Hudang, figure. Chen Jianbu was stunned. Then he was happy that Hammondale was his territory, and now the empire wanted to pay for him to build, and he was happy, of course, he also hoped to be able to regulate well, you know, a good plan has a huge effect on the development of a city, Chen Jian from the earth of course understands this very well, and in Chen Jian's view, if you don't take advantage of it, you will be sent by heaven.

And Empress Catherine also took great pains to consolidate the rule of the Erathian Empire in the Hammondale region, not only staying in Hammondale herself during this time. It is even more early for people to start making construction plans.

In the Empress's mind, this strategic point could not be lost again in any way, and for this reason, in this blueprint, she pushed almost all of Hammondale to rebuild, and defended it in all aspects.

The location of the planned permanent military fortress for the garrison of Earl Mlak was set by the Empress in the original village of Werning, which happened to be located in a transportation artery in the Hammondale area, where the four roads from Hammondale to the Herthian Empire proper, Tetaria, Auver and Baijides converged, and guarded this place would not only make Hammondale an important defensive node on the eastern defense line of the Empire, but also cooperate with the Empire's strategy when needed. With the help of the extensive roads, the attack on the Ofer and Tetalia propers greatly shocked the two countries.

In this way, not only will the eastern defense line of the empire be more stable, but it is believed that the Tetalia Marsh Kingdom, which has been making a lot of noise, will also be more peaceful, and buy more time for the empress's plan to recover Tetalia peacefully.

Named Fort Werning by the Empress, this large and extremely important military fortress is lined with watchtowers and marksman towers, as well as a large number of griffon towers for griffons, monasteries for monks to meditate, and a super-large stable.

On the other side of the road, the Empress took advantage of a difficult local terrain to construct a fortified checkpoint, which was named White Cliff Pass, which blocked the road from Hammondale to the forest of Turalone and the land of the dead.

Whether it is an elf or a necromancer, if you want to attack Hammondal, you must first pass this important level, which is also quite large in the planning blueprint.

Similar to Fort Verning, the imposing walls of this level are densely packed with watchtowers and marksman towers, and there are also some griffon towers and monasteries in the level, which can be called a small military fortress.

With this White Cliff Pass and Fort Werning, the Empire's defense of the Hammondale region was basically completed, and the reason for this situation was because of the unique terrain of Mondale.

In the ancient language of the continent of Erathia, the word "Hamon" means harmony, and "Dyer" means valley, "Hammondal" means "valley of harmony", and the Hammondale region, as its name suggests, is a huge valley surrounded by mountains, although it is located in a key position, but except for those roads leading to the outside world, it is surrounded by steep mountains and impassable, and because of this, Hammondale is cut off from the outside world every winter due to heavy snowfall.

As long as these communication arteries were held, it would be difficult for the enemy to enter the heart of Hammondal. Unfortunately, there are not many terrains like the White Cliff Pass, otherwise Empress Catherine might have built such a checkpoint on every road.

However, with Fort Werning's fortification, enemies attacking from other roads would not be able to advance smoothly in the Hammondale area, unless they were not afraid of the Imperial defenders of Fort Werning's attacking their rear.

In order to be sure, the Empress also arranged a powerful secret weapon in Fort Werning, and four magic cannons that the Empress had unearthed from nowhere!

This magic cannon is a great work of magicians and alchemists in the Age of Miracles, and the magic array inside the cannon body allows these magic cannons to absorb the magic Yuan Zhuo in the air to fill the magic power, and then use these magic elements to carry out magic attacks, just like magicians meditate to accumulate magic power and then release magic.

Each of the four magic cannons can fire gas magic "Bloom Everywhere", fire magic "Fire and Thunder", and water magic "Venom Eruption". "Although they are all low-level magic, they are better at the super fast rate of fire, and there are no special requirements for the use of these magic cannons, ordinary people can also use them, as long as you gently press the launch button on the cannon, the magic will be fired.

However, this magic cannon also has a disadvantage, that is, because the cannon body is huge and very heavy, it can't be turned, it can only attack at a fixed point, and the speed of mana filling is a little slower. The accumulation of a day and a night is only enough for a few shots.

The method of making these magic cannons has long been lost and cannot be manufactured, and there are only a dozen of them in the entire Erathia Empire, and the empress has taken out four of them in a big way in order to achieve the goal of permanently occupying Hammondal, and is ready to place them in key positions in Fort Werning to hold the main road of communication.

However, Hammondal's defense capabilities are not limited to this, on the ruins of the old Hammondale Castle, the Empress also plans to build a stronger, taller, and more majestic new castle, which will form a chair with Fort Wernings in the Hammondale area, echoing each other, and definitely making it impossible for the enemy to easily occupy this land.

