industrial lord

Chapter 33
A large field by the river is full of milk vetch, which is green and just harvested, only palm-high, and a group of sheep are grazing with their heads down.

White clouds drifted across the sky, and the weather was not as hot as it was in previous days.

A wooden dragonfly spun into the air, flew towards the distance for a while, then exhausted its energy and landed on the grass.

There was a pleasant laughter, and Maria, who was wearing a riding suit, ran over, picked up the wooden dragonfly and rubbed it vigorously in her snow-white hands, and the new toy flew into the air again.

The underside of the wood dragonfly's leaves are painted with bright paint, and when it flies into the air, it looks like several layers of overlapping colored circles from the ground.

The Grand Duke of Mainz has a great-grandson who is a little younger than Frederick. Many toys, including the wooden dragonfly, were originally intended for him, but now they belong to Maria.

White awnings with beautiful tassels were erected on the grass under the embankment, and the floor was covered with thick carpets.

Sofia took fruit, snacks and lunch out of the basket and placed them in the middle of the rug, and was now lighting the tea stove on the shelf beside the rug.

Although the weather is still very hot now, Sophia dare not drink ice cold tea for her daughter, which will easily spoil her stomach.

Ignition is very simple, just put the charcoal in the stove, stretch your finger over it like a flame spray gun and spray the flame for a while.

Selling matches in this world doesn't make a lot of money, and nearly half of healthy adults can make a small flame. On the contrary, there is a market for magic lighters with exquisite shell materials and exquisite decorations.

After finishing all this work, Sophia looked into the distance, her parasol was still on the embankment, and Frederick lent him to cover the sun when he said he was going to paint just now.

At this time, Frederick was using charcoal to draw the floor plan of the refugee camp on a piece of parchment.

He has been here for three days. Yesterday, he applied for a meeting with the Grand Duke of Mainz through Philip, and then he got the news that the Grand Duke’s family went to a hot spring vacation. At the same time, Philip also obtained the command of 500 soldiers of the Principality to guard the territory, sell rationed food in the warehouse, and confiscate a certain number of people. The power of corvee, and at the same time imply that the relevant territories should do a good job of guiding the victims.

Obviously, this incident was that King William wanted to kill Frederick. The Grand Duke of Mainz didn't want to look like he was going against the king because he directly helped Frederick after the talks with the Principality of Bavaria collapsed.

So the Grand Duke's family went to the hot springs for vacation to see Frederick, and gave Philip, who was the first to bear the brunt, several powers, and then asked other places to cooperate.

This excuse shows that the Grand Duke of Mainz clearly disgusts the king at first glance.

Frederick didn't care about it anymore, the most important thing was getting things done.

Now building the containment camp is the top priority. Wesson has sent someone to inform that Philip is using his newly acquired power to concentrate manpower and material resources to assist.

Among other things, the amount of firewood needed is not small, and the trees cannot be chopped down randomly, they have to be cut in a firewood forest of a special year.

In order to speed up, Frederick came to the field where the camp was set up to conduct field inspections, and he could start working as soon as his own people arrived.

Sophia thought he was out to play, so she took her daughter out together.

But Frederick didn't have the time, so he could only let Maria play by herself.

A camp is not as simple as putting up a tent. It involves eating, drinking, sleeping, where to store supplies, where is the kitchen, where to live, and where to set up toilets. All these must be carefully considered.

Scholars in the construction industry in Weissenburg have provided templates, and on-site optimization needs to be carried out based on actual conditions, such as where the water comes from.

Even if someone died in the camp, there must be a plan for how to deal with the body.

"What are you drawing?" Maria had had enough of playing with the wooden dragonfly, and ran to sit next to Frederick. The distance between the two was exactly the width of her five fists, the perfect gap between a lady and a gentleman. distance.

At this time, the clouds that covered the sun left, and Frederick gave her the parasol and said at the same time: "A camp is going to be built here."

"Are you going to build a new castle?!" Maria exclaimed happily, "Can the castle be purple? In spring, there are all purple flowers here, very beautiful!!"

Frederick shook his head and said with a smile, "No, it's just that there are many, many tents. Many people stayed here for a few days and then left."

I don't know if Maria understands it, but the little girl's topic jumped to other places: "Oh, will you come when the flowers bloom here next spring? There are all purple flowers here, as well as little bees and beautiful little butterflies. It was fun!"

Frederick replied: "Next year there will be wheat in the field, and there will be purple flowers on the other side of the river."

"Ah?" Maria widened her beautiful eyes in surprise, "Why did the purple flowers and wheat move?"

Frederick said with a smile: "Because they are good friends, next year the purple flower will go to play with Maizi, and Maizi will go to play with the purple flower, but they both find that their good friends are not at home."

