"Oh? Stealing something to eat?"

Gervais was a little surprised. Petty theft was understandable, but so many people were stealing at one time. Could it be that his territory had suffered a disaster? But he just walked around the road three villages away in the morning and didn't notice it.

What an abnormal situation.

"Sir, these people are not from our territory. The village chief said he has never seen them. He has interrogated them. They seem to be miners who escaped from Lanni's territory!"

Thomas said this very quietly, took two steps forward, and before Gervais approached, he answered in a voice that only Gervais could hear.

"Miners at Nelani Camp in the Buffer Zone?"

Gervais was a little confused. These people were lost. They should have gone to Viscount Lenny's territory. How could they come to his own territory?

"Yes, sir, according to their confessions, these people must have been forced to become miners. They work without wages and have no families, so they want to come to your Storm Territory to see if they can become serfs."

Thomas nodded to Gervais, confirming the origins of these miners.

"So that's it." Gervais finally understood that these people were not lost, but ran away on purpose. Moreover, he didn't know that the miners who ran to the Storm Territory were lucky. Most of them ran back to the Lanny Territory, or the original

The miners who were waiting all over the place were all used by Lanny to vent his anger, and he killed them all without leaving any one behind.

Gervais looked at the serfs still kneeling in front, thoughtfully, and said to everyone:

"Everyone raise their heads."

A group of serfs were kneeling on the ground with their heads lowered, including the villagers from the Storm Territory who were responsible for escorting them. Seeing those villagers still kneeling on the ground, Gervais said to them first: "You guys, get up first.

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"Yes, Lord Lord."

After the villagers got up, there were only about twenty miners left on the ground. When Gervais turned his attention to these miners again, he saw one of them with his head lowered and his whole body trembling.

"kindness?"

"The one with his head down, raise his head up!"

Upon discovering something strange, Gervais thought of a possibility and ordered the man without hesitation.

At this time, several villagers who had just stood up also noticed something strange, and the lord also spoke. They were thinking of showing off, so two villagers who were close to him immediately walked into the crowd and lifted the man up.

When he got up, the man who was trembling with his head down knew that he had been discovered, and he quickly shouted: "Sir, please forgive me, my lord, please forgive me! I don't know anything."

Being carried by two villagers, Gervais finally saw the appearance of this man clearly. Isn't this the miner captain that day? The man who was ordered by Gervais to show him the mine.

"Thomas, lock these people into the mineral space."

After confirming that some of these people knew him, Gervais stopped thinking about it and locked them all in the ore space with one order. Anyway, there was enough space inside to lock these people. As long as he sent someone to watch at the door, there would be no one.

Can run away.

"Yes, sir."

"Tell them that as long as they are honest, I will not kill them. By the way, Thomas, the miners who ordered you yesterday don't need to search anymore!"

Although the arrival of these people surprised Gervais, it was just right. His territory was currently very short of people. Since some of these people recognized him, he could make arrangements to use them. As for killing them, he didn't kill them last night.

Gervais will not kill them today, he has better arrangements.

You can also reward these villagers later."

"Yes, sir!"

After receiving the order, under the leadership of Thomas, all twenty-one miners were escorted into the castle. The miner who had just loudly begged for mercy knew that he had temporarily saved his life, so he timidly followed the team and did not dare to

Recurring incidents.

To be on the safe side, Gervais looked at the two guards following him.

"You go to the city wall and watch. If anyone dares to step out of the space, shoot him directly."

Although the small courtyard is protected by walls and there is a guard on duty, the internal situation cannot be seen. In order to prevent people inside who disobey orders or have ulterior motives from walking out of the space, Gervais asked the two guards to come forward.

Go to the city wall and monitor it. If any miner really disobeys the order and runs out of the space, Gervais will not show any mercy. He can also kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

After all the instructions were given, Gervais walked alone towards the gentle slope of the mountain. At the edge of the open space under the gentle slope, all the recruits were hiding under the shade of the trees to rest. When Audrey and Laurie saw Gervais' figure, they shouted loudly.

They scolded the guards to get up and get into formation. Some recruits who were slow to get up would even be whipped by Laurie and Audry.

Under the urging of the two men, the thirty guards quickly stood up in formation, divided into three columns, arranged in order of height.

"grown ups!"

When Gervais came closer, Laurie and Audry took the lead, beating their chests with their right hands, raising their chests and lowering their heads to signal to Gervais.

"Very good, it seems you have learned how to give a military salute!"

Although the soldiers of the little lord are not very powerful in combat, they are not sloppy in terms of etiquette. This military salute is learned in a decent manner, which is the same as the salute of the guards under Alice. This military salute is unified throughout the principality.

Gervais knew without asking that it must have been taught by Audrey and Laurie.

"Listen to my order below, everyone moves forward twenty steps!"

The spirits of the thirty recruits at this moment are all different. Among them, Alec and the other ten are the most spirited. Because they were not only full of food but also had a rare piece of meat for lunch, they were full of energy and high morale at this moment.

Of course, the five people at the end of the crane who were in the worst spirits were the five who had not even eaten. Apart from eating a few mouthfuls of food when they came in the morning, they only drank a little water to quench their thirst at noon. They looked listless.

However, Gervais will not care about them. Only by letting them experience the taste of hunger will these people train hard in the future.

After Gervais's command was given, all the guards immediately started moving and walked towards the front. Although the formation was not very neat, it was only the first day and Gervais was not in a hurry.

When the recruits walked twenty steps, everyone was completely exposed to the sun. Gervais walked up to them and said to them: "Before we start training, let me tell you one thing. I am going to

I will select 10 people among you to be my bodyguards, and they will follow me exclusively from now on, so I hope you can perform well. The bodyguards will not only have the best equipment, but also the best treatment!"

When Gervais said it, the eyes of the recruits below instantly lit up. Even the guards who were listless due to hunger began to cheer up, and they all looked at Gervais with longing eyes.

They originally thought they would be lucky to be a guard, but they did not expect that the lord was planning to select a personal guard. Although these serfs did not know what the personal guard meant, Gervais said that they would follow him, with better equipment and better treatment.

They can understand it.

As long as people are human, they will have a desire to compare. Everyone wants to live better than others and be stronger than others. Now this opportunity is right in front of them, and no one will give up. Especially after the reward and punishment incident at lunch, they have a profound understanding of
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