Ride and Cut

"Ahem, this..." The lord laughed a few times without embarrassment, clapped his hands, and the maids lined up obediently and walked away in small steps.

"Oh, I'm just soft-hearted."

"After that battle, many tribes died, and these vassal tribes lost the protection of their suzerains and found it difficult to survive." Li Cha's face was full of compassion, like a monk who sweeps the floor and is worried about hurting ants. "They came to Gaoshan Castle on their own initiative, who would have the heart to refuse."

"Later Gunther... No, it was Nehru. This guy always came up with some bad ideas. He said that those girls were helpless, and it was a good thing to choose some maids." He seemed to be a benevolent priest who was worried about moths flying into the flames and covered the lamps with gauze nets.

It can be seen that many rumors in this world have no reason.

"It's none of my business..." Nehru looked at the lord's expression and was silent for a while, "It's my idea."

"So you're willing to obey?" Annie rolled her eyes.

This person, even including all intelligent life in a broad sense, once he has more contact with Gao Shanbao, it is hard to say anything else, he must learn quickly by rolling his eyes.

"No, I just refused." Li Cha touched Qiqiu's furry ears, maintained his serious expression for a moment, and then suddenly smiled, "But after thinking about it, what he said does make sense, I am a majestic lord..."

"Later, I couldn't hold back and asked repeatedly, and the adults reluctantly agreed." Nehru took the initiative to continue.

Once the flattery started, although I felt sad as if something was gone forever, it was inevitable that I would become handy.

"That's right, that's the case." The lord nodded repeatedly.

"Okay." Annie stretched out her hand to Richard, "In the future, I will be in charge of the firm's permanent store in Gaoshanbao. I hope we can cooperate happily."

"Of course." Li Cha shook the half-elf's little hand twice.

"One more thing." Annie was originally standing between Richard and the cloaked man's followers, but she suddenly took a step back to get out of sight, "I would like to introduce a famous naturalist—Mr. Buckland."

"Good day, Mr. Richard." The cloaked man slowly took off his hood, lowered his head and helped his round tortoiseshell glasses on the bridge of his nose. This pair of glasses is missing a leg, and it is barely hung on the ear with a thin hemp rope.

Famous... never heard of it.

Li Cha got up from the wicker chair in a jiffy: "Tiger... Tiger people?"

It is not difficult to determine the race. The slender and pointed ears are elves, and the human-like but with various animal features are half-orcs. In short, based on the external characteristics, they are basically the same.

But the lord is hesitating at the moment - although the man in front of him has a tiger head, he is not as tall as Annie.

"Mr. Buckland comes from the famous White Tiger clan, and he is better at art than fighting." Annie signaled Richard not to make such a fuss with her eyes.

"My nickname is 'Sugar', so Lord Lord, you can also call me Sugar White Tiger." Buckland blinked his eyes innocently after speaking, not understanding why the pioneering lord suddenly showed a suppressed smile.

"Good day... Good day, Mr. Tang Baihu."

From the Lord Lord's point of view, he should have a certain degree of albinism, so he had to wear a cloak to shield him from the sun as much as possible.

In response to the saying that a smart head does not grow hair, this "sugar white tiger" is unfortunately also a top-notch person. Although the few hairs on the top of his head are clearly combed carefully to cover his bare scalp, this attempt is completely futile.

"Mr. Buckland hopes to do some natural history research on the wilderness in Alpine Castle." Anne said.

"That's no problem, it doesn't look like he's eating much anyway." The lord told the truth, at least the little old man didn't look like an annoying person, "However, it's quite surprising to see a tiger scholar in Pompeii."

Buckland stroked his chest with a smug smile, "His Majesty Sargerei's palace guard in Pompeii has absorbed many tiger-men guards, so there is no need to be surprised to see tiger-men in Pompeii."

Several people exchanged some nonsense nonsense, Buckland said he wanted to collect specimens and left by himself, Richard ordered the leaders to help Anne's caravan build a residence first.

The population of the alpine castle is getting bigger and bigger, and the small hills are gradually becoming difficult to accommodate. The current layout is that the guards and the lord himself are stationed on the hills to ensure a wide view, while the rest of the people settle around like egg whites wrapping egg yolks.

Now that the hills have become an important military area, commercial companies can no longer freely enter and exit as they did in the initial period, and the area allocated to them is also in the territorial area.

"Boss, let's go." Gunther took three barbarian warriors and a dozen vassal servants to bid farewell to Richard. He has already decided to go back to his hometown in the extreme arctic ice field and move the whole tribe to Alpine Castle.

"Go early and come back early." Li Cha punched his chest twice with his fist.

The population and output of Alpine Fort are increasing rapidly, compared with the strength of the guards, which is a bit stretched.

Since almost all the people in the territory are not good at fighting, the way to expand is extremely limited, mainly falling on centaurs and barbarians.

When Hurt first defected to Richard, he only brought with him more mature veteran warriors from the tribe. Later, these people became the first archers of Gaoshan Castle, and performed well in previous battles. Now those newly grown centaurs followed in the footsteps of their predecessors, picked up the longbow, swallowed the potion and swore to fight for the Alpine Castle, increasing the number of centaurs to nearly forty.

And if Gunther's itinerary goes well, the guard team will welcome a group of barbarians to join in the next few months at most.

After watching them leave, the lord made the first purchase request to Woya Trading Company: "Help me to see if there are any high-grade battle qi secret books on the market. If you need money, it will be deducted from the ironware purchase price."

"Okay, but don't have too much hope." Anne said the well-known fact: "Good things are often not bought with money."

"Brother Richard." Robbie walked over with two thick dark circles under his eyes. He was still half asleep and half awake, wandering away, and when he got closer, he suddenly found that Annie was there.

"Miss Anne, good day." He greeted in a friendly manner.

"What's the matter?" Li Cha squeezed open a hazelnut and fed it to Qiqiu who had been running around.

"The new blast furnace is completed, and the blacksmiths are preparing to open the furnace."

When Li Cha raised his head, he saw a few streaks of black smoke blowing up in the distance.

The addition of the dwarf tribe brought a large number of qualified blacksmiths and sufficient sources of ore, and the military industry of Alpine Fort finally started to get on the right track.