At the end of July, Lorist received a letter from Fatty Shi in Maplewood Villa, saying that Baron Felim Charward of the Pegasus family had sent an envoy, hoping to buy 5,000 sets of armor from the Norton family. In addition, Baron Shaheen, that is, Knight Henned, wrote a letter to Lorist, in which he hoped that Lorist would sponsor him 3,000 sets of iron armor and supporting weapons...
Lorist was unable to return to the Rock Castle, because the old manager, Kress, was already dying. After six months, the old manager's condition worsened, and he was bedridden. Pat had been serving beside him for nearly two months.
Looking at the map, Lorist pondered for a while, then wrote back to Fatty Shi. If the Pegasus family wanted to buy iron armor, they would sell it to him. Real gold and silver would not deceive anyone, young or old. They would pay with one hand and deliver the goods at the same time. As for Knight Henned, Lorist specially wrote a reply letter, inviting him to come and talk.
When Knight Henned arrived at Maplewood Villa, the old manager Kress passed away. Before he died, the old manager was conscious. He held Lorist's hand and expressed his wish. He hoped that he would be lucky enough to enter the forbidden area of the family. Even after his death, he can accompany the ancestors of the Norton family.
Lorist nodded, then shook his head again. Boss Kress didn't understand what this meant, and he couldn't catch his breath...
Pat cried very sadly. His parents died early, and he was brought up by his grandpa since he was a child. Now the death of his only relative made him distraught. He didn't understand why Lorist refused his grandfather's dying request. After all, Boss Kress had devoted his whole life to the Norton family, and stabilized the situation at the most critical moment of the family, delaying Lorist's return to inherit the territory and title. The family has made great achievements, and entering the family's forbidden area is beyond reproach.
Lorist said that he was going to build a family cemetery in Bailugang, which was a holy place for the ancestors of the family to be buried by Goddess Silver Moon, but the ancestors of the family didn't realize it. This time he will make a big effort to move the remains of the ancestors out of the family forbidden area and bury them in Bailugang, so that they can have a permanent rest. The old manager Kress will also enter the Bailugang family cemetery as a member of the Norton family.
Pat turned from grief to joy and volunteered to undertake the work of overseer in the cemetery. But Lorist was very busy with allocating manpower to design the plan. He planned to cremate all the more than 300 corpses in the family's forbidden corpse cave and relocate them to Bailugang. He also hired stone carving craftsmen to carve stone statues and erect monuments for the famous ancestors of the family. .
Knight Henned stayed in Maplewood Villa for twelve days and participated in the cremation ceremony and burial ceremony of Mr. Kress. It will take a while. However, Lorist finally found time to have an open and honest conversation with Knight Henned.
Knight Henned was under a lot of pressure. What he was facing was the first army of the Iberian Kingdom newly formed by the second prince, with more than 56,000 people. The territories were adjacent, and he had to shrink his troops to protect himself. His subordinates were more than 12,000 troops from the former Northern Land Legion, but in the face of the aggressive actions of the second prince, he could only do his best to maintain it and try not to conflict with the second prince's men.
At the Northland Noble Association held in May this year, the second prince delivered a passionate speech. He said that in order to revive the former Krissen Empire, the Iberia Kingdom must be integrated, so that all the territorial nobles can work together and concentrate their strength Only by being together can we hope to unify the empire and embark on the road to revival. But at present, there are still many nobles in the kingdom who refuse to obey the second prince's yin and yang.
The second prince is willing to give these nobles a chance to reform themselves. As long as they can dedicate their loyalty to the second prince and contribute to the revival of the empire, the second prince will not hold them accountable for their past mistakes. Otherwise, the second prince will lead the kingdom's first army next year to make these nobles realize that the dignity of the kingdom cannot be violated, and the king's orders cannot be violated...
So Knight Henned decided to strengthen his armaments and expand his troops to protect himself, but it was difficult to get weapons and equipment because he was easy to recruit. The baronial land left to him by his father was very poor, so he could only rely on Sakura Ridge Manor and the town of Evanson. To maintain the food and clothing of the twelve thousand men and horses under his command. If the subordinate who pretended to be Lorist made a fortune in the Grand Duke's domain the year before last, he would have gone bankrupt long ago. This time it was decided to expand to 15,000 people, so I put the idea on Lorist, hoping that with old friendship, Lorist could sponsor him a batch of weapons and equipment.
Lorist is a nostalgic person. Seeing how pitiful Knight Henned said, he agreed to his request, sponsored him 3,000 sets of armor and matching weapons and equipment, and helped him think of a way to make money. He went to Fatty Shi and wholesaled a million catties of snow salt to resell. If the transaction goes well, Knight Henned can earn about 10,000 gold fords from the one-million-jin snow salt business, which is half a year's worth of military expenses.
After sending away the Grateful Knight Henned, Lorist began to organize personnel to survey the Crouching Bull Hill and design the fortress castle. Woniugang is a granite hill, only 30 miles away from the military fortress at the junction of the two mountains. It looks like a magic cow lying on the wasteland. It is named after it. Currently, Josk’s archer battalion is stationed on Woniugang. .
