The nights during the season of water are always cold, but the reception rooms of Victor Manor are warm and pleasant.

Judy folds her hands over her laps and tries to straighten her waist, a posture that not only gracefully focuses, but also shows off the beautiful curves of her body. Her facial features are pure and picturesque, her skin is as white and delicate as milk, she is not tall, her legs are slender and straight, her thin waist is full of hands, and the pair of plump and firm low-cut tunic long skirts are tightened.

Judy did not mean to seduce Victor, her dress and demeanor were completely in line with the etiquette of a noble lady, but the reproduction of blood was the top priority of the nobles, and the education, etiquette and social interaction of the noble girl were also inclined to attract the opposite sex.

As a noble lady, Judy has a lot of confidence in herself, she has a gentle temperament, she is young and beautiful, she has a good aristocratic education, and her every move is impeccable. At the age of 16, she also awakened the blood of knights, became a trainee knight, and married a Viscount of Buryatia, becoming a noble lord's wife. However, it is only today that Judy realizes how ridiculous her pride and self-confidence can be.

On the main seat of the reception room sat a beautiful woman with a languid expression, her demeanor was casual, her demeanor was calm, her long golden hair was casually sprinkled on her shoulders, these postures that did not conform to aristocratic etiquette appeared elegant and noble on her body, as if she were the perfect model, and everything in the room was her foil. In front of her, Judy felt as insignificant as a maid, but she felt justified. Because, that's Sylvia.

Sylvia is a prominent figure in the human realm, but her fame spreads only among knights and lords. In fact, the knights are high up, looking down on all beings, and are not willing to talk about knights with ordinary nobles, and they are even more secretive about the information of peak knights, while ordinary nobles regard the knight circle as the upper class of the upper class, and want to get into the camp in every possible way. If Judy hadn't awakened the knightly blood, the Viscount of Buryat wouldn't even marry her, and even if she became the lord's wife, her status was far from Sylvia's.

This is the gap that comes with strength.

Sylvia didn't care about Judy's thoughts at all, she rolled up the "secret letter", and her lips opened lightly: "Judy, what about the maid who instigated you?"

"Fili, she'...... She led the way to Austin...... , I heard, before she was caught, she committed suicide. Judy said gloomily.

"Hmph, what loyalty!" Ya sneered, and commanded, "Alina, Alice, send Lady Judy down to rest." ”

Judy stood up and saluted Sylvia and Victor with her skirt before leaving, accompanied by her twin sisters. Only Victor and Sylvia were left in the reception room.

"What a beauty! You killed a great knight for her?" asked Sylvia faintly.

Victor secretly complained, he had no idea that the consequences of killing Austin would be so serious.

After the battle, Victor used the Dust Falcon to send a message to the Black Castle side, and as a result, the House of York sent a knight to the village of River, day and night, and arrived at the village of the river the next day, bringing a message from Sylvia that she was going to personally entertain the royal tax collector in Randall.

Victor realized that things were getting bigger, as Sylvia, the tax official of the royal capital did not even have the qualifications to meet her, and Sylvia's so-called banquet was to keep the tax officer and support Victor to deal with the aftermath.

Ten days later, Sylvia's car arrived at Victor's estate. At the banquet, she was extremely intimate with Victor. As soon as the feast was over, Sylvia invited the tax collectors to meet with Mrs. Judy and ask them about the reasons and circumstances of their escape. After clarifying the cause of the incident, Sylvia and the tax collectors came to an agreement: Austin attempted to murder the family heir, invaded Randall's territory, and was killed in the decisive battle. With this conclusion in mind, the tax officials leave Randall, but Victor understands that trouble has not yet begun.

Victor knew that Sylvia was angry, whether it was an ally or a vassal, to start a war without communication, and the consequences were shared by both parties, which was a very bad behavior. If it were Victor, he would have been angry, but he hadn't thought about it so much at the time.

Faced with Sylvia's rebuke, Victor weakly explained: "Austin killed my soldiers, and accused me of coveting Madame Judy's beauty and kidnapping the heir of the Buryat family. For the sake of honor, I had no choice but to fight him. ”

"That's Austin proposing the showdown, not you. Now, not only have you proposed a decisive battle, but you have also killed Austin, and his accusations have become false. It won't be long before the nobles of Gambis will know that Viscount Randall has killed the Grand Knight of the Buryat House for the sake of Lady Judy!" Sylvia taunted with a thin eyebrow.

