Viscount Comas was tall and thin. When Lorist saw him, he found that he was directing his peasants and soldiers to build tents outside the city.
Lorist suddenly understood the reason why Viscount Comas failed to conquer bandits twice.
After receiving the urgent news from the Feng Yata Town garrison that bandits blocked the gate and threatened to slaughter the city, as the lord, Viscount Comas had the duty to come to the rescue, so this time the Viscount brought a large team to come. It's just that this large group of people looks a bit miserable, many of them are dressed in tatters, naked, and look weak and not frightened. Not to mention wearing armor and holding a shield, there are no better weapons. What they were holding was either a farming tool or a long wooden stick. After finally seeing a few people holding shields, they took a closer look and found that those were not shields, but pot lids.
This, is this the reinforcements brought by Viscount Comas? Lorist was stunned. To put it bluntly, this was a brigade of refugees, and it was easier to believe. Fortunately, the bandit had been dealt with by Lorist and his team, otherwise Viscount Comas' third defeat would have been inevitable.
Viscount Comas was very, very enthusiastic. From the fact that he held Lorist's hand tightly as soon as he saw him, he could understand how grateful he was to Lorist. Lorist smoked several times. He didn't free his right hand from the claws of Viscount Comas.
Viscount Comas has been praising Lorist for more than half an hour. In his words, Lorist is simply the incarnation of the God of War, a heroic and fearless knight model, and an angel who saves the suffering...
Lorist was surprised to find that the Viscount Comas hadn't repeated it during the more than half an hour of praise.
Lord Viscount Comas finally said he was tired, maybe he found that he had no new words of praise, so he picked up the tea sent by the guard captain next to him to moisten his throat. Lorist finally withdrew his right hand and wiped his face which was splashed with saliva from Lord Viscount.
Lorist was afraid that the Lord Viscount would give a grand and fierce speech again, and he would have to listen attentively in that case. So he directly asked Lord Viscount how much was the bounty for exterminating the bandits and beheading bandit leaders such as Panshan wolves
Lord Viscount Comas looked at Lorist with a look of deep love and responsibility. He seemed surprised that Lorist would ask such a vulgar question. The role model of the fearless knight, the descendant angel who rescued the suffering, the regretful expression made Lorist feel very ashamed unconsciously...
"Ahem..." After coughing a few times, Comas apologized very sincerely to Lorist in an extremely apologetic tone, because he had previously signed a mutual agreement with the bandits for the sake of the safety of Feng Yata Town. In order to win the trust of the bandits, he had no choice but to cancel the bounty offered to Pan Shanlang and other bandit leaders. So although it is a good thing for Lorist and the others to exterminate the bandits, there is no bounty to receive...
The buddies who chased love wiped out the bandits did nothing for you! Lorist looked at the guard captain standing beside him with an embarrassed face, and then at the Viscount with a warm smile on his face, and suddenly realized something in his heart. It turned out that the Lord Viscount Comas was only talking nicely, but he was actually a worthless guy without saying anything. From the faces of the peasants and soldiers he brought with him, it can be seen that in the hands of this miser lord Under the rule, life is not so easy.
However, Lord Viscount Comas has already learned about Lorist's situation from the captain of the garrison, knowing that Lorist will rush back to the Northland to inherit the title and family territory. So he once again published a message of admiration for the famous Roaring Bear family in the Northland, and apologized for Lorist's delay in his trip due to bandits in his own territory. In line with the principle of friendship and mutual assistance between nobles, Viscount Comas is willing to accept those bandit captives for free, so that Lorist no longer has to worry about how to deal with these captured bandits, so as not to delay the final The important matter of returning to the North to inherit the title and family territory.
In addition, seeing that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the heads of the Panshan wolf and other bandit leaders will soon stink and rot, which will easily pollute the surrounding environment and cause plagues. Lord Comas is willing to help Lorist remove these heads. The level has been dealt with so as not to affect the normal living conditions of the residents of Feng Yata Town. As he said that, Lord Viscount Comas tightened the bearskin coat he was wearing. A gust of cold wind passed by just now, and Lord Viscount shivered and felt a little cold.
Hehe, this Viscount Comas is too shameless, to have the idea of those bandits captured by Lorist, and even want to get the heads of Panshan Wolf and those bandit leaders for free. Lorist had a smile on his face, but his eyes became colder and colder.
First of all, I thanked the Viscount Comas for his kindness, and expressed my sincere admiration and appreciation for the viscount's enthusiasm and willingness to help others. Immediately Lorist said that he already had a proper solution for his loot, so he didn't need to bother the viscount.
As for the heads of those bandit leaders, Lorist was going to have someone process them into decorations, which could be used as evidence that he had wiped out bandits in the territory of Viscount Comas. Let everyone know that the head of the vicious bandit who beat Lord Viscount twice to throw away his helmet and armor is just his own plaything. Firstly, he wants to make a name for himself, and secondly, he also wants to be praised by Lord Viscount. As the incarnation of the god of war, the heroic and fearless knight model, the identity of the angel who rescues the suffering and rescues...
