Chapter 14: Hold the Ball
Martin smiled. The Rick River is mostly gravel, and of course there is a lot of dirt, and if you build a house, the foundation is solid, but it can't survive the water.
"Normally, of course, what if the bottom of the pool is coated with palm-thick plaster?" Martin poked at the wooden wall at the gap with a thumbs up, "how the craftsmen did it in this wooden fort before, they did it in the pool." Or do you want to tell me that there isn't a single carpenter or plasterer in the whole of Lorraine?"
Martin came up with a solution, which sounded quite feasible, and Kouden's attitude softened a lot: "Lorraine has the most craftsmen, and there are still more than a hundred. They may not be good at fighting, but there is nothing to say about their craft. ”
Martin kind of understands that King Mao is unwilling to invest more, but his dead ghost father has made a good fortune in the country before he came to open up, knights, craftsmen, and all kinds of talents......
"That's good, then my vision should be done. Martin picked up the quill pen and a piece of brown paper on the table, drew a large wheel on it, and marked it with various knick-knacks.
"It's ......," the knights bewildered.
"It's called a waterwheel, and it can be powered by river water. To lift the water to a high place, we only need two large wheeled waterwheels to lift the water to a height of 40 meters. ”
Surprise was written on each knight's face, as if to say, 'There is still such a fetish, and there is such an operation'?
The knights were not illiterate, but their cultural education was limited to literacy. When it comes to marching and fighting, as long as the veteran soldiers who have experience in marching can still say something, when it comes to the issue of people's livelihood, their eyes will be blackened.
Knight Charlie obviously has a very high status in Lorraineburg, because when Coolen is not speaking, he is basically saying: "Young Lord, Lorraine Castle is inherited to you by the Duke of Lorraine, and you have the final say in Lorraineburg's affairs." We don't understand civil affairs, and if you think this is possible, then so be it, I have no opinion. ”
"I'm okay with that. ”
"I didn't ...... either"
The knights have taken a stand.
Martin confirmed that this group of muscular men didn't have any temper, and they tossed for three years, but they didn't get the hair out. Now is the time to applaud and celebrate. Anyway, Lorraine Fort was passed on to him by his Lao Tzu, and if the king didn't do it, no one could take it away. He can toss as much as he likes. It can't be worse than the status quo anyway.
"Since everyone has no opinion on moving the fort, let's get ready to do it. First of all, Uncle Charlie, I need you to take most of the knights and followers, divided into 3 shifts, one shift every 4 hours, patrol within five miles of Lorraine Castle in shifts, do not engage any orcs, just fire the arrow to alert us as soon as possible. ”
The sentence 'uncle' suddenly brought the relationship between each other a lot. You know, Charlie was brought out by Martin's father from the knight's apprentice. Wherever he went, he bore the mark of Lorraine.
This is Bakaria, a country that pays attention to the eight virtues of knights, and any knight who violates the eight virtues of knights will be punished. All knights are raised with an education in chivalry. Compared with the nobles who have been inherited for many generations and are already a little decadent, the knights who are not really nobles are not the most simple and simple people.
Charlie is only in his thirties, and he is at the peak of a man, with mature skills honed on the battlefield, as well as good physical strength and energy, and a more stable personality, so when Coolen is not there, it is handed over to Charlie to defend the city.
Seeing the young master's respectful attitude towards himself, Charlie was just stunned for a moment, and then showed a sincere smile: "Young master, in fact, you are only 14 years old, and it is not too late to learn martial arts." If you have the heart to go further on the knight's track, I would be happy to be your sparring partner. ”
That's the statement.
"Thank you, Uncle Charlie, for letting us all get through this together. Martin smiled in return.
"Uncle Kuden, in the next few days, the defense will be handed over to you. All the soldiers also worked in three shifts, and I asked the knights not to disarm even if they slept. ”
"Uh, okay. "The taste of not being able to dissolve the armor for a few days is definitely uncomfortable, and when it comes to life and death, Kuden still agrees.
Now there is a strong enemy outside, and he has no food, and he can't even keep his nest to move his nest. Martin has this confidence, but he doesn't die.
In this way, a traverser began to lead a group of internal affairs idiots to issue one executive order after another.
The whole of Lorrainburg was boiling.
The meetings of the aristocratic lords were notoriously inefficient, and they could often argue over trivial matters for ten days and a half months, who would have thought that Martin would make the charter before noon as promised.
The first is to send out ranger patrols.
Stonemasons were sent to dig a pit on this hill about 500 meters from Lorraine Castle, and at the same time reconcile the plaster, because the lives of the 1,200 people in the fort were at stake, and Martin ordered to work day and night.
The second is to have oxen drag the wooden fence and the gate of the wall. Since this fence defense line is completely holed, no matter how it is patched, it will be dead, so simply pull it over in advance.
The third is to rush to build reservoirs and granaries. Lorraine is close to the junction of the river and the sea, and even in the drier autumn, there is plenty of rain, and an autumn rain can make food moldy quickly.
As for how the people, the knights, and the nobles moved, it was a matter for each family.
From noon, everyone in Lorrainburg saw that the aristocratic young master Martin, who had just arrived and had not had time to take a nap, stood on the platform of Lorrainburg Square, directing all the relocations.
Each of the lords could hear the slightly immature but commanding voice of their young lord.
"Don't throw away the rotten wooden fences, take them out and stick them in the roadside between the old Lorraine and the new castle to make antlers...... What, I don't know what antlers are? You just stick the blunt side of the wood in the right place, and the sharp end diagonally against the side of the mountain. ”
"Don't mess around, those who go to the new territory, go on the right, go back on the left!
"The wooden fence was built first. And then there's the bow tower! And then there's the second wooden fence!"
"The people first brought their most valuable things, and then each family sent one person to watch over their own goods. The second batch came back with food, and the last was the sundries. ”
No one knew why they were doing this, they only knew that if they did what the young lord said, it was obviously much better in order.
Surprisingly, the order is good, and the sense of panic in people's hearts has disappeared a lot.