Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

　　 Chapter 85 Candidates for City Construction

Early the next morning, Josk, Sederkamp and Pat took fifty guards and twenty four-wheeled carriages to the mine. One was to rescue the Norton family who were thrown into the mine for mining. Members, the second is to eliminate the more than 30 mercenaries responsible for guarding the copper mine.

　　 The bearded Ović and Reddy formed a garrison squad with more than a hundred coachmen, responsible for guarding the two walls. The remaining 70 guards are responsible for the care of nearly a thousand slave laborers and more than forty surrendered mercenaries.

　　 These were all negotiated last night. Originally, Lorist wanted to go to the mine in person, but was unanimously opposed. What Josk said caused Lorist, the master of the house, to rush ahead, which made him feel ashamed and useless as a family knight. Okay, with these words, Lorister had to agree to let Josk take Sederkamp and Pat on a trip, and sit on the castle site by himself.

　　 After sending off Josk and his party, Lorester patrolled around and returned to the room on the wall, staring at the big sand table, and the more he looked at it, the more thoughtful he became. Within two years of acquiring the territory, the Kenmes family has been able to formulate such a huge territory development plan. The Norton family has been rooted in the Northland for more than two hundred years. After seven generations of family owners, not only did they fail to develop the family territory, they were trapped in the Northland. Their family was shrinking, and now they can only stay in the family’s manor castle. The tortoise shrank his head.

　　 Lorist couldn't understand what happened to the family, and turned a deaf ear to Viscount Kenmez's construction in the Norton family territory. Six months ago, Viscount Kenmes sent troops to attack the Norton family’s manor castle. The Norton family was able to hold the castle and confronted Viscount Kenmes for more than half a month and forced the Viscount to retreat. The surrendered mercenary leader also said that the Viscount had died here. People, this shows that the Norton family is not left behind. According to common sense, Viscount Kenmes retired, and the Norton family should send scouts to monitor the movement of his retreat. But the family didn't even send a spy, what's the matter?

Perhaps the family has sent out spies, but they are not focusing on the Viscount Kenmey. Lorist remembered what the mercenary leader had said. On the copper mine side, he had discovered the Norton family. After a glimpse, he retreated when the mine was occupied. Up. Ugh. When are you still thinking about the earnings of copper mines. Also, since it was discovered that the mine was occupied, at least you have to be concerned about the whereabouts of those family children who worked in the copper mine. It has been half a year without even sending a messenger to negotiate with the Viscount Kenmes. This is too much. Strange.

　　 Although Lorist is only one day away from the Norton family’s manor castle, he can get there quickly in one day. But now Lorist couldn't leave things here and run back on his own. How to settle the nearly 1,000 slave laborers, how to deal with the more than forty mercenaries who surrendered, and what to do next when the castle construction site is occupied by oneself is like a mess. Lorist missed Fatty Shi very much. If Fatty Shi was there, he wouldn't have to worry about these things.

When I think of Fatty Shi, I think of friends and family knights like Bodfinger, Rose, El, Terman, and Yuri. I don’t know if they have led the family team back on the road or how long it will take for the family team to arrive. Northland. When they arrived in the Northland with the family convoy, they did not know whether they could prepare for the arrival and settlement of the convoy.

　　 Thinking of the huge team of people in the team, Lorist felt a headache. With the temperament of Fatty Shi, I wonder how many people will be there when the team reaches the family territory, twenty thousand? Or thirty thousand? How to arrange these personnel who will arrive with the convoy will be really troublesome.

　　 Lorist looked at the big sand table and suddenly his eyes lit up. Isn't this a ready-made settlement plan? Just take the plan of the Kenmes family directly and implement it. If we continue to build the castle here, then nearly a thousand slave laborers will have work, so there is no need to worry about how to arrange them. After the castle is built, you can continue to build the mountain city, and when the mountain city is built, you can give them freedom and settle on the spot to become their leaders.

As for the cost of building the castle, Lorester is not short of money. The only thing to worry about is two issues. One is that the person who presides over the construction of the castle must find someone who understands architecture, even if there is a drawing, someone must understand it. what. The second is the materials that need to be purchased externally. The Kenmes family was the largest chamber of commerce in charge of the former empire's construction industry. They developed territories to build castles and it was extremely convenient. Whether it was laborers or building materials, they could easily allocate and complete their facilities. Lorist did not have this ability. Maybe the Kenmes family found that Lorist was continuing their development plan and would still make trouble from it, causing Lorist to trouble.

　　 "Come here, go and bring the old man with the long beard, oh, the butler named Boris." Lorist said to the guards standing outside the door.

