Surdak lives in this house built next to the cistern, the whole house is built very atmospheric, with five master bedrooms, five guest bedrooms, two living rooms, upstairs and downstairs two dining rooms, a large kitchen with storage rooms, because the construction of steel and pozzolana cement pouring, the room span is very large, so the layout design can have a lot of imagination.

The decoration design also fully adopted some of Surdak's suggestions, the vaulted dome and the main beam stone pillars next to the inner cloister have a little rococo style, and the bathroom alone is almost the size of the thatched house where the old Sheila family lived.

The marble-polished bathtub was placed next to the glass window of the room, and although it was a little cold in winter, you could see the snow outside and the fifth low dam of the cistern through this glass window, Surdak held the parchment letter in one hand, and read the letter written by the Marquis of Luthor, perhaps someone ghostwritten, the handwriting on the letterhead seemed to be very delicate, but it was not Hathaway's.

Natasha walked in with a large wooden bucket of hot water, put her hand into the bathtub to test the temperature, and added some more hot water to the tub. She changed into a linen tube skirt that she usually wears at home to hide her slightly plump figure, and Surdak sat up from the bathtub, leaned over her upper body, and held Natasha's round and delicate white face with both hands, kissing her soft lips.

Half-kneeling next to the bathtub, Natasha was kissed by Surdak and her neck was flushed, she panted and grabbed Surdak's restless big hand, and whispered: "While the water is not cold, I will wipe my back first......"

With that, he told Surdak to turn around.

Surdak was lying on a stone frame carved out of the bathtub, just enough to expose his back to the surface of the water.

Natasha squatted aside and gently wiped Surdak's back with a loofah pulp, Surdak put the parchment letterhead in his hand aside, leaned his face on a piece of oak, and asked Natasha to spread a warm towel on her face, closed her eyes and enjoyed Natasha's delicate massage, but her mind was thinking about the letter that Marquis Luthor had just written.

The current situation in Bena province is relatively stable, although at present.

In the entire provinces of the Grimm Empire, the security and economic situation of Bena Province has not declined significantly, although Duke Newman is currently leading the main force of the Bena Legion to participate in the war on the Warsaw plane, but after all, it is a reinforcement force, as long as the legion top management is aware that the battle situation in place is not so optimistic, they can withdraw from the plane at any time, but they have vested interests in the plane to give up completely.

But at least the plane controlled by Duke Newman and the major lords of Bena Province has not broken out in the plane war for the time being, and there is no sign of infiltration of the dark legion of the Hell Force, only the Maca plane has encountered a large group of Cerberus sieges, but that is only when the Hell Demon Bird accidentally threw the spatial passage to the maca plane, and the chaos quickly subsided.

Some bandit groups who fled from other provinces took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Bena Legion was no longer in the main plane, arrogantly entered the territory of Bena Province, plundered villages and towns, and sometimes even threatened some remote cities.

The city guard battalions had no choice but to expand their establishment, extending the outposts on the outskirts of the city to remote areas, and it was for this reason that the high-level members of the Hylantha Guard Battalion decided to set up a deserted land security squadron.

At the beginning of winter, Constantinople was besieged by bandits, and the firearms workshop outside the city was captured by bandits, according to the confessions of the captured robbers, Lord MacDonnell was related to the bandit siege, which made the situation in the Talapakant area in the north of Bena Province suddenly fall into a very delicate state, and the lords of Talapakang are now also squeezed into the cracks and difficult to choose, and they are miserable.

It's hard to say what Lord McDonnell wants, but with the current garrison of Bena Province, even if it causes a dispute, it may not be able to get any benefits, and the Bena Legion is stationed in the Warsaw plane, and it will be difficult to get out in a short time, so the current situation in Bena Province seems very delicate.

Lord MacDonnell doesn't actually have full control over Talapadan, and his territory is only a corner of the south of the tower.

It is also in this situation that the Council of the House of Representatives of Bena Province passed the decision of the Marquis of Luthor to garrison the Bailin plane, and since Lord MacDonnell has taken control of the Ganbu plane, the Bailin plane at this moment is even more important for the noble lords of Bena Province.

