Chapter 151

"Lord Nicole, I can't change food!" Facing the fierce family female knight, black castle clerk Max argued.

Nicole's bright apricot eyes flashed a dangerous cold light and said coldly to max, "I've been to the warehouse and it's full of food. If you dare to say that it's not food, I'll knock out your teeth."

Nicole's hands are beautiful, with ten fingers, white and smooth, but Max knows that these tender hands that can pinch water can easily break the spear made of refined iron. He also knows that Nicole is not kidding. Max swallowed hard and said, "there are 12 million pounds of grain stored in the warehouse, but we have no grain to give to Viscount Victor's people, not a grain!"

"So you're deliberately embarrassing Victor?! who gave you the courage?"

Nicole is really angry. Victor's rock brick technology is very important to the family. This is the consensus of the senior management of the family. It's just that the rock brick is too sensitive. If it doesn't happen, she will never know the reason. It's impossible for the middle-level like Max to know anything about it. Nicole doesn't believe that Max dares to make trouble for Victor's people. He must have been instructed by a high-level. Nicole is very angry about this behavior.

Max shook his head and said, "Lord Nicole, with all due respect, you are a noble and powerful knight, but you don't understand the family's internal affairs. The family has fallen into the dilemma of food shortage."

"12 million pounds of grain, of which 6 million pounds of seeds can never be used. What we can use is the remaining 6 million pounds. But please note that the current population of Heibao town is 120000. These people's daily ration is 200000 pounds, and our food is only enough for 30 days."

"Yes, you heard me right. It's either 300 days, 100 days, or just 30 days. As a family knight, I'm afraid you don't know that our attendants in charge of internal affairs have begun to eat black bread eaten by Dalits. This crude food is made of flour ground from rye and wheat bran. To be honest, I believed that the murder on Seymour street was the first time I ate this kind of food Really. "

In the murder case of Seymour street, a sick cook killed five poor vagrants. What the nobles are fond of talking about is not the case itself, but the murder weapon used by the cook is actually black bread. Now, throwing half a brick of black bread on the table is more persuasive than anything. Nicole's aggressive momentum has disappeared.

Nicole said quietly, "has the family been so difficult?"

"The difficulties are still ahead. We have no grain harvest this year. We have to feed 120000 people. The caravan no longer comes to Heibao town. Fortunately, our neighbors are still supporting us, but they have also been affected. We need to rely on the assistance of the kingdom in the next three years, but please believe my judgment. The royal family will not let us eat enough." Max said sincerely.

Nicole was silent for a moment, gritted her teeth and said, "you're lying to me! The family has been providing food to Victor's people. Can't you even squeeze out 20 days of rations?"

Seeing the signs of the female Knight's violent departure, Max quickly said, "that's different. We can provide food to those who stay in Heibao Town, but we will never provide dry food to those who try to leave. The reality is that those who are willing to stay, even if it is difficult, will give them a bite of food, and whether those who want to leave have anything to eat is none of our business?"

The York family needs enough labor to build fortresses, farm and graze, and those left behind farmers are not fools. The human horse hills have become development leaders. Who is willing to suffer here, they will try to leave Heibao town. Only by firmly controlling food can they stop this behavior. This is the York family's strategy: we are already very difficult. Only those who join us can have food. If you don't want to join, please find a way out. The church tacitly accepted the practices of the York family, and the Lords in the Western kingdom would not accept these refugees. However, Nicole didn't give up.

"Don't try to fool me! The family wants to gather refugees who have nowhere to go, and Viscount Victor's leaders are not refugees who have no one to take in. You don't know Victor's relationship with the family?"

Max said firmly, "that won't work! Once this kind of thing spreads, some scoundrels will incite fools to trouble us in the church. They won't care about Lord Victor's relationship with the family. I will never agree!"

Then Max said carefully: "Lord Nicole, you can't forget your position and identity. If Lord Victor asks the family, I will certainly arrange it for him. It's the kindness of the nobility. But do you think the nobility will use the kindness for this kind of thing? In the final analysis, those leaders are just inferior. Moreover, among them, there are guards who are skilled in martial arts and find something to eat in the wild It's not difficult. Of course, I'll arrange for Mrs. Lilia a carriage and food commensurate with her identity, which is enough to preserve the dignity of Lord victor. "

Nicole was convinced that she was a knight after all, and she was born with an insurmountable gap with the lower class. If it wasn't for Victor, Nicole wouldn't take care of such a thing at all.

"Give them back the horses and ox carts. They are Victor's property." Nicole said faintly.

"As you wish."