Lorist said that when he wiped out the bandit's cottage, he found an iron ore mined by the bandit as a trophy, which also belonged to Lorist. Lorist planned to let those bandit captives go to mine, and by the way, build a castle on the original site of Panshanzhai. After he went back and inherited the title, he would return here to sit in town. After all, this place is much better than the desolate family territory. Moreover, if he wiped out the bandits himself, he could naturally send people to collect tolls on the Panshan Road as a reward for saving the traveling businessmen from the bandits.
Lorist said that he liked the scenery of Feng Yata Town very much, especially after seeing the reinforcements brought by Lord Viscount. Compared with his family's armed forces, Lorist pointed to the guards who were training not far away. Squad, he is very optimistic about the prospect of sitting here in the future, maybe he can give the Norton family an extra territory...
Lord Viscount Comas was still smiling, but the smile was a bit bitter. Looking at the guard squad Lorist pointed at, and then at his subordinates, he couldn't help swallowing. He realized that he seemed to have made the wrong idea. He had originally bullied Lorist to be young, and was eager to go back to inherit the family territory and title. As long as he said more good words and compliments, this young nobleman would naturally be delighted, and he would give up the benefits he had obtained and follow his own wishes. arrange. In this way, Lorist got his own praise, but he got a benefit, which can be described as happy for everyone.
It's just that he didn't expect that Lorist was not like those fledgling young nobles who would get carried away with joy as soon as they said a few flattering words, willing to give up the benefits they got in order to gain a good reputation. On the contrary, he also recruited his own army, thinking about what Lorist said, making the head of the bandit leader into an ornament, if he really did this, it would be a big joke to spread his reputation. As a lord, he failed to conquer the bandit twice, but the bandit was wiped out by Lorist and others. If people knew this, wouldn't he become synonymous with incompetence, coward and coward
There is also the iron mine that Lorist mentioned. This is a rich mine. If this young nobleman really occupies the iron mine and builds a castle there, who will have the final say on his own territory? Lord Viscount Comas is not worried about bandits, but Lorist is different. Just now this young nobleman has already expressed his interest in Feng Yata Town and his ambition for the Viscountdom in a very subtle way. Coupled with his team of well-armed guards, there is no problem with the defensive force of the rolling territory...
Lorist must not be allowed to gain a foothold in his territory, no matter what the price is. Viscount Comas grabbed Lorist who was about to leave, and with a smile on his face, he asked Lorist to transfer the iron mine and the cottage to him. The reason is that the Viscounty Territory lacks iron ore resources, so the life of the citizens is extremely difficult. With this iron mine, I can improve the people's livelihood in the territory, improve the defense of the territory, and there will never be any incidents of bandits harassing the territory. I hope that Lorist will uphold the spirit of urgency and righteousness, and extend a helping hand to the Viscount...
Lorist coldly interrupted Viscount Comas' chatter: "Master Viscount, do you mean redemption?"
Redemption is an unwritten traditional custom among the nobles in the territory. For example, if a lord's territory is violated and bandits occupy the lord's territory, the lord is powerless to resist, but he can ask other lords to lend a helping hand . If other lords repel the robbers and regain their territory, the invaded lord must pay a certain price to take back his territory from other lords. As big as the territory of minerals, as small as a house and a tree, they are all within the scope of redemption.
Viscount Comas cracked his mouth, but couldn't find a reason to refute, so he had no choice but to admit that it was a redemption. Since it is a redemption, there are naturally rules, so Lorist called in Sedkamp, and Viscount Comas also called in his butler. The size of Panshanzhai was calculated critically, and after some heated debates, they finally came up with a value figure that both sides barely recognized.
Lord Viscount Comas began to complain again. He said that because of the poverty of the territory, he was unable to spend so much money because of his inability. But I can use materials to compensate.
What supplies do we need? Lorist looked at Sudkamp, and Sudkamp blurted out, carriages and pack horses, mounts, grain, and cloth.
So Lorist began to argue with Viscount Comas again, and finally agreed that Viscount Comas would provide three hundred and fifty pack horses and mounts, fifty four-wheeled long-distance carriages, seven carts of grain and three Car cloth, in exchange for the ownership of the iron mine and the cottage from Lorist. And Lorist handed over the captive bandits and the heads of those bandit leaders to Mr. Comas as an addition to the ransom.
Lord Viscount Comas readily agreed that everything would be ready before noon tomorrow, and Lorist would hand over the bandit captives and bandit leaders to Lord Viscount at that time.
In front of Lorist and Sedkamp, Lord Viscount Comas ordered the captain of the garrison to collect carriages and pack horses in Feng Yata town immediately, and prepare food and cloth by the way. He said that Feng Yata Town, as a distribution center for mountain goods within a hundred miles, has more than enough preparations for these things. Most of the shops and merchants are carriages and pack horses.
