Chapter 39 Purchase of Supplies
"This is a sample of the Rosa longbow. Please take a look."

In the Jianling Chamber of Commerce located in the fortress, the president in charge said with a smile.

Behind him, the merchant Adrich quickly handed over a bow and placed it in front of Rhodes.

Rhodes took it and observed it carefully.

This Rosa longbow is 1.8 meters long, and is even taller than his head when erected.

The bow is made of yew wood, which is hard and flexible.

This is the special wood for the Rosa longbow, which is mainly grown in the central territory and is difficult to obtain in other places.

Rhodes tried to pull the bowstring and found that it would take at least one hundred and fifty pounds of force to pull it open.

The full string even reaches an astonishing two hundred pounds.

He released the bowstring and nodded as the air around him vibrated.

Under the recoil of potential energy, the bow arm remains intact and strong, demonstrating the superiority of the material.

"Great longbow, this is the one I'll choose."

Watching Adrich turn around and go back to prepare, Rhodes sat back on the sofa in the Chamber of Commerce and sorted out the shopping list.

After Knight Loren swore allegiance, he had an instructor to teach the soldiers archery, so he began to prepare the construction of the archer army.

First you need to determine the type of bow you are using.

Rhodes chose the most famous Rosa longbow of the Rosa Kingdom, a weapon famous for its length far exceeding bows and arrows of other countries.

Compared with the short bows in western countries, which are generally just over four feet long, or about 1.2 meters.

The thick and long yew limbs of the Rosa longbow provide greater pulling force, making the arrows it shoots have amazing power.

It can easily penetrate chain mail and other armor within 300 meters.

Just looking at the data on paper, it is extremely shocking.

But in actual combat in the kingdom, the effect was actually average. After all, a bow and arrow weighing about fifty pounds was enough to achieve a certain armor-piercing effect.

Too much power means higher training costs, slower shooting speed, and it can easily become useless if you're not careful.

Moreover, with the widespread use of tendon-horn composite bows, the only power advantage of the Rosa longbow is gradually being equalized.

But Rhodes still chose it.

His next opponent is the barbarian army.

Especially those extraordinary soldiers, take the wolf cavalry as an example, the skin of the iron-backed black wolves under them is not weaker than iron armor.

If paired with special wolf rider armor, ordinary bows and arrows will have no blocking effect at all.

When facing this type of enemy, arrow power is more important than firing rate.

As the Kingdom of Rosa is adjacent to the East China Sea, under the influence of the marine climate, many areas have heavy rainfall and a humid climate.

The special material of the tendon-horn composite bow makes it difficult to preserve and maintain in a humid environment and it can easily break down.

The Rosa longbow is different. This unique weapon appeared in the kingdom hundreds of years ago and has now formed a mature industrial supply chain.

Not only is there perfect battle formation coordination, but the price of bows and arrows is also lower.

Rhodes could replenish his bows and arrows at any time in the Broken Dragon Fortress.

"One hundred Rosa longbows, each priced at 15 silver coins, and two thousand arrows, each priced at 80 copper coins." He began to record on the list, "Total cost is 31 gold coins."

In addition, shield spearmen also need equipment replenishment, Rhodes thought.

He planned to expand the army into a regular force of one hundred shield and spear soldiers, equipped with a full set of chain mail and steel shields and spears.

And two hundred shield and spear militiamen, equipped with leather armor and wooden shields and spears, serve as reserve troops and are responsible for maintaining order in the territory.

To do this, he needed to purchase fifty sets of steel shields and spears, and one hundred and fifty sets of leather armor with wooden shields and spears on top of the original ones.

The total price of these equipment is 35 gold coins.

In addition to weapons, Rhode also needed to add ten war horses to make up for the casualties of war horses in the battle with the barbarians and ensure the cavalry system of the knights' entourage.

He also planned to buy fifty mane horses.

As draft horses, they can do well as porters during construction.

As for the ranch, Rhodes initially planned to buy 200 cashmere sheep and 20 black yaks.

There are not many of them, and they are mainly used to accumulate initial experience for the ranch.

"Warhorses are cheaper than Jianling, each priced at 2 gold coins, mane horses at 20 silver coins, cashmere sheep at 2 silver coins, and black yaks at 12 silver coins. The total price is 36 gold and 40 silver coins."

After adding up all the above-mentioned weapons, equipment, mounts and livestock, the total price is 102 gold and 40 silver.

After finishing the calculation, Rod put down his notes with a headache and leaned his head against the soft sofa to relax.

After leaving the food and weapons and equipment in Mansaru Castle and selling other treasures, he now has a little over 110 gold coins in his hands.

The food reserves exceed 200,000 pounds, enough for more than 2,000 people for more than a month, so there is no need to worry for the time being.

It seems that the money is enough.

But Rhodes' next territory expansion plan will also require a large amount of gold coins.

Various construction tools such as axes and shovels, thick cotton clothes for the upcoming winter, salary payments for employees, etc., all of these cost money.

Fortunately, the president of Jianling Chamber of Commerce offered him preferential treatment.

Rhodes could delay part of the payment and save 50 gold coins for next month.

It is equivalent to lending him 50 gold coins without interest, with a repayment period of one month.

After buying the supplies, Rhodes had about 58 gold coins left.

The more money he had, the less he could spend it. Rhodes realized the problem while having a headache.

All the gold coins he had obtained so far were one-time transactions.

We have to find a way to continuously increase the territory's income.
Fortunately, he actually already had an idea.

The magic fields cannot be harvested for the time being, and the ranch has not yet started construction.

But at this moment, there is actually a popular product in his territory that can be produced in large quantities.

Masonry!

The development of the knights' territories requires a large amount of building materials, especially castles and walls.

This is directly related to their future life and death, and no one will fool them with simple mud and gravel.

The difficulty in transporting bricks and stones has caused prices to continue to rise. Now in the fortress, an ordinary clay brick costs one copper coin.

Previously in Pingdingshan, villagers could produce 30,000 clay bricks every day.

If converted into money, it is equivalent to producing 3 gold coins per day.

The price of bricks and stones will slowly drop as the construction of the Knights' territory progresses, so Rhodes must seize this opportunity.

But this also brings a problem. Making clay bricks requires Rhodes to continuously manufacture alchemical binders.

This would seriously waste his time and consume the soil in the magic field. When the number increases, it will be too heavy a burden.

In order to solve this problem, Rhodes had been observing the surrounding ecological conditions and looking for various materials while leading his soldiers to clean up the area around the foot of the mountain for the past half month.

Now, the initial preparations for the experiment have been completed.

As long as he comes back from the Northern Remnant in the Star Spirit Heaven next time, he will be able to be promoted to a first-level intermediate wizard.

At that time, the wizard's ability will be further enhanced.

Rhodes now has new means to promote the growth of magic plants in the magic field and better study the evolution of the pasture.

At the same time, it also has the ability to manufacture the marble and granite bricks that he has always dreamed of, and realize the automated manufacturing of clay bricks.

(End of this chapter)