[Chapter 260: The Shortcomings of the Winter Legion]

The current situation of Winter City is that its dependence on newcomers is gradually decreasing, so David can no longer share everything he has like he did at the beginning.

Although a house is nothing to David, it is just a small matter of a word.

But he thinks it is better to set some standards:

for Rick, who directly expressed his willingness to work for Winter City and serve David, it is normal for David to provide him with a house, salary and other benefits.

But Ethan Hunt obviously does not have this idea. At present, this ace agent only regards Winter City as a very interesting vacation spot. He has no intention of working for David, and he does not have the ability to contribute to Winter City at the moment.

In this case, does David have to rush to give him benefits? If he does so, what will others think?

For example, Rick, who works hard to run around in a world full of zombies, looking for survivors and then increasing the population of Winter City, ends up being treated the same as someone who does nothing? Why?

Others like Leonard, Steve, Fording, Laura, Helen and others have made many contributions to Winter City. Transformers have joined Winter City collectively and become residents of Winter City. Even Leon, who has made the least contribution to Winter City, has introduced Jack Krauser, a “talent”, to David!

Therefore, newcomers who come to Winter City in the future will definitely be treated differently according to their ideas, wishes and actual actions. Those

who are willing to stay in Winter City are residents of Winter City. Such people will live and work in this city, and David will provide corresponding treatment according to their abilities. Those who

are unwilling to live in Winter City for a long time but can play a helpful role will also be given some preferential treatment by David.

Finally, there is Ethan’s current state. There is nothing he can help for the time being, and he has no intention to do so, so he can only be treated as an “ordinary person”.

“Work? Selling goods?” Ethan didn’t think he had to get preferential treatment. David’s suggestion was actually normal, and he didn’t feel that he was “humiliated” or “despised”. He just thought that it was not realistic for him to find a stable job here, but being a small vendor should be able to make some money quickly.

He didn’t have to think about what was selling well in Winter City. He could go to various shops to find out what they needed and what he could easily buy, and then go back to his own world to buy.

This kind of business similar to overseas purchasing should help him quickly accumulate some assets, and then buy or build a house of his choice in this city.

In the future, this place can become his best holiday resort. He won’t be disturbed by anything here, and the people here won’t have anything to do with his work. He can get real relaxation in Winter City.

In addition, there are so many magical things in this place that can satisfy his adventurous mentality.

After chatting for a while, Ethan decided to go out by himself, but before leaving, he remembered to solve an important problem first: “The language you use here… do you have teaching materials?”

“When you go out, Eva will give you a prop specifically for learning the common language of Brunnia, and she will tell you how to use it.”

“Thank you!”

Ethan thanked him and left the reception room. As expected, as soon as he went out, he saw Eva, who had helped him introduce the situation before, and got the special prop for learning the language from her.

“Just wear it on your forehead when you sleep?”

“Yes!”

It sounds magical. As long as you wear this thing to sleep, you can learn a new language in a few days. If you can bring this thing back to your own world, it will immediately become a hot-selling product that is snapped up all over the world.

After putting the things away, Ethan walked out of Glamorgan Castle and stood on the street. He thought he should go back and learn the common language of Brunnia first, and then come to visit Winter City and find out what people here need.

“He’s back!”

“Yeah!”

David nodded to Eva to show that he knew. Ethan’s integration into Winter City will definitely take more time than others. If he is unlucky, he may have to wait until he marries a wife before he can truly integrate into Winter City.

At that time, Ethan, who does not want his wife to be threatened, will most likely send his wife to live in Winter City, and then he will have a closer connection with Winter City.

Of course, if Ethan is willing to take the initiative to integrate into Winter City and make many friends, then he can also enter the core circle of Winter City earlier.

David thinks Ethan’s ability is good and his destructive power is amazing. If possible, he really hopes that Ethan can personally form and lead a special operations team to carry out some difficult tasks, including but not limited to infiltration, assassination, sabotage, kidnapping, etc.

As for whether this special team will be under the intelligence department headed by Edwin Van Cleef, or under the military, he has not yet decided.

“Maybe, they can obey me directly?”

In that case, he can throw people like Klausa and Leon into this team, or ask Leon to dig Chris, Claire, Jill and others to Winter City?

