When the sky was bright, Lorist got out of the tent and stretched himself. Sidkamp, who was standing by, handed over a linen towel, and after Lorist wiped his face, he handed him a glass of mouthwash.
"My lord, breakfast is ready," said Sedkamp.
Lorist waved his hand: "No, just bring me two breads. Let's go to the city wall in front first."
I went to bed too late last night and got up late in the morning. When Lorist came to the front wall, he found that Papa Barek, who had been rescued from the copper mine, was standing at the top of the city wall. When he saw Lorist coming, Papa Barek bowed and saluted from a distance.
Lorist went up to the city wall and saw many slave workers digging the moat outside. They sent the excavated soil to the top, and several slave workers put the soil into a rectangular wooden frame, poured a spoonful of water, Put a big wooden board on it, and several slave laborers jumped up and stepped on it, stepped on the soil until it was as flat as the wooden frame, and then removed the wooden frame to get a two-foot-long, one-and-a-half-foot-wide plank. Square dirt block. Then the slave laborers let the clod of soil sit there, moved to the side, rebuilt the wooden frame, and began to fill in the soil again.
"What are they doing?" Lorist asked.
Papa Barek replied: "My lord, they are making mud bricks. The soil dug out from the moat is added with the juice of the glue vine, and after two days of drying, it can form very strong mud bricks. Then use the mud Building a city wall with bricks will be very fast. It is said that it is several times faster than building a city wall with stones. As long as the foundation of the city wall is done well, it will be as strong and durable as a stone city wall after it is built. But this idea came from a slave laborer. For this reason, Miss Tresty promoted him to be a consultant by her side..."
Lorist nodded: "Those who are capable and willing to serve the family should be rewarded. Miss Tresty is right. Eh? What are those people doing?"
Lorist refers to the rows of scaffolding built along the mountain wall, on which many slave laborers are working.
"My lord, this is to flatten the mountain walls so that people will not be able to climb up from the walls on both sides of the city wall and pose a threat to the guards on the city wall. This is also the suggestion of the slave laborer. The rubble excavated from the flattened mountain walls can be filled later." It's a good idea to go inside the city wall." Papa Barek said.
"Very good. I think the moat is almost dug. When will we start building the city wall?" Lorist asked.
"In two days, the foundation of the city wall can be dug immediately, and some slave laborers will go to mine the stones for the foundation." Father Barek pointed to a straight line drawn with lime on the ground below and said: "Look , my lord, the foundation is dug in the lime line."
"That's right, by the way, won't Miss Tresty come over in the morning?" Lorist asked.
Papa Barek shook his head: "She won't come, all the steps to build the city wall have been arranged, and now I'm in charge here, unless there is something unexpected, generally speaking, Miss Tresty will not come Come to the city, this place is too messy and dirty."
"Okay, then go ahead, I'll discuss something with Miss Teresty." Lorist patted Papa Barek's shoulder, turned and left.
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Lorist came to the wall behind and walked towards the five big houses in the middle. As soon as I entered the door, oh, it was so lively, three or four slave laborers were carefully carving small items in their hands with various small carving knives. Next to the sand table in the middle of the room, there was Miss Teresty's little maid, Winnie, who was fiddling with a model of a small house in her hand.
"Little Winnie, what are you doing?" Lorist said.
Seeing that it was Lorist, little Winnie quickly straightened up: "My lord, I'm making a model. Look, this city is beautiful, right?"
Lorist saw that the sand table on the table was gone, and instead there was a square wooden table. The topography of the castle site and the model of the completed city were piled up in the wooden table. It seems that Miss Tresty has rebuilt the original unfinished castle model according to her own ideas in the past few days to create a new city model.
Lorist remembered that the original unfinished castle model was more focused on military use, and that model was a military fortress. The city model placed on the table now looks like a garden-like commercial city. Except for the two front and rear walls, and the castle built on the left side of the mountain, Miss Teresti vacated the entire valley to build a commercial area and a residential area, and a garden was set up between the residential area and the commercial area. There are small squares and even small flower beds separating the houses from each other. Lorist could imagine that if the city model was built according to this model, then the city in the valley would really look like a big garden, and it would indeed be very beautiful.
However, such a city did not suit Lorist. He first praised how beautiful it was, and then asked where Miss Tresty was
Little Winnie pointed to the suite inside, Lorist walked over and knocked on the door, and Miss Theresty's hoarse voice came from inside: "Please come in."
Lorist opened the door and went in, and found that there were three desks in the small room. On the table next to the wall was the large sand table that was originally on the outside table. The desk next to the large sand table should be a special Miss Lesti's desk, on the desk are various notes and animal skin notebooks. On the other side of the house is a large square table, on which are placed several sheets of drawing paper, on which are various patterns of castles, standing beside the square table is Miss Teresty and her black iron steps. The old housekeeper, and a middle-aged man with short hair and dark complexion.
"My lord..." Miss Teresty and her old housekeeper saluted Lorist, while the middle-aged man was a little panicked and looked at a loss.
"Who is he?" Lorist asked, looking at the middle-aged man.
"My lord, his name is Sang Ben. He was originally a slave laborer. He is a good painter and proficient in various construction techniques. I promoted him to be a consultant. Sang Ben, salute to your lord quickly." Miss Teresty explained.
