Lord of all tribes

Chapter 207 Iron Ore
"Damn it! Cough cough cough." Earl Jon stared at Enoch, "Are you going to betray me?"

"Go to hell!" Earl Jon pulled out the saber from Enoch's waist, and with a puff, a bright sword light suddenly appeared on the chest of the middle-aged man who was knocked to the ground by two soldiers. The tip of the sword directly penetrated the middle-aged man's body, exposing the tip of the sword glowing with silver light.

Seeing this, Enoch continued to stare straight ahead expressionlessly, without showing any emotion.

"Why do you resist my orders? Are you thinking that my Hearst family is not as strong as it used to be, so you want to put it aside?"

Earl Jon roared hysterically. He was very dissatisfied with Enoch's actions today, and he could even be said to be shocked.

He thought he had given Enoch the best treatment, and made him the commander of the Versilia City Guard so much, but just now, this guy actually violated his order, and Earl Jon thought of Enoch Ke's usual prestige in the army changed a little bit for a while.

"If you admit that it was just a momentary fever, then I can let you go." Earl Jon made a concession. Now is the time for employing people. It is a bit inappropriate to abolish the commander of his own city guard at this time.

"I just insist on what I think is right. He is just a poor guy who has been persecuted by the beast tide. Killing him is not enough to anger the people. As a lord, you should have such a forgiving heart."

Enoch's voice was still clear and clear, showing a distinct and dignified aristocratic demeanor all the time.

Apart from Enoch's personal ability, being able to sit in the position of commander of the city guards of Versilia City is because he is also a member of the nobility. Although he is only a jazz, he has crossed the threshold of nobility.

For this kind of capable little nobles, those big nobles have always liked to win over them most.

Earl Jon was also very satisfied with recruiting a talented person like Enoch, but now, he just wanted to stab the guy in front of him with a heavy armor and an expressionless face to death with his sword.

Damn it!How can there be such an ignorant guy!Count Jon thought to himself.

"Let your deputy Jill take over your position temporarily. As for you, you will be demoted to the lowest soldier and guard the city gate for me!"

In the end, Earl Jon did not give the long sword in his hand for the second time. He understood his current situation, and knew that what he should do now is not to deal with the former city guard commander who had a disagreement with him, but to concentrate on the entire territory. Strength, to restore the former glory and heritage of the Versilia Territory as quickly as possible.

It was easy to say, but when it came time to implement it, it was extremely difficult. The most practical problem was that there were not enough subjects for him to work.

Without a sufficient population in the territory, Ruixue could not grow food on the land that Ruixue had raised for a whole winter, and the military institutions in the territory could not be rebuilt. It would be very difficult to restore Versilia City to its former glory.

"Barry, immediately go to the treasury to extract 20 gold coins and send them to Earl Denton and Marquis Adolf, begging them to send the idlers and serfs in the territory to me, and tell them that I, Jon, owe them a favor."

The scarcity of population is indeed a big problem, but for an old fox like Earl Jon who has invaded the territory for decades, these are not enough to tie his hands and feet.

For some territories in the hinterland of the kingdom, too many subjects would cause the local lords to lose more food. If they were not afraid that the subjects would riot in the territory, they would have expelled these redundant subjects long ago.

In this environment, if Earl Jon is willing to prepare small gifts for those lords, it is presumably not a big problem to solve the population problem.

"Viscount Rollin, my dear ally, since you have chosen to turn your back on, don't blame me for being merciless!"

There was a hint of ferocity in Earl Jon's eyes, and his heart was bleeding when he thought that nearly half of the grain in the granary was missing. These were all accumulated by him after several years of hard work.

Now, when I return home, half of it is directly taken away by others. This kind of mood is very bad!
"Ah hall!"

"This must be someone thinking about me again." Luo Lin shrugged his nose and muttered something in his mouth.

"My dearest lord, this is a newly forged one thousand spear points and one hundred thousand arrow clusters, as long as the spear shaft and arrow feathers are installed, it can be put into use."

Arvid led Rollin around the newly opened blacksmith shop, and introduced the current operation of the blacksmith shop by the way.

"Well, very good, the dwarves are indeed born masters of forging, and all forged products are high-quality goods."

Although this is somewhat suspected of flattering, Rollin has to admit that the spear points and arrow clusters made by the dwarves are the ones that Super Rollin bought from Sir Louis before, both in appearance and sharpness. Those so-called boutiques.

"Haha, that's natural. The craftsmanship of our dwarves is not boasting. I think back then."

Luo Lin shrugged helplessly. Arvid not only inherited the dwarves' alcoholism, but also enjoyed the self-created bragging. His reddish-brown wine-grooved nose trembled up and down with the movement of his lips, which was quite funny. .

"However, we are running out of iron ingots."

Arvid bragged for a while, but when he saw that Luo Lin didn't seem to want to continue to respond, he ended up talking, but then he raised the question again.

Indeed, although Luo Lin had hoarded a batch of iron ingots in preparation for a rainy day, the quantity was not very large.

At that time, there was no blacksmith shop in Garadiland, and Rollin bought more finished weapons and armor, rather than iron ingots that seemed useless at the time.

However, the arrival of the dwarves quickly depleted the iron ingots that Rollin had hoarded. Without the raw materials for casting armor and weapons, how could they forge excellent armor and weapons to enhance the combat power of the Galadi army?
"Although the ore hunting team found a small iron mine in the territory, more than half of that iron mine has been mined. Even if all the remaining iron ore is mined, it can only support the operation of the blacksmith shop for a month. Then , what about a month later?"

Arvid raised concerns. Indeed, this is an issue that needs special attention. Now the commercial roads between the northwest and the hinterland of the kingdom have come to a standstill due to successive disasters, and Sir Louis, the largest merchant in the northwest of the kingdom, is also missing.

All we can do now is to find new iron ore as much as possible to overcome the immediate iron deficiency crisis.

(End of this chapter)