The viscount's words caused everyone to frown.

The river goes straight to the interior, which means that the villages below are not wild villages in the border area, but real human villages.

This kind of village, which can provide them with a lot of money every year, suddenly destroys a dozen of them, and those nobles who have villages downstream are certainly not happy.

Seeing that everyone was frowning, an earl hurriedly spoke.

"When has this been? I'm still thinking about this money! If you lose this time! Don't say it's money, you're not even dead! ”

The baron, who was sitting next to him, turned pale when he heard this.

"What Lord Count Cassie said is light, the earl's family is big, and the village under his command has not 30 but also 20, but I am just a small baron, and there are only four villages under my hands, two of which are all on the edge of the river, if this is washed by the water, is there any difference between me winning or losing!"

"That's it! Although I am a viscount, there are only eight villages under my control, and I rely on the villages along the river for food! That's the village, the farm, the fishery, the farmland, most of which are there! If this village is destroyed! Half of my possessions will be gone! ”

Rivers have been a very important productive resource, both in ancient times and in modern times.

Whether it's farming or farming, rivers can be of great help.

It can be said that where you depend on the river for your survival, life is always richer than in other places.

Hearing that their village was going to be flooded, the few nobles who had property there shook their heads like wave drums, and they just didn't agree.

If it was within the Qin State, the low-level nobles would never dare to make such a mistake with the earl.

But this is the border, notoriously backwooded, notoriously savage.

As the saying goes, the order is not the province, and the purpose is not out of the county.

Here, the nobles are the emperors of the soil, and they never look at what official positions they have, but who has more soldiers and who is richer.

What's wrong with you're a Count? You're a duke! If you don't have any soldiers or money when you get to this place, others won't be able to bird you.

Therefore, for this kind of play that directly reduces their own strength, these nobles will not be willing to die.

After all, if they really want to be so submerged, their aristocratic status will basically exist in name only.

Many aristocrats began to quarrel, some moved out of righteousness, some sold miserably and poorly, and some even directly opened **, which almost caused everyone to fight.

At this moment, the old man who couldn't stand it suddenly took a table.

"That's it!"

The old general suddenly spoke, instantly calming everyone.

Yes, this person is very capable of fighting, and his subordinates are also strong, and these nobles still dare not provoke at will.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Old Man Gu finally spoke.

"The plan for flooding is set, this is the only way to defeat the orc alliance quickly, otherwise fighting them will only lead to a dead end."

"But ............"

"Nothing! Settled is settled! It's just that we won't let you sacrifice in vain, and we will pay for your losses and jointly compensate for them, so you're satisfied. ”

"That's the best."

Hearing that there was compensation, the few nobles who made trouble finally became honest.

When the other nobles heard that they were asking for money, their faces changed slightly, but they just looked at the old man with a blue face, and no one dared to refute it.

A nobleman next to him, who was also an earl, but whose prestige was much worse than that of Old Man Gu, also hurriedly stood up and echoed at this time

"Now that the plan has been decided, let's start intercepting the flow without further ado, with the action of the earth mage and the ice mage, the dam will definitely be built quickly, as for the villages below, I don't think we should notify them, otherwise once there is a large-scale migration of the population, it will arouse their suspicion if the orcs see it."

The other nobles nodded their heads when they heard this, including even those who had been strongly opposed before.

They would rather see the village drowned than to relocate the villagers, who had to spend their time and resources.

Although this will kill a lot of people, they will be able to report to the court later and get more money, right?

Otherwise, if they move people away, they will have to rebuild their villages, rearrange their homes, and even pay them so that they can live.

In this case, let alone collecting taxes, it is already an ancestor to burn incense if you don't pay for it.

Seeing that everyone agreed with the earl's opinion, the old man suddenly shook his head.

"No! Must be moved! And it has to be fast! Notify all soldiers now! In the past, take all the villagers of the nasty class away from the riverbank! ”

"Huh?"

As soon as the old man said this, he instantly blinded all the nobles.

Everyone looked at each other, and the earl who spoke just now looked even more confused, as if he thought he had misheard.

"What did you just say?"

"Move them all away at once! Help migrate with the army! And give them a little money! Let them settle down for a while! ”

"Why! Save them! Do we have to give them money? This ............"

The earl, who loves money like life, blew up his hair directly, but was immediately forcibly suppressed by the cold eyes of the old man.

Seeing that many nobles were all angry, the old man covered his forehead and shook his head, scolding in his heart that the mud could not support the wall.

"Don't forget that the downstream villagers live on the river, and they must be extremely sensitive to the water level.

"It's just a group of ordinary people, what if they find out?"

"They can't do anything, but they can run, they run around, and the orcs are not blind, how can they not see! When they saw it, they arrested people and asked why! Don't you know that we are intercepting the flow on it! ”

"Forehead ............"

The crowd who was angry with the old man was silent, and one of the viscounts hesitated after thinking for a moment.

"But if everyone moves away, I'm afraid the orcs will find out too, right?"

"Then send the soldiers in! Disguise yourself as a villager and let them see! Just in time for the dam to be breached, they will be able to hunt and kill orcs in the high ground below! If ordinary villagers don't listen to our commands, can the army still not listen! ”

Under the old man's justification and strong suppression, the nobles finally agreed to his plan.

Soldiers were then sent out, and they began to evacuate the people from various villages on a long detour, and distributed money to let them go out and hide for a while.

As for the impending flooding of the village? Anyway, the nobles promised to repair it for them in the future, and as for whether it will really be repaired in the future, it can only depend on whether these nobles keep their promises.

Quickly disperse the villagers, station soldiers in camouflage, cut off water and build dams and walls.

Under the command of the old man Rayleigh, all actions are perfect.

It's a pity that the old man, who has rich combat experience, still made a common-sense mistake, that is, he underestimated the IQ of orcs.

To be precise, underestimating the IQ of the orc leader.

Don't forget that the orcs are in charge at this time, it's an ancient second egg.

He actually doesn't have anything, after all, he doesn't know how to arrange troops to fight.

But the problem is that this kid has a group of elite traders under his hands!

Traders who are doing business in various villages to make money, and several of them are in the downstream villages.

They were also dispersed together, and even because they were outsiders, the soldiers did not pay them.

After a little probing from a few of the poor-mouthed soldiers, the vendors quickly understood what the other party was up to.

And this news also fell into the hands of Gu Erdan an hour later.