Lorist walked out of the house, stood on the city wall and looked down.
In fact, this should be regarded as a valley, and the two city walls are about 300 meters apart. The continuous mountains suddenly broke a gap here, and a road passed through the gap. The gap over there is not big, and the city wall is only seventy or eighty meters long. But inside the city wall, there is a distance of seven or eight hundred meters between the mountains and valleys, and then the mountains surround it, leaving a gap of more than two hundred meters. Now that the city wall is built, the valley will be closed.
This is indeed a good place to build a city. The mountains connected with the hills in the valley are gentle, which is suitable for building castles against the mountains. Although the other side is just a lonely hill, the mountain is steep and long, and it penetrates into the black forest in the distance, forming a natural defensive barrier to cut off traffic.
In the valley, the slave workers gathered in groups of three or four to bask in the sun in their camp, chatting and booing, and fighting from time to time. The days without work are also extremely rare days of rest for them. More than a dozen bodyguards lined up to patrol the campsite, and from time to time greeted the eyes of awe and envy from the slave laborers.
On the other side of the valley, there are rows of simple wooden houses, and a row of logs that have not been stripped of bark forms a fence to enclose these wooden houses. That's the warehouse that Boris' housekeeper mentioned, and there are nearly 7,000 barrels of gum vine juice, food and some building materials.
Not far from the warehouse is a car camp, which is the camp where the convoy brought by Lorist set up. The families of some guards used a carriage to transport several large barrels of water from a pool under the distant rock wall, and washed and dried their clothes next to the camp.
A girl was catching insects in the grass next to the car camp, with a horsetail whip flicking behind her.
Isn't that Miss Tresty's maid, Little Winnie? When I saw little Winnie Lorist, I thought of Miss Teresy. I slapped my forehead, and there was someone in charge of building the city.
"Go and invite Miss Teresty here, and tell her that I have something to discuss with her." Lorist ordered to a guard beside him.
Miss Teresty brought little Winnie and her black iron butler to the city wall, and Lorist welcomed them into the room with the big sand table.
Lorist explained his plans to build the city, and sincerely invited Miss Theresty to be the person in charge of building the city.
Miss Tresty asked Lorist very strangely, why did she ask her to be the person in charge of building the city
Lorist spread the water, bluntly saying that he had no choice but that he had no one under his command. Fortunately, the design drafts needed to build the city have been completed, and even the castle model has been half-made. There is no need to redesign a set of blueprints for city building except for changes to some local details during the city building process.
And Miss Tresty, as the daughter and student of the famous female relic research scholar Sir Nicole Albes, has inherited her mother's knowledge inheritance and mantle in relic research, and is also a female scholar. Lorist said, since he can understand even the twisted and twisted tunnels in the ruins, it's easy to understand the drafts of the city's construction. Who can the person in charge of the city's construction, Miss Shetresty, turn to
Miss Teresty was still a little hesitant, Lorist said that as the person in charge of building the city, he would arrange for Miss Teresty to have subordinates. Even if he is not there, Josk and Ovekis the beard are responsible for the defense. Miss Tresty only needs to focus on the affairs of building the city. Lorist will let Reddy and Boris butlers come to attend to Miss Tresty's orders, and she will also arrange the work of nearly a thousand slave laborers.
The current situation in the north is turbulent, and Lorist really has no time to spare. If Miss Teresty is willing to help, the sooner Lorist can be helped to settle down the internal situation, the sooner Lorist can find time to take her to the Black Mire Swamp in the Northland. Moreover, after the city here is built, Miss Teresty can choose one of the villas on the hillside as her residence and permanent property. In addition, Lorist will also provide her with a generous amount of funds for her to continue to carry out the ruins. Research.
I don't know which condition made Miss Teresty's heart move, she finally nodded and agreed to become the person in charge of Jiancheng.
Lorist finally breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered someone to bring Boris the housekeeper, and Reddy, and ordered them to assist Miss Teresty in many matters of building the city. Then give the five big houses in the middle of the city wall to Miss Teresty as the headquarters for building the city.