"Really?" Maria asked incredulously.

"It's true!" Frederick said solemnly, "You will know when you come here next spring."

Milk vetch is the most common fallow crop in the area. It is sown in autumn. It can provide honey for bees during the flowering season from spring to early summer in the second year. After the flowering season, it is harvested and fed back to livestock. At the end of summer, the whole plant is plowed to the field and Roots with rhizobia are used as green manure, and then wheat is grown.

The field on the other side of the river has finished harvesting beans and is currently being plowed, and will start planting milk vetch at the end of September.

Maria said "Oh" several times with a look of confusion.

At this moment, Sophia waved her hand and asked the two children to go back to have some snacks.

Maria took a few steps with the parasol, looked at the embankment under the scorching sun, and turned back to Frederick.

"Go," the little girl said proudly, "I'll help you hold the umbrella."

As she spoke, she wept the parasol so that Frederick could also be covered.

It's just that the handle and ribs of this parasol are made of wood, which is not light in weight. The little girl trembled after raising it for a while.

Frederick took the parasol and went by himself.

The servants carried the kettle and asked the two to wash their hands, and Sophia let them eat whatever snacks they wanted.

Frederick put a few pieces of gingerbread on his own plate and put it beside him, and finished drawing while eating.

"Huh?" He looked at the bitten gingerbread and sighed, "It's so delicious."

There is a tradition of using ginger to nourish the stomach,

Sophia handed him a piece of applesauce pie topped with honey, and said with a smile, "Eat more if you think it tastes good."

"Thank you." Frederick took the pie and put it aside, "I'll finish the drawing before eating."

As he spoke, he continued to perfect the ceramic pipe between the water pump and the water storage tank.

Maria ate her mouthful of applesauce pie, and Sofia wiped the corners of her mouth gently with a handkerchief.

"How do you eat so fast?" Sophia said, "Eat your mouth full."

Maria replied, "I thought the pie was bad."

"Why is it not delicious?" Sophia was very strange.

Maria said: "Look, mom, Frederick doesn't even eat it, does it feel bad?"

Sophia turned her head and found that Frederick was sitting on the carpet seriously writing and drawing on the parchment with an extremely focused expression.

She wanted to say something, but gave up, and her husband occasionally had such an expression, and every time he appeared, he was dealing with important things.

Frederick suddenly discovered that the original camp plan did not consider requirements such as fire evacuation, so he made adjustments.

After he finished the modification and put down the charcoal pen, he heard Sophia ask herself: "You can just let others do these trivial things, why bother yourself?"

There was a trace of bitterness in the smile on Frederick's face, and he said wearily: "There is no way, I am the only one left in the Wesson family."

"I am too young, which is a disadvantage, and it is easy to make people think badly."

"In order to make my subordinates not feel like that, I can only do everything right, do my best, and lead them from one victory to another, so that they will be convinced by me, from the bottom of my heart. Worship me everywhere and fear me at the same time, so you won’t have any other thoughts.”

I know my own affairs, and managing a territory is not that simple.

The human heart is the most unpredictable and dangerous. Firstly, I have no way to see how others like me. Secondly, I don’t have absolutely loyal callers to be the basic board. I can only work hard to create the personality of a genius child to ensure that my subordinates maintain their respect for me. Confidence can at least raise the threshold for betraying oneself.

"Tired?" Sophia couldn't help reaching out and stroking Frederick's hair, feeling sorry for this little boy who was only a little older than her daughter.

Frederick just squeezed out a little smile, didn't say anything, just looked at the flock of sheep gradually approaching.

If you don't want to become a fat sheep to be slaughtered, you can only be so tired.

Maria didn't understand the previous conversation, but only understood her mother's way of saying that Frederick was very tired, so she went on to say: "If you are tired, you need to sleep more. Do you want me to sing to you? Father listened to me. The songs I sang made me sleep soundly!"

Frederick smiled and said to her, "Okay, I like listening to singing the most."

Maria immediately put down the candied fruit in her hand and began to sing.

Frederick knew that her voice was beautiful, but he didn't expect that the song could be described as the sound of nature. The cheerful singing directly hit the depths of the soul, and the whole person's mood calmed down.

Not only him, but the flock of sheep and shepherd dogs who walked not far away also heard the singing and were immediately attracted to them. They formed a circle around the carpet and listened to Maria's singing quietly.

After a while, even the birds landed on the crossbars of the awning, on the sheep, and some of them kept flying around Maria.

Sophia looked at her daughter proudly, but Frederick was shocked. This girl's talent in soul magic is so terrifying!
(End of this chapter)