As for this group of robbers who dared to attack him in winter, or if there were only a group of more than twenty bandits, Lawrence wanted to know why.

"Why are you attacking my territory?"

Lawrence looked at the man condescendingly, and the other party looked like a southerner.

The body is not very strong, and it does not look like a thin peasant, who is dying of being beaten at this time, and cannot see what it looks like when he is healthy.

In order to survive, Rickel honestly said: "I come from the forests of the south. ”

Lawrence asked, "Where in the forest?" ”

There is indeed an area in the south that is forested, an extension of the mountains, and there are not many roads that are really suitable for walking.

In this era, every road is walked out, it seems that the road extends in all directions, but in fact, there are only one or two roads that are really taken, and the rest of the places are in a very primitive area, which is very dangerous and easy to get lost.

Unlike modern countries, there was a lot of undeveloped land in this era, and even in many countries in the South, there was a lot of undeveloped land.

The vicinity of the kingdom of Lorfen is certainly not a particularly good place, with a lot of primeval forests covered with boreal plants.

The territory of Stahl is close to these forests, extending from Ferry Harbor in a zigzag route, to the Witch Swamp on the left, to Pigtrotter City on the right, and most of the area in the middle is a pyramid-shaped resource area.

At the top is the icy land, then the frozen soil, then the swampy and rotten land that is muddy every spring, then the meadows, the plains, the forests.

In fact, the area of the Luofen Kingdom is very large, it is said to be a forest, but there are many forests, just knowing that they live in the forest, they basically have no ability to find out this group of people, and this is not a park grove.

Rickel was silent and did not say where his hometown was.

Lawrence knew that the other party was not lying, and at first he didn't lie because he felt that it didn't matter.

If you don't continue to answer, you are afraid of harming your family.

If a barbarian goes out to rob and is caught, he will definitely say that he is from the north, but if he is asked what exactly is the location and where his home is, it is either nonsense or silence.

It was only from the man's subtle reaction that Lawrence determined the identity of the group.

"You are a group of people living in the forest, a group of people who developed and migrated from the kingdom of Luofen in the early years, and it seems that life in the forest is not as good as outside."

Lawrence stared at Rickel.

Rickel looked up at Lawrence and looked at Lawrence with a nervous expression.

Lawrence roughly confirmed his guess.

It's just a robbery of the rich from the poor.

In the Great Unification Dynasty, this kind of thing will be less, but it is not impossible, and this kind of thing cannot be eliminated.

In the period of earth civilization, this group of people is equivalent to the old and young border people, or the kind of people who are poor and remote, barefoot and do not want to die.

At the same time, they have the blood of the barbarians in this primitive period, they have no resistance to robbery, and if they can't survive, they will rob, and they also think that robbery is a kind of business, which is a proof of bravery and strength.

This group of people is quite obedient to their nature, snatching other people's wealth and women into their hands, is it still sad that things can't be done?

It's not that Lawrence can't educate this group of stubborn bandits, but lately people have become lazy and don't want to preach anyone.

"It's just a bunch of rats." Lawrence waved his hand casually and said, "Bring it back and bury it in the soil with his companions, and the ghoul vine will find him." ”

Rickel didn't know what a ghoul vine was, but quickly realized the fear.

The two barbarians quickly took Rickel away, Lawrence didn't care about this, just ordered people everywhere to keep an eye on it, and the number of people drinking no matter what time in the future should not be higher than one-third, so as to prevent the main force from being drunk and not being able to react.

Apart from alerting him that this had happened, Lawrence didn't send a single soldier, and he didn't bother to think about countermeasures.

Allowing the villagers to arm themselves is the biggest confidence that Lawrence is not worried about the invasion.

As long as there are weapons and organization, then every village is a corps, and there is no need for Lawrence to protect them, they can protect themselves.

Unless it's a national-level war, they can solve it by themselves in peacetime, bandits, bandits, beasts, and the like.

The downside is that once the villages and towns have armed forces, it will be very dangerous for the nobles and lords to try to manage them!

