Chapter 753: Subsidies
"This time the royal family will distribute some war resources for free. If you buy weapons and equipment from me, I will also provide some subsidies, which will be about 20%. If... you really have no money..."
When Xia He said this, everyone laughed. Even the little nobles were not that poor even if they could cross the sea.
"Of course, if you have money, you can also borrow interest-free loans from me until the end of the war. The loan amount is 20% of the cost of purchasing equipment from me. That is to say, you can buy weapons and equipment from me at 40% of the usual purchase price. Of course, there is a limit for purchasing weapons and equipment from me, but I guess it is enough for everyone to use."
After hearing the news, the nobles were naturally very satisfied.
The purchase price of 40% plus 20% of the loan will be paid after the war is over, with no interest.
Of course, no one knows that Xia He has received the subsidy, so he sent more than 300,000 people. The entire northern theater command only has more than one million troops.
The imperial heavy troops gathered in the south, mainly because the demons in the northern theatre were a little weaker.
"If you buy equipment, you can go to Cotton Jack after the meeting is over. Now let me tell you how our army arranges its itinerary."
Xia He began to give guidance on the map and arrange combat methods.
The nobles listened more seriously. The talents brought more than a thousand people, all of whom were elites in the family, so they naturally did not dare to neglect them. With so many nobles, the number of castles to be built is also amazing. The river is curved, and along the river, the Xia River is built a castle every fifty miles.
The castles are big and small, and the troops are not evenly distributed. There is probably one slightly larger in every five castles.
"Of course I will do the construction of the castle. I applied for subsidies for this part, about 50% of the remaining 50% and everyone will pay for the remaining 50% by themselves. Don't you have any objections?"
There is still no objection to building a castle and requiring a magician to dispatch it, this part cannot be discounted.
You told the magician that there was a discount? That would be the same as when you were lying on the hospital bed and you were about to have surgery. You told the doctor, can you cut the cut less? 60% off?
Not only that, everyone is also very grateful to Xia He and thinks that Xia He can be the commander of the northern nobles.
Because Xia He can apply for subsidies, up to 50% of them!
The royal family undertakes the most dangerous task, attacking the demon world channel, but it is also the task with the highest reward. Everyone lacks strength, so of course they cannot compete with the royal family for the benefit. Therefore, subsidies to the nobles responsible for the periphery defense are also what the royal family should do. After all, fighting against the demons on the periphery does not have much benefit.
It is almost inevitable to lose troops and lose generals. Now there are more robots, so isn’t robots money?
Robots are not cheap at all. The only benefit is that they have a high recycling rate and no pensions are needed.
The robot is cheap, that's for Xia He. The price he sells to the outside is similar to that of the royal family. He dare not reduce the price too much. So what else can the royal family make?
The nine colleges have also launched robot warriors, and everyone's prices are very close, and they deliberately staggered some tiny functions.
Of course, Xia He refused to pay for money by himself and applied for subsidies. The royal family was originally willing to give only 20% of the money. Xia He said that building a small fortress would be more likely to miss the enemy. He built such a dense construction, not a single-layer defense line, and the cost was several times more.
Xia He dared to say this directly, and the royal family had no choice but to agree to his 50% subsidy request.
Xia He didn't expect to make much money in the Demon Realm. He had already made money from the Demon Worm. The nobles on the West Coast would be a problem to deal with the Demon Worm after killing the Demon Worm. Xia He charged a certain fee to deal with the Demon Worm for everyone in the Tower of Tongtian.
Later, he no longer needed to collect corpses in person, and a large number of demon insects were sent to the Tower of Heaven every day.
If not dealt with, these demon insect corpses pollute the environment particularly severely and consume a lot of mage resources. If this is not the case, Xia He would not have been able to refine the origin of the soul so much, enough for the Taiyin Immortal Palace to advance and integrate into the goblin world.
Now it is not called the Goblin World, but it is directly named the Taiyin Realm by Xiahe.
Attacking the Demon Realm is a dedication for all nobles. They consume their own strength and seek living space for this world.
In Xia He's view, there are not many advantages to the system, aristocrats, etc. in this world.
The nobles of the Arcane Empire still have some principles, and being willing to sacrifice is already a rare quality in ordinary civilization.
After distributing the tasks, it is the time for Xiahe to sell products.
He opened a semi-plane passage in the Tower of Heaven and released the piles of materials, and the nobles paid for it. With the purchase limit, the nobles still had a little regret. After all, this time it was a big price cut, and there would be no such good opportunity next time.
Plato and the Duke of Hesse are both very powerful, and Xia He is also polite to them.
In particular, we discussed with the two people the time to advance, the deployment of troops, etc. The royal family prepared for May before the order for the general attack was issued.
