Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 141 The Territory Takes Off with the Dwarves

Su Li had a good attitude. He did not just focus on the pressure from the visit of more than a thousand dwarves, but rather regarded this event as an opportunity for the territory to take off.

This was equivalent to letting his territory experience in advance the growth rate of a territory with a population of 10,000. This experience card would last for at least one cycle.

Dwarves, like ogres, possess far greater endurance than humans and can work for hours without rest. The construction capacity of these thousand strong dwarf warriors is probably equivalent to that of 7,000 to 8,000 humans.

The first thing they built was the blacksmith shop in Hesse.

On the night of their arrival, after feasting and drinking to their heart's content, some of the simple, honest dwarves, their noses red with red wine, protested that they couldn't afford to eat their larger friend's food for nothing. (It was mainly because they'd eaten too much! Dwarves, who normally only lived on bread mixed with gravel, were now feasting on four or five pounds of venison in the Black Forest, their bellies and waistlines swelling considerably.)
They didn't have much wealth to give back to their friends, so these dwarves slapped their thighs and said that they only knew how to make equipment, so they decided to help their big friends make a few sets of equipment as a way of returning the favor for this grand hospitality.

So some powerful dwarves drove out the dwarf apprentices in the Black Forest blacksmith shop, occupied the furnace, and personally helped the Black Forest Lord to forge better dwarf armor.

In just one night, the dwarves created thirteen sets of armor.

According to the current prices in Maleburg, this is almost equivalent to 800 gold crowns!
However, their hot tempers quickly turned their good intentions into a disaster, causing many people to suffer humiliation and lose their reputation. As a result, six troll butchers were born on the spot.

Because so many people thought of this idea, they fought each other for the furnace and directly demolished the blacksmith shop in the castle.

At that time, Su Li was practicing knighthood with the cold and beautiful witch Ingrid. They were conquering cities, which made the cold witch lose control. Her defenses collapsed one after another, and the violent explosions made Ingrid lose consciousness for a while, allowing Su Li to finally succeed and completely possess her cold body.

However, this witch was somewhat reserved and mysterious. Su Li had only succeeded in two areas, and was still a little short of unlocking the triple cultivation speed.

But she had already begun her training as a knight, and it was only a matter of time before it completely occupied her body and mind.

Su Li was in a good mood and didn't care about the losses caused by the dwarves.

This made the dwarves even more grateful and apologetic.

So the next day, the dwarves decided to help Su Li build a few blacksmith shops as compensation. At the same time, they would have more people to forge equipment and repay the favor.

The efficiency of the Dwarven Engineers is truly unparalleled!
It only took two days for the territory to build four new blacksmith shops. Together with the existing blacksmith shops, the territory now has five blacksmith shops, and they are all larger in scale and have more complete facilities!

This really made Su Li feel that he could also obtain the throne.

When Yezhupi started out, he only had thirteen sets of armor. Then he built a large blacksmith shop in Liaodong, which stretched for more than five miles, and thus built a heavy armored infantry.

Su Li was only slightly weaker at the moment, but he also had five blacksmith shops. If he could really have thousands of dwarves stationed in his territory, he could easily build a heavy infantry cavalry.

Moreover, this will not only enhance his military strength, but also enable the industrial strength of the Hesse Territory to advance by leaps and bounds. In the future, he will be able to reap huge wealth just by selling armor abroad.

The key is that these dwarves provide more than just assistance in industrial forging and armor making.

Dwarves are renowned for their forging and engineering prowess, and Dwarven Master Engineers are renowned throughout the Empire.

In almost every territory, there are dwarven master engineers helping their larger friends build municipal projects and develop leadership.

The dwarves who came to the Black Forest also demonstrated unparalleled infrastructure capabilities.

They first helped their fellow tribesmen build a dwarf community in the southeast area of ​​Hesse Town. Under their command, the efficiency of the ogre construction team increased greatly.

Sixty or seventy buildings sprang up in this area at a speed visible to the naked eye. In addition to ordinary dwarf houses, there were also townhouses full of urban style.

These tall, four-story log and stone apartment buildings resembled a faded grand painting, boasting a tall, imposing style and sprawling rooms that could be rented to a large number of freedmen.

In many prosperous territories with large populations within the empire, these types of row houses are home to all kinds of people, and are also the favorite places for sex abuse believers to operate.

But this is also a necessary building for the prosperity of the territory. It can accommodate more people and develop more sects and believers.

Corresponding to these prosperous residences, there are also four or five commercial buildings in the community, including bakeries, cheese rooms, branches of the Dwarf Jewelry Guild, commercial company shops, grocery stores, large warehouses, and so on.

