The old manager of Kress asked Lorist to take him back, and when Lorist pushed the wooden wheelchair to send the old manager Kress back to his bedroom, he found that Pat was guarding the door. Sat Kamp and three other middle-aged people.
The three middle-aged people saluted Lorist together and paid tribute to the Patriarch.
The old manager Kress patted Lorist's arm, and said with a smile that these three are the three current family stewards. Without these three, even the old manager Kress would not be able to effectively control the entire family manor and castle.
The first person to swear allegiance to Lorist was a bald middle-aged man named Hansk, who was the financial manager of the family and played the roles of accountant and calculator.
The second middle-aged man is named Speer. He is in charge of the warehouse. He is in charge of thirteen large and small warehouses in the family manor castle that store various materials. He knows all kinds of materials well.
In the end, this middle-aged man was a bit smooth and good at talking. He was the manager in charge of personnel affairs in the family, and he had a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of everyone in the family. Kress secretly signaled Lorist to pay more attention to this middle-aged man named Kedan, because this middle-aged man even said the words of swearing allegiance to Lorist were empty-headed, and he felt that he was not very sincere. Feel.
Lorist doesn't care how the oath of allegiance is said, as it will be popular over time, as long as he has the motivation to develop under his command, he will naturally maintain his loyalty. He asked the three stewards to introduce the current situation of the family in all aspects. So that he, the new head of the family, can understand the specific situation.
As Lorist expected, the current situation of the family is extremely bad. The family's current cash reserves, in the form of gold and silver coins, are virtually depleted, Hanske said. Half a year ago, Grand Duke Lukins sent his Golden Knights to forcibly collect more than 3,000 gold coins from the empire's old man in taxes and fees, which has almost drained the family's reserves. Now he has less than 100 gold coins on hand.
With a wave of his hand, Lorist asked Sodkamp to hand over the two boxes of Jinford that he had brought back to the family to Hansk, and put them into the family's treasury first. However, Hanske is still blunt. Simply injecting funds into the family is not of much use. What the family lacks is transactions and communication with the outside world. It's just that the family is located on the border of the Northland, and the communication channels with the outside world are in the hands of other lords. Buying a large amount of supplies or selling goods for the family will only increase costs and trade costs, which is very uneconomical.
Hanske was followed by Speer, who reported the stockpiles of each warehouse. He had the most grain. Although the Northland was plowed once a year, the annual income from the fields owned by the Norton family was enough to meet the needs of the manor castle. food needs. In addition, there is the field tithe that the Beiye City garrison pays once a year. All that is handed over is grain. At present, there are about 10 million catties of grain stored in the family's grain depot, and there is no channel for foreign trade, so the grain can only be stored for a longer and longer period of time.
In addition to food, the family has the second largest reserve of copper ingots. After all, the family used to have a copper mine, and the mined copper ore was refined into copper ingots and transported back to the manor castle for storage. Now, because the family is short of cash, Speer is arranging for manual copper casting of imperial copper coins to meet the urgent need.
In the end, the family warehouse stored more furs of all kinds. Many of these were harvested in the past few years, but the family lost all its force in the past two years, and there was no organization to hunt monsters. In addition, the redundant warehouses are all stocked with ropes, and there are not many materials for wooden barrels and some production tools. The family is extremely short of iron ore, weapons, armor and cloth, and even spices and seasonings.
Steward Kedan made a final speech. He told everyone that there are nearly a thousand survivors of former family soldiers living in the family manor castle, and there are still nearly three or four hundred family soldiers who have left. The manor castle returned to Kitano Town as a result of life. The survivors of the soldiers who stayed in the manor castle lived a decent life because their children were grown up or their relatives took care of them, but those who returned to Beiye Town had a very difficult life. They were not welcomed by their parents and relatives and could only rely on The occasional food relief in the manor castle can barely survive.
A few years ago, nearly 100 members of the family caravan died in battle, and the eldest young master led the family iron cavalry to charge for the second prince. In the end, only a few dozen of the two hundred Norton cavalry came back. After the series of accidents that led to the last armed annihilation of the family, the Norton family added nearly a thousand soldiers. The survivors of these soldiers brought a great burden to the family. The family was relatively rich in food and could take care of the food and clothing of the survivors of these soldiers, but there were no other pensions.
In addition to the survivors of these family soldiers who died in battle, there is also a family knight with silver three-star grudge strength, that is the knight Berunek who was seriously injured in the last fight to save the third young master and the monster. I was supposed to be there tonight, but the old injury relapsed in the afternoon and I couldn't come. Ke Dan hopes that Lorist will take the initiative to go to Beiye Town to meet the knight of this family tomorrow, which is also the obligation of Lorist, the new head of the family.
This matter is easy to handle, Lorist readily agreed.
The boss of Kress asked everyone to sit down, and he told Lorist that he was shocked after hearing Sodkamp's description of the Patriarch's journey north. This time, he hoped that in front of everyone, Lorist would Tell me about the situation when he took the convoy northward.
Lorist started from the city of Morente, from his friends helping him join the family to become a knight, to organizing his own convoy to go north. When Lorist learned that Earl Cobili was the culprit who robbed the caravan of the Norton family, he decided to uproot his family and avenge the family caravan and his third uncle.