Xia He and the army led by the two dukes attacked the Demon Realm with all their might.
The new purification cannon was advanced in an instant, and in one day, the Xia River opened the 300-mile magic domain. The castle began to be built along the way, one every fifty miles, and there were mechanical fortresses between the castles. There were no human soldiers added, only some robot warriors were left to guard.
The core of the castle is that Xia He people personally set up magic circles for overall defense and building magic nets. As for the outer wall, the mages used local materials to turn mud into stone, petrochemical techniques, constant techniques and other magic to build the tall hexagram castles one by one.
The core of these castles was designed by Xia He himself. Although the nobles paid for it, the real control was still in Xia He's hands.
In the end, everyone will divide the cake.
If you don’t pay for money and you sit in the empire, you won’t get anything.
Xia He arranged purification methods in the magic circle. In the purification methods, the Taoist sect technology was hidden, absorbing the power of the earth, and constantly strengthening the castle body.
Integrating the power of the nobles is something that must be done in the future. Xiahe plans to plan ahead and first make plans in the New World.
The emperor must have known Xia He's idea, and he did not stop it. In the eyes of the nobles, the royal family still favored the Xia family very much.
Xia He had no experience in fighting in the large army, but had training. This time he dispatched the chariot battalion and the flight battalion, and no legends appeared among the demons, so he crushed them all the way.
In other worlds, demons are almost always invincible, but when they encounter legions in the main world, they are used to repeatedly hitting nails.
After exploring the Demon Realm for 300 miles, Xiahe was the first large castle, and Xiahe was given to the family management of Claude's family. Claude himself was the commander of the legion and had broken away from the family, but Xiahe was still very caring for it. This castle can accommodate tens of thousands of people. The Claude family only took out one thousand troops, and Xiahe added two additional battalions.
Xia He took good care of the nobles who defected to him. In addition to having to work hard, his logistics and assistance were in place.
The most fear of lack of logistics in wars, the most fear of not having support. When other nobles from the Northern Theater Command saw it, they were envious.
However, the other two dukes were also good to the nobles they were under. Plato and Hesse were probably not as technically as Xia He, but they were definitely rich and had their own worlds.
Moreover, they have occupied thousands of years and tens of thousands of years, and the amount of accumulated wealth has been amazing.
The Hexagram Castle has no level division, and the core areas are the same, with different sizes of the outer periphery. It can expand exponentially with a Hexagram building structure as the core.
In the area of 300 miles, after Xiahe entered, there were not so many castles, and many troops camped on the deserted land. Airships and warships were patrolling the air, and they did not dare to slacken at all.
Although the flying demons are afraid of human legends and flying weapons, they will pounce on them if they have any negligence.
In the north, in the temporary fortress, a small team of human soldiers were curled up in narrow fortifications, with at least two soldiers wearing helmets and observing the news in the goggles. There were only five people who had to take turns to rest.
One hundred mechanical soldiers and ten mechanical components are responsible for the defense outside.
"When is it?" the armored soldier asked in his sleeping bag, yawning.
The well-dressed warrior glanced at the magic clock on the goggles and said, "It's evening, twenty-one."
"I'll sleep for a while and wake up in the early morning. You're alert. If anything happens, William will be responsible."
"You go to bed, I'll stare." William is the precise shooter in the team.
Armored soldiers seal the sleeping bag, separate the sound, and quickly fall into deep sleep. These sleeping bags used by individual soldiers are also magic products, which can allow soldiers to fall asleep quickly and get better rest space. There is good support under the sleeping bag, so it doesn't matter if it is thrown in the mud, and it can even float on the mud and will not sink.
Along the way, this team was responsible for commanding armored soldiers and had to receive orders from above, and was mentally exhausted.
And he also commanded all the mechanical structures.
"Big William, do you think we can go back alive this time?" A warrior asked, holding his magic musket.
"God knows, it doesn't matter if you can't go back, just don't be demonized. I heard that our badges have the ability to collect and purify souls, what are you afraid of?"
"Well, I'm also afraid of being demonized. Damn demons!"
"Big William, there are monsters approaching."
"Let's see." William Big put on his helmet, pushed on his goggles, and began to view the scenes passed by the mechanics soldiers.
I saw thousands of monsters slowly approaching the sandy earth in the distance. They looked not very big, like the shape of a crocodile, with short and thick legs, no scales on their bodies, but bumpy meat balls.
"It's so disgusting, but it's not dangerous. It's less than level 5 things. Our post is too far ahead and you will encounter wandering monsters."
"William, do you want to be a supporter?" asked a war soldier.
The accurate archer scanned and found a six-pointed airship nearby, so he communicated with the airship. When the airship heard the report from the ground, it lowered its height and saw thousands of demons moving forward on the earth.
More than six thousand!
Chapter completed!