Mountain and Forest Kingdom

There are the most oak trees on Mount Ugg, and Lawrence came to the vicinity of Mount Ugg.

"The oak trees here are our treasure. They will be used in building castles, making large ships, and doing business in the future."

Lawrence sat on the sheep's back, inspecting his assets.

The climate in the north determines that many things cannot be made in large quantities, and is not suitable for the growth of many economic crops.

For example, after two years of searching, I didn’t see ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, Polygonum multiflorum, or rapeseed flowers.

The cold zone also does not produce coconuts and corn, and there are no oil-extracting plants such as sesame and peanuts.

The unique climate makes agriculture here very backward. Even if it develops, it will be restricted by the environment and cannot expand.

Fortunately, there are many primitive resources here in the mountains that have been accumulated for at least tens of thousands of years. Selling the resources here can solve the initial difficulties.

The trees in the territory are divided into three classes, high-elevation, low-elevation, and flatland trees.

Oak trees like to grow in low-altitude areas, and Uge Mountain is a low-altitude mountain, with a maximum of only a few hundred meters.

The location of the manor is higher, and the mountains here are divided in terms of altitude into: alpine belts, hilly mesas, and flat depressions carved out by snow streams that lasted for who knows how many thousands of years.

The manor is located on a hilly platform. Most of the surrounding trees are coniferous forests with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters. It is very difficult to climb up the mountain.

The location of Uge Village is more advantageous than that of the manor. When you get here, you can feel that the temperature has risen a few degrees, and even the sun is much brighter.

Sofia sat on the big sheep and looked around, "Master, after we sell the trees here, wouldn't it be good to build a house here?"

Lawrence replied: "It's not close to the river, it's not that far away from the town of Pumiceau and the blacksmith shop, and most of our fields are on the estate."

"You can consider moving here, but there is no need to change. It is more suitable for planting trees and suitable for a small number of people to live."

The old knight was not here. Lawrence arranged them at the midpoint of the straight line between the town of Pumexiu and the manor. The village of Ugg was outside this range.

Sofia asked again: "Then just let Khalan plant oak trees in our place, and we can keep selling oak trees in the future!"

Lawrence said: "There is no need. Too much single industry is not good for us, and compared with assets like oak trees, we have many ways to obtain wealth from the outside world."

"Have you?" Sophia didn't think of it for a while.

Lawrence smiled and said, "It's almost time to go back. Fleiss and the others should be here."

Sophia looked at the oak forest ahead, turned the sheep's head and followed Lawrence down the mountain.

"This place hasn't been surveyed yet, right?"

"No need. I took a quick look and found it is enough to last a hundred years. There are too few people outside now to spend all our oak trees."

"oh."

Sofia generally understood that there were not many people buying it and they would not need the wood every day.

Sophia followed Lawrence, "If you do it twice a year, twenty or thirty at a time, it feels like you will never be able to dig out the oak trees on both sides of the road, and they won't grow fast enough!"

Lawrence thinks so too, and the current resources simply cannot be sold out.

There are also some pine trees that need to be sold and some pine oil collected for outside merchants to build boats.

Although the effect of these pine oils is not great, it is still much better than nothing.

In order not to be deceived by the outside world, and in order to better understand the prices and general conditions outside, Lawrence still had to have his own caravan.

It is not possible to close the country in isolation. The ability to always pay attention to the information and technology from the outside world has always been strong.

Lawrence soon returned to the town of Pumexiu.

The barbarian who was lying and sitting on the steps of the square near the Colossus discovered this place.

"The prophet is back!"

With a low cry, the other barbarians who were sleeping or eating grass quickly looked towards the intersection.

After confirming that it was Lawrence, Fleiss and others quickly stood together.

This time besides Fleiss, there were more than twenty men.

These people are old and young, some are wearing sheepskin clothes, some are naked, and there are a few improvised grass skirts made of branches and leaves.

Only savages wear clothes in the winter, and most are simpler in the summer.

The reason why I think most barbarians wore clothes in the past is because these people were bandits and could steal clothes from the dead.

In fact, most of the savages lived a hard life, and only Andrew and a few people who occupied good places lived a good life.

The Pumixiu people fought several times, and each time after killing someone, they had to take off each other's clothes and wear them themselves.

