Chapter 137: News from the Kenmax Family

Lorist felt that he had failed as a lord, thinking that when he first entered Gainthea, he had read so many books in order to understand the world, and he had not even let go of the popular knightly novels in the world. But in so many knightly novels he has read, the lords described are all tasting fine wine, surrounded by beautiful women, and all day long they are either busy holding ball banquets or falling in love with ladies and ladies, or going hunting to participate in knights' conferences or something when they are bored. Even if the war broke out, most of the lords were strategic, sitting in the rear, and some of his men were heroic knights charging for him, and there might even be a very touching battlefield romance love story.

Look at yourself again, after becoming a lord, he is busy running around every day like a dog, and he has to deal with a lot of trivial things, and there are a lot of people under him, but they are waiting for their own decisions on big and small things before they can decide how to deal with them. In the event of a war, you have to take the lead and rush to the front. This is a lord, it is clearly a life of hard work.

No, before I had just returned to the Rock Castle and taken two breaths, the people who had come to meet him and reported something had formed a large group outside the door.

The first to come in was Miss Theresty's old butler of the Black Iron Order, who bowed respectfully and meticulously and made it clear that Miss Terry wanted Lorist to visit her in the next two days to solve the problem of water for the well in the house and the castle.

What about the well? Lorist asked curiously for a long time before he figured out that there are two plans for the water use of the new residential area, one is to drill a well for every household, so that the amount of work is large, and the other is a well in one block, but I am afraid that in the future, the residents will have to queue up every day to fetch water due to water shortages. In addition, the castle under construction is built on the mountain, which is much higher than the urban area, so it is not easy to dig a well, and can only be used to draw mountain springs. Miss Tresti wanted Lorist to come over and make a plan.

The second to come in was the Steward of Codan, who took over the prisoners they had escorted over from Joske, and had just finished the prisoner camp in the past two days, and he had no idea what to do with them.

Lorist said weakly that there was any hesitation, just let them go and collect building materials, anyway, they have the strength. Eat well if you do well, eat whips if you are lazy, and hang yourself if you run away. Promote the laborers who used to do these things to overseers, and guide and monitor their work. Tell Ovekis to change the duty of the family soldiers sent out on patrol every day to guard these captives.

Then came the butler Boris, who came to report on a trivial matter, that is, the Rock Castle was running out of all kinds of drinks. Since the establishment of the commercial district, two taverns have been opened, one after the other, and the laborers have been paid when they have regained their freedom, and they like to have two drinks when they have nothing to do, as have the family soldiers and the immigrants, and the two taverns have prospered. But most of the wine on Lorlist's side was stolen from the Red River Valley manor castle of the Kenmax family, although the reserves were large, they couldn't stop it, but they couldn't get in and out, plus the knightly tournament jointly organized by Lorist and Viscount Kenmeth, a large number of drinks were provided for free, and now the remaining drinks in the warehouse can last for four or five days.

Alas, if you don't have wine, you can make it, and the ordinary ale brewing process is simple, so don't you solve the problem of asking who among the immigrants and laborers can make wine and open a winery. Lorist said.

"But, my lord, you said last time that food is the most important strategic material, and it is all managed by the Hansk steward. We are building a city now, we are not farming, and we have not had a grain harvest for two years. The food we got from the Manor Castle in the Red River Valley last time was enough for us to eat for the past two years, and now that there are more and more people here, and the consumption of food is getting bigger and bigger, how can we use the grain to make wine?" said the butler Boris.

Oh, it's still what I said. Lorist held his head: "It's okay, let Captain Hansk take out the wheat and brew the wheat bar." You have also heard about it this time, Kitano Town was slaughtered by the Duke's army, we defeated them, and found that the stored grain from Kitano Town was enough for us to eat for four or five years, so the food problem was solved, and after a while, I asked Maple Grove Villa to transport a batch over. ”

"Ah, you're not gone, is there anything else?" asked Lorlist.

"Well, that's right. Boris stewards hesitated and said, "We have caught a few women, and they are working as prostitutes in the camp......

"En......" Lorist perked up, and this topic was of interest to all men: "Where did these women come from? How did they end up as prostitutes in the camp?"

"Two of them are new immigrants from the Kenmath family, and after we moved to Rock Castle, they couldn't bear the loneliness and hooked up with men. There were also four or five women slaves who had been slaves who, after regaining their freedom, were disgusted that the work we had assigned to them was too tiring, and went back to their old jobs. ”

This Lorist had heard from Boris Butler that the two hundred female slaves were originally a reward given by the Kenmas family to slave laborers, and that a female slave could be rewarded for a night with him for good performance.

