The fish soup is very tasty and the fried fish is also delicious. Viscount Timba and Carrick finished the pot of soup.
Lorist began to throw the rest of the fish into the stone pot for the second pot, and went to pick a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms.
Viscount Timba was very strange: "Why are we still cooking when we are full?"
Lorist pointed to the big slave named Hanu and the old man named Mute.
Carrick disagreed: "The two of them are slaves, so there is no need to give them food. We can just give them the leftover fish heads..."
Tagle shook his head with a smile: "Carrick, we are fleeing now, not going on an outing in the wild. Taking good care of everyone in the team is the key to ensuring our own safety. Look at that Hannu, to put it bluntly He is the mount of Lord Viscount. Even if it is a horse, we have to feed and drink it, so as not to cause us any trouble on the road. If we don’t let him eat enough, if he doesn’t have the strength to carry Lord Viscount, we will I don't know when I will be out of danger..."
Viscount Timba nodded: "Tager is right. These two slaves are so cheap that they can eat the same food as us. They are lucky."
Since he had to wait until the two slaves were full before going on the road, Tager found out the bag of fried flour that was actually stuffed by Lorist from the knight of Oss and baked it into small pancakes. , as dry food on the road. It was already afternoon when everything was packed and we started on the road.
No one took the Os knight who was groaning in pain and calling for help, as if they didn't see it. With his hands and feet broken by Lorist, and his clothes stripped off, the former Golden Knight has become a useless person, and can only lie there waiting to die...
Before setting off on the road, Lorist stopped Viscount Timba from riding on the shoulders of that big slave man named Hanu, and did not speak but made some gestures. Viscount Timba was puzzled, and turned back to Tagle, "What does he want to do?"
Tagle said: "Master Viscount, Locke thinks it's inappropriate for you to ride on the shoulders of this slave. It's too conspicuous, and it's easy to be discovered and become the first target of the enemy's attack. He thinks it's better to carry you on your back... "
Viscount Timba said: "Then why doesn't he talk?"
Tagle replied: "Master Viscount, Locke has always been taciturn and doesn't like to talk."
Here, Lorist has already torn the clothes stripped off the knight of Oss into strips and weaved a pannier like a soft pocket. He brought it over and signaled Viscount Timba to lie on Hanu's back, and then used the soft pocket to hold him and Hanu tied it up.
Viscount Timba was very satisfied with this soft pocket. He asked Tager if he could give him the guard named Locke, and he was willing to pay a big price.
Tagle shook his head: "Lord Viscount, Locke is not a slave, and he is not my guard. He is an elite military force that has been carefully cultivated by the Chamber of Commerce for more than ten years, and he only obeys the chairman. Don't look at him obeying with me now My order, in fact, when he is really in danger, he can decide whether to escape first according to the situation. For the chamber of commerce, he would rather lose me than sacrifice him. A chamber of commerce like him will spend a lot of money to cultivate him into a great sword Division, in order to become the pillar of force of the chamber of commerce in the future."
"Oh, how did they train them?" Viscount Timba was very interested in this topic.
"Master Viscount, not only our Peterson Chamber of Commerce, but also the seven Chambers of Commerce in the Business Alliance. They adopt those young orphans, and then train them to learn Chinese or martial arts according to their talents. When they grow up, they will become The backbone of the Chamber of Commerce. Guards like Locke are already one in a thousand, and when they are promoted to the Gold Rank or Great Swordsman, the Chamber of Commerce will spend at least ten to hundreds of thousands of gold coins on them." Tagg Er answered.
"Why don't you hire those great sword masters and train them yourself?" Viscount Timba was puzzled.
"My lord Viscount, we have also hired great sword masters, but this is rarely the case, unless we know the basics." Tager sighed and said: "Our chamber of commerce is different from your nobles, because we want to do business, so we need to keep it secret. It is difficult for us to believe in their loyalty if they were not cultivated by our own chamber of commerce. If commercial secrets are leaked, it will easily cause major losses to our business."
"So that's it." Viscount Timba nodded in agreement: "Indeed, it is very troublesome to hire a great swordsman from outside. The great swordsman I hired with a lot of money knows that he needs money and treatment, and even asks him to do things to give me face." Look. It's useless when you actually go into battle, and none of the five people came back..."
Viscount Timba was complaining, and Tagle asked Carrick in a low voice, and soon found out the reason.
It turned out that when Lorist landed, the second-level great swordsman hired by the viscount Timba took four golden knights under the viscount and a slave catcher team of 300 people to participate in the anti-landing operation. The messenger didn't come back either. As a result, Lord Viscount lost his high-end combat guards, and fled with only two slaves.
