Chapter 38

Gawain Cecil returned safely, with documents signed by the king and news of the royal family's support.

Viscount Andrew, who had been waiting in Tanzania for nearly three months, felt that he had made the right decision: the founding hero 700 years ago did not let himself down. Wu Fu, but a character with both cunning and strategy.

It's just that he didn't expect the founding hero to choose the Dark Mountains as his starting point to revive his family.

As a small noble in the southern border region, Viscount Andrew is naturally no stranger to the Dark Mountains - in fact, the original Cecil Land and Leslie Land are on the north side of the Dark Mountains, and on a clear day, as long as you look up, Can see the magnificent natural barrier. The mountains block the unhealthy air from the wasteland of Gondor, and at the same time, because of its own attributes of numerous monsters and frequent rumors, many people talk about it, and even the most desperate hunters rarely go there. Seeking a living in the Dark Mountains—even if the lords of the south open up hunting rights in the mountains.

The original Cecil Territory was located a little west of the northern part of the Dark Mountains, and to the northeast was Tanzania Town, while the "New Cecil Territory" selected by Gawain was located in the southeast of Tanzania Town. The three roughly formed a triangle. , but the distance between the "New Cecil Territory" and the Dark Mountains is the closest among the three, and its southern part even goes directly into the mountains.

A tributary of the Baishui River that flows in front of Tanzania will flow into the "New Cecil Territory". From the perspective of traffic, the new home is a good place: you can easily get material support from Tanzania, and at the same time If the territory develops in the future, the trade cost will also be reduced a lot.

But the premise is that the people who led him by Gawain can really gain a firm foothold in that barren land.

In Viscount Andrew's castle, this thin and strict nobleman looked worried: "I'm blunt, Your Excellency, the first place you chose is not... so suitable, although there is a lot of land there, it is far from the darkness. The mountains are too close and lack protection from civilized society. The beasts in the mountains are a big threat, and every year in the foggy moon, there will be unholy winds that cross the mountains, blowing from the wasteland of Gondor, and the strong soldiers may It's okay, but those poor and weak commoners and serfs can't bear it..."

"You should have read the map, you should know that although the place I can choose is vast, the situation is similar," Gawain looked disapproving, "In a circle next to the Dark Mountains, the piece of land I chose is already The best - the unholy wind can be resisted by medicine and magic, I will find a way to solve the problem of prevention, as long as we can survive the first year, we can mine the ore from the dark mountains, and the territory will be I can stand on my feet."

He can't directly say that the reason why he chose such a place is because the treasure house of national fortune buried 700 years ago is buried in the mountain, right?

At least you have to wait until you go to open the treasure house and get everything in your hands before you can let outsiders know about it, and you have to know it in a limited way-it’s impossible to hide it completely, those materials always have to be used, once you get them Come out to engage in construction, and fools can guess the truth.

It can only be guaranteed that the less people know, the better until all that stuff is used.

Seeing Gawain's firm attitude, of course Viscount Andrew couldn't say anything more, he just reminded: "This is your decision, I will naturally try to support it, but please remember our original transaction."

Gawain smiled slightly: "Don't worry, Cecil's family never owes debts - are you really worried that I will give you a piece or two of this antique from myself?"

Rebecca, who was sitting across the table reporting what she had seen in the capital to Aunt Heidi, raised her head and looked in Gawain's direction, her eyes glowing: "Old Ancestor thinks the same as me!" Does this mean that he has inherited the family tradition?

Hetty knocked on Rebecca's forehead lightly and not hard: "Don't look around—continue to say,

You were just busy eating at the king's banquet from start to finish? ! "

"I'm still drinking - I'm an adult, I can drink a little..."

Looking at this girl with a troubled mind, Heidi looked desperate: "My God..."

As for Viscount Andrew, of course he couldn't accept Gawain's "kindness", so he quickly waved his hand: "No need, no need, I believe in the credibility of the Cecil family and the guarantee of the founding heroes... Then when are you going to set off?"

"The sooner the better," Gawain nodded. "We'll leave when the supplies are ready. The support promised by the king will have to wait at least a month. I have to let my subjects stand in their new home first."

For those who escaped from the disaster in the old Cecil Land, the three-month training period is over, and the lord's return from the capital means that they must immediately prepare for a new life.

Even most of them don't know what their new life looks like.

Knight Philip and Knight Byron were sent out, and they took people to buy the necessary materials in Tanzania and build the necessary materials for the new territory-food, tools, tents, medicine, and many other necessities that they could not think of at all. .

