After snow covered most of the town of Phumesius outside, the forgotten Friesen returned with a convoy.

Lawrence took Sariel and Delenn with great difficulty and left the manor, stepping on the snow and walking down carefully on the snow.

"The trouble is dead, and the big winter will come up and down."

Lawrence grumbled, looking at the sloping hillside and the quiet forest in the distance.

Sariel comforted: "Lawrence, you are like this, if you move a little, you have to say, usually we sit at home for so long, and it is good to come out and walk around once in a while." ”

Lawrence retorted, "I don't have idleness every day, I can't finish every day. ”

"Okay, okay, I see, you're busy." Sariel responded perfunctorily to this more serious Lawrence.

Lawrence walked down with his stick and said, "When we get back, let Khallan plant a few big trees on the way down the mountain, and then we will build a viaduct and go down the mountain." ”

Sariel thought for a moment, unable to imagine what it was.

Delenn couldn't figure out what it was, "What's that?" Delen asked directly.

Lawrence explains: "It is to make a sloping hill out of large trees and chains, and to step on this road over the hills, so that you don't have to go back and forth later." ”

Because of his familiarity with the nearby terrain, Lawrence was very sure: "If the viaduct is made, we will only need to run from the manor to the town of Phumethius in ten minutes!" ”

There is no need to take a detour, a bridge that is absolutely straight and sloping, and it will definitely be very easy to run.

Sariel and Delen still couldn't imagine a concrete object.

This kind of thing is too far ahead of its time, it is very simple to say, but in fact it is simply incredible, and no normal person in this era would have such a weird idea.

Lawrence could tell the two witches didn't understand by looking at their blank expressions.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, it doesn't affect everyone working together to make good things.

Like the Colossus of Crowfeathers, the viaduct was a spectacle of its time, but for a more practical purpose.

Lawrence thought carefully about the purpose of the viaduct.

If it's a slightly sloping passage, you can create a sink and pass the news, put a hollow paper ball in it, and then roll down to the other side of the mountain.

Papermaking should also be developed as soon as possible, and set as the main direction of attack next year, just like the hydro-powered mill.

In addition to delivering messages and getting on the road quickly, Lawrence felt that the viaduct could also serve as a defensive facility, allowing people to stand on it and throw stones to facilitate the attack of the slinging troops.

However, most barbarians should have a fear of heights...... There aren't many barbarians like Sariel and Delen who aren't afraid of heights.

Thinking about various things in their hearts, they walked very steadily, and soon the three of them came to the town of Pumixiu.

The nearby villagers came over to greet him, "Lord Prophet, Friesen has come back and is drinking in the tavern, and he has brought back three cartloads of wine. ”

Lawrence nodded, since the statue of Crow Feather was erected, whether it was the people in the village or in the mountains, there was more awe in their eyes.

"Lord Prophet." The woman she met on the road nearby quickly stopped and bent down with a bucket of water in greeting.

Men, women, and children all bowed their heads in awe.

Lawrence quickly entered the noisy tavern, just like the head teacher walked into the classroom, and the tavern that had been bustling just now quickly fell silent.

Freeson quickly turned to see Lawrence, got up from the table, walked over, and got down on one knee in front of Lawrence.

"Prophet, I have fulfilled your commission and brought back wine and women!"

Lawrence reached out and gently lowered his hand on Friesen's oily head, "God is always watching you, and your contribution will be known." ”

Lawrence quickly withdrew his hand and walked over to the empty table in the tavern and sat down.

Friesen got up and followed, and said excitedly: "The things you have brought me with you have been liked by many nobles, and they asked me what I wanted, and I said women and wine, and they gave me a lot!" ”

The brains of savages are not that simple, but Friesen is not among those who are too smart.

He had food and drink in the town of Bhumesius, and there were not many rewards in his head, so he asked for women and wine instead of food and livestock, books and men.

Lawrence wasn't surprised by the three-cart ale thing.

It is true that there was a potato famine in the kingdom of Rofen and the southern kingdom, but the nobles did not eat potatoes, they ate bread, and the most planted wheat grains were also crops.

Potatoes were the foundation of the common people and the poor, and they were the key to supporting the large population of the Southern Kingdom.

Even in the Southern Kingdom, the lives of the poor did not affect the food and drink of the nobles.

Therefore, in the past two years, merchants will trade wheat here, and on the whole there is no shortage of wheat.

The number of people who can consume wheat has always been in the minority, and even if the potatoes are not harvested, they will not affect the wheat.

In the past, this was the case here in the town of Bometheus, and only Andrew's family could eat pure wheat bread, and everyone else ate it together.

Famine and war brought a large number of slaves, and Lawrence, although he did not ask, determined that the price of slaves was much lower than before.

Freesson quickly pulled out the slaves who were crouching in the corner.

The fat man said excitedly, "Lord Prophet, this is the slave I have chosen, and they are all the slaves you like!" ”

Lawrence was not interested in any of this, but only looked at it a little out of the status of ruler.

Several of the slaves were women, some of them were average-looking, and some of them looked a little more beautiful and looked like people who had worked on the estate.

Lawrence was looking at these people, and these people were all looking at Lawrence carefully, and quickly lowered their heads.

"What are you all going to do?" Lawrence asked, "If you've ever done tailoring, winemaking, farming, or anything other than housework, you can name it, and I'll arrange things for you according to your abilities." ”

Soon a woman stood up and said, "I raise chickens and pigs on the farm, I make bread, and I milk goats. ”

Lawrence nodded, "Okay, wait for you and me to go to my manor." ”

"Yes, master." The woman quickly recognized the owner.

These men worked in aristocratic estates before they came, and belonged to experienced slaves.

But even so, the nobles want to sell them, which is a matter of thought.

Most of the city-state nobles could not expand their territories and estates at will, and if the population was too large, they had to sell some slaves, just like cattle and sheep, and there would be no unlimited growth.

Slaves are also one of the commodities of each estate, like agricultural tools, which are in demand, but also sold to other estates or markets.

The willingness of the aristocracy to buy slaves was not strong, and both the barbarian nobility and the southern aristocracy had their own primitive accumulation.

The real buyers of slaves were basically small families, men who divided the family, or shops and workshops and other places that needed labor.

Knights and nobles did not need to buy slaves in a big way, they were all enclosures, enclosing villages.

In this era of underdeveloped capital economy, considering unstable factors such as stealing and escaping, the slaves outside are certainly not as good as the serfs in the fiefs.

It's not the same as the slaves that Andrew bought in the early days, or maybe it's no different.

Only this time, after seeing Lawrence's beautiful manor, the female slaves were willing to stay without care, and would not choose to risk escaping like the first slaves.

Lawrence has long understood a truth, when people are poor, dogs will dislike them.

After four or five days of observation, Lawrence determined that the new slave would not escape this time, and was more than willing to stay and live there.

They consciously behave in front of their masters, hoping to be lucky maids.

This performance made Lawrence understand that he was no longer the poor boy he used to be, but a noble lord who was so powerful that someone would take the initiative to attach himself to him.

Suppressing the joy and pride in his heart, Lawrence quickly began the manor construction plan in a down-to-earth manner, taking advantage of the dry winter to open up rivers and wasteland to prepare for next year's wheat fields.

These things can be done by others, and Lawrence finds Kehallan and describes his plan for the viaduct with Kehalan.

"What's that?" Keharan looked puzzled, unable to think of what that kind of thing was.

(End of chapter)