Seeing that Victor was speechless, Sylvia sighed and said, "Do you know what the Great Knight means?"

"Among the ten nobles, there is not necessarily one apprentice knight, ten probationary knights, at most three knights, and among the ten knights, only 2 can become silver knights on average. Once a knight achieves the Silver Rank, the Void Elemental will reshape their body and purify their bloodline, which allows the Grand Knight to generally live past 120 years, and their descendants have a high chance of becoming a Knight. Every Silver Knight is a treasure of the Kingdom, and even the Sassans rarely kill the Great Knights of the Three Kingdoms, and neither do we. ”

"The killing of a great knight of the same camp in a decisive battle has not happened for hundreds of years! If I don't show up, then you have to go to the royal capital and explain to the Senate in person. The church will also pay attention to this matter, not to mention that Austin has not killed the heir of the family, and even if his guilt is confirmed, he is only exiled to the Eastern Alliance to open up territory. Who do you think the church wants to exile now?"

Victor's face became more and more ugly, Sylvia glanced at him, and said lightly: "Say, why did you kill Austin?

Victor froze and said, "For the plan to raise the canal with bricks." At the moment, the sales of green bricks are not ideal, I need a new breakthrough, Buryatia is a good market. ”

"Hah! You want Austin's life to sell a few bricks? Can't he cooperate with you?" Sylvia was angry for a moment and explained: "The situation of the Buryat family is very complicated, they were originally a branch of the Solim family, and the Solim family assigned that narrow territory to them in order to make the Buryat family a barrier and buffer for the southern lords, targeting the central and southern lord forces. ”

"The Buryatia has become a game ground for the forces of the two major lords, and there are no resources in the territory, and the head of the family is only a viscount, and at most he canonizes the title of baron, so naturally he can't recruit knights. Their territory is long and narrow, with no depth, and any of the surrounding lords can allow bandits to break through their hinterland. No one in the Buryatia family dared to offend, and they always played the role of a gas bag, and their neighbors drove the excess population to the Buryat territory at every turn. ”

"However, the Buryatia territory is divided into two major forces, and the geographical location is very sensitive, and any action of external forces against the Buryatia family will be met with a backlash from the two forces. Now, the Solim family has declined, the southern lords have become scattered, and the royal family intervenes in the affairs of the Buryatia family precisely to integrate the southern lords' power and prevent the Wellington family from expanding their influence. With that, Sylvia glared at Victor hatefully.

"We need to repair relations with the royal family now, and rash intervention in the affairs of the Buryat family will touch everyone's nerves, which is not in line with my strategic goals. Victor, you've made me passive!"

In Sylvia's view, the Buryat Territory is a chicken rib existence, and it is not worth it at all to have friction with the royal family for this. What is the axiom and justice of orphans and widows? On the other hand, it was more in the interests of the Buryatia family that Austin inherited the title, and since he had taken refuge with Williams, he had begun to reduce the surplus population, and the neighbors around him dared not speak out. However, in the eyes of Victor, the value of the Buryat Territory is immeasurable.

"Here, I'll show you something. ”

Victor led Sylvia to a spacious room, the attendants lit dozens of butter candles, the room suddenly became as bright as day, and what greeted Sylvia's eyes was a twenty-meter-long, six-meter-wide platform, on which were models made of sand, with low hills, fields, cities, lakes, and even trees made of small wood, densely dotted together, so that people could know at a glance that it was a forest.

"This is Centaur Hill?"

Sylvia couldn't believe what she was seeing, but the city in the center of the model was a replica of the town of Blackcastle, and even the majestic Blackcastle was vividly copied.

"Yes!"

Victor snapped his fingers and grabbed a rope next to him, and several sets of kettles hanging above the platform poured out a thin stream of water, which fell on the platform and flowed slowly along the trench in the model, gradually flowing through the perimeter of the model of Blackcastle until the southernmost part of the model, and then forming a small lake in the recess, where was the model of Pinghu Village, and finally flowed into the sink below the model. Victor motioned for the attendants to plug the gap at both ends of the model, and only let go of the rope when the "black river" stopped flowing.

Sylvia looked at the moat next to the "Black Castle", took a deep breath, and asked, "How did you do that?"

"Didn't you ask me to choose a site for the stream reservoir? I ran all over the Centaur Hills and made this sand table by the way, isn't it amazing?" said Victor triumphantly.

