In the small town of Merlo, they have to undergo short-term basic military training during the off-farm time. Because when participating in the training, the lord's house is also responsible for three meals. Therefore, during the off-farm time, many men who have nothing to do at home will participate in military training, which can save money for the family.
A day's ration, and you can also eat meat by the way.
Now that life is better, the people are naturally grateful to Aslan. Although they have to pay taxes, after paying taxes, they still have a lot of surplus food. Compared with the days when they didn't pay taxes and had enough to eat, which one is more important, fool?
Can also tell the difference.
However, someone wants to assassinate their great and benevolent lord and destroy the hope and future of their Merlo town. This is absolutely not allowed.
Therefore, not only the Merlot Army was dispatched, but more than 300 members of the town guard also appeared in the streets and alleys of Merlot Town, and many people also voluntarily formed a team of 20 people to join the search.
Although Najie was lucky enough to rush into the forest due to his familiarity with the terrain, seeing the dense crowd carrying torches entering the forest to search made him feel frightened.
Covering the wound, he hid in a tree hole. These 'little bases' he discovered while playing in the forest when he was a child. In order to keep this secret to himself, he blocked it up with rocks. Unexpectedly, when he grew up, he successfully saved him.
Life.
After a night of fruitless searching, Arthur returned to the town of Mero with the unwilling people and soldiers.
Aslan had already cooked vegetable porridge in front of the city lord's palace, which was a breakfast made from dried bract fruits and ground into flour, plus some minced meat and vegetables. It tasted a bit like the lean meat porridge in the previous life.
It's Avilan's favorite breakfast.
"Lord! This subordinate neglected his duty and allowed the assassin to escape." As soon as Arthur saw Aslan coming over with a bowl of vegetable paste, he knelt on one knee and said.
Aslan smiled and helped Arthur up.
"It won't be the same next time. The assassin was able to sneak into the City Lord's Mansion so easily this time. It's not your problem, but the City Lord's Mansion itself has too many defense loopholes."
"It's been a hard night, let's eat something first!"
Arthur knew from the beginning that they were just acting and deliberately let Najib go, but he was still moved by Aslan's consideration for his subordinates.
"Fellows and fellows, thank you very much for your help last night. Let's eat something first and then go back and have a good rest!" Aslan asked the maid of the city lord's palace to bring out bowls of breakfast to the soldiers and people who had worked hard all night.
"Thank you, Lord Lord!"
"Thank you Lord Lord!"
Aslan smiled and nodded. In his previous life, he loved his people as his own children and became a powerful minister. After his rebirth, he became even more skillful in this way.
The reason why he talked about the defense loopholes of the City Lord's Mansion was that he disliked the City Lord's Mansion for being too small and lacking many facilities. He wanted to rebuild a Lord's Mansion, but that would be too laborious and waste money for the people in the territory, so he was afraid of causing widespread resentment among the people in the territory, so he had to get the support of the people.
It would be much easier for him to build it that way.
To put it simply, Aslan wants to be a bitch, but he still wants to build a memorial.
The assassination incident that night did not panic the people of the small town of Merlo. Instead, they united and united everyone's thoughts.
After breakfast, many people chatted with each other and left together.
"Our lord is so good. Think about it, when the lord didn't come, we were living like human beings." Hildin, a villager, said.
Hildin is an old resident of the small town of Merlo. In the past, he was thankful that he could have enough to eat for two meals. But there are good days like today, where he can eat three meals a day, and there is still food left over to sell for money.
"Yes! So we must protect the lord and never let him get hurt. If we get a bad lord next time, we might have to go back to the old days."
Mitte is Hilding's neighbor. After hearing Hilding's words, Mitte nodded in agreement.
When Karl, an old man in his fifties next to him, heard this, he hit the two of them hard on the head.
"Why change the lord? Lord Aslan will always be the lord of our Melo area. In the future, the lord's son will also be our lord. From now on, everyone must pay attention to any stranger who comes to the town. Keep a close eye on any strangers who come to the town.
, so that something like this doesn't happen again." Karl said with a serious expression.
After Hildin and Mitte heard this, they nodded in unison. Not only them, but also several young adults next to them. Everyone unknowingly formed a town patrol team to take charge of the areas that the town guard did not patrol.
The place, light and dark, has invisibly strengthened the security work in the small town of Mero.
Less than fifty kilometers away from the small town of Mero, there is a secret stronghold hidden, which is the base camp of the Kaimen Bandit Group.
This stronghold is located in a remote place, far away from official roads. In the past, the small town of Mero was extremely poor, so no one would pass by here. Therefore, the Kaimen Bandit Group would use it as their base camp, so it was naturally very safe.
But things are different now. After Aslan took over the town, the population of Merlo Town has increased, and the business atmosphere has become stronger and stronger. Many businessmen have also begun to travel to Merlo Town, making this rare official road become active.
Accidents tend to happen when there are too many people. Several passers-by have already accidentally arrived at the gate of the Kaimen Bandit Group's base camp. The fate is obvious.
"Tch! There are too many people who broke in by mistake." A man with a scar on his face spat and said viciously.
There was a corpse lying not far away. It looked like it was a passerby.
"Isn't that right! The new lord is really capable. He has brought life to the half-dead town of Merlo in just half a year." The companion sighed with some emotion.
"Yes! Someone is coming." The man with the scar suddenly looked tense, and another companion quickly pulled out a dagger and hid in the woods, ready to block the attacker's retreat at any time.
"Brother Rhea, take me to see the boss quickly. I have something important to report." Najie ran over, his face pale and staggering, holding his shoulders that were stained red with blood.
Perhaps due to excessive blood loss, Najib was almost unable to hold on when he ran here, or perhaps because hatred was supporting him, he said something before he fainted.
"Ancient ruins!"
The amount of information contained in Najie's words was very large, and even Kaimen, the leader of thousands of robbers and bandits, did not dare to act rashly until the situation was clear.
As a result, the ambushed soldiers in Mero Town had to squat for three days in vain, but Aslan successfully bought time for all the barbarian soldiers to change their uniforms.
The heavy armor of the barbarian warrior is twice as heavy as the knight's armor, but its defensive power is more than three times higher. This kind of armor can only be worn by aliens such as barbarian warriors, and they must reach the level of intermediate swordsmen.