After speaking, Gawain drove his horse with the patriarch and the guards, first stepped on the bloodstains on the slaughterhouse, and galloped in the direction of Vanka City, he was about to go to Cappadocia, but before that, he was eager to see what the demeanor of this "Seven Mountains Lion Fortress" was. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Behind Gawain, the two heraldic officers were already standing in the center of the phalanx with all the clerks, and a group of soldiers were throwing the dead bodies into the trench that had been dug beforehand—public executions were not a matter of concern in this day and age. In the other direction, there were also groups of soldiers and servants with iron forks and torches, and burned all the land deeds held by more than seventy executed Ani nobles, like a torch signal that marked the end of the dynasty, "Liberty, liberty, now the Grand Duke has given this power to all the castles and villages that once belonged to Ruben, and all the contracts and debts have been forfeited, and we have to distribute them all—the peasants who can farm, regardless of their previous origins, each of them will now receive a considerable share of the land, As for the soldiers who can charge with bows and arrows and on horses, they will be allocated double or four times as much land, and they can also be rented to be cultivated, so that you can earn extra money when you go to serve in the army of the Grand Duke. Come on, come on, for hundreds of years, no, even thousands of years, there will not be such a good thing. At the clerical table, Androdat was busy with his head, and Wright was beside him, waving and shouting, and gradually the yeoman farmers and serfs standing there rushed up and began to sign the deeds or press their handprints.

Several captives standing on the other side also had the courage to come up and ask for a share of the land distribution contract, but they were advised by Wright to go back, and the deputy heraldic officer's tone was very stern, "You are already members of the logistics corps, and the Grand Duke assures you that you will have a military salary during the three years of service, half of which will be paid in cash and half of it will be paid in a lump sum when it expires, and you will also receive a share of the Gospel of the Holy Fortune after the expiration of the period." "In short, it means that these 4,000 people don't come to join in the fun.

On the mountain road leading to Vanka City, Gawain sat down on Quicksilver sliding with difficulty, making the Grand Duke swaying a little embarrassed, and the military servant Muzafiadin hurriedly gave up the beautiful mare Sabina to the Grand Duke, because on this rugged road, Sabina's stability was obviously superior, "Hey little sunfish, do you see the mountains here?" Gawain exhaled with drops of water and white mist, wrapped his wrist in animal fur, and pointed to the clusters of white peaks under the blue sky in the distance, "This is a good place, and the obvious veins stretch north along the valley on either side of Vanka City. I used to make iron ore in Turkey (and I suddenly remembered it, so I hurriedly forked it...... He was a captured slave of the Turks, and he was still relatively familiar with this piece. ”

"You've been a slave, huh." The little sunfish rode on the big mule behind, more stable than Gawain riding a mare, and the guards on foot around were trudging through the snow with difficulty, hearing Gawain's black history, Agnes felt very happy in her heart, "How did you get out?" I heard that the hermit Peter brought you out. You're miserable, no, it just shows that you've failed as a human being, and no one has paid a ransom for you, you won't have a wife and children in Varyag, right? Maybe after you were captured on the pilgrimage, your wife abducted your children and ran with some of the Kherson bazaar's puppeteers because she hated you before......"

Agnes picked up annoying words to ridicule Gawain, and then she was behind, and suddenly noticed that Gawain, who turned his face sideways, had a little red in his eyes, so she was secretly shocked in her heart, and with a little guilt, she stopped continuing the topic, "You said that there are mineral veins here, what are they?" ”

"The main thing is iron ore, as long as you do a good job of smelting technology, wood and water are very abundant here."

"The river is still not wide and gentle enough, and I remember that the forge needed such geographical conditions to facilitate the transportation of boats."

"Then we must take the fort of Corquisson, and then take Meritene all the way, which is not only easily accessible by land and water, but also has well-navigated rivers and more abundant mineral deposits." Gawain replied that the two walked slowly side by side, gesturing with their fingers and discussing the prospect of the minerals enthusiastically.

Patriarch Anselm, who was also held hostage, turned his head melancholy, looking at the hillside where the Arnie nobles were executed, Fort Tranzak had been slowly thrown into the distance, but the fireworks that burned the title deeds and debt bills could still be seen clearly with the naked eye, Anselm was very surprised, what allowed Gawain to complete the transfer of power here so smoothly, "He destroyed the original order to the fullest, slaughtered the nobles, destroyed the kingdom, distributed the land equally among the peasants and even serfs, and liberated everyone, Loudly proclaimed freedom to this valley...... And then, almost half a day, all the lowly men acknowledged his rule, and were willing to work for him and his army, while the original rulers, I saw with my own eyes, were slain like poor cattle, and were reduced to the manure of the fields in the coming year. In the whole of Reuben's mountain country, only the northernmost corgisson was still resisting, but in the mouths of Gawain and the beautiful female director of engineering, the fortress seemed to be of little value, and they soon coveted further afield......"

After a day and a night of marching, and camping in the snow, the next morning, when Anselm and Gorpan were half frozen to death, and came out of their tents, the soldiers of the Guards had begun to gather around their pack horses and wagons, and to raise piles of bonfires, and to laugh and eat in a low voice, and the march here was like a picnic outing, and there was not even half a mountain bandit: for the situation in the kingdom of Ruben had been calmed down like a quiet lake during this time.

All kinds of tall pine and fir trees, densely standing on both sides of the road, in the mist and clouds, the gray-yellow Vanka City round arched fortress and city wall, just on the raised cliff, really like a lion that is proud of the world, its east is a cliff rock, its west is a gentle slope that can be walked.

Agnes's mouth opened wide, she had lived on the islands of the Holy Sea since she was a child, and the only place she had ever been to was a magnificent city like Constantinople, and she couldn't help but be thrilled to see this kind of castle in the snow-capped green forest for the first time.

Under the city of Vanka, there is an open area surrounded by pastures, manors and monasteries, and beyond is a deep and cut river, between which there is an old but strong wooden bridge, where a hundred red hand cavalry are waiting with their flags, and when Agnes rode over on a mule, he was surprised to see that the gurgling water in the valley below, because of the mist and the lack of sunlight, was actually a milky white with mist, which was really like a fairyland, so that the "gray-haired female Grim Reaper" kept whispering and exclaiming. (To be continued.) )