Tales of the Reincarnated Lord Chapter 160: Long winter night

Chapter 160: A Cold Night

Lorist put down the fountain pen in his hand and looked at the crystal hourglass on the table. It is now more than five in the morning, but the sky outside the window is still dark and can be seen dimly through the unclear green glass. The snow-like snowflakes that flew across the sky continued to snow for three days, and the snow outside was more than a foot thick. `

There is a thick stack of animal skin paper on the table. This is the result of Lorist spent a night. A conversation with Charade some time ago made Lorist suddenly realize that he did not have a complete Territory opening plan. Own family Territory is too remote. Although it can be self-contained by holding the Boulder Castle family Territory, it is not affected by the external war, but the price is isolated and forgotten. The root of all is the inability to establish good traffic information with the outside world. .

Northern Land The plateau is vast and sparsely populated, with an area as large as three or four Delamock Provinces, but the population is less than one million. Just like the most prosperous Northern Land southern region ruled by Loggins Grand Duke(s), its population is about 300,000 to 400,000. The bottleneck restricting the Northern Land Plateau Exhibition is two reasons. One is the inconvenience of external transportation and the other is the lack of manpower.

From the map, the so-called Northern Land plateau is not the northern end of Grindia Big 6, but is in the middle of Big 6. Because all the Grindia big 6 maps Demonic Dragon Mountain Range are recognized as the big 6 center, is the source of the three major water veins of Grindia.

The reason it is called Northern Land only indicates that this is the northernmost part of the human territory. If you go further north, you will have to cross Demonic Dragon Mountain Range and enter a wild wilderness marked on the map. It has not been involved by humans in the past millennium. local.

Different from the previous plateau of Lorist, although Northern Land is also called a plateau, it is only about a hundred meters higher than the outer plain. The climate and environment are not different. In fact, in the common language of Grindia, the plateau refers to Not terrain. It means uncivilized, barbaric and remote areas, more like a derogatory term.

In the vision of Lorist, as long as more than 70,000 people and 100,000 refugees travel northbound caravan. The shortage of manpower in the family Territory can be alleviated, and the climax of large-scale construction is ushered in. Hold on to Boulder Castle at that time, no matter the flames of war outside, the sky is dark, just build the family Territory into a place of Taoyuan in troubled times.

Ambitious ambition to revive Empire for Second Highness. Lorist sincerely expresses its admiration and spiritual support. But he was really not interested in blending in for fun, not even the title of Northern Land Grand Duke(s) promised to him. What if it takes up the entire Northern Land? As long as the upper and lower ferry crossings of the Miduobuluo River are blocked, I am not obediently trapped in Northern Land ...

Lorist finally hit the idea to the Blade Edge Mountain Range of the family Territory facing the sea in the west. He did not believe that the mountain range that stretched for hundreds of miles could not find an estuary. As long as one could find an estuary, the family could build a fleet to pass the sea. Getting traffic with the outside world is much more convenient than the road on 6, and it is even possible to transport the refugees to the family Territory through the fleet instead of organizing caravan and leaving for almost a year ...

Lorist wrote a lot of things I wanted to do on animal skin paper, making glass. `Smelting iron and steel, exploring mineral veins, building cities, developing wasteland, building roads, and implementing the policy of elite soldiers. Now caravan armed forces plus family force of nearly 60,000 to 70,000 troops, Lorist is ready to return to the family Territory to immediately implement the military strategy, so that a large number of young soldiers will become the main force of the family Territory.

To **** caravan and exiles northbound, a large number of young people are drafted into the army. From Lorist's point of view, it will be almost the same for the family armed forces to maintain a military-civilian ratio of one to twenty. Form an elite soldier armed forces. Each Battle Qi of soldier(s) has the strength of Black Iron Rank, so even if there are only 10,000 or 20,000 people, it is enough to ensure that the flames of the chaos will not spread to Norton Family.

In a few years, wait for the family Territory to get a good foundation. At that time, Lorist might have the entire Northern Land in his arms. I remember a biography I read in the previous life. There is a saying in Lorist that it is very clear that there is no reliable base. All the hegemony is built on the gravel, and a gust of wind can blow it down. This sentence is very similar to what the old Zhu did in Chinese history. Converting it into ancient text means building a wall. Wide accumulation of grain, slowly king.

Lorist raised the pen again, and wrote gunpowder on the animal skin paper, catapult. After returning to the family Territory, see if they can make these two big killers. Grindia castles everywhere, relying on a crossbow car, whether it is defending the city or siege, is always lacking. With catapult and gunpowder, dealing with those defensive castle fortresses should be much simpler.

Like Charade, more than one hundred castles have been laid in Verbasia. One is to cover with caravan crossbow vehicles and longbowmen. The other is to take the siege of the prisoners. The strength of those three Territory Aristocrat(s) is not very strong, but this is the case, the soldier(s) of the daredevil camp has changed a few crops, and the combined casualties have more than 10,000.

