Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 373 370．lake in the north

"My lord, you have also seen that this carriage fully meets your requirements, and its performance is very good, but it is very expensive." Facing Rand's question about the cost of the carriage, the dwarf also shook his head, "Sufficient iron and guide magic Metal, more than a dozen magic patterns, and the crossbow machine on it needs 3 small magic circles and 5 runes. If it weren't for Mage Sophia, the bare body would cost hundreds of gold coins.

Now it’s all down, the car body is about 80 gold coins, and the giant crossbow is about 200 gold coins. If we do more in the future, the cost can be reduced.But more importantly, even if Master Sophia and Wendy come here, they can only draw 2 cars a day, so they have to stay in the magic workshop for a day. "

"Understood." Lante nodded, "I'll think of a way."

With the ironworks, dwarven rune masters, and templates from the imperial capital as references, the design of the new carriage and crossbow is not too slow to finalize. The production of the frame and carriage of the general version of the carriage has also entered the stage of small-batch trial production. The batch of 20 vehicles has been completed; 5 units of the giant crossbow have been produced for testing; 10 units of the extended carriage have been produced, and the installation of functional compartments has been completed for 6 units.

However, there are too few mages in Rand's hands, and there are too many product lines, all kinds of magic pattern equipment, carriages, and magic pattern breeding tanks. It is still very difficult to deploy.

In the afternoon, Rand received briefings from all over the territory at the East 1 station, and flew northward directly.Yesterday Neil took Teresa and Rand to set off at the same time, but Rand went west and Neil went north.

Rand originally planned to send Elsa to the western border first, and then soak in the training circle or the Magister Tower to improve himself with peace of mind, but at the Iowa Pass, Rand realized that some things are best done by himself. Read and investigate to make a decision.Little Cardinal can provide information to herself through the post station and signal system, but it cannot replace her own actual investigation.

"Sure enough, once there is a portal, the capital and the capital will be natural neighbors, and the border of the territory will become a distant frontier." Rand laughed at himself while reflecting on how much time he had wasted in the capital recently. , should pay more attention to the news in the territory.

Neil's northward pioneering speed exceeded Rand's expectations. He only set off on June 6, and there were still a few days to return with Teresa to participate in the construction of the beehive planting area.However, Neil has completed the North 11 station 200 kilometers north of Yeqi City, and is still going north.

When Rand arrived at the North 5 station, he only saw Teresa and the middle-level knight Nedland Wilson, but Neil and the barbarian cavalry were completely invisible.

"Are you looking for Neil? We separated, they were responsible for scouting and cleaning up the surrounding tribes, and Netherlands and I focused on building roads," Teresa introduced when she saw Rand.

Among the developments in the east and northwest directions, only the north-facing team used the barbarian cavalry of the Galloping Horse Tribe as the main force and had sufficient troops. Neil's development was more like a hunting: every morning, nearly 200 cavalrymen It will be divided into five groups, and one group will detect a range of about 60 kilometers to the north, leaving room for Teresa's road repair and post building.Two teams were dispatched in the east and west directions for scouting and hunting.

To the north of the Benma River, there are dense river networks and dotted with small lakes. After the beginning of spring, some barbarian tribes settled near the lakes, fishing and grazing.If not encountered, the cavalry will try to catch fish in situ.

If you encounter a small tribe, the galloping cavalry will greet them friendly, bring them some food, and invite them to visit various post stations. If it is a larger tribe, Neil will personally go to communicate and show them force and food , to win the respect and submission of the barbarians.

With sufficient manpower and effective division of labor, although the northward team needs to build a large number of bridges, the development efficiency is higher than that of the east and west directions.

When it was almost noon, the cavalry scouting north reported that they had seen Luoyue Lake in the north and asked what to do.

"Luoyue Lake?" Lante was a little strange, "Isn't it more than 400 kilometers away from Yeqi City? Why did you only see Luoyue Lake after only 200 kilometers?"

"My lord, we are all cavalry from the south of the Benma River. We have never seen that lake before. Now we see a large lake in the north. The leader said that it is Luoyue Lake. Naturally, we don't dare to argue."

The cavalry who reported the letter told Lante the truth. Lante naturally couldn't blame him, so he could only ride on the fire and take Teresa to investigate on the spot. Sure enough, after about 40 kilometers to the north, he saw a wide lake. It is more than 20 kilometers long from east to west, and 5 or 6 kilometers wide from north to south. No wonder the cavalry thought it was Luoyue Lake when they saw it.

But Lante knew that it was definitely not here, because he could see the mountains to the north of the lake. According to records, Luoyue Lake was as wide as the sea, and it was impossible to see the north shore from the south bank.

Apparently, the north side of this lake still has a depth of more than [-] kilometers, waiting for Neil's development, but Rand thinks that building a larger castle here and temporarily stabilizing the border here is also a way.

After communicating with Teresa, Rant decided to use the great goblin to connect to the magic net. This time he wanted to personally participate in the construction of a viscount-level castle.

Rand chose to build on a relatively high hillside. On the north side facing the lake, he used the rock mass of the hillside as the facade of the castle as much as possible, and built a pier outside the north wall.A number of outbuildings and watchtowers were built on the southern slope of the castle, all of which are designed with sloped roofs to facilitate the falling of snow.

The design and construction of the building is not complicated, but it is very interesting to experience how the big goblins build it for the first time. It feels like squeezing a plasticine with invisible hands, and it seems that I am building a sandcastle.

After several practices, Rand tried to use his consciousness to directly construct the complex structure inside the rock formation, such as making part of the rock formation act as a steel structure to increase the shear resistance of the floor, or increase the hole-like structure of the wall to achieve a mute effect.

The castle built by Rand has a huge underground space, which is convenient for the storage of winter things and meat. The basement can also lead to any ancillary buildings, and the construction of these underground spaces even takes more time than the buildings on the ground.

However, the harvest of completing this space by yourself is huge, and even Teresa feels that his operation has reached the level of a magic goblin
When all the buildings were completed, Neil also brought the cavalry to find him. He wondered why Rand came to see him just after he left Yeqi City.

"Look around the lake in the past two days. If you can go around, go around. If you can't, set up a station on the south bank, and then send Teresa back to Yeqi City." Lante made arrangements for Neil. Then ride southeast to White Wolf City in the eastern Iowa Pass.

(End of this chapter)