Boulder Town, the only inhabited place in the southern wilderness of Tignats. However, there is little land suitable for farming, no forests and lakes for hunting and fishing, and even drinking water for the inhabitants.

However, under the leadership of two experienced well diggers, the garrison patrol soldiers and several dependent households spent more than three months digging three deep wells, and finally succeeded in digging a well.

Obote, the captain of the patrol, and several officers of the patrol accompanied Art to stand beside a deep well built like a round castle with stone barriers, and pointed to the mouth of the well and said: "My lord, it is not easy to dig a deep well, we dug three times before we could reach the waterline, the deepest one was forty-six feet, and once the wall of the well suddenly collapsed and almost buried Benson and another brother who was digging the well."

At this time, the squadron-level deputy captain of the patrol team, Benson, finally lifted half a bucket of water from the deep well with a hanging rope, and he poured the water into a wooden bowl and handed it to Art with both hands.

Yate took the wooden bowl and looked at the man who had planned to be a deserter, the battle in which the bandits attacked Boulder Town more than a year ago gave him an extra scar on his neck, and the whole person looked more refined because of a scar, "Benson, I was a little hesitant when Obote promoted you as the vice captain, and now it seems that you did not disappoint Obote, nor did you disappoint me." ”

After Yate finished speaking, he took the wooden bowl and drank it in one gulp, the well water here was not very sweet, but Art drank it very refreshingly.

Art put down the wooden bowl and encouraged the people around him, "This well is just the first step you have taken, as long as you are willing to work hard, I believe you can build Boulder Town into an oasis in the wasteland."

Of course, words of encouragement alone are not enough, he continued: "I will discuss with the civil affairs when I return to the valley this time, so that the civil affairs can allocate people, property and property to improve the environment of Jushi Town after the beginning of spring this year. Wells like this will continue to be dug and when there is enough water, the civil government will build a livestock shed on the edge of Boulder Town and raise some pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks for Boulder Town to eat. The land around Boulder doesn't grow food, but some shrubs and alfalfa pastures can barely grow, and it may be a dense forest full of life in a few years. ”

"As long as you serve me faithfully, I will never let you suffer all the time."

"Thank you for thinking about your subordinates everywhere, we will definitely do our best for your lordship and use our lives to complete your military orders." There are more people in Obote, and his speech naturally has a little more upper-class taste.

Several officers of the patrol team around him also spoke out.

Art nodded in satisfaction and said to Obote, "Let's go, let's go and see your newly built cell." ”

Obote and his entourage accompanied Art on a tour of the cells built in the garrison camp, where the patrol had been holding bandits and those who had tried to evade the taxes of the transit merchants or who had resisted with arms. There are three fates for these people, the lightest is to wait for the punitive tax to be paid and released, the second is to be sent back to the valley to be sent to the construction officials to be reformed as slaves, and the most serious are the bandits and unrepentant armed trader travelers, the patrol team usually does not leave these wicked people to waste food, and what awaits them will be a beheading order issued by the Camp Command of the Arch or the Legion.

After inspecting Boulder Town, Art came to a newly built wooden house in the camp of Boulder Town to hold a meeting of the squadron leader and above of the patrol team, and arranged tasks for the patrol team for the next period of time.

After repairing overnight in Boulder Town, the Wells Army continued its advance to the Beiguan Military Fort in the depths of the wasteland early the next morning.

In order to allow the army to grasp the rapid change of the enemy's march and marching battle formation as much as possible, Art ordered Otto and Angus to take most of the Wells Legion to continue to practice the army formation and marching array as they walked.

However, Art himself broke away from the brigade and led several of Ron's personal guards with the gifts brought back from Paris, and rode back to the valley wooden castle in advance......

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The Valley Wooden Fort, even the birthplace of the Barony of the Valley, is the center of rule for the entire Barony.

Also the lord's seat of the barony, the Valley Wooden Fort is not as rich and prosperous as the Sapu Fort under Baron Galvin, but its rise here is truly astounding.

Today's Wooden Fort in the Valley has almost doubled in size from two years ago, and the civil magistrate Cooper, a master builder by training, is a master builder who is truly remarkable in the layout of the fortress.

With the establishment of three villages and a workshop area in the southern valley of the valley, the original chaotic layout of the wooden fort in the valley has been significantly improved, Cooper has reclaimed a large circle of open space around the original wooden fence outer wall, and divided three areas after leveling, which are the residential area, the livestock breeding area and the commercial square. But the open space in the trade square, which was full of grass, was of little use except for the occasional frolic of the children in the fort, and many did not understand the intentions of the magistrate Cooper, but Art was very approving.

In order to give the people who lived in Wài Wéi a sense of security, Cooper built an outer wall made of miscellaneous wood branches and set up two "fort gates" in Wài Wéi.

In stark contrast to the sparse appearance of Wài Wéi, there is a lively scene inside the high walled fence of the wooden fort.