The Western Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom will not learn this, this will only bring trouble, increase the cost of management, and at the same time, the people will quickly produce the squire and strong because of the difference in strength and weakness.

The cost of raising a group of sheep is definitely not the same as raising a group of wolves, and the danger is not the same.

The peasants and workers in each village were provided with weapons, food and cold supplies, and even allowed to open their own blacksmith shops and train their own soldiers.

If there is no strong influence of Lawrence to rule deeply, then there will be chaos, and chaos will not be the same, and the war between villages will definitely become more and more fierce!

However, even if it is chaotic, as long as the villagers have swords in their hands and are well fed and drunk, they can beat the robbers in the south and break their blood.

This generation of Siddlers and Wakiri people have actively participated in various battles, and the battle between life and death has long been commonplace, even enthusiastic.

The people stationed in the corps are accustomed to bragging, and they like to brag about how powerful they are when they drink a little wine, and sometimes they don't dare to say how powerful they are, so they always say how powerful others are, which to some extent makes many people who have never been to the battlefield yearn for the battle of blood and fire.

No money is not a shame, being humiliated is a shame, the definition of shame in this era is different, when you are invaded, you choose to escape, but you must not use safety first to shirk it, and there is no official to the people, are extremely resistant to this kind of behavior.

Legally, Lawrence had no obligation to bail out this group of non-taxers, but only provided them with a place to farm and pay grain, which Lawrence had exchanged for Pig's Trotter City and Stahl, and had always belonged to Lawrence.

If they can't keep the place where they live, then they can change the group of people to guard it.

Rickel was brought back to Southtown by the indifferent Southtowns, and was even fed bread and wine, and given a warm coat.

Everyone looked at this rarity with sympathy or anger.

Rickel was aware of the fear, but he didn't know what it was.

His companion had been buried in the earth, and a pit was left a few hundred meters from the village to hold a man.

"It's coming!"

A frightened shout rang out among the onlookers, and everyone quickly looked in all directions.

"Over there!"

Rickel was thrown into a dirt pit by two men, his hands and feet tied, and nearby villagers quickly threw a large amount of snow on him with shovels.

Covered in cold, dirty snow, Rickel couldn't see what was outside.

A black vine that wriggled and crawled between the ground and the ground like an earthworm was slowly approaching the place.

The hard, cold ground was lifted up like sand, and soon the earthworm monster was completely hidden beneath the surface.

It didn't take long for blood to pour out of the place where the dead were buried!

The ground was constantly bulging, as if something terrible was going underground!

There are now five ghoul vines in the territory, in addition to the three huge ghoul vines of the three witches, there are also two small ghoul vines one and a half meters long, which are from the wizards of the previous pirate kingdom.

A wizard who doesn't eat people will definitely not give birth to a corpse vine, and a cannibal wizard may not really have a corpse vine, but if he eats too many people, he will definitely have a corpse vine!

The ghoul vine only eats the dead, and the longer it rots, the higher the temperature of the accumulation, the easier it is to attract the ghoul vine, and the ghoul vine usually does not travel too far from the corpse that was born, and has a clear sense of territory.

The people of Nanzhen quickly went back to sleep and drink, and there was no one to guard anything in this ice and snow.

They did not understand the properties of the ghoul vine, and they also mistakenly carried out Lawrence's orders, thinking that Rickel would definitely die.

In the tradition of the barbarians, there is also a tradition of giving the dead the last meal, especially in Nanzhen, where there is no shortage of food and drink, and on the premise of knowing that this person will die a miserable death, he gives some food and drink.

Struggling in the snow, Rickel quickly stood up and dug for the snow with his bound hands.

The ghoul vine passed by Rickel and went to eat another corpse.

Where the ghoul vines passed, the soil became soft, which indirectly helped Rickel escape.

Rickel, who climbed out of the snow cave, looked at the bulging snow around him and the blood that had solidified around him, and his face was pale.

Rickel used all imaginable images to imagine the terrifying creature he had never met, and with all his strength he bit the rope and ran for his life in the snow. (End of chapter)