Sarlin had told Ainphent a little about his master, but even so, Ainphent was shocked by Sarlin's background. He couldn't help but admire his parents' foresight. After all, the Filets had bet everything on Sarlin.
The happiest ones were, of course, Guya and the others. As women, although their status in Qin Yin was higher than in other empires, their future was only to obtain a reasonable position in the family. It would be difficult for them to become clan leaders, let alone inherit the title of Earl.
Assisting Sarlin was originally for business benefits. Now, it seemed that not only could they earn money, but they also had the chance to inherit the title of Earl.
Sarlin sighed. The construction of the demon city was almost halfway done. In half a year at most, the city would be completely built. In another year, he would be able to summon about ten thousand demons. In other words, when the mages from Seriger Island arrived, he would already be able to build a demon army.
With this demon army, he wouldn't need to have so many mages in his army. He could let more mages stay in Metatlin City to carry out construction. In other words, after this year and a half, he wouldn't need to worry too much about the defense of Metatlin City.
This time, his teacher would bring many warships, sailors, and swordsmen. Whether it was on land or sea, the winged skeletons and the three monarchs could make up for all the weaknesses.
These nobles wouldn't need to keep too many private soldiers in Metatlin City.
"Everyone, the Metatlin Kingdom needs to expand its territory. However, we are allies with the Bitter Water Prefecture, so it isn't appropriate for us to attack Phoenix. Therefore, I will target the Rhine Duchy."
"The four dukes can have one thousand private soldiers and thirty thousand soldiers. The twelve Earls can have six hundred private soldiers and ten thousand soldiers. Each private soldier can be accompanied by three auxiliary soldiers. I can provide the equipment for the regular army you lead at cost price. I will set up a joint bank with Rex. Everyone will have the right to get a first-class loan. "
Everyone heaved a sigh of relief when Sarlin mentioned the issue of the army. Usually, at the beginning of a country, it was very difficult for lower-level nobles to have private soldiers or armies. Sarlin obviously didn't have the military power to control these people. Although the number of private soldiers was reduced, the authority to lead them was increased.
Moreover, Sarlin gave them preferential treatment for purchasing equipment and loans. This was equivalent to saying that Salin was using practical actions to support the expansion of these nobles' power.
With a loan, he would be able to hire more soldiers, and the better parts of the land that he conquered might be awarded to him.
"Duke Rex has returned to his country. There are only about ten thousand soldiers defending West Town. They had sufficient numbers, but the army of the Church would probably reach the west of Metatlin City in at most two months' time. I have already sent troops to stop them. At most, they will only be able to cause some casualties to the Vatican's expeditionary army. I estimate that there will still be about a hundred thousand troops attacking. In two months' time, everyone can recruit soldiers to stop the army of the Church at West Town. "
"Sir, we don't have enough money!" The first earl on the right said.
"After garrisoning ten thousand soldiers in West Town, it can only accommodate forty thousand soldiers at most. Each of you can form an army of three thousand men. With the ten-story Magic Tower, the pressure on the defense was not great. Unless the army of the Church splits up, you can defend the West Town, and you don't have to come out of the city to fight. "
Everyone thought about it carefully, and it was indeed so. The scale of West Town was not large, and it could be garrisoned with fifty thousand soldiers and twenty thousand logisticians. There were no residents at all. In terms of defense, it was much simpler, and there was no need to worry about the safety of the residents. In addition, the Magic Tower that Salin wanted to build had two level nine Spellcasters overseeing it. The enemy could only attack from the west. It was too easy for fifty thousand people to defend a city wall that was only a mile wide.
As long as the enemy did not have large equipment like the War Puppets, there would not be too many casualties defending West Town.
Although it would cost them money to defend West Town for Salin, this was the first military achievement since the founding of the country. Whether they could become higher-ranking nobles in the future would depend on their performance this time.
When these nobles had arrived at Metatlin City, they had private soldiers of varying numbers. Each of them had at least three to five hundred men. It was not difficult to expand. After this battle, almost everyone would be able to select decent talents from the army to become their private soldiers.
In reality, Salin had let them participate in the battle this time to let these nobles begin to expand their strength. Salin could not spend his own money to expand their army for them.
After explaining the requirements of the loan in detail, Salin easily settled these nobles. The twelve counts went to prepare for the recruitment, while the four dukes stayed behind.
Guya and the others were different from these counts. Her family had not encountered any trouble. These young people were just dissatisfied with the rigid rules of the ancient family and wanted to stand out for themselves. These young people were far richer than the twelve counts, and the number of people and resources they brought was also tremendous.
