Chapter 170

Songlin town is located in the northwest of chebman, which governs four villages, with a total population of less than 2000 and a very remote geographical location. Therefore, count chebman chose here to trade secret silver with victor. As Mithril is a very sensitive strategic material, both sides conduct secret transactions as free people. Count chebman instructed the Lord of Songlin town to build a free private land outside as a trading point. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, the daily inspection work in Songlin town has also been suspended. It can be said that the periphery of Songlin town has become a place of freedom to come and go, and Wei Qi and others do not know.

When weiqi and his party entered the chebman collar, the team deliberately avoided the road signs and drove directly into the wilderness. Weilin and others were frightened. It is the common sense of the human nation to walk on the road. The Lord built roads between villages and towns, set up posts on the roads and sent soldiers to patrol, so as to ensure the safety of pedestrians and smooth roads. At the same time, he should also check the identity and goods of outsiders and collect taxes. If you don't take the road, you have a bad intention. If you are caught, you will never come to a good end. You can either be treated as a bandit, pay a fine, or serve hard labour.

At the instigation of others, wellin hardened his head and reminded Sasha that the chebman family was different from the new family like Randall family. Once he left the road built by the chebman family, he would be a felony if he was caught. Sasha didn't explain, but fiercely told wellin to shut up.

When it was dark, they saw a little fire. It was a simple camp. Sasha jumped down from his horse and waved the torch twice, and the light on the opposite side danced with it.

"Let's go! It's them."

Sasha turned back and gave an order and took the lead in walking towards the camp. There were four campfires in the camp, and dozens of men sat around the campfire. It is the instinct of businessmen to observe their words and colors. Weiqi and others found that these strong men are vigorous, with sharp eyes. Although their equipment is old, they are very complete. They have lock armor, leather armor, spear and short knife, and there are more than 20 dark crossbows. Obviously, this is not a random mob. The free people and businessmen breathe a sigh of relief.

Weiqi also noticed that Sasha was talking in a low voice with a stout man. Sasha was more than half a head taller than the man, but seeing his bowing and flattering face, he knew that the man should be the head of the mercenary regiment. Sure enough, after a while, Sasha came over with the man.

"Are you boss wedge?" Asked the stocky man in a jar.

Weiqi immediately showed Pisa's flattering smile and nodded again and again: "yes, yes, yes, I'm Weiqi. Hello, Captain!"

"My name is hammer. I'm the head of the Warhammer mercenary regiment. I'm not a master. Just call me hammer head." The hammer nodded at the merchants and said, "Sasha has told you all about us. Camp here tonight and start early tomorrow. You don't have to worry about safety. My brother will watch the night."

"Commander hammer, your members know at a glance that they are all powerful soldiers. Warhammer must be the top mercenary regiment. We don't worry about being with you." Vicky complimented and asked haltingly, "just, this... Can we see the goods?"

The hammer opened his mouth and smiled silently. The merchant may not know what is a powerful soldier and what is danger, but he is concerned about whether there are goods. Act recklessly and blindly do as like as two peas Nelson described. Wedge doesn't know hammer, but hammer has heard of him. The old mercenaries talked about fat wedge's performance in the goat hotel more than once. At that time, he was almost scared to cry, but after tasting the purple cane wine, he immediately wanted to talk about business with Nelson, and he couldn't drive away.

"Here it is."

The hammer pointed to the corner, where there were dozens of coarse hemp pockets and ten strange wheelbarrows. Several burly mercenaries took out ten sacks and threw them on the ground. Several businessmen rushed forward impatiently to untie the sacks, and the fine iron arrow immediately appeared. When they saw the arrow, the businessmen were happy. According to the agreement, half of the arrow here is their turning capital.

These refined iron arrows are of excellent workmanship, excellent quality and large quantity. They must be produced by a lord's weapon workshop. Since the Warhammer mercenary regiment can get the refined iron arrow, maybe there are good things in other bags. Thinking of this, fat wedge rubbed his hands and said enthusiastically, "commander hammer, what are the goods in the other bags? Do you want us to take a look and estimate the price for you?"

The hammer shook his head and said, "it's all supplies. There's nothing to look at." Vicky was disappointed, but he heard the hammer say, "Oh, there are ten bags of coarse sugar."

"Crude... Crude sugar?!" Wei Qi was surprised and frightened, and whispered, "Captain, I think we'd better start overnight."

"Why?" The hammer asked inexplicably.

"Well, crude sugar is a specialty of Randall family. If you pick up their goods, they must come to find it. It's close to Randall's collar here. It's better to go on the road early." Vicky lowered his voice and whispered. Seeing that the hammer looked strange, but he was noncommittal, he hurriedly said: "commander hammer, I tell you, the captain of the guard under Viscount Randall is Nelson. It is said that he killed hundreds of people himself, especially fierce and powerful. His arm is thicker than my thigh, and one hand can lift me..."