The items that need to be prepared are piled up like a mountain. Even Heidi, who has been assisting in managing the affairs of the territory, and Byron, who is a veteran of the Cecil family, do not know how to start. No one knows what is needed to build a territory from scratch. In this regard , that is why Gao Wen can help a little. During the great development period 700 years ago, the ancestors of Ansu built their homes from scratch. Regarding the matters to be prepared during the development period, the memories in Gao Wen’s mind are precious. experience.

Of course, due to the seven-hundred-year time difference, Gawain's experience and knowledge might not be completely effective, but the basic theories were not too different.

No matter how the tools develop and change, the problems that the pioneers have to solve in the wilderness are still the same, nothing more than food, clothing, housing, and medical care.

As for the issue of funds, Viscount Andrew had previously returned the gold and silver belongings of the Cecil family, plus the money kept by Knight Philip. Although it was not abundant, it was barely enough to prepare the initial materials.

Those refugees from Cecil's territory were walking around the town, buying supplies and hiring vehicles, which naturally attracted the attention of the locals. They had all heard about the resurrection of the founding hero, and recently about Sisi. When the lord and miss of Er returned from the capital, they naturally knew that these "outsiders" who had lived in the town for three months were finally leaving.

Most of the lower-class people in Tanzania don't care about the presence or absence of these "outsiders", but the "outsiders" have to buy a lot of things when they leave, which makes the town's business guilds make a lot of money. Pen, so their complaints against their lords were immediately reduced a lot - before that, the lords had requisitioned a lot of shacks for outsiders to live in, and those poor refugees could not even find a few copper coins. Many business people are dissatisfied with them.

While the two family knights were running around to prepare the supplies, Gawain asked Hetty and Rebecca to count all the Cecil citizens, and asked them to list the more than 800 survivors into a detailed roster.

"Accurate to each person's name, age, gender, health status, and craftsmanship they are good at, and group them by family, and make a separate list for carpenters, masons, and blacksmiths. By the way, if you can, give Each individual is numbered for easy reference."

This was the task that Gawain assigned to the two great-great-great-great-granddaughters. He thought it would be easy, but he didn't expect to confuse the two N-level great-granddaughters.

They have never heard of basic information registration, and they don't know how this so-called "form" is made.

"Haven't even done basic population registration?" Seeing Heidi and Rebecca's blank expressions, Gawain felt that he was even more confused than the other party, "Then how did you count the population in the territory?"

Rebecca replied with a simple face: "Aunt Hetty is in charge of the territory around the castle, and the knights are in charge of the knight fiefs themselves, and it is possible to know how many men, how many women, how many elderly people, and how many children there are. , As for who is a blacksmith and who is a carpenter, the people who live around almost all know each other, just ask."

Gao Wen: "..."

What the fuck? Just ask about it? The legendary eyes rule the country, the face is peaceful, and the world is flattened with one mouthful?

Noticing the changing expression on Gao Wen's face, Heidi suddenly became nervous: "Lord Ancestor... Could it be that when you and your ancestor founded the country, they used the table you mentioned to count the population?"

Gawain hurriedly flipped through the information in his mind, and after a while, his face was disheveled.

Damn it...it was even more chaotic back then.

The Gondor Empire collapsed overnight, and the prosperous and developed central region was completely wiped out. The people who survived the first wave of shocks were all the population of the outlying areas - and that ancient empire was a typical imbalanced society, its development form In Gawain's view, it is even almost deformed: since the magical technology of this world must rely on the magical focus, and the natural magical focus is limited, all the advanced technologies of the Gondor Empire are accumulated in the most powerful magical focus "Dark Blue" in the center of the continent. Around, as for the remote areas where the focus of magic is thin...

Incredibly behind.

Therefore, after the magic tide broke out with "Deep Blue" as the center, all the advanced technology and advanced knowledge population of the Gondor Empire were sacrificed to the sky, and those who survived were screened again and again in the continuous energy radiation thereafter. Finally, when the pioneers led everyone to escape, human civilization can be said to have completely collapsed...

To put it in a rude way: the four kingdoms were established by a group of illiterate students led by a group of elementary school students.

It's just that in this world where extraordinary power exists, the individual power at the top can offset the overall decline brought about by the backwardness of civilization to a certain extent, so the original four major kingdoms can only be supported by a group of pioneers with outstanding combat effectiveness. It was established under the following conditions and withstood the pressure from all aspects at the beginning of the founding of the country.

But, but, but!

Seven hundred years! In seven hundred years, how come these unworthy descendants have not grown up?