Lorist wanted to laugh when he heard it. He dared to believe that the second-level swordsman who had a great fight with Ingerek when he landed was sent by Viscount Timba. The super great swordsman was shot by a steel crossbow and died like a rabbit shot by an arrow when he was escaping.
Viscount Timba became interested in the plan of the Chamber of Commerce to adopt orphans and cultivate talents that Tager said. He very much hoped that his family could also cultivate a group of talents who are useful and loyal to the family like the Chamber of Commerce. As for orphans, He doesn't need to collect them, just use the family slaves.
Household slave? Tagle still doesn't understand what this is. Carrick next to him explained. It turns out that domestic slaves are small slaves born by pairing male slaves and female slaves, and some of them are illegitimate children born to female slaves who were raped. Because these little slaves were born as slaves, they did not have the spirit of freedom and rebellion like those captured slaves, and it was easy to obey and recognize their slave status.
Like the old dumb slave, he was a second-generation family slave, and the big slave, Hanu, was a third-generation domestic slave. His parents, like the old dumb slave, were second-generation domestic slaves. In the original slave market in Nubit Port, domestic slaves were about twice as expensive as slaves captured from outside.
Viscount Timba's idea of cultivating domestic slaves into talents is very good, but Carrick also pointed out an omission of Lord Viscount. In the Kingdom of Haneyabada, slaves are not allowed to carry weapons. They can learn to awaken fighting spirit, but they are never allowed to wear weapons, because that would pose a threat to the master...
Talking about this while walking, Tagle, Viscount Timba, and Carrick chatted happily. On the contrary, Lorist got a lot of information about Haneyabada Kingdom and King Hamidas City from it. For example, the current King Luther III of the Kingdom of Haneyabada is a gold star knight, and the three great sword masters enshrined by the royal family are much higher than the great sword masters hired by the nobles, etc. …
For dinner, they ate four hares and three pheasants caught by Lorist, each of which was gnawed until their mouths were full of oil.
According to Viscount Timba and Carrick's description, they have now reached the edge of this hill, and they will walk another morning tomorrow to climb over two small hills and arrive at Wangcheng Plain. Viscount Timba said that he once hunted in this area with his brother-in-law Luther III, and he still roughly remembered the terrain. After walking out of the hills, he could reach a royal manor for half a day, and then he could take a carriage or ride back to Hamidas. King City.
The morning of the second day went smoothly, and they quickly climbed over two small hills to the edge of the hilly area and the Wangcheng Plain, and then walked for another afternoon. After walking through a large wheat field, they saw a manor in the distance.
Viscount Timba kept urging and cursing the big slave named Hanu who was carrying him forward, asking him to go faster. Although Viscount Timba has been carried by Hanu all the time, he feels that he has traveled a long distance and is extremely tired. What he hopes most at this moment is good food and wine and a big soft bed so that he can rest well one night.
Lorist, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, listened attentively, turned around and made a few gestures, then bent down and hid himself in the wheat field at half a person's height, and soon disappeared.
Tager grabbed Viscount Timba's clothes and yelled softly to make Hanu squat down too.
"Don't go, Locke said that there is something wrong with the manor in front, he will check it out first."
Carrick said suspiciously: "I think it's normal, so there's nothing wrong with it. It can't be you who are suspicious, right?"
Viscount Timba also said: "We can catch up with a sumptuous dinner if we go early, take a hot bath and have a good sleep, and we will arrive at Wangcheng at noon tomorrow in a carriage. Don't mess around now, okay..."
Tagle said solemnly: "Master Viscount, Carrick, I really believe in Locke. He is naturally alert to danger. He said just now that the wheat is ripe, but we have not seen a single harvest along the way." slaves, that's not normal..."
Carrick's face changed as he thought about it: "That's right, my lord, if everything is normal, we should have seen those slaves who were harvesting and working along the way, but now that we don't see a single person, it is likely that something happened to the manor in front of us. Have you forgotten that the enemy has cavalry? I suspect that they have already entered the Wangcheng Plain, is the manor in front already occupied by the enemy and waiting for us to throw ourselves into the net?"
Viscount Timba was also scared now, and the five of them hid behind a mound of dirt and waited anxiously for Lorist's arrival.
It took more than an hour for Lorist to come back. He gestured with Tagle and said a few words briefly. Viscount Timba and Carrick heard it very clearly, and their hearts immediately turned cold. Because Lorist is talking about cavalry, hanging, rioting...