Ai Ai, the captain of the garrison, asked the Viscount what he planned to use to pay for the collection of these things. Lord Viscount stared, what kind of bills should be paid, just write a white note, and tell them to use this white note to pay taxes in the future, wouldn't it be enough
Lorist admired it very much, this is simply a model of an empty-handed white wolf. Determined to learn from Lord Viscount, after saluting and leaving, he went back to the barracks and recruited Ovekis and Pat, and asked them to go to the captive bandits to select a hundred or so young and strong men who were honest and harmless, and had better families. The convoy acts as a coachman, and the remaining bandit prisoners who are difficult to discipline will be handed over to Lord Viscount tomorrow. Also, Lorist ordered to pick out the beautiful wives of the slain bandit chiefs and the young women from the bandit families, so that they can marry the following people in the future, so as not to find that there are more men than women after they get the family territory. Yin and Yang are unbalanced.
Although they didn't understand what Lorist meant by the imbalance of yin and yang, Pat and Ovekis still carried out Lorist's order with great interest.
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In the evening, red wine and Tired Bird Hotel.
Soderkamp is reporting to Lorist: "We seized thirteen four-wheeled carriages from Panshanzhai, and I bought eleven in the town, plus the carriage we brought, and tomorrow Fifty delivered, and Miss Teresy's two, a total of seventy-six carriages..."
"Originally we had twelve Zeno horses. I bought fifty-three in the town, and I harvested forty-eight from the extermination of the bandits. Adding in the three hundred and fifty horses delivered by the local lord Viscount tomorrow, the total is four. One hundred and sixty-three horses are enough to ensure four horses per cart, and the guard team can also have one horse per person, and dozens of draft horses to ensure the rotation of the team... "
"Today, Pat and Ovekis selected one hundred and eleven young and strong drivers from among the bandits, twenty-three of them had family members, and thirty-nine young women. The bodyguard team was one hundred and twenty people, forty-six of them have family members. These family members and young women add up to 274 people, plus Master Sid's family of 14 people, they need 30 four-wheeled carriages... "
"We have seized a lot of materials from Panshanzhai. In terms of money, there are 12,742 golden blessings, 34,261 imperial old man's head gold coins, and more than 70,000 imperial silver coins, 180,000 There are about a few imperial copper coins, and two boxes of large silver coins issued by the Ford Business Alliance. Small silver coins and three boxes of copper coins. In addition, there are two and a half boxes of jewelry. Five carriages are needed to transport these properties... "
"In Panshanzhai, we seized three carts of silk, six carts of fine linen, and eleven carts of grain. Eight carts of various sundries, among which the special equipment that Master Sid used to make mail and chain mail is It takes up four carts. In addition, there are five carts of iron ingots smelted from iron ore, and three carts of confiscated weapons and equipment. If you add the ten carts of supplies sent by Lord Viscount tomorrow, you will need eighty-one carts to load. Moreover, we only have seventy-three horse-drawn carriages that can transport materials and personnel... "
"My lord, I'm going to look around the town tomorrow to see if I can buy a few more carriages, and to ask those shops if they can exchange those 180,000 imperial copper coins into silver coins or gold coins, so as to save money." Send out two carriages. If it’s really not possible, let the carriage personnel transporting the family members squeeze again to free up two carriages, and then pack some supplies and let the extra pack horses carry them separately, so that it will not affect our journey.”
Lorist shook his head, this Sidkamp, he values supplies more than his life, in fact, selling off some surplus supplies can solve the problem of shortage of carriages, but he insists on taking all the supplies back, what a shame It's okay to look for trouble when you're full.
"Have you inquired about Miss Teresy's situation?" Lorist asked.
"I understand almost everything. Miss Teresti came to Feng Yata Town three months ago. They are three masters and servants, two coachmen, two carriages and four pack horses. I heard that they followed a The caravan of the Business Alliance arrived at the border of the Principality of Madras and separated due to different directions. Then they stayed there for more than a month and could not find a convoy going north. Feng Yata Town. The two coachmen found other jobs and left. They rented a dilapidated attic in the town and made a living by selling the draft horses that pulled the carts. There was only one pack horse left, and one of their two wagons was full of books," said Sedkamp.
Lorist nodded: "Tomorrow you prepare the horses and drivers for their carts, and tell them to pack up and prepare to leave. We have been delayed here for two days, and we will leave the day after tomorrow anyway. After the handover tomorrow, Check it out again and get ready to go, and we will leave here the afternoon of the day after tomorrow at the latest."
"Yes, my lord." Sedkamp turned to leave.
"Wait, that's right, you go tell the hotel owner to cook meals for three more people in these two days and send them to Miss Tresty." Lorist said.
"Okay, my lord, I'll do it now."