Lorist has played several siege battles, all of which were surprise attacks. Only sneak attacks and night attacks succeeded. The only time the frontal attack on North Wild Town ended in failure. With these two killers, Lorist believes that a positive attack will not be a problem. When the family Territory comes to an end, when they show their claws to Northern Land, there will be no more defensive castle like the fortress of Liechdana.

Since returning to the family Territory in March to inherit the title and becoming the new Lord(s), the Lorist has been running around non-stop, busy, never thinking about the opening and planning of the family Territory. Until now he was trapped in Kebo City by heavy snow and severe cold, he had time to think quietly ...

Looking again at the stack of animal skin papers, Lorist thought about it and added a few more lines to it. He wrote about cultural education, popularizing Battle Qi Foundations and making paper.

Cultural education is very simple. It teaches people to read, write, and calculate. Many people can speak common words, but they ca n’t write and read. Because they do n’t know words, they are the people at the bottom of the society. The family has a lot of food and clothing, and they have no ability to let their children receive a good education and live like this for generations.

The popularity of Battle Qi Foundations. Although Norton Family Territory is large, it still faces the threat of Barbarians Clan and magical beast of Demonic Dragon Mountain Range. `Only by popularizing Battle Qi Foundations and letting the majority of leaders have the ability to awaken Battle Qi, can they have self-protection. In addition, people who have awakened Battle Qi will greatly improve their physical strength, health, and life expectancy. For the family, this is a good way to speed up Territory.

Finally, papermaking. Grindia does not have the kind of paper of previous Lorist. What can be used is animal skin paper. Really follow the root words. This is to blame the magical civilization of thousands of years ago. It is said that Magician(s) uses animal skin paper. They use animal skin paper to make magic scrolls, record magic text, and write magic books. This is because in the legend, only animal skin paper can carry text with magic power. Therefore, the Magician(s) did not consider showing a cheap paper to mortals.

The age of magical civilization has long since passed away, and nowadays, the glory of that time can only be imagined in legend. But the paper made with animal skin has been passed down. Of course, the current animal skin paper is also different from the legend. It is not made of magical beast leather, but made of cowhide, horseskin, sheepskin, etc. The worst is paper made of pigskin and rabbit skin.

It is very simple to make animal skin paper. It is a very common technique, but it is difficult to make well because the process is very complicated. Take parchment as an example. First cut the raw skin into rectangles, soak it in water for one day and one night, take it out for cleaning, and soak it in a lime solution for about ten days. You also score three times a day and beat with a stick. This process takes three times. Ten days later, take it out to dry, and use a knife to scrape the blood tendons and minced meat on the sheepskin to make it a film, and soak it in a straw slurry solution for two days. After taking out the dryness, polish it with pumice powder to smooth, then straighten and fix it with a wooden frame, dry it for three days as a solid shape, and then cut the parchment paper into a standard paper.

This is why a book Grindia Big 6 is expensive. Lorist If you want to implement cultural education in the family Territory. It is necessary to find a paper that is convenient and cheap to make, otherwise the consumption of animal skin paper alone is not an amount that a family can afford.

If you can create a blank paper like the previous life, you can not only popularize culture and education in the family Territory, but also sell the white paper as a family's fist product to the whole big 6. For newspapers like Morante City, every time a new issue arrives, the sender will take the old issue away, because the old issue will be taken back, polished, erased, and printed with new content. Repeatedly, until the animal skin paper was worn out.

Lorist has always believed that there is no dynasty that will not fall for a thousand years and a family that will never be defeated. In Grindia, people are used to distinguish by place name or country name, such as Lorist from Northern Land, Charade from Trimble Kingdom, etc. If these refugees and caravan people can be proud of being Norton, then Lorist Will believe that Norton Family will be passed down for thousands of years.

Lorist wants to use long-term propaganda and brainwashing methods to make the Northbound caravan people and 100,000 homeless people return to Norton Family. There was a great dynasty in ancient China, and its name eventually became the name of a great nation. What Lorist wants is to make the name Norton a proud and proud title for everyone in the future family Territory. They will become Norton people instead of northerner ...

All of this depends on long-term propaganda work, and even the journey of the northbound caravan can be compiled into a history book for future generations to keep in mind the hardships of pioneering and trekking. Lorist thinks a lot, but the premise of all of this is that there must be cheap writing paper to inculcate people's pride and pride in the name of Norton when developing cultural education. Therefore, making a blank paper like the previous life has become very important in the eyes of Lorist.