Sure enough, Tagle said: "Master Viscount, Carrick, I think we are in trouble. Just now Locke went to inspect the manor in front of him. He said that there are more than ten cavalry there. Looking at the equipment, they are our enemies. The Norton family There are many gallows erected in the manor, and the people hanged on them are probably the stewards and slave overseers of the manor. This is not the worst thing, the worst thing is that the slaves rioted, and they took Iron forks and weapons are said to be besieging Hamidas King City..."
Viscount Timba's face turned pale: "Then can we go back to the royal city?"
Tagle said: "Don't panic, Lord Viscount, Locke said that the people in the manor are making preparations, and I heard that they will go to other manors to join forces with the slaves there, so they probably won't besiege the royal city right away. .Let’s wait here until it gets dark, then the people in the manor won’t be able to find us, so we can rush to the king’s city overnight, so we can get there by noon tomorrow…”
Carrick also said bitterly beside him: "Yes, Lord Viscount, we will wait here patiently until it gets dark, and when we arrive at the Royal City tomorrow, we will report to His Majesty the riots in the manor here, His Majesty will naturally Send out his army to kill all these slaves who don't know what is good or bad, and think that the latecomers will be warned!"
With the comfort of Tagle and Carrick, Viscount Timba finally calmed down, and then the six of them rested behind the mound for an hour, and the sky began to darken. Only then did the group get up, and sneaked around the Wang Family Manor, which was full of voices and laughter, and fled into the distance.
After walking non-stop for more than four hours, everyone stopped by a small river to rest for a while.
Carrick said: "Master Viscount, I remember that there is a royal manor along this small river for a while, why don't we go there and have a look?"
It’s just that Viscount Timba has already become a frightened bird. He shook his head and said no. The manor here is very close to the manor where the slaves rioted. It only takes about an hour to ride a horse. He also became one of those unlucky people who were hanged on the gallows.
Tagle asked: "Master Viscount, are there many royal manors in this plain?"
Carrick gave the answer instead of Viscount Timba. It turned out that this plain did not have a name. Later, it was called Wangcheng Plain because the Wangcheng was located. When the Kingdom of Haneyabada was first established, the pirates were not productive, and there was a wide-ranging riot, which was barely survived by fishing. So at that time, the biggest purpose of the pirates to attack the golden coastline was to plunder food, but the coastal countries were prepared and cleared their walls, which made the cost of obtaining food for the pirates higher and higher, to the point where the gain outweighed the loss.
After the second king of the Kingdom of Haneyabada, that is, Luther I, came to power, he stopped plundering the coastal countries, obtained understanding and opened up trade routes, which solved the plight of food shortage. Immediately after Luther I vigorously developed the Wangcheng Plain, dozens of royal estates were established in this plain, making this Wangcheng Plain the granary of the Kingdom of Haneyabada, basically meeting the kingdom’s food needs.
Now there are 120,000 to 30,000 slaves on this plain who are in charge of the farmland development of various royal estates. If they are all incited to riot by the Norton family, the consequences will be unimaginable. Carrick and Viscount Timba are both worried.
After resting for another half an hour, everyone continued on their way. When the sky brightened, everyone was exhausted.
At this time, another manor appeared dimly in front of him. Lorist went to inspect it and came back and said that the manor looked normal, and the slaves were already under the control of the supervisors and were preparing to harvest wheat in the farmland.
Viscount Timba and Carrick were overjoyed and hurried to the manor. When they arrived at the manor, the group received very warm and thoughtful service and hospitality. After all, Viscount Timba is the younger brother of the most favored empress, a veritable relative of the emperor, just like the manager of the manor said, if the viscount can come to visit Flourishing, although Lord Viscount and his group look so embarrassed...
Viscount Timba was not in the mood to accept the graciousness of the Chief Steward, he hurriedly ordered to prepare a carriage for himself, and was about to leave the manor, fearing that he would be besieged by the Norton cavalry and rioting slaves after a long delay. It was not until before leaving that Carrick reminded the hospitable steward, telling him about the riots in the manor, so that he could prepare in advance.
When the carriage left, the manor had already sounded the alarm bell to notify the slaves who had gone to work in the wheat fields to return to the manor.
The sky was already bright, and it would take more than an hour to arrive at Hamidas King City. The carriage turned onto the main road, and now there was no need to worry about the enemy's pursuit. After traveling for half an hour, the horn sounded in front, and the coachman parked the carriage on a mound beside the road to get out of the way.
The banners are flying in front, and a khaki army is like a long giant snake squirming from a huge castle in the distance. In the front are nearly a hundred knights on horseback...
Carrick raised his arms and cheered: "That's the king's city! That's our king's guards, they're on their way! Long live! Our guards! Long live! Our majesty the king!"
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