For Victor, who has an X-3, mapping the terrain is simply a breeze, with "fish-man slime cement", making a sand table is also a very simple thing. However, the mountains, rivers and lakes, hills and low trees, directly presented in front of her, still caused a great impact on Sylvia. The Golden Knight doesn't know how to fly, and even if she does, she can't see the full picture of the Centaur Hills, but now she sees it with her own eyes.

"Sandbox?"

Sylvia shook her head, nodded again, and said sincerely, "Very remarkable!"

"This sand table is not accurate, I didn't survey the mountains in the west, I made some random peaks, I haven't been to Sauron's territory, it's a blank place, but the terrain is high in the west and low in the east can't be wrong. Victor said as he took out a number of small wooden models from the box next to him.

"Now, it's time to witness the miracle!"

As another rope is pulled, the water is poured into the south side of the model, flowing northward, starting from the first reservoir, a series of miniature reservoirs are filled, each with two vertical and horizontal ditches, longitudinally connecting each reservoir into the "Black River", and connecting the horizontal channels with small longitudinal canals. Surrounded by a breeze, the models in Victor's hands, one after the other, landed next to the miniature reservoirs, which were villages. Eventually, more than 200 reservoirs and villages were dotted on the sand table of the Centaur Hills, ditches were crisscrossed, the wilderness became fertile land, and the area of cultivated land expanded fivefold at once!

"Shhh

Sylvia gasped, she had long known that once the artificial canal was built, it would increase 80 million acres of arable land, but that was just the data in her head, and when the data was presented intuitively, the shock was incomparable.

When communicating with the Elemental Sea, every Golden Knight will ask himself, the world is so vast, the individual is so small, what is the meaning of my existence, what is my pursuit, what traces do I want to leave in this world, find the answer, and take this belief as the only way to achieve the pinnacle.

If there is anything that can make Sylvia happy and satisfied, it is that the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the family grows stronger day by day in her hands, only in this way can she have the motivation to move forward, even if she returns to the Elemental Sea, the family has a long history, among which there are traces she left, and this trace is right in front of her!

At this moment, the top female golden knight in the human world is like being drunk, her cheeks are red, her starry eyes are blurred, and her charming appearance is sultry. Vic didn't notice the change in Sylvia, he stared at the three large gaps on the west side of the model, and said in a deep voice, "Now, let's talk about the Big Corps plan. ”

"Whether it's to cut numbers or plunder food, it's already a consensus that Ant-Man is once again invading the Centaur hills. Our question is, when are they coming, how many are they, and what if they come around from the north?"

"Assuming that Ant-Man is spreading in all directions, there should be no less than 400,000 of them, because we annihilated 100,000 Ant-Man in the Centaur Hills. ”

Sylvia came to her senses and became serious.

"Insects have a relatively short lifespan, and given the size of Ant-Man, their growth cycle should be around ten years," Victor said. If you take into account the larvae that may be present in the colony, it should take 7 to 8 years for them to assemble for a larger invasion. Originally, it took more than a year for the legendary knights of the church to flee from the Inhuman Empire back to the human realm. Then, in 10 years, the second wave of ant waves will erupt. ”

"This is my calculation and that of Master Edwin, and it may not be accurate. ”

In fact, this is a calculation made by the king based on the characteristics of alchemy creatures, and it is very credible, and Victor just guided Edwin.

Victor looked up at Sylvia, who gave him an encouraging look, and Victor continued, "The Ant-Man leaders are intelligent, and when the ant colony fails to breach those three fortresses, they will lead the ordinary Ant-Men to turn around. In this way, there is a high probability that the ant colony will make a detour. Therefore, there can be no luck, and the worst must be prepared!"

Ant colonies attack centaur hills, almost certainly. Victor is the natural enemy of the ant colony, and the ant colony will never stop until he is killed. Victor can't explain the details, so he can only remind Sylvia in this way.

"Darling, please continue!" Sylvia said, her jaw bowed.

"The ant colony will not be defeated, the knights are not very useful, and we do not have the ability to fight them in the field. Therefore, we need more castles, more ordinary soldiers. Use the castle defense battle to weaken the number of ant colonies, use the knights to contain the actions of the ant colony, and when the number of ant colonies is no longer dominant, we win!"

Victor was on the edge of the sand table, using a thin round wooden stick, on several stream reservoirs.

"Actually, we don't need to build a castle, we can just enclose a town with a 40-metre-high wall. Each town had to be able to hold out for three years, and to do that, food and water were needed in addition to soldiers. The townspeople were soldiers, the farming and pastoral system provided plenty of food, and the streams and reservoirs provided drinking water. ”

"When an ant colony attacks a small town, the garrison knights of the other towns lead elite cavalry to kill them and divert the ant colony to other strongholds. Between small towns, layers of defense echo each other, maybe in less than three years, we can annihilate ant colonies in the wild.

