Eva didn't mind, she wished she could do more work for herself.

However, David knew in his heart that as Winter Town grew bigger and bigger, Eva, as his assistant, would have more and more intelligence information to deal with, and he might not have the extra energy to deal with trivial matters.

"Until then, Elias can work part-time!"

Anyway, Elias Parker, the ceremonial officer, currently has the job of housekeeper and servant, and in the future, as the population increases, after recruiting some servants, Elias only needs to work part-time as a housekeeper.

Qualified chefs are more difficult to find, and you may have to choose a suitable target from other worlds.

This goal must be that you have no worries in the original world, are willing to settle in Winter Town, and have no ambitions yourself.

After thinking about it for a while, David realized that it was very difficult to find the right person, and he might have to go with the flow.

"Or, ask Jonah to help train some cooks."

"Do you want Jonah to open a chef school?"

"That's pretty good, too." The school is called Newest, and if Van Cleef develops some intelligence agents from it, maybe it can become the main source of intelligence for the Winter Empire?

However, before cultivating professional intelligence officers, if Winter Town wants to obtain intelligence information about the surrounding area, it can only rely on the simplest and most direct way: go to the surrounding area.

As time passed, autumn approached, and an ominous smell began to permeate the northern plains.

Many villages are plagued by depression in their interiors, and all kinds of contradictions have accumulated to a certain extent, so there is a lack of an introduction to detonate these troubles.

The way David learned this information, in addition to the fact that the soldiers and Arcie were able to spot more and more people who wanted to invade the borders of Winter, was that people from other villages began to come to Winter.

Some of the older and more experienced farmers realized that something was wrong when they saw the harvest getting worse and worse, and they estimated the approximate yield of the crop.

Many people began to flee: most of them chose to flee the northern plains, and only a few of them, the farmers who were too far away from Irontree and closer to Wintertown, came to Davy with the idea of trying their luck.

Although in the eyes of these farmers, the Northern Plains are not as good as advertised, since the town has existed here for more than three years, there should be a relatively stable way to obtain food, right?

They didn't know if their guess was correct, but they were sure that they would not survive this winter if they stayed in their original village.

After a farmer fled from another village to Wintertown, David and Arcie increased their scouting distance and flew farther a few times.

Although there was no direct view of the clash, there are clear signs of attacks in some villages.

Among them, Tieshui Village, located in the south of Lindong Town, is the most serious.

Molten Iron Village, named after the name of the river that flows out of the Irontree Forest, is located directly south of Wintertown, some distance from the pioneer camp that was destroyed by the elves.

The village chief of Amantis, who had established the village, felt that if he kept enough distance from the Iron Tree Forest, he would not attract an attack from the elves.

The facts gave the village chief a *** pocket.

The elves of the Iron Tree Forest directly built a temporary camp on the site of the original pioneer camp, and confronted the Iron Metal Village from afar.

Throughout the year, conflicts broke out between the two sides from time to time, and with the help of several noble forces, the Molten Iron Village was established.

The village chief of Tieshui Village, Amamantis, was relieved, just waiting for the farmland to be reclaimed and stable crops, and the village slowly grew and grew.

As for the town of Winter to the north? Let's let the baron of Glamorgan, who has gone out of his shit luck, be proud for a while!

Unexpectedly, although the farmland was reclaimed and the potatoes were successfully harvested in the first round of planting, the yield did not seem to be as much as advertised?

That doesn't matter, propaganda

It's not a strange thing to be exaggerated.

And, didn't it be said a long time ago that the land of the northern plains is barren? Low yields are acceptable, at least the new crop has a very short planting cycle, at least three rounds a year.

But when the second round of planting yielded fewer potatoes, Amantis began to realize that something was wrong.

By this time, the old farmers who had followed him to open up the land and establish the new village had already predicted that the third round of planting would be even worse.

"Doesn't that mean that this crop is very high-yielding? Didn't that bullshit Baron Glamorgan become a nobleman with this thing, and he has a winter town as his territory?"

Amantis couldn't understand that the same potatoes were all potatoes, how did that David Glamorgan get enough food on a consistent basis?

"This...... My lord, could it be because there are so few people in Winter Town?"

In fact, the nobles of Irontree were unaware of the specifics of Winterfell, and their information was still based on the information that Maloney Mansfield had brought back in the first place.

