Chapter 172: In full swing

The address of the castle was set by William thirty kilometers north of Menders Manor, just near Comos Manor, some close to the territory of the Chekels, and only more than thirty kilometers away from the territory of Viscount Raul in the north, which is considered an excellent location.

First, the immigrants processed the felled trees into thick planks under William's orders, which were then inserted into the ground according to William's drawings.

Originally, he wanted to lay a drainage ditch in the city, because he didn't want his castle to be like other cities, with sewage and feces and urine everywhere, but on second thought, there would be no residents in the castle, and there would be no other idlers except the defenders.

So William finally gave up on this idea, after all, digging a drainage ditch is also a big project, and he wants to have a castle as soon as possible.

Rammed earth was not well known to the newcomers, and in fact, no one in the world even knew about it.

It was William who brought this ancient construction method that had been used for thousands of years in the Celestial Empire.

However, William was still a little dissatisfied, if there was a construction artifact like cement, he would still use rammed earth to make a stupid method?

At this time, in the royal capital of Blijek, the red background sword and brown bear flag representing the royal family fluttered over the main castle, which was the royal palace where the royal family lived.

King Brolin is dealing with all kinds of things in the room, and the royal family has several times more territory than Denlenburg, and there are a lot of trivial things that arise in such a large territory, plus the affairs of the nobility have to be dealt with in the past, as well as various policies and decrees.

Balancing the forces, in short, the king's day is very busy.

He was looking at a report, frowned helplessly, and began to talk to himself.

"Damn the kingdom of Ribourne, damn the church, in collusion with that damn Bunkerson, I won't be threatened by you!"

The more King Brolin thought about it, the more angry he became, and the last slap was plastered on the table with a loud bang.

"What happened? Your Majesty! ”

Hearing a noise in the room, the two knights guarding the door slammed the door open, rushed in with their unsheathed swords, and looked around vigilantly.

"What's going on, Your Majesty?"

"It's none of your business here, get out now!" King Brolin was in a rather irritable mood, and his twenties had not yet faded away from his youthful irritability.

Of course, he would not show such irritability in front of the nobles, because it would make the nobles think that he was an unstable person.

"Oh, my dear husband Brolin, what happened? What makes you so angry? ”

A pleasant female voice sounded, and Queen Dai Lin walked in with elegant steps, "There's nothing to do with you here, let's go out first!" ”

Her steps are quite elegant, her tall and hot figure makes him look extremely mature, and she who has given birth to a child exudes an intellectual beauty from top to bottom, and has a kind of magic that makes people relax.

After ordering a few knights to go out, Dai Lin thoughtfully hugged King Brolin, why are you so irritable, you can tell me.

Under Dai Lin's appeasement, King Brolin gradually regained his composure, and said with a wry smile: "It's not the Ruiborn Kingdom and the church, although they are jointly trying to put pressure on me to abolish me, but I know that the purpose of the church is only to want me to abolish the domestic decree against the church and expand the power of the church in the country, but I am just unwilling!" ”

"How can there be any way, the authority of the church has a deep influence, and the kingdom of Ribone obeys the command of the church, we must give the church a statement, otherwise it will only be the Duke of Bunkerson who will benefit!"

As the only daughter of the king, Dai Lin also has a very spicy political vision, and she immediately pointed out the key points of the matter.

"But I don't want to compromise with them like this, there is no end to the church's **, do you want us to become vassals of the church like the kingdom of Ribourne?"

"Besides, if I compromise, what will the nobles who support me in the country think?"

"The king has betrayed us and betrayed our interests to the Church! Surely they will think so! ”

"Who else will support me then, that Bunkerson guy will take advantage of it!" King Brolin expounded his point with some excitement.

Queen Dai Lin looked at her husband with some concern, this kind of mentality is not good.

"And what can you do?"

King Brolin listened to Queen Daline's inquiry and fell into deep thought.

But immediately, his eyes lit up: "I think I have a way!" ”

"Huh? What a way! Queen Dai Lin asked curiously.

But instead of answering immediately, King Brolin sat down at his desk, wrote a letter, and gave it to the knight at the door for him to send out.

The construction of the city was still in full swing, and although the output of the brick factory did not reach the ideal effect of William's psychology, it was not bad, and it was okay to burn 50,000 bricks a month.

The city only needs hundreds of thousands of bricks to build the city, and besides, they have not yet reached the step of using bricks, so they have plenty of time.

The construction site was in full swing, the manor was very lively, the first trade with the Chekels in the spring had ended, and William had exchanged linen and honey for more than five hundred ploughing cattle and more than two thousand sheep, while the war horses were only fifty, and he did not plan to dump them again this month, and wait for some time to restore the market.

And William is now planning to develop the forest resources in the territory, but there were no conditions in the past, and he didn't know about this matter.

But now it was different, and William was going to exploit the resources of the forest, especially honey, a luxury other than expensive sugar.

Although the price is not even one-tenth of that of sugar, you must know the price of sugar, and a kilogram of sugar costs 500 silver coins to buy, and there may be a priceless market.

And honey, the same amount of honey can be obtained for only twenty or thirty silver coins to get a kilogram, which is quite a lucrative business.

Of course, just searching for beehives in the forest can't support an industry, training beekeepers is a good choice, William's territory is really such a family beekeeper, but because of financial resources and the restrictions of the lord, they don't dare to expand the breeding at all.

Now they finally have a place to use.

Honey aside, there were many things in the forest, such as animal furs, and many nobles paid a lot of money to buy the fur of a precious and brave beast to make a piece of clothing to show their wealth or bravery, and the noblewomen were willing to spend money to buy a beautiful leather to make a winter coat for themselves.

Through the trade routes of the Reims Guild, William could sell all these things, and the news of his mercantile policy and the fact that he would receive tax-free treatment from Issamdenburg was spread through the channels of the Reims Guild.

In addition, the population of the Mendes and Comos regions is large and much richer than other places, so small merchants are willing to bring some gadgets to sell here, which drives the commercial development of William's domain and makes the territory more prosperous.