Summoning Total War - Chapter 44

Chapter 44: Blacksmith Shop (Part 2)

Murphy immediately announced this appointment in order to obtain this type of centaur longbow as soon as possible.

Pulith became the clerk of the town of Athens and would handle most affairs outside of the port. At the same time, Murphy mobilized 15,000 silver coins from the treasury and transferred it to him. Also, at the same time, he sent General Rio Darley and two Greek infantries that numbered 160 soldiers to cross the Barren Highlands with him and go to the centaur tribe to trade!

For an aboriginal, this was considered a rather high honor.

It could be said that because Pulith offered the centaur’s longbow to Murphy, he had suddenly become the next aboriginal in town with status behind Lady Elizabeth.

As for the affairs of the inner city, Murphy didn’t intend to let anyone intervene.

The inner city was the foundation of his legacy, and he had to firmly hold onto it with his own hands.

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Centaur longbows were very valuable, and 15,000 silver coins wouldn’t be enough to buy more than one hundred longbows. If anyone were to give a value for the longbow, then gold would have to be used to calculate it!

In fact, when Murphy promised to confer a thousand acres of fertile land to Pulith, he had implied that the remaining cost for the longbows would have to be paid by Pulith.

Working with smart people always saved a lot of trouble.

As a qualified slave trader, Pulith definitely had something to learn through observation and contemplation.

So, when Murphy promised to reward him with a thousand acres of fertile land, Pulith immediately said that His Excellency could take part of his money!

As a merchant who had been in the business of slave-trading for more than a decade, Pulith still had a little money.

A smart merchant should know that the greater the investment, the greater the rewards!

The more he invested in Murphy, the greater the gains he could get after Murphy rose to prominence. Just in this regard, the most successful person in Chinese history was a merchant named Lu Buwei. Of course, Pulith didn’t have that ability, and Murphy would never allow such a person to be born. If Pulith so much as showed a bit more ambition than what he should have, then perhaps his body would be laying in the loess by the next day…

Murphy would never be soft-hearted when it came to a threat to his life!

Everything was organized in an orderly manner.

The next day, General Rio Darley set out with Pulith.

Murphy mobilized two Greek infantries in order to prevent the two from being attacked by other creatures on the road.

He wasn’t one to put all his eggs in one basket, so after General Rio Darley set off, Murphy even gave the centaur longbow to the best craftsman in town and asked him to study it and come up with an imitation.

If you couldn’t buy a longbow from the hands of a centaur, then as long as your own territory could produce successful imitations of it, it was as good as the same thing.

Archers!

They were definitely urgently needed for the territory’s development.

A keen sense of the bigger picture made Murphy realize that this so-called peace was actually a sign of the calm before the storm! Because the information he collected from Lady Elizabeth during this period of time showed that in addition to the more advanced gnolls, who had instituted a tribal system, the orcs that were expelled by the Behemoth tribes in the Loess Plateau in the southern plains were also ready to make their move!

They seemed to want to take the fertile land that had been occupied by the humans!

Compared to gnolls, these orcs weren’t of some low civilization. They were definitely intelligent creatures that would be hard to deal with!

This was an era that was unfolding on a grand scale, and it was also a turbulent time.

Not just for the humans! Almost all the races were facing challenges!

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“Ding! Blacksmith has been established! Importing data! Importing bronze crafting processing data, importing iron smelting research and development data… Import progress 10%, 20%, 30%…”

Murphy couldn’t help but be shocked when the sound of the auxiliary system sounded in his ears.

The blacksmith had been established?

Murphy closed his eyes and called up the statistics of the auxiliary system in his mind.

Blacksmith: The blacksmith shop provides high-quality weapons for the warriors in the town. The blacksmiths here have superb smelting and forging skills, far more than ordinary blacksmiths, who build agricultural tools. They are important members of society because good weapons are always favorable to warriors. These blacksmiths who make weapons well-suited to the battlefield or make swords with curved blades are a valuable asset to the people! (Light weapons +1, Heavy weapons +1)

The weapon upgrade had already been recognized by the auxiliary system?

Murphy was very happy. It seemed that he could now arrange for all a soldier’s equipment to be made in town. In the era of cold weapons, the quality of weapons was absolutely the foremost priority, and could even directly affect the outcome of the battle! There was no room for Murphy to ignore it.

Murphy’s eyes scanned over the statistics. Suddenly, he found a new row of data under the blacksmith shop.

Bronze Craftsmanship: This is the highest achievement of bronze smelting and forging craftsmanship in B.C.! Although this era has iron tools, bronze weapons are still the most basic. With the support of the top bronze craftsmanship, the quality of these bronze weapons is far better than the iron tools in this era! However, bronze smelting has some drawbacks. That is, copper mines are much rarer than iron mines. Before human civilization had completely entered the iron age, bronze was still indispensable and mainstream! (Equipment evaluation—Bronze grade.)

[The three equipment level data of the current stage of the auxiliary system are Bronz—Fine Iron—Pure Steel.]

Iron smelting research and development: Iron isn’t very hard, and the iron in this era is relatively soft. However, people have realized the potentials of such a metal. In the near future, iron will completely replace bronze and become the very pillar of society! Not to mention, iron ores are much easier to find than copper ores. Now, blacksmiths are gradually experimenting with how to improve the technology of smelting iron and improve the quality of forged iron. (Research progress of refined iron 15%)

“After the research and development of fine iron is completed, the blacksmith shop can be upgraded to an armor shop.”

Murphy was overjoyed when he read the data from the auxiliary system!

It seemed that as long as the progress bar of the auxiliary system was filled, the technology of smelting and forging of modern ironware would also be improved.

Now all he had to do was wait patiently.

He had to wait for the trained blacksmiths to upgrade their soldier’s equipment while gradually finding out iron forging skills from their practical experience! If the smelting technology of refined iron was successfully developed, then his town would be ahead of the forging skills of human beings in this era for the first time!

He just didn’t know what kind of gold the dwarves had been refining.

Compared with pure steel, which one was better?

In the legends, besides these ordinary metals, there seemed to be many special metals known to possess “magical properties”?