In the midst of this castle, which is much larger than the original. Ershi: Ershi noted buildings such as the Arsenal, the Resource Warehouse, the Barracks, the Mao Training Ground, the Temple, the Erpin, the Griffin Tower, and other buildings that Chen Jian longed for.

Such a large castle is not at all what a lord should have, but more similar to a military castle like Marston City, which directly belongs to the empire.

It has been a thousand years since the founding of the Erathia Empire, but there have been few rebellions by noble lords in history, which is inseparable from the strict lord system of the empire.

In the edicts of the Empire, although the liege can have the right to rule the territory, form one within the territory. A small kingdom that is almost independent of the Empire, but in terms of military affairs, the Empire is strictly controlled, not only can the number of the lord's private army not exceed a hundred, but there are strict regulations on the size of the castle.

Moreover, the empire is also quite cautious about the division of lords, and there are also great restrictions on the area of the territory.

It is also determined that the Lion Heart Dynasty has been able to occupy most of the land and wealth in the empire for such a long time, and with the help of a powerful army and a fast-moving griffin army, firmly ruled the huge empire, until the last war was invaded by multiple enemy countries at the same time, which greatly lost its prestige and strength, and fell into the situation where the noble lords began to be not very peaceful and secretly plotted to drive Queen Catherine from power.

This peculiar system of lordship is in stark contrast to the traditional lordship system of the Negan Kingdom.

In the kingdom of Negan, the power of the lord can only be described in terms of dripping heaven.

The local lords are not only able to have an astonishing amount of territory, but also hold all the military and political power in the territory, and they have money, food, men, and soldiers in their hands, and it is not impossible for them to build a powerful army with an incredible number as long as their financial resources allow.

This backward lord system has caused Negan's royal family to be in a state of embarrassment in name only, and the ambitious Negan lords are simply disdainful of the weakened royal family, and they rely on their strong strength to form a large army, divide the Negan kingdom, and fight each other for many years, just to expand their territory, have more people, increase their strength, get more wealth, form a stronger army, and then unify the Negan kingdom, Become the king of the country yourself.

It is precisely because of this that the Kingdom of Negan is also known as the Negan Lordship by other countries.

However, for a long time, none of these Negan Lords could achieve this goal, except for the famous female lord Dragon Queen Mohor.

And Moriel, the dragon queen who once swept Negan with a powerful dragon army and tried to capture the elven kingdom and the Erathia Empire, was not able to sit on her throne for long, when she was too underestimated, she was defeated by the elf kingdom and the Erathia Empire, and had to flee back to Negan in ashes, and it didn't take long for some unwillingly big lords to secretly join forces to oust the power, not only the kingdom created by one hand was wiped out, but she was also killed by a minotaur lord.

Negan, on the other hand, later resumed the chaos of the high lords fighting each other, but in the last war, these high lords briefly joined forces, and formed an evil alliance with the necromancer of Dea and the Devil of Kerrigan of Over, and attacked Erathia together, and they used a surprising number of cave people to complete a great project A huge cross-sea tunnel connecting Negan soil and the continent of Erathia, and used this tunnel to send an expeditionary force to attack the empire by surprise, and once occupied the imperial capital city of Standwick.

However, although the expeditionary force of the Negan lords was elite, due to the confusion of the command and the sudden withdrawal of the Devil of Hollow from the Elven Kingdom under the blow of the Elven Kingdom, the entire army was finally wiped out.

And the defeated Lord Negan had to return to the Negan Kingdom to recuperate, just like the Dragon Queen Moriel, but the battle between them never stopped.

Now that the empress has gone against the precedent of the empire, she has made an exception to build such a super-standard city for Chen Jian, and there are so many ancillary facilities, Chen Jian is of course very happy.

However, the empress's words made Jian Chen's excitement decrease a lot: "Don't be too happy, the castle is yours yes, but these supporting facilities are not for you, due to the special situation on your side, I will build such a big castle for you, otherwise, how could I break the precedent of the empire and let you have a castle of such specifications as your lord?" I will ask Count Mrak to arrange for some soldiers to be stationed in the barracks of the castle, which can help you suppress the possible resistance of foreign lords, second, to quickly rush to the White Cliff Pass in case of war, and third, to help you use the castle to resist the enemy's attack in wartime, killing three birds with one stone! But these garrisons are not your men, and they will not obey your commands! Instead, in times of war, you'll have to follow Earl Mrak's orders and work with him to fend off enemy attacks and make sure that Hammondale doesn't fall into the hands of the enemy

"Then I don't need to provide for these troops, right?" Chen Jian began to have a little ominous premonition.

