Phoenix Grand Lord

With the help of the little boy James, Rowe finished washing up.

The cook Susan brought the freshly roasted wolf meat. Rowe didn't know why Susan's collar was getting lower and lower in this cold weather.

In addition to the wolf meat, today's lunch also included a cup of warm milk with honey, a loaf of white bread just out of the oven, and two boiled eggs.

Such a lunch was still edible.

After Rowe finished his lunch, he asked Susan to remove all the tableware and leave.

Then, Rowe bent over his desk and wrote and drew on the straw paper.

After thinking carefully before going to bed last night, Rowe had already thought about how to fight the next battle.

First, he had to find a carpenter to make a long-arm lifting device.

After drawing the draft, Rowe asked the little boy James to summon an experienced carpenter.

When the carpenter arrived and bowed to greet him, Luo Wei handed him the sketch he had just drawn and asked him to make a 30-kilometre-high hoist according to the pulley group on the sketch.

Although Luo Wei's sketch was not professional, the senior carpenter understood the lord's meaning at a glance.

The senior carpenter looked at the sketch of the pulley hoist and was shocked.

He had never thought of this level of pulley combination. It was simply a tool across the ages!

Although the senior carpenter didn't quite understand what the lord Luo Wei wanted the high hoist to do, he took action immediately.

The sooner the work is completed, the more rewards you will get!

So, no matter what it can do, just do it!

After the carpenter left with the drawings, Luo Wei used his insight vision to check the manor.

Since he accidentally absorbed the pure magic energy of the dragon crystal last time, Luo Wei always felt that he was particularly energetic and the power of the phoenix could not be idle.

The problem is that Luo Wei now has only 3 Ash Sequence skills, and none of them are combat skills.

Phoenix Conservation consumes the most, but the manor is currently undergoing construction, and taking wood at this time will affect the progress.

Turning Stone into Gold can be used for consumption, but last time I touched so many rune stones in one go, and now I haven't used any of them.

It's time to personally inspect the territory in depth.

Luo Wei slapped the table, "Come on! Prepare horses for me, the master!"

Ten minutes later, Luo Wei rode his black horse, accompanied by Xia Liz and several bell-ringing soldiers, to inspect the territory.

Wherever he passed, the serfs all stopped and bowed respectfully to Luo Wei.

It is not difficult to see from their excited facial expressions that they really support Luo Wei.

Luo Wei simply waved to the serfs, and then rode through the manor.

Meiling Valley Manor is really too small. The territory of 5 hectares can be reached in a few minutes.

This small territory is not even worthy of a marked place name on the map.

Although the population of the Merlin Valley Manor has not increased at present, as the number of buildings increases, more construction plans must be made.

Luo Wei plans to use the extra labor to expand and level the surrounding rocky land, so that he can mine stones and expand slightly.

In the first stage, at least expand the 5 hectares of land to 10 hectares.

Otherwise, many buildings will be crowded together, which is a taboo from a strategic point of view.

At present, it is not possible to expand southward, because the south of Merlin Valley is the long Broken Star River, and the other side of the Broken Star River is the Marigold Territory.

The narrowest river channel of the Broken Star River is only 20 kilometres. Once the main territory of Merlin Valley expands to the Broken Star River, it is very likely to be attacked by arrows from the Marigold Territory in the future, or even attacked by catapults.

The range of ordinary bows and arrows is about 150 kilometres, and the range of bows and arrows of regular troops can reach about 200 kilometres.

The range of the catapult can cover 500 kilometres, and the accuracy is extremely high.

Fortunately, the Merlin Valley Manor is between two hills, with the hills as a natural barrier. The catapult can only hit the sentry tower standing at the bridgehead and the waterwheel far away in the corner.

When Luo Wei was planning, he deliberately built the waterwheel near the reef. Although it is a little more difficult to build, it is safer.

Of course, in order to avoid attacks from flaming arrows, the river bank cannot be expanded after 200 kilometres.

The southern area of ​​Merlin Valley close to the Broken Star River must leave enough space of 200 kilometres as a buffer zone.

Therefore, Merlin Valley cannot open up wasteland and expand to the south.

Expanding to the north is within Luo Wei's plan, but it is not urgent now.

To the north of the Merlin Valley Manor is the mysterious Black Moon Forest, where there are many powerful monsters. Therefore, if you want to expand into the Black Moon Forest, in addition to keeping up with the efficiency of logging, you must also have a strong ability to clear out the surrounding monsters.

The level 2 monster wolf that Xia Liz killed last time was only on the edge of the Black Moon Forest, and it cannot be considered a real Black Moon Forest monster.

The monsters in the Black Moon Forest must be at least level 3 or even above the intermediate level 4.

Therefore, if you want to expand into the real Black Moon Forest, you must at least wait until Xia Liz reaches the initial level 3, or Luo Wei awakens himself, before it will be safer.

The population of Merlin Valley Manor is very small now, and human resources are precious, and they must not be lost easily.

Therefore, at this stage, we can only move around the Black Moon Forest.

Since we can't expand to the south or the north, we can only expand horizontally in the east and west directions.

There are two hills in the east and west directions of Merlin Valley.

These two hills stand here, which is both good and bad.

The good thing is that these two hills can serve as a natural barrier for Meilin Valley.

The bad thing is that these two hills tightly clamp the horizontal expansion space of Meilin Valley.

This is almost an unsolvable situation.

But there is always a way.

During this inspection, Luo Wei made a more detailed insight and his consciousness also penetrated deep into the interior of the hills.

These two hills are basically 200 kilometres high, with basically the same peak height and basically the same mountain shape.

At the foot of the hills, there are also many scattered granites and limestones.

There were no decent iron chisels and hammers in Meilin Valley before, but this time a lot of chisels and hammers were seized from the Watch Farm Manor, so the mining of stones can also be put on the agenda.

Mining all the scattered granite and limestone around the two hills and leveling the ground is equivalent to opening up wasteland and expanding.

Luo Wei roughly estimated that if the land at the foot of the mountain could be reclaimed, the area of ​​the Merrill Valley Manor could be expanded to at least 8 hectares.

Many buildings in the future could be built on the mountain.

Luo Wei then named the two hills: Zuodeng Mountain and Youdeng Mountain.

The hill on the west side is Zuodeng Mountain, and the hill on the east side is Youdeng Mountain.

Xia Liz, who followed Luo Wei, couldn't help but ask curiously: "Master, I can understand the two words left and right, but why is it called a lamp?"

Luo Wei said without hesitation: "Based on the shape."

Xia Liz widened her eyes, looked at Zuodeng Mountain, and then looked at Youdeng Mountain.

How does this look like a lamp?

Huh?

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