thefictionvixens Chapter 131: Plundering by Order
Chapter 131: Plundering by Order
In order to drag Zhang Wei into the water, His Majesty the King showed enough sincerity this time. In addition to appointing Zhang Wei as a herald to go north to Lionheart Castle to convey the king's will, the king also appointed Zhang Wei as the Northern Inspector, responsible for inspecting the northern border of the kingdom.
Although "Northern Inspector" is just a "member", it is a much higher position than "Herald".
For royal heralds, each territory only needs to provide basic services, such as horses, accommodation, other supplies, etc.
However, this non-term inspector of the north meant that Zhang Wei could inspect all the kingdom territories north of the capital on behalf of the king. Although Zhang Wei did not have the power of life and death, he could make up a rumor with his mouth, which was enough to make the local nobles who had never had the chance to see the king for a hundred years drink a pot.
Look, Zhang Wei has just been teleported from the royal capital to the city of Antiphis. The city lord, who had already received the intelligence, has been waiting for him in the teleportation hall with his confidants for a long time.
The city lord could not help but pay attention to it. Antiphis City was actually the fief of the Duke of Lionheart. Logically, the Duke of Lionheart should stay in Antiphis City and should not leave the dukedom without an imperial edict.
If the Northern Empire had not been active and had not frequently sent spies to infiltrate Lionheart Castle and the kingdom, the king would not have sent Duke Lionheart north to the Lionheart family's original self-selected fiefdom.
The day before the Lionheart Duke set off, the Lionheart Knight Henry was summoned by the king to be his attendant. Anyone with a discerning eye knew that he was being kept as a hostage. The other family members of the Lionheart Duke who stayed in Antiphis were also hostages, the only difference was the order in which they were beheaded.
Zhang Wei did not make things too difficult for the city lord. At the welcoming banquet, he still gave the city lord a lot of face and even felt a little bit of pity for the city lord.
The city lord in front of him, who has few hairs left on his head, is actually a professional territory manager. How could the king allow the Lionheart Duke's confidant to sit in the position of city lord? It is already a reward for the king not to arrange his confidant to flatter the Lionheart Duke.
"Sir, my life is so hard. Look at how I looked like before, and look again, it's only been more than two years and I'm already like this." The city lord showed Zhang Wei his magic image. The man in the image was lean and had thick hair.
Now look at the city lord, he has become fatter and has no hair.
The drunken city lord saw Zhang Wei sizing up his body, so he patted his belly and said, "I am overworked and fat. I told you, but few people believed me."
"I believe it, I believe it, let's go!" Zhang Wei toasted with the city lord again.
After the city lord finished drinking, he put his arm around Zhang Wei's neck and said, "My lord, I'm going to make it to the end. There are still 198 days left, and I can leave this damn place. It's too hard to do this."
After the city lord finished speaking, he poured himself some wine and continued drinking.
Zhang Wei waved to the servants beside him, and several servants hurried forward to carry the drunk city lord away.
"Sir, I'm sorry to make you laugh. This is a small gift from us." An old servant walked up to Zhang Wei and presented a palm-sized box with both hands.
"It's okay, I understand." After Zhang Wei took it, the old servant made a gesture, and several beautiful women came forward and surrounded Zhang Wei as they left.
The night was peaceful and silent.
Zhang Wei did not stay in Antiphis for long. He said goodbye and left the next day.
The reason why they left immediately was that they didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble. There were only three dukes in the kingdom. The territory of Duke Longyi was called Dragon City. The territory of Duke Baihu was called Baihu Fortress. On the contrary, the territory of Duke Lionheart was called Antiphis City. Just from the names of the territories, it can be seen how much the king was wary of Duke Lionheart.
It can be said that it was precisely because of the vigilance against the Lionheart Family that the Duke of White Tiger was able to become so powerful, to the point that the Duke of White Tiger even forgot how he became so powerful.
Zhang Wei arrived at Tiprano City riding the warhorse provided by the Lionheart Family. He stayed for three days because of the Earl's kindness. In addition to accepting the Earl's bribe, more importantly, he was about to go to Jinhou Town. Zhang Wei wanted to find out the information about Jinhou Town and Huai'en Town first. He wanted to know how the vampires and goblins were doing in attacking Huai'en Town.
Zhang Wei inquired for three days without leaving any trace but did not get any useful information, so he set off.
The earl did not dare to keep Zhang Wei any longer. After all, Zhang Wei had already given him too much face. The city lord of the duke's territory only kept Zhang Wei for one day, but he, a earl, could keep Zhang Wei for three days. Even if Zhang Wei did not ask to set off, the earl was thinking about how to let Zhang Wei continue his journey without offending him.
With the Earl's farewell, Zhang Wei traveled north all the way to Jinhou Town.
Zhang Wei thought about sneaking into Jinhou Town to gather information, but the warhorse under his crotch was difficult to handle, and he had no alien space to accommodate living things. Moreover, Zhang Wei thought later that if he sneaked in, it might cause panic among Viscount Jinhou, which would be a waste of time.