As a director of a small handicraft factory in the previous life, Lorist will do a lot of craftsmanship, such as making glass, making sail models, and designing. But Lorist does not make paper. He only knows some paper making principles and materials, but he does not know the process and process. Looking at the line of making paper written on animal skin paper, sighed, and wait to go back to the family Territory to find a few workers and slowly experiment, there will always be a successful day ...

The door knocked softly, and Lorist shouted, "Come in."

Reidy pushed open the door and brought a pot of hot water to come in: "Lord(s), you got up really early, it's still as dark as midnight at six o'clock in the morning."

Lorist washed his face: "Reidy, now it ’s snowing outside and you are practicing indoors in the morning, do n’t be lax. practice(d) martial arts rely on consciousness and persistence, and you ca n’t be lazy. Your already is 2 Stars Black Iron this year, and I hope to have two more You will be promoted to Silver Rank in 2016. "

"Yes, Lord(s), I understand." Reidy said.

"Well, do I have any plans today?" Lorist asked.

Reidy thought for a while and answered: "Yesterday Charade Knight(s) said to go to the residence of the refugees around 8:00 in the morning, and Lord(s) you said that you should go together."

"Oh, then you can bring breakfast at half past seven. I'll go to Charade after I have eaten." Lorist said.

"Okay, Lord(s)." Reidy retreated.

6 to 7:30 in the morning is the morning exercise time of Lorist during the period of Kebo City, running Golden Water Art for a big Sunday, and moving hands and feet again. Time is up.

For Lorist, the most difficult thing for him now is that he ca n’t master his practice(d) progress. In the previous life, he did n’t practice Dark Energy at all. He did n’t know or listened to it. . He is now in the Dark Energy class. But at which stage he was confused. Like the sudden sensation and physical and mental ease after the Maple Wood Villa Lorist was leaked on the maid Irina last time, he didn't understand what was going on, but only knew that he should take it a step further.

Lorist sometimes feels that using Battle Qi to practice(d)'s ancestral efforts is an unthinkable thing, but currently he doesn't have any disadvantages. On the contrary, Golden Water Art's entry seems too fast. I am very confident in my skill Lorist. Generally speaking, Battle Qi Golden Rank already is not an opponent, but I do n’t know when I will have a chance to compare with Great Sword Master and see what ’s different. This Lorist is full of expectations.

Kebo City is not big. The northbound caravan's men and 100,000 refugees crowded the city. Fortunately, Second Highness transported a third of the grain and vacated nearly a hundred large grain silos. Coupled with the wide drying field in the east of the city, only 170,000 to 80,000 horses can be arranged.

The snow is still falling, and Lorist and Charade cover a black leather cape along the road cleared by the patrol to the camps where the refugees are stationed.

"Locke, how did you think of building an igloo and then supporting the tent in it? This is really warm, and it solves the problem of lodgings for the refugees. It is too convenient to save materials and labor. Charade said as he walked, "Do you know that if you build a temporary home with wood, this continuous snow will either overwhelm the roof or have to send people to clean it up. I do n’t think it would be so troublesome to use an igloo. , Solidifying the snow can also increase the firmness. "

Lorist replied: "Did you not see that I bought so many books in Dawn Academy? When you read a book, you are busy looking for a fine. This method is what I think from an adventure book, it is an adventure I lost my way in the wasteland. I had to use this method to spend myself through the cold winter. I do n’t know if it ’s true or not, so I just mentioned it and turned the picture into a picture. Who would think you did it ... ”

"You ..." Charade Qi Jie: "How can you do this, you do n’t know if it is true or false. You are lucky this time. If it is false, then such a cold day will be fatal."

Lorist Hehe laughed: "He who lied to you, who told you not to read these miscellaneous books, and said that these books were compiled by the author to cheat money. You are determined not to give these crooks a copper plate. Tell you, that This is a real biography. The work of the greatest adventurer, Jim Prieute, a hundred years ago. He painted the structure of the igloo on the last page of the book. It is the same as what I painted for you. Later, there are good people in In winter, I built this kind of igloo to do experiments, and it turns out that it is very warm.

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After a while, Charade asks again: "Locke, in a few days it will be December 36, which is the festival to celebrate the New Year. Do you have any ideas?"

Lorist was silent for a moment: "Well, we spent the whole night at Red Crow Inn on December 36 last year, but this year is in this distant Kebo City. Human encounters are really unpredictable ... What are you preparing for? Arranged? "

"Yeah, at this moment last year, no one of us would have thought of the current situation, leading so many people and leading hundreds of thousands of refugees to the north ... I think now that there is a lot of food, take it out and divide it. For a pound of meat, a glass of ale, the children use a candy and biscuit instead. What do you think? "Charade said.

Lorist nodded: "You think very thoughtfully, just arrange it like this, if snow stops, then we can also arrange some activities for everyone to have a happy New Year."

Raising your head and looking at the dark sky, Lorist exhaled deeply: "After more than a month, we can go home ..."

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