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    The sudden increase in training volume also increased the loss of supplies. Although due to Barrett's effective control, there were no serious injuries, leaving a medical fee for the territory.  8) But the loss of weapons is inevitable. Even if Barrett can control the weapons at his disposal, ordinary soldiers are not so good at it. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? A workshop dedicated to repair work wouldn't be unable to work overtime to complete the task with quality and quantity.  But during this period when the war was approaching, all the workshops in Bolum's territory received a large number of orders.  This order is not only Bolum's own, but also indispensable for external sales.  War wealth is a big cake that no one can miss, and a military-industrial complex with inherent advantages like Boreham Land must definitely take a big piece of it, otherwise it will never be willing to accept it.  Therefore, all the military industrial enterprises in the territory are working overtime and operating at full capacity. This new loss is really beyond their ability to deal with.  Nothing in the world is more impermanent than this, and nothing can be completely controlled by people.  The most important thing about a good plan is to anticipate several escape routes for possible accidents or failures.  Even the Bolum Territory, which has not yet fully joined the battlefield, has this problem. The Kingdom of Lucia, which is now barely fighting on two fronts, has decisively launched war mobilization.  The same foreign war of the Kingdom of Lucia also caused considerable changes in the prices of the entire Western Continent.  The price of food has been rising, and the prices of strategic resources such as precious metals and gemstones have also fluctuated widely.  Only the luxury goods market seems to be ushering in their winter of troubled times and golden age of antiques. This saying is not a lie.  As for the previous civil war in the northern city-state, it also had some impact on this.  But compared to the Kingdom of Lucia, it is nothing more than the light of a firefly compared to the sun and the moon.  After all, the entire Northland has been outside the political structure of the entire Western Continent since ancient times. Even if exchanges have become more frequent in recent years, it is still difficult to have much impact.  Therefore, for most residents of the Western Continent, most of the residents of the Western Continent can only have a vague impression of the war there. Only the cities where the refugees migrated can have some real feelings.  As for the Kingdom of Lucia, a regional power, its every move really affects the nerves of many surrounding rulers.  The impact of a little disturbance is often much greater than the former.  Although for the entire Nohan Kingdom, these changes in the commodity market do not seem to have much impact.  According to public information, the Principality of Norhan is basically self-sufficient in terms of food and can still have a slight surplus. However, anyone familiar with history knows that if this kind of official propaganda is even remotely feasible, it needs to be greatly discounted, so  Facing the imminent all-out war, the Kingdom of Norhan, which is making preparations throughout the country, has not only tightened the domestic grain circulation, but also started large-scale grain procurement. In fact, this work has already started very early.  It's just that the execution was more covert at that time, but now it's starting to become less cover-up.  Now that the government has begun to stockpile food, merchants, no matter how keen their sense of smell, understand what they should do.  Fortunately, although this caused citizens in most territories to complain to some extent about the rising food prices, it did not cause a real food shortage.  After all, the so-called speculation is a trick of hoarding futures. If you want to make real profits in this world, you must not offend the local lords severely.  If the lord requisitions them all in anger, it will not be easy to recover the losses. Even if you have a great background, it will be troublesome for the county magistrate to meet the current administrator.  But other places may be fine, but for the Bolum Territory, they are in big trouble just because of the food problem.  The continuous influx of immigrants over the past 200 years and the inevitable external population brought by commercial nodes have caused Bolum to develop greatly, and at the same time, it has also made the food supply capacity here extremely fragile.  The prosperity of industry and commerce will inevitably attract rural people to cities.  Compared with the population, the land in the Bolum Territory is "crowded" and cannot support such a large floating population.  Affected by this, a sharp rise in food prices has become inevitable.  Maybe in the eyes of merchants, this problem is not that big. After all, when the price of raw materials rises, the sales price will also rise.  This is just like inflation. It has little impact on businessmen as long as it is not a vicious expansion in a short period of time.  A transaction of 10 yuan and 100 yuan becomes a transaction of 100 yuan and 100 yuan, which is actually the same to them.  The ones who are really suffering are those who earn dead wages.  And the precious metals used to create magical weapons and the gems commonly used by mages are expensive and have little impact on civilians.  Except for a few knights who want to build weapons who have complained about this, even the magicians who have greatly increased the cost of experiments are more generous. After all, the magicians have money.Gains come quickly, so their view of money is close to that of financial professionals in history.  As for those hard-working low-level mages and even more hard-working apprentices who can't even cast fireballs, how can they be called magicians?  As for the market for art and luxury goods, it is somewhat crowded in the Kingdom of Norhan, but there are only a few people who really make a living from it.  Except for those palace nobles who would close their doors and lament secretly, everyone else was calm about this.  There are many so-called "real nobles" among them who have to temporarily abandon their dignity in order to reduce their family expenses.  At the very least, the number of dances and tea parties every week will probably be reduced by a small amount.  But the rise in food prices is not just a problem of food itself, it can even lead to an increase in the prices of a series of related items.  Suddenly, even hard currency metal currencies began to show a gradual shrinking trend.  This is definitely not good news.  Because the citizens in the Bolum Territory are the most sensitive to this price.  A similar situation is like the excessive use of gold yuan notes during the Republic of China, which led to extreme hyperinflation.  In that disaster, countless people lost everything, and the savings of generations turned into a pile of waste paper.  But as long as the businessmen with wealth are actually not affected much, it is the small citizens in the city who really have nothing.  