The inside of the spire fence of the wooden castle is the most "prosperous" place in the barony of the entire valley, and the two-and-a-half-story lord's mansion in the northeast corner is naturally needless to say, it was designed and supervised by Cooper himself, which is definitely not luxurious but very atmospheric;

Next to the lord's mansion was the house of the civil magistrate Cooper, the old man was still alone, so his house was a large and a small thatched wooden house, the large one he lived in, and the small one lived in the servants assigned to him, and Art repeatedly proposed to build another mansion for Cooper, but Cooper always refused;

Back to back with Cooper's house was a large row of newly built wooden houses, with six side by side compartments, which were the official offices of the civil administration of the valley, and the civil affairs officer, the cantonment officer, the merchant officer, the construction officer, the workshop officer, and their subordinates all occupied a house as an official room, with one or two simple wooden tables and a few low stools, but most of the civil affairs officials were busy for a long time and rarely sat in the official room, but the Bath Society, who was also the sheriff, and Cooper, who was also the judge, often tried the criminals here;

Outside the civil affairs house is the new house of the Scott family, and there are roughly three types of people who can live in the wooden fort - the relatives of military officers and soldiers, the subordinates of civil affairs officials, and the workshop craftsmen, caravan attachés and a small number of wealthy lords who enjoy the treatment of officials.

Emma's house was no longer used as a tavern inn, and Cooper slightly transformed the large grass hut that was originally used as a soldier's barracks and became a place in the wooden fort that also served as a tavern, inn, and shop.

The inner fort of the wooden fort is still a chapel and a parish school, and after the harvest last fall, Cooper ordered the construction adjutant to lead the people to expand the church, and now the church is much larger than the original, and in addition to the parish priest Hamish, there are four branch deacons who have been selected to study with them; These men followed Hamish and memorized some of the Scriptures, and once Art brought back the right of the higher church to allow Hamish to appoint lower priesthoods, they would become clergy in several territories.

Guy is teaching the basic number calculation method in the parish school next to the church, and he is already the second batch of parish apprentices sitting under the church, most of these apprentices are most of the children selected from the military civil affairs and consular families, and the first batch of apprentices led by Matthew A few brave boys were transferred to the Welsh Legion, and the rest of the first batch of apprentices who remained were also arranged to enter the workshop, cantonment, commerce, construction and other civil affairs systems to receive officer training, It is estimated that in another year and a half, these people will be the main administrators of civil affairs.

The church was originally a mill, blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, etc., but now the workshop has been moved to the workshop area south of the valley, where only a small shop for repairing wood and ironware remains, and the rest of the space has basically become a residential area for military and civilian officials.

The Mill Bakery and the Valley Doctor's Workshop are also in this area, all three of which are under the jurisdiction of the Civil Administration, and the Doctor's Workshop has been expanded from its original to already have three houses, two large for the sick and the other small for the Doctor's Residence. After Thomas the physician was transferred to the army as a medic, it became the residence of the Persian physician Fanayu.

Since she was baptized and became a Catholic, the initial sense of rejection of the people has disappeared, and with Fana's proven medical skills and her teaching in the parish school, she has become more and more respected by everyone.

However, there is a lot of gossip about people, Fana Yu is already very beautiful, and after being promoted to civil affairs steward, she received a full salary and likes those "bewitching" dresses very much, so there are always some false and true scandals. At first it was speculated that the lord Art would take the woman as qíng fù, but Art soon married Loti, the only daughter of the Baron of Sapbourg, and the rumor was dismissed; Then it was slowly rumored that Arte's right-hand men Odo and Angus had something to do with Fana, because the two did occasionally discuss with Fana because of the treatment of wounded soldiers, in fact, Odo and Angus were really just for business, Odo was a native of the Northland, he only liked those women with thick waists and big butts in the North, Fana Xuan was definitely not a beauty in his eyes, and although Angus once coveted Fana's beauty, but because he had participated in the holy war and had a natural hatred between the infidels, he did not plan to let the Persians always accompany the pillow; The last scandal is with the commercial officer Salter, Fana Jue likes to dress herself, but it is rare to get those luxury goods in the valley before, so Fana Jue often begs Salter, who goes out to do business, to buy some jewelry, aromatherapy and other things for her to come back, Salter is a single man, after a long time, Salter began to think, every time he returned to the valley Salter The first thing Salter did was not to visit his children, but to knock on the door of the medical workshop with a gift bought for Fana Jue......

Yate doesn't care about these and doesn't have the energy to care, as long as it's not forced to buy and sell, let it develop.

The valley wooden fort is the most stable place in the whole valley, but as the "ruling center" there must still be soldiers guarded here, the open space downstream of the stream outside the wooden fort was once a training ground for soldiers during the patrol period, and now it has become the valley garrison corps command tent {headquarters} station, several barracks have been built in the open space, the security team and the peasant corps standing peasant soldiers are stationed in it, and the cells where the war slave criminals are held are also next to the station.

Every day, a small group of six peasants stood guard in the wooden fort in the valley, two at the gate of the fort, two at the gate of the lord's mansion, and two peasants were responsible for patrolling and guarding everywhere.