"The food is not enough, originally planned to eat the baron, the eighteen guards plus the cook and the tailor, and my old bones, for a month, but yesterday we filled nine mouths, feasted more than twenty people, and consumed three days' supply, and those fishermen were all rice buckets...... Today there are still thirty people building the wall, and forty-two ...... who eat white food are locked up in the prison."

As the dawn broke in the east and the sun rose, Mr. Baird Swift, the old bachelor, sat at the dining table, flipping through the thin account books, chattering with some distress. I received the reward at night, slept comfortably, ate very well, and lost my good mood and appetite at this time.

"There is still money, go buy some salted fish to support it first...... "In this era, productivity is seriously insufficient, and food is in short supply everywhere, not to mention Yinshaling, a poor place that does not produce food, has nowhere to buy food when the grain is eaten up.

"Buy ......," the old bachelor's cloudy gaze roamed the frame, "One knight can level the Salted Fish Gang, and the lord now has four knights." ”

Oh, Alwyn figured it out, the old bachelor was not complaining, but was in a hurry to extract taxes, and with the momentum of suppressing the Salted Fish Gang, he set up a bureaucratic system in one fell swoop and carried out the rule of the lords.

Killing chickens and making an example of monkeys, generally lords do this, and the routine is like this.

But his people were so hungry that they couldn't even get enough to eat, and they didn't have much oil or water to collect taxes.

The bureaucracy must be established, but it is too early, and when the people are not fed, the extraction of taxes is no different from that of robbers, but the lords live on this.

To be honest, the lord is the legitimate robber who watches the leek field, and the robber is the lord who cuts a handful of leeks and leaves.

With resources in hand, Alvin intended to solve the problem with trade from the beginning, the core problem was to transport the iron ore out, and everything else was secondary, but this matter was deeply rooted in the idea of maintaining the lord's rule, and the unshakable old bachelor could not be clear.

"First confiscate the houses of the Salted Fish Gang and appoint a mayor. The old bachelor said.

Alvin nodded, "Please, teacher, bother." "I really can't have the idea of ridiculing a serious old bachelor, so I will do what he said for now, first put a batch of empty titles out, no money, no work, no harm.

The two talked and ate, and the people under the castle were full of voices.

"Silver Sand...... Lord, let's repair the city wall, it's a big castle, it's a big wall, I don't know when it will be finished. Marlowe's voice rang out in the courtyard.

People are stupid lords, and this is actually what bearded people mean.

Standing on one side, Alyssa, who was serving Alwin and the old bachelor at dinner, chuckled, her arms moving, and the chains on her wrists clanged

The old bachelor didn't know why, he glanced at the girl, and then at Alwin, but he didn't find anything unusual about the young lord, and he didn't understand where the joke of this sentence was, which caused the little maid to laugh.

Alwyn didn't need to pay attention to him, Captain Kent would call them, but Alwyn needed Marlowe's help with other things.

He took a few bites of food, rinsed his mouth, and rushed out of the castle.

Although the castle is small, it has all kinds of organs, the city walls are tall and wide, the arrow tower is towering, the moat is 20 feet wide, and the suspension bridge and gate are not lacking.

The inside and outside of the walls became construction sites, with stones being carried from the foot of the hill and the nearby beach, stonemasons piling them up, groups of four carrying heavy stones shouting trumpets and drumbeats, stonemasons falling hammers, chisels bursting with sparks, and masons binders a mixture of lime, sand and yellow clay......

Alvin came out, and the six guards inside the wall were mainly looking at the group of salted fish, and they leaned over and were driven away by him with a wave of his hand.

"Your Excellency. ”

"Your Lord!"

"Lord Baron"

It was only after noon that Alvin walked out of the castle, and the busy people passed by from time to time, and even if they carried heavy stones, they did not forget to say hello.

Marlowe is as strong as an ox, and it is as effortless to hold a hundred pounds of heavy stones as it is to hold a baby.

"There are so many young people in the town, a lot more than yesterday. Alvin asked.

"There are also sheltered towns, five coppers a day, you don't have to go to sea, and it's not easy to find food like this. Marlow put the boulder into the basket, and the two pulled it up the wall.

"Haven Town! Alwyn frowned, "It's close, you all know each other?"

Marlowe was bending down to carry stones, and raised his head when he heard the words: "Distance, twenty lanli, two lanshi road, my lord, you didn't send anyone to other towns?" Meet us on the road early in the morning, they say that they are from Shelter Town, more than a dozen people." The strong man said, frowning

Well...... What's wrong?

Under the sun, human voices, the sound of axes and chisels, people coming and going......

Alvin felt like an antelope exposed to the claws of a lion.

The mason under the wall of "My Lord" slid down and bent down, but his hand shook, and a cold light flashed in his sleeve.

"Get out of the way!" Marlowe's iron pillar-like arm waved, and Alwin, like a scarecrow, flew out lightly, and with a snort, his clothes tore, and a cool feeling crossed his arm, and blood splashed at the same time.

"There are assassins!" shouted someone at the top of the wall.

"Your Excellency is injured!"

"Protect your lordship!"

Alvin got up, his body spinning, and he couldn't tell the difference between the east and the west.

Marlowe fought with the man with his bare hands, leaving dagger marks on his arms and palms, gurgling blood, the assassination failed, the man was fleeing over the wall, and in the castle, the guards on the other half of the wall rushed to him, his sword unsheathed, reflecting the sunlight like a mirror.

"Protect your lordship!"

"Get out of the way, all stand back!" shouted the guards.

"Protect your lordship!"

"Don't let him run!"

More than 50 people were in a panic inside and outside the high wall, and the masons, stone porters, mud shovels, hammers and chisels at the head of the city gathered together to repair the wall.

There was chaos, the people outside the wall couldn't figure out the situation, the people inside the wall panicked, the people on the wall saw clearly and shouted loudly.

With a bang, the bowstring shook, and someone was hit by an arrow.

"It's him!where is he!he's got a crossbow!" shouted at a loud voice, drawing closer to Alwin.

The crossbow was small, only half an arm's length, and when it lost its chance, it began to run low, with Jarrett in front of him, and both of them wielding shovels at the same time. "Ahh

"Ahh

Ding——

Ahh

The big sword slashed vertically, the sound of metal clashes and screams, suddenly unfolded from a height, ordinary people fought against first-order knights, not a general, the black figure flew sideways, crashed into the boulder, the body convulsed, blood splashed, one arm left the body, and threw it into the distance.

"Ah, protect your lordship. ”

A man shouted, turned his back to Alwin, bent down with the mud shovel in his hand facing outward, in a protective gesture, turned abruptly, and drew a shiny dagger.

"Lie down for me!" Alvin struck first, slashing at the man's neck with a knife that rolled his eyes and fainted.