Chapter 81: Introduction of Talents
Chapter 81 Talent Introduction
Owen picked up the intelligence sent by Kerens, which had been organized by Maya, and the highlights from the scattered news were picked out for him to go through, so he could tell at a glance that it was bad news.
It was written that the number of Law Professionists at the Empire’s borders was found to be growing abnormally, and there were signs of them moving northward, which added to Owen’s headache.
The only thing to be thankful for was that now that the weather was starting to turn cold, the outsiders in the territory wouldn’t stay for too long, as the territory simply had no missions for them, and the numerous soldiers left them with no way to fish for a side hustle, and with no income to sit on, it was only a matter of time before they left.
As for those on the border of the empire, they are also forced by the weather to stop here, after all, in the north, winter traveling is simply looking for death, especially outsiders, once lost, even if they can fly, it is difficult to get out of the situation.
“Although there is still one more winter to go, the situation is not optimistic.” Owen said with a sigh, to which Maya didn’t comment.
In Maya’s opinion, the master is good at everything, except the body is poor, ability is poor, will is poor, courage is poor, other problems are not, not greedy for money, not horny, not cruel, not cold, pure and pure on the good master, it is always worried about being persecuted is a problem.
With the strength of the territory now, not dare to say pushed the Northland, domination of a party to seize a count title is still no problem.
As for the threat of the empire, at least ten years do not need to worry about, because Maya too understand these people, ten points of the force have nine points are used in each other, and can be one point of the force to threaten the territory, only the empire’s top of the gang, but these people’s energy is placed on the empire on the control of the right, it is impossible to pay attention to the border of the Northland of the small problems.
Saying that, for Owen’s excessive caution, Maya hadn’t been able to persuade, after all, it was a matter of her master’s safety, and she had no choice but to try her best to cooperate, after all, it was just a matter of slowing down the expansion, and after there was no longevity issue, she could afford to wait.
“Let’s get Kerens back first, and then have him go see if he can bring back some serfs when next spring starts.” Owen pinched his brow, considering he wouldn’t be able to leave as soon as it snowed, and had Maya write a letter to bring Collens back, after all, he was the head of commerce for the territory, not the head of intelligence.
When the owl flew away with the letter, Owen spoke to Maya again.
“Transfer two Teutonic warriors and ten ninjas to take direct orders from you for next year.” Owen once again chose to decentralize, because he understood very well that as the territory continued to develop and grow, it was impossible for him to do everything, and he also had to learn magic, make puppets, build dungeons, excavate relics, and so on, without decentralization he simply couldn’t be too busy, and even Kerens, who hadn’t yet come back, he gave a thought to the live.
Speaking of Kerens, this is indeed a talent, let him go to explore the situation, not only the task is completed well, when he came back also froze to bring back more than three hundred serfs and dozens of civilians who lost their land and houses, most of which are women.
Recently, the border of the empire where not quiet, died a lot of people, some successfully on the throne, some of the two defeated, there are also the same death, so there are a lot of stragglers and the loss of the family business of the civilians, was collected by Kerensi.
Kerensi looks good, wearing exquisite noble dress riding a white horse, there are knights and elite cavalry around, it seems to be a great noble lord, so no matter what he says, credibility automatically +10, so he really was collected a lot of people, this time to return and bring.
Because of the transfer of two hundred peasants to soldiers, coupled with the addition of women, now the male to female ratio of farmers in the territory reached six to four, although not completely solve the problem of disproportionate male to female ratio, has been greatly alleviated, more importantly, Kerensi also brought back a talent, the imperial frontier army origin of the Howard Knights.
Howard is nearly forty years old, as a knight’s strength and experience are at the peak of his life, but the cut-off of the upward mobility channel has made him feel despair after twenty years of suffering in the border of the empire, so he agreed to Kerens’s invitation after a certain time of drunkenness.
When he sobered up, Howard was remorseful for his drunken behavior, but the reality was that this might be his only chance.
After a night of hesitation, Howard eventually decides to take a chance, just as his father did when he sent him to the Imperial Frontiersmen at great cost, and he resolutely takes his eldest son to the Northlands. In fact, if he had a choice, Howard would not have made such a choice, but the problem was that he had no choice, because his birth had already decided his upper limit, and if he wanted to break it, he could only step out of the strict circle of class.
Howard has a deep feeling about this, because his grandparents are knights, but the generation is not as good as the generation, not to mention the promotion of the nobility, to his grandfather’s generation, even the fiefdom is gone, the turn of his father is even worse, completely marginalized, there is no head start, the child is estimated to be even the false name of the knight can not be a knight.
Fell into this situation, not a problem of ability, but because there are too many living knights.
As a pure weapon of war, each knight needs a lot of support, but in the absence of war, the knight is too able to live, the offspring is doubled, any one of the aristocrats can not carry, can only continue to reduce the treatment and number of knights, otherwise where so many wandering knights, but also because of can not afford to feed.
Just like the Tibetan mastiff, great is great, the problem is that in the years of peace, what is the use of raising this thing?
Even if the rich big brother, raise a few is just, who will also raise a group for nothing.
Coincidentally, the Empire formed the Northland Exploitation Corps at that time, and his father was cruel enough to spend the connections and wealth accumulated over several generations to send him to the Imperial Border Army.
He also fought, starting from the patrol, all the way to climb and fight, every battle must be first, the war against the Northland barbarians is not a fall, but twenty years have passed, a body of injuries and illnesses Howard is still stopping in the knight rank, although the chest is full of the Medal of Honor, but what is the use of this.
Seeing the child gradually grow up, but can only go his old way, Howard a clenched teeth and stomped his feet, followed by brightly dressed generous Kerensi to the North, at this time to see the territory in front of me, originally worried about the heart of the road to be cheated, at this time, but has become worried, and constantly thinking about how to better show their own value.
No wonder Howard’s mood shifted so quickly, mainly because of how he did not expect to have such a territory in such a northward place.
Because of the road construction in the Magic Horn Forest, a large amount of wood was cut down, so Maya arranged for manpower to prioritize the construction of a wooden wall.
The construction of the wooden wall was not only excessive, but also an important lining.
If you want to rely purely on stone to build a city wall, the cost is too great, with the population of the territory can not support this amount of work, unless the territory can popularize the mechanical puppets, but this also needs enough time, so in Maya’s design, the town’s city wall is divided into three layers, the outermost layer of barbed wire, the middle of the base layer of soil, and the back of the wooden wall to support it.
When there is enough manpower, the wooden wall will be torn down and replaced with a stone wall, so the wall will be formed.
Therefore, the territory in front of Howard has sturdy wooden walls, neatly organized buildings, and elite soldiers, this is a territory full of potential, he knows very well how rare such a territory is, and how important the current opportunity is to their father and son, so he secretly gave his child a wink.
Hogg who was wearing a half old but not new inlaid iron leather armor immediately understood his father’s eyes, and immediately stood up his chest, holding a shield in one hand and carrying a chain yoke hammer in the other, making a mighty and majestic appearance.
(End of chapter)