Chapter 118: The Calm Before the Storm On November 1, 3042 in the magic calendar, all cities and towns in the human kingdom posted a conscription order, there is no specific limit on the number of recruits, and all soldiers who pass the test to join the army will be directly recruited into the local garrison, and some veterans will be drawn out of the garrison to the northwest to supplement the defense of the Northwest Plains.
Since it is not a compulsory conscription, most of the professionals in the human world have chosen to maintain a wait-and-see attitude, and many young people who have just completed their junior warrior training have become the main personnel of this enlistment, in addition to a small number of professionals who have a bad life or have greater ambitions, these people are welcomed by the army.
Recruits immediately put into training after joining, because their own strength to improve and can not be achieved overnight, the vast majority of recruits with low general strength were assigned to the rifle battalion as soon as they entered the barracks, in the military camp of the human world in the past two years, the new riflemen have become synonymous with the weak, although the power of the rifle has long been proven to be very strong, but for this world that has followed the respect of the strong for thousands of years, the rifle is the patent of the weak, In the face of the powerful fighting spirit and metal armor, these rifles were nothing more than some loud burning sticks.
The vast majority of young recruits and some weak veterans have been consciously or unintentionally squeezed out of the rifle battalion, and even the army commanders who treat them equally will inadvertently favor the more powerful swordsman battalion between the swordsman battalion and the rifle battalion.
Even in some places, officers blatantly changed the measure of soldiers' treatment from rank to strength, so that the status of riflemen was further reduced, and these situations were known to the Supreme Council, but due to the lack of control, even His Majesty Edward could not forcibly rectify these armies that had been passed down for thousands of years.
Perhaps humanity really needs a war to move forward with a new life, this is the thought that has been popping up in the young king's mind lately.
Three years is not long to say short, the twelve industrial bases of mankind have been on the right track from scratch, Zhao Yannian spread out those pamphlets printed with mechanical knowledge and elementary physics knowledge with the fermentation of time, has begun to change the understanding of human productivity, the concept of mechanical production is stronger than manual production, with the prosperity of the industrial base spread throughout the human kingdom, and even some smart craftsmen, Attempts have been made to use the knowledge from those rudimentary physics pamphlets to make some primitive but useful simple machines.
In the past two years, the human world has become richer in materials and the cities have been taxed more and more, these changes have aroused the keen attention of the Supreme Council, although for them money is just a bunch of numbers and there is no use at all, but for their territory, the increase in taxes means that the people have become richer, and the merchants have become more and more money, so they need to pay more and more taxes.
And at this time, there were some new troubles in the Supreme Council, with the prosperity of commerce, the merchants earned several times or even more than ten times more money than before, and the areas with high industrial development dumped and plundered a lot of money from the areas with low industrial development, but due to the old tax law, the taxes they paid were only two or three times their original taxes, and the ruling class of the kingdom realized that the reform of the tax law was imminent, not only the inner region needed to be reformed, Outlands need uniform and effective tax laws to make commerce more healthy and prosperous.
For a long time, many lords in the outer territories have set up private tax stations to exploit passing merchants, and in the past two years, this behavior has begun to restrict the development of commerce, although the six dukes of the outer regions do not want to see this phenomenon, but they are also impossible to go to one territory to intervene, private intervention will offend the public, even the supreme ruler of the kingdom does not dare to touch, so after a year of preparation, the new tax law and tax department were officially released in mid-November, The Royal Department of Taxation will completely reorganize the tax agencies in the two regions of the human kingdom, from the city gate tax to the agricultural tax of each territory will be collected by the Royal Department of Revenue, and as long as the tax voucher of the Royal Department of Taxation is held, the lords of any territory are not allowed to intercept the merchants for no reason.
In the end, all taxes received will be settled by the Royal Revenue Department under the supervision of the Supreme Council, and then distributed to the lords and nobles everywhere.
It is foreseeable that the establishment of the Royal Department of Taxation will make the human kingdom truly one in a short period of time, and after mastering the lifeblood of all nobles, Edward will become the most authoritative king in the history of the human kingdom.
In the middle of November, half a month has passed since the great beast god issued a holy war conscription order, and the order of the beast god is like a magic power, making all the orcs in the entire orc kingdom crazy, in order to get the qualification to participate in the holy war, a large number of fights will occur in the orc cities and tribes every day, except for the recognized warriors, other orcs need to defeat a large number of competitors if they want to enter the army.
