"Yes, my lord!" Dicken, who was two meters tall with big arms and a round waist, looked very mighty, but he always had a simple and honest smile on his face.
However, Jason Liu knew that if Dicken got serious, relying on the modern full protective equipment from head to toe, he would definitely cause havoc.
Even a tiger could be trampled to death by Dicken.
Because Dicken was wearing a riot helmet on his head, stab-proof clothing on his upper body and legs, and even stab-proof boots on his feet.
With such tight protection, there was no need to worry about other people's attacks.
Moreover, this kind of specially made stab-proof suit, compared to the iron-can-like armor of Westeros, was light and did not hinder limb movement. It was definitely the kind of equipment all warriors dreamed of.
Now, with this kind of full protective equipment, Jason Liu had made a set for his 50-person guard unit, as well as for important men like Jon, McCann, Rubin, Chris, Kent, Marb, and Bud.
He intended to use such good equipment as a reward for officers and soldiers who performed meritoriously.
He wasn't going to waste it.
Because ordinary soldiers were now already wearing stab-proof suits and riot helmets, their protective capability was several times stronger than that of the elite soldiers under other Westerosi nobles.
There was no need to equip all the soldiers with full protection.
Because the specially customized full set of protection required accurate height, weight, and other measurements, and needed to be designed and produced individually by the stab-resistant clothing manufacturer.
The whole set was very expensive.
And it was time-consuming, too.
So, Jason Liu wasn't planning to do this for all his soldiers.
The reason each of the 50-person guard unit under his command was given a set was because they needed to protect him.
In critical moments, they had to take a blade for him.
With Dicken and the guards stationed outside the warehouse tent area, Jason Liu brought out 1,000 spears, 150 pulley bows, and 4,500 arrows from the modern warehouse.
After thinking for a moment, he returned to the modern era, took out his phone, and called Simon, a drug dealer.
Interrupting the man's endless flattery, Jason Liu directly placed an order.
100,000 disposable syringes and 100,000 vials of sterile water for injection.
25 kg of penicillin dry powder—he bought 10 barrels.
He also bought 10,000 boxes each of paracetamol for colds and fever,and vitamin C tablets.
He also ordered a batch of alcohol, bandages, iodine, scalpels, scissors, mercury thermometers, medical white coats, and other supplies.
All the orders together cost hundreds of thousands.
A delighted Simon thanked him repeatedly and promised to deliver all the medicines and medical supplies within three days.
Anyway, they had traded a few times before, and he knew Jason Liu had a warehouse in the outer ring of the high-tech zone.
Hanging up the phone, Jason Liu turned to look at the now-empty small warehouse and returned to the camp warehouse tent area once again.
The next morning, after breakfast, Jason Liu immediately called Jon, McCann, Rubin, and Chris over.
He, Lord Jason, was ready to continue recruiting.
Jon, McCann, Rubin, and Chris were stunned when they heard this.
In addition to the 300 people at the logging field outside Winterfell, there were already 800 soldiers. Why was there still a need to recruit more?
They had already left Winterfell and lost the shelter of House Stark. Lake Saylor was 400 kilometers west of Winterfell and east of White Harbor. How unsafe was it? As northerners, they should know this better than anyone!
Jason Liu glanced at each of their faces in turn. "To ensure our construction work can proceed safely and to protect the workers and their families who followed me here, expanding House East's troops is the most urgent matter right now."
In addition to the above two reasons, what Jason Liu didn't say was that he had made too much money by now and was surely attracting a lot of jealousy.
To avoid becoming a target like a fat sheep, he needed strong troops so he could continue doing what he wanted with confidence.
Big business, big risk.
Of course, that didn't need to be said aloud.
In short, with the order from Earl Jason East, workers who still had school-age sons in their families sent them to sign up and join House East's army.
Because Jason Liu had ordered soldiers to go out and promote his pension policy for wounded or killed soldiers, and starting today, the monthly salary of all soldiers had increased from 10 silver deer to 15 silver deer.
As soon as the news spread, it immediately caused cheers among the "veterans" who had joined in previous months.
A pay raise was always good news, no matter where or when.
Jason Liu personally organized the recruitment. The first to be recruited were young men aged 16 to 22 who had hunting experience and knew how to use a bow. They were all assigned as archers.
A large number of people signed up. Jason Liu had targets set up in the open space and let the young applicants try out the pulley bows.
After screening carefully, Jason Liu recruited 350 people. Adding the previous 150 archers, this formed a 500-man archer unit.
However, he only had 300 pulley bows on hand. The remaining 200 had none for now, so they had to take turns training with the available bows.
In the morning, archers were recruited. In the afternoon, it was time to recruit spearmen.
The 1,000 spears he had just acquired from modern times were enough to equip 1,000 soldiers.
He also had 5,000 sets of stab-resistant suits and riot helmets.
These had been used to deter potential attacks during the journey and were worn by the workers en route to Lake Saylor. Now that they had arrived, the 5,000 sets had been collected again.
The 1,000 newly recruited spearmen put on black stab-proof suits and riot helmets. Then, under the scolding of veteran soldiers, they finally formed a 20-by-50 formation.
"Dicken, take some men and bring out the spears from the warehouse tent area!" Jason Liu stood on a 1.5-meter-high wooden platform and turned to instruct the captain of his guard behind him.
Dicken bowed in salute, then led over a dozen guards into the tent in the warehouse area and pointed at the 1,000 two-meter-long spears packed in wooden boxes.
Several large wooden boxes were carried and placed beneath the high platform. Dick ordered the soldiers to open them, revealing the dark, sharp high-carbon steel spearheads and the spears made with white wax rods—all freshly forged.
Jon, McCann, Rubin, and Chris, standing below the platform, curiously examined the spears in the boxes. They wondered when Lord Jason had acquired so many weapons.
Jason Liu, of course, had no intention of explaining the origin of these spears.
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