Eva doesn't mind, she wishes she could get more work for herself.
However, David knew in his heart that as Winter Town grew bigger and bigger, Eva, as his assistant officer, would have to deal with more and more intelligence information, and I'm afraid she wouldn't have the extra energy to deal with trivial matters.<
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"Before that, you can let Elias work part-time!"
Anyway, Elias Parker, the etiquette officer, currently works as a housekeeper and a servant. In the future, as the population increases and some servants are recruited, Elias will only need to work part-time as a housekeeper.
In comparison, qualified chefs are harder to find, so you may have to choose a suitable target from other worlds.
This goal must be someone who has no worries in the original world, is willing to settle in Winter Town, and has no ambitions.
After thinking for a while, David realized that it was very difficult to find the right person, and he might just have to let it happen.
"Or, let Jonah help train some chefs."
"Do you want Jonah to open a chef school?"
"That's pretty good." Let's call the school Newist, and let Van Cleef develop some intelligence personnel from it. Maybe it can become the main source of intelligence for the Winter Empire?
However, before training professional intelligence personnel, Winter Town can only rely on the simplest and most direct way to obtain surrounding intelligence information: patrolling the surrounding area.
As time goes by and autumn approaches, an ominous atmosphere begins to fill the northern plains.
Many villages are filled with low pressure, and various conflicts have accumulated to a certain extent, and they lack a trigger to detonate these troubles.
The way David learned this information was that in addition to soldiers and Arcee finding more and more people who wanted to invade the borders of Winter Town during their daily inspections, people from other villages began to come to Winter Town.
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Some farmers who were relatively old and had accumulated some experience realized that something was wrong after they saw that the harvest was getting worse and worse and after they estimated the approximate harvest yield of the crops.
Many people began to flee: most of them chose to flee the northern plains. Only a small number, that is, the farmers who were too far away from Iron Tree Fort but relatively close to Winter Town, came to David with the idea of trying their luck. Although in the eyes of these farmers, the northern plains are not as good as advertised, but since Winter Town has been here for more than three years, there should be a relatively stable way to obtain food, right?
They don't know whether their guess is correct, but they are certain that they will never survive this winter if they continue to stay in their original village.
After some farmers fled to Winter Town from other villages, David and Arcee increased their detection distance and flew to farther places several times.
Although we did not directly see the scene of the conflict, some villages showed obvious signs of being attacked.
Among them, Tieshui Village, located south of Lindong Town, is the most serious.
Iron Water Village is a village named after the river that flows out of the Iron Tree Forest. This village is located directly south of Cold Winter Town, some distance away from the original pioneer camp that was destroyed by the elves.<
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The village chief of Amamandis, who founded the village, felt that if he kept a sufficient distance from the Iron Tree Forest, he would not attract attacks from the elves.
The fact gave the village chief a bag.
The elves in the Iron Tree Forest built a temporary camp directly on the site of the original pioneer camp, facing the Iron Shui Village far away.
Throughout the year, conflicts between the two sides broke out from time to time. With the help of several noble forces, Tieshui Village was established.
Amamantis, the head of Tieshui Village, was relieved at first. He was just waiting for the farmland to be reclaimed. With stable crops, Tieshui Village slowly developed and grew.
As for Winter Town in the north? Let the unlucky Baron Glamorgan be proud for a while!
Unexpectedly, although the farmland was reclaimed and potatoes were successfully harvested in the first round of planting, the yield did not seem to be as