"My lord, according to their confessions, there are dozens of women who are the same as them, but they are lucky not to be caught by us, how should we punish them......?" asked Boris the butler.

"Well......" Lorist sighed, and leaned back on the table, "Punish the fart! Men need women, and women need men. Rock Castle is now more men than women, and the men are still young and strong, so they need a place to vent. Well, Butler Boris, you go and build a brothel, let the women go in and let them in for us to manage, and we will take thirty percent of their income if we protect them. ”

"My lord, in this case, other lords generally charge 60 to 70 percent. ”

"Forget it, it's not easy for them to earn this money, and we can take 30 percent. In addition, a notice was issued telling those women that if they did not enter the brothel and still worked as a private prostitute outside, if they were caught, they would have to go into the brothel and work for us for nothing. ”

Ahhh After Boris butler was gone, Lorist lamented. But I can't help it, I have to meet the next one.

It wasn't one, but two that came in. Lorist took a look, it was very familiar.

The older one stepped forward and reported, "My lord, the two of us were appointed by Lord Pat to track down the whereabouts of the Kenmath family's armed forces, and we only came back yesterday. ”

Come to think of it, these two were bandit-turned-guards, no wonder they felt familiar, but Lorist couldn't remember their names.

"Sit, sit, sit down, don't be stupid to stand here, there are chairs over there. It's been a hard time for you to run this time. I have to be careful that they find out, and I am happiest that you can come back safe and sound. Sit down and tell me, what did you find on this trip?"

"Thank you, sir. After the two guards sat down, the first sentence startled Lorlist: "My lord, the family of Kenmez has occupied the county of Lopez. ”

"What?county of López??" Lorist looked down for the map of the Northlands, but unfortunately the map he found on the vellum paper did not mark the territory of the Count of López.

"Bring in Steward Boris and Setkamp, and Daddy Balek, oh, Daddy Balek has accompanied Master Sid to explore the iron mines. Forget it, call Butler Boris and Sedercamp over first. ”

"I remember that there was a map in the Manor Castle of the Red River Valley that marked the names and territories of the nobles of the newly canonized territories who had been canonized to the Northland by the Second Prince, and it should have been brought back to find out where to put it. Boris butler, who was called back again, said to Sedecamp, who said he didn't know who Count López was.

Hearing Boris's butler's hint, Sedcamp remembered that there seemed to be such a map. So I rummaged for a while, and finally found the map.

"Yes, my lord, there is a small hill that divides the line between the Viscounts of Kenmax and the Counts of López, the small hill is about ten meters high, there is no water, and it is bare. After the Kenmas family forces entered the manor castle of Count López, we also mixed into the immigrant town outside the castle, pretending to be two mercenaries who were entrusted to find a special medicinal herb from the Demon Dragon Mountains, and found out that the Kenmas family forces had indeed accepted the invitation of Count López to resist the invasion of the mountain barbarians. It seems that Count López fought a battle with the mountain barbarians some time ago, and the losses were very large, and the count was also seriously wounded. The people in the immigrant town were panicked, for fear that the mountain barbarians would come to attack. The older guard said.

"Isn't that right, didn't the mountain barbarians celebrate the Kupavison festival this year, where did they get the time to go to war with Count López?"

"My lord, it is said that Count López first went to war with the mountain barbarians, and the team he led found a large group of mountain barbarian herdsmen driving a lot of livestock, so he took the initiative to attack and snatched all the livestock. As a result, on the way back, he was attacked by many mountain barbarian cavalry, and finally escaped from the encirclement, with great losses, and everyone who escaped was wounded. The mountain barbarian cavalry did not pursue, but shouted that they would come to Count López to settle accounts after the festival. Therefore, Count López, fearing reprisals, invited Viscount Kenmez to send troops to assist in the defense. ”

Well, it's not like looking for death, doesn't that Count López know that this year is the Kupavison Festival of the Mountain Barbarians, and those livestock must have been sent to Smoore Megan Mountain for the sacred sacrifice of blood. It's terrible to be uneducated, and it's simply ...... to snatch the livestock used for blood sacrifices during the festival of the mountain barbarians Lorist didn't know whether to praise Count López for his courage or admire his greed.

"We also thought that the Kenmas family forces were here to help Count López, and we were ready to come back the next day. The older guard continued, "Because I drank a little wine in the evening, I got up a little late the next day. We found that the immigrant town was under martial law by the Kenmath family's armed forces, and that the Count López's manor castle was flying the Kenmath family's triple gold ring flag......"

