Gawain Cecil returned safely, bringing with him the documents signed by the king and news of the royal family's support.

After nearly three months of waiting in Tanzanian Town, Viscount Andrew felt that he had made the right decision: the founding hero of 700 years ago did not disappoint him, he was not just a martial artist as he had feared at first, but a man of cunning and cunning.

It's just that he didn't expect that the founding hero would choose the Dark Mountains as the starting point for his family revival.

As a minor nobleman sitting in the southern frontier region, Viscount Andrew is naturally no stranger to the Dark Mountains - in fact, the former Cecil Territory and Leslie Territory are both on the north side of the Dark Mountains, and on a clear day, you can see the magnificent natural barrier as soon as you look up. The mountains block the unhealthy air from the Gondor wasteland, and many people talk about it because of their many monsters and strange tales, and even the most desperate hunters rarely go to the Dark Mountains to make a living, even if the lords of the south open up the hunting rights in the mountains.

The original Cecil Territory is located a little west of the northern part of the Dark Mountains, and to the northeast is the town of Tanzania, while the "New Cecil Territory" selected by Gawain is located in the southeast of the town of Tanzania, and the three roughly form a triangle, but the distance between the "New Cecil Territory" and the Dark Mountains is the closest of the three, and its southern part is even directly into the mountains.

There is a tributary of the White Water River that flows in front of Tanzania that flows into the "New Cecil Territory", and in terms of transportation, the new home is a good place: it is easy to get material support from Tanzania, and if the territory develops in the future, the cost of trade will be much lower.

But only if Gawain and his men can really gain a foothold in that barren land.

In Viscount Andrew's castle, the emaciated and stern nobleman looked worried: "With all due respect, Your Excellency, the first place you chose to settle down was not ...... So suitable, although there is a lot of land there, but it is too close to the dark mountains, there is no protection from civilized society, the beasts in the mountains are a great threat, and every year in the foggy moon, there will be unclean winds across the mountains, blowing from the wasteland of Gondor, the strong soldiers may be fine, but those poor civilians and serfs can't bear the ......"

"You've probably seen the map, you should know that the places I can choose from are vast, but the situation is pretty much the same," Gawain looked unimpressed, "In the circle next to the Dark Mountains, the land I have chosen is already the best - the winds of incleanity can be resisted by medicine and magic, and I will find a way to solve the problem myself, as long as we can survive the first year, we can mine ore from the Dark Mountains, and the territory will be able to stand on its feet." ”

He can't just say that the reason why he chose such a place is because there is a treasure trove of national fortune buried in the mountain 700 years ago, right?

At least after you have opened the treasure house and got everything in your hands, this matter can only be known to outsiders, and it must be limited - it is impossible to hide it completely, those materials must always be used, and once they are taken out for construction, fools can guess the truth.

It can only be guaranteed that the fewer people who know about those things before they are all put to use, the better.

Seeing Gawain's resolute attitude, of course Viscount Andrew couldn't say anything, he just reminded him: "This is all your decision, I will naturally try my best to support it, but please also remember our original transaction." ”

Gawain smiled slightly: "Don't worry, the Cecil family never owes debts - if you really don't worry about me pressing you one or two pieces of this antique on my body?" ”

Rebecca, who was sitting across the table and reporting to Aunt Hetty what she had seen in the royal capital, suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction of Gawain, her eyes lit up: "The old ancestor thinks the same as himself!" Does this mean that he has inherited the family style?

Hetty knocked on Rebecca's head lightly, "Don't look around—go on, you were just busy eating at the king's banquet from beginning to end?!" ”

"I'm still drinking—I'm an adult, I can drink a little ......"

Looking at this girl with a bad brain, Hetty looked desperate: "My god ......"

As for Viscount Andrew, of course he couldn't accept Gawain's "kindness", so he hurriedly waved his hand: "No need, no need, I believe in the credibility of the Cecil family and the guarantee of the founding hero...... When are you going to go? ”

"The sooner the better," Gawain nodded, "and we'll leave when we've got our supplies ready." The support promised by the king will be at least a month, and I will have to get my subjects to settle in their new homes. ”

For those who escaped the disaster of the old Cecil, the three-month period of recuperation is over, and the return of the lord from the royal capital means that they must immediately prepare for a new life.

Even the vast majority of them don't know what their new life will be like.

Knights Philip and Knight Byron were sent out with men to procure the necessary supplies and materials necessary for the construction of the new territory in Tanzania—food, tools, tents, medicines, and many other necessities they had never imagined.

