Transcendent Noble

Victor stood outside the village supervised by Morin, full of joy. This was the first village under his command, and it was also the first step he took to control the vast territory.

The village is built near the river, 700 meters long and 500 meters wide, with an area of ​​about 35 hectares. A trench with a width of four meters and a depth of more than two meters has been dug at the periphery of the village, and a moat can be formed as long as the river water is brought in.

Victor discovered that the fence in the village is completely different from the fence in the hill camp. Its fence is horizontal. The bottom of the fence is a stone foundation made of gravel. On the stone foundation, 8 meters high black pillars are erected at intervals. On the black column, a wooden fence is formed section by section.

From the side, two sets of black posts are connected with thick wood panels. This makes the wooden fence 80 cm thick, which is both strong and beautiful.

"Mauren, this fence is very special! Why are they black?" Victor asked Maureen back.

"My lord, the pillars of these fences are made of the hardest iron oak. These wooden boards are processed with lesser hemlock. They are carbonized and oiled so that they won’t Worn by insects. This kind of fence is not only strong, but also very wood-saving, but it is a bit laborious. We cut the cut hemlock into sections and cut them into thick planks. We also planed out tenon and tenon to make them stronger. A round dowel was hit." Maureen said proudly.

"You are very hardworking." Victor said with a smile.

Maolin did his best to build this village.

"My lord, this design was proposed by two freemen, and they improved the carriage base and wheels. My lord, I hope you can give them the status of a leader." Maureen pleaded. .

"Oh, how is their carpenter's craftsmanship better than yours?" Victor asked instead without comment. The two freemen were actually alchemy assistants he made.

"My lord, their craftsmanship is better than mine, even better than the old carpenters I have followed." Maureen said impressively.

"I will consider it." Victor nodded.

Mo Lin was elected as the village leader because of his mastery of carpentry. He was favored by Victor and became the first village leader to be promoted. If, at the beginning, he found that someone was more brilliant than him, he said that he couldn't suppress the other person under jealousy. Now, as a village chief, he hopes that there will be more artisans in the territory. The so-called ass determines the head is like Maureen.

Victor walked into the village surrounded by everyone. Except for the 6 erected arrow towers, the ground was empty.

"Why haven't you started building houses yet?" Victor asked in a loud voice.

Hearing Victor’s inquiry, several villager leaders looked at each other in blank dismay, but Lilia stepped forward and explained in a low voice: "My lord, didn’t you mean that all houses in the village Do you use bricks to build? Now most people are going to build brick kilns. So, we haven’t built houses here yet. However, our current houses are still enough,"

Victor just remembered , This was indeed his order before going to Black Castle Town. Many people expressed their incomprehension about this order, and several villager group leaders also decisively suggested to Victor. They believed that opening a kiln and burning bricks was definitely not worth the gain, but Victor insisted on his opinion. Now that the fief lord has been decided, it must be implemented if it is not understood.

"Then put it aside first. Burning bricks and building houses must be implemented. Not only this village needs to use bricks, but in the future, the farming villages, blacksmith villages, carpenters villages, and textile villages will all use brick and tile houses. "Victor firmly emphasized.

"By the way, this village was built near the river, and it will be called Linhe Village in the future. In the future, we will transform the temporary residence of freedmen into a farm. In this way, the hill camp, Linhe Village, temporary residence , It became a triangular area."

Victor said, untie the long sword on his waist and drew a simple map on the ground.

"We are going to cultivate 12,000 acres of arable land in this area. As our Fiefdom, we will conduct centralized management and provide food for the territories."

Several villager group leaders immediately gave a glance The shining crowd came around, what they longed for most was land. After a few people looked at each other, Dean, the leader of the villagers, boldly asked: "My lord, the freedmen’s residence can be transformed into a village with a little bit of transformation, this... we can ask, do you plan to make it? Who is the village head?"

Victor looked at the eager eyes of the village leaders, and shook his head with a smile: "You just want to farm? No one wants to farm in the blacksmith village, carpenter village, textile village. Go?"

"My lord, I don’t understand those things that I’m afraid I might have missed you, but I am definitely a good farmer. As long as you give me the village, I promise Serve the crops!" George, the leader of the second group, assured him, patting his chest.

"My lord, leave it to me! I..."

"What do you know about farming? My lord, leave it to me. When I was in my hometown, it was It’s for Master Knight to manage the farm."

The second team leader recommended himself, and immediately made the team leaders fight hard

"Okay, let’s go to Zhuanyao Village and talk while walking. "Victor stopped the dispute between several people and turned to his carriage.

The carriage pulled by the giant rhinoceros is quite spacious, but it seems cramped to carry nine people at the same time. The six villager group leaders and Nelson huddled together to make room for Victor and Lilia. Most of the space.

"This time during the trip to the Black Fort, I exchanged purple cane wine for three months of food. The value of purple cane is greater than you think, so I will not build more Some of you must also go to other villages."

