Speaking of his own troops, Parton proudly puffed out his chest. He was still very confident in his troops.
"My 1,000-man squad is the 8th Battalion of the City Defense Army. The soldiers are mainly civilians. It has 10 squads, each squad has 100 soldiers, all of whom are spearmen.
I am the 8th Battalion Captain. Under me is an assistant named Laminad. He is very good at commanding, but unfortunately…”
"Laminad?" Tangning continued," No family name? This Laminard is a commoner?"
"Yes, Laminad is a commoner!”
Seeing that leaving the City Defense Army was a foregone conclusion, Parton was still a little reluctant. Before leaving, she was prepared to recommend one or two talented people.
Patton recalled as he said," I heard that he joined the City Defense Army ten years ago. Before I took over the 8th Brigade, he was the deputy of the 8th Brigade. I think he couldn't become a chiliarch because he was a civilian.”
Ten years ago? At that time, I hadn't come to this world yet, right? It seemed that there were still talents in this world. It was just that some people were not put in an important position.
As she thought about it, Tangning's gaze towards Parton became less passionate. In fact, she even thought,'It's all because of you damn nobles that so many commoners are discriminated against. Without you nobles, wouldn't the planet still be spinning?'
"Tell me about Nassir. " York it is," Tangning had already made up her mind. She was a little disappointed after being rejected by Parton, but at this moment, she felt happy.
Speaking of which, Nassir. York and Patton's expressions became a little unnatural.
" To be honest, Lord Nassar is a very upright person and a true knight. It is said that he reached the realm of a Great Warrior a year ago.
It was only because he was too welcoming of the civilians and often spoke up for them that he was not liked by the previous city lord, Hamid. He had always been in the position of a thousand-man commander. Strictly speaking, his Seventh Brigade was the most powerful force in the City Defense Army.”
There were also exceptions to the aristocrats!
Tangning's face lit up. He was definitely going to use Nassar and put him in an important position!
An upright person, a true knight. This was the kind of person Tangning wanted to rely on as the Great Wall. A knight's loyalty was one of the most reliable vows in the entire Brilliance Continent.
As for whether or not Tangning would be able to gain Lord Naser's loyalty, it was not within his consideration. What a joke. As the Lord of the City of Ghana, the Young Master of the York Family, the Viscount of the Empire, and Naser's direct superior, he had all the time and energy he needed. Besides, he had the knowledge of two worlds. Although he wasn't a tyrant, he was still a little arrogant.
There were still talents in this world! Without you nobles, wouldn't the world still go on?
Ever since the incident with Neon, Tangning's impression of these nobles had plummeted.
He had no feelings for the York Family to begin with, and then the family canceled the war funds for the Xiongnu, which pushed him to the opposite side of the family.
Tangning enjoyed the luxuries of the aristocrats in this world, but it didn't mean that she liked them. He could be a defender of the aristocrats 'interests, but he didn't want to be a defender of certain aristocrats.
To put it bluntly, he was a selfish person. In order to protect his own interests, he did not mind declaring war on God.
From that day on, his view of talent changed. His vision was no longer limited to those rotten nobles.
There were still talents in this world! After Parton left, there was only one word that lingered in his mind-talent.
It was only when he truly sat on the position of Lord that he urgently felt the importance of talent.
Recruiting soldiers, building an army, managing the city, post-war reconstruction, and so on were not things that he could handle alone. Even if he could handle it, he would not do it. That kind of life was too tiring. Therefore, the first problem he had to solve before doing anything was to build an efficient and loyal management team.
When he woke up from his thoughts, the sky was already dark. He clapped his hands twice and a servant opened the door and walked in.
He sat in the dark and did not speak. The servant did not dare to speak.
After a while, he said softly,"It's time to light the lamp."”
After the servants lit up the lamps on the wall, Tangning immediately smelled a faint fragrance of oil. It was green pine oil, a type of oil from a 6th Grade Magical Beast in the Magical Beast Forest. It was called the Green Pine Oil Beast. Because it was extremely difficult to hunt, the oil it produced had always been a luxury item sought after by the mainland's aristocrats.
