"Anna, you go and help me call Odryik and the others, let's go to the town to recruit new soldiers, by the way, you also go on horseback."

After Thomas left, Gervais began to call his little maid Anna again, when Thomas and other outsiders were around, Anna was very quiet, if it wasn't for Gervais to tell her, she would usually stand in the back position.

Now that Nashen is gone, Gervais needs to get down to business, recruiting troops is the first thing he thinks about day and night, especially now that he has intercepted Lenny's convoy and set fire to the camp, in this case, Gervais has to prepare for possible revenge.

"Yes, sir."

Anna saw that her lord looked at her, especially her own appearance carefully, her little face flushed and hurriedly responded, and then she bowed to Gervais obediently and quickly returned to the castle.

"Hehe, I blush at a glance, this is this world, if I had been in my previous life, I would definitely have received two big eyes."

Watching Anna walk into the castle, Gervais muttered happily that occasionally teasing his little maid would make Gervais happy, a pleasure he had rarely experienced in his previous life.

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"Your Excellency!"

In a few moments, Audri and Laurie followed Anna to the outside of the castle.

"Well, Laurie, Audrey, you two will be responsible for recruiting soldiers later, thirty people, aged 18 to 22 years old, and you will check the rest yourself!"

Gervais nodded to the two, and the recruitment of soldiers was handed over to the two of him, after all, they are veterans, and their vision must be better than their own, although it is only to select the big soldiers, there is nothing to pick.

The number of recruits increased by 10 more Gervais, originally because of poverty, he could only recruit 20 soldiers to temporarily maintain the defense of the territory, but in the near future, he will soon have a lot of income, Gervais simply recruited 10 more guards as his own personal guard, after all, Viscount Lenny is a big threat to him.

If it weren't for the fact that the population of the territory was too small, Gervais would have wanted to recruit one hundred and eighty to feel at ease.

Now that he has nitrate energy to make ice, the seafood industry will start immediately, and judging from the reaction of Anna, Nashen and others to ice cubes, just ice cubes alone can make money.

Of course, Gervais will not just sell ice cubes, but will add a little juice, or a little more advanced milk or the like, to make popsicles or ice cream, and sell them in other territories, especially to the little nobles.

The cost is just labor and transportation costs, and it is definitely a huge profit.

"Yes, sir!"

Laurie and Audri were excited when they heard that Gervais was going to recruit soldiers, the three of them followed from Gandalf, they were Gervais's most trusted guards, as long as there were more guards, they might be able to get a half-official position, and get a squad leader to be one, although there may be only one place, but there is no hurry, and there will be a chance to improve in the future.

"Very good, let's go, I see there are already a lot of people in the town square!"

"Yes, sir!" The two hurriedly responded, and after Gervais turned over and got on the horse, the two also quickly got on the horse and slowly followed behind Gervais and Anna.

In order to take care of Anna, who was not very good at riding, Gervais slowed down his horse and it took him five or six minutes to reach the town square.

"Your Lord!"

"Your Lord!"

Just like the last time, everyone in the town knelt down and saluted when they saw Gervais.

It's just that this time the number of people is much smaller than when recruiting maids, most of them are young men, and only a small number of family members accompany them, after all, the recruitment requirement is 18 years old, which is already independent, and the parents are not so empty to accompany them.

"Get up!"

Gervais replied to the serf.

"Audrey, Laurie, you two go recruit first, I'll go to the blacksmith shop, and come back later!"

When Gervais saw the serfs get up, he turned his head to Odrri and said a word, and then rode his horse and continued towards the front of the town.

Now that the drawings of the musket have been drawn, Gervais is ready to take it to Bernard to build one first, and by the way, forge a pair of armor for himself, intercept the Lenny team last night, Gervais has seen the combat power after equipping the armor, and a high-level knight can fight on par with the peak knight is to have an advantage in defense.

And the peak knight didn't know if it was to hide his traces, he didn't bring armor, he just wore a piece of chain mail and leather armor, and was easily stabbed in the back by himself, if the peak knight was wearing iron armor, even if he was stabbed by the long sword strengthened by Gervais, because of the obstruction of the armor, he also had time to react and avoid being stabbed directly in the heart.

Arriving at the door of the blacksmith and leaving Anna outside, Gervais walked into the blacksmith shop alone.

"Hello, lord!"

When Gervais walked through the crowded front room, he saw Bernard, who was not striking iron today, and was alone concocting the boar skin sent by Gervais.

"Hello, Bernard! How's the progress of my custom weapon? ”

Gervais asked aloud as he watched Bernard soak the sliced boar skin in a vat filled with liquid.

"My lord, the body of the long sword has been made, as long as it is polished, it can be completed, and the round shield is about the same, but the wood has not dried yet, so it will take a few days to wrap the iron sheet, as for the leather armor, you saw it, it is in progress, and you can start loading the iron sheet in three days!"

When Bernard saw Gervais, he behaved calmly and methodically informed Gervais of the progress of several weapons and equipment customized by Gervais.

"Very well, Bernard, I'm recruiting soldiers today, and I'm very pleased with your speed!"

At this rate, it won't be long before Gervais gets the equipment of twenty guards.

"Bernard, what do you see in my hand?"

After inquiring about the progress, Gervais took out a small piece of silver-white metal, the size of a quail egg, from his bosom and handed it to Bernard.

Bernard heard Gervais's inquiry, and raised his hand to take the silver-white metal in Gervais's palm in confusion, but when his eyes caught a glimpse of the silver-white metal, he was shocked, and his body stagnated for a moment, and only after a moment did he react, carefully looked at the metal in his hand, and then looked up at Gervais.

Bernard's reaction made Gervais a little strange, but his heart became excited, the silver metal he showed Bernard was naturally Mithril, mixed with Mithril's weapon armor attributes against the sky, but it also depends on the blacksmith's craftsmanship, a good blacksmith can play the true effect of Mithril, the craftsmanship is not good, even the blacksmith who has never seen Mithril handed him such a valuable thing is completely to throw money into the water, just listen to it, although as long as it is mixed with Mithril will definitely improve the quality of weapons and armor, but the quality is also divided into high and low, good and bad.