"Look at these crystals."
As soon as he saw Hetty, Gawain threw a standard lavender crystal into the opponent's hand.
The lady glanced at the things in her hands curiously, and a look of surprise appeared on her face.
"This is what you told me before, in the treasure house in the mountain..."
"That's right, I got it from there," Gawain nodded. Although he didn't bring Heidi with him this time, he had already told her about the treasure house of the Dark Mountains when he was in Tanzan Town, "These crystals It’s a technology from the Gondor Empire, let’s see if you can understand its rune structure.”
Any mage who has not been caught by the door will realize the preciousness of these crystals when he sees them. Hetty was immediately attracted by these beautiful lavender crystals, but he couldn't put it down after playing with them. After that, she could only shake her head slightly with shame: "Ancestor... I'm sorry, I'm ashamed... I'm just a third-level mage, I'm afraid I can't make such a profound thing..."
Gawain looked into Hetty's eyes: "I didn't ask you to make it, just analyze its rune structure—if possible, draw the rune structure. Speaking of manufacturing, I'm afraid no one in this era can make a similar one." Stuff: This is directly infused with the magic power of the Deep Blue Well."
"The Well of Deep Blue..." Hearing this famous name, Hetty couldn't help repeating it, and then looked eagerly at the crystal in her hand, "If you just read and arrange the rune structure inside, that's not a problem. Difficult, as long as you get a set of crystal resonators, you can project the inscribed things in it. But just reading the rune structure... Does it make sense? There is no corresponding energy injection technology and activation method, and the rune structure is just a It's just a pile of geometric figures... "
"I'll talk about that later," Gao Wen nodded and said, "These crystals can no longer be produced. At least before they are used up, I want to keep as much information as possible."
Hetty snorted and put away the crystal. The tired look on her face was still there, but after learning the exact news about the "Treasure House in the Mountain", her spiritual boost still made her look much better. Gawain then Take advantage of the situation and ask about the construction of the camp.
"Before the sun goes down, all the tents can be set up, and a fence can be erected at the same time. I plan to set up some magic traps and warning runes around, which should be more than enough to resist wild beasts. The lumberjacks found it in the woods to the west. There are a lot of high-quality wood. The rough wood that has been felled is still piled up in the upper reaches of the Baishui River. After cutting some more tomorrow, just let the wood flow down the river. In addition, according to the information you provided, I sent two people to the east. It is true that iron ore has been discovered, but right now we do not have the ability to smelt it, so we can only come a little bit. The most important problem now is the lack of manpower. The advance team is mainly here to investigate the situation and establish an outpost. Collecting resources needs to wait for follow-up People and horses."
"The big troops will come over in three days, and the manpower problem will be alleviated by then - and the tools and materials will follow." Gawain said as he turned his head to look at the camp that was gradually being completed.
He has a lot of plans, a lot of plans, and the broad thinking from the traversers and the rich knowledge from Gawain Cecil gave him full confidence. Therefore, looking at the tentative camp, he will inevitably feel a little bit of a feeling in his heart. Share ambitions.
The tents are neatly arranged according to the plan, and surrounding drainage ditches have been dug in the camp. After the water from the White Water River is introduced into these ditches tomorrow, they can be used to prevent the most dangerous situation for the freshman camp. Fire; craftsmen are processing wood, nailing them together to make the most primitive and crude fence—the fence can't protect much against real monsters, but it is more or less useful when dealing with wild beasts ;The loggers who went to log in the forest to the west have withdrawn and are resting at the moment...
Everything looks fine.
But after entering the camp and looking around carefully, Gao Wen couldn't help frowning.
He saw the numbness and cowering expressions on the faces of those craftsmen and civilian laborers, as well as their various lazy skills that were not brilliant at all, and they could be seen everywhere on the seemingly neat and compliant camps and fences. Cut corners and perfunctory places - missing a few nails is the most common phenomenon, and some tents are not even tied firmly at all.
Under Hetty's supervision, the craftsmen could still complete their work accurately, but the civilian labor of those helpers was simply operating indiscriminately - Gao Wen had actually thought that most of the common people in this era had no education at all, I can neither read nor count, so he explained to everyone in advance how these tents should be set up and how the entire camp should be planned. In addition, almost every single indicator in this camp is unqualified!
Don't they know that these tents and fences are their only shelter in the wilderness and their life guarantee for the next period of time
Gawain thought angrily, then suddenly woke up:
Yes, they don't know.