Marquis Luthor's legion was stationed in the White Forest Plane in order to strengthen the garrison of the White Forest Plane.

In his letter, the Marquis of Luthor informed Surdak to lead a cavalry battalion to assemble in the city of Bena, and to calculate the time, and if he wanted to reach the city of Bena in the middle of March, he would have to lead the army at least in early March.

The envelope also contained a requisition order, without such a requisition order, if you want to lead the cavalry battalion to leave the territory at will, you will violate the relevant regulations of the Lordship Law of the Grimm Empire.

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Early in the morning, the harsh sunlight falls on the room.

Surdak woke up from his sleep to find that the Natasha people beside him were gone.

Hearing someone talking in the yard, Surdak pushed open the bedroom door and walked out onto the terrace, where he greeted the bright sunlight and saw Viru standing in the distance from the cistern third. On the embankment, the whole person actually blends in with the mountain.

At this moment, Surdak had the thought in his heart that with all his might, Viru could shoot through the reservoir dam that had been built so hard with one arrow.

"Is Duck up?"

Chief Bright, Charley, and Luke walked in through the door and chatted with Rita familiarly.

Rita, who was wearing a burlap dress and was digging hay in the yard, saw the village chief of Bright walk in, and obediently stood up and shouted 'Uncle Bright'.

Surdak, who was shirtless and only wearing a pair of single pants, stood on the terrace without fear of the cold wind outside, holding on to the railing with both hands, and said to the old village chief in the courtyard: "Uncle Bright, why did you come here so early?" ”

"The cavalry stationed in the row house, if you want to live permanently in the row house, you have to renovate the row house today, at least do some cold protection, and those chase shops can be separated a little, so that dozens of rooms can be separated, and there is still some wood in the carpenter's workshop for the time being, if you think you can, I will take care of this matter." Where are you going to place the villagers of the Wastelands who have migrated back with you, and the female prisoners of war you have brought back? You can't stay in a tent outside the village all the time! The old village chief said straight to the point.

Surdak touched his nose, beckoned to them, and said, "It's cold outside, let's come in, you haven't had breakfast yet!" Rita, you invite Uncle Bright, Charlie, and Luke into the living room to help Natasha prepare three more breakfasts......"

With that, Surdak crossed his shoulders and went into the bedroom, put on the stack of clothes that had been placed at the head of the bed, and hurried downstairs.

When they came to the restaurant, Natasha had already served hot pancakes and a pot of milky cereal, Charlie and Luke were not polite, and were eating milk cereal porridge with a sigh, but the old village chief couldn't eat because he had something in his heart.

Surdak took a sip of the hot porridge, grabbed a burnt pancake from the plate, stuffed it into his mouth, and then said to the old village chief:

"I have received a call order from the House of Representatives of Bena Province, and in the next few days, I will rush the cavalry battalion leading the cavalry battalion to the city of Bena and report to the regiment of the Marquis of Luthor, this time not only will I take all the cavalry battalions, but I will also recruit some new troops, and make up a cavalry battalion of five hundred people."

Hearing Surdak say this, the village chief of Bright, Charley, and Luke all looked at Surdak in amazement.

They had heard Surdak talk about it before, but they didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

Surdak tried to swallow the food in his mouth before he said to the three of them: "Those captured women can arrange to live in a row house temporarily, some of them are originally villagers in the barren land, if they want to go home, go and inform their family to come to Vol Village to pick up people, some of them are the families of sand thieves, when I am here, they probably dare not do anything, once I lead the cavalry battalion out of Vol Village, be careful of their retaliation." ”

The old village chief Bright couldn't help frowning, bowing his head in contemplation.

Surdak continued: "There are also some women who have been looted by sand thieves from neighboring provinces, and I have no time to identify them, so if anyone wants to write a letter to their family, we will actively cooperate with them and help them contact their families." As for the remaining homeless returnees, it is estimated that they will have to be reported to the city hall of Hailanza, and it is estimated that it will not be long before they are assigned. ”

It was thought that Surdak was going to sell some of the prisoners of war as slaves and into the slave market.

Listening to him say this, I realized that he had no such intention at all.

This is different from other lords.

