New Gods of North America

After getting up the next day,

Wayne went to the cellar to check on the guys who were caught.

The walls of the large cage rooms in the cellar were all nailed with wooden boards. A new safe that was buried yesterday was hidden behind the wooden wall of one of the large cage rooms.

The place where things are stored must not be used if possible, so the three thieves were tied up and locked in a large cage next door.

At this time, the detectives of the detective agency also looked quite capable.

The interrogation has been preliminarily completed and records have been made.

Of course, he cannot compare with those professionals in the church, but if he is to be a sheriff in a small western town, this level is basically qualified.

After a quick look at the records, it turned out that it was indeed someone sent by one of the teams hired by the steam train company yesterday.

Wayne asked David Mills to confirm again. After confirming that the other party was not a Beyonder, he confiscated their weapons.

Have Doug take them to the police station, preferably one where Bill Tench can take over.

This group of people is not a professional bounty hunter team. They are roughly equivalent to the local small gangs in Richmond. Three people can't even carry two guns, and they mainly rely on daggers to scare people.

The reason they received Mr. Russell’s “invitation” was actually due to some connections.

Wayne seemed to understand Mr. Russell's intention.

The security of steam train lines is a relatively long-term and stable income, and there are probably many people who want to get involved.

However, from Mr. Russell's perspective, he certainly does not want the security service team to "raise enemies to protect themselves" or "collude with the insiders and the outsiders".

Therefore, his initial idea of ​​"dividing" into segments might be to pay a part of the "protection money" or "protection fee", and then at the same time hire some truly reliable teams.

But it doesn't matter.

When the detective agency comes, there will be a clear sky.

In addition to the detective agency itself, the detectives also have some valuable items of their own.

The safe that was previously eliminated by Emma was now moved to the agents' side for them to use to store things.

Anyway, everyone is assigned a small box and can put whatever they want in it, but every time the safe is opened, at least three agents are needed to witness it, and one of them must be a senior agent.

Although it cannot prevent professionals, it is better than nothing, and it also gives the agents some "stable" sense of belonging.

If it's something valuable or you're worried about it, then leave it to Inissa. She has a new big safe with some spare cash. When the detective agency goes out together, this place is full of traps.

Even if we encounter a thief who can open the safe, we can probably give them a little surprise.

Then the detective agency gave everyone two days off. No classes or work. Just do whatever you want.

On the third day, everyone in the detective agency said goodbye to David Mills and agreed with him where to hide the key when they left. Then the carriages lined up and set off together.

The group first went to Richmond, purchased some weapons and ammunition, and briefly reported their whereabouts. They also received a handwritten letter of recommendation from Tom Hagen, asking him to seek help from the local church when needed.

At least in Virginia, this thing can basically be used as an ID. If it goes to the neighboring states, you have to consider whether the other party will give you face.

Virginia's topography is somewhat similar to a rough trapezoid.

The famous Appalachian Mountains in eastern America run diagonally from the northeast corner of the Commonwealth of America to the southwest.

When it reached the territory of Virginia, it divided Virginia into two parts, east and west.

The eastern part of Virginia is a vast plain with an outlet to the sea, which is very suitable for agricultural development. A large number of plantations are concentrated in the eastern part.

The western part of Virginia is mostly the high mountains, valleys and connected mountains of the Appalachian Mountains. The scale of agriculture there is said to be much smaller, and it is basically dominated by planting by free people, and there are not many large landowners.

If we only talk about "farmers", the agriculture there is mainly "farmland", and the area is not even as large as the "farms" developed in the west.

However, this side developed earlier, trade is relatively more convenient, industrial products are easier to buy and cheaper than those in the west, and the average yield is also higher than that in the west. To be honest, many townspeople in Blackrock Town often just sow seeds at random on their wheat farms, and they cannot take care of intensive farming. Improving the soil quality also takes time, but the overall family harvest is still higher.

Most farms in the West can only feed themselves, and if you want to exchange for money, you have to be more thoughtful. It is not as convenient as in these prosperous states in the East.

Because of the Appalachian Mountains, Wayne and his crew actually had to take a slightly longer route.

First, we went north along the steam train line until we almost reached the border of Washington, DC, then we turned west along the road through the developed mountains and headed towards the western mountains of Virginia.

After crossing the Shenandoah Valley, everyone arrived at the first town of this trip -

Winchester.

But don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with the Winchester company that produces guns in modern society.

This is the case with place names in the Commonwealth of America. Because of the residents' self-governance, many place names are randomly chosen. Some people who miss their hometowns in the Old World will give towns and cities names that are exactly the same as the place names in the Old World, or names like "New XXX City".

For example, the name Winchester refers to the Winchester in the Kingdom of Windsor.

The steam train route does not actually pass directly through the town of Winchester. You have to go northwest to get there.

But the group of people had been on the road for a long time, so they had to find a place to rest first, so they came here first.

The town of Winchester is actually quite famous. Washington, the "founding father" of America, once started a business here.

If we talk about industries alone, the most abundant product here is apples, which are also a hot-selling product that sells well everywhere. Along the way, you can see large tracts of orchards.

This is almost the junction of the eastern and western parts of Virginia.

The tentacles of the big landowners and wealthy people for wealth currently extend roughly to this place.

It is said that further west, in the territory of Virginia, it is difficult to see black slaves - ordinary white self-employed farmers usually cannot afford slaves, and the mountains further west are not suitable for the development of large-scale plantations and are not economically viable.

I don’t know whether it is a blessing or a curse.

Since apples are both durable and popular, and agricultural products are not difficult to sell, the townspeople here live a relatively stable life. The wealthy and large landowners are also happy to run this town, and the public security conditions are relatively good.

Wayne and his team chose this place as a rest area on their way "westward". As long as they had not gone too far away, they would try to come back here to rest.

To be honest, it is actually quite convenient to buy bullets here.