Early the next morning, Lorist found that nearly a thousand slave laborers were leaving the city in an orderly manner. The black iron butler of Reddy and Theresty brought more than forty guards to escort them, watching the progress of the procession. The direction should be to collect building materials.
Lorist went to the city construction headquarters, and when he entered the door, he saw Miss Teresty giving orders to Butler Boris, who nodded repeatedly.
Seeing Lorist approaching, Tresty asked what's the matter
Lorist said that there were a few places he wanted to change, took the castle model and began to tell Tresty and Boris the housekeeper what he wanted to change.
The Kenmes family's plan is to build this place into a military camp castle. In addition to the members of the Kenmes family, it is the garrison troops and their relatives. This was also what Lorist was most dissatisfied with.
Lorist pointed to the model and said, "Look, a big castle is planned to be built in the center of the valley, and the avenue will pass through the castle's abdominal tunnel to achieve the purpose of controlling road traffic. In fact, with these two The city wall, the castle in the middle of the valley can be removed. It is enough to have the castle built on the side of the mountain as the center of the whole city. Without the castle in the middle, the rest of the place will be built by the castle on this side A square, on the other side of the road, will naturally merge into the established residential area and commercial area."
Miss Teresty thought that Lorist's change was right, and she also hated the original design. She built a big castle in the middle of the valley, and the extended city walls divided the entire valley into fragments. Now Lorist is going to remove the castle in the middle, which not only reduces the difficulty of building the city, but also reduces the amount of work.
The second thing Lorist wanted to change was the four-meter-high rock wall in front of him. It took the Kenmes family three months to have slave laborers build the city wall facing the Norton family's territory, while the opposite city wall facing the Viscount Land was built with stones.
Now that Lorist has taken back the castle site located in the Norton family's territory, the rough stone wall has become the first defensive barrier facing the Viscounty. Before Lorist entered the door, Teresy and Butler Boris discussed how to modify and strengthen the city wall.
What Lorist meant was not to build the same city wall as the one at the foot of everyone. He took a blank piece of animal skin paper and drew a convex shape on it, requesting that the city wall be built like this. If it was more than 200 meters long like the city wall at the foot, the amount of work would be huge. Fortunately, the city wall in front was only seventy or eighty meters long, so it could be completed in a month by surprise if it was built according to Lorist's request.
Seeing that Miss Theresty had written down her request, Lorist also left.
It was late afternoon. Josk, Sudkamp and Pat return victorious from the Copper Mine. They brought more than a dozen mercenary captives and rescued more than 70 children of the Norton family who used to work in the mine.
Sedkamp and Pat brought an old man in his sixties with gray temples to Lorist: "My lord, this is Papa Barek, the family's steward in charge of copper mining."
Papa Barek saluted Lorist, his eyes were red: "My lord, thank you for remembering us and saving us..."
Lorist quickly helped Papa Barek to his feet, and gently persuaded him that there is no need to be polite to members of his own family. Now that the most difficult time for the family has passed, the family still needs to develop in the future, and I also need Papa Barek and others to continue to do their best for the family. It's just that Papa Barek and the others have just been rescued from the mine, so they should take good care of their bodies and rest here for a while.
Papa Barek was very excited. He said that he knew that the family had been in bad luck for the past two years, especially after the death of the eldest and third young masters. This time, the Viscount Kenmes sent troops to seize the copper mine, captured them and threw them into the mine to mine. He never expected that the family would come to rescue them, and he thought he would dig mines for a lifetime. Unexpectedly, when Lorist heard about them, he sent people to rescue them first, and he didn't even care about returning to the family's manor and castle to inherit the title and family territory.
So Papa Barek was very grateful, patted his chest and said that he was in good health, insisted that Lorist arrange something for him to do, that he didn't want to eat free rice, and so on. So Lorist simply invited everyone to hold a meeting to make arrangements for each item. By the way, he also arranged Papa Barek to Miss Tresty's city construction headquarters.
On February 34th, Lorist took Sudkamp and Pat farewell to the crowd, and the three drove a four-wheeled carriage to the Norton family's manor castle.
In Little Locke's memory, Lorist found the impression of the castle of the Norton family estate. There are many, many maple trees in that place. Every autumn, the maple trees are red like fire, and the scenery is very beautiful. Among the many maple forests, there is a huge white hill, and the Norton family's manor castle is located on the white hill.