When Nicole's slim and moving figure disappeared outside the door, Max breathed a sigh of relief. If he just refused Nicole's request again, he would be beaten all over the ground looking for teeth.

Outside the black castle, Nicole met Lilia. She said apologetically, "Lilia, I'm sorry. The family's food is really not enough. I only asked for horses and ox carts for victor."

"That's great! Victor will be happy if he can take these horses and cattle back. Thank you, sister Nicole. We'll solve the food ourselves." Lilia was overjoyed.

Nicole took Lilia's hand and stopped talking. Finally, she only told, "be careful on the road."

"Well, I will."

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The whistling mountain wind blew by Victor's side, making him have the illusion that he could fly at any time.

Victor's whole body is covered with cyan black armor. The surface of the armor is covered with a faint cold light, mysterious and cold, like a knight from the nether world. Victor did not expect that the double silver body armor made of ant man's shell would be so light, and the overall weight did not exceed 16KG. Although the weight is light, the strength and toughness of this armor is surprisingly high. At first, Gillian did her best not to cut off the body of the ant man leader, which is enough to show the strength of the ant man's shell. Moreover, this armor is also integrated with precious silver. Now, it can resist the shooting of the military heavy crossbow. Victor believed that with this suit of armor, ordinary knights had found a way to deal with him.

The attributes of this armor are far beyond the original double silver leather armor. Victor regretted that the double silver leather armor had been eliminated before covering the heat. However, in terms of appearance, the double silver leather armor is obviously in line with the aesthetics of most people, while the ant man armor has a cold-blooded and ruthless taste. For example, the nearby Renault is covered with this armor and holds a 2.5-meter fine iron long knife. Just standing will exert a great pressure on ordinary people. Of course, his armor is only silver equipment.

Victor did not pay attention to his new armor now, but toured his castle with joy.

The 30 meter high hill Castle covers an area of 25 mu, with 6 floors, 27 rooms, 4 basements and 4 towers. There is a barracks, a blacksmith shop, 8 mu of vegetable land and a small garden in the inner court of the castle.

The part of the city wall close to the ground is 2 meters thick, and the thickness of the tower is up to 4 meters, which is smaller as it goes up. Each wall of the castle consists of three layers. The inner and outer walls are carefully connected with rock bricks and plastered with mortar, which is very strong. The space between the interior and exterior walls is filled with pebbles, gravel and mortar.

Four 38 meter high towers are built at the four corners of the castle, which can be equipped with heavy bed crossbows and small stone throwing machines. These battle level weapons can not deal with strong individuals, but can easily destroy the enemy's siege equipment and dense rear array.

A long and narrow breast wall is built on the 30 meter high wall. The breast wall is composed of different parts. The high pier wall has a slender opening as a shooting hole for bows and arrows. Once the ant people attack the city, 200 monkey militia can use the breast wall to let them taste the taste of long bow and hard crossbow.

"Is it really all right that there is no water in the castle?" There is no spring in this hill. If it is besieged for a long time, the consequences will be unimaginable. Victor is deeply worried about it.

Bousso pointed to a large reservoir on the roof and replied, "Sir, it is backed by the swamp and the air humidity is very high. We have set up many refined iron pipes on the roof. The dew collected every day will flow into the reservoir under the roof along the refined iron pipes. You don't have to worry about the water supply of the castle."

Victor found that the reservoir was three meters high and covered with sheds to prevent the water in the reservoir from being polluted by bird droppings. At the bottom of the pool, there are many refined iron pipes connected, which are directly led into the buildings below for human use. Victor couldn't help getting excited. Isn't this tap water?

"Bousso, what else will you not tell me?" Victor sighed.

Bousso thought for a moment and said, "my Lord, I won't grow crops here."

Victor was speechless. Alchemists loaded with planting skills can't grow crops. That's because the crops here are not the crops of the alchemy empire. It's like a modern farmer returning to ancient times. There are no chemical fertilizers, pesticides, hybrid rice seeds, and he can't grow grain with a yield of thousands of kilograms per mu. In addition to the completely different types of crops in the alchemy Empire, they also use the secret silver array and alchemy fertilizer. Busso, they really don't grow crops here. This is the fault of civilization. In fact, many of the technologies busso mastered can not be realized, most of which involve alchemy runes.

"My Lord, the alchemical crow found captain Nelson. They were about to enter the territory." An alchemy militia came to report.

"I see." Victor nodded and asked, "Bousso, is the plow I want you to build ready?"

"It's ready."

"Dig out all the potatoes in the field and I'll take them with me."