The sky is extraordinarily blue, the brilliant sun shines on the earth, the grass is lush, and from time to time there are one or two crisp cries of birds and beasts from the forest not far away, and the breeze permeates the world, dancing with flowers wantonly.

The sound of a jingling bell came from a distance, as if to break the harmony.

Old Jerry sat staggered on top of his wagon, the beautiful scenery did not dispel his sleepiness, and his body swayed from side to side with the shaking of the carriage, looking extremely leisurely.

It was a small caravan, and the whole wagons totaled no more than thirty, and they belonged to different people, and they traveled on a straight gravel road, the road was flat and hard, which made the carriage extremely comfortable to walk, and Lelouch had not yet had time to build these cement roads, but there was no problem in tidying up the gravel road.

"I really didn't expect to be able to encounter such a good road in this border area, which is almost comparable to the suburbs of White City."

"Hey, you stinky liar! Why, do you think you're superior to others when you come to White City?"

It was a white and chubby merchant who spoke in splendid clothes and covered with gold and silver, as if he was afraid that others would not know that he was rich, and the person who refuted him was a local merchant, who did not have the sleek and white fat of a merchant, but a dark skin full of muscular strength, which made people think that he was not a merchant at first glance, but a robber.

The fat white merchant seemed to be more taboo about this stout frontier merchant, and he pursed his lips and said nothing more, but old Jerry was woken up.

He was sitting on his own train, the man was driving the carriage attentively, the scenery on both sides kept retreating, old Jerry yawned, stretched hard, maybe the movement was too big, attracted the attention of the young man in front, he looked back:

"Boss, are you awake, do you want some water?"

"You ought to drive your carriage better than to let me drink water, and if anything goes wrong, you're ready to give me a job for the rest of my life. ”

After teaching his buddy a lesson, old Jerry began to take a lot of the surrounding scenery:

"It's really beautiful here, different from the roughness of North Wind City, there is a delicate beauty everywhere here!"

"Or the boss has an eye, no wonder those elves chose the North Wind Dense Forest as a gathering place back then!"

The guy was very active in patting a horse, but this time the guy learned from the elf, even if he was a sycophant, he didn't tilt his head back, but continued to drive the carriage seriously, old Jerry nodded with satisfaction, just when old Jerry was about to take out the water from under his ass and take a sip, he suddenly saw a slight figure flashing in the forest not far from both sides.

Old Jack was stunned and yelled randomly:

"There are bandits!

Old Jerry almost didn't want to shout out, this shout made everyone look around in astonishment, but those old merchants had already begun to shout and curse their buddies, let them prepare for battle, the merchants quickly surrounded the wagon, and the horses were unloaded, apprentices or guys looked out in fear with all kinds of guys who could defend themselves, and the old merchants gathered their horses together, and the border merchants pulled their guys directly out of the truck, especially when the black and strong border merchant took out a one-man high double-sided giant axe, the white fat merchant who came to the imperial capital looked straight in his eyes。

After a slight hesitation, with a burst of shouts, a group of black figures rushed out of the forest on both sides, only to see that this was a group of ragged Terran robbers, they were generally dark, their hair was also full of mud, and in the rush up the procession, there were even many women and children, they were not like robbers who came out to rob, but more like refugees who came out to flee.

"Damn, it's those black households in the North Wind Jungle again, they didn't dare to come out to move when the orcs were in front of them, and now that Lord Leluxiu has driven away the orcs, they actually dare to come out and rob. ”

The merchants looked at the robbers who rushed up and roared angrily.

There are a lot of black households on the other side, and there are no less than five hundred people in a rough look, although there are still many women and children in it, but this also makes the defending caravan extremely frightened, in the face of the orcs Sometimes as long as they hate it, the caravan can try to explain them "reason", but in the face of these hungry and crazy forest black households, the hungry stomach will not reason with anyone.

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, the merchants were ready for a big battle except for the wolf smoke that had risen in a hurry, and the battle seemed to be imminent, but as the robbers got closer and closer, the people who rushed to the front, the dung cuttings in their hands and their yellow teeth were clearly visible, and the earth came from the muffled sound of the bottom.