"Nonsense!" The empress glared at him and said angrily: "Do you still expect the emperor's ** team to help you guard the castle in vain?" It's not all of it, but you're going to have to pay half of it! Shrugged, in order to save trouble, you just hand over the gold coins to Count Demon Rak and leave, and he will send someone to handle it himself. ”

Chen Jian was dumbfounded: "Your Majesty, the number of people in this garrison shouldn't be very large, right?"

"Not much, I'm talking to Mo, the old lord said. Let him have 2,500 men in your castle only! With all its troops, even the griffons, it can definitely make your castle as stable as Mount Tai unless the enemy army is overwhelming. ”

Seeing Jian Chen's depressed appearance, the empress couldn't help but be happy: "Is it too little?" Also. The size of this castle is much larger than that of Werningburg, and it is not a problem to settle in a garrison of 10,000 or 20,000 if it is full, and 2,500 men is too little, or I will ask Count Mlak to move the focus of defense from Werningburg to the castle, and let him send 5,000 men to the castle, and Werningburg will keep 3,500 people, and 1,500 people at Baiya Pass, which should also be feasible. ”

Chen Jian's face turned white when he said this.

Half of the 5,000 people's supply is 2,500 people, and he doesn't know what standard the empress is based on, Chen Jian found that his wallet is afraid that it will not be bulging for a day.

"Your Majesty, Fort Werning is so important, how can it be that only three thousand five hundred people can be left? The same is true of the White Cliff Pass, in case the elves are treacherous again. Fifteen hundred people will definitely not be able to stop them, it is better to put the troops on these two to rush, my castle is located in the hinterland of Hammondal, so there is no need for so many garrisons! ”

"Count you as acquaintances!" The Empress snorted and said, "If it weren't for the fact that your lordship had been confirmed and notified to the whole country before, the empire would not have been able to revoke your fief for no reason. And you are loyal to the empire, and in this war, such a strategic place is not suitable as a fief of the nobility at all! ”

"I'm doing this now, and I'm actually broken. It will definitely cause the displeasure of the other nobles, but in order to maintain the Empire's rule in Hammondale, there is no way to do it! As long as you can implement the racial integration policy smoothly, you won't have to spend so much effort and bear so much pressure, so Viscount Chen Jian, don't let me down! ”

"Your Majesty has a trust, and the ministers should do their best!" Chen Jian had no other way than to say this, and he found that things didn't seem to be as simple as he thought.

Although the troops stationed in Hammondale can protect him Chen Jian, "but from another point of view, there is no lack of local surveillance."

If Jian Chen dared to disappoint the empress, perhaps these troops would turn into the vanguard of the empire's questioning of Jian Chen.

As the empress said, a strategic place like Hammondale is not suitable for being divided into noble territories at all, and if it weren't for a series of coincidences before, he, a commoner lord who appeared out of nowhere, might have been taken down by the empress a long time ago.

Chen Jian believes that if he can't make any achievements in Hammondale in the future, with Empress Catherine's decisiveness, he will definitely be driven down from the lord's throne by her, and then nationalize this land.

Waiting for death to be safe was once Jian Chen's greatest wish, but now, when his ambitions began to flourish, he was no longer willing to be so mediocre.

As part of the Queen's plan, the tiny town of Hammondale was expanded and extended outwards to form a new city that could accommodate a large population.

Not only that, but Empress Catherine also plans to build facilities such as markets and magic guilds in the city to make the city more prosperous.

But in the same way, how to make this territory prosperous, it is useless to rely on these buildings alone, and Chen Jian has to figure out his own way.

What Jian Chen needs to solve is not only the problem of how to live in harmony between different races, but also how to make Hammondale develop rapidly, which is related to all aspects of territorial affairs, commerce, agriculture, industry, etc.

If all goes well, in a few years' time, a new Hammondale will appear on the map of the Empire, not only as a military powerhouse, but also as an economic powerhouse with a large population, mixed ethnicity, and thriving industries, which can provide the Empire with huge tax revenues.

At that time, it will not be so easy for other national forces to fight Hamon Xinger's idea again.

Moreover, in the layout of the empress, it has also moderately strengthened the empire's forces in the surrounding areas of Hammondal, and has started to build the road leading to Hammondale like the empire itself, plus the sled "invented" by Jian Chen, from now on, the emperor's ** team can definitely rush to the aid of Hammondale at any time, so that all enemies who attempt to attack the local area can no longer be like the current elven kingdom, and take the empire by surprise.

And in order to make all this happen smoothly, the empress also generously gave Chen Jian some privileges beyond the lord of the revolutionary country.

For example, a three-year tax holiday had been promised to Chen Jian in the secret decree.

There was also Jian Chen, who had to reduce the current oversized 200-man lord's guard to 100, but the empress allowed him to form a militia force of no more than 900 people in the local area for the time being.

In other words, Chen Jian, the lord of Hammondal, can actually control a private armed force of up to 1,000 people at the moment.