Lorist shook his head as he looked at the more than 200 recruits lined up for military training not far away. These recruits were all newly recruited from the more than 2,000 immigrants in the new immigrant town of Viscount Kenmes. Compared with the 2,000 slave laborers in the family, these recruits, who were originally refugees, had much poorer physical fitness and were generally malnourished.
Think about it too, slave labor is to earn money for the Kenmes family, and they can also earn food and clothing. These immigrants are different. They are refugees in the first place, and it would be good if they can survive with a hungry meal. I was brought to the north by the Kenmes family to divide a few acres of land and give some food and clothing to the new immigrant towns. I don’t care about it. I have to pay taxes after two years. It’s normal for me to not have enough food and clothing to keep warm. thing.
It will take at least half a year to come in handy, Lorist rubbed his chin and was thinking about it, when he saw the black iron butler of Miss Teresty entering the recruit camp and hurried over.
The black iron steward came to the front and saluted, and said, "My lord, miss, please go to the Jiancheng headquarters, and we have important matters to discuss."
What Miss Teresty asked Lorist to discuss in the past was still about the construction of the main castle. The main castle is connected to the mountain and the cliff, with a height of six floors, majestic, easy to defend and difficult to attack. This has been settled long ago, and now it has been built to three floors.
However, there are large open spaces on the hillsides on both sides of the main castle, and the plan is to build villas on these open spaces as the residences of Lorist's family knights and civil officials. Now the plans for these villas have come out, and Lorist needs to win them.
The northern hillside of the main castle is relatively large and the terrain is relatively flat. Miss Teresti designed two plans with the assistance of master architect Silobal. One is that the villas are larger in size, with a total of 38 villas. The second plan is a group of small villas. Fifty-eight small villas can be built using the area of the hillside, which is 20 more than the first plan.
The south slope of the main castle is steep, and the drop is a bit large. No matter how much the open space is used, only eleven villas can be built. Lorist came here mainly to decide which plan to adopt for the northern hillside.
Lorist stood in front of the finished model and looked at it for a long time, but still felt dissatisfied. After thinking for a while, he said to Miss Teresty and the others: "Well, the hillside to the north has four floors, and the upper two floors are large buildings. For the villa, we will build small villas on the lower two floors. That’s the decision. As for the south slope, I suggest building buildings according to the mountain’s terrain. I think it should be possible to build three buildings. I hope that the rooms in these buildings will be larger in size. Like a college dormitory, it should be made into a single room or a suite, and each set should have four or five rooms like a small villa group."
After leaving the city construction headquarters, I saw Paul Binns galloping towards him: "My lord, here are two beggars. They said they were the messengers of some convoy and they wanted to find you..."
The courier for the convoy? Lorist was overjoyed: "Where are people?"
"Wait outside your room..." Paul Binns dismounted and handed over the reins.
Reddy, Jim and others had been away for less than ten days, and there was a reply so soon, it seems that the convoy will arrive soon. Lorist was delighted, and hurried towards the southern city wall with his whip on his horse.
After going up to the tower, Lorist saw two ragged, disheveled, disheveled people standing outside the room, and one of them was still wrapped in a black bandage. With this appearance, it is no wonder that Paul Binns said they were two beggars.
Seeing Lorist striding forward, the two beggars, oh messengers, cried on the spot, knelt down on the ground and wept uncontrollably: "My lord, we have finally seen you..."
Lorist asked suspiciously: "You...are...?"
"My lord, I'm Ruhr, he's Mode, and we're from the motorcade guards. Have you forgotten us?" The one who was not injured said while crying.
Ruhr, Morde, um, these are indeed the two guards under El, but this appearance is a bit too miserable.
Lorist kicked on the leg of the guard watching happily with his mouth open, "You blind thing, hurry up and get some water for the two brothers to wash, why are you smirking? Kemp is here."
The two couriers who had washed their faces and changed their clothes finally made Lorist feel a little familiar. After hearing the news, Sedkamp recognized these two couriers. What he did in the northbound convoy was to take guards to check the warehouse Thinking about the seized work, he called out the names of the two messengers in one gulp: "Rul, Mode, why are you here?"
"Master Sedkamp, we are here to deliver the message." When they talked about their mission, the two messengers wept again.
There were four or five letters in Lorist's hands. Shredder wrote in the letter that he was talking about the great victory in Aonohara, El was injured and the Second Highness, Chrisya came to the team, and reached an agreement with Shredder. All the conditions of the agreement were written in detail, and Shredder also explained his own Ideas and the benefits and significance of getting the standard equipment of the White Lions.