Except for Maureen, the other villager group leaders all showed sceptical expressions, and Victor could also guess their thoughts. , The so-called "interlacing" is like a mountain. These people are farmers. They are not their strong points. They are not good at doing iron work, making cars, and spinning. They are worried that their positions will be unstable in the end. But Victor's alchemy assistants have been cast down, but they just can't tell them.

Victor took out a wooden box, opened it, and it was filled with crystal sugar.

"You have always been curious, what is the purpose of consuming so much purple cane every month? Now, I can tell you, this is the specialty of our territory: cane sugar. Please try it."

Victor passed the cane sugar to the people on the opposite side and motioned them to taste it. It's time for sucrose to come out, and there is no need to keep it secret.

"Sweet, so sweet."

"It's delicious."

"It's better than honey."

Several people were in admiration, and the words of the group leader Haig moved Victor's heart. He said with a smile: "Haig, have you eaten honey?"

Haig was taken aback. , Bowed and said: "Yes, my lord, when I was in the eastern province, I would go to the mountains to find wild beehives, harvest the honey in it, and give the honey to Lord Elder in town. Not only would it pay for my rent. You can also get a bounty."

"It turned out to be so." Victor nodded, continued: "The price of honey is very expensive. In the capital city, a pound of honey can sell for 10 Kingsall. And our cane sugar tastes purer than honey. I think it can be sold for 2 Kingsall a pound."

"My lord, aren't we going to make a fortune? "Nelson eyes shined, said with a smile.

"Yes, we are going to make a fortune, so even if those professional villages have no output for the time being, I will supplement you for two years to ensure your livelihood. At the same time, I will recruit more Craftsmen join us, so you don’t need to worry.” Victor also said with a smile.

His words made the slight hostility between the villager group leaders disappear without a trace. Everyone just talked and laughed and arrived at their destination.

When Victor walked off the carriage, Linda came with a few guards, and she saluted Victor: "My lord, good day."

"Thank you."

Victor said, although this is a polite remark, but the hard work is also true. According to Victor's request, the entire brick kiln village must continuously produce adobe bricks every day, with two shifts. Therefore, the people here are basically impossible to return to the hill camp to rest, and just sleep in the wild, until the first large brick kiln is built.

Brick Kiln Village is the first professional village that Victor needs to build. As the name suggests, this is a village dedicated to burning bricks.

Although Zhuanyao Village is called a village, it is still only a super large and simple camp. There is not even a fence, only simple wooden thorns are arranged on the periphery as protection.

The area of ​​Zhuanyao Village is about two square kilometers. It faces the river on one side and is surrounded by mounds, which is convenient for collecting soil and water.

On the open space of the village, there is a lot of people, hundreds of people work hard here, for a long time, they must be here for food and accommodation.

Some of these people are responsible for cutting the weeds on the mounds, removing the branches and leaves of the weeds, putting the branches on the open space to dry them, and finally using them as firewood for burning bricks. Some are responsible for digging out the clay from the mound, placing it on the open space to dry, then crushing, sieving, and leaving only the fine pure soil. Some are responsible for fetching water from the river, adding pure soil to water to moisturize, repeating and refining like kneading, and finally using a mold to make a brick embryo and then dry it in the shade. Others are sintering adobe bricks in earthen kilns like graves.

"Go and show me a finished brick." Victor instructed his entourage.

Soon, a burned adobe was delivered to Victor’s hands. Victor’s physique was already close to 9 o’clock at this time. He squeezed it hard, and the adobe was immediately broken into pieces, making it very crisp. Let Victor frowned.

Dean picked up the broken bricks, squeezed it, opened the mouth and said.

"My lord, there is a problem with the firing method of these adobe bricks. The time for the clay to dry is too short. It will take at least 6 months of wind blowing and sun shining to make embryos. Otherwise, it will be as loose as it is now Crisp."

"Oh, will the adobe bricks be strong after they are fully dried?" Victor asked.

"It’s stronger, but it’s not as good as a hardwood fence. Even a 1.5-meter-thick brick wall can be digged with bare hands by a jackal because it’s too brittle. It also takes too long to burn the bricks and it takes a lot of labor. There are many. We generally don’t use bricks to build houses. But brick houses are fireproof and won’t rot and deform. Many aristocratic masters use bricks to build manors."

The local persuaded Victor to give up building a brick kiln village, but how could Victor give up building a brick kiln? This is the most basic part of his development plan.

"Go call Allor and Yasai." Victor said lightly.

Aluo and Yasai are two alchemy assistants, both equipped with construction skills, Victor specially promoted them to supervise the construction of the brick kiln village.

"Alo, please explain the plan for making bricks."

"My lord, I will use the first batch of bricks to build a small brick kiln to replace those earth kilns. Brick kiln production The second batch of bricks is used to build dry rooms, wind tunnels, and large brick kilns. With these facilities, the production efficiency will increase tenfold. The third batch of bricks are qualified adobe bricks."

This is Victor’s purpose. He wants to build a large brick kiln. Only large brick kilns can produce special bricks, and those qualified adobe bricks can also be used to build furnaces. With furnace alchemy assistants, iron can be made, and finally they can produce thorium production equipment. Forge.

