By writing letters to the soldiers, I began to get to know them gradually

Whether it's a Wikibian, a Valan, or a Berke, they all think the same way, or they all behave the same when they write letters to their families: no one brags about their military exploits, most of them are worried about their family's agricultural products and their family's work, some are concerned about whether their children are still sick, some ask if their brothers are out to work part-time, and some are nagging about their dead parents

Everyone has their own story, and that's a lesson I've learned

Everything in the world is connected, and history often appears in different people's minds in different images

A Burke recalls that they had survived a flood in their hometown downstream, and in order to relieve the flood, they dug up the banks of the river upstream under the leadership of the mayor to let the flood drain ahead of time, while a Wiki recalled an inexplicable rise in previous years, and the river overflowed the field overnight and rushed to the doorstep;

One Wikibian said that his lord had burned down his enemy's estate, and another had worked part-time at the estate;

One Salander recalls being cursed in some of the mountains for his faith, while another Valan had a similar experience

Even with the size of a hundred people, they themselves are not surprised that the trajectory of these people's lives is already very large, but in my opinion, it is indeed an interesting thing

Love, they have experienced the same thing at different times, and they have influenced each other in different places

Anyone seems to have some connection in the dark, even if you are a stranger, most likely played with you when you were a teenager; The old man who rests in the streets may have teased you when you were young; The helpless crying widow is likely to be best friends with your mother during her girlhood

The world may be big, or it may be smaller than I thought

But soon after I finally got a little tired of the work of writing a house, I had to write a lot of things every day, and these soldiers always asked me if these letters could be mailed, or asked me if these things would be peeked at, I could only tell them that I didn't know, but these soldiers would not stop at all, they had to get to the bottom of the question, and over time, I could only reduce the number of letters I wrote every day, but when I saw the way they looked forward to it, I was embarrassed to refuse, so I looked forward to being able to go out for a walk

I told Giovanni that I wanted to go out for a walk and see the outside world

I was registering the list of goods, and Giovanni was in a hurry to go to the King's Edict with a big candle, so I was asked to write quickly, Orion's daughter likes to light a candle every time she is doing things, and she said that she needs to recognize everyone as soon as possible, which annoys me very much, because every time Giovanni goes to her, she has to take the big candle away, so I have to speed up the process of transcribing the list of goods, I asked Giovanni to give me a candle and let me do it

He looked at the light and wrote, but Giovanni said that he was not at ease with lighting a candle while he was away

Giovanni hesitated for a moment when he heard my request, and then said, "Okay, there may be a chance in the near future not to think about this, and to pay almost the grain from the farm where the wheat harvest was collected today, and don't mess up the last few records."

I soon learned what the opportunity was for Giovanni: to go out and buy goods and sell the excess

Although the production of the barracks is very rich, but it can't be sold for too much money, some mushrooms, fungus, and cheese can make the table rich, but it is difficult to make the money bag abundant, and the barracks mainly make money or rely on those armor and weaponsEvery year, customers from all over the country will give the iron ingots and the money to buy charcoal to the Valans in advance, and then the Valans will send the armor back after a few months, and generally make five or six pieces of armor and weapons, and the Valans can keep one for themselves

The Valans were able to turn iron ingots worth a thousand dinars into weapons and armor worth three thousand dinars, but then they did not know what to do, and if they could sell these weapons themselves, they would become more than five thousand dinars; If they could form caravans and take these goods to distant lands, they would make a lot of money; And if they can set up their own stores, buy iron ingots and firewood, and at the same time forge and sell these goods in a steady stream, then they will make more money

This kind of whole chain industry is very profitable, but it is too difficult to establish

I told Giovanni about the industry of Gil, which I had seen at Fendra, and that Gil had controlled the industry from the beginning of the seeds: Gil's people sold good seeds, and the farmers would grow them into seedlings on fertile land; Then Jill's estate would buy the seedlings and grow them in their own land; These seedlings will gradually grow into plump grapes, apples and pears hanging from the branches, oily olives, and plants for indigo and red pulp

Jill is in control of every step, his guilds are able to control the market, his shops are able to control the flow of goods, and his guild merchants are able to handle transactions directly without allowing anyone to exploit them

When Giovanni heard this, he was not enthusiastic at all: "If the blacksmith cares about these things, the skill of the hammer will decline; If the farmer cares about these things, the yield of the crops will fall; Soldiers care about these things, how can they fight? ”

"Then shouldn't you care?" I asked him, "Count Kalinin has always been concerned about these things."

Vanny nodded, "So he lost his territory and was driven to the east and became nothing."

