Chapter 53 Roger of Self-Doubt
"Oh...? Mayor Root, you can't hold on anymore?"
Roger's nonchalant tone made Root feel the indifference between people. What does it mean that he can't hold on anymore? It's obviously your territory that can't hold on!
Just so many people and so little output are not enough to support a real knight. What use can this big place be used for?
You can't raise a real dragon in shallow water! You can only raise a bunch of bastards! If he can't make his son a real knight, then his whole generation will be the bastards in this quagmire.
Root suppressed the anger in his heart, and within a few seconds of lowering his head, he changed his mind, showing a sad face, his nose twitched, and tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes.
"Sir! Lord, you don't know! Root has done his best to maintain this territory for the Reinhardt family. Originally, when other adults came to experience, we could replenish some supplies, but it has been ten years! Ten years.
Since then, the Glimmer Leader has been completely unable to obtain the supplies it normally needs!"
"Although Root devoted his whole heart and soul to Reinhardt, Root cannot conjure those materials out of thin air. Root is just an ordinary person. Even if he prays for the mercy of the God of Light every day, he cannot get the mercy of the God.
Watch. Every winter, Root has to take the whole town out to dig wild vegetables and chew tree bark to survive."
"It's not that Root is careless, Lord Roger, but it's just that I really can't hold on any longer! People in Shimmer Town starve to death every year due to lack of food. Without your order, the nearby territories will not send caravans here.
If we continue like this here, the Shimmer Leader will...just..."
Lute cried until the end and did not continue to talk anymore. The matter of crying at the grave was enough. These words must have been enough to make Roger understand that now there is nothing in the Shimmer Leader, and the remaining gold coins have been provided to him, so
Now the people of the territory have to come to him, the lord, for all the trivial matters such as food, drink, and shelter.
Lute, who knew that too much was too much, immediately stopped crying and looked at Roger with an aggrieved face, not daring to look at him for fear that Roger would be angry and strike him with a sword.
Roger had been silent and listened to Root's crying, but they were just self-claiming words. Translated, it means I shed blood for the territory! I have contributed to the territory! Comfort me! Give me some reward!
As for the problems mentioned by Root, apart from iron tools, the basic problems are actually not big. What's more, if there was nothing, Root would not be able to survive to this day with hundreds of people. There must be some way in private.
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He has already tried the sun salt method for table salt, and the current results are pretty good. He only needs to accumulate it for a few more days, and when enough salt crystals have precipitated, he can perform a secondary purification process. By then, it can be used directly in the territory.
Fine salt, not inferior salt mixed with sand.
The food problem is also easy to solve. Roger can use the skill of Life Resurrection to forcefully ripen the plants, allowing the wheat fields to absorb nutrients and water in the fields to grow rapidly, and a large amount of food can be obtained in one day.
On the other hand, the meat issue that Roger has been concerned about may be out of the question. Although the purification effect of sunlight on the meat of monsters is obvious, the food and drink of these monsters living in the black forest have been contaminated.
The higher the level of Warcraft, the higher the degree of pollution.
Using sunlight to purify these dried meats obviously cannot be done in a few days. Roger estimates that he will not be able to expect the Black Forest to produce meat products in less than two or three years.
As for iron tools, Roger has not found anything like iron ore in the territory so far. It is estimated that it is difficult to find valuable minerals in terrain like the Shimmer Territory, so Root’s intention is to use his warrant to
Get weapons?
In the Kingdom of Blue Wind, although free people can purchase weapons through normal channels, slaves such as serfs and private slaves cannot and cannot obtain weapons. The nobles have extremely strict control over weapons in the territory, at least other lords Roger knows.
It’s all like this.
'No! It shouldn't be weapons, or more than weapons. Weapons alone cannot defeat a knight.' Roger suddenly thought that Root's goal should not only obtain weapons through his warrant, but also have other purposes.
, probably meat, used to cultivate his cronies.
It is more likely that he has colluded with the lords of other territories and needs to take this opportunity to contact them and then cooperate internally and externally?
Good on you, twenty-five-year-old Root!
The more Roger thought about it, the more likely he felt that such a thing was possible. With Lute and a few knights and attendants alone, even if he was still as powerful as the first day he came to Shimmerland, Anna could easily beat them.
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Therefore, first use the power of other lords to balance him, and then negate the power of his lord, so that you can easily obtain the entire Shimmer Territory.
Roger, who had been pondering for a long time, squinted his eyes and looked at Lute. The aura he exuded made Lute a little breathless. The aura exuded by the extraordinary knight who was far beyond ordinary humans was also very terrifying, especially for one person.
Feeling of oppression.
Roger's expression made Root feel uneasy. Could it be that he had exposed his secret? That shouldn't be the case! Neither he nor his sons had done anything stupid. They had been honest and honest these past few days. How could he be exposed?
?
"Mayor Root, this lord already knows about this. At the latest by the end of the month, I will personally lead a team to the nearest barony of Cohen to purchase supplies. I think Mayor Root will be familiar with it. Then I will trouble the town.
You are here to lead the way."
There are three territories near the Shimmer Territory, one is the viscounty territory, two baronies, and some knight territories are included in these three territories. These three territories form a wall that surrounds Roger's Shimmer Territory.
The collar is stuck in the tip of a triangle.
If the Glimmer Territory wants to develop, it cannot do without dealing with these three territories. Among the three territories, the Viscounty is the farthest from the Glimmer Territory. The other two baronies are fifty kilometers away and adjacent to the Great Plains.
The other national border is the Barony of Korn in the Black Forest, thirty kilometers away.
The four territories are like the four corners of a prismatic quadrilateral, and the shimmer collar is the most prominent acute angle.
The Korn Territory is a territory that mainly sells wood. It has always used the wood resources of the Black Forest as the territory's main business. However, the wood they sell to the royal capital does not seem to be contaminated by the dark atmosphere. Is there any special purification method?
Seeing that Roger finally agreed to his request, Root quickly knelt on the ground, thanked the lord loudly for his kindness, and kept bragging about some inexplicable achievements.
In the end, Roger had to wave his hand and drive him away. He had to be more efficient. There was no guarantee that Root would have other means to contact the surrounding lords.
And judging from his appearance just now, he didn’t seem to be resisting the Korn Territory, which was the closest. So are the lords of the three territories all eyeing the Shimmer Territory?
Is this shitty place still so popular?
Chapter completed!