Gawain Cecil returned safely, with documents signed by the King, and news of the support of the royal family.
Viscount Andrew, who had been waiting in Tanzania Town for nearly three months, felt that he had made the right decision: the founding hero seven hundred years ago did not disappoint him, and he was not just an idiot as he had feared at first. Wu Fu, but a character with both cunning and strategy.
It's just that he didn't expect that the founding hero would choose the Dark Mountains as the starting point for his family revitalization.
As a small nobleman sitting in the southern border area, Viscount Andrew is no stranger to the Dark Mountains—in fact, the former Cecil and Leslie Territories are both on the north side of the Dark Mountains, and they can be seen just by looking up on a clear day. See that magnificent natural barrier. The mountains block the unhealthy air from the wasteland of Gondor. At the same time, because of its many monsters and frequent strange talks, many people turn pale. Even the most desperate hunters rarely go to Living in the dark mountains—even if the southern lords opened up hunting rights in the mountains.
The original Cecil Territory is located a little west of the northern part of the Dark Mountains, Tanzania Town is to the northeast, and the "New Cecil Territory" selected by Gawain is located in the southeast direction of Tanzania Town. The three roughly form a triangle , but the distance between "New Cecil Territory" and the Dark Mountains is the closest among the three, and its southern part even goes directly into the mountains.
A tributary of the Baishui River flowing in front of Tanzania Town will flow into the "New Cecil Territory". From the perspective of transportation, the new home is a good place: it is easy to get material support from Tanzania Town, and at the same time If the territory develops in the future, the trade cost will be reduced a lot.
But the premise is that the people led by Gao Wen can really gain a firm foothold in that barren land.
In Viscount Andrew's castle, the thin and strict nobleman seemed worried: "With all due respect, Your Excellency, the first foothold you chose is not... so suitable. Although there are many lands there, it is far away from the Dark Mountains." Too close, lack of protection from a civilized society, the beasts in the mountains are a great threat, and every year in the foggy moon, there will be unclean winds across the mountains, blowing from the wasteland of Gondor, strong and strong soldiers may be fine , but those poor and weak civilians and serfs can't bear it..."
"You should have read the map, and you should know that although the places I can choose are vast, the conditions are all similar," Gao Wen seemed disapproving, "In the area next to the Dark Mountain Range, the land I chose is already The best thing is—the unclean wind can be resisted by medicine and magic. I will find a way to solve the defense problem by myself. As long as we can survive the first year, we can mine ore from the dark mountains, and the territory can be Stand still."
He couldn't just say that the reason why he chose such a place was because the treasure house of national destiny seven hundred years ago was buried in the mountain, right
At least you have to wait until you have opened the treasury and got everything in your hands before you can let outsiders know about it, and it has to be known in a limited way—it is impossible to hide it completely, those materials must be used, once they are taken out After construction, a fool can guess the truth.
It can only be guaranteed that before those things are all used, the fewer people who know, the better.
Seeing Gao Wen's resolute attitude, Viscount Andrew had no choice but to remind him, "This is all your decision, and I will naturally support it as much as possible, but please remember our original transaction."
Gao Wen smiled slightly: "Don't worry, Cecil's family never owes money - you really don't want to worry about me giving you one or two of my antiques?"
Rebecca, who was sitting on the opposite side of the table and reporting what she had seen and heard about the capital with Aunt Hetty, suddenly raised her head and looked in Gawain's direction, her eyes lit up: the old ancestor thought the same as me! Does this mean that he inherited the family tradition
Hetty knocked Rebecca's forehead lightly: "Don't look around—go on, you were at the king's banquet, and you were just busy eating from the beginning to the end?!"
"I'm still drinking - I'm old enough to drink a little..."
Looking at this girl with a bad mind, Hetty looked desperate: "My God..."
As for Viscount Andrew, of course he couldn't accept Gawain's "good intentions", so he quickly waved his hands: "No need, no need, I believe in the credibility of the Cecil family and the guarantee of the founding heroes... Then when are you going to set off?"
"The sooner the better," Gawain nodded, "We'll leave as soon as the supplies are prepared. The support promised by the king will have to wait at least a month. I have to let my subjects gain a foothold in their new home first."
For the people who escaped from the disaster in Old Cecil Territory, the three-month recuperation period was over, and the lord's return from the capital meant that they had to prepare for a new life immediately.
Even if most of them don't know what their new life is like.
Knights Philip and Byron were sent out to buy the necessary supplies in Tanzania Town and the materials necessary to build a new territory-food, tools, tents, medicines, and many other necessities that they couldn't think of at all.
