Mountain and Forest Kingdom

After snow covered most of the town of Pumexiu outside, Friesen, who had been forgotten by everyone, returned with the convoy.

Lawrence took Salil and Derren and left the manor with great difficulty, walking carefully down the snow on the snow.

"It's so troublesome. It's coming up and down in the middle of winter."

Lawrence grumbled and looked at the sloping hillside and the quiet forest in the distance.

Salil comforted: "Lawrence, you are like this. You have a lot to say when you move a little. We usually sit at home for so long, so it's good to go out and walk around occasionally."

Lawrence retorted: "I am not idle every day. I have so much to do every day."

"Okay, okay, I get it, you're very busy." Salil responded perfunctorily to the serious Lawrence.

Lawrence walked down with the stick and said, "When we come back, let Kehalan plant a few big trees on the way to the bottom of the mountain. From now on, we will build a viaduct directly to go down the mountain."

Salil thought for a moment in confusion, unable to imagine what it was.

Delen couldn't figure out what it was. "What is that?" Delen asked directly.

Lawrence explained: "It is to use big trees and chains to create a sloping hillside. You can walk on this road to cross the mountains and ridges, so that you don't have to go back and forth in the future."

Because he was very familiar with the nearby terrain, Lawrence was very sure: "If a viaduct is built, we can run from the manor to Pumexiu Town in just ten minutes!"

No detours are needed, a bridge that is absolutely straight and sloping will make running absolutely easy.

Salyl and Derren still couldn't imagine the concrete object.

This kind of thing is too advanced. It sounds very simple, but in fact it is simply unbelievable. No normal person in this era would have such weird ideas.

Lawrence knew from the blank expressions of the two witches that they did not understand.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. Anyway, it doesn’t affect everyone’s ability to work together to create good things.

Like the Crowfeather Colossus, the Viaduct was also a architectural wonder in this era, but its purpose was more practical.

Lawrence thought carefully about the purpose of the viaduct.

If it is a slightly sloping passage, then you can build a water tank channel. If you want to deliver messages in the future, put a hollow iron ball that can hold paper in it, and then roll it down to the other side of the mountain.

Papermaking technology must also be developed as soon as possible, and it is set to be the main direction of attack next year like water-powered mills.

In addition to delivering messages and traveling quickly, Lawrence felt that the viaduct could also serve as a defensive facility. People could stand on it and throw stones to facilitate the attack of the sling troops.

However, most barbarians should be afraid of heights... There are not many barbarians like Sariel and Delen who are not afraid of heights.

Thinking about various things in their minds and walking very steadily, the three of them soon arrived at Pumixiu Town.

The nearby villagers came to greet him, "Sir Prophet, Friesen is back and is drinking in the tavern. He has brought back three carts of wine."

Lawrence nodded. Ever since the Crow Feather Statue was erected, everyone in the village and in the mountains had more awe in their eyes.

"Sir Prophet." The woman I met on the road nearby stopped quickly and bent down to greet him with a bucket in hand.

Men, women, and children all bowed their heads in awe.

Lawrence quickly entered the noisy tavern, just like the head teacher entering the classroom. The tavern that was lively just now quickly became quiet.

Friesen quickly turned around and saw Lawrence. He stood up from the card table and walked over, kneeling on one knee in front of Lawrence.

"Prophet, I completed your commission and brought back wine and women!"

Lawrence stretched out his hand and gently put it down on Friesen's greasy head, "God is always watching you, and your contribution will be known to others."

Lawrence quickly withdrew his hand and walked to an empty table in the tavern to sit down.

Friesen stood up and followed, and said excitedly: "Many nobles liked the things you asked me to bring, Prophet. They asked me what I wanted. I said women and wine, and they gave me a lot!"

The brains of barbarians are actually not that simple, but Friesen is not one of those who are too smart.

He had food and drink in Pumixiu Town, but there were not many rewards that he could think of, so he asked for women and wine instead of food, livestock, books and men.

Lawrence was not surprised by the three carts of ale.

There was indeed a potato famine in the Kingdom of Luofen and the Kingdom of the South, but what the nobles ate was not potatoes. They ate bread, and what they planted most was wheat.

Potatoes were the foundation of the common man and the poor, and were the key to supporting the vast population of the Southern Kingdom.

Even in the southern kingdom, the life and death of the poor did not affect the food and drink of the nobles.

Therefore, in the past two years, merchants will bring wheat to trade. Generally speaking, there is no shortage of wheat.

There have always been only a few people who can afford wheat. Even if there is no harvest of potatoes, it will not affect the wheat.

This was the case here in Pumixiu Town in the past. Only Andrew's family could eat pure wheat bread, and everyone else ate it.

Famine and war brought a large number of slaves. Although Lawrence did not ask, he had already determined that the price of slaves was much lower than before.

Friesen quickly pulled out the slaves squatting in the corner.

The fat man said excitedly: "Lord Prophet, these are the slaves I have chosen. They are all slaves you like!"

Lawrence was not interested in these, but just looked at them as a ruler.

Several of the slaves were female, some looked ordinary, and there were two who looked a little more attractive and looked like people who had worked in the manor.

Lawrence was looking at these people, and these people also looked at Lawrence carefully and quickly lowered their heads.

"What can you do?" Lawrence asked: "If you have done tailoring, brewing, farming, or other skills other than housework before, you can tell me, and I will arrange things for you based on your abilities."

Soon a woman came forward and said, "I raise chickens and pigs on the manor. I can make bread and milk goats."

Lawrence nodded, "Okay, you and I will go to my manor later."

"Yes, Master." The woman quickly recognized her master.

These people worked in noble estates before coming here and were experienced slaves.

But even so, if the nobles want to sell them, it is just a matter of thought.

Most city-state nobles cannot expand their territories and manors at will. If the population becomes too large, some slaves must be sold, just like cattle and sheep, and there will be no unlimited growth.

Slaves are also one of the commodities of each manor. Just like farm tools, they are in demand, but they are also sold to other manors or markets.

The nobles were not very willing to buy slaves. Whether they were barbarian nobles or southern nobles, they themselves had primitive accumulation.

Those who actually bought slaves were basically men from small households, separated families, or places that needed labor such as shops and workshops.

Knights and nobles did not need to buy slaves on a large scale. They were all enclosing land and surrounding villages.

In this era of underdeveloped capital economy, taking into account unstable factors such as theft and escape, slaves outside are definitely not as useful as serfs in the fief.

It is different from the slaves that Andrew purchased in the early days, or there is no difference at all.

It's just that this time, after seeing Lawrence's beautiful manor, several female slaves were willing to stay without supervision, and would not choose to take risks and escape like the first batch of slaves.

Lawrence has long understood that when people are poor, dogs will dislike them.

After observing for four or five days, Lawrence determined that the new slaves would not escape this time and were willing to stay here.

They consciously behave in front of their masters, hoping to become lucky maids.

This performance made Lawrence understand that he was no longer the poor boy he was before, but had become a noble lord who was so powerful that others would actively rely on him.

Suppressing the secret joy and pride in his heart, Lawrence quickly started the manor construction plan in a down-to-earth manner, taking advantage of the dry winter to open up river channels and wasteland to prepare for next year's wheat fields.

These things can be done by others. Lawrence found Kehalan and described the viaduct plan he thought of to Kehalan.

"What is that?" Kehalan looked confused and couldn't think of what that thing was.