Because these things belong to the lord, not theirs, even if these tents will be used for them in the future, they don’t believe that they can live forever—sooner or later, after the wasteland is measured, they will be driven to the wasteland go, and the tents will be dismantled and become the lord's castle and stables.
This is the general law of the age, and everyone firmly believes in it.
Despite the disaster in the old Cecil Territory, despite the exile with the team, and the construction of a new home, for these civilians and serfs who have survived the rigid and decadent era, they have already adapted to the suffering. And they are used to being numb in the process of suffering, so they don't have the idea that there will be great blessings after the disaster, and they don't have the vigor and vitality to build a new home.
Gao Wen realized that he had taken it for granted before, and at the same time realized that some of the plans he had worked out for a long time before might not come true easily.
He called Hetty and Rebecca over at once.
In front of a tent that seemed to meet the requirements, but after a closer look, several supports were missing, and the entire tent was skewed, he pointed at those perfunctory places: "What do you think of this?"
Hetty didn't understand what Gawain meant at once, and thought it was to blame her, so she immediately bowed her head: "I'm sorry, ancestor, I supervised..."
"No, it's not a matter of supervision—you can't watch them nail every nail," Gao Wen interrupted her, "it's a matter of the attitude of the workers."
"My lord ancestor, you can't ask too much of those commoners and serfs," Rebecca thought for a while and explained, "Most of them have little knowledge, except for doing the jobs their ancestors were used to on the farmland and mines, they Can't master other, more complex jobs. Most of these people have never pitched a tent—especially if you also specify the specifications and functions of the tent, as well as the planning of the entire camp, which is too much for them. It's complicated."
Gao Wen shook his head: "Is this really complicated?"
Hetty nodded slightly: "The army camps are so strict, these civilians and serfs can't do this."
"No, it's not complicated at all, I've broken down every step they have to do to the most basic level, everyone only needs to do one thing - drive a nail, or tie a rope, or saw the wood , They don’t need to know the plan of the entire camp at all, what they have to do is not much more complicated than doing coolies.” Gawain looked at Rebecca and Heidi, “Do you think that commoners and serfs are so stupid that they can’t even master this? "
Hetty and Rebecca looked at each other, they could see that Gao Wen was very dissatisfied now, but they didn't realize the crux of the problem yet. And as for Gawain's question - it was a matter of course for the two of them, especially Hetty.
Commoners and serfs are of course stupid.
They were born in this era and grew up in this era, and neither of them are well-informed and gifted thought enlighteners, so it is impossible for them to have insights and understandings that are too far beyond this era.
In fact, Hetty and Rebecca are already extremely progressive outliers among the contemporary nobles—Hetty never allowed the knights or soldiers in the family to plunder the property of civilians and serfs at will, and tried to make everyone in the territory They can all fill their stomachs, and Rebecca broke the iron law of lifelong serfdom, arranged for them to become free people, and also allowed civilians and serfs to circulate freely in their territories, and allowed civilians to freely business...
Each of these scattered systems can be said to challenge the norm, but the overall ideological confinement still prevents them from completely breaking through a fixed mindset: commoners and serfs are inferior.
Maybe they don't think so, but subconscious things can't be denied just by saying no.
Of course Gao Wen also knew this, so he didn't call the two great-granddaughters here to reprimand them or enlighten them. Serfs were transformed into sober, active, fighting citizens.
This will be a long process, but right now, he only needs these people to complete the work requirements he issued as soon as possible.
"Call everyone—civilians, serfs, soldiers, all of them," Gawain ordered, "while it's still daylight."
Those who were working and those who were resting were quickly summoned. Even Amber, who was telling Betty about her adventures in the treasure house in the mountain, rushed over curiously——Besides her was Betty with a blank face.
Everyone didn't know what this ancestor from seven hundred years ago wanted to do, even Hetty and Rebecca were at a loss.
As for the civilians and serfs, they just numbly obeyed orders and gathered together. The civilians gathered together, the serfs gathered together, and beside them stood the soldiers responsible for maintaining order.
Many people thought that their "new lord" had another order, and it might be a more complicated order than those complicated "tent-building system", so some people became frowning, thinking that they could go to sleep after the work was done.
Gawain stood on a big rock, looking down at the more than one hundred people below. He had already seen Amber secretly hiding in the crowd. He wanted to find out this guy who might make trouble at any time, but after thinking about it Did not say anything.
Then he cleared his throat and said loudly in a volume that everyone could hear clearly: "Cecil's citizens, I have something to say—about your future, and Cecil's new laws! "