Steward Kedan and Sudkamp rode up the hill and came to Lorist's side.
Lorist asked, "Do you know the details of why the Donbassen family in Beiye Town withdrew from the garrison?"
"My lord, the last time you left Beiye Town with Knight Berunek, it seemed that something happened to the Donbassen family the next day. It's just that they concealed it very deeply and we couldn't find out the reason, but I remember that night Patriarch Molin, Patriarch Hassan, and Patriarch Chubim went to meet Master Donbassen together, and it seemed that some agreement was reached, and then the Donbassen family withdrew from the garrison." Steward Kedan replied.
"What about you? What did you find out?" Lorist turned to Sedkamp.
Sodkamp nodded and said: "Last night, I invited a player who was dismissed from the defense team to drink. He told me after drinking too much that the four major families have been concealing their family's strength. Each family has several This is why they dare to openly confront the family. The only thing that puzzles the four major families is that these clansmen who have been promoted to the silver rank cannot learn systematic fighting spirit knowledge, and they do not know how to use the silver rank. I can only figure it out by myself. The former defense team member also told me that this time the Donbassin family had a bad luck. They only had five silver-ranked clansmen in total, but four of them died suddenly for some reason. Two black iron three-stars also died, and their strength dropped from the second one of the four major families to the last. I guess the Donbassen family was forced to withdraw from the defense team when the three families came to threaten them."
Lorist laughed. He killed six roadblockers on his way back from Beiye Town. He originally thought that the four major families were all involved, but Berunek recognized two of them as members of the Donbassen family. It's just that I didn't expect the other four to do the same. This can be regarded as a severe lesson for the Donbassen family, breaking their family's spine in one fell swoop. I originally hoped that the four major families in Beiye Town would fight for the positions of the three quasi-knights, but the outcome was decided so quickly. It turned out that the Donbassen family had made the sacrifices, and I could only blame myself for doing it. too heavy.
"Is there anything wrong with Cassie?" Lorist asked again.
Sedkamp replied: "I asked many people, they only knew that there was such a person, but they had no contact. I also inquired with several former defense players, and they all said that they did not know Cassie, nor heard of Cassie. Which family does Xi get closer to? She usually stays in the Lord's Mansion, with Lord Berunek. Apart from Master Donbassen, Kaxi has never had contact with other family heads. I think he should be fine."
Lorist paused and said, "I'm surprised that Knight Beruniek was poisoned by Master Donbassin for two years, and he was almost put under house arrest in the lord's mansion. Then Cassie, who is an attendant, didn't Did you find any suspicious signs? So it’s hard for me to believe in his loyalty. But since you haven’t noticed any problems, after arriving at the family’s manor castle, you ask Cassie to report to the guards, and I will teach him to awaken his fighting spirit as a way to deal with him. A reward for accompanying Knight Berunek for two years."
"My lord, you treated the garrison in Beiye Town too favorably this time. Not only did you pay them salaries, but you also gave them leather armor and spears. But I doubt they will act according to your arrangement." Kedan said the steward.
"Yes, they have no choice. Did you forget that I changed the rules about granting land?" Lorist said.
"You're talking about the rule that each guard distributes sixty acres of land?"
"Yes, four hundred garrison members, each with 60 acres, exactly 24,000 acres, can be said to occupy all the fields in Beiye Town. The Morin family, the Hassan family and the Chubim family have already Do you think they will let go of those fields? In this way, the defenders who did not belong to the three major families were not only cleared by the defense team, but also lost their fields. What do you think they will do? Do?"
"Are they going to make trouble?"
"Of course, the original idea of the three major families was to let me form a garrison team for the new town and recruit all these people, so as to appease these people, and secondly, to expand their influence to the new town. It’s just that I didn’t expect to form a garrison team for the new town right away. I just said that the garrison team would be formed after the construction of the new town was completed. In this way, those people would lose their land. They would lose their land and positions in the garrison team. No, do you think they're willing?"
Lorist sneered and said, "I gave the three major families a one-month deadline, just hoping that those people would start a fight, and they would turn against the three major families. In the end, the three major families would not be able to bear it and send the guards to escort them to Poplar Beach Build a new town. Soon they will confront each other. As a result, Beiye Town will lose more than half of its population, and I estimate that the remaining three or four thousand people belong to the three major families. Younger, the maximum number of people who can go into battle is about a thousand. By then we will be dealing with these thousand people, instead of the six or seven thousand people in the entire Beiye Town."
Kedan seems to have realized something.
Lorist looked at Beiye Town in the distance, and the last carriage transporting people had already left the city gate: "Let's go, Steward Kedan, you are responsible for arranging these people in the open space in front of the manor castle. Sedkamp, You are responsible for explaining our new pension regulations to the survivors of the former family soldiers, and reassuring them that our family will never treat those who are loyal to the family, understand?"
"Yes. My lord, I understand." Sidkamp replied.
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The open space in front of the family's manor castle is bustling with people. Steward Kedan is arranging tents, Steward Hansk is settling accounts with the transport convoy in Beiye Town, and Steward Speer is reporting to Lorist.
