Three days later, the sky above Linshui Village gradually turned cloudy, and the wind whistled loudly, all indicating that the belated heavy snow had finally arrived.
On this day, Xia Duo presided over the allocation of houses for the last batch of subjects. At this point, all the subjects of the Great Xia Territory have realized "home ownership", and even the slaves have rearranged brand new ones, which are enough to survive the cold winter.
of shelter.
Next, there is another small goal, that is, "everyone has a pot." Although the large pots in the canteen will not stop for a long time, it is good to have a pot at home, even if it is used to boil some water for drinking occasionally.
Chateau has already placed an order at the blacksmith shop in Savile Town, and it will only be delivered next year. However, as the population of the territory increases, this order will gradually turn into a long-term order.
After allocating the houses, Xia Duo and Leiden chatted while walking in the village, "Have all the winter supplies been distributed?"
"Everyone has been given out. In addition to firewood, leather clothes, and blankets, each person has also been given two large bags of steamed buns."
When Layton said this new word that originated from Chinese, he couldn't speak it well. His accent is still a bit awkward. Sha Duo didn't take it seriously and continued:
"A group of new citizens will arrive in the near future. When the time comes, just arrange accommodation for them, appease the existing citizens, and don't let them discriminate against the new citizens."
"Are they the Langas from the north?"
"Um."
About two months ago, Chateau received news from Mrs. Patty that the people sent to the north were on their way back, along with two small tribes of Langas people.
After receiving the news at that time, Xia Duo told Leiden. Calculating the time now, those people should be arriving soon, but I don't know why there is no news at all during this time.
"By the way, does Dongzhi have any objections to placing him in the southern district?"
"No."
"very good."
Dongzhi's house was allocated relatively early. I originally thought that since he usually needs to train and take care of hounds, it would be more convenient to place it in the south near the military camp.
Now it seems that it is a coincidence that he lives with his compatriots in Langas and helps his compatriots integrate into the Bactrian Territory.
However, in the future, there may no longer be distinctions between Langas and Nese people, let alone civilized people and barbarians. The only term here is Bactria.
Unknowingly, the two of them had arrived at the brick kiln area.
As winter approaches, the land gradually freezes and hardens. The development of farmland outside the fence of Linshui Village has temporarily stopped a few days ago, but the wooden house making workshop and the brick kiln here have not stopped.
Approaching here, waves of heat hit your face, without any hint of winter.
"Is there any progress in the brick kiln recently?" Chateau asked Leiden.
"A few days ago, someone discovered a new type of stone by the riverside. After being made into bricks, the brick-forming effect is much better than using ordinary stone."
Xia Duo remained silent. In fact, he was more inclined to make bricks entirely out of soil instead of putting stones in them. However, after many attempts, his idea proved to be unfeasible.
After all, the brick-burning in the magic world can still be different on earth, but considering the existence of spells like [turn mud into stone], theoretically, it should be feasible without putting stones.
It may be that certain conditions have not been met yet. In this aspect, Xia Duo is planning to wait until he learns the [Transform Mud into Stone] spell before studying it. For now, he still has to wait and see how his subjects perform.
Just as the two were about to go elsewhere, Xia Duo suddenly received a prompt from the tower spirit, "Agent Xia Duo——"
With almost no hesitation, Xia Duo immediately ordered the tower spirit to guide the teleportation. After returning to the Tower of Time, without any pause, he continued to teleport to the projection hall on the plane exploration layer.
"projection!"
But there was no response in the projection hall, and then the prompts from the tower spirit continued to come, "Agent Xia Duo, the Foreign Affairs Mage sent news that the Slavin Chamber of Commerce's ship has returned, and there is a ship of Langas on it."
Langas?
Xia Duo realized that he was too excited. There was no news about the projection plane in the past two months. He was a little impatient. As soon as he received the prompt from the tower spirit, he couldn't wait to teleport back, for fear of missing the short projection window of the projection plane.
Fortunately, it was good to know that his new subjects had arrived.
Arriving at the port, Shado saw Fleck, the president of the Slavin Chamber of Commerce, standing on the trestle from a distance, but his expression didn't seem to be very good now.
There were two middle-aged men who looked like they were in charge. One of them had his head lowered, as if he had just been scolded, and the other was a little further away from them, and seemed unhappy.
Although only the Slavin Chamber of Commerce's ship went to the north this time, in fact, several other chambers of commerce also contributed. The most important thing is that each of them sent a mage to protect them. Among them, Mrs. Patty's Liaton Chamber of Commerce
, and also provides an additional communication weapon that can transmit messages from the north to the south.
Looking at the situation now, it goes without saying that Xia Duo also knows what may happen, but he hopes it will not affect his new subjects.
…
"President Fleck!"
"Ah, Lord Xia Duo, why are you here?!"
"Is this trip going well?"
"smoothly!"
Shado could see that Fleck was somewhat insincere, but he did not continue to ask questions. It seemed that he had nothing to do with his new subjects.
After exchanging a few words, the two boarded the ship together, and the two stewards followed.
Arriving on the ship, Fleck turned his head and said seriously: "Bourne, why don't you introduce the situation to Lord Chateau!"
"Yes, yes, president." Bourne knew that he had lost the mage in this meeting. Even if the president was his brother-in-law, he would not be able to pass easily. The chamber of commerce does not belong to his brother-in-law alone.
You must also be accountable to other investors.
Now his hope is placed on Lord Chateau. If Lord Chateau can be satisfied, he may be able to avoid this hurdle. Thinking of this, Bourne couldn't help but look at his brother-in-law gratefully, and then told the story with great emotion.
The experience of the second trip to the Northland——
"Sir, we visited a total of seven Langas tribes this time, but in the end only one Kabu tribe agreed to join the Bactria Territory."
"Wait a minute." Xia Duo immediately realized something was wrong, "Didn't the news come back that there were two tribes? Why is there only one left?"
Bourne was not surprised that Lord Xia Duo noticed this. When they sent back the news before, there were indeed two tribes. Something happened later, and the communication weapon happened to be unusable, so the news was not sent back immediately. Later, there was no news.
It just sent back a message saying that the person had been found and was returning.
Now when Lord Chateau asked, Bourne immediately explained, for fear of causing the Lord's dissatisfaction:
"Sir, autumn and winter are often the seasons of fighting and annexation between the Langas tribes. The tribe we agreed to before had disappeared when we notified them when we returned. And the current Kabu tribe at that time
The situation was also very urgent and we were almost destroyed.”
"..."
Shado's understanding of the Langas people was limited to the few words he read in books and the description of Dongzhi, a Langas person in the territory. Judging from the "Blood Trial" and tribal annexation, the Nese people called them "
"Barbarians" does not mean they have been wronged.
Of course, the Nese people are not as civilized as they think.