Of course, the green pine oil used in this study had been diluted. Otherwise, just a drop of sesame oil could make the entire study fragrant for more than a month.
Tangning waved her hand as the servant bowed and left. He even closed the door behind him.
Tangning grabbed an oil lamp from the wall and stepped onto the stool.
On the bookshelf, the bulge was still there. He reached out and gently pressed on the bulge. After a while, the entire bookshelf made a squeaking sound.
He quickly retreated. Under the shaking light, he saw the bookshelf rotate 90 degrees, revealing a secret door behind it. He casually picked up a beast hide book and threw it into the dark door. The thick beast hide book quickly fell to the ground, making a short sound.
Slowly, he approached the secret door and cast a Wind Shield on himself. After thinking for a while, he put the oil lamp back to its original position and placed a Fireball five feet in front of him. He took out his sniper rifle and loaded a magazine into the magazine.
The fire lit up the area ten feet in front of him. He held his gun and slowly walked into the secret door. Under the light of the fire, he immediately saw a staircase that slanted down.
He walked up the stairs. The further down he went, the more he smelled a moldy smell in the air. It was obvious that no one had been here for a long time.
It was a tunnel. After walking for a while, he saw another wooden door.
The wooden door wasn't locked. He used his gun to lightly push the door and quickly hid behind it. The wooden door creaked open. He bent down and slowly stuck his head out from the corner of the door. Slowly, a room the size of a bungalow entered his sight.
There was a wide table in the middle of the room, just like a table used to cook cooked wheaten food. It was wide and large, and there were many small shelves, small scales, small cutting tools, and many bottles and materials on the table. Without exception, he sensed a very strong magic wave from the bottles and materials. Some of the materials even had magic power seeping out slowly.
Why did this place look like a laboratory on Earth?
He did not touch the bottles on the table. After finding a lamp without oil, he even extinguished the fire of the magic fireball.
Tangning was afraid that her magic would cause a negative reaction in this mysterious room. In her opinion, anything related to experiments was dangerous. If it wasn't dangerous, why would she need to experiment? He lit up the oil lamp, but unfortunately, the lamp without oil would not burn for long. He had to return to the study to get a lamp.
There was a desk and a bookshelf near the wall. Their positions were similar to the study outside. However, behind the desk, there were two skeletons. Two complete skeletons, white and eerie.
Tangning moved the oil lamp closer. The sitting skeleton had a small triangular hole on its head. The other skeleton was standing behind a table. She didn't know what force was supporting it, but despite being reduced to a skeleton, it still didn't fall down and remained standing.
On the ground near the skeleton, Tangning found a small hammer. She wiped the dust off the hammer and discovered that it was gold in color.
The hammer was very heavy in his hand. One end was thick and the other end was sharp like a thorn. He tried the sharp end on the skeleton with a small hole in the skull. It fit perfectly. Needless to say, this hammer was the lethal weapon of the person sitting on it.
The bookshelves and study table were filled with books. Tang Ning flipped through them and her first impression was that the quality of the book was very good. It wasn't made of animal skin, it was thin and light, and it didn't have the strange smell of animal skin. The book was filled with words commonly used in the mainland. It was filled with secret techniques and incantations related to alchemy.
He took out a few more books and flipped through a few pages. The contents of the books were all related to alchemy.
Good stuff! The laboratory, alchemy books and materials, secret passage, basement, everything he needed. He also found a small memory crystal.
It was certain that this was the underground laboratory of a master alchemist. Many years ago, this master was ambushed and nailed to death from behind with a hammer. Before he died, the murderer was also killed on the spot by him using unknown methods.
This was a tragedy. Both parties had died, and the secret of the basement had disappeared in the long river of history until he accidentally discovered it.
He gently closed the door of the secret chamber and returned to the study through the secret passage. He carefully moved the bookshelf back to its original position. He did not take anything out of the secret chamber.
Tangning was afraid that after reading those books, she would start to study them and forget about the passage of time. But, he couldn't do that right now. He was just a lord who had yet to gain a firm foothold in the Xiongnu.
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