The middle-aged man Sang Ben hurriedly bowed deeply to Lorist. Lorist waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be polite. I heard Papa Barek talk about you and said that you are very good. Work hard, the Norton family doesn't care about you." Anyone who is willing to serve the family loyally will be treated badly."
Miss Theresty asked: "My lord, have you seen the model of the city outside?"
Lorist nodded: "Miss Teresty, I'm here to discuss something with you. I've seen the model of the city outside. To be honest, I'm very dissatisfied, because you have mistaken the main purpose of building this castle."
"But my lord, you didn't tell me the main purpose of building this castle." Miss Teresty retorted.
"It's my fault. This is the first time you have come into contact with building a castle. I didn't explain to you the purpose and purpose of building this castle carefully, so you got the wrong direction. It's not your fault. Let's go outside to discuss Bar."
Lorist and Miss Teresty came to the outside room, pointed to the city model Lorist and said, "Miss Teresty, look at this castle construction site, it is the throat of this area, connecting our family territory If we control this place, our family will be more than able to advance and retreat. If we lose this castle, our family will be trapped to death in the Northland. Back then, the Kenmes family designed this place as a military fortress. It's not to my liking. I originally wanted to build this place into a castle that combines military and life, but I didn't expect that you would design this place as a city of life and commerce. Like a garden, it is very beautiful, but its military function is weakened. , except for the two city walls. Once attacked by the enemy, if the city wall falls, the entire city will fall.”
Miss Tresty sighed: "Okay, sir, tell me how to build this castle. Fortunately, it's just paperwork now, and there is still time for everything."
Lorist directly disassembled the city model on the table: "The center of this city is the castle, and the castle is also the last defensive fortress of the entire city. The castle must have a strong defensive ability. As for the style, it is up to you. You can build it more beautifully without affecting the defensive ability. There should be a square in front of the castle. Build two more towers in the middle of the two walls, so that if the front wall falls, you only need to close the iron gate leading to the front wall to cut off the traffic on the wall, and the guards can still rely on the towers to resist and even fight back. .”
"On both sides of the castle, storehouses and arsenals are arranged inside the city wall, and barracks and stables are arranged outside the city wall. In the middle is the avenue leading to the front and rear gates. The remaining two-thirds of the space on the opposite side is the commercial area and residential area. The details are up to you. Arrangements. There are no other requirements, but the city can accommodate up to fifteen thousand people after the completion of the construction, and also pay attention to the arrangement of the wells and the layout of the sewers, so be it.”
Tresty's old housekeeper wrote down Lorist's request, and then handed the note to his young lady. Miss Tresity looked at the note, and after confirming that what was written on it was the same as what Lorist said, she handed the note to Sang Ben who was standing next to her: "Sang Ben, you should first design an approximate The pattern, we will modify it."
"Yes, my lord." Sang Ben said respectfully.
Little Winnie was teary-eyed, watching the city model on the wooden plate being messed up by Lorist, and was about to cry: "Miss, your lord is too bad, you can see that my models are all like this..."
Lorist Khan: "I'm sorry, little Winnie, I'm really sorry, I didn't pay attention either..."
Miss Teresty wiped little Winnie's face: "It's okay, we can make a more beautiful one. By the way, my lord, what did you say you wanted to discuss with me?"
Lorist and Miss Teresty went back to the inner suite.
"It's like this..." Lorist straight to the point explained that he wanted to lure the transport team of the Kenmes family into the castle construction site and force them to surrender, so he hoped that Miss Tresty would cooperate in the next two days to change the slave labor. The job distribution that makes oneself plan can be carried out smoothly.
"Oh, my lord, I really hate these fights and killings. You men always like to fight and fight like this. Why can't you build a castle quietly?" Miss Teresy sighed deeply. tone.
Lorist spread his hands: "No way, if you don't want to annihilate this transport convoy, the Kenmes family will immediately know the fact that this place has been occupied by us, and they will probably send troops to attack us immediately. And the front road The city wall has not yet been built. With the original four-meter-high stone wall, it is difficult for us to resist continuous attacks, and the casualties will be heavy. And the design eliminates this transport convoy, so we can continue to conceal the news that this place is occupied by us. We may have already built the city wall when the Kenmes family knows that they have sent a large army. At that time, we will rely on the city wall for defense, and we can continue to build safely inside."
"Okay, my lord, everything is as you wish, and I will cooperate with your actions." Miss Tresty said.
"By the way, there is one more thing. I brought a steward from the family. His name is Hansk, and he is good at calculation. I will arrange him under your command to help build the castle. I will ask him to report to you later." Lorist said .
Miss Tresty nodded, and then remembered something: "My lord, what name are you going to name this castle after it's built?"
Lorist thought for a while and said, "Let's call it the Rock Castle. I hope it will be as solid as a rock, unshakable."
Miss Tresty seemed very unhappy, her mouth was pouted, and her face was very ugly.
Lorist was stunned for a moment, and quickly figured out the reason, and said with a smile: "Miss Teresty, I understand what you mean, and I'm sorry. It's just that this will become the main castle of our family, so we chose the name carefully." .If you are willing to continue to take over the construction of the mountain city on the sand table after the castle is completed, then I can name this mountain city Niko Mountain City after your surname, or it can be called Teresy City, what do you think? If you don’t If you are willing to name it with your surname and first name, I can give you the right to name the mountain city, and you can choose the name of the mountain city. Do you think this will work?"
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