Surdak rubbed his forehead and thought for a moment before saying, "As for the villagers who have migrated over, they should be well settled, if they want to go somewhere else, at least let them bring enough food, and if they want to live in Vol Village temporarily, they should clean up some row houses, and those vacant rooms can be occupied." ”

I wanted to integrate these people into the village of Wall, but I was also worried that the old households of the village would collectively reject these outsiders, so they could only let them live.

Whether it's accepting or being accepted, there is always a time to adapt.

Surdak also told the old village chief: "They may not carry much food, and even some people simply have nothing, the village can send people to the city of Hailanza to purchase some miscellaneous grains, and provide them with some free multigrain porridge every day, stewed dried vegetables, etc., in short, they must not be hungry, and if the village road construction team and construction team hire workers, they can also give priority to these people, at least let them have some means of livelihood." ”

The latter sentence was addressed to Charlie and Luke, who were in charge of the village's construction team and road construction team, respectively, which had been left idle for the time being due to Surdak's transfer of horses to the cavalry battalion.

Charley is currently in charge of the village's construction team, and the village's bricklayers who built the cistern have all joined Charley's construction team, and the construction team received its first order last autumn for Carl. Baron Casement built a villa, the main body of which was made of steel and pozzolana cement, and the structure was very solid, but the project was a bit of a small tail, and it was not completely finished.

"Charlie, you didn't go to Carl's manor, why did you come back so soon?" Surdak asked Charlie, who had lost a lot of weight.

Charlie put down the pancake in his hand at this time, raised his head and smiled at Surdak and said, "Carl. The construction of Baron Casment's estate is almost finished, and I can't help with the renovation or anything, and I've been back in Wall Village for almost half a month. ”

"Some nobles in the city of Highlandsa have seen the villa of Lord Karl, and it is said that several of them also want to build some houses in the manor with volcanic cement in the manor, and recently, many people have come to the village of Wall, you have been outside, and we are all waiting for you to come back and get ideas." Charley said with high spirits.

"I'll go to the city of Highlandsa in a few days, and I'll ask Carl and Bird the tax collectors about this matter, and see which business can be accepted, but not every noble lord has money in his hands, and I don't want to build them a house for free." Surdak said to Charlie.

Charlie clenched his fists, waved vigorously, and said happily: "I ran here early in the morning, just waiting for your words!" ”

Surdak said to Luke again: "I thought you would not be able to bring back the grain and grass until today, without horses, it must be very hard to transport so much grain and grass back by the kobold slaves alone by manpower!" ”

Luke raised his head, his mouth was still stuffed with pancakes, and said vaguely, "I'm not hard, it's the kobold slaves who are hard......"

After taking a sip of water and swallowing the food into his stomach, Luke said: "The road from Pubao Mountain to Vol Village is very easy to walk, and we set off ahead of schedule, so we arrived outside the village last night, I didn't expect you to bring back so many people...... There are also horses and camels. ”

"Well, anyway, I got a lot out this time." Surdak said: "This time the horses eliminated from the cavalry battalion will be handed over to the village, and after the convoy is reorganized, it will be specially used to transport construction materials for the road construction team and the construction team. ”

"Duck, you've brought almost all the villagers in the northern part of the Badlands back to Wall, is there still a need to build roads in the Badlands?" Luke asked.

"Of course, our goal in the first half of this year is to build some road networks in the area between Pustule Volcano and Wall Village and the Great Rift Valley, as well as to establish some strong sentry posts at various points, and in the future, I will be responsible for the security of the barren land, and of course we will build up a garrison army here." Surdak said to Luke. "If I have extra energy, I would also like to renovate the mountain road from the city of Highlandsa to the village of Wall, and every time I return to the village from the city of Highlandsa, I have to walk all day in the Oak Ridge on horseback, in addition to the long distance, the rugged mountain road will also take a lot of time."

"And you'll have to take care of the sulphur mines on the other side of Pupu Mountain, and the lumberyard at the foot of Paglos Mountain, where all the timber will probably have to be brought back in the future." Surdak said to Luke again.

Surdak was chatting in the dining room when there was a sound of the door being pushed outside.

After a while, Andrew and Samira walked into the dining room.