"No, he became your lord"

At this point, Giovanni didn't bother to fight with me any longer, he would pat the dust on his body and think about whether to go drinking with the soldiers at night or study the King's Edict

That night, Giovanni took the candles away again, and I could only stay in the dark for a while, and then go to the basement to play with the soldiers

fortunately

Now they don't reject me very much, although I am much younger than them, and I can't talk to them about many topics, but I never disturb their chat, so they gradually let go

They like to brag about how many women they have slept with, how many men they have killed, how rich they have been, and most of these stories are unreliable, and I think that the simpler the person who speaks, the less lies he will tell, and the person who talks about it always speaks with moisture

There was a Varan who said that he was once frozen half dead on a snowy mountain, so he killed a bison and spent the winter in its belly, and a Salander swore to Allah that there would be no bison above the snow line, and the Valan immediately changed his story and said that it was something that looked like a buffalo, but this man had lost his credibility, and others would boo him whatever he said in the future

There are many more of them, most of them are similar to sailor stories, full of bizarre imagination, but it's fun to listen to

I began to learn to drink, to sniff, and even to smoke the smoking blades of grass of the Salanders, and I began to learn the swearing mantras they uttered, and one of the soldiers offered to let me sleep with the Orion's daughter, but I refused, and my courage ended there, for they always said how wonderful women were, but to me at that time I was only curious, and not much in thought

But then I think of the moment Messiah came, and remembered the moment he kissed me in the snow

A Burke man asked me

"Victor, have you slept with a woman?" ”

"Slept" I said hard and said that everyone here said that they had slept with women when they were ** years old, and of course I couldn't lose to them

"What is a woman like?" A lot of people looked at me with bad intentions, "You don't know?" ”

"Aren't they all the same?" I asked rhetorically

"We all know," said the Burke, cutting off the bacon piece by piece with a blade, and throwing it into his mouth and chewing it, "but tell me what kind of woman you sleep on?" ”

"Anyway, you won't like it: my woman's ass is not big, and she won't dangle her chest when she walks, and at the same time, she doesn't have thick eyebrows and big eyes, she doesn't like to do farm work, it's just useless."

There was a sympathetic sigh among the soldiers, "Victor, I have suffered you too", "This kind of girl is really liked", "Victor is also a poor person"

Because what I described was so unattractive, these people lost interest

At this time, Giovanni shrunk his head and walked into the basement with a half-burned candle, Giovanni pretended to be calm, hoping to reduce the attention of the soldiers, and inadvertently sat down among the soldiers, but all the soldiers squinted at Giovanni for the first time, and all looked thoughtful

The Burke man suddenly said, "It's fast, it's really fast."

The surrounding soldiers slowly reflected, and the candles in Giovanni's hands came back without burning out, so everyone nodded, "It's really fast"

Giovanni was taken aback by the situation of the word "what is so fast."

？ ”

"Nothing," said one of the soldiers

At the same time, several soldiers quietly counted the silver beans in their purses and slipped out of the basement

Giovanni pretended to be calm and sat down among us, and the soldiers moved a place for him, and he sat down with the soldiers around him and told him to pay attention to his body in the future, so as not to make it worse

Giovanni politely thanked him, and then he announced something, "Okay, now that the things here are busy, the annual customary shopping is about to start again, everyone knows what to do?" ”

The soldiers around them glanced at each other and nodded in understanding

"Well, we're going to go a little farther this year, and those who follow me are ready to do the same as last year, and when I leave here, my cavalry captain, Sir Harold, will be in charge of the camp, what about Harold?" Giovanni asked

"He's gone to the old woman," said one of the soldiers, the old woman was the name they called the soldier, so that Orion's daughter could be distinguished

"That's right," said another soldier, "he's not that fast, or he'd be here"

A low laugh sneered

Giovanni glanced majestically at the soldier, and then continued, "Well, he already knows what he has arranged, and I want you to listen to Sir Harold's orders while I am away, and treat him as if he were me, understand?" ”

"Yes," the soldiers nodded together

"Well, all right," said Giovanni, "we'll get the goods to Dadonghu City first."

Joey took sixteen men with me, and I have already found the carriage, ox cart, and chauffeur, and you will be in charge of escorting it then."

"Yes, sir," Joey replied, sitting in a corner

"Staven went to Valankov to report our whereabouts and brought a hundred and twenty sacks of wheat, rye and oats."

"Understood, sir," said the other man

"Rashid?"

"I'm listening," a Salander nodded

"You apply to go home for three months, and I will give you a month and a half, and a grace period of two months and sixty days at most, and you will come back to report to Sir Harold."

"Okay, okay" The Salander soldier pressed his chest and bowed his head in thanks

Then, Giovanni stood up

"And, Victor," said Giovanni, "you're with me this time".

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