"My lord, Master Josk brought 124 four-wheeled carriages this time. We collected 87 four-wheeled carriages from the family's manor castle. These carriages were mainly from the family caravan a few years ago. The spare carriages and carriages used for marching. However, there are many two-wheeled carriages in the family. They are mainly used to transport materials in the manor or transport hired workers to farm. If adults need it, they can provide 135 vehicles. "
"Speer is in charge, how much extra manpower is there in the manor this time?" Lorist asked.
"My lord, the management of Hansk has been counted, and there are 748 extra manpower."
"In this way, plus the 1,427 people in Beiye Town, we will transport 2,175 people to the Morgen Hill Castle construction site this time, and the transportation personnel will need 200 four-wheelers. Horse-drawn carriage, how much food and supplies can be transported by the remaining carriage?"
"My lord, what you want to transport is mainly food and cloth. The family warehouse stores mostly food, not much cloth, but a lot of fur can also be transported to make clothes. If you even transport two-wheeled carriages, you can transport one hundred thousand A catty of grain and a batch of furs." Butler Speer replied.
"Then let's do it like this, arrange it as you said, and use the two-wheeled carriage." Lorist ordered.
Lorist turned his head to look, and found that Josk beside him was wandering around, wondering what he was thinking.
"Hey Joe, what were you thinking?"
"Oh, my lord, I'm wondering. When we went to Beiye Town, I found the words Beiye Town engraved on the city gate. But why is the gate of our family's manor castle blank, without a name?" Josk said .
That's right, Lorist recalled that when people usually call it the family's manor castle, it seems that they did not name the manor castle. It's strange, the family inheritance has been going on for more than two hundred years, why no one named the family's manor and castle.
"Speer is in charge, do you know why?"
Steward Speer shook his head. At this moment, Steward Hansk finished the calculation and Lorist asked the same question.
"I remember that someone asked me before. The master was still there at that time. He said, why is it so troublesome? There is only a manor castle and a town in the family territory. The town is already called Beiye Town, which is the site of the garrison. And the manor castle belongs to our family, so it is called the family manor castle, which is more intimate." Steward Hansk replied thoughtfully.
Lorist shook his head: "That won't work. In the future, there will be too many manors and castles in the family territory and it will be confusing if they don't name them. Let me come up with a name. You can see that there are maple forests on the surrounding mountains. Our family's manor castle is called Maple Forest Shanzhuang, you can find a mason to engrave this name on the castle later."
"My lord, the name you chose is really good and appropriate. I will have my name engraved today." The steward Hanske said.
Lorist stopped Steward Speer, who was about to leave: "Speer Steward, please work hard these two days, and get the supplies and carriage ready as soon as possible. Today is March 5th, I hope March 7th We can set off, so that we can arrive at the castle site on the other side of the Morgen Hills eight days ago."
"Okay, don't worry, my lord, I guarantee that the seven-day convoy can start." Steward Speer promised and left in a hurry.
"My lord, in fact, there is plenty of time, you don't have to rush the team to set off." Josk said beside him.
"No, Joe, have you forgotten what Steward Boris said over there? The Kenmes family will deliver a large number of supplies and slave labor to the castle site around the tenth. I plan to arrive before the eighth to see if there is any There is no chance to swallow the supplies delivered by this convoy," Lorist said.
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On March 7th, at around nine o'clock in the morning, a convoy of 211 four-wheeled carriages and 135 two-wheeled carriages transporting personnel and food supplies left Maple Forest Villa and headed towards the Morgen Hills. The castle construction site set off.
Steward Hanske and Steward Kedan accompanied Lorist this time, and Steward Hanske recruited more than 200 young men from Fenglin Villa who were training to awaken their grudges to be coachmen, and asked them to go with the convoy first. , and resume training after returning.
Pat took the sixty guards who had awakened fighting spirit from the guard team just formed in Maple Forest Villa and the sixty former bandit guards brought by Josk when he came to form an escort team, and rode the Northland steed along the way. Carry out security patrols.
Lorist complained to Soderkamp who was following behind him: "Why do I always feel that I have been dealing with the team? You see, starting from Morente City is to form a team, and finally in Gerdos City It's only been a few days since I left the convoy, and you and Pat got me another convoy in Vonyatta. Now I've only been at home for a few days, and I'm going to follow the convoy again. Fleet convoy, it's so boring Thoroughly…”
Suedkamp knew that Lorist was joking, so he smiled and didn't answer.
It was Josk who laughed: "My lord, you can wait for a day to start. I will take the convoy and go first, and you will catch up tomorrow."
Lorist waved his hand and said, "No, I realize that I'm a hard worker. I'll worry about it all the time when I'm waiting for the day, and I can't rest assured. It's better to go with the convoy to feel more at ease."
…
It took Lorist seven and a half hours to drive from the castle site on the other side of the Morgen Hills to Maplewood Villa with Sodkamp and Pat and a carriage. Now it will take fourteen hours to bring the team back Five hours, almost double the time.
The convoy walked for five or six hours. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Josk sent someone in front of the convoy to ask Lorist, if there is a small lake a few miles away, should the convoy stop for two hours to rest? hit the road
Lorist was about to ride his horse to the front to have a look, when he suddenly found that the mountain ridge in front of the left was full of dust and smoke, and dozens of horsemen emerged from the mountain ridge. Go straight to the convoy...