The warehouse here stores hundreds of sets of dwarf star armor, hundreds of pieces of jewelry, and some strange things that the dwarves have excavated from the ruins of lost civilizations.

There were lucky people who found some interesting things there. For example, an official knight bought a [Black Eagle Statue]. This was not a simple statue, but a part of a huge structure of a sacred Titan of Death. It was carved by the dwarves into the appearance of the statue of the god of death in the distant southern desert country of Araby, which could guide the dead people of the kingdom into the underworld.

Dwarves, naturally immune to demonic influence, could not sense the divine power flowing from the statue. However, human knights could sense the divine grace. This official knight, having received a dream from Morr at night, transformed the statue into a shrine and placed it on the path outside the village, successfully transformed himself into a devout Black Knight of Morr, ascending to the elite rank of Black Guard Knight. He gained divine power from Morr, granting corpses blessed by him permanent immunity to necromancy.

This incident made the Dwarven community famous for a while, after all, the death of the Holy Titan itself is a legend. According to the archaeological inferences of Imperial scholars, the existence of the Titan may date back to the creation of this world.

At that time, the Titans were the rulers of this world, and they lived on the Sky Mountain in the World's Edge Mountains, which is where the Ogre Kingdom is today.

Everyone is convinced that the rise of the Ogre Kingdom is due to the fall of the Titans.

During the long War of the Sky, the ogres captured the Titans who were accustomed to living in isolation on the Titan Sky Mountain one after another and ate them alive.

Although the Sky Titans' weapons and magic destroyed a large number of ogres, the number of ogres was still a hundred times that of the Titans, and their numbers would multiply and expand with every peak of the Sky Mountains they conquered.

In the end, the ogres successfully completed the world's first genocide war.

However, some people say that the Titans did not completely fall, and those giants taller than hills are the defective products of the Titans, and are weapons used to fight against ogres.

Regardless of whether this legend is reliable or not, it proves that the Titans were eliminated by the times, because the ogres occupied their land, enslaved their children, and almost ate up all the mammoth livestock they raised.

Now, various legends about the sacred Titan can only be found in buried ancient ruins.

These powerful items, and the occasional powerful magical weapons, are testament to the once glorious history of the Holy Titans.

It also constantly reminds mankind that the crisis of civilization extinction is not far away. If various threats are not properly dealt with, the empire may be completely extinct like the Holy Titans, and become part of the ruins after tens of thousands of years.

In addition to building infrastructure in cities, the dwarves also did not lag behind in castles and rural areas.

The dwarves are most famous for their water conservancy construction capabilities.

In the central area of ​​the empire, there was once an Electorate that had a dispute with the dwarves over water distribution. The dwarf king ordered the construction of a large number of water conservancy facilities on the mountain, which greatly reduced the amount of water downstream. At that time, agriculture in the Electorate's territory was severely damaged.

The Elector was forced to lower his proud head and send his most trusted and powerful high-ranking attendant, the steward, to the mountain to negotiate with the dwarves in a friendly manner, and only then was the problem resolved.

From then on, the people of the empire knew very well that they must not offend these stubborn dwarfs in the mountains.

Of course, the relationship between humans and dwarves is relatively friendly in most cases, and even the mountain dwarves will be kind to human visits.

The dwarves within the empire will do their utmost to help the imperial nobles build water conservancy facilities within their territory.

The first rural municipal building built by the dwarves of Redbeard Castle in the Hessen Territory was the sluice gate in the village of Balan.

From the vast central plains, rising to the Crimson Highlands and Gray Mountains, the Blackwater River passes through many sluices.

The first of these sluices was located in the sleepy village of Baran, the first territory purchased by the old halfling Hartzklin.

Hartskling, like his kind, enjoys a relaxed life of simple pleasures;

She loved nothing more than sitting by her house, smoking her pipe and watching the canal flow by, or tending to her beautiful garden.

Her responsibility is to guard the sluice built by the dwarven engineers, which serves as the first checkpoint for tax collection and surveillance in the territory.

In addition to Hartscliff's modest two-story private cottage, complete with a small watchtower, the upper floor houses her living room, kitchen, and bedroom, in descending order. The lower floor includes a small office, a cozy living room, a storage room, and a shed for tolls.

There is also a sturdy cell where the River Guard can temporarily house prisoners when needed: a feature found in most sluice keeper's houses.

It usually holds slaves who want to escape, smugglers who have sneaked in, and some cultists who may have wandered in.

The construction of this sluice gate has undoubtedly greatly enhanced the territory's defense capabilities and tax collection capabilities.

River trolls, smugglers, and goblin tribes and beastmen wandering outside the territory can no longer easily break into the territory.

(End of this chapter)