This muffled sound came from the direction of Limburg, and saw that at the end of the earth, a dense row of mounted spears pointed straight to the blue sky, and the mounted spears floated up and down neatly, and as the cavalry got closer and closer, a group of tall knights wearing winged giant helmets, wearing pure white armor, and white cloaks appeared in their eyes, and the pure white of that body seemed to bring the most holy power, this white was not much There were less than twenty people, but it seemed to bring overwhelming power.

The people of the caravan looked at this knight with luxurious equipment in amazement, and the gaze that appeared through the gap in the helmet had a cold gaze that seemed to suffocate people.

The pair of twenty knights effortlessly rushed into the bandits' ranks, the bandits who were impacted on the side fell under the iron hooves of the war horses in an instant, the black flow of people could not stop the impact of this squad at all, the silent knights, the overloaded equipment, the sharp riding spears, these things were superimposed together, although the number was small, but the robbers had lost all their desire to fight, they came quickly, and retreated faster.

A group of men rushed up, and then Ulala, and then Ulala, they didn't even touch the caravan's cart, but the knights didn't seem to want to let the robbers go, only to see the knights split into a small team of men, scattered, and surrounded the robbers in the middle, and at this time, a squad of a hundred people appeared in the distance.

This hundred-man squad is all infantry, and the equipment is also luxurious, seeing that it is covered in steel armor, holding a shield in one hand, a sharp and snowy war spear in the other, the head of the horse swaying slightly, and walking, almost all over the body is filled with the sound of metal collision, this team of 100 people surrounded the robbers, and the knights were integrated together, walking towards the caravan.

"Thank you very much for your help, and on behalf of the Caravan of North Wind City, we would like to offer our sincerest respects. ”

The caravan looked at the knights high in front of them, the little blood stains on the white robes, like plum blossoms in the snow, made the knights more noble, the merchants did not dare to gasp and lowered their heads, the knights were silent, only the nearest knight, from the helmet came a very polite and friendly word:

"Lord Lelouch is very grateful for the support of the caravan for him, so he has specially ordered me to guard the peace here, please accompany the sergeant to Limburg, they will take care of your safety. ”

In fact, the words made the caravan breathe a sigh of relief, at least it sounded like these knights were not as high as those knights and nobles in the imperial capital, and they seemed to be easy to talk to.

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Old Jerry looked at the knights who went away, this group of knights was very peaceful, with them, there seemed to be a taste of peace and tranquility, the soldiers did not all follow the caravan back, but by fifty people led the caravan towards Limburg, to the surprise of old Jerry, those defeated robbers were actually tied up and escorted to Limburg, and the soldiers seemed to be polite even to these robbers, which made old Jerry a little confused.

Later, on the road, Jerry asked a soldier to find out that these people were all black households, but Lelouch specially ordered to allow black households to go to Limburg to become legal residents of Limburg, and would also provide food, housing, and production tools to these black households, as for the purpose, I believe that needless to say, everyone knows it, it is nothing more than to increase the population, anyway, these black households are not impossible to reform, I believe that through a period of brainwashing and learning and high-quality life infection, they will be happy to become good citizens.

Not long had passed, and the walls of Limburg appeared in front of the caravan.

At this time, the city wall of Limburg is in the rest stage, with the harvest of the last batch of crops a few days ago, the manpower of Limburg is finally free, and a large number of manpower is used to carry out various large-scale infrastructure construction, it can almost be said that Limburg is becoming a large construction site at this time, to be honest, the old Jerry and these caravans are really surprised by such a busy scene in front of them, it seems that the human race has not seen such a busy scene for many years, or construction.

At this time, on the wall of Limburg, a group of temporary workers are cleaning the moss, and in the cleared area, a group of people are looking for loose or dilapidated masonry, ready to replace them with new masonry, and when the first two are completed, there is also a team of workers using cement to cover and repair and optimize the area.

This is just the city wall, not counting the road construction in other places, and the construction of the industrial zone in more full swing, in fact, Lelouch has not completely redressed the troops, but for the sake of face engineering and small-scale production of a set of equipment in advance to support the façade, large-scale refitting still has to wait until the industrial zone is completed and put into operation.

At this time, the caravan had already progressed, and the scenery in the city was countless times better than they had imagined.