After reading the letter, Lorist was both happy and sad, the happy one was his cousin, the little chubby girl who bullied Little Locke when he was a child has now become a golden knight, and the sad thing is that the Northbound convoy is still in Andy. The Kingdom of Nak wandered around, and it was nowhere in sight to reach the Northland. When Fatty Shi and the others wiped out the rebellious lords of the Antinac Kingdom, it might snow when they set out on the road again. Today is September 9th, and winter will come soon, and it will be even more difficult for the convoy to travel northward when there will be heavy snow.
Lorist subconsciously looked at Fatty Shi's signature and date, and was stunned, because the date on the letter was June 28th...
"It took you more than two months to come here?" Lorist was very surprised. It only took him a month to leave Gerdos City and arrived in the Northland. How could it take so long to deliver the letter?
The guards of the two convoys cried again: "My lord, when we came out there were twelve people, now there are only two of us..."
Lorist raised his eyebrows: "What happened?"
"My lord, twelve of us are fully armed, one man and two horses. When we crossed the Kingdom of Antinac, we encountered bandits and robbers no less than ten times. When we arrived at the Principality of Madras, there were only seven of us left. Madras The Principality of Rath is not bad, we didn't have any accidents, when we arrived at Baishi Town on the other side of the Hendry River Bridge, when we were about to cross the river, we heard a caravan coming from the opposite side saying that Duke Lukins would send troops to punish him Disrespect to the Norton family, we dare not cross the river from the Hendry River Bridge, and then turn to the downstream and cross the river by ferry.
After crossing the river, we found a town to rest and buy something to eat, but the garrison in that town insisted that we were bandits and horse thieves and wanted to arrest us. When we broke through, there were only five people left. We lost our salute and our mounts, and we were afraid of those guards, so we were able to escape without daring to chase them out of the city. We had no choice but to walk on foot. After walking for five days, we arrived at a territory called Baron Farad. We wanted to get help from the baron, but the baron insisted that we were refugees and arrested us. They also stripped us of all our money, weapons and armor.
We were captured by the baron and put to hard labor for more than a month. Later, the baron went to war with another viscount. He stuffed us with spears and forced us to go to the battlefield. After two days of fighting, both Verin and Azik fought. Dead, Mo De and I, Gilson escaped during the scuffle, Gilson was hit by three arrows, and he died after running out. Mo De and I didn't dare to enter the towns and villages again. After wandering in the wild for six days, we finally arrived here and met the adults..."
Ruhr wept and finished talking about their hardships in order to deliver the letter.
Lorist slapped the table with a "bang" resentfully: "That's unreasonable, what's the name of the baron you mentioned? And what's the name of that town?"
Don't think about it, it must be the good deeds of those lords who were newly appointed by the second prince to the Northland. People in the Northland have always been hospitable, travelers in need can get help as long as they ask the nearby lords or towns and villages for help. Like messengers, those who stay overnight with the lords of the Northland can even get banquets and entertainment. For nothing else, the lords want to hear news from far away and learn about the situation outside the Northland. Sometimes some generous lords will give them gifts. The courier rewards some coins.
Since the second prince canonized forty or fifty new territorial nobles in the Northland, the Northland has been polluted by these outsiders. If they have no money, they will pretend to be robbers and rob people. If they have no people, they will go to nearby towns and villages to rob people. The conflict between the Northland lord and the new lord was all about these things. Last time, at the lord's banquet celebrating the end of the knight tournament, a lord mentioned that a new lord pretended to be a horse thief and robbed other lords' caravans and was recognized.
Baron Farad, right? Lorist looked at the map and saw that he was indeed the new lord. His territory was only two days away from Rock Castle, and Earl Spencer's territory was separated in between. As for the town that Ruhr mentioned, I can't find it on the map, but that location is also the territory of the new lord, the Viscounty of Davov. That town may be a newly established immigrant town, and the garrison recruited are all hooligans, so they pretended to be horses and tricked the messengers. That place is a little farther away, and it takes four or five days to ride a horse, so write it down first and settle the account later.
"Tell the guards outside the door to find Josk and Knight Vasimma, and tell them to come here." Lorist said to Sedkamp.
"How is the current situation of the team? Is El's injury recovering well?" Lorist asked Ruhr and Mod.