Victor will not produce these ultra-era products immediately, but the construction of the infrastructure can still be carried out in advance. Once he is full of wings, he can immediately produce these strategic materials continuously, build invulnerable, indestructible and impregnable castles, and arm powerful alchemical militias.

The development blueprint designed by Victor is: purple cane wine in exchange for development time and space, cane sugar and coffee make huge profits, and use money to produce alchemy militias and war mastiffs to enhance their own strength, and infrastructure can satisfy Territory development needs, such as the Blacksmith Village to build its own weapons and equipment supply, do not need to rely on the York family. As for arable land, Victor also has a way to solve it. People in this world don’t know that there are terraces this thing. With terraces, he can not only preserve the purple cane forest, but also meet the food needs of the territory. However, it is not yet possible to build terraces, otherwise the York family will take countermeasures against him.

When will I be completely independent? Victor believes that at least 40 alchemy militias are needed, which is stronger than the overwhelming majority viscount, but it is not worth mentioning for the York family. Their trainee Knights are at least one hundred. But Victor has another preparation. He has advanced technology. He can use the flax, iron, cane sugar, carriage, and coffee produced in the professional village to trade, and gradually form an interest group. Perhaps the York family is one of them. . When Victor's castle was built, he didn't need to look at anyone's winks.

At that time, Victor's strength will be like a snowball, unstoppable. As long as there is money, the alchemy militia will die every 12 hours, no matter what kind of enemy it is.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Zhuyao Village is the 1st Step. Wood is used for burning bricks, cut from the mounds, and collected from the mounds with clay. These developed mounds are changed into Terraces. Burning bricks, building various infrastructures, everything will enter a virtuous circle. As for environmental damage, what is it?

So, Victor said solemnly to several village leaders: "I ask you to manage these people in shifts. You will have food and accommodation here until Zhuanyao Village is on the right track. Do you understand?"

Victor's stern attitude made the hearts of several people startled, and they answered quickly.

"Yes, my lord."

"Very well, you can go to work. I hope that 3 months later, Zhuanyao Village will be on the right track."

When several villager group leaders went to discuss, Victor called Nelson, who was with Linda, and Nelson.

"Nelson, you and I are going back to the hill camp."

Nelson said with some embarrassment: "My lord, a few mountain people have run away recently. When they came back, they claimed to have encountered a ferocious wolf. I want to guard here."

"I will leave Renault here. Old Hamm is already on guard, and most of the guards are here. No There is a problem. Let's go, I have something to tell you."

What can I do? Victor is the boss behind the ferocious wolf, even more how, there are two monkey militias among these people.

After getting on the carriage, Victor said to Nelson: "Did Lilia tell you about Barroll?"

"Say it." Nelson honestly Said, and Lilia spit out her own little tongue, she this can be considered to be the master without authorization.

"I originally wanted to tell you big brother, but I can't do this next time." Victor gave Lilia a bad look.

"Oh." Lilia agreed in a low voice, but she leaned against Victor. If Nelson were not present, she would definitely stick to Victor's body.

"I'm here to tell you some secrets, but you must never tell them! You know?"

"Yes, my lord." Nelson solemnly nodded.

"I have a secret power in my hand. You should have guessed it. Yes, Renault is my person."

Victor thought for a long time, and decided to give Nelson and Lilia said hello. In the future, there will be more and more alchemy militias. There is no way to hide it, but it can be misled. It is normal for the nobles to have some secret power in their hands. This is the misunderstanding of Barol reminded Victor.

"My lord, Lilia and I had suspected Renault for a long time, but later discovered that he was indeed loyal to you, so I didn't dare to ask you." Nelson grinned said with a smile, Victor can tell him this The secret is to really treat him as his own.

"Don’t ask for specific details, nor tell anyone, including Linda. Secrets will only bring danger to the ordinary person. You have to know that there are many nobles in our people Anzi and spy." Victor warned.

"My lord, don't worry, we will never say anything." Nelson said resolutely.

Victor sighed, he hadn’t thought that Nelson might be a spy, but he was still willing to trust this mercenary, probably because of loneliness, and he needed someone he could trust.

"Another thing, I drove Benson and Boots out of the camp deliberately. They built a free private camp to gather the mountain people. It was also my instruction. Therefore, there is no need to patrol the area. So as to avoid conflict."

"It turns out to be like this. I originally wanted to report this to you." Nelson scratched his head. He had already found the camp. Between Chebman's family and Hepinghu Village, the number of people reached more than fifty.

"There is also Pinghu Village. As long as they pay their offerings on time, I will not move them for two years." Victor added.

The output of Pinghu Village can alleviate Victor's food pressure. He decided to put it aside first, anyway, they have been crushed to death by Jack.

"I understand." Nelson nodded and said.

The matter is over, Victor closed his eyes tiredly, he thought to himself.

"Now, let's see if Barol can dig out the hidden secret agents and spies."

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