Chapter 90: The Shock of Xius
If you do something that makes you happy, then you feel like time flies.
As Lord William, lord of the Dicas, once said to Old John by chance, "I want you to be happy!" ”
The villagers of the small village of Nisse were happy under William's rule.
So this phrase quickly became popular in the village.
Before you know it, three months have passed.
The snow fades away and the earth returns to spring.
Trees sprout, fish leap out of the water, and animals end hibernation.
And the small village of Nisse, even if it has been reborn, has undergone even more amazing changes.
"It's not a masterpiece of human beings!"
This is the sigh of Hughes of Patras City once again stepping on the land of the small village of Nisse, he looked at the old John next to him, and his tone was incredulous, "Master John, if I hadn't seen its prototype before, I would never have believed that such a village, no, it should be called a small town, was built in just a few months. Counting the whole winter, it didn't take more than half a year to build. Oh my God, it doesn't look like a town that's only half a year old! It is more like the domain of a long-established aristocratic family and should be filled with a sense of history. ”
"But now, it's like a young lad, full of vigor and endless possibilities!"
"Baron Decass is a magical figure! Such characters, I only heard in stories, but now I see them in reality! This...... What a pleasure it is! ”
Theseus sighed as he patted William's ass.
Old John listened beside him, smiling triumphantly, and looking proud.
John Sr. is not William's butler now, but William's appointed first administrator of Nessey Town, who holds a high position in the town, and his son Drake John, who is the head of William's Praetorian Knights, is highly trusted.
It can be said that in the town of Nisse, old John is the most powerful man below William.
This is the reward of William's loyalty to Old John!
With such power, Old John felt that he no longer needed to hide his emotions in front of a small businessman like Hughes.
Yes, old John is now at ease.
For this, Hughes also took it for granted.
His eyes were now fascinated by the changes in the town of Nisse.
Outside the town, fields have been cleared, and some villagers are plowing, and they don't know what to sprinkle on them.
The town's roads have been specially tamped.
Two straight arterial roads divide the town into four zones.
On both sides of the main road, double-storey wooden buildings rise from the ground, and a group of people are busy building in front of the wooden buildings.
It's already spring, the temperature is rising, and the work of building the walls can be carried out!
These wooden buildings are all of the same structure, with wooden beams, walls on all sides, and a small courtyard at the back.
The wooden buildings are next to each other, neat and unified, and it looks like there is a symmetrical beauty.
Unlike Patras, the houses are built here and there, and the roads are crooked, which makes it look awkward.
Wheelbarrows with different things babbled along the main road to different areas.
Every coachman's face was sweating hard, but his eyes were full of relief.
It was a look in the eyes that Hughes had not seen anywhere before.
In some areas, smoke rose in the air, in some areas there was the sound of thrashing one after another, and in some areas the loud sound was amazing.
Just then, a group of majestic warriors returned from outside the town.
The black-brown scales, the indifferent but determined eyes, the bloody wounds, and the corpses of the lizardmen all show their bravery to others!
When the people on the road saw it, they hurriedly made way for this group of brave warriors to walk by, and looked at them with gratitude and envy in their eyes.
When they saw Old John, the majestic warriors stopped and greeted Old John, the administrator.
Old John nodded solemnly.
The majestic warriors continued to march towards their goal.
"This is the corpse of a lizardman?" Hughes asked Old John as he pointed to the lizardmen in the ranks.
"Of course!" Old John proudly, "They are our prey!" ”
"Prey?" Hughes opened his mouth wide in disbelief, he looked at the lizardmen's corpses, and then at the mighty warriors, trying to say something, but finally closed his mouth.
"Let's go." Old John said at this time.
"Oh." Hughes was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Where to go?" ”
He paused for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Master John, can I ask you how you spent this winter?" Isn't it leaning on this wall? ”
Theseus had always thought that Nisei's survival from the plague of lizardmen was to defend the city walls.
"Of course not! We took the initiative! Old John's eyes flashed with dissatisfaction, and he looked looked down.
"Take the initiative?" Hughes was frightened and took the initiative?
How can the town of Nisse do this?
Even the city of Patras does not have the courage and strength.
Even knights are drowning in the lizardmen that roam the mountains!
"Isn't it?" Old John pouted.
Although he didn't think so on his face, he was proud in his heart.
"The scale armor you see on the warriors was stripped from the lizardmen! We have hundreds of warriors, all of them, each with a lizard scale armor! ”
"Hundreds of fighters? One per person? How do you do that? Hughes was frightened, and at this time his words were full of humility, and even the slightest casualness of the previous one was gone.
"With our wise and powerful Lord William, there is nothing that cannot be done!" Although old John was proud, he still had reason and did not tell Hughes the specific inside story.