Suddenly feeling that the destructive power of this team was great enough to destroy the world, David retracted his thoughts and began to deal with the next task.

The new weapons were finalized, the new ammunition factory was about to start construction, and then the factory workers needed to be recruited. These things needed to be set up now and then implemented step by step.

At the same time, the Winter Knights seemed to need to be properly expanded. The establishment of 50 people was still a bit too few.

“Have the previous 20 recruits not completed all the training?”

David had high requirements for the Winter Knights. In addition to the various training plans set at the beginning, the Winter Knights now also added training courses for paladins. He wished that all members of the Winter Knights were trained to become paladins.

But now only Gareth Stanton and Floyd have become real paladins in the entire Winter Knights. It takes a lot of time for other soldiers to become paladins.

“But compared with the expansion speed of the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment, the number of people in the Winter Knights is growing too slowly.” Previously, the first phase of the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment had only 100 people, and the second phase later had only 200 people, which did not seem to be much more than the Winter Knights.

But the third phase directly sent a thousand people. Even if half of them will be eliminated in the end, the number of formal soldiers in the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment will be 800.

In comparison, the Winter Knights only have 50 people, which seems too pitiful.

Thinking back to the beginning, Gareth Stanton thought it was difficult for Winter City to support dozens of knights, but now he thinks that dozens of people are not enough. Sometimes he thinks of this huge change in thinking and finds it interesting. He laughs at himself for being too naive at the time.

“How many people do you want to increase?”

“Increase to 100 people first!”

“Recruit 50 new soldiers directly?”

100 people are not too many, and even if these 100 Winter Knights are equipped with the most advanced equipment, it will not cause any pressure on the current logistics of Winter City.

“No, I plan to select the best soldiers from the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment and add them to the Winter Knights.”

David was stunned and realized that Gareth was thinking of this idea.

But think about it, it doesn’t seem to be bad. For the soldiers of the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment, joining the Winter Knights seems to be a promotion.

“Instead of doing this, for example, we can directly release the news that the Winter Knights will be expanded to a hundred-man organization, and the quota will be competed for by all the people in Winter City.” David thought that it would be better to release the news and give a little stimulation, and perhaps some more potential recruits could be unearthed: “The requirements should be set higher. Even if we can’t fill the quota immediately, it doesn’t matter. We can observe for a while.”

Gareth Stanton immediately understood what the lord meant. This is to stimulate the soldiers of the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment while trying to discover talents, so that they can work harder during training. They certainly don’t want to lose to the civilian recruits who come to sign up, which indirectly stimulates the combat effectiveness of the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment.

“I know how to do it.”

Perhaps when the expansion of the Winter Knights is completed, the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment can also be reborn and become one of the main forces of Winter City.

“Well, you and Floyd and Jack Krauser decide on the specific details.”

Then, David mentioned another thing: “In addition to the expansion of the Winter Knights, it is best to recruit some people with driving and logistics talents from the new recruits.”

The army of Winter City now has a serious problem, which is the lack of auxiliary arms. In addition to various vehicle drivers, there is also a lack of maintenance soldiers, which are the shortcomings of the Winter Corps.

“Especially for the Quinjet pilots, in addition to internal potential, we also try to tap from recruits and ordinary people.”

Car vehicles are okay, but there is a serious shortage of Quinjet pilots. Now every time the Winter Knights attack, they need Peggy, Sharon and others to act as pilots, which is not a good thing.

“Floyd has been looking for talents in this area and has recruited a group of people for relevant training.” As the commander-in-chief of the military, Gareth naturally realized the problem in this area, but there was still no progress in the training of aircraft pilots, and he didn’t know how to solve this problem.

David could only sigh after listening. There are not many solutions at present. Even recruiting from other worlds is not an easy task.

Later, David paid attention to the construction progress of the school again. He learned that the basic framework of the school had been completed, and the diggers had gone back to pave the road from Winter City to Frost Post and Snowfield Castle.

Weatherby Swan brought a new problem: With the construction and expansion of Winter City, the area of the city is slowly increasing. Should we consider public transportation within Winter City?

(End of this chapter)