"You're finally home. We missed you so much." Viscount Jinhou tried to get close to Zhang Wei at the dinner.
These days, Zhang Wei has experienced what it means when you are strong, everyone will greet you with a smile.
After the dinner on the first day, Zhang Wei gladly accepted the maid that Viscount Jin Hou had arranged in advance to sleep with him.
The next night, Zhang Wei specifically asked the female adventurer to come and reminisce the taste of home.
Viscount Jinhou directly sent a few good ones to Zhang Wei. Zhang Wei naturally didn't really want to taste the taste of the female adventurer, but wanted to understand the situation of Huai En Town by asking some questions.
When Zhang Wei learned from a few words that Huai'en Town was still prosperous, he couldn't sleep.
The female adventurers slept soundly because they were very satisfied and physically exhausted, but Zhang Wei was staring at the ceiling in a daze. He was thinking that after such a long time, Zhang Xiaodan and Shen Mudan did not attack Huai'en Town, and there were even no rumors about large monster nests in Jinhou Town. What went wrong?
Did Zhang Xiaodan and Shen Mudan disobey his orders, or did they die before they could accomplish their mission?
This question remained in Zhang Wei's mind until he left the town of Bourne and headed north into the wilderness, when he saw Zhang Xiaodan and Shen Mudan who had been waiting for a long time.
Zhang Xiaodan and Shen Mudan knelt down on one knee the moment they saw Zhang Wei, because they could sense Zhang Wei's dissatisfaction from his face and the aura he exuded.
"What's going on with you?" Zhang Wei questioned them dissatisfiedly, without even letting them stand up to answer.
"Please move aside, my lord." Zhang Xiaodan spoke.
"Okay." Zhang Wei agreed.
a few days later
"Did you build this???" Zhang Wei stood in the base inside the mountain, looking at the base that was still expanding underground, with a look of surprise on his face.
"Yes, my lord. When we realized that after we captured the town of Huai'en, we would most likely face a siege and would not be able to defend it, in order to fulfill the lord's words of capturing Huai'en Town and turning it into a base, we used the ghouls transformed from the dungeon to transform the mountain where the portal is located."
After Zhang Xiaodan took Zhang Wei to visit the base inside the mountain, he led Zhang Wei to the combat meeting room where a large map of the kingdom was hung on the wall.
Zhang Xiaodan first pointed at the town of Huai'en with a thin wooden stick, and then said: "To the east of Huai'en is the town of Bourne, and to the west is the city of Newt. Both of them are baronies, and their forces are relatively weak, so there is no need to worry too much. Jinhou Town in the south and Sahel City in the southwest are viscounts and earls, respectively, and are considered strong enemies. What really worries us is the Corno Fortress south of Sahel City, which is a direct territory of the royal family and has a large number of troops."
"Moreover," Shen Mudan stepped forward and picked up another thin wooden stick, pointing it at the Lionheart Fort in the north of Huai En Town. She added, "If the army of the Corno Fortress is a powerful threat, then the cavalry of the Lionheart Fort is a disaster for Huai En Town. To the north of Huai En Town, Bourne Town and Newt City are all flat wastelands. These three towns do not have city walls and cannot resist the army of the Lionheart Fort heading south."
Zhang Wei was silent. The reason he was silent was that he realized that it was not Zhang Xiaodan and Shen Mudan's fault that they did not attack Huai'en Town, but that there was a problem when he gave the order.
Zhang Wei actually just wanted them to slaughter Huai En Town. He didn't expect them to establish a permanent base in Huai En Town. Now that the vampires and goblins have accumulated such great strength because he didn't express it clearly, it really exceeded his original idea.
"You rely on the dungeon to gather all these troops? How do you solve the problem of breeding ground? Just by capturing adventurers? There are no female monsters in the dungeon." Zhang Wei wanted to know how Zhang Xiaodan and Shen Mudan came up with so many zombies and goblins.
"Most of the ghouls were brought out from the dungeon. During this period, we have also been improving the level and strength of the vampires. I have passed the trial and become a vampire marquis. Zhang Shanshan and Zhang Lili have also become vampire earls. In addition, there are 3 earls, 3 viscounts and 6 barons."
"Such a huge loss?" Zhang Wei frowned slightly.
Zhang Xiaodan smiled bitterly and said, "We can't help it. As you know, the trial for vampires to advance is that only one out of three survives. We have also considered that the number of people is very small now, so we have suspended the trials that meet the conditions. We will start new trials after more vampires pledge allegiance to you."
"Okay, I'll take care of the conversion of vampires. You'll be responsible for the recruitment." Zhang Wei can now use the skills of the Vampire Pseudo-Emperor to transform intelligent creatures into vampire nobles, but the minimum level of intelligent creatures must be at least level 7. Level 7 intelligent creatures are not so easy to deal with under the current world level suppression.
不算冒险者，完全卡死等级吃公粮的王国官方数据，7级战力的人员936人、8级战力的人员468人、9级战力则是被召唤的4个勇者。
From this, it can be seen that Zhang Wei has very few targets to choose from. Unless one day, he can see through the level of adventurers, the base number will increase...