Anyway, relying on Lenovo, it was enough to shock Xius.
"Of course! Of course! The strength of the Baron, I have never doubted! ”
"Don't even think about it! There is nothing that Baron William cannot do! Old John scolded.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Merchant Hughes only dared to nod his head repeatedly.
Theseus used to rely on the city of Patras, but now, just the tip of the iceberg revealed by the town of Nisse has stopped him.
Where did he dare to show his arrogance in front of old John.
At the end of the day, this is a world of strength.
The town of Nesse showed its prowess in the winter, and it was only natural that the clever little merchant Theseus would offer his humility.
Looking at Xius's sincere and frightened appearance, Old John only felt that the original breath was swept away, and his heart was extremely comfortable.
With a haughty smile, John Sr. led Hughes towards the planned business district of Nisse.
Passing by a place, Theseus suddenly heard the neat voices of a group of people in a certain room.
He was curious, and couldn't help but ask Old John, "Master John, what is this?" ”
"Oh!" Old John looked at it and said casually, "This is the school that Lord William specially ordered to build. ”
The villagers are not without nothing to do during the long winter!
After solving the Lizardmen's crisis, William uses the Magic Mirror to find a tree in the forest that will have black sap in it.
The locals call it Kuroki.
This was a great favor for William.
At a time when papermaking could not be invented, slaves collected black sap, and Charles made several large flat planks.
The planks are colored and blackened with black juice, which becomes the planks.
Lime paste is made into simple chalk.
Old Gretel is a meritorious person, and he is a rare educated person in the whole village, although the level of education is very low in William's opinion, but it is barely enough.
He became the first preacher in the town of Nisse.
His mission, in addition to preaching William's orders to the villagers and slaves, was to teach the students the basics as a teacher in the academy.
Very basic, very basic knowledge.
Free folk children under the age of twelve had to go to school and learn basic numbers and hundreds of common words.
This was William's compulsive order.
In addition, all members of the Order, as well as some outstanding elements, must also take a "cultural lesson"!
Those who fail to pass the final assessment will explain the reasons directly to William.
William attaches so much importance to it, those people naturally don't dare to grind foreign workers!
After a long winter torture, William finally has an extra group of kindergarten-level "cultural personnel" in his previous life!
Some of the work that William had envisioned was easier to carry out.
For example, in the implementation of the point system at work, there are finally some "cultural elements" who know how to record these things.
In the beginning, he was like a point system to promote the enthusiasm of the wild slaves.
But the facts hit him mercilessly.
William could only let all the wild slaves eat in a big pot.
Although every wild slave is very hard-working, in the long run, there will definitely be wild slaves who are lazy.
This is human nature, and it is not something that William can completely solve with gratitude.
Fortunately, the implementation of the points system has temporarily alleviated this problem.
William set the amount of work per day, which was the amount of work that had to be done as a slave, and the amount of work that was exceeded, he would be paid accordingly, and the reward belonged to the slave himself.
If they had saved enough money in the end, the wildling slaves could even redeem themselves to William.
Under this policy, the wild slaves suddenly exploded into twice as efficient as before.
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"Academy?" Hughes wondered, he understood what the academy meant, but he understood why a town needed it.
Even if it is a big nobleman, there may not be a so-called school in his territory, and the inheritance of knowledge is passed on in a small circle.
Because knowledge is precious.
Old John didn't understand this either, but William did too many things that puzzled him, and he was no longer surprised, and he was left to execute it numbly!
Old John had no interest in explaining Hughes's question.
He continued silently with Theseus to the planned business district of the town of Nisse.
The commercial area was empty, originally a forest.
The trees were cut down and encased in a wall into the town.
Now there are a few large houses standing alone on it.
There are a few people coming in and out of front of each house.
In the house closest to them, there was heat rising from inside.
As soon as the men went in, they didn't come out.
Hughes couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, pointed to the house, and asked Old John, "Master John, is this a hotel?" ”
"The town has plans to build a hotel! But it hasn't been built yet! This house is a bathhouse! Old John replied.
"Bathhouse?"
"Yes! A bath only costs one Poole copper coin, and there is a special box, which is a little more expensive, costing three Poole copper coins. In addition, it can also be paid monthly, only one franc silver coin a month for a normal bath, and two franc silver coins for a private room. The box is limited, there is no certain identity, and it is not booked! ”
When the bathhouse was first built, Old John was opposed to it, believing that no villagers would consume it.
It is normal for the villagers not to take a bath for ten days and half a month, especially in such a cold weather now.
But now, after a busy day, John Sr. wants to do the most is to meet a few colleagues and enjoy the warmth of the hot water and relax in the private room of the bathhouse.