Victor put away the wooden stick: "This is the battle I envisioned in the big corps. ”

Sylvia's eyes lit up and she smiled: "I see, no wonder you are designing streams, reservoirs, and farming and pastoral systems. ”

Victor nodded and said, "To deal with ant colonies, you have to have a lot of people. Not every stream or reservoir has to be a town, and we can't afford it, but every town needs to be able to accommodate at least 4,000 people, and food and water are essential. The most important test of a large corps operation is its logistical capability. Agro-pastoral systems and streams and reservoirs can solve these problems. ”

"If you want to complete the artificial canal plan in 10 years by using bricks to raise the canal, I am afraid it will be difficult to achieve. It is enough that we have streams, reservoirs. Honey, why are you in such a hurry?" asked Sylvia, frowning.

Victor shook his head and said, "Raising canals with bricks is only one aspect, we are now facing a big problem, that is, a shortage of people!"

"People?!"

A bright light flashed through Sylvia's mind, and before she had time to think about it, Victor continued: "Whether the ant colony will come or not, it will take people to build fortresses, cultivate land, and dig streams and reservoirs, the 120,000 people in the centaur hills are far from enough, and we can accommodate far more than 120,000 people. According to my estimates, in 5 years, the food produced by the centaur hills will be able to feed 300,000 people. But have you ever wondered what kind of change the mouldboard plough and the stream reservoir will bring to the Gambis?"

Sylvia muttered, "I see, the other lords will compete with us for population!"

"Yes, the ploughshare and the stream reservoir are too easy to imitate. The priests had a great influence on the farmers, they had easy access to both technologies, and the Church must have been happy to spread them. Of course, the lords who have the conditions to try to build streams and reservoirs and expand the area of farmland, then they also need a population. ”

Victor sneered and said, "When I was in the royal capital, I heard that the population of Gambis reached 900,000, and this does not include the refugees who have flowed in from Dodor. Sophia's staff roughly counted the number of displaced people, and concluded that it was more than 500,000! It was Sophia's caravan that imported grain from the Sassan Empire to feed them, which was most likely the reason why the queen tried to control the chamber of commerce. In any case, the excess population became a burden to the Gambis lords, and once the lords realized that these people were no longer a burden, it would be difficult for us to bring in the population. ”

"Buryatia has a long and narrow territory, many neighbors, and it connects the two major lords of the central and southern parts of the country, like a corridor, which is their unique advantage. Controlling the Buryat Territory not only allows you to sell the bricks to other lords, but also brings in a surplus population before they react. Austen's back to the royal family and a great knight are far more difficult to deal with than Madame Judy, and to cooperate with him is to show our intentions to the royal family. So, I killed him. ”

"Good kill!"

Sylvia exhaled softly, all of Victor's ideas broke the lord's inherent cognition, Sylvia never thought that the burden of the homeless would become a sweetheart, when she accepted this fact, she immediately realized that the new farming and pastoral system would change the strategic pattern of the human kingdom, Gambis no longer needed to expand its territory, the biggest contradiction was gone, and Duoduo did not have to worry that Gambis would throw himself into the Sassan Empire, and the Sassangians' plans would be completely frustrated, the mastermind who had played everyone in the palm of his hand would be so angry and ruined after learning of this change？

Thinking of this, Sylvia felt that the evil breath in her chest had dissipated a lot, and she couldn't help but smile knowingly. Then she began to think about what benefits she could get from it, and how to lay it out.

"Honey, how long do you think it will take for the other lords to react?" Sylvia asked in a soft voice to Victor.

Victor smiled coldly and said: "The mouldboard plough and the stream reservoir seem simple, but in fact they are not simple at all, without our guidance, they would have to explore for at least 3 years. I can even foresee fertile land becoming barren and floods flooding farmland. ”

"Great!" Sylvia smiled happily and turned to the attendants, "You all get out!"

When the attendants left the room, Sylvia swung her waist slightly, grabbed Victor's arm, and exhaled in his ear: "I appreciate your plan, what kind of reward are you going to want?

Victor said with a bitter face: "Is it okay to offset the merits and demerits?"

Sylvia laughed wildly, glanced at Victor with watery eyes, and spat out two words from her delicate red lips.

"Dreaming!"