It's the same here. After a person dies, unless they are those with high status, their clothes must be left for their heirs. Then gradually, there are two clothes per person.

It’s not that the products are rich, it’s that the population has decreased and resources are concentrated on the living.

Except for Doug, basically all the people who died died at their doorsteps, including all kinds of outsiders and passing beasts who flew to deliver equipment.

In the barbarian kingdom, the closer to the south, the more resources there are and the harder the life becomes, but few people can afford to wear clothes.

Lawrence was like this at the beginning. He only had eggs and meat to eat when he arrived in the north. However, he had to work hard all day in the royal city in the south and couldn't get enough to eat.

"Prophet!" Fleiss took the lead and knelt down, raised his head and said, "I am here with my brave warriors to fight for you!"

Lawrence raised his whip and pointed at the crowd, "These people don't even have clothes. How can I believe in their bravery?"

Several men who were naked were very embarrassed and frightened after being pointed out.

Fleiss said seriously: "When we board the ship, I will arrange for them to rush up first. If they retreat, I will kill them!"

Lawrence nodded, "I believe in your promise, but I believe in my own judgment more."

Lawrence controlled Dom Sheep who wanted to walk away with one hand and pointed at the people with the other.

"God will not let anyone die in vain. I will give you weapons and clothes. When we go to sea to fight this time, you must be at the front to prove your worth."

"If you are afraid, go back now. I will allow you to leave alive."

The few people without clothes looked at each other, and soon an old man without clothes walked around everyone and wanted to leave.

Upon seeing this, Fleiss quickly stood up, his heavy and majestic body rotated violently, and threw a sharp ax at the old man's head.

Sariel quickly pulled out the ax. She originally thought that Fleiss was going to hit Lawrence, but she didn't expect that he was going to hit the old man.

Sariel didn't think too much and just threw the ax at Fleiss's axe.

If she had known from the beginning that she was going to kill the person who escaped, Salil would not have done anything at all.

boom!

The two axes collided together and hit the place near the old man.

Although it didn't hit the old man, it frightened the man so much that he fell to the ground.

Upon seeing this, Lawrence said: "I allow him to leave alive. The rest of the people who don't want to fight, or who calm down and find that being a coward is more cost-effective than dying in battle, can leave now. I allow you to leave alive."

This time no one left. In fact, I had thought about it for a long time and made the decision from the beginning, and I saw real cows here again.

The cattle in Pumixiu Town gave Fleiss and others hope.

Especially when Lawrence kept his promise last time, Fleiss was very willing to be loyal here.

The rest of the people had already promised these things while drinking, but they didn't expect that the old man would betray everyone!

"Very well, now come with me and I will give you clothes and weapons and tell you what you are going to do this time."

"By the way." Lawrence thought of something, "Same as last time, I will provide your families with food and wool for heating. Fleiss, arrange for two people to take our servants to your village and tell you. How should people distribute these supplies.”

"Yes." Fleiss lowered his head respectfully, "Please allow me to go back and I will arrange this matter."

Lawrence nodded, "Okay, but you have to come back as soon as possible, we will leave soon."

Lawrence quickly led his men into the town to arrange things, while Fleiss went to deal with some personal matters.

Even though everyone knew that Fleiss would kill the old man, no one interceded for him.

Here in the North, the timid will be bullied, the brave will be respected, and those who are unwilling to go to sea to make a fortune will either die or remain slaves and serfs for the rest of their lives.

Lawrence is also very aggressive, but he does not pursue pure violence and brutality, but wants to maximize profits.

While Lawrence was discussing where to make a fortune this time, a team from Pig Trotter City approached.

There are more than a hundred people in this troop, and none of them seem to be good people. More than a dozen of them are riding large wild boars that are nearly 1.67 meters tall.

Fleiss killed the old man at his feet and looked at the approaching robbers with an ax in both hands.

An experienced robber can tell at a glance whether he is a robber or not.

Fleiss slowly retreated. He was now only more than two hundred meters away from Pumixiu Town, and the giant statue behind him was clearly visible.

Fleiss wasn't afraid, but he didn't want to die here either.

Boom, boom, boom!

Sure enough, an alarm bell sounded from behind, and a large bell made of bronze was rang.

Before Lawrence could leave the tavern, a group of Cloda and Phumexiu warriors gathered in front of the colossus with weapons and shields.