Guya and the others even had great Spellcasters and quasi-swordmasters by their side. Now that they had been appointed and received new family emblems, it was equivalent to becoming independent from their families. The titles Salin had prepared for them were third-rank dukes, which had already surpassed the titles of the most powerful people in their families.
This meant that their original families could not absorb them again. They were already dukes. When they returned, would they be made heads of their families? If there was such a possibility, Guya and the others would not want to leave their families.
Of course, the price of leaving their families was not small, but with a place like Metatlin for them to develop, these losses were nothing. Moreover, the four families could not solve this problem with violence.
Salin was not afraid of offending the four families now, because Metatlin's magic cores and metal resources were enough for him to trade with any place on the continent. He did not need to consider the four families' feelings.
Salin also knew that the twelve counts were short on funds, but Guya and the others were very rich. After completely breaking off relations with their families, including Ainphent, they all transferred all the funds they could use to Metatlin City. Salin asked them to stay because he wanted to discuss the investment of the arena.
Guya and the others were all women, including Elaine, and they all expressed great interest in the arena.
Salin had already completed the construction of the infrastructure, and the largest part of the remaining investment was the establishment of the gambling house. Qin Yin's attitude towards gambling was very strict. This kind of open gambling organized by the nobles only existed in the Fourth Dynasty. But that was also when the Fourth Dynasty had begun.
In the end, this problem that Salin thought was very simple was discussed all the way into the night without any results. It was not that Salin did not want to take everything for himself, but he needed support for such a method that was seriously out of line with Qin Yin's views. Fortunately, the matter of the arena was settled in the afternoon, and all that was left was the problem of the gambling house.
Unexpectedly, during dinner, Eileen, who had been cultivating behind closed doors, gave Salin a solution.
What Salin wanted was to earn more money through the competition in the arena, not to lose money doing something like this. Eileen said bluntly, "You can sell tickets, just like the theaters in the Cloud Flow Empire. You only need to spend a few silver coins to enjoy an arena match. "
Silver coins? Salin was stunned for a moment. The largest arena had tens of thousands of seats. If each seat was sold for two silver coins, and all of them were sold in one match, it would be close to a hundred thousand silver coins. That would be a few thousand gold coins.
It did not seem as good as hunting magical beasts in the sea, but the sale of magic cores was limited by the size of the market. The more you sold, the lower the price.
But would the people of Metatlin accept the price of two silver coins? That was too high! The people here worked hard and could earn more than ten gold coins a year, but they only earned one gold coin a month. Taking out a fifth of a month's wealth to buy tickets was a little extravagant.
Eileen said, "The largest arena has a total of fifty thousand seats. If each seat is sold for two silver coins, that's a hundred thousand silver coins, which is equivalent to ten thousand gold coins. Of course, that's too expensive. But everyone's tickets can be used as a betting chip. When buying, you can make predictions about the match. If all predictions are correct, you can get a gold coin or more as a reward. "
"Then you'll have to pay!" Shika could not figure out the trick here and immediately objected.
"How is that possible?" Salin laughed. He immediately heard the key point here. This was also a standard question in Figaro's magic formula. When a magic sequence had two possibilities, either result would have a fifty percent accuracy rate. This was the hardest part of Figaro's magic formula to determine, and was known as uncertain magic.
It seemed that the first choice had a fifty percent chance of being correct, and the second choice still had a fifty percent chance. In reality, the second choice had a less than twenty-five percent chance. The more times you guessed, the faster the rate of reduction.
Even if Salin did not control the results of the match, it was still quite difficult to predict all the matches accurately. It would be a miracle if there were a few hundred lucky ones among the fifty thousand people.
Ordinary people would not understand this principle. Only Mages who had strictly studied the formula would be able to see the knack in it.
"Two silver coins can also include a meal, tea, and so on. Most people see the prize money, not the price of the tickets, "Nania said.
"No, I'll only sell it for one silver coin … No, fifty copper coins!" Salin quickly analyzed the profit in this. According to the original plan, he would only arrange one arena match every week to prevent the city people from spending too much. But with only fifty copper coins for the tickets, he could arrange matches every day, and every match would be full.
Fifty copper coins per seat would be two and a half million copper coins for the tickets. Converted to gold coins, divided by a thousand, it would be an income of more than two thousand gold coins. Half of it as the prize money was extremely tempting to the audience.
In that case, he would also have a thousand gold coins a day. In a year, he would earn hundreds of thousands of gold coins just from the tickets for one arena.
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