"Boss wedge, remember, I'll leave whenever I say! You even have to listen to my arrangement when you shit outside, or you'll kill others if you die!"

The hammer patted wedge on the shoulder, turned and left. Not far away, wedge heard the hammer laughing.

"Ha ha, I'm so happy! I'm so fierce. My arms are thicker than my thighs! Ha ha..."

Vicky looked down and saw that he had two thick thighs. He said innocently, "I'm not afraid you don't pay attention... It's not boastful to do business!"

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The temperature warms up, the earth recovers, the cold and humid water season ends, and the earth season comes quietly.

Nearly 20000 mu of potato fields and 10000 mu of wheat fields around Pinghu have produced green seedlings. Farmers are busy watering and fertilizing seedlings in the field.

In the pig farm near Hekou village, hundreds of peasant women poured the cut blue core grass and wild thorns into the fence, and thousands of wild boars, large and small, ate around the trough. In a corner of the pig farm, several strong farmers firmly pressed a half large wild boar on the stone platform, raised a knife and fell, and two pink meat balls were picked out.

"Victor, is that what you call castration?" An old man asked curiously.

Victor said, "yes, master Edwin, this is the boar."

Near the end of the water season, Nicole took a large team to Randall's collar, accompanied by white tower scholar Edwin. Nicole was busy taking people to build a camp near the entrance of the swamp to prepare for most of the people behind, while Edwin stayed at the manor to investigate Victor's farm and pig farm. After a long separation and reunion, Victor warmly entertained the frank and wise scholar and has been with him these days to introduce his farming and animal husbandry system.

"What's the use of a castrated pig?"

"Male wild boars are fierce and aggressive, difficult to manage, and will also devour the cubs of other male wild boars. Castrated boars are basically the same as sows. They not only grow fast, but also have more fresh and tender meat. They can also prevent inferior wild boars from mating freely."

Edwin asked, "Victor, how did you know so much?"

"The wisdom of free people." Victor explained with a smile: "My leading people often hunt wild boars. They know the habits of wild boars very well. Moreover, the male wild boar's meat is old, tough and smelly. Compared with the female pork, it tastes much better. In order to solve this problem, I asked the people for a solution. A farmer once raised a male dog. His dog was bitten off when fighting with other male dogs. As a result, the dog was killed They are no longer aggressive and grow fatter and fatter. Therefore, I ordered people to try castrating boars. At first, they had little experience and killed many boars. Now they are very skilled and the effect is very good. In addition, my people have begun to try castrating cattle and sheep. "

What Victor said is half true and half false. The farmer is just an alchemy militia arranged by him, but the castration technology on earth does come from life experience, and it has existed in ancient China. It is the invention of livestock castration that greatly improves the economic benefits of animal husbandry and plays a positive role in improving varieties. Victor naturally wants to promote this simple and efficient method in his territory Technology.

"Be able to listen to people's suggestions, apply them and organize them. Victor, you're great!" Edwin exclaimed heartily.

Victor smiled modestly, but thought in his heart: "master Edwin encouraged the nobility to absorb the wisdom of the people. Although his ideas are good, he can't see the essence of the problem. I want to listen to opinions, but ordinary people are firmly tied by the two ropes of the glorious code and the vassal system. What creativity is there?"

Edwin didn't know what Victor really thought. He continued: "Victor, the farming and animal husbandry system you designed is very good. Although I don't know whether the new plow and pig manure can increase grain production, I can be sure that the number of cattle, sheep and wild boars will increase greatly. However, there are two defects inside and outside."

Victor frowned and asked, "Oh? Please tell me more."

"Let's start with external defects." Master Edwin twirled his beard and said, "raising wild boars in captivity and grazing cattle and sheep are completely opposite to the traditional methods. This is based on the fact that there are no monsters and beasts in the man horse hills. But have you ever thought that the beasts and monsters will come back sooner or later. How many soldiers can you protect cattle and sheep by that time?"

Victor nodded, but did not speak. He had already considered this problem. The larger the wilderness area, the greater the living space of beasts and monsters. The action ability of human soldiers is far inferior to that of beasts and monsters. It is impossible to completely eliminate the threat of the wild by relying on the army. The only way is to build more villages, towns, outposts and roads to squeeze the rolling of monsters This is why Victor wants to build artificial rivers. Victor is also preparing to discuss this issue with Edwin, but now he wants to know what is another defect?

"Master, what are the internal defects?"

Edwin sighed, shook his head and said, "Victor, if you continue your way, you will lose the support of the people in three years!"

Victor shrugged.