Chapter 225: The Banquet
For the Eagle Fort built by Suren, Alex and those Harpys are very satisfied, Suren recruited all the Harpys to become soldiers, fortunately, these Harpies are now not very intelligent, very easy to deceive, no need to pay military salaries at all, as long as they are provided with food.
When their wisdom is improved and they become harpies, Suren will bleed.
Alex arranged for the Harpys to take care of the other Harpies, and then left the Eagle Castle with Suren. However, as the queen of the Harpy, she needs to stay here for a few days a month, and she is accompanied by two Harpy guards.
For the safety of the Eagle Castle, there is no need to worry at all, more than 3,000 Harpy Banshees are completely sideways here, unless there is a legendary wizard or an adult dragon is eyeing here, but the Harpy has no precious magic materials on her body, and there are also no gold gems, and those strong people will only do this kind of loss-making business when they are full.
However, even so, Suren still set up a reconnaissance post outside the valley, and built a section of the city wall at the entrance of the valley, the mouth of the valley is only more than 20 meters wide, and the whole valley can be called a small fortress after the city wall is built.
As for the harpy banshee's love of capturing males during estrus, Su Lun has seen it in the introduction of the system class, as long as you advance to become an eagle and have wisdom, this situation will gradually disappear. With their intelligence, they no longer act like wild beasts.
Back in Zhenbei City, Suren hosted a welcome party for Alex at the Lord's Castle, which was attended by all of Suren's heroes in Zhenbei City. The development of Zhenbei City has reached the present, and it can be said that it is on the right track, and the rules that should be in place have been slowly established.
There is no doubt that the highest status in Zhenbei City is Suren, and then there are Chrissy and Hathaway, one of them manages the city, the other manages and manufactures magical items in Zhenbeicheng, and then there are the leaders of various races, Boulder, Johnson, Karina, Ayton, Grace, Sheriff Harrison, and Mare Misheen.
Now there is another Alex, and Alex has the largest number of troops in his hands, which also makes her status skyrocket, of course, Suren is still very good to them, and because of Suren's strength, there is no power struggle among his subordinates.
The dinner was very sumptuous, with more than a dozen maids waiting on the side, and the banquet hall was equipped with the technique of striking optical reflection, only a few candles were lit around the hall, and then the reflection through the mirror illuminated the whole hall as if it were day.
Frodo prepared roast goose, roast pig, steak, steamed bear paw, braised fish, steamed lamb, deer breast, mutton sauce, crystal elbow and fruit salad, ice cream desserts, etc., as the food consultant of Zhenbei City, Frodo is now very comfortable, every day just to guide those chefs to cook, and then just wander around, called Caifeng.
After all the food was served, Su Lun raised a glass of rum and said, "Everyone is here, right?"
"Then let's welcome Alex to the big family of Zhenbei City, everyone will be their own people in the future!Cheers!" Su Lun said with a smile.
"Cheers!" everyone toasted in unison.
"Then let's have a feast!"
"Bell"
Su Lun knocked on the silver bell next to him, and a team of maids stepped forward to lift the lids on all the plates in turn, and a strong smell of food instantly spread. The most striking thing is the roasted whole lamb in the center of the table, a dish that Suren said last time he bragged to Frodo.
It is to wash and peel a turtle dove, remove the internal organs, smear the turtle dove from the inside to the outside with pepper and salt, and then put the adjusted glutinous rice and meat in the belly, and then put the turtle dove into the belly of a big goose, also wash and peel it, and then sew it up.
Next, the goose is stuffed into the belly of a sheep, which is also skinned and dehaired, the internal organs are removed, the goose is put in with a carp and the spices, and then sewn, and then the whole sheep is roasted over slow heat in the same way as a whole sheep.
When you eat it, you only eat the turtledove inside, and the rest is directly lost, of course, it's too wasteful to do this, Su Lun didn't have the luxury to this point, but even so, it made the people of this world stunned, even the nobles of this world did not develop their diet to this extent.
Looking at the stunned expressions of the others around him, Flordo was flying and had a swaggering expression.
"I made this dish at the suggestion of Your Excellency the Lord..."
"I want this!"
"Bring me a piece!"
"It tastes fantastic!"
Just as Flodo was about to tell the origin of the dish, the others couldn't wait to eat...
"You... You—" Flordo was speechless for a moment.