　　 Butler Boris was quickly brought over. Lorist looked at the drawings of the castle and asked him about the details of the construction, and also inquired about the movements of the Kenmes family.

Butler Boris said that Viscount Kenmes did not live in the Red River Valley Manor Castle in the domain, but lived in the most prosperous city of Gildusk in the Grand Duchy of Lukins, where he bought a large house as the Viscount’s mansion. . Since a cousin of Viscount Kenmez became the mistress of Grand Duke Luckins, the Kenmez family has been very close to Grand Duke Luckins. During the preparations for the establishment of the Northland Legion, the Kenmez family The family also made great efforts.

　　 Viscount Kenmez lived in Gilduske City for several purposes. For one thing, he likes to be lively, he likes to hold luxurious aristocratic cocktail parties or something to deal with ladies and ladies, and he hates staying in remote castles. Secondly, to maintain a good relationship with Grand Duke Lukins. Thirdly, in order to receive the supplies delivered by the family through the checkpoint of Fresde Castle, after all, Lord Viscount personally picked them up, and Grand Duke Lukins was not good at publicly imposing the convoy of the Kenmes family’s supplies, meaning that one or two vehicles would be collected. enough.

Now the Red River Valley Manor Castle in the Kenmes family territory has become a material transfer station. According to the predetermined plan, a large amount of materials will be delivered to the castle construction site here on the 10th of next month, estimated to be 3,000 barrels of gum vine juice. A batch of construction tools, 500,000 catties of grain and some clothing and cloth. It is possible that a thousand slave laborers will be escorted over, along with more than two hundred female slaves.

　　 "Are those female slaves dependent on these slave laborers?" Lorist asked casually.

"Uh, no, sir, those slave laborers are young and strong. After preventing them from making trouble, they need to be rewarded. These female slaves are used as rewards. Slave laborers who perform well can spend the night with a female slave. This It is a very effective way to appease slave labor that the Kenmes family has implemented for a long time." said the Boris steward.

　　日, to put it bluntly, these female slaves came to work as prostitutes. Lorist shook his head and said noncommittal: "Is the Kenmax family rich? I heard you said that in order to obtain the territory, they donated 200,000 goldfords to the second prince. In the past two years, the construction of the Red River Valley Manor Castle and the construction of immigrant towns have been spent Quite a lot. I plan to invest 300,000 Golden Ford in five years to develop the Morgen Hills. There is no such confidence without the working capital of one million Golden Ford."

　　 Lorist pointed at the big sand table on the table.

Butler Boris said: "My lord, judging from my more than 40 years of experience in the Kenmes family, the Kenmes family is actually going downhill. I have always suspected that the master insisted on developing the Morgen Hills and building this castle. And that mountain city is to leave a way for the Kenmes family. In the civil war in the previous years, the Kenmes family didn’t make much money at all. Since the second prince established the Iberian kingdom, the Kenmes family is still a kingdom. The upper-class family has been gnawing at their old capital. Like the development of the Morgen Hills, it is said that it is an investment of 300,000 Jinford. In fact, the budget for the construction of this castle and that mountain city is only 100,000, and the remaining 200,000 is after the construction is completed. Funds for immigration and material reserves."

　　 "One hundred thousand? Impossible, I estimate that the construction of this castle will cost seven or eighty thousand, and one hundred thousand Jinford should be impossible to complete the construction of this castle and mountain city." Lorist said.

"My lord, in fact, the budget for this castle is only 30,000. The bulk is rubber vine juice, which is estimated to require 12,000 barrels. The rest is the consumption of food and some materials. Manpower is the construction slave labor of the Chamber of Commerce, and does not need to spend money. There are other building materials nearby, as long as you spend a little time collecting it. Like this completed city wall, it consumes two thousand barrels of gum vine juice, and the materials for making green clay are collected on-site."

　　Well, according to Boris’s butler, building this castle and that mountain city, except for the glue cane juice, can be collected on the spot, which is good news.

　　 "Then Boris, butler, you should know how many supplies are stored here now?" Lorist asked.

　　Occupied this castle construction site yesterday. Early in the morning, Sedkamp went with Josk to the copper mine. The materials here have not had time to count.

