated that the nobles of the neighborhood were clustered here.

There are also many shops and supplies.

Derek can't mess with anyone. His knighthood is just an entry ticket.

Credibility, strength and price are all issues Derek needs to consider.

He is not prepared to buy too much iron ore at one time, and little Trudeau consumes only seven or eight pounds a day, which will not be too much in the short term.

Watch city, worthy of being the largest city nearby, all walks of business are done, iron ore is not scarce.

There hasn't been much fighting lately, and prices have been more stable.

A kilogram of iron ore is only about 10 copper coins, and about one-third of the iron is produced.

In this way, a jin of iron is no more than 30 copper coins, but the market price has been between 40 and 50.

Do you think it makes a lot of money?

But in addition to labor, fuel, transportation and other costs, it is also hard money.

To buy a ton of iron ore is only about 80 silver coins.

Take it back to the blacksmiths to practice, produce more than 300 kilograms of iron ore, enough to build 700 or 800 spearheads.

It's worth more than three hundred pieces of silver, and even three novice blacksmiths would take two or three months.

Then remove the insignificant labor and consumables ten silver coins, a net profit of 250 can be dozens more.Derek knew he was a fool to count himself that way.

Three months is the business of a dozen gold coins, but dozens of people eat horses and chew, wages and maintenance costs will be three gold coins a month, three months is equal to nothing.

Of course, with dozens of people, there must be other ways to make money.

The average aristocrat wouldn't support so many people, so it's still profitable.

For Derek, money is just a resource, and building his strength is the main thing.

With three squads of regular soldiers, even Baron Ferreira would have to face it.

Derek picked his target and soon bought a load of iron ore.

It wasn't a huge amount, so no one cared.

This time in the Watchcity, like a pawn, no one cares.

Derek knew it wouldn't be that way soon.

The team creaks back to wheatpile village, and Andrew is still not optimistic about Derek's insistence on training blacksmiths.

The grounds are on loan to Derek, so he rarely goes.

Keeping a proper distance is also the key to maintaining family ties.

It took almost a month to go back and forth.

Base and out of the soldier level is not much different, recruits are three or five levels of wandering, veterans are five or six or seven levels.

But the blacksmith made rapid progress.

Trout

Occupation: Army Blacksmith Level 4 (17/100)

Experience pool: 22/100

The other two apprentices of blacksmith also had two levels.

When we meet again, little Truu bends lower.