Chapter 2: The Poor Family

Chapter 2 The Poor Family Foundation
Owen made a list of the order of precedence, first the house, then food, soldiers, people, land, and weapons.

Room need not say more, now his hands the biggest asset is this built hundreds of years ago, because the main body is built with stone, so even after hundreds of years of wind and rain is still standing, but the renovation of what do not think, Hydra family passed three generations, but also to add a little bit of logs inside furniture, installed the door, as for the other, no.

However, the area is not small, if the walls are rebuilt, inside enough to accommodate three to five hundred people, and in the north want to build this scale of the castle, at least thousands of people need more than ten years, mainly because the material is not good to get, the need to go far away to mine stone, polished and then transported back bit by bit, this is the most time-consuming and labor-consuming place.

Now the whole castle plus him only ten people, in addition to eight soldiers, only two servants, and these two servants also part-time gardener, cook, groom and other duties.

Originally there was also a housekeeper, two maids with a few guards, is the predecessor of the mother’s dowry, but in the predecessor of the father killed in the mouth of the wolf, the predecessor of the mother will not stay with people to go, leaving the predecessor of a person in the loneliness and torment in his replacement.

In this situation, Owen let alone enjoying any decadent noble life, many things had to be done by himself.

The good thing is that he is not really a noble young master, laundry, cooking and cleaning can be done, only that he does not have the tools to take advantage of, and now he is still in the process of familiarizing himself with it.

The most difficult for Owen to get used to is the night, such a big castle, just a few people, the wind blows in the middle of the night, ghosts crying, lying on the wooden bed wrapped in animal skins, can wake up a few times a night, to relieve themselves do not dare to go out, as for how to solve the problem, think for yourself.

In fact, go out to the toilet feeling more horrible, because the castle toilet construction with a hole in the window, sit up on the buttocks hanging in the air, not to mention, but also can clearly feel the castle outside of the upward airflow, while the bottom of the people if you look up, can clearly see a budding daisy or is vomiting black chrysanthemums.

Later, because some people use crossbows and lengthened spears and other weapons squatting assassination, this toilet is also improved, such as in the construction of a similar garbage passage below, through the moat, but there are still small warriors choose to go up against the shit, with daggers and iron cones and other weapons for brutal assassination, and intestinal rupture of the victim tends to wail for several days before they die, which can be seen that this kind of assassination stabbing the assassination of the shit is how ferocious.

Although Owen didn’t have to worry about being assassinated, there was always a furtive feeling when he sat suspended in the air over the dark cave, so he preferred to settle for digging a hole in the open space.

Although there are all sorts of flaws, but something is better than nothing, at least it is a castle, Hydra family inherited a few more generations I’m afraid that they do not have the money to build it.

The castle has long been seen, Owen turned to the warehouse.

In the face of seven or eight pounds of heavy locks, and fingers can be inserted into the lock hole, Owen finally understand the former body has been close to the collection of iron rod is what to do.

Pulled out the iron bar like key, laboriously inserted into the tight dry hole, twisted hard, can not move, helpless to pull out first, looking for a little grease coated, and finally wasted half a day’s effort to open the lock.

Push open the door, immediately a grain mixed with the smell of dust came, let Owen’s nose itchy want to sneeze.

Rubbing his nose, Owen saw that the sun outside was shining through the swirling dust and spilling evenly into the warehouse, illuminating the bags of grain piled up on the wooden shelves.

Although the climate in the north is dry, but moisture is still a problem, in order to prevent the grain from getting damp and moldy, the grain will be piled up on the wooden shelves, although it takes effort, but it is better than getting damp and moldy and having nothing to eat. Open a few bags, inside is not rye or black beans, the corner also stacked some dry flat onions, in addition, a side of the shelf is also placed on the twenty or thirty spears and a pile of leather armor, this is the Hydra family’s only property.

The land in the north is barren, the yield of fine crops is too low, in order to fill up the stomach, can only choose to plant a larger yield of rye, in addition to black beans, onions and round vegetables, everything is to maintain life, nutritional balance and taste of what do not even want to think about, so this place to store only these things.

As a staple food rye there are a lot, but Owen knows that this is not enough, because it is just the beginning of spring, from the harvest there is not a short period of time, but the territory of the serfs which have what to store food, in order to ensure that they will not starve to death, but also in order to maintain the physical strength of the spring ploughing, every day consumes the food flow in general, so all year round simply can not save what, or else a viscount of the Church how to be so miserable.

As a matter of fact, if not for the Hari Chamber of Commerce sending a batch of supplies every year, the Hydra family would be worse off than they are now.

As for why they are living in such a miserable life, when HYDRA II can still marry the daughter of the president of the HERRY Chamber of Commerce, naturally because of the name of the nobility.

The class in this world is so strict that it makes people despair, the farmer’s offspring is a farmer, the hunter’s offspring is a hunter, the merchant’s offspring is a merchant, the knight’s offspring is a knight, and the nobleman’s offspring is a nobleman, and your identity has been decided at the moment of birth.

There have been countless people who wanted to break this invisible barrier to try to get to the top, but those who succeeded were not even one in ten thousand.

The reason is simple, because as a superior can unconditionally deprive the inferior of everything, from wealth to life, and the process is simple and direct, without even needing to hide their attempts.

It is because of this enormous power that the higher-ups try desperately to maintain class stability, that is to say, to cut off the channels of upward mobility, even if it causes countless lower-ups to revolt and even burn themselves to death.

In fact, if not for the accumulation of conflicts within the empire to the point of breaking out, the emperor insisted strongly, and there would not have been this matter of opening up the north, not to mention taking out knighthoods as rewards.

Even so, the imperial nobles also divided the northern nobles, resulting in the northern nobles not being accepted or even recognized by the imperial nobles at all.

When the grandfather of the predecessor was able to become a viscount, apart from strength and luck, the bloodline was the biggest reason, because the grandfather’s father was the second son of a certain imperial noble who had no inheritance rights.

This identity in the empire can not be taken in hand, but in the northern border can make people bright, so the predecessor’s grandfather can stand out, become a border Viscount, rather than a bad street Sir or Baron.

Even if the border nobility has all kinds of shortcomings, but at least which is also nobility, at least in the Northland so, this represents the Hydra family has one foot into another class, or else the Hare Chamber of Commerce ate their fill, and marrying daughters, and sending things year after year, is not to pull a layer of relationship.

As long as there is this layer of relationship in, Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce will be able to obtain a lot of convenience in the northern border, enough to make up for the input of marrying a daughter and sending supplies.

(End of chapter)