The boulder directly cut a leg of mutton, and then even bit it directly, Johnson also unceremoniously took another leg of mutton, and the rest of the roasted whole sheep was also divided by others, Su Lun did not move the mutton, but took the roast goose in the roast whole sheep in Youzai, and then separated the roast goose, which was stuffed with a kind of water bird in the wilderness, which was delicious.
Skillfully cut the water bird and the goose into several points and distribute them to everyone, compared to Boulder and Johnson, the others are much more elegant.
In addition to roasting the whole lamb, the other dishes are also delicious, in the face of these delicacies, everyone put down their reserves, and feasted, Alex ate very heroically, holding a crystal elbow in one hand and an ice cream in the other.
The soft and smooth elbow with a variety of spices, the drink made with honey and sugar, and the cream ice cream with a variety of colorful fruits, Alex almost swallowed his tongue when he first ate these foods, and even Hathaway and Chrissy, who had already eaten it a few times, were enjoying the food quickly.
Every physical professional is basically a big stomach, so the food prepared by Flordo is a large portion, but even so, in the end, there is still nothing left in this banquet, there are two rice buckets of Boulder and Johnson, and Su Lun estimates that they can eat even if there is another roast sheep.
After eating and drinking, everyone returned, and Suren also took his maids to start an after-dinner fitness exercise, especially the new Alex, who has a pair of white wings, and the two cooperated with Suren to become a Sky Knight once.
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The rising sun pierces the darkness and dispels the mist in the air. Zhenbei City also woke up from its slumber.
The merchants began to open their doors and began to open, and the workers began to work at the shouts of the foremen, and the city gates opened, and caravans began to slowly go outward, and there were caravans coming and going every day in the north of the town, and caravans from the southern provinces had also appeared here since last month.
The most popular among the southern caravans was rum, followed by the various furs that were abundant in the northern heath, and as for sugar, because the sugar trade was monopolized by other caravans, they could only buy some from other caravans.
Zhenbei City's sugar beet planting area has expanded again, during this time, in addition to large-scale infrastructure construction, Zhenbei City is to reclaim more land, a large number of goblins and serfs, displaced people are driven to reclaim land, Zhenbei City originally only 10,000 acres of land has now expanded to 40,000 acres.
However, there is still a lot of land outside the north of the town that has not been reclaimed, in addition to the reclamation of the land, according to Su Lun's planning, the irrigation facilities outside the city have not been pulled down, in order to irrigate the land, the water supply canal is specially laid with the bricks and stones fired by the brick kiln factory, the water supply canal extends in all directions, and a large number of sub-canals are separated from the main water supply canal, all the sub-canals are set up with gates, as long as the sluice gates are opened, the river water will be introduced into them, and then irrigate the farmland.
In order to ensure that the farmland has a sufficient supply of water, seven or eight large waterwheels have been erected on both sides of the Hongsha River. Potatoes are the most grown in the farmland in Zhenbei City, but with the reclamation of the land, it has dropped to a third, and the fastest rise is sugar beets.
As the two leading industries in Zhenbei City, the raw materials of sugar and rum, the demand for sugar beets is also increasing, and wild beets have been dug up, and only a large number of sugar beets can barely keep up with consumption.
Just last month, the first batch of beets in Zhenbei City had just matured, and the growth cycle of this plant was more than three hundred days, if it weren't for the harvest altar in Zhenbei City, coupled with the fermented farmhouse fertilizer and the careful cultivation of the half-elf druid, even if this batch of beets had the value of a harvest altar, it would take at least two months to mature.
In fact, since the production of sugar in Zhenbei City, the caravans that came to Zhenbei City to trade are secretly inquiring about the sugar process in Zhenbei City, but Su Lun built the sugar workshop in the inner city, and at the same time carried out strict division of labor management, each worker only knows the process he is responsible for, coupled with Chrissy's charm technique, to protect the process to the greatest extent.
For a while, every day the drow elves would catch the spies from all sides who came to steal the craft, Su Lun directly evaporated all the secret agents, and warned the most outrageous caravans, for those who still ignored the warning, when the caravan left the northern city of Zhenbei City and returned to the northern provinces, it was directly attacked by bandits in the wilderness, and the whole army was wiped out.
There are a large number of robbers active in the northern wasteland, and it is normal for caravans to disappear in the wasteland, Su Lun deliberately asked the army to clean up these bandits, and there are several lessons from the past, plus the defense of the inner city is becoming more and more tight, and those who peep at the white sugar can only temporarily let go of the greed in their hearts.
However, although the sugar making process was not mastered, many caravans secretly got a lot of beet seeds and wanted to go back and plant them themselves.