Chapter 67: Taner, the King of Traitors

Rand brought the magic steel troops to the northeast village. Compared with the first time he came, the village had become much more prosperous.

However, although Rand vigorously absorbed refugees and purchased slaves on a large scale, the population allocated to each village was still not large. The popularity here was a little better than before, but not too much.

But other than that, everything is much better. With the arrival of autumn harvest, the population has decreased, but the harvest has hardly decreased, resulting in every family being much richer now.

Rand's taxes on the village were also lower than those levied by the previous barons. Although Rand did not reduce them too much in order to pursue his military expansion, the income of these villagers increased more in comparison, so every household lived much better.

Unfortunately, it will take time to make up for the population lost during the previous village turmoil.

Now Rand has separated out the teachings of fertility and nursing, and has vigorously had missionaries in the den promote it, in anticipation of the subsequent baby boom. Population growth is the foundation of everything.

Rand and Olenna were currently supervising the backfilling of the large pit. They had dug this hole before to prevent a charge by Baron Huyuan's cavalry. Now that they had Taner's Fengrang Mercenary Group as an insider, they needed to fill the road to expand their victory.

Otherwise it will be difficult to chase them then.

Since the autumn harvest had passed, the villagers had free time and were mobilized to fill the pits.

These villagers had no complaints, because when Rand withdrew his troops back to his hideout, they were also worried that Baron Huyuan's army would come, so they came here to dig holes whenever they had time.

As a result, the partition here has become more than twice as large as before Rand left, turning into a giant deep pit.

Now they were mobilized to fill the gap for free, not to mention that they had the obligation to be recruited. Although they didn't understand, they still knew that Lord Rand would never do anything without a purpose.

Whether it was filling a hole or digging a hole, they all believed that Lord Rand must have some hidden meaning in doing so.

Rand stood on a higher place, watching the people below working hard to fill the pit and estimating the time.

Since Baron Huyuan has already set off, he has not received any letters from Taner recently.

I don’t know if it can be completely filled before the Baron arrives.

Olenna still had the sword on her waist and a stack of documents in her hand. The road connecting the northeast village to the hideout had been connected, and some important documents would be delivered by scouts.

Olenna, who was a guard and part-time secretary, looked through it and dictated it to Rand.

"Sir, the tavern's business is becoming more profitable, but the big bathhouse's business has not been very good. Isn't the price too high?"

Rand nodded and said, "This is normal. Most people don't have the habit of taking a bath. And for ordinary people, I actually have a reason for pricing so high."

Originally, Rand wanted to benefit the people by setting the price of the bathhouse in front of the bathhouse very low, but later he thought that this was not possible. At least he had to wait until the villagers developed the habit of changing their clothes frequently and had the awareness of keeping warm before he could lower the price.

If you don't wash properly, you will catch a cold. There is no ibuprofen now if you catch a cold. Without adequate medical conditions, a cold can be fatal.

Moreover, people of this era did not have many clothes, and if they were not washed or changed, the clothes would become covered with patina. If the coating on the body was washed off and came into contact with the patina, there was a high probability of getting sick.

Then we go back to the previous question. If the medical conditions are not good and the nutrition is unbalanced, the body's resistance will be weak, the probability of recovering on one's own will be very low, and the probability of getting sick and dying will increase significantly.

Therefore, the large bath has become a luxury facility. However, with the arrival of high-level adventurers in the resort villa, luxury facilities can also make a lot of money, but it is a bit of a waste of firewood in the early stages.

"Why?" Olenna asked.

Rand explained the medical principles behind it. Olenna, who was studious, had also studied doctrine, so she quickly understood it and nodded in agreement.

Seeing Rand looking back at the construction team filling the pit below, Olenna lifted her brown hair and wrote a few approvals on the document.

Then she wrote some things down in her notebook. Now she could easily figure out Rand's thoughts and she was doing her job as a secretary very well.

She can be considered a veteran of the den, and has watched it develop step by step from a small village to where it is now.

In fact, when Ellie asked Rand about the future strategy that day, she also had her own reasons. She was very curious about how far the hideout would eventually go.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but ask, "If the Second Prince's camp wants to win at the lowest cost, what should they do?"

Rand said without thinking, "Assassin."

As long as the third prince died, the fourth prince would also have to die for safety reasons, so the second prince would be the only legitimate heir to the throne. No matter how reluctant the other nobles were, they would have to support the second prince in becoming king.

The same goes for the third prince, so the two princes must be guarded by multiple top-level professionals, making it unlikely that the assassination will be successful.

"Apart from that?" Olena nodded and continued to ask.

"Surprise attack." Rand rubbed his palms. Since he hadn't worked much since he came to this world, his palms were much smoother than when he was in the Agricultural University in his previous life. "The principle is similar to that of an assassin. A sufficiently elite force will go straight into the enemy's base camp. To capture the thief, you must first capture the leader."

It was a scene where thousands of soldiers avoided the white robes, and the elite troops directly attacked the enemy's tent, and everything was over.

If Rand's magic steel troops are adequately trained and equipped with mounts in the future, they will actually be qualified.

But now, they are still working hard to fill the trenches. They are provided with sufficient nutrition, and it is a good opportunity for them to do some work, exercise and grow some weight.

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On the other hand, Taner has successfully joined Baron Huyuan's team with the Fengrang Mercenary Group. He is quite confident in his level of being an insider. Back then, he successfully infiltrated the hideout, and even the wise Rand Messenger did not notice anything wrong.

Still undercover until now.

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You know, the more he works under Lord Rand, the more he can feel the Lord's extraordinary wisdom. And even such a wise Lord Rand still can't see his undercover identity.

All I can say is that the value of my undercover abilities is still increasing.

But he was a man who liked to plan before acting, just like when he first joined the den, he painted his armor black and recited the doctrines of the Feng Rang Church.

Now that he has joined Baron Huyuan's team, he has also made several preparations, such as carefully learning the mercenary habits from other mercenaries who voluntarily joined the Fengrang Mercenary Group.

In daily contact with the Baron's men, try to arrange real mercenaries instead of people from the hideout to avoid exposing any flaws.

It was this messenger from the Torch Church who had come to him that was very troublesome and had been pestering him. Looking at the messenger, Taner said again: "I've already told you that you've got the wrong person."

The Torch Church messenger sneered and expressed disdain for Taner's words.

Taner finally couldn't help it: "Fenris, I will not go back."

Fenris, the messenger of the Torch Church, sneered again: "Are you not pretending anymore?"

"What do you want?"

"Come back with me."

"impossible."

"Then I won't leave either."

Taner's thick eyebrows stood up and he cursed, "Believe it or not, I will arrest you!"

The messenger sneered again: "Do you still want to kill me?"

Tandon felt tired. Unless he really wanted to kill him or ordered his men to surround and attack him, he really couldn't do anything to Fenris.

Seeing Taner standing there in silence, Fenris comforted him, "Don't worry, I won't ruin your plan until you agree to go back with me. I also want to see what the reason is that makes you not want to go back."

Taner had no choice but to nod. He was not worried that Fenris would threaten Rand. He had heard that Rand had personally defeated golems as tall as mountains and giant snakes as long as rivers. With such strength, there was nothing to be afraid of.

(End of this chapter)