After finalizing the design plan for the castle of the Woniugang Fortress, it was already September, and the Bailugang family cemetery was nearly completed, and Lorist presided over the ceremony of cremating the remains of the family ancestors and relocating them to Bailugang.
The family cemetery designed by Lorist is more like a leisure place. The miscellaneous trees and shrubs on the White Deer Hill were excavated. On the top is the first generation ancestor of the Norton family. The bluestone statue is a knight who is about to shoot, and the base is engraved with An inscription of his deeds and founding of House Norton.
In the entire Bailugang, apart from the stone statues, there are bluestone tombstones, but there are still dozens of statues that have not been completed, and they will be erected at the predetermined positions in the future. Beyond that were lush green meadows, and the family cemetery was surrounded by a low, pointed maple fence. Bailugang is surrounded by a sparse maple forest.
When night comes, the white deer figures that have disappeared for many days reappear on the White Deer Hill. They play on the grass between the statues and tombstones. Under the silvery moonlight, the family cemetery adds a touch of mystery and holy comfort.
Everyone who saw this scene believed in Lorist's words that Bailugang was the holy place for the ancestors of the Norton family to be buried by Goddess Silver Moon. From then on, they called the Bailugang family cemetery the White Deer Holy Garden.
After finishing work on the family cemetery, Lorist received good news that Master Sid had finally produced a set of armor that was more protective than the standard equipment of the White Lion Army, and the messenger rushed to Fenglin Villa to announce the good news.
Lorist took people to the black iron smelting field in the Blade's Edge Mountains.
Master Sid smiled like an old chrysanthemum. The world-famous White Lion Army armor carefully crafted by dozens of armor masters from the former Krissen Empire was now surpassed by him. He has no regrets in this life.
It wasn't until Lorist saw Master Sid taking out the armor that he had forged that he realized, "Hey, this is using steel armor to bully iron armor!"
The standard equipment of the White Lion Legion is actually refined iron armor, purple-brown. The armor masters of the former empire added several materials that can guide fighting spirit to the refined iron. After countless experiments, they got the best material formula, and then The armor was poured out of the mold, and then finished after modification and polishing. Its protective power is much higher than that of ordinary iron armor. For example, during the battle of Rock Castle, the longbowmen under Duke Lukins launched a lob shot, and the result was wearing The Norton family soldiers equipped with the standard equipment of the White Lion Legion were unharmed, and the coalition forces of the northern nobles collapsed on the spot.
What Master Sid took out was a silver-white steel armor. Using a hydraulic forging machine, Master Sid smelted black iron ingots into steel, and then used a self-made hydraulic forging machine to forge the steel into armor.
Lorist picked up the steel armor to check, and found that it was still a three-story structure. The outermost one is steel armor, the inside is lined with black magic cowhide, and the inside of the magic cowhide is a layer of fine steel wire soft armor.
"My lord, the formula of this steel armor was determined by me after a long time of experimentation. It is twice as defensive as the standard iron armor of the White Lion Army, and it can guide fighting energy faster and more comprehensively. We have done experiments, and the white lion armor is better than the longbow. A direct shot from a straight shot from a longbow will break the armor at a distance of 80 meters, while our set of steel armor will not be broken until the 60 meters. will pose a threat.
The full set of equipment for the White Lion Iron Armor weighs 38 jin, while the overall weight of our set of steel armor is only 27 jin, which is 11 jin less. This is a great burden for the soldiers, and our set Steel armor has more comprehensive defense and more thoughtful protection for the body. After wearing it, it is more flexible and lighter than the White Lion Iron Armor..." Master Sid talked about the advantages of this set of steel armor he made. From his description, the set of steel armor he made has been overwhelming in all aspects He wears the white lion iron armor, and he is proud of it.
"Find someone to put it on..." Lorist said.
El was delighted to see Liexin, and volunteered to put on this set of steel armor.
Then Lorist fainted, it looked too familiar, isn’t this the armor of the Imperial soldiers in Star Wars, except for the helmet and the battle skirt hanging from the waist instead of the briefs, everything else looks the same. At this moment, Lorist wanted to ask Master Sid if he also came from time travel.
The helmet designed by Master Sid has a pointed top with a neck guard, and a bear face mask that can be put down to protect the face, which looks extremely ferocious. El was wearing a full set of armor, drew his sword and performed various fighting moves. He even asked two guards to compete with him for a long time before he came out of breath.
"Lock, this set of steel armor is indeed much lighter and more flexible than the standard equipment of the White Lion Army we wear, and it fits very well, without the heavy feeling of wearing the White Lion armor. I want to change our guard battalion first..." El was very excited about the request.
Lorist looked at Master Sid: "Master Sid, how many sets of armor can be produced in a month?"
"My lord, this set of steel armor has a total of 21 parts. Although there are seven more parts than the White Lion Iron Armor, it is not difficult to make because of these hydraulic machines. We just forge various armor parts here, and then ship them Go to the industrial castle for decoration and assembly. At present, there is a shortage of manpower, and I estimate that I can only produce dozens of sets a day. If you add a thousand manpower to me, then build a few more refining furnaces to increase the production of steel. It can produce about 200 sets per day." Master Sid answered after some calculation.
