Chapter 66: Confluence
Hearing the critical moment, Nuo Sen was silent, Wang Yong scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously, and said angrily: "You should say it quickly, otherwise I will let you sleep with the Minotaur." β
Hearing Wang Yong's words, Nuosen immediately surrendered, and then said: "Sledgehammer They found iron ore in the innermost part of that cave, and according to their prediction, this iron ore should be a large deposit, and there may be iron essence in it, which is the best material for making weapons." β
Wang Yong's eyes lit up, when Marquis Martin introduced the coastal province in the past, he only said that there was only a small iron mine and a small copper mine here, and Wang Yong also planned to go to other places to buy iron ore when he was practicing steel in the future, but now the dwarf actually found a large iron mine, which is definitely a great news for Wang Yong.
Norsen continued: "After the dwarves knew that we were going to transfer, they were very reluctant to use the iron mine, and finally decided to seal the cave first, and then mine it when there is time and time in the future, and our time is just to delay blocking the cave and covering up the traces. β
Wang Yong was in a good mood when he heard this, laughed and said: "Okay, it's really good, the three of them have made a great contribution this time, and I have to reward them well." β
At this time, the three dwarves, who had been eavesdropping on the side, stood on the carriage and were complacent, and when they heard that there was a reward, they struck while the iron was hot and said, "Boss, this is what you said." β
Wang Yong had long known that they were eavesdropping on the side, and when he saw them jumping out, he patted his chest and said, "No problem, just tell me whatever reward you want, as long as I can do it, I will be satisfied." β
Sledgehammer didn't hesitate to say, "We want wine." β
The second hammer then said, "We want good wine." β
"We want a lot of good wine. β
Wang Yong smiled and asked, "Is this it?"
Sledgehammer shook his head and said, "No, we dwarves like to drink the most, and if we don't have it, it's worse than killing us." β
Wang Yong nodded and said: "Okay, you can drink the wine you get in the future, but the premise is that you can't delay the serious business, and it will depend on you to mine iron ore and build equipment in the future." β
Sledgehammer was serious, and said with a bit of pride: "Don't worry, boss, no matter how much wine we dwarves drink, we won't forget how to mine and forge metal." β
Wang Yong smiled and said: "Okay, I still have a few pots of good wine here, you drink them first, and when you get to the new station, there are still a lot of them, and you can drink whatever you want when the time comes." After speaking, he took out several large pots of wine from the space ring and handed them to the three of Sledgehammer.
These wines were all scraped from the bandits, and Wang Yong tasted them, and they tasted good. After the dwarf took the wine, he ignored Wang Yong, and the three of them sat in the carriage, shouting and drinking, and began to drink.
Wang Yong greeted Nosen, and came to the carriage in which Amy was riding.
Amy got the news when Wang Yong first arrived, but she was shy and didn't go to Wang Yong, she knew that Wang Yong would come to see her.
When she saw the familiar face that made her miss day and night, Amy finally couldn't help it and shed tears of longing happily.
There were a lot of people in the carriage, all women and children, and the boasting wife Lena sat next to Amy, laughing and teasing Amy: "Your men have come to see you, why are you still crying." β
Amy was even more embarrassed, and whispered, "Who man, we, we're not married yet." β
Wang Yong saw Amy's pretty face flushed because of shyness, under the reflection of the firelight, Amy looked more holy, and the crystal tears in the corners of her eyes made Amy even more moving, and I felt pity.
Looking at Amy's increasingly thin cheeks, remembering that since the two got engaged, they hadn't been with her well, Wang Yong felt that he owed Amy too much, so he made up his mind that after the bandits were exterminated, he must accompany this well-behaved fiancΓ©e who is both sensible and lovable.
Because there were other people present, Wang Yong and Amy were embarrassed to say lovesickness to each other in front of outsiders, and after the two just expressed their thoughts very implicitly, Wang Yong returned to the front of the team in Amy's reluctant gaze.
Nosen smiled and asked Wang Yong, "Have you met?"
Wang Yong had a warm smile on his face, nodded and said, "I've seen it, I've lost a lot of weight." β
Nossen hurriedly explained: "It's not that I don't feed her, Amy is a very stubborn, very caring good girl, because we are short of food now, everyone's food is rationed, Amy is worried that those children will not have enough to eat, and often distributes her own food to them." I saw that she was not full of food, so I gave her some food, but she refused to accept anything. Also, in order to help you, she learned to make clothes with the women, and the supplies she sent back last time included some cloth and animal skins, and she and a few tailors rushed to make a lot of clothes and leather armor overnight. The rest of the time, she also took those women to help us big men do the laundry and clean up the clutter, what a good girl. I have recognized Amy as my sister, and if you dare to bully her in the future, even if you are my boss, I would rather bear the charge of attacking the nobles and repair you well. Wang Yong smiled and said, "How can I hurt her, I don't have a hurry, how can I bully her." β
After chatting for a while, the people who were left behind by Wang Yong also arrived, and after everyone converged, Wang Yong and Hongzhong each brought a few people to patrol back and forth on both wings of the team, and the speed of the team was also much faster.