After slaughtering Earl Cobili and his illegitimate sons at the city of Gerdos, in order to return to the Northland to inherit the title and family territory before March, Lorist abandoned the convoy and brought Sedkamp, Pat and Several subordinates rushed day and night, and finally wiped out a group of bandits in Feng Yata Town, Viscount Comas, Antinac Kingdom, pulled up another convoy, returned to the family territory, and found Ken Mai The castle site built by the Viscount Morgan in the hills of Morgan, so he captured the castle site and sent people to rescue the family children in the copper mine.
Lorist found the map and opened it, explaining to everyone the Kenmes family's development plan for the Morgan Hills and his plan to continue this plan to build the Morgan Hills into a solid rear for the Norton family.
Everyone listened to legends, but no one expected that when the Norton family suffered successive misfortunes and the family power declined, the second young master who was exiled suddenly rose up and opened up a new situation for the rise of the Norton family by himself.
The three chief stewards were very excited, and they all proposed to visit the Morgen Hill where the castle was being built. Hansk's attitude is the most resolute. He believes that the current family manor castle is like a pool of stagnant water. He is useless here except for simple calculations. He should go to the construction site of Morgan Castle to show his talents and learn something. .
Lorist agreed to Hansk's request, and he told the three stewards that he would leave for the construction site of Morgan Castle in two days, and the more than 500 slaves who had been dawdling in the manor castle here would also go with them. , these slaves will become the labor force for building the castle, and after the new mountain city is built, they will be free and serve the people on the spot. This time I will go to transport a batch of grain, and I will notify the other side to send a convoy to meet them, and the three stewards can go and have a look together.
Lorist asked the three stewards to keep this matter a secret for the time being, and the three stewards made promises before leaving cheerfully. The old manager of Kress waited for the three managers to leave before he began to criticize Lorist. The old manager thought that building a city in the Morgan Hills was a waste of manpower and material resources. He thought that Lorist should bring the team and people here. Come on, it's better to build a new city along the family's manor castle.
Lorist wondered why the boss had such an idea? The boss said that the Norton family's ancestral motto is to protect the frontier for the empire, and the Morgan Hills are not a frontier at all!
Lorist smiled and comforted the boss. He never said that he would give up here. He had to withdraw his fists to be able to fight. The development of the Morgan Hills was the fists withdrawn by the Norton family, and they would naturally find the fists to be used. direction.
It was already very late at night when we left the room of Mr. Kress.
Lorist returned to the main building of the castle where he lived, went to the balcony in front of the bedroom, and looked at the manor castle shrouded in darkness.
This place is not bad. Two hundred years ago, the ancestors of the family worked hard to choose this place as the base of the family. It took decades to build this family manor castle from scratch. No wonder the boss couldn't bear it. When he heard that he wanted to move the city to the Morgan Hills, he questioned whether he wanted to give up here. The way he looked at him was like looking at a heinous sinner.
"Master, your bath water is ready..." A timid voice interrupted Lorist's thoughts. Lorist nodded towards Elina and walked downstairs to the bedroom.
After taking a comfortable hot bath, Lorist half leaned on the bed, watching Elina scoop the bath water into the wooden bucket like a hardworking bee, and then removed the wooden bathtub for bathing. , cleaned the floor and went back to the bathroom to rinse herself off, then put a leather sleeping pad on the back of the sofa in a gray nightgown, and took out a blanket to lie down...
"Erina, come to me..." Lorist added his lips and said.
Elina's body froze, and it took a while before she slowly walked in front of Lorist, she lowered her head and said nothing, but her body was trembling slightly...
"Are you so afraid of me? Why?" Lorist said, reaching out his hand to Elina's chin, and then lifted her face completely.
The girl's eyes are extremely flustered, but her expression is a feeling of resignation...
"Do you know what the maid is going to do with the master?" Lorist said.
The girl's body trembled even more, but she nodded to show that she understood.
Lorist's fingers slid across the girl's face, then the bridge of the nose, lips, chin, and finally landed on the knot of her nightgown...
The off-white half-worn fine linen nightgown fluttered to the ground, revealing the girl's slender and fair body, trembling nervously.
Lorist held her in his arms, stroking the two bright red spots on the girl's chest: "Erina, you are not allowed to sleep on the floor in the future, half of your seat is on this bed, do you understand?"
Elina was at a loss, her whole body was stiff and she could only tremble, her body gradually began to heat up under Lorist's caress, and an unintelligible and unconscious sound began to come out of her throat...
Lorist put the girl in a good position on the bed, sank his body, and penetrated his hardness and fiery depth into the girl's tenderness...
The girl struggled violently, her body was trembling violently, her hands tightly grasped the back of Lorist who was lying on top of her, tears gushed out, and she screamed: "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts to death!" it's..."
Lorist was stunned, stopped and didn't move, and waited until the girl became silent before lowering his head to wipe away the tears on the girl's face: "Sorry, I thought you had experienced it before, but I didn't expect that it was the first time for you..."
The girl cried again: "Three, third young master, he was still young at that time, only ten or seventeen years old. The master said that he would not be able to touch me until he was eighteen years old, otherwise he would not be able to truly awaken his fighting spirit if he hurt his body..."
It's my fault, I shouldn't have pushed him into the well and let him hurt his body... Lorist thought self-pityingly, but he became more and more gentle to the girl under him: "The first time was a little painful, bear with it for a while After a while, the pain will be gone and you will feel very comfortable... You will know after a while... "
"Don't keep trembling, I can't help but want to move if you tremble like this... Don't shake, I really can't help it..."
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