Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 503: Chapter 6: Bauhinia Holy Flame Foundry and the Territory’s New Specialty (2)

Even if Hesse Territory received an additional 100,000 Golden Crowns, it couldn’t completely recover its population in just a few months.

Therefore, Oliver decided to dispatch the Black Steel Redemption Knight Order to assist the Green Dragon in stabilizing this vast forest area.

The Black Steel Redemption Knight Order is another project invested by Oliver, funded by the territory to form a private army. Personnel comprised of elite knights from the Forest Robber Gang, wandering knights who had been stripped of their estates by the Empire, and knights from the territory who had committed crimes or deserted in battle.

These men were essentially those Su Li deemed undesirable, like knights from the bandit group in the Blood Pine Forest. Apprentice Knights and Knights were sold to slave traders by Su Li, though he couldn’t bring himself to sell Elite Knights but also didn’t want to reorganize and expand the army, so he simply handed them over to this Redemption Knight Order.

Its position is somewhat similar to the Free People’s Corps and Mercenary Corps, which sell military services to other nobles and merchant groups through War Merit Certificates.

Many of them originally faced execution, especially during the decisive battle when the army in the west of the city was defeated, which was a serious violation of the Territory’s Order No. 227.

However, killing so many knights at once wasn’t in Su Li’s interest, so he gave them a chance for redemption.

No personnel in this Knight Order receive a salary from Su Li; they are self-sufficient. But 60% of the profits must be handed over to the Provincial Affairs Council.

The leader of this Black Steel Redemption Knight Order was none other than Su Li’s recent favorite, Handsome Gilles, who was also the last owner of the territory’s three tiger-striped griffins. He named the griffin Tiger Soul Calamity Stripes.

His talent truly matched Su Li’s appreciation for him. In about a month, he successfully built up the structure of this Knight Order, centering around 17 elite knights, 35 knights, and 46 apprentice knights, along with a group of ambitious bandits, gamblers, adventurers, and mercenaries as armed attendants, making the total number of knights and attendants over 260.

During the first month, they trained continuously in the Mirror Swamp in the south of the territory, where the muddy terrain effectively prevented anyone from escaping, thereby initially consolidating military intent.

The gamblers and mercenaries in the team owed a lot of debts, some owed gambling debts, others owed brothel fees, and the ones operating these establishments were none other than unscrupulous individuals; in fact, many brothels were part-owned by Su Li, with various stewards being as fierce as wolves and tigers. The debts they lent out were high-interest loans, and anyone who dared not repay faced enforcers and debt collectors from the Red Brotherhood.

If debtors were caught not paying overdue debts, they weren’t shy about removing the debtor’s organs to sell to alchemists and pharmacists.

The Hendricks Sect specialized in such activities, resembling the combination of Eastern Zhongzheng Family and Western Political Broker. They worked as intermediaries to achieve many things for the territory, such as recruiting refugees and reorganizing the nomads from Evil Land, which are their specialties.

Their actions were imbued with the dark and brutal colors of this world.

So, confronted with these thugs, the debt-ridden desperados sought every means to collect funds.

After receiving the first mission, they decisively entered the forest to begin selling military services to the Green Dragon.

Moreover, this military service fee was indeed not cheap, with a rate of one Dwarf Oath Gold per day, equating to at least 10 Gold Crowns daily. This already matched the price offered by the Fallen Wolf Mercenary Corps to Su Li.

Su Li insisted they earn Dwarf Oath Gold from the Green Dragon entirely for the most important investment of the territory!

Bauhinia Holy Flame Foundry!

This was the lucrative result after Su Li spent a large sum to purchase shares from the Gray Mountain Dwarves’ Firearms Guild.

Everyone knows that no matter how stubborn the dwarves are, they cannot refuse any request made by someone holding Dwarf Oath Gold.

Theoretically, if Su Li had enough Dwarf Oath Gold, a few tens of thousands or tens of thousands, he could bring this Dwarf Oath Gold to the Dwarf City and demand them to legally merge, becoming a subsidiary of the Bauhinia family.

If he had sufficient funds, he could buy up the towns in Gray Mountain Province one after another.

Of course, Su Li didn’t have that much money, so Oliver, after careful consideration, sent the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hartskline, with all the Dwarf Oath Gold captured in this battle to Gray Mountain, with an irrefutable attitude to buy 0.5% shares of the Dwarves’ Gray Mountain Firearms Guild.

Then relying on this reasonable declaration about shares, the Provincial Affairs Council invested in the Hesse Town Firearms Guild, enabling the dwarves to build a Bauhinia Holy Flame Foundry in Heisen City.

The Holy Flame refers to gunpowder, something unique to the dwarves’ racial talent, and hence this is essentially a Dwarf Cannon Factory in Hesse Territory.

Currently, the skill level of workers in this factory is quite low, at best elite level, with no Master of Cannon Casting to produce cannons.

A month has passed, and the inside has managed to pieced together and manufacture one cannon through scrounging and trade by a dozen dwarves.

Although a cannon is not as advanced as a cannon, it is a very reliable basic firearm. Initially designed for launching hollow explosive shells, the short-barreled heavy weapon, when cannon solid munitions only hit a few unlucky ones, the cannon shell could explode upon hitting enemy troops, releasing a large amount of sharp metal shards to rip through those unfortunate enemies.