The owl quickly flew to the tower of Mecklenburg Castle with the news, and in the attic on the top floor of the tower there was a servant who was responsible for managing intelligence, but this servant was also a member of the Brotherhood of Blood Drops, and when he received this linen with ink drops on it, he knew that this was an urgent letter and needed to be reported to Harvey immediately, so he took the letter drawn on linen and trotted all the way through the tower, and soon found Harvey's bedroom.

"Aggressive~~." Harvey has a habit of sleeping lazy, she heard the knock on the door, just turned over and smashed her mouth, covered her head with a pillow filled with goose feathers, and curled up in the warm quilt, but the people outside the door didn't seem to intend to let her go, the knock was louder and louder, and finally made Harvey, who couldn't bear it, sit up violently.

"Come in, you'd better have a reason to do it, or I'll shoot a few holes in you." Harvey brushed the long hair from his forehead with his own hands, revealing a sleepy face and hazy sleepy eyes, and the servant who walked in turned pale with fright when he heard Harvey's words, but he still remembered his duty.

"Chief Harvey, you said that if you find a letter with this droplet, you must hand it over to you immediately." The servant handed the piece of coarse linen in his hand to Harvey, and when she saw the ink drops on the linen, she immediately jumped off the bed, and she opened the linen and looked at it carefully.

"When did you get it?" Harvey looked up and asked the servant.

"Well, uh, just now." The servant didn't know why Lu Dao blushed, lowered his head and didn't seem to dare to look at Harvey, and replied to Harvey.

"Yes. Okay, why don't you look up at me? Harvey looked at the red-faced servant strangely, but she soon found that she was still naked, Harvey had forgotten that she had a habit of sleeping naked, but she didn't care just smiled, waved the servant to stand down, and then got dressed and walked towards the lord's hall, she knew that Arold must have accepted the offer in the lord's hall at this time, and that there was a lack of effective administrators in Mecklenburgshire. Therefore, Arold had to take turns for several days to order the peasants from the various villages and settlement strongholds to come to the castle. Accept their petitions in the hall of the lords.

One after another, the petitioning peasants lined up, and in cases that could not be resolved by traditional customary law, the count, as a territory, had the right to adjudicate justice, and the conflicts between the peasants could only be resolved by the count's judgment.

"Your Excellency, Earl. He stoned my children to death. I begged that he must be hanged. "In front of Arold knelt two peasants. One of them pointed to the other and complained to Arrod.

"But my honorable Earl, I didn't mean to, who knew that the damn stone would hit the kid right now. I just kicked the rock. The accused farmer said to Arold with a sad face.

"According to canon law and the Holy Scriptures, the Earl kills another person's livestock, and he needs to pay double the compensation to the owner of the animal, and if he kills someone, he must pay compensation for his life." Brother Everwitt, who stood beside Arrod, explained in the laws of the Church.

"Do you have any witnesses?" Arold frowned as he asked the two farmers.

"Some adults, they are here too." At this moment, three people walked in, and the crowded people in the hall were all talking, and they looked at the people around them and the sword-wielding guards nervously helpless.

"Your Excellency Earl." One of the older farmers bowed to Arrod.

"Did you see it with your own eyes?" Arold looked at the farmers in front of him and asked them, these farmers were Germanic immigrants, and they all seemed to be honest farmers.

"Yes." The peasants nodded their heads, and the first sight of the Count, who lived within such high walls, made them fearful.

"Is it really what he said?" Arold pointed to the two peasants who were kneeling on the ground and spoke to the witnesses.

"That's right." The witnesses kept nodding their heads, nervous as a flock of quails.

"Then he didn't intend to kill the child at all, and he didn't have the intention to commit a crime subjectively, even if he objectively caused the facts of the crime, it could only be manslaughter." Arold said to the people in the hall, he thought to himself that he was fortunate that in his previous life, he always read today's statement when he was eating instant noodles at noon, and he had an impression of the subjective and objective convictions, and it was not trivial to adjudicate a medieval case.

"But Lord Earl, if he killed someone, if it wasn't intentional and it was just an accident, at least one of his legs should be cut off as compensation." Brother Ellvet leaned down and whispered in Arold's ear.

"Since this is an accident, it can only be said that it is God's will, how can we go against God's will, the prisoner compensates the deceased's family for a cow, and if there is no money, you will be punished for working for him for a year." Brother Elvet felt that Arold had not ruled according to the usual customary law of the lord or canon law, but after careful consideration he felt that Arold's judgment was very just.