"My lord, a total of three batches of supplies have been transported here from the Red River Valley Manor Castle in the past four months. Each batch of supplies is mainly made of rubber cane juice and grain. Each time the rubber cane juice delivered is three thousand barrels. , The construction of this city wall has used two thousand barrels, and there are still more than seven thousand barrels in the warehouse. If another three thousand barrels are shipped on the 10th of next month, then the construction of this castle is expected to be 12,000 barrels of gum vine juice. That's it. The materials to be transported in the future will be mainly grain reserves. These are all pre-made plans and arrangements, which will not change if there is no accident. Now there is not much food in the warehouse, about 40,000 catties. The original plan was to pick up the supplies when they arrived on the 10th of next month. Now that the adults occupy this place, the supplies may not come. So the adults have to prepare more food for the slave labor."

Butler Boris looked at Lorist, and then said: "My lord, the slave laborers have a fixed amount of food, because they do heavy work. They are given a daily quota of three catties, one catty in the morning and one and a half catty at noon. It’s half a catty at night. These nearly 1,000 slave laborers consume about 100,000 catties a month in grain. If adults want to use these slave laborers, they must make preparations for food early and cannot neglect it."

Lorist stood up, walked to the side of Boris butler, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Boris, butler, you are very good, very good. As long as you can do your best, our Norton family will not treat you badly. Yes. You go down first."

　　 "Yes, sir." The Boris butler bowed and was about to leave when Lorist remembered another thing.

　　 "Hey, wait. Butler Boris, where did the Kenmes family get so many garrison crossbows?"

Butler Boulili replied: "My lord, these garrison crossbows are made fresh, not shipped. Three years ago, when the Kenmax family went to buy slaves as construction laborers, they bought a pair of father and son. The famous crossbow master in the Limber Kingdom was sold into slavery because he offended the nobles. Although the Kenmes family became the nobles of the territory, they lacked the foundation. They had no good family knights and no formal territory defense team, so they had to find mercenaries. In order to strengthen the defense here, the father and son were sent over to make a garrison crossbow."

　　 "You mean the father and son are here?"

　　 "Yes, sir, they stay with the slave laborers." Boris said the housekeeper.

"Well, Boris housekeeper, please go and bring the father and son out to resettle them. They are very useful to me. You, accompany Boris housekeeper to help him complete the task." Lorist stood at the door facing each other. Said the guard guard.

　　 "Yes, my lord."

　　……

　　Lorist was thinking slowly while spinning around the table with the sand table in the room. Butler Boris said that the food is not a problem. The convoy he brought with him this time carried more than 100,000 catties of food, and it was guaranteed for more than a month. After he returns to the family, he can also transfer a batch of grain from the family. Maybe I can still make the idea of ​​the grain and supplies delivered by the Kenmes family next month, but it's still early, so don't worry.

　　 Today is February 32. Tomorrow Jost and the others will return, and the day after tomorrow is February 34. In any case, Lorist will set off back to the family’s manor castle. Just as soon as Lorist left, who should be responsible for the construction of the castle here? Josk is impossible, he is a lone ranger, and the most annoying is trivial matters. Before, I had planned to ask him to bring out an archer, but after a few days he found it boring. He threw the selected archers into Yuri's light cavalry scout team and ignored them.

　　Sedkamp and Pat want to follow them back~www.readwn.com~ They want to go back for business, and Lorist first arrives at the family's manor castle, many things rely on them to take care of and give guidance. With Josk, Reddy, and Owiecki sitting here, plus a guard squad and a garrison squad, the defense force is enough. I just don't know how long Lorist will stay in the family's manor castle. Someone must be responsible for the construction of the city here.

　　 "Bring the master builder here." Lorist ordered.

　　 The hapless guy who had received fifty whips yesterday was brought to Lorist. The proud architect had a disheveled hair, his clothes shattered, and the blood stains on his body were still there, and he staggered.

"Master Siropa? I was disrespectful yesterday. I am the local lord Norton Lorist. I want to continue to build this castle. I wonder if you are willing to work for me and take care of the construction of this castle? I will give it to you. Good remuneration." Lorist said sincerely.

The Master Siropa gave Lorist a bitter look. Perhaps he had learned the lesson of getting the whip last night. He stopped talking, just spit on the ground, then looked up at the roof, showing his disdain for Lorist. Take a look.

　　 Lorist laughed blankly and said to the guard who escorted Master Siroba: "He has messed up my house. Should I ask him to kneel down and clean up his own sputum?"

　　 "My lord, this is a good idea." The guard replied solemnly.

　　Master Siropa was trembling all over...

"Forget it, it's not difficult for him, such a large age is so unqualified, spit anywhere. Let him go." Lorist said ~ www.readwn.com ~ welcome readers to visit, the latest , The fastest and hottest serial works are all at ~www.readwn.com~ mobile phone users, please go to read.