In that document, the population of Winter Town was quite sparse, with only a few residents.

As for how David later obtained the establishment of Winter Town from the royal capital, the people of Iron Tree Fort are not very clear;

However, they speculated that Baron David Glamorgan, who had been given the establishment of Wintertown, must have recruited the population of the Population Augmentation Territory.

But the specific number is not clear to everyone, but by estimation, it is speculated that the number should not be too much.

In addition, throughout the year, the surrounding villages and towns tacitly intercepted those civilians who wanted to go to Winter Town, and they felt that the population of Winter Town must be very small.

There is not enough population, even if Winter Town is called a town, everyone does not take it seriously, in the eyes of these people, it is still a small village in the middle of nowhere.

"If there are not many people...... Do you think we'll get enough food from that Baron Glamorgan?"

"This...... Winter is the domain of His Majesty the King."

"Of course I do, so we're ready to borrow some food from the esteemed Baron Glamorgan, in order to survive the current predicament."

Although Amantis said that he was "borrowing", the people around him understood what he meant.

While the village chief of Amantis was studying how to borrow food and other supplies from Baron Glamorgan, the farmers in his village were also having a headache about how to survive this winter.

Farmers from the local area of Tieshubao, for those who came from afar and wanted to go to Winter Town, but were intercepted in Tieshui Village, popularized how harsh and cold the winter on the northern plains is.

And their current food stocks are definitely not enough for them to support that long winter.

When these non-local farmers learned about the problems they were about to face, they also began to regret their original choice. In any case, they never imagined that the farmland that they had obtained with great difficulty and hard work would not only have no way to make a good life for them, but would even have to put a question mark on whether they could survive.

"What if this place is really that bad? How did that winter town come to be?"

"Who knows? Perhaps, as the village chief said, it was actually His Majesty the King who gave the baron enough supplies."

"Why did His Majesty do this?"

"Maybe the Baron of Glamorgan is actually ...... His Majesty's illegitimate son."

"You don't want to die? How did you arrange Your Majesty?"

"Afraid of what? I don't live in Winter under His Majesty the King, or the Baron."

The topic of discussion gradually shifted from survival to gossip, but there were also some people with clear minds who were thinking about their own way of life. Z.br>

"Well, there should be enough food in Wintertown......

"I guess so!" The speaker looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he whispered his plan, "If the winter doesn't go right, I'm going to run to Winter Town."

"What's the use of running through it in winter? Could it be that the Baron of Glamorgan would be kind

and give you food and shelter to help you survive the winter?"

"I met two friends on the way here, and they didn't stop in any village, but insisted on going to Winter Town...... If the winter doesn't get through, I'll go to them." Speaking of this, the man sighed helplessly: "It's a big deal to be indentured farmers for them, let's live first!"

「……」

Although he spoke in a low voice, the people around him heard it more or less, and among these people there were also farmers who knew the two people, and they all regretted their decision in their hearts, and it would have been better if they had gone to Winter Town in the first place.

There are those who regret it, and naturally there are those who don't, they feel that even if they go to Winter Town, their situation will not be much better than now.

It's all on the northern plains, it's all this barren land, it's all growing potatoes, and everyone's situation is probably the same!

Similar conversations and ideas are not only happening in Molten Village, but in almost all the villages and towns on the Northern Plains.

Even in Frost Town, some people had a similar idea at this time: If you can't get by, can you go to Winter Town?

As Sheen Forrester, who has had real contact with Wintertown, also began to think seriously: should I "borrow" some food from Baron Glamorgan?

Eventually, however, he was afraid of attacking His Majesty's domain, and decided to attack the villages in the southeast first.

"Destroy this group of idiots who don't know how to measure first! Dare to run in front of our Forrester house to spread wild, I don't know whether to live or die!"

Frost's path to the west is blocked by Winter, and to the north is a worse, harsher area, and Frostbite can only develop in two directions to the southeast.

As a result, there is a village blocking the only direction of development, which makes Sheehan Forrester extremely annoyed, ready to let the idiots roll out of the northern plains.

At a time when the entire northern plain was undercurrents and conflicts were about to erupt at any time, David and Laura visited the fully built Fort Glamorgan, discussing what furniture should be available in each room.