Little Locke still remembers that the family's manor castle is very large, with vineyards, chicken and pig farms, and a small lake in the shape of a crooked moon. In summer, the children in the manor castle like to go there to play with water. On the opposite side of the small lake is the family's stables. Those magnificent horses are Little Locke's favorite, and he is often fascinated by them. At that time, my mother was still there, and she always kindly called Little Locke a little horse idiot...
Seven hours later, Suedkamp stopped the carriage, and Pat knocked on the door of the carriage: "My lord, we are here."
Lorist got out of the carriage, and he found himself standing in front of a gray-white castle, the drawbridge hadn't been lowered yet.
"What's going on? Pat, why don't the people inside put down the drawbridge and open the gate?" Lorist asked.
Pat said: "My lord, there is no one on guard at all, and the people inside don't know we're coming..."
Sedkamp got into the carriage, found a bull horn, put it near his mouth, and blew it...
"Who's down there?" Finally, two people appeared above the castle, looking down.
"It's me, Sedkamp! And Pat! We brought the Second Young Master back!" Sedkamp jumped and shouted.
"What, the second young master is back? Wait, let's report to the old manager and Miss Baisha..." The heads on the castle disappeared, and it took a long time before Lorist heard the short sound of horns from inside the castle. , Then the suspension bridge was lowered slowly with a creak, the gate opened, and a female knight with long red hair wearing a chain vest strode out with a whip in her hand.
"Sedkamp, you are still willing to come back, I thought you would die in some unknown corner." The female knight gave a whip to Sedkamp, who was standing respectfully by the side, and cursed with a smile.
Sedkamp bowed his head in greeting: "Thanks to the eldest lady, we found the second young master and brought him back, fulfilling our mission."
The female knight said: "Fortunately for you..."
Then he turned to Pat: "Heh, it's really rare that I can't recognize him when I go out this trip."
Pat didn't answer, just nodded at the female knight.
The female knight didn't care, she skipped over Pat, came to Lorist and stared straight at him: "Second young master?"
In Little Locke's memory, besides his father, the most terrifying and annoying little girl was the little red-haired girl who robbed him of her elder brother and followed her every day. He just pulled her red braid out of curiosity. , and then got a solid beating...
Now the former little red-haired girl has grown up, and has grown into a tall, upright and sassy female knight.
Lorist cracked his mouth: "Bai, Miss Baisha..."
Seeing that Lorist still remembered the respectful title she had when she was a child, the red-haired female knight was quite satisfied: "That's right, Little Locke has grown up too, and he's already this tall. It's good to be back, and I've suffered a lot along the way." Come on. Go in, Mr. Kress is waiting for you."
Mr. Kress is really old. Lorist remembered that Mr. Kress was already sixty-three years old when Little Locke left home. Fast-forward ten years, the boss is getting old and old, and old injuries can't even walk. However, the foundation of combat qi cultivation is still there. Although the energy is not as good as before, his eyes are still sharp.
Clutching Lorist's hand, Boss Kress was both happy and remorseful: "Son, I don't know whether to be happy for your return or regret for letting you come back. The current Norton family is falling apart. It’s a broken ship. It’s almost sinking, but the people on the ship are still arguing over who will take the helm. It’s really hard for you to pull you on board and let you be the captain of this broken ship.”
Lorist smiled: "Grandpa Kress, the family is in trouble. As a child of the Norton family, it is an unshirkable duty and responsibility to come back and share the difficulties with the family. The Norton family has experienced more than two hundred years of hardships in the North, and I am absolutely He will not be allowed to continue to sink, Norton will surely become a name resounding throughout the continent."
The boss of Kress smiled gratifiedly: "Son, it is good to be ambitious, but everything has to be done slowly. Go eat and rest, and I will arrange an inheritance ceremony for you tomorrow. The family has been arguing for so long It's too outrageous, but with you in charge, I believe everything will be fine."
Lorist stood up from the old manager's bed, bowed his head to the old manager, and then walked towards the restaurant with Sodkamp and Pat...