There are a mountain of items that need to be prepared, even Hetty, who has been assisting in the management of the affairs of the territory, and Byron, who is an old minister of the Cecil family, do not know how to start, no one knows what it takes to build a territory from scratch, and in this regard, Gawain can help - during the great development period seven hundred years ago, the ancestors of Ansu built their homes from scratch, and the memories in Gawain's mind are valuable experiences for the matters to be prepared during the development period.

Of course, due to the time difference of 700 years, Gawain's empirical knowledge may not be completely effective, but the basic theories are not too similar.

No matter how the tools evolve and change, the problems that the pioneers have to solve in the wilderness are still the same, nothing more than food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and medical care.

As for the financial problem, Viscount Andrew had previously returned the gold and silver belongings of the Cecil family, plus the money preserved by Knight Philip, although it was not abundant, it was barely enough to prepare the initial materials.

The refugees from Cecil's territory walked around the town, buying supplies and hiring vehicles, which naturally attracted the attention of the locals, who had already heard the news of the resurrection of the founding hero, and had recently heard about the return of Cecil's lord from the royal capital, so they naturally knew that these "outsiders" who had lived in the town for three months were finally leaving.

Most of the lower-class people in Tanzania Town didn't care about the departure of these "outsiders", but the "outsiders" had to buy a lot of things when they left, which made the commercial guilds in the town make a lot of money, so their complaints about their lords were immediately reduced - before that, the lords requisitioned a lot of shacks for outsiders to live in, and those poor refugees couldn't even find a few copper plates, which really made many businessmen dissatisfied with them.

While the two family knights were rushing to prepare supplies, Gawain asked Hetty and Rebecca to count all the Cecil lords and ask them to make a detailed roster of more than 800 survivors.

"Each person's name, age, sex, state of health, and skill should be precise, and grouped by family, with a separate list of carpenters, stonemasons, and blacksmiths. By the way, if you can, number each person for easy reference. ”

This is Gawain to the two great-great-great-great-greats...... The task assigned by his great-granddaughter, he thought it would be easy, but he didn't expect to confuse the two N-layer great-granddaughters.

They had never heard of basic information registration, and they didn't know how this so-called "form" was made.

"Didn't even do basic population registration?" Seeing Hertie and Rebecca's blank expressions, Gawain felt even more confused than the other party, "Then how do you count the population of the territory?" ”

Rebecca replied with a simple face: "The territory around the castle is in the hands of Aunt Hetty, and the knights' fiefdoms are in the hands of the knights themselves, and you can probably know how many men, women, old people, and children, as for who is the blacksmith and who is the carpenter, the people who live around almost all know each other, just ask." ”

Gawain: "......"

it? Just ask? The legendary eyes rule the country, the face is peaceful, and the world is leveled in one gulp?

Noticing the changing look on Gawain's face, Hetty suddenly became nervous: "Lord Ancestor...... Could it be that when you and your ancestors founded the country, they used the kind of table you said to count the population? ”

Gawain hurriedly poured the information in his mind, and after a while, his face was dispathed.

the chicken...... It was even more chaotic back then.

The Gondor Empire collapsed overnight, and the prosperous and developed central region was completely wiped out, and all the people who survived the first wave of the shock were the populations of the outlying regions - and the ancient empire was a typical unbalanced society, and its development pattern was even almost deformed in Gawain's opinion: because the magic technology of this world must rely on magic focus, and the natural magic focus is limited, so all the advanced technology of the Gondor Empire is piled up around the most powerful magic focus in the center of the continent, the "Deep Blue", As for the outlying areas where the focus of magic is thin......

Backward to the point of incredible.

Therefore, after the Demon Tide broke out with the "Deep Blue" as the center, all the advanced technology and high-level intellectual population of the Gondor Empire were sacrificed to the sky, and the survivors were screened over and over again in the continuous energy radiation since then, and finally when the pioneers led everyone to escape, human civilization can be said to have completely collapsed......

To put it mildly: the Four Great Kingdoms were established by a group of elementary school students leading a group of illiterate people.

It's just that in this world where extraordinary power exists, the individual power at the top can offset the overall decline caused by the backwardness of civilization to a certain extent, so the original four kingdoms can be established under the hard support of a group of pioneers with explosive combat effectiveness, and withstand the pressure from all sides at the beginning of the founding of the country.

But, but, but!

700 years! For 700 years, why haven't any of these unscrupulous descendants grown?