Hey, King!

2022-01-16

Chapter 458 Chapter 461 Touch the family property

The pioneer army entered Egg Island, not for charity , but to exercise domination and management. Referring to the experience of the veterans of the Wind Chaser Regiment, the first thing after entering a relatively unfamiliar place is to find out the terrain and environment here.

Streets are surveyed, building layouts are surveyed, maps are drawn, and functional blocks are divided. Streets with names are confirmed and registered, streets without names are named and signposted. Egg Island is not big and the streets are not that complicated. It took the pioneers two days to complete the work. On the third day, they built a wall in front of the hot spring house, and drew the landmark map of Egg Island on it.

"With this map, there will be rules on how to manage Egg Island." Dagon carefully examined the map and asked Surrey, "How is the demographics?"

"It's going on, but it's moving slowly." Surrey said: "There's not much to enjoy in this place in the Northland, so the chiefs of the Barbarian Race often take pleasure in tossing people, and the ordinary person's family hides the population for self-protection."

"Understandable, but this will not work." Dagon said: "If the population statistics are not up, the distribution of rations, the storage of winter supplies, and the subsequent immigration of people will not be easy to do. We must live within our means, so These basic quantitative information are particularly valuable."

"Dagon, in fact, it doesn't have to be so precise. In this place in the Northland, how can people not freeze to death and starve to death in winter? Don't say this bad Jiangu city can’t take care of everyone.”

“This is a reality, but not an excuse.” Dagon said, “Sari, should I give a stern order to let those The resident representative can complete it within a limited time, otherwise... no, I think it's not good to think about it myself, it is better to let Shiroai cast a spell of enchanting the whole city, or I can use the coercive dragon sense to see through the whole Town."

"Can you do that?" Saree tsk tsk said twice, "Since it is very important to count the population, it is not impossible to do it. However, there is actually another kind of Method: Rewards."

"We don't bring much supplies, do we use Egg Island's reserves... oh, I understand, the meat of those Wargs and Firefox." Dagon thought for a while and said: "Okay. Bart, you can use spell to ask where Commander Anders, who is in charge of the battlefield clearing, is currently. I'll go to him." Dagon and Surrey passed by Anders' place. The chubby Jiangu clansman was in charge of the logistics and daily defense of the vanguard, and had been cleaning the battlefield with three squads of warriors before.

The wolf skins and fox skins are pulled and tied to the rack, dried in the sun, and then handed over to the cobbler Master for further processing. The quality of these hides is very poor, and the shotgun smashes many small holes on them, so it is difficult to find a whole piece of skin with a relatively large area. Anders has already discussed with the craftsman, making some gloves, shoes, and soft hats is the best destination for these leathers.

Skin is already this virtue, and meat is even worse. Through this cleaning of the battlefield, the vanguard finally fully understood what the lethality of the musket was. Torn muscles and broken internal organs, how could such an injury not be fatal? Even if it doesn't die, the fragments of the shotgun warhead left in the body are enough to eat a pot. Not to mention struggling to live with those fragments, digging them out will give warriors a headache.

"You can't do it without digging it out. This thing has teeth, but it can't be left in the flesh."

I understand the truth, but this job is not easy to do until Shiloh Ai came to help. The wizard draws an array on an iron plate, and uses the Metal Element-based incantation to generate a magnetic field. Hanging this iron plate, the meat passes from below, if there are metal fragments, it will be attracted, which greatly saves an inch of the effort to find the fragments.

Anyway, those meats are all tattered, don't care about the shape, find the approximate location of the fragments, just dig out that part with a knife and throw it away. After four inspections of the magnet plate, the meat is basically no problem.

The coarse rock salt was smashed, ground into powder, then heated in a stone pot, added with some local spices, and then smeared on the meat strips for the first marinating. Stir a few times in between to allow the salt to penetrate evenly.

When Dagon arrived at Anders' Bacon Workshop, they were doing their second treatment. Boil the hot water to wash the cured meat, wash off the salt and spices on its surface, then hang the meat to let the wind blow and the sun dry it gradually. The hot water that washes off the salt will continue to boil dry to restore the salt again. Although the taste is affected by the meat and spices, they become a finer flavored salt that can be eaten by itself or sold for money.

One third soldier is busy cooking, washing and drying cured meat, while other soldiers are building smokers. The Jiangu people have a long tradition of construction and smelting. Building a furnace, whether it is for iron smelting or for "smelting" meat (bacon), is a familiar thing. Five large smokehouses stand on a small high ground, as if looking down on the battlefield not far away with the attitude of a victor.