"Okay, master, I'll dispatch a thousand manpower for you. In addition, this steel armor will be named after the master in the future, it will be called Sid steel armor, and it will be the standard equipment for our Norton family's armed forces. But I request that the helmet's Can it be done by changing the spire to a circular shape and adding our family's angry bear emblem on the breastplate?" Lorist asked.
Hearing that Lorist named the steel armor as Sid Steel Armor, Master Sid was so happy that it was a good thing to be recorded in the annals of history: "My lord, don't worry, I will treat you according to your wishes." Sid’s steel armor has been improved so that the family’s armed forces can put on our standard equipment as soon as possible, instead of wearing the backward and bulky white lion armor.”
El muttered to the side: "Why do I feel that Master Sid has a deep resentment towards the white lion armor?"
Lorist laughed. He had heard from the former bandit Ovekis before. It is said that when Master Sid was an apprentice in the Imperial Ordnance when he was young, he once repaired a batch of damaged white lion armor. Reforging the lion iron armor will definitely improve the defense, so a secret experiment was carried out, and three sets of white lion iron armor were destroyed, and they were kicked out of the armory after being severely punished.
After being kicked out of the armory, Master Sid worked very hard, learning from teachers everywhere as apprentices. It wasn't until twenty years later that he became a master armor maker. Later, during the imperial civil war, he took his family to Panshan Road and was coerced by bandits to make armor for them.
El was right, Master Sid did have a deep grudge against the White Lion Armor. So after discovering the black iron ore in the Blade's Edge Mountains, he has been researching without sleep and food, and now he has finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish to produce Sid's steel armor, which is better than the White Lion's armor.
"Reddy, write down my order." Lorist ordered: "In order to reward Master Sid for the Sid steel armor, the family will reward Master Sid with 1000 Gold Fords and his deputy with 100 Gold Fords. Master Sid has confirmed that the remaining people will each receive ten Gold Fords."
"Yes, my lord."
"Master Sid, don't forget that the standard equipment of the White Lions is not only armor, but also matching shields and weapons. You have to continue to work hard."
"My lord, I will not forget it. I will equip the Sid steel armor with the same excellent shields and weapons as soon as possible. Please rest assured, my lord." Master Sid said.
Lorist sent an order to Sedkamp, asking him to select a thousand or so honest and hard-working captives from the more than 20,000 captives who built roads between the towns of Fengleyuan and send them to the black iron smelting field and hand them over to Sid. Master, and then returned to Rock Castle with the guards.
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Before she could take a good breath after she came back, Miss Baisha grabbed the knight Rummard and came to sue.
The matter is very simple. As a pharmacist, Knight Rummard went to the women's camp to teach those female soldiers the basic knowledge of battlefield rescue and pharmacy. From the report in May to the end of October, Knight Rummard raised seven female soldiers in five months. Soldier's belly...
Click, Lorist first closed his shocked jaw.
Great man, Lorist looked at Rummard with great admiration, why didn't he see the lustful nature of this guy in the academy before
Miss Baisha was very angry. Among the seven big belly women, three were small captains, two were her deputy, and two female soldiers with outstanding qualifications, who were expected to be promoted in a short period of time, were now rejected. The Knights of Rummard caught them all.
However, it is said that the seven female soldiers were all willing, and Knight Rummard did not force anyone, so even though Miss Baisha was so angry that she gritted her teeth and wanted to castrate Knight Rummard with a knife, the seven big belly women protected them. Miss Baisha had no choice but to drag Knight Rummard to find Lorist for comment.
I searched through the rules and regulations of the family's armed forces, but I couldn't find a way to deal with this situation.
Lorist asked, "What about the seven pregnant female soldiers?"
Miss Baisha replied angrily: "There was a quarrel in the lounge on the first floor, everyone said that others were shameless to seduce their lover, this knight of Rummard..."
"Go and bring them up and ask them what they want to do."
Well, Lorist asked for trouble. Seven pregnant women turned the lord's office into a vegetable market, and everyone said they would give birth to a child for Knight Rummard and be his wife. Poor Knight Rummerd will be like a quail, holding his head and saying nothing.
"Okay!" Lorist slapped the table and stopped the quarrel: "Well, stop arguing, I allow you all to marry the Knight of Rummard, and let him marry the seven of you. Who If you quarrel any more, you will quit automatically."
Knight Rummard cried as he watched the seven pregnant women with their mouths tightly shut.
Lorist expressed deep sympathy and said earnestly: "Knight Rummard, as a man, you have to be brave, and if you do it, you have to be responsible. Well, I will allow you to take a long vacation and serve your seven wives at home. After giving birth to the baby..."
This is the only solution. After Knight Rummard left with the seven pregnant women, Lorist leaned on his chair exhausted and thought.
Miss Baisha was very dissatisfied with Lorist's handling method. Not only did her women's battalion lose seven core members, but it also made Knight Rummard too cheap. Not only did he not punish him, but he also got seven wives.
"Cheap?" Lorist sneered, "Giving him seven wives is the greatest punishment. A restless and happy life is waiting for him. He deserves it. This is what happens when you can't control your lower body..."
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