The items that need to be prepared are piled up. Even Hetty, who has been assisting in the management of the territory's affairs, and Byron, who is a veteran of the Cecil family, don't know how to start. No one knows what is needed to build a territory from scratch. In this regard , that is, Gao Wen can help a little bit - the ancestors of Ansu built their homes from scratch during the great pioneering period 700 years ago. Regarding the matters to be prepared during the pioneering period, the memory in Gao Wen's mind is a valuable experience .
Of course, due to the 700-year time difference, Gao Wen's experience and knowledge may not be completely effective, but the basic theories are not too different.
No matter how the tools develop and change, the problems that the pioneers have to solve in the wilderness are still the same, nothing more than food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical care and protection.
As for the funds, Viscount Andrew had previously returned the gold and silver belongings of the Cecil family, together with the money preserved by Knight Philip, although it was not sufficient, it was still barely enough to prepare the initial supplies.
Those refugees from the Cecil Territory walked around the town, buying supplies and hiring vehicles, which naturally attracted the attention of the locals. They had already heard the news of the resurrection of the founding hero, and recently heard about Cecil The lady lord of Er returned from the capital, so he naturally knew that these "outsiders" who had lived in the town for three months were finally leaving.
Most of the lower-class people in Tanzan Town don't care about these "outsiders" going or staying, but the "outsiders" have to buy a lot of things before they leave, which makes the town's commercial guild a lot of money. pens, so their complaints against their lords immediately decreased a lot—before this, the lords requisitioned a lot of shacks for outsiders to live in, and those poor refugees couldn’t even find a few copper coins. People who do less business are very dissatisfied with them.
While the two family knights were running around preparing supplies, Gawain asked Hetty and Rebecca to count all the Cecil citizens, and asked them to make a detailed roster of the more than 800 survivors.
"It is necessary to be accurate to each person's name, age, gender, health status, and skilled crafts, and group them by family. At the same time, make another list to list carpenters, stonemasons, and blacksmiths separately. By the way, if possible, give Each person is numbered for easy reference."
This was the task Gao Wen assigned to the two great-great-great-great-great-granddaughters. He thought it would be easy, but he didn't expect to make the two great-great-great-granddaughters at N level confused.
They have never heard of basic information registration, nor do they know how this so-called "form" is made.
"Haven't even done basic population registration?" Seeing Hetty and Rebecca's blank expressions, Gawain felt that he was more confused than the other party, "Then how did you count the population of the territory?"
When Rebecca replied, she looked innocent: "Aunt Hetty is in charge of the territory around the castle, and several knight fiefdoms are in charge of several knights themselves. It is enough to know how many men, women, old people, and children there are. , As for who is the blacksmith and who is the carpenter, almost everyone who lives around knows each other, just ask."
Gao Wen: "..."
Fuck? Just inquire about it? The legendary eyes rule the country, the face is calm, and the world is calmed down with one mouthful
Noticing the changing expression on Gao Wen's face, Hetty suddenly became nervous: "My lord ancestor... Could it be that you and your ancestor used the form you mentioned to count the population when you founded the country?"
Gao Wen quickly fiddled with the information in his mind, and after a while, his face turned pale.
Damn it... It was even more chaotic back then.
The Gondor Empire collapsed overnight, and the prosperous and developed central region was completely wiped out. Those who survived the first wave of shock were all the population in remote areas—and that ancient empire was a typical unbalanced society. Gawain seems almost deformed: since the magic technology of this world must rely on the magic power focus, and the natural magic power focus is limited, all the advanced technologies of the Gondor Empire are piled up around the most powerful magic power focus "Dark Blue" in the center of the continent , as for the outlying areas where the magic focus is thin...
Incredibly behind.
Therefore, after the demon tide broke out with "Dark Blue" as the center, all the advanced technology and high-level intellectual population of the Gondor Empire were sacrificed to the sky, and those who survived were screened over and over again in the continuous energy radiation thereafter. In the end, when the pioneers led everyone to escape, human civilization can be said to have completely collapsed...
To put it bluntly: The Four Great Kingdoms were established by a group of elementary school students leading a group of illiterates.
It's just that in this world with extraordinary power, the individual power at the top can offset the overall decline brought about by the backwardness of civilization to a certain extent. That's why the original four kingdoms were able to survive a group of pioneers with explosive combat power. It was established under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and withstood the pressure from all aspects at the beginning of the founding of the country.
But, but, but!
Seven hundred years! After seven hundred years, how come these unworthy descendants have not made progress