The medieval manor was economically entirely a self-sufficient independent economy.

The main work of the estate was agriculture, but there were also handicrafts, carpenters, blacksmiths, the estate brewed its own beer, its own mill and baker, in short, the estate produced most of the products needed for daily life

Both free peasants and serfs lived on estates, most of which were villages. The owners of villages and manors were lords, and the lords themselves lived in the castles of the manors and controlled several villages under their rule.

Some would-be nobles who could not become knights were happy to be loyal to the manor form of a manor to manage their own camps.

Politically, they are biased towards neutrality, and whoever is the king of the Seven Kingdoms, these would-be aristocratic manor owners will swear allegiance to whom, and it is also their duty to pay taxes and provide knights to pay to the local nobles.

Lynn hadn't really learned about the manor in Game of Thrones, and she couldn't help but be slightly surprised to hear that the wheat fields in the northwest suburbs of Twin Cities were the property of Charlton Manor.

It's already very close to Twin Rivers City, isn't the manor a closed village?How did the land expand outside the city of the main family?

Following the farmer's instructions, Lynn and his party embarked on a dirt road leading to a forest of gravel and dirt.

Starting from the northwest of Twin River City, continuing north is a vast mountain forest, the mountain range starts from Yanmao Bay, a northern bay in the north of Twin River City, to the northern suburbs of West City of Twin River City in the south.

Charlton Manor is located on the northern outskirts of Riverland on the border with the forest.

In the midst of the lush forest, the gates of the manor are closed.

Lynn rode a tall horse, and behind him was Duncan and his party, nearly a hundred Gripen Knights Guards.

A cavalryman rode from the queue to the gate of the manor.

He shouted to the gate, "Open the door!" ”

The manor is like a pass, built on a sloping mountain road, hiding the whole manor under the protection of the forest, the walls on both sides of the gate are made of rare bluestone bricks, and the gate of the manor is a heavy teak gate, which looks quite magnificent.

Two heads dressed in guard chain mail poked out of the city walls,

A man with short brown hair looked at the cavalry outside the city and cautiously shouted, "Who is your lord?"

"Lord Lynn of the Gripen family in Twin River City. The cavalry replied.

There was soon a rustling sound on the city wall, and Lynn waited patiently for a moment, and when she saw that no one was poking her head out on the city wall, she couldn't help frowning slightly.

Although he does not claim to rule over Twin River City, but he actually controls Twin River City at present, this manor lord as a vassal of Twin River City, maybe a knight, maybe just a quasi-nobleman, even a nobleman, his subordinates dare to snub a current superior lord like this.

That's kind of interesting.

Lynn glanced at Duncan, who turned his head forward, and Duncan nodded slightly, rolled over and dismounted.

Soon, he climbed a nearby hill, which was slightly higher than the walls of the manor.

When he looked beyond the walls and into the manor, he saw that the people of the manor were in disarray, and some of the inhabitants began to be driven from the house, taking out wooden poles, spears, and sickles, and in the open space of the manor, men with clubs, bows and arrows were constantly gathered.

The women drove the mules and sheep from the manor into the houses and barns.

Duncan gave Lynn a blank look at the matter.

Lynn chuckled.

A soldier guarding the gate would not have been able to order such a mobilization, and it seemed that the manor had reacted so quickly that he had been prepared.

Sure enough, it didn't take long.

The copper bell of "Bell ......" rang non-stop in the city, and there were not a few heads visible on the city wall in front of them, but at this time, a group of manor men with bows and arrows appeared.

Lynn sat on the horse without panicking, and with the broken and crude bows and arrows in the hands of those guys, it was estimated that not even a rabbit could be killed two hundred paces away.

The two sides confronted each other for a moment, and a burly man in black iron armor shouted from the city wall to the outside, "Lord Charlton has said that there are no guests in the manor. ”

Being so hostile.

Lynn said impatiently, "Go! Tell them that I, Lynn de Rothschild, am waiting for him for a quarter of an hour, and that if the lord of the manor does not come out again to welcome me into the garden in person, I will bear the consequences." ”

His cavalry carried Lynn's words to the walls, only to be greeted by an arrow fired from a crossbow arrow.

The arrows are quick and fast, and they seem to be the work of a professional archer.

From the moment the bowstring was pulled, the shouting cavalry quickly cursed and retreated.

Unfortunately, there was some delay in adjusting the horse's head, and the cavalryman was hit by an arrow in the back of the waist, and the whole person fell down from the horse, and fell to the ground with a loud cry, splashing a large cloud of dust.

Immediately afterwards, several more arrows were fired close to where he had just been, and if it weren't for the fact that the archers on the city walls were not very skilled, the wounded cavalryman might have been shot into a hedgehog on the spot.

Lynn's face turned red when he saw this.

He looked at the indignant Han Niu beside him suspiciously, and asked strangely: "My reputation in the river land is too bad or my temper is too good, or are these little lords crazy, I didn't trouble them, and I am not happy in my heart?"

Han Niu habitually wiped his head and fell into deep thought.

The thin monkey on the side looked like he was prophesying and stopping.

Lynn glared at him, "You're here to say." ”

Sterling, the thin monkey, said: "Maybe it's because there have been rumors of the adult's lustful reputation in the riverland recently, and I heard that the lord has been looting commoner women to serve as maids in the mansion of the Twin Rivers City recently, and some messengers of the nobles of the Riverland have been driven out of the city as long as they don't give gifts or women." ”

Lynn was furious in her heart, kicked Sterling off her horse with a kick, as if she thought of something and rolled aside, the thin monkey covered in mud shouted back and asked: "You are still a virgin now, greedy for money and lustful There are also rumors, who is so shameless and skinless to ruin my reputation?"

The thin monkey patted the mud and raised his head and said, "They are all close to the Lannister family after all, and there are also the most sincere vassal families of the Frey family before. ”

Oh?

"So the lord of Charlton Manor is one of them?"

The thin monkey said categorically: "It doesn't matter if this lord is a rumor-monger or not, but if he listens to the rumors, he is trapping the adult in injustice, isn't it!"

Lynn nodded approvingly, looking at the fortified fortress-like wall.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Then you can't spare them today,"

Sterling craned his neck and raised his head with difficulty, "However, my lord, the wall seems to have been built well, and we are all cavalry." ”