Aside from the busy soldiers, Dagon was delighted to see some of the residents of Egg Island come to help. They know where to find dry wood, bark, and some good smokers to add flavor. Dagon recognized a few of them, all of them had been plagued by lycanthropy before, and they came to help just after they got rid of the disease?

"Ah, it's the commander-in-chief!" Someone saw Dagon from a distance, and he greeted his friends and quickly surrounded him. They kept saying thank you and Dagon kept saying hello, rest and recovery.

"Go do your own thing, I have something to talk to Anders." Dagon finally persuaded them to repel them, so that he could occupy a place beside Anders.

"Dagon, what's your order?" Anders wiped the sweat with a hand towel and was panting, which made Dagon a little worried about his health.

"I'm fine, I'm just feeling the situation." Anders explained: "Seeing the meat being hung up, washed and dried, the fat all over my body is tense. They're probably saying: I'm wrong. Come on, don't kill me..."

"Nonsense, how can the flesh on your body have ideas. Come on, stretch out your left hand, and I will use the dive technique to help you see."

Apart from being fat and tired, other things are fine. "You have to pay attention to rest, it's better to go to sleep now." Dagon said: "I'll watch it here, there's nothing urgent, don't worry."

"The Pioneer's eat, drink, shit and piss are all I have to go from the logistics side, especially when I just entered Egg Island, and I have to take over the original inventory, I dare not relax." Anders put away his handkerchief and said, "I can take care of things in two days. Shun, it's not too late to take a rest. Don't worry, I always take a break. If you have something to say, please tell me quickly, or it will be more uncomfortable for me to be hung up on my appetite."

"I think Take out a portion of the bacon and use it as a reward for the residents who reported the population situation, so as to find out the situation of Egg Island as soon as possible. How long will it take for the meat here to get better?"

"It's just air-dried, today and tomorrow will be enough. All smoked, no matter what, it has to be smoked for three days, and then dried. If you don’t pursue the best taste, you can eat it after three days. Cut it into pieces and cook it, and you can eat it with porridge or vegetables. Uh, when it comes to eating It's a bit long-winded. Three days, the fastest three days."

"Three days... a bit slow, but there are ways to solve it. How many pounds can I lose?"

" Smoked will shrink, the water in the meat will come out a lot, and the weight will be reduced. The exact amount is still uncertain, but three thousand pounds is definitely no problem."

"That's a lot, just follow the Three thousand pounds. Anders, how much did you plan to keep for the Vanguard?"

"Hehe, I plan to keep all of them. The meat that can be smoked is very shelf-stable, especially through winter. Frozen is even better. But the army is to obey orders, how much do you say?"

"I plan to have two kilograms of bacon per household. This reward will only be issued after all jobs are reported." Dagon said: "I have touched the number of streets and houses before, and it is estimated that there are about 1,000 to 1,500 households in Dandao."

"That's all to take out. Um...they'll come get the meat in three days?"

"I'll give them a meat ticket, signed with spell, so I'm not afraid of forgery." Dagon said, "I'll give them to me. They said that after three days, you can get the meat with a ticket, but the longer the meat is left, the less moisture, and the better the taste and quality. The weight is two pounds, and they will send it to them whenever they want. They. Pick them up from me, and I'll give you the total number, so you don't have to worry about the finer things of cutting meat, dividing meat, and collecting tickets."

"That's really good, otherwise I'll pay you back. You have to think about it all the time." Anders said: "Dagon, your method is good, but you have to take it easy, the winter in the north is not easy, you need to leave us some reserves. Don't count it according to the current population, When the snow starts, there will be tribes coming. When the time comes you are taking them in , or beat them out? "

"If you can obey the management, then take it in." But if the food is not enough, it must be shot out. "Dagon said: "Goodness can have no end, but food does not fall from the sky. When I was on the road of enlightenment, I was thinking about how to use divide force to make food, but there was no such divide technique at all. "

"Hehe, that's not surprising. Our Jiangu clansman's dive technique can turn into metal, or turn mud into stone, which is what we are good at. Variable plants are the specialty of the pointy-eared elves. By the way, there are halflings and some druids of Andros, whose priests can make plants grow and forests flourish. It is a pity that the Northland is too cruel, it is difficult for the small halfling to survive, and the belief in the god Andos is relatively small. "

"Andos... eh, I heard my mother say that Beer Town, southeast of Jiangu City, is a halfling gathering area, where there is the temple of Andos." "

"Yes, there is." Ah, I miss the cool and fragrant beers there, especially the mellow foam... Aiya, enough to say. Closer to home, save a little this winter and work hard to produce next year, so that we can have a bottom line. "

"Well, you're right." Dagon tugged at his beard and said, "But you also reminded me, maybe I should contact Andos to see if she is interested in setting up a temple here..."

(end of this chapter)