It was originally a hundred men versus one, but the situation quickly turned into a close battle.

More and more warriors came out of the village. When Fleiss retreated into the shadow of the Crow Feather Giant, he suddenly became arrogant, straightened his back, opened his arms and shouted: "Come! Come to me!"

The troops on the opposite side were obviously not a caravan. Everyone was carrying weapons and gradually dispersed, holding up their shields towards this side.

Lawrence quickly led the people out. After seeing the obvious regular army of the Kingdom of Luofen on the opposite side, he quickly said: "Give Fleiss and the newcomers weapons and shields!"

"Brick, call everyone down!"

"yes!"

Brick quickly went over to light a fire, calling people with smoke and dog barking.

Kehalan did not follow to check the territory today. He drank and slept in the town in advance. At this time, he ran over without any notice.

Fleiss's associates soon gathered together.

The villagers handed shields and iron axes to the warriors in front, and a large number of young warriors climbed onto nearby elevated structures or onto the arms of the giant statue.

The commander of the Wild Boar Legion was a count, and the two sides soon began a long confrontation to see who could escape first.

The earl, who was wearing leather armor and a cloak, saw that this group of savages did not run away, beg for mercy or cry, and he immediately felt provoked!

"Attack!" The fat Earl of Sder issued the order to attack. "Kill these rats!"

After Lawrence heard this, he also ordered:

"Fresh! Get behind them!"

"Start throwing the sling! Hit where there are many people!"

"Women, hurry up and move the wooden logs from the warehouse. The others place the stones in front of the giant statue, and then leave there immediately. Don't get in the way!"

Five large wild boars and more than fifty savages rushed over quickly.

Fleiss ran to the side with his men.

After seeing these people escaping, Count Sider showed a disdainful smile, "Come together! All of us rush forward!"

Just a village of four to five hundred people is no match for the Invincible Legion.

Kill them and take away their women and treasures.

Boom!

One stone struck the charging knight, and then a second! The third one!

Sixty or seventy fist-sized stones flew out and hit the bodies and tusks of the running barbarians and those big wild boars.

These high-speed impact stones quickly beat more than ten barbarians without helmets to their heads and bloodied them.

In one round, more than ten barbarians fell. Even five wild boars could not withstand the impact and howled.

When the ferocious wild boar and the barbarian who were used to seeing death were injured and continued to charge, the second round of stone throwing came a few seconds later.

After going down this time, there were only more than twenty elite soldiers of the Luofen Kingdom left. At this time, standing more than ten meters away from them with axes, hoes and spears raised, was a group of excited barbarians.

This was something they had never encountered before. They had always been barbarians chasing others to kill them, and it was rare to encounter such people who would pick up weapons and aim them at them.

In the past, I had only encountered a single person. After all, there were always people in this region and the southern region who would take up arms to resist, but there were rarely armies or tribes with hundreds of people participating in the resistance.

Under the complex and intensive stone throwing, many of the bandits from the Luofen Kingdom died quickly, and even three wild boars fell.

When the last few robbers who were lucky enough to run over ran over, they turned around and ran away in panic.

The barbarians who rushed up did not encounter city walls and wooden fences, but encountered a shield of thorns formed by the crowd!

When they encounter city wall mounds and wooden fences, they can bravely climb up.

But after encountering this wall of thorns formed by human beings armed with weapons, these bandits became afraid.

Behind Count Sider, a man in a cloak looked at the giant statue in front of him, and then at the young man three hundred meters away.

"We were deceived, that man was not a wizard, he was a useless mortal!"

Earl Sider quickly said: "Use your magic to kill him!"

The crow messenger said: "Okay! Crow, go and peck out his eyes!"

Hundreds of crows flew up from the car behind the crow messenger, and then flew toward Lawrence in dense numbers.

Lawrence saw crows flying over there and knew they were wizards from the Southern Kingdom.

"Kill these little crows from the south!" Lawrence gave the order decisively, pouring dirty water on them first.

The people in the manor wouldn't be able to tell which kind of crows they were without killing them. In fact, they would catch crows as guides every time they went to sea. Especially when the Durila people opened up the forest wasteland, they often killed the small crows.

After confirming that these were not the prophet's crows, people naturally stopped being afraid of these birds.