But although the citizen class in this world is also relatively active, compared to the real noisy guys in the old era, they are as honest as little white rabbits in the hands of a magician.  So there hasn't been any large-scale petitions yet, but private undercurrents have begun to surge.  ??For this reason, Earl Boreham's head turned white several times during this period, but the solutions he released could not achieve immediate results, so he had to start recruiting people.  On the one hand, this is to use government financial subsidies to residents to ensure their quality of life, and on the other hand, it is also preparing for war.  After the transfer of this batch of manpower from the official industry, the already tight manpower gap in Bolum's leadership became even more obvious.  Therefore, except for types of work that often require the upper body to be exposed, such as transportation, navigation, and smelting.  It is said that from this day on, female workers can be seen in all walks of life in Boreham. It can be said that women are gradually becoming able to hold up half of the sky.  ¡°But so many people are starting to do jobs they have never done before, and it¡¯s impossible to get started right from the start.  Therefore, even if there are dedicated people to teach the apprentices, for a long time, they can only replace some of the apprentices' work.  The average efficiency of the entire territory dropped by several percentage points as a result.  As for the possible conflicts between husband and wife and other problems that may arise from this situation, they will naturally have to give way to war and stability.  Wait until everything is over and then come back to solve it specifically.  Players living in the Bolum Territory are also more or less affected by these problems.  It's just that all professionals above the red iron level have good incomes. Even in the worst case scenario, they won't have a headache for this little money and food.  I will make up for it tomorrow. All these actions were done in an orderly manner. By the time Qiaoji and others stepped into the city gate, the guards had already stood at their posts again.  The smoothness of the cooperation is like the gears in a clock, and it is by no means a one-day job.  In Georgie¡¯s field of vision, the group of guards at the door stood as straight as green pines.  The semi-covering round helmets they wore on their heads made it impossible to completely see their faces from the angle of Georgie on the horse, but even from partial visual inferences it can be known that these current  His expression was definitely serious.  A large piece of cooked cowhide hangs from the brim of the hat and covers the neck.  Wearing Bolum's specialty lightweight paper nails over breathable cotton-blend underwear.  The hands wearing fine iron gauntlets held a spear with cold light in one hand, and a kite-shaped iron-clad wooden shield with a semicircular gap in the upper left hand in the other.  The short sword at the waist and the scabbard were fixed to the brown cooked cowhide armed belt.  The linen sleeveless blouses worn by these guards were embroidered with the unique coat of arms of the Boreham family.  Similarly, the shields in their hands are also painted with white edelweiss and green ivy decorated with half-unsheathed long swords in blue scabbards.  Because the heraldic colors are mainly blue, green, and white, the cloth robes worn by the soldiers are also based on these three colors.  In fact, there are only 5 territories in the entire Nohan country that equip their guards with such blouses. Of course, this is mainly because the price of the dye is a bit expensive.  If it weren't for alchemy that could artificially synthesize some dyes, no one in the entire principality would be able to afford such a thing.  Although alchemy products are slightly expensive for civilians, they are only a drop in the bucket compared to natural dyes.  The so-called natural dyes refer to those obtained from plants, animals or mineral resources without artificial synthesis and with little or no chemical processing.Artificial dyes.  For example, light yellow is extracted from pomegranate peel, and ocher color is extracted from walnut peel.  Yellow can be extracted from ginger juice, cochineal can be extracted from cochineal, and orange-red can be extracted from hematoxylin.  Known for its scarce production and high price.  Not to mention other things, the price of ginger alone in the Western Continent has reached 10 gold coins per ounce, and the raw material of the most beautiful bright red natural dye, saffron, has a sky-high price of 65 gold coins per ounce.  After entering the city gate, Georgie and his party parted in a very tacit understanding. Val Knight arranged for Hillen to send the little guy Craig to his residence in the city.  This is not because he is afraid that Craig will encounter any danger. After all, although the security level of Poitou City may not be as good as that of Calada's inner city, under normal circumstances, the difference is not very big.  Besides, Craig himself is not a weak scholar. After all, he is also a hematite knight's attendant, and he is stronger than the average elite soldier.  However, the boy's ears are unliked, and it is hard to say if the child will always be playful if he will go home immediately.  However, if the servants and housekeepers of the other party's house do not see Craig before the curfew, it will inevitably lead to another period of confusion.  And Knight Bart, who is Craig's father, stayed in Calada as Viscount Boreham's assistant or security director.  Val Knight, his friend and Craig Knight instructor, always took responsibility in this regard.  There are two main reasons why the city of Poitou is not as safe as the city of Caladane. One of them is the difference in permanent population. The people in the city of Caladane are the powerful nobles of the Principality of Nohan and their servants.  Plus the clergy of each church.  Not only do everyone know the basics, but there are also many entanglements in interests.  Similarly, in terms of access control, extremely strict management can be carried out.  The city of Poitou in Bolum territory is a city where different classes of people live together.  As an important commercial transit place, there are quite a lot of foreign people here, especially merchants and their escort adventurers.  These people brought economic prosperity but were also a source of instability, although most of the time they did not dare to cause trouble in the city.  If the city of Caladane is a quiet and peaceful small conservative county, then the city of Poitou is closer to the mixed bag of good and bad in the magic city before the time travel.  Another threat comes from various wild animals.  Don't think that all wild animals are easy to deal with.  There are many ferocious creatures and even magical beasts among them.  Although the larger ones among them couldn't avoid the patrols of the guards, the smaller ones could sneak in through the city's sewers.  As for those that can fly, if they are small and have the ability to move at night.  Although it cannot be said that it is uninhabited, it is difficult to be discovered.  (To be continued.) 8
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