Time flowed like flowing water, flowing out of the ceramic jar in the hands of the saint, washing over the white stone walls of the Ashburgh. For many, autumn in Ashfurnace is the same as usual, and autumn comes to an end when the apples are ripe and begin to fall.

After the opening of the Bohemian Chamber of Commerce, Leah had an important mission, buying all kinds of strategic materials, and the shipload of wheat and iron ingots to the Ashoven Castle has never stopped.

The Fourth Crusade had begun, and the food and weapons of Hippo were already forbidden to trade. However, Leah Baggins is the second lady of the Baggins family, a big businessman in the south, and of course she is not worried about not being able to buy material things with gold coins, not to mention that Miss Baggins has the fountain of life that St. Thomas likes to drink, which is a good thing of a monopoly nature, and there is only one of them, and there is no branch.

The second lady never left the Ashhearth Castle again, she was usually next door to the Ashhearth Town Hall, the headquarters of the Bohemian Chamber of Commerce to entertain her guests, looking out of the window of the living room, the bamboo in the lord's bamboo garden was verdant, and everywhere else was a bleak scene, and it was still thriving.

According to Merlin, if you have bread in your hands, you won't panic in your heart, and you won't be afraid of the cold winter. Many of the empty rooms in Ashburgh were converted into warehouses after wooden doors were installed. One warehouse after another was filled with grain, and although the population of Ashburgh was constantly increasing, it never exceeded 5,000 people. In the space of about a month, the Ashhearth kept almost five thousand people stockpiling two years' worth of food.

Leah's main bohemian dress is no longer selling, and the weather is gradually getting cooler, and the little girls have changed out of light long skirts and replaced them with thick skirts.

In a month's time, Merlin had gathered almost ten inheritance knights in a team of five, and the team of fifty bronze knights was certainly not comparable to Hippo City, but it was comparable to places like Damu Town and Xia Suo Town near Ashfurnace Castle.

A Bronze Knight of Inheritance can almost withstand a Wandering Knight of the Black Iron Rank, and the largest town near Hippo City only has ten Wandering Knights.

The fifty gray-robed veneers were divided into five squads by Merlin, leaving one stationed outside the Ashhearth Castle all year round, two in the Ashhearth Castle, and the remaining two wandering around the Ashhearth Castle.

The growth of strength has also boosted the confidence of the people of Ashfurnace. Wendy built a new two-story Fisherman's Bar next to the Champ de Mars, which had the advantage of not being affected by Merlin's curfew. The bar can be open all night. The Bohemian Chamber of Commerce's grocery store also opened outside the city, next to the Fisherman's Bar, and the second lady of the Baggins family built a new two-story building, white rock, and large warehouse.

Blacksmith shops, markets, and a small commercial center model formed around the Champ de Mars. Merlin built the Suzaku and Xuanwu squares next door to the commercial center, which were protected by a three-meter-high wall, and the entrances and exits were guarded by the Ashfurnace Castle. In principle, the population of the Ashhearth Fort will not increase, and the population of the Ashburgh Fort will be placed by Sula in the Suzaku and Xuanwu workshops.

There is no curfew in Suzaku and Xuanwu, and the residents of Ashfurnace Fort can enter and exit day and night.

Yuri's clergy chose a plot of land on the other side of the Champ de Mars, and after paying 40,000 gold coins, he proposed to Merlin the idea of renting a gray golem.

Merlin shook his head and led Yuri to a room next to the lord's bedroom. Pointing to the ash furnace puppet in the room who was asleep, he said, "It's not that I won't help you, it's true that I don't know what's going on with these two guys, since last week, they have begun to become like this, refusing to absorb magic crystals, and there is no fluctuation of spiritual power." Burying it spread out his hands and shrugged his shoulders and said.

"What then, Lord Saruman is anxious to start building the temple. If I don't have a gray golem, I'll build a fart!" Yuri has changed since accepting Saruman's mission, and he has become louder. With the cardinal archbishop of the church as his backer, he has the capital to speak loudly, but he knows very well why Saruman did it.

The reason why Saruman wanted to build a temple in the Valley of the Ashburgh was to win Merlin with the Church of Arius, gain Merlin's support, and gain an advantage in the election of the cardinal archbishop of the holy city of Rome.

"I can't solve this problem, why don't you ask Saruman and see if he can do it!" Merlin rolled his eyes and gave Yuri such an idea.

Merlin has already completed the first volume of the Book of Doomsday, and the second volume of the next volume Merlin is not going to copy it at the same pace as before. Merlin spent half a day in the morning at the Abbey of the Light of Truth. Thomas's original intention was that the Abbey of the Light of Truth was the study that Merlin used to copy the canons of the Church, and no one but Merlin could write the equivalent of the Father's scroll.

Merlin's appearance was seen by Thomas as the hope of the Arius church, gaining the support of the believers and getting rid of the pagan identity, so even if Merlin had nothing to do in the convent, Sister Rand could not do anything about him.

Merlin's idea was simple, if there was no way to counter the Arius Academy's influence in the Ashfurnace, then bring in another powerful force as an ally to fight it. Yuri's church behind him is Merlin's chosen friend.

After Yuri returned, the next day, Saruman went to Ashhburg and asked a cardinal archbishop to make a trip himself, which Merlin had never expected, much to his surprise.

"Lord Saruman, I'm so surprised that you actually made a trip yourself. "Compared to Thomas, the cardinal archbishop is more like a high-ranking member of the church, full of wise eyes, gentle and serene temperament.

"No, Merlin, don't be surprised, no one has ever spoken like you about the use of grey golems on the stone construction of castles, and the knights of the past used them to fight, and I'm curious to see what has happened to your two sleeping ash furnace golems. Saruman stepped into the two gray puppets.

"Isn't there anything I can't do, knowing that if it were just for these two guys to provide stone, the evil spellcaster would have turned the Ashfurnace Village into a paradise for the undead. My men can't stop the axes of the fallen minotaurs. ”

"Yes, you've done a great job, you've opened a new door, and these two big guys were given to you by Thomas. ”

Merlin nodded, lost in thought as the cardinal touched his two gray golems with his hands.