"Thank you, Lord Earl, Lord of Justice, Lord of Mercy." The prisoner said gratefully, and the people around him felt that Arold did not hang the prisoner easily, but made a judgment cautiously after listening to the testimony of the witnesses, and a lord who did not hastily enforce the law was a blessing to the people.

Just as Arold had finished making his ruling, Harvey walked to Arold's side, handed the information sent back by the blood droplets to Arold, and looked at the patterns and ink droplets on the linen, which was obviously just the leader of Rostock finally made a move, seeing this, Arold immediately stopped accepting the petition, and only when only Brother Elvet and Harvey were left in the hall, he handed the linen to Brother Elvet.

"Lord Earl, how are we going to meet the enemy?" Brother Elvet was also a clever man, and he immediately understood the pattern on the linen, but he did not understand why Arold would show him information about the fact that the battle should have nothing to do with him.

"How many enemies are there?" Instead of answering Brother Elvet, Arold asked Harvey.

"My people have just taken root in Rostock, and we haven't received specific information yet, but who knew that the leader who likes men would suddenly attack us." Harvey held his chin in his hand and leaned against the stone pillar in the hall, the quality of the members of the Blood Drop Brotherhood is uneven, and the establishment time is short, and it is already very efficient to be able to send back news as soon as the leader of Rostock sends troops, and more detailed intelligence requires higher intelligence analysis ability.

"Well, then you can know the direction of attack." Arold sat on the lord's seat and asked Harvey, as the spy leader Harvey is undoubtedly qualified, but Arold's military strength is still in the formation and recovery stage, and he is worried that he will not be able to withstand the blow of the new invasion, so he asked a little anxiously.

"The attack from Rostock to us is nothing more than an attack from two roads in the northeast, and the journey from the border to Mecklenburg Castle is about two days, depending on the size of the enemy's army, if it exceeds a thousand people, I am afraid it will take more time." Harvey's analysis of Arold.

"What thousand?" Brother Elvet's face turned a little pale when he heard this, Arold's army could gather up to more than three hundred people after quelling the rebellion, and this was still with the untrained Germanic immigrants.

"Have you been to the terrain of the border area?" Arrod's brow furrowed, if the Rostockians launched an attack with thousands of men, then he would have to make a difficult choice, whether to clear the villages in the territory, concentrate all the people in the castle, and consume the Rostock people with a strong castle, or use all his strength to defend his territory in the field.

"Everywhere there are forests and hills." Harvey, Arold's appointed spy chief, was always elusive, but she was very competent, and there were few places in the countryside and frontiers of Mecklenburg that she hadn't visited, and she patrolled the territory like a lioness.

"Understood, Brother Elvet, you will try your supplies and food to be in the castle granary for a few days before the enemy arrives, even if you spend more money, you have to buy food from the merchants, and the news of the attack of the Rostock people should not spread for the time being." Arold stood up and ordered Brother Elvet, the policy of clearing the walls is the safest strategy, as for everything outside the castle, maybe you have to give up, Arold thought a little unwillingly.

"Yes, Lord Count." Knowing that the situation was urgent, Brother Elvet hurried out of the lord's hall and carried out Arrod's orders.

"Harvey, you also secretly bring this news to Julian, and ask him to bring the well-trained slave soldiers here." Arold watched Brother Elvet's back as he left, and then commanded Harvey.

"So what about the people in the Raging Lion Castle and the smelting base?" Harvey asked.

"It's okay for the Angry Lion Castle to stay away from the Rostock's offensive route, and all the people in the smelting base have withdrawn into the castle." Arold commanded.

"By the way, I have made some friends on the southern border of our territory, let me go and find them, maybe they will help us at a critical moment." Harvey's eyes rolled and he said to Arrode.

"Oh? Friend, is it a mercenary? Arrud asked curiously, the woman in front of her was very powerful, and she didn't know that she still had her friends on the border to the south.

"Ha, it's a friend I met when I fled to Mecklenburgshire, don't worry, they're not mercenaries, but you'll have to give them some promises when it's done." Harvey's eyes with long eyelashes flickered a few times, and the corners of his mouth showed a mysterious smile to Arryd.

"Well, if it can help us, you can bring the special combat team with you, maybe it will be useful at a critical moment." Arold looked at Harvey and thought for a moment that it might be helpful to have a surprise army outside the castle at a critical moment. (To be continued......)