Chapter 64: Becoming an Organized Bandit

Chapter 64 – Becoming Organized Bandits
The water was deeper where the dock was built, so long wooden piles needed to be driven in as a fix, but ordinary wooden piles wouldn’t do, they had to be scorched on the outside so that they would be more resistant to corrosion.

Several meters long wooden piles were driven into the bottom of the river, through the silt and deep into it, on top of which thick wooden boards were laid, walking up to it was very stable, but there were not many fishing boats docked on both sides of the pier, only seven or eight, all of which were the kind of the most common flat-bottomed fishing boats.

Initially the fishing boat is Owen exchange, and then have the conditions of the territory to build their own, but to build out is only ordinary fishing boat, five or six meters long, more than a meter wide, at most carrying two or three people out fishing.

At this time, several fishermen are cleaning up the catch and organizing the nets, Owen went over to take a look and found that the harvest is not small, almost dozens of fish, shrimp and crabs, but most of them he didn’t recognize.

In his last life, he only knew a few kinds of fish sold in the food market, and he had not really seen many fish in the other world, so he was curious.

The most conspicuous fish catch is a kind of pointed pike tail white fish, round and succulent, delicate scales, at a glance is delicious, there is also a kind of king crab and king crab similar snow crab, in addition to the miscellaneous fish are similar, just the face value of the difference do not know a little bit and a half point.

Most of Owen’s meals, including fruits and drinks, were exchanged from the system and then processed and cooked, and he seldom consumed ingredients produced in the territory.

Initially, he was afraid of nibbling on black bread, but later on, purely because of habit, and now when he saw these two kinds of aquatic products, he actually drooled.

Owen is not afraid of poison, no matter the system soldiers or farmers are not invulnerable to poison, the injury will be injured, the poisoning will be poisoned, so they ate nothing, he ate certainly also nothing, in case something happens, there is not still Dale’s magic potion and the almighty system, so let the fisherman send some white fish and snow crabs to the castle.

On the way back, Owen has decided to increase fishing efforts, the northern boundary of the river countless fish and shrimp, do not use it would be too wasteful, and can also be used to supplement the territory residents lack of protein.

In addition, the water army should also hurry to set up, at least get two arrow boats out, easy to patrol the river, to prevent the barbarians in the north of the river invasion of the territory.

During the dry season, the water in the gentle part of the North Boundary River is not that deep, at most up to the chest, with the physical strength of the barbarians, it is enough to cross the river safely, so it has to be prevented.

The North Boundary River is a cold water river, because the source is from the melting glacier, so even in the summer, the river water is as cold as well water, so the fish and shrimp in the river grows slowly, but this also increases the deliciousness of the fish and shrimp, white fish, whether baked or made soup is very delicious, snow crabs are even more sweet and savory, Owen tasted it after this is full of praise.

In fact, both are more suitable for raw food, after all, the cold water river is less parasitic, so you can taste the ultimate in freshness.

Unfortunately, Owen is not used to raw food, so although he includes both in his recipes, they are cooked.

While Owen was sitting at the long table in the castle savoring the delicacies, Kerens was winded and traveling.

This journey was not peaceful, whether it was wild beasts or bandits, they all popped up as haphazardly as weeds in the ground, resulting in wasting quite a lot of his time, such as right now they had encountered some trouble.

The chest-armored cavalrymen had already pulled down the visor of their helmets, and were able to launch a deadly charge as long as they leveled their mounted lances, while the bow cavalrymen also had their arrows on the strings, spreading out on both sides, ready to outflank them.

Sensing the elite of the cavalry, the enemy didn’t dare to approach easily, and always stayed away from a safe distance, but they were equally reluctant to leave, after all, not to mention the goods that Corenth and his group were carrying, just the equipment and horses on the cavalry could be exchanged for a piece of good territory near the border of the empire.

“Who among the nobles of the Northlands has the Hydra as their symbol?” The leading horse thief was not controlled by greed, he was more interested in the owner of this cavalry than the immediate benefits.

Although there were only twenty cavalrymen, in terms of equipment, warhorses, training, and morale, they were not inferior to the elite cavalrymen in the Imperial Border Army, which was by no means something an ordinary minor noble could possess. “The only family in the entire Northlands that has the Hydra as its symbol is the Hydra family, and it was also one of the most famous figures in the First Northlands Pioneering Corps back then.”

There were two deputies beside the horse thief leader, a fierce scarred face and a slightly shrewd youth, and it was the latter who made the reply.

“Hydra family? That’s really interesting, but a mere one or two decades of history and you dare to call yourself a family.” The horse thief leader disdainfully revealed a cold smile, it was obvious that his true identity was not as simple as a horse thief.

“Go, now is not the time to lose strength.” The horse thief leader waved his hand and slowly withdrew with dozens of horse thieves behind him.

Vigilantly staring at the horse thieves that were gradually moving away, Corenth’s palms were sweaty, although this was not the first time he encountered horse thieves, but the other party was obviously not ordinary horse thieves, at least he hadn’t seen that the horse thieves’ gang had three masters who mastered the fighting qi, which was strong enough to support a viscount’s title and territory in the northland, there was no need to be a horse thief, so the other party definitely had problems.

Luckily, His Excellency dispatched ten breastplate cavalry, ten bow cavalry, and two knights to follow, which made the other party to retreat, otherwise he could not predict what the result would be.

However, the current situation is not out of Corenth’s expectation, the first Northland Pioneer Corps members are composed of scoundrels, criminals, vagabonds and other residue, the second Northland Pioneer Corps members strength is higher, but the essence of the difference is no difference, they are all a bunch of damned dregs, mixed with a large number of criminals and ulterior motives is inevitable, a group of people disguised as bandits to carry on the primitive accumulation is also normal, because all people do so! .

In other words, no matter which Northland Pioneering Corps, they don’t even need to change their clothes, they are all robbers.

This is another bad news that Kerens brought back before, the number of bandits in the Northland not only became more, the strength and organization was also improved, many merchants lost their money, and even lost their lives.

This is not a good news, originally the robbers wandering in the Northland are a group of stragglers who can’t survive, unwilling to be exploited like serfs, so they rely on looting for a living.

Because of their strength, they can only bully the weaker serfs, and don’t dare to mess with the escorted nobles and merchants.

The problem was that the serfs didn’t have much to eat, so most of the time they had to rely on hunting and stealing to make a living, and lived a miserable life.

But when the Second Northland Exploitation Corps came, everything was different.

Purchasing serfs to work hard to cultivate the fields and open up the land is not as fast and convenient as subjugating robbers and seizing ready-made territories, and even the titles are ready-made.

The title of the northern nobility was given by the emperor, and a number of seals were specially created as proofs, so the seals are not recognized.

So as long as you grab the seal and the territory, you can inherit everything from the other side, it’s that simple.

It can be said that the emperor did not have good intentions when he did this, and it will also become the root cause of chaos in the Northland in the future.

(End of chapter)