Chapter 621: Celebration
Of course, it will definitely take a lot of time to send people to connect the nobles with each other, decide to cut off food and organize an army to resist.
During this time, the nobles' subordinates were idle, and it was better to continue to cultivate the fields in the mountains, anyway, Luo Ming promised to pay the wages, and the nobles could get a cut from it.
The nobles can get a lot of profits from it, and their lords are also full of gratitude to Luo Ming, and this is also the fulfillment of Luo Ming's wish, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.
Due to the large number of people involved in the reclamation work, every day, 800 to 1,400 acres of wasteland are reclaimed, and by now a total of 5,800 acres has been reclaimed.
If you wait a few more days, maybe you will be able to get another 10,000 acres together, plus the ones that Luo Ming cultivated by himself before...... The original Karlo Barren Mountain is about to become a "Carlo granary"!
In this way, not only does it not have to transport grain from the outside territory to feed the people of the Carlo Mountains, but it can even be conversely allowed to make the food in the Carlo Mountains self-sufficient, and even produce a surplus, which can be exported in small quantities!
While expressing joy at this bright prospect, Luo Ming did not forget other work.
From the afternoon of the same day, until the morning after tomorrow, he finally finished preparing and held a celebration.
The enemy has not yet been eliminated, at least more than 2,000 enemy troops are blocking the door, and the form of the battle situation in the entire Duchy of Lothar is not yet clear.
But the name of this celebration is "Celebrating the Victory of the Battle of Mount Carlo", which makes people can't fault anything - the large army of the Beran people has already known that nothing can be done and left, and now the little remaining troops have no ability to attack the city at all, and the defense of Mount Carlo will naturally end here, and the next thing to fight is the self-defense counterattack and even the attack of the Eight Classics.
Of course, Luo Ming deliberately prepared for an extra day, also to delay the time—in this way, another thousand acres of land were reclaimed.
And the aristocrats did not have any aversion to such a celebration, and many were even happy about it.
In any case, aristocrats are aristocrats, and it is undeniable that many of them are either martial, pragmatic, or frugal...... But most of them are hedonists who like pomp and circumstance, and like to attend all kinds of banquets and balls.
There is even an exaggeration to say that some nobles hardly ever stop in their own domains, and they travel around the regions as if they were rushing to attend one ball after another, and only return home when a ball has been prepared in their own domain.
The only thing that restricts such people is the economy. Their territory was limited in their production and could not sustain them with daily balls and banquets—but some nobles were in debt and had to sell some of their estate.
Of course, this is an extreme situation, and these nobles under Luo Ming's command don't seem to have reached this level.
However, during this time, the nobles have remained in a state of combat readiness, and although it seems that the victory is in hand, some pressure has accumulated and can be fully released now.
And the invitation letter sent to them by Luo Ming also made a special statement - let them not scruple and bring all the female relatives in the family out as much as possible to participate in the celebration together.
Luo Ming's bare pole aristocracy is actually a special case, and there are many female dependents in the families of nobles who have been passed down for many generations, and there are quite a few daughters, nieces, cousins, etc., which have important value in marriage and communication.
The nobles looked at the letter and thought about it for a while.
Of course, there were also sober aristocrats.
Sir Deno looked at one of his nieces and a daughter, who were rather elated, and coughed, interrupting their thoughts.
"Don't overthink it, Your Excellency the Viscount is now surrounded by flowers, including a venerable Great Swordsman. I've been following Your Excellency for a few days, and I know that he's not a romantic man...... I guess that this time I let you go just to strengthen the contacts and contacts of our nobles under the command of His Excellency the Viscount. ”
The second daughter was a little disappointed, but they also knew that they couldn't afford to climb up to a big man like Viscount Meiquan, and now they just cut off their excessive extravagant hopes, and it didn't take long for them to smile again.
In any case, this is also a good opportunity, so many nobles have to drag their families to attend the celebration, they naturally have a better chance to choose a like-minded and well-matched Ruyi Langjun, no matter how bad it is, at least have a wonderful night......
The unconscious nobles dreamed that their female sparrows could fly up the sycamore and turn into phoenixes, while the awake nobles realized that this was probably Luo Ming's way to further strengthen their alliance and began to prepare, while Luo Ming was doing emergency special training for his subordinates......
Then, finally, it was time for the celebration to begin.
Luo Ming stood on the stage and preached loudly:
"As the host, I would like to say thank you all for your love and presence.
I'm just a young man, and it's a great honor to see hundreds of young ladies emerge here, and to be with so many ladies who are like flowers!"
"Hundreds of young heroes?" said Sir Denor, who was stunned for a moment.
Young Junjie does have, if Luo Ming lowers the standard and counts any young man from a noble family as a young Junjie, there are more than a hundred people, but it is definitely less than two hundred.
So, what does "hundreds" mean?
He looked around and saw that many unfamiliar faces had also appeared in the venue.
The venue of the celebration is divided into inside and outside, the outer circle is naturally to enjoy with the people, and the inner circle should be the social field of the nobles......
He looked at it again and saw that the new faces were not entirely unfamiliar.
There were two of them that he had seen before, and he could recognize them with some impressions, one was a cavalry officer under Luo Ming, and the other was the squadron leader of a spearman.
Of course, this kind of officer is a little more advanced than ordinary civilians, but their background is generally only a commoner, and they are the sons of squires, but I didn't expect them to come to this aristocratic circle?
Sir Deno looked more closely, and saw that they were all dressed in uniform clothes, not flamboyant, but also very decent, and reflected some heroic masculinity, and their manners, though not very elegant, were decent and generous, and must have received some training. He thought about it.
Needless to say, this must have been the result of Luo Ming's permission and even his initiative.
"Maybe His Excellency Luo Ming is going to seal a group of knights...... But that seems like a lot of people, doesn't it?" said Sir Denor.
After listening to him explain the reason, the two girls also looked around with curious eyes, but their scheming was not deep, and they did not think too much about deeper things.
And after the nobles gradually found out about it, they also had their own thoughts for a while.