"It wasn't until late in the evening that we got word in the tavern that Count López had died of his wounds. Before his death, because he had no children and his two daughters were far away in the royal capital, he entrusted the earldom to Viscount Kenmeth, and even the title of earl was inherited by Viscount Kenmeth. The Kenmaz family has sent someone to formally apologize to the mountain barbarians, and there is a rumor that the gift is the head of Count López......"

"The immigrant town was under martial law for three days before it was lifted, and the Kenmasses issued a notice to reduce taxes to recruit garrison soldiers. It was as if they were going to put all the young men in the immigrant town in the garrison, and the two of us were stopped and interrogated for a long time. However, we said that we were mercenaries who came here to find medicinal herbs for a mission, and they didn't do anything to us. ”

"When we went out of town, we found that the guards in the castle were no longer armed by the Kenmasses, and we felt strange, and we searched in many ways, and finally found traces of a large group of men and horses walking in the direction of the south. We tracked it down, and it took us a day to get here, as if it was also a noble domain, but it had been attacked by the Kenmax family, and the castle was planted with three golden ring flags. ”

"Viscount Sartre......" Lorist said, looking at the markers on the map.

"I know Viscount Sartre, an old nobleman of the former Empire, whose family died during the civil strife in the Empire, and the territory is in ruins. After the second prince founded the country, he occupied his territory, and in order to avoid criticism, he transferred Viscount Sartre to the Northland. He was just a lonely old aristocrat. Boris butler said.

The older guard continued to report: "We dare not enter the town again, so we are watching in the field. Three days later, the Kenmas armed set out again, this time to the east. We followed them, and two days later they arrived at the Barony of Ancabot, where they set up camp outside the town in a proper manner. The group of leaders entered the castle of Baron Ancabot as if to visit. We stayed in the field until midnight, when we suddenly found a murderous cry at Baron Ancabot's castle, the castle gates opened, and the drawbridge lowered. The Kenmasse clan is constantly rushing in. In the morning, three rings of golden flags were erected on the castle. ”

"We stayed in the field for another five days, and found that the Kenmasse armed forces had left a squadron of guards at the castle of Baron Ancabot, and then returned to the Viscount of Sutter, and also left a squadron, and the rest of the men returned to the county of López, and we followed. ”

Lorist opened the drawer and took out two small money bags made of gray sheepskin. This was specially prepared for Lorist to be used as a reward, and each pouch contained five gold coins of the Imperial Old Man's Head.

Lorist tossed the money bag to the two guards: "Thank you for your hard work, take it, go back and relax." This is my reward for you. ”

"Thank you, sir. The two guards retreated.

The Kenmax family made a good move, and now Lorist finally understands why the Kenmax family would rather suffer a big loss than befriend him. They knew that they had already confronted Duke Lukins, so they took this opportunity not only to get out of the way and relieve their worries, but also to quietly turn the spearhead while Duke Lukins was focusing on the Norton family, and target those lords in the eastern part of the Northlands......

"My lord, I don't understand why the Kenmax family did this, Viscount Sartre, Count López are the newly canonized lords of the Northlands like them, and Baron López is also the confidant of the second prince. Aren't they afraid of arousing the wrath of the people when the Kenmax family attacks them and annexes their territory?" asked the butler Boris.

"Hehe, the Kenmas family naturally has their confidence in doing this. Lorist sneered: "They have a wonderful idea, knowing that Duke Lukins is now focusing on us, so taking this opportunity they want to annex the entire eastern region." If you look at the map, the Viscounty of Kenmax, the Count of López, the Viscount of Sartre, and the Barony of Ancabot are connected to the eastern part of the Northlands. If nothing else, the remaining dozen lords will not be able to escape the clutches of the Kenmas family......"

"When the Kenmath family takes possession of the eastern part of the Northlands, they will be unique, and even Duke Lukins can't do anything about them. The Northland will soon be very lively, and troubled times have come. ”

"My lord, do you want us to add some chaos to the Kenmath so that they don't have to dominate the eastern regions so quickly?" said Sedkamp.

Lorist bowed his head and turned around twice, totaling half a day: "It's too late, and we can't pull out the strength." Don't forget, if Duke Lukins knew that their 4,000 army had been wiped out, he would be furious and retaliate again. All we need to do now is to build the Rock Castle as soon as possible, train our clan arm, and prepare ourselves to defend ourselves against the Northland Legions. ”

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