"Nicole-sama, I can't conjure food!" faced with the menacing female knight of the family, Max, the clerk of Black Castle, argued.

Nicole's bright apricot eyes flashed with a dangerous cold light, and she said coldly to Max: "I have been to the storeroom, and it is full of grain. If you dare to say that it is not food, I will knock out your mouth full of teeth. ”

Nicole's hands were beautiful, ten-fingered, fair and smooth, but Max knew that these tender little hands that could pinch out water could easily bend a spear made of fine iron, and he also knew that Nicole was not joking. Max swallowed hard and said, "There are 12oo million pounds of grain stored in the storehouse, but we don't have any grain to give to Viscount Victor's people, not a single grain!"

"So you're deliberately embarrassing Victor?!Who gave you the guts?"

Nicole was really angry, Victor's rock brick technology is very important to the family, this is the consensus of the family's top management, but the rock brick is too sensitive, if it is not for the coincidence, she herself will never know the reason, and it is impossible for a middle level like Max to know the slightest bit of the inside story. Nicole didn't believe that Max dared to make things difficult for Victor's people, and he must have been instructed by some high-ranking to do so, which made Nicole very angry.

Max shook his head and said, "Lord Nicole, with all due respect, you are a noble and powerful knight, but you do not understand the internal affairs of the family. The family is already in the grip of food shortages. ”

"Of the 120,000 pounds of grain, 6oo million pounds of seeds must not be used, and we can use the remaining 6oo million pounds. But please note that the current population of Blackcastle is 120,000, and these people have a daily ration of 2o thousand pounds, and our food is only enough for 3o days. ”

"Yes, you heard it right, it's not 3oo days, it's not 1oo days, it's just 3o days. As a knight of the family, I am afraid you don't know that we, the squires in charge of internal affairs, have begun to eat the black bread that only the untouchables eat. This crude food is made from rye and flour ground from wheat bran, and to be honest, the first thing I ate was convinced that the Seymour Street murders were real. ”

The Seymour Street Murder Case, in which a perverted cook killed five poor street children, the aristocrats are not talking about the case itself, but about the murder weapon used by the cook. Now, half a brick-like piece of black bread is thrown on the table, more than anything else. Nicole's aggressive momentum is gone.

Nicole said sneeringly, "Has the family been so hard?"

"The hardships are still to come, our food harvest this year is gone, we have to feed 120,000 people, the caravan is no longer coming to Blackcastle, fortunately our neighbors are still supporting us, but they have also suffered disasters, we need to rely on the kingdom's assistance for the next three years, but please trust my judgment, the royal family will not let us have enough. Max said sincerely.

Nicole was silent for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "You're lying to me! The family has been providing food to Victor's people, can't they even squeeze out twenty days' rations?"

Seeing that the female knight was showing signs of rampage, Max hurriedly said: "That's different, we can provide food to those who stay in Blackcastle Town, but we will never provide dry food to those who try to leave." The reality is like this, those who are willing to stay, no matter how difficult it is, must give them a bite to eat, and those who are going to leave have something to eat, what does it matter to us?"

The Yorks needed enough labor to build forts, farm and graze, and the farmers who were left behind were not fools, and the hills of the people and horses had become pioneers, and whoever was willing to suffer here would find a way to get out of the town of Blackcastle, and only by keeping a firm grip on the grain could they stop this kind of behavior. This was originally the strategy of the York family: we were already in difficulty, only those who joined us had something to eat, and those who did not want to join should find their own way out. The church acquiesced to the Yorkist practices, and the lords of the western kingdom would not accept these refugees. However, Nicole didn't give up.

"Don't try to fool me! The family wants to collect refugees who have nowhere to go, and Viscount Victor's people are not those refugees who have no one to take in, you don't know the relationship between Victor and the family, right?"

Max said firmly, "That's not going to work! once this kind of thing spreads, there will be scoundrels who will incite fools to come to the church to trouble us, and they will not care about the relationship between Lord Victor and the family." I will never agree!"

As he spoke, Max said cautiously, "Nicole-sama, you can't forget your position and identity." If, Viscount Victor makes a request to the family, I will definitely arrange it for him, this is the favor of the nobles. But do you think that the aristocracy would use favors for such things? After all, the lords were just inferior. Moreover, there are skilled guards among them, and it is not difficult to find something to eat in the wilderness. Of course, I will arrange for Lady Lilia's carriage and food to be worthy of her status, which will be enough to preserve the dignity of Lord Victor. ”

Nicole was convinced, she was a knight after all, and she was born with an insurmountable chasm with inferior. If it weren't for Victor, Nicole wouldn't have bothered with this kind of thing at all.

"Give them back the horses and ox carts, which are Victor's property. Nicole said lightly.

