Warlord: King of All Clans

Three days before the wedding, Uliyan began to mobilize soldiers for rotation and added personnel to the defense facilities of the entire Hewan Peninsula.

The guards don't necessarily have to be equipped with the most practical weapons and armor, but they must be new and good-looking.

The heavy chain mail seized from the Black Armor Elite and the legion chain mail donated by Sir Nelson were distributed to the guards of the River Bay Camp.

All the messy and tattered fur and leather armor were discarded and thrown to the militia groups in Hekou Town and Gravel Fort.

If the armor is not enough, you can wear the newly made studded hard leather armor, which, combined with the brand new bear skin and tiger skin cloaks, will make you look particularly majestic.

The ogres are confined to the Gnoll Valley, and are allowed to go to the forging workshop at the small lake in the middle at most. They are forbidden to enter the river bend camp to avoid offending the nobles.

Only Olivia's godchildren were allowed to stay in the Riverbend House, and only after they voluntarily wore leather collars and pretended to be foreign slaves.

The puppy-headed people were panting and wagging their tails, looking extremely happy.

After the linen sweater, there is a new look.

New skin plus one!

The wild folk camp and refugee camp on the other side of the river bend also received a notice to reduce the number of exchanges as much as possible in the next few days, and only a few leaders were allowed to enter and exit freely.

The refugees are better off, after all, they are influenced by the imperial culture and know their identity and status, but the barbarians do not have this awareness.

Many young and vigorous people in the wild only follow the rules of the wilderness and advocate the supremacy of force.

What if you don't like some arrogant and domineering second-generation aristocrat and start a fight with him with just one sentence: "What are you looking at?" It would be a bad outcome if there were casualties.

Or they may be attracted by the fair-skinned ladies who are dressed in revealing and gorgeous clothes, and cannot help but carry forward the tradition of bride-stealing among the barbaric tribes, which will also cause trouble.

In fact, according to the feelings of Leo and most of the young people in the village, instead of pretending to be nice to the noble guests, they might as well have a party with the gnolls and wild people.

Unfortunately, Hewan is a human settlement after all and needs to be integrated into human society, so this kind of external exchange is indispensable.

The reputation of the River Bay Territory in the outside world is already very bad. Some people say that the peasant lord is uneducated, that he associates with barbaric foreigners, that he raises bandits and savages to rob houses, and that he kills the children of nobles and provokes powerful enemies.

Ulyayan didn't want to leave a worse impression on the outside world when engaging in diplomacy for the first time.

In high society, the wedding of aristocratic heirs is a more important social event than daily large-scale banquets. It is a perfect opportunity to demonstrate the wealth and power of the nobility, and it is also an important occasion to maintain and expand personal connections.

Many nobles in the city of Isenpol have heard about the rise of Hewan and are very interested in Ulian, the local rich man.

Some nobles who had no interest in the Reach, but were part of a marriage alliance or close to the Petukhov family, were more concerned about Rigolav's reaction.

When they learned that Rigolav would go to the river bend in person, those relatives who were planning to send someone to deliver gifts quickly changed their plans and sent important family members or went in person.

For three consecutive days, Isenpol's convoys set out one after another towards the western watchtower. They first gathered at the hot spring villa led by the Knights of Solovy, and then prepared to go to the river bend on the wedding day.

In the cold winter, the hot spring villa obviously provides a more suitable living environment than the river bend where guests need to be accommodated by setting up tents or vacating villagers' huts.

The Petukhov family also spent a lot of money to arrange the marriage of Ulyan's children. Not only did the old-fashioned and traditional head of the family, Rigolav, condescend to invite the nobles, but the hot spring villa was also open to guests for free, as if it were a trial operation.

The guests soaked in hot springs, drank fine wine and talked to each other frankly in the heavy snow, which was wonderful.

Many people's eyes were on the uncle and nephew, Knight Solovy and Knight Roman.

Compared to the River Reach Territory, these two uncles and nephews who already hold the status of knights are much more attractive.

The former holds the most famous title of Wind Knight in the North. He is also a pioneer lord and the owner of this hot spring villa.

If they hadn't also made it clear that they wanted to go to the river bend together, the guests would have almost given up on attending the wedding of the peasant lord across the street.

Some civilians, however, did not receive such good treatment. They could only go to the river bend first and wait for the river bend lord to arrange accommodation for them.

These civilian caravans included merchants doing business with River Bay, a small theater troupe invited from Isenbol, and bards who spontaneously went there after hearing the news.

It is always unsafe outside the city, and the shadow of the refugee incident has not yet been eliminated, so everyone is used to traveling in groups.

However, after seeing the cavalry patrols from the Petukhov family and the River Bay Territory, everyone felt relieved.

These cavalrymen were not regular cavalry, but mounted infantry, and only a few of them who came from pastoral origins were able to fight on horseback.

However, the excellent northern riding horses and the flat World Tree Avenue gave them the ability to move quickly, and their patrol range was large enough to cover the entire western part of Isenpol.

The young Holy Light monk DeWitt Jefferson, also rode on a horse, carrying his scriptures and page, and mixed in with the civilian convoy.

He stopped at Hekou Town, looked at the bustling small market outside the South Gate for a while, and then looked at the small fishing boats shuttling back and forth on the north side of the East Gate for a while.

Opposite the River Bend Avenue outside the river mouth town, at the outlet where the stream merges into the Anzeno River, there is a small pier with a cargo ship docked at the pier.

This small cargo ship, which is common in Isenbor, can carry as much cargo as ten small fishing boats, but it usually does not swim upstream.

The owner of the cargo ship stood on the dock, watching the stevedores constantly loading cargo onto the cargo ship. He was complacent about the huge profits from this transportation, but at the same time he was worried that the cargo ship might run aground due to its deep draft.

If you go directly to Hewan to trade goods, the profit will be even higher.

But it is impossible to go to the river bend, even if the cargo ship owner has ten courage.

The Anzeno River starts from the river bend, with tributaries constantly flowing into it along the way. By the time it reaches the western watchtower, the water surface is nearly two hundred meters wide.

Although there are still many sandbars and reefs further downstream, you can still take the risk if you are familiar with the waterway.

It is not possible to go upstream, as the river, which is only thirty miles long, gradually narrows and even has forks. There are reefs and sandbanks everywhere, and the water flow is relatively turbulent. Cargo ships will easily run aground or run aground if they are not careful.

Even after repeated dredging, only small fishing boats with very shallow draft dared to transport back and forth.

Some fishing families have quickly moved their families to river mouth towns or river bay peninsulas and no longer make a living by fishing.

In my previous home, no matter it was a natural village or a knight's territory, there would always be a chief standing at the dock to collect taxes, and the tax rate was entirely based on the chief's mood and the closeness of the relationship.

If fishermen evade taxes, not only will they be unable to sell the fish they have worked so hard to catch, but they will also be treated as poachers and hung on the dock for public display.

Not to mention coming to Hewan for delivery, even coming to Hewan to fish is more reliable than staying in my hometown.

Brother DeWitt looked for a while before heading towards the river bend with his servant, sighing as he walked.

The last time I came here, it was still a wilderness outside the western watchtower, but now it has developed into a fortress.

The endless forests along the way were transformed into a planting base in less than half a year.

This is incredible for the slow-changing northern frontier.