industrial lord

Chapter 13 Conspiracy
The endless night is full of stars, a crescent moon rises in the east, and owls fly silently in the night sky.

Two people stood on an arrow tower in the castle, watching Frederick in the training ground with great interest.

Frederick was practicing the footwork he learned this morning, although his movements were slow but very standard, with ten small elemental balls spinning around his head.

In other positions on the training ground, Jurgen and other young people who also received Richard Nall's teaching were also sweating profusely.

Richard Nall sighed: "With such young people, the future of the Wesson family is limitless."

During the day, he didn't arrange for anyone to train on his own at night, just to see how young people are.

No one is slacking off these nights.

"Let's talk about living." Psyche said with a lollipop in his mouth. "You can reach the height of a Juggernaut mainly because you can live long enough to become a Juggernaut."

Richard Nall smiled wryly, indeed, more than half of the young people in the training ground were as talented as their own at the same age, and there were many geniuses in the world when he was young.

Wars, monsters, conspiracies, arrogance, self-defeating over setbacks...too many talented people fall on the way to the summit.

Psyche went on to say: "I intend to let Frederick inherit my heritage."

It was Richard Nall who had seen countless strong winds and waves, and was also frightened by this short sentence, and asked in disbelief: "Could it be that you..."

When he met Psyche, he was not much older than Frederick. At that time, his master called Psyche "sister". One can imagine the age.

"I'm leaving this world." Psyche said calmly.

There was a sad look on Richard Nall's face, and tears were about to come out.

In the circle of a certain level, the legend of Psyche has been circulating. When your strength reaches the bottleneck and it is difficult to break through, she will appear to give advice. Richard Nall is one of the beneficiaries.

"How long...?" Richard Nall asked.

"Three or five hundred years." Psyche replied calmly.

Richard Nall's expression changed several times, and he finally said, "I can't send you off."

The stronger the person, the longer they live. It is no problem for someone like Richard Nall to live to be 60 or [-] years old.

After three to five hundred years, whether the tomb is still there is a problem.

Richard Nall suddenly said to Psyche very solemnly: "I have a request, please fight me with all your strength when I am one hundred years old."

People in their circle knew that Psyche was strong, but they didn't know how strong it was. No one had ever seen her make a full-strength attack.

Psyche replied calmly, "Let me know when the time comes."

At the same time, in Cologne, the capital of the Rhine Alliance, a conversation related to the Wesson family was taking place in the most prestigious box of a theater.

King William of the Rhine Union is over 50 years old this year. After losing the war with the Kingdom of Gaul last year, he suddenly looked like a teenager.

Beside him, Earl Ehrenfeld, who was in charge of intelligence work, was reporting the latest information collected to the king.

"Recently, the diplomat of the Principality of Mainz, Baron Philip von Elthal, appeared in the city of Mingxing in the Principality of Bain." Earl Ehrenfeld whispered, "There are signs that the Principality of Mainz has a relationship with Bayne. The Principality of En will seek the possibility of improving relations."

William said "hmm" and said after a while: "Tighten up the control of Nuremberg City. It will be difficult if the three parties unite."

Earl Ehrenfeld received the latest instructions, and continued: "Information confirms that the Wessen Land is recruiting people through the Stonemasons Association in Nuremberg City, and plans to dig a canal connecting the Rhine and the Danube."

William was silent for a long time, and asked, "Are there many disaster victims this year?"

Earl Ehrenfeld immediately replied: "Last winter, there was a lot of snow. This year, when the snow melted in the spring, there was a big flood. There has been no rain since the beginning of summer. There have been many villages fleeing."

William pondered for a moment and said, "Tell the victims that there is a way to survive in Wesson."

"Say hello again and tell them not to stop them along the way, but they can't let them go."

Count Ehrenfeld immediately understood what the king meant.

Wesson has a population of 3 because the land can only support so many people.

If [-] to [-] victims flooded in at once, these penniless people would eat up the entire territory like locusts.

At that time, even a few more Juggernauts will not help.

As for land reclamation, the landlords can only "hehe".

To reclaim wasteland, the first thing to do is to clean up the ground and underground, which requires cutting down trees, clearing the shrubs and weeds on the ground and the root system in the ground.

The simplest of them is to cut down trees. It is very cumbersome to eradicate shrubs and weeds. The whole land needs to be shoveled bit by bit. When encountering perennial old vines, you need to bend down and cut them down one at a time.

It is not impossible to set fire to a mountain, but a village needs firewood forest, and wood is also needed to build a house and make furniture. If the fire cannot be controlled, then "hehe".

Cleaning up the root system also requires hoeing the ground bit by bit to dig out the grass roots, otherwise it will be "cutting the grass without removing the roots, and the spring breeze will regenerate".

The most difficult thing is to dig out the roots of the underground trees. These roots are large and deep, which is very labor-intensive.

Then comes the land preparation. The large and small stones in the soil need to be cleaned up, the soil clods need to be plowed, the slopes need to be leveled, and some depressions need to be filled.

After the land is leveled, you can theoretically grow things, but there are still two problems. One is the water source, and water conservancy facilities need to be repaired. The second is that the land is not fertile enough, and you need to fertilize and plant beans to raise the land, otherwise you will fail to harvest.

In addition, there are two huge inputs of farm implements and livestock.

Even if all manpower is used, the agricultural tools needed by tens of thousands of people for reclamation and farming do not fall from the sky, which requires real money to buy.

Three to five years have passed by the time the crops planted in the land are able to have a surplus. During this period, there is only input but no output for land reclamation.

Everyone's productivity is the same these days, and there is no need to send spies or anything. A simple calculation can estimate how much food reserves and funds the Wesson family has.

These tens of thousands of disaster victims poured into Wesson Territory. For the Wesson family, accepting them was a dead end, and not accepting them was also a dead end.

The Wesson family can do nothing about this, with their power they can't stop the victims from coming, they can only choose between a dead end and a dead end.

(End of this chapter)