Ruhr replied: "In the Battle of Qingyeyuan, our convoy suffered minor losses, and the number of casualties was less than a thousand. If Lord El was not injured, he should have led the team to deliver the letter this time. Lord Schrader sent someone to deliver the letter in Benzburg last time. At that time, Lord El was going to come, but after Lord Bodfinger came back from the imperial capital, Lord El changed his mind and asked someone else to deliver the letter... "
"Wait..." The more Lorist heard it, the more suspicious he became: "You said that Knight Shredder sent someone to deliver a letter to me when you were in Benzburg?"
"Yes..." Ruhr replied, and then suddenly thought of something: "Could it be... Could it be that you didn't receive the letter? Didn't you see the messenger?"
Lorist shook his head.
Ruhr and Mo De looked at each other with a happy expression on their faces.
Ruhr said: "My lord, they set off a month earlier than us. The letter that Lord Schrader wrote to you is mainly to report the situation of the convoy and the news that Lord Bodfinger got from the imperial capital. The person who delivered the letter was Creamer, who was also a guard. , Your Excellency should know. They are the same as us, there were twelve people when they set off. The letter has not yet been sent to you, Your Excellency. Judging from our experience, they may, may have been in danger... "
"Live to see people, die to see corpses, I will find out their whereabouts, no one can harm our messengers and escape the revenge of our Norton family, I will give you an explanation." Lorist gritted his teeth, No wonder Fatty Shi always felt that the letters from Fatty Shi had no beginning and no end, and there was a wave of messengers who disappeared because of the lack of traces, and I was missing a letter.
"Tell me about the situation of the team, it's not written in this letter..." Lorist said.
Ruhr and Mod started to introduce the situation of the team one by one.
"What, the convoy has more than 4,000 carriages and more than 50,000 horses? There are 15,000 family members escorting the convoy north?" Lorist almost jumped up. The fight was terrific, and the Second Highness was concerned about the strength of the convoy's armed forces and asked Fatty Shi and the others to help wipe out those rebellious lords...
Now Lorist finally understood why Fatty Shi confidently said in the letter that he had reached an agreement with His Highness the Second Highness. It turned out that the strength of the team had grown so fast that it could decide the fate of a kingdom. It seems that there is no need to worry about the safety of the team for the time being. The letter on June 28th, today is September 9th, almost two and a half months later, if all goes well, the convoy should complete the agreement with the Second Highness.
Josk and Vasinma entered the room after registering outside the door.
Lorist called them forward, pointed to the name of Baron Farad on the map, and told Ruhr and Mode what happened to them delivering the letter, which made Josk and Vasimma furious.
"It's a disgrace to the nobility..." Vasimma said.
"My lord, we must take revenge on this Baron Farad, no one can treat our messenger like this." Josk said.
"I order you, take the cavalry squadron and the cavalry squadron, hang this Baron Farad at the gate of his castle, burn his castle, write down the reason why we did this, and let the new lords understand Some traditional customs and noble rules of the North..." Lorist ordered.
"Abiding, my lord, we will do as you ordered." Josk and Vasimma stood at attention and saluted.
"Don't go in a hurry, this time you are going to cross the territory of Earl Spencer, I will write a letter and bring it to him, so as not to cause misunderstanding. In addition, according to Ruhr and Mode, they still have a group of Messenger, but we have no news. After you send troops this time, go around to find out their whereabouts and see who did the good deed... "
"Understood, my lord." Josk and Vasimma replied.
Lull and Maude stood up.
"My lord, please allow us to go together. We want to collect the bones of our colleagues." Mo De said.
"You guys just came here, can you hold on physically?" Lorist couldn't help it, the reason for them to go was very strong.
"Our bodies hold on, my lord," said Rule.
"Well, let's take a rest for a day and start tomorrow. Take a good rest at night. I'll check Mo De's injuries. If there's nothing serious, I'll allow you to go together and hang that Baron Farad with your own hands. I believe you will be very happy." Willing to do it. Sedkamp, tomorrow you will also take twenty guards with them, and help them collect the remains of the guards who died heroically. After returning, I will bury them among the martyrs of the Rock Castle. Tomb." Lorist said.
The Tomb of the Martyrs is a warrior cemetery opened by Lorist on the hill opposite the main castle of the Rock Castle. All the family soldiers and guards who died in battle are buried here, so that future generations can remember and pay homage.
"Thank you sir..." Ruhr and Mo De said in unison.
"Yes, my lord." This was Sidkamp's answer.