At noon the next day, the team finally arrived at the new station, and Nosen sighed that the scenery here was so good, and the defense capability of the cottage was much higher than that of the previous cave.
Ray greeted Varney and Kevin from a distance, and a group of people met and became very affectionate, and after laughing for a while, the group entered the cottage.
At this time, Wang Yong saw that Butler Hale was commanding everyone in an orderly manner, sorting the food and materials brought and moving them into the back warehouse, and the horses were also led to the horse farm behind the stockade that was closed by mountains, rivers, and cottages under Wang Yong's prompting.
The horse farm is actually a small untended wild grassland, the grassland area is large, the vegetation is lush, although it is now winter, but the climate here is humid and warm, the vegetation is still lush, it is a good place to make a horse farm.
After taking stock of all the materials now, Butler Hal found Wang Yong.
Wang Yong was discussing the future plan with everyone, and when he saw Butler Carl coming in, Wang Yong hurriedly got up and said with concern: "Done, come and take a rest." β
Butler Hal didn't sit down, and said to Wang Yong gently, "I'm here to report the statistical results." β
Wang Yong persuaded the commentator: "You better sit down and talk." β
Butler Hal shook his head stubbornly and said, "Rules are rules, let's sit down after speaking." β
Butler Hal cleared his throat and said, "We now have one hundred and thirteen militiamen, in addition to the two imprisoned bandit leaders, there are three hundred and sixty-seven cannon fodder, of which forty-two are too serious to participate in the station, and the others have complete combat effectiveness. In addition to the weapons and armor already equipped, we had one hundred and twenty sets of leather armor, eighty-six great swords, thirty-three war hammers, seventy-nine short bows, two thousand feathered arrows, sixty small round shields for cavalry, and thirty-five large wooden shields for infantry. Four hundred and eighty-nine horses, and one hundred and twelve inferior riding spears. Forty-five wagons were used to haul goods, and three carriages were used to carry people. Also, we don't have much food left, and if we save a little food, we can still eat for four days. The horses don't have much forage, but the weeds in the horse farm can last for some time. The 1,000 gold coins left for us before were not used, and the materials used to repair the carriage were also used," Butler Hal said a lot, so that everyone had a certain understanding of the materials they had now.
After the report, Butler Hal stepped aside, and Wang Yong quickly brought him a chair for him to sit down and rest.
This old housekeeper has helped Wang Yong a lot, and when he was in the village before, he has always taken care of Kevin and Amy, two siblings, and Amy and Kevin also treated him like their own grandfather, Wang Yong didn't dare to put any lord's shelf in front of him.
When the housekeeper of Hale sat down, Wang Yong began to discuss the issue of supplies, and just when everyone was worried about food, a militiaman came in and reported that a large caravan was found on the road more than thirty miles to the west, with about two hundred carriages, but there were not many guards, only about 100 people, and the banner of the caravan should be the Gary Chamber of Commerce, one of the top ten chambers of commerce.
Kevin wondered, "What are they doing here? Don't they know that there are a lot of bandits here?
Wang Yong explained: "I asked the captured bandits before, and the top ten chambers of commerce came here to do business with the bandits. I don't know which bandit group they are looking for to do business with this time, judging by the scale, this business should be not small, and I don't know what their carriage is loading?"
The militia said: "Our people found beans scattered on the road they passed, and it is estimated that the car was loaded with grain. β
Wang Yong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he instructed the militia: "Continue to follow the caravan, and come back immediately to report any situation." The militia agreed, turned and went out.
Wang Yong's gaze swept over everyone and said, "What do you think?"
Ray proposed, "We have just the right grain now, and we can buy all their food." β
Wang Yong shook his head and said, "I don't think they will buy food for us." β
Varney was puzzled and asked, "Why? Aren't they making money yet?" β
Wang Yong explained: "They won't offend those bandits for our little gold coins, otherwise there will be no more business for him to do in the future." β
"We can show your lordship, they dare to do business with bandits, which is not allowed under the laws of the Empire, and we can detain their goods for this crime." β
Wang Yong shook his head and said: "We have no evidence, they can be said to go to the fish village in the north to do business, I think, the reason why that fish village has always existed is because of this reason." β
Kevin said angrily: "This can't do this, that can't work, so what should we do, we can't just watch these grains fall into the hands of bandits." Everyone else also showed a look of reluctance.