Under the order of Carlos, all the high-level shamans of the Beast Plateau were summoned to the Orc King City, and along with the ancestral spirit totems of the various tribes that could control the feng shui element.
Samael's original intention in creating orcs was to create a kind of warrior who could be produced in large quantities cheaply, as cannon fodder on the front line of war, these warriors did not need too much intelligence, too much intelligence would only make the orcs think, and thinking is the root of cholera for armies that need discipline and iron will.
Therefore, the general IQ of orcs was limited by Samael to only about ten years old for humans.
On the earth, human research on intelligence believes that part of the intelligence of living beings lies in their own talent and the other part is in the same education, two babies with the same intelligence are placed in different environments, and the intelligence they have when they reach adulthood is absolutely different, so what Samael did not expect is that this race created by his genes, after entering this world, has mutated some individuals with superb intelligence, and these individuals have led the orcs to survive tenaciously in this chaotic world, These individuals were later revered as shamans by the orcs.
The probability of orc shamans appearing among orcs is not high, although after more than 10,000 years of evolution, the average intelligence of orcs is close to the level of a human fourteen-year-old boy, but the rate of orc shamans is still only about one in a thousand.
This ratio is comparable to the proportion of human mages appearing, but considering the orc population, the total number of shamans in the entire orc kingdom is only about 20,000.
Of the 20,000 shamans, less than 1,000 can be called great shamans.
Now these great shamans are holding sacrifices in a square full of blood, and 100,000 herbivorous demonic beasts are skillfully slaughtered and bloodlet by these great shamans according to the ancient method while singing this ancient ballad, and their blood flows into the canals all over the square, and the stream of blood is like nourishment for the ancestral spirit totems inserted in the square.
Such a large sacrifice is the first time in the history of the orcs, hundreds of powerful souls are floating above the slaughterhouse to compete for the souls of those monsters, with the ancient songs in the mouths of shamans, every time an ancestral spirit is full, he will return to his totem pole, and then an inexplicable power shoots into the sky, and when the ancestral spirit consumes his own strength, he will retract into his totem pole and fall into a deep sleep, and the stream of blood will become a little shallow at this time.
In the Beast God Temple, Samael is watching all this through the magic array, for these overly smart shamans, His Beast God His Royal Highness is not very fond of them, because he can't see the fanaticism of ordinary orcs from the eyes of these orcs, although these beast god shamans obeyed his orders and carried out a large-scale attack on humans, but the beast god can easily see the hesitation, doubt, worry and other emotions in the eyes of these shamans from the magic array, which is not the emotion that a good slave should have.
And this kind of emotion also appeared in Carlos and his good teacher Baimon, but they hid it better, and they were not very worried about Carlos Samael, as long as he said a word, the orc king could not even command the guards around him.
But Baimon is different, although like the subordination relationship between other hell demons, Samael also used the soul contract to let Baimon do things for him, but all the demons know that the soul contract does not guarantee the loyalty of his subordinates, and an experienced demon has many ways to get rid of the control of the soul contract, so Samael now tries his best to maintain his majesty every time he summons Baimon, and Samael feels more and more headaches for the clever temptations of his subordinates.
"Since there is no way to deal with him, let's send him far away first."
Samael said as he sat on his throne, while the Dragon Slayer Master was standing motionless behind Samael.
Just as the Great Demon Baimon was sent on a mission in the northernmost mountain range of the Dragon Sleeping Continent, a metal ship was embarking on his maiden voyage at the southernmost tip of the continent.
Zhao Yannian is sitting on the first all-metal ship of mankind with the members of Zhan Wuyan at this moment, this 88-meter-long three-masted sailing ship is driven by two forces: wind power and magic crystal power, and the hull weighing 1,500 tons can reach a speed of sixteen knots, that is, nearly thirty kilometers per hour in the case of wind, this speed may be laughed at by many creatures if it is taken to land and sky, but this speed on the sea is definitely enough to make the most experienced crew members of Qianfan Island scare their jaws.
In fact, many of the crew members working on this ship had worked as sailors on Qianfan Island, and when the metal ship named the Falcon by Zhao Yannian left the port and sped on the sea, these sailors were stunned to see the sea as if it had been split by a sharp sword.