Chapter 185: Let's go hunt barbarians together
The knights remained silent about why Her Royal Highness Vivian Cotte, the princess of the dignified kingdom, came to Lorraine as an interior minister after she was unable to fulfill her marriage contract.
Everyone understands the truth.
After seeing the princess coming and going, there was still an old butler Long De who was no less than a formal knight with a force worthy of no less than a formal knight, and there were never less than six royal guards around him, and everyone knew that this matter had already been approved by the king.
Eat the belly one, and the other is scheduled to be delivered after three years. Martin alone settled two genuine princesses, and for the toughness of his own lord, Old Kuden is also a 'suit' word.
The knights never doubted the princess's internal affairs ability, anyway, for them, the internal affairs scum who had as high as 1 point, the high-ranking students of the Wang Family's Internal Affairs Academy were god-like existences.
However, the internal affairs officers promoted from the people below soon discovered the differences between the three internal affairs geniuses.
Martin is the quintessential whimsical, and his 'creativity' and big-picture vision are unparalleled.
Jaime is good at logistics, diplomacy and commerce, he knows what Lorraine Castle is lacking, whether it is talent, food, or raw materials, he has a way to get it. A series of business rules he set out have never been exploited.
Vivien pays more attention to people's livelihood. For example, after knowing that workers are returning to their homes after a busy day in the industrial area, many people choose to get some well water to wipe it because they can't afford to go to the bathhouse, or even fall asleep in bed like this.
The princess's first decree was to build aqueducts to all corners of the city, ensuring that there was a clean drinking water source within 100 meters of any place.
At the same time, a free pool will be set up at the exit of the industrial zone for washing. Twelve free large bathhouses are set up in civilian areas, which are open 24 hours a day. The required expenses are paid by the commercial tax.
Martin raised an eyebrow, didn't squeak, and acquiesced.
First, he has a lot of money, and mastering this transnational trade route can be described as making money every day.
Second, people are clean, which does help reduce the epidemic.
Third, he also hated the open defecation in the city. Since the princess loves cleanliness so much, Martin simply orders the construction of public toilets and septic tanks to collect fertilizer. By the way, a decree was issued that the guy who defecated in the open found a warning, a second stern warning, and a whip for the third or later.
There's no way, the quality of people in this era is like this, don't expect any civilized queues, consciously wash your hands before meals or something.
If you are sick, you will survive, and if you can't survive, you will die.
Human life is very cheap.
However, the internal governance of the three of them gives others a sense of continuity.
Martin sets the frame, James sets the details, and Vivien fills in the gaps.
As winter approached, the construction of the bridge across the river almost came to a halt, but all kinds of production could not be sustained. Spurred on by almost twice the labor cost, the loggers continued to go up the mountain to cut the wood in the face of the bitter cold. Using the small river in the mountains, as well as the sleeper rails made by the previous attack on Ggent, the timber was brought down by river and horse-drawn carts.
Carpenters in the industrial area continue to work overtime to cut logs into standard sleepers.
So that after the bridge across the river is opened to traffic in the spring of the next year, the railroad carriage will be quickly paved.
The iron-making furnace in Lorrainburg is also running 24 hours a day, training raw iron. Martin is trying to figure out how to make steel, but the steel of this era is made of crucibles, and it is not bad to use it to make steel swords or something, but the small output makes Martin want to jump into the river.
Hearing that the dwarf Kalas Eight Peaks' Breeze Castle has the technology to make steel on a large scale, Martin doesn't have much hope.
Fortunately, the rails work, and they are not so durable.
With Martin as a traverser, sleepers and gravel for easy drainage will be placed under the rails, and the rails will be made into the "I" shape of the current train rails to prevent overturning and derailment. I don't know how many detours have been taken.
Railroad tracks are hoarded at any cost, as is cement.
Now, taking advantage of the time after the autumn harvest, in the southwest barracks of Fort Lorraine, the commanders of various regiments are also training their subordinates fiercely.
The expansion of the army has made the old establishment a bit outdated.
Martin promised his theoretical father-in-law that he would train a new order of knights for the kingdom.
Even under the banner of training for the king, in order not to let Martin not contribute to his work, his father-in-law was very considerate and asked Martin to choose the head of the regiment by himself.
The shameless Martin actually didn't plan to return the knights at all, so he directly let the old minister Kuden be the head of the regiment. The deputy head was Charlie, the original Ranger Knight, and by the way, he took over the previous name of this knight order [Mermaid Knights].
This is the best reward for the elderly. After receiving this appointment, not to mention old Kuden, even Charlie cried for a long time. They have followed the old duke to this ghost place for three years, and they have endured countless failures, and now they can be regarded as surviving.
Since it is a newly built Knights, Martin did not give them much hope, and when they go to the wasteland, let them see the blood and train their morale, and they will become a qualified garrison knights in the future.
Regarding Sylvie, Martin gave the female knight two choices: one was to continue to stay with him as a personal bodyguard, and the other was to learn what it was to lead soldiers first.
If Sylvie wants to lead the army alone in the future, then you can't just jump from a little female guard to the position of the head of the Knights, right?
Sylvie thought about it again and again, and saw that even Princess Vivien was an internal affairs officer, so she decisively chose to lead the troops. Martin gave her the task of training a garrison, and with 2,000 garrisons, she would defend Fort Lorraine during Martin's expedition to the wasteland.
A fairly suitable appointment.
It was Martin who was really regarded as the main force by his own [Knights of St. Martin]. As a knight that has been baptized by war, can withstand defense and can attack and kill, Martin has high hopes for it.
To say that it is a knight order is actually a lie. There are already more than 3,200 actual combatants, which is supernumerary in the standard sense.
Martin didn't mind using this to confuse his enemies.
14 infantry squadrons of more than 1,600 infantry were commanded by Tieno, and the Wood Elf Assis was in charge of 800 archers and crossbowmen. But who will be the knight commander, Martin has never known.
There are a lot of self-recommended guys under him, but none of them can enter Martin's eyes.
It wasn't until December that the Knights of the Flame Sun arrived......
"Bennett Fawkes, Grand Master of the Knights of the Northland, salutes you, Lord Martin Lorraine, the great giant killer, orc nemesis, and enemy of Chaos!" instead of calling Martin a knighthood, he pointed out his great achievements in the battle against Chaos, and this is how the very personal Knight Master Bennett expressed his position.
Martin looked at this square-faced, flat-haired knight with a typical military style, who should be in his thirties but had gray hair, and his heart suddenly felt good.
Martin smiled: "Let's go hunt the barbarians together." ”