"As you wish. ”

When Nicole's slender back disappeared outside the door, Max breathed a sigh of relief, if he had just refused Nicole's request, he would have been beaten all over the floor.

Outside Castle Black, Ni saw Lilia, and she said apologetically, "Lilia, I'm sorry. The family's food was really not enough, so I only asked for horses and ox carts for Victor. ”

"It's wonderful! Victor would be glad to bring these horses and oxen back, thank you, Sister Nicole. The food we will take care of ourselves. Lilia was overjoyed.

Nicole took Lilia's hand and stopped talking, and finally only admonished, "Be careful on the road." ”

"Well, I will. ”

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The whirring mountain breeze blew through Victor's side, giving him the illusion that he could fly at any moment.

Victor's whole body was covered with blue-black armor, and the surface of the armor glowed with a faint cold light, mysterious and cold, like a knight from the netherworld. Victor didn't expect that the double silver full-body armor made of Ant-Man's carapace would be so light, and the overall weight was less than 16 kilograms. Despite its lightness, the strength of this armor is surprisingly high. At the beginning, Gillian tried her best not to cut off Ant-Man's body, which is enough to show the strength of Ant-Man's carapace, not to mention that this set of armor is also fused with precious Thur silver, and now, it can withstand the fire of military heavy crossbows head-on. Victor believed that with this set of armor, ordinary knights would have taken advantage of him.

The attributes of this armor are far superior to the original double silver leather armor, and Victor regrets that the double silver leather armor has been eliminated before it can be warmed up. But in terms of appearance, the double silver leather armor obviously meets the aesthetics of most people, and the Ant-Man armor has a cold-blooded and ruthless taste, for example, Renault next to him is covered with this armor all over his body, holding a 2.5-meter fine iron long knife, just standing will cause a lot of pressure on ordinary people. Of course, the armor on his body was only Thur silver equipment.

Instead of paying attention to the new armor on his body, Victor is now happily patrolling his castle.

This 3o meter high hill castle covers an area of 25 acres, with 6 floors, 27 rooms, 4 basements, and 4 towers, a barracks in the inner courtyard of the castle, a blacksmith's shop, 8 acres of vegetable plots and a small garden.

The part of the wall near the ground is 2 meters thick, and the towers are 4 meters thick, and the thickness becomes smaller the higher you go. Each wall of the castle consists of three floors, and the inner and outer walls are carefully joined together with rock bricks and plastered, making them very strong. The space between the interior and exterior walls is filled with pebbles, crushed stone and mortar.

Four 38-meter-tall towers were built at the four corners of the castle to house heavy bed crossbows and small catapults, battle-grade weapons that could not deal with strong individuals, but could easily destroy enemy siege engines and dense rear formations.

The 3o meter-high wall was built on a narrow breastwall, which was composed of parts of different heights, and the high battlement wall had a slender opening that served as a shooting hole for the bow and arrow, and once Ant-Man attacked the city, two hundred spirit monkey militia could use the breastwork to give them a taste of longbow and crossbow.

"Is it really okay if there is no water source in the castle?" said Victor, who was deeply concerned about the fact that there was no spring on the hill, and that the consequences of a prolonged siege would be unimaginable.

Busso pointed to a large cistern on the roof and replied, "My lord, this place is backed by a swamp, and the humidity of the air is very high, and we have set up many fine iron pipes on the roof, and the dew collected every day will flow into the cistern under the roof. You don't have to worry about the castle's water. ”

The Victor Reservoir is three meters high and is covered with a shed to prevent the water in the tank from being contaminated with guano droppings. At the bottom of the pool, there are many iron pipes connected to it, and these iron pipes are directly led into the building below for human use. Victor couldn't help but get excited, isn't this just tap water?

"Busso, what else do you wouldn't do with what I've told you?" said Victor.

Busso thought for a moment and said, "My lord, I won't grow the crops here. ”

Victor was speechless. Alchemy humans loaded with planting skills will not grow crops. That's because the crops here are not the crops of the Alchemy Empire, just like a modern farmer going back to ancient times, without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and hybrid rice seeds, he can't grow a thousand catties of grain per mu. In addition to the completely different types of crops in the Alchemy Empire, they also need to use the Mithril Circle and Alchemy Fertilizer, and Busso really won't grow the crops here. This is the civilization fault, in fact, many of the techniques that Busso has mastered cannot be realized, most of which involve alchemy runes.

"My lord, the alchemy crows are now Captain Nelson, and they are about to enter the territory. An alchemy militiaman came over and reported.

"I see. Victor nodded, and then asked, "Is the plough I want you to build ready?"

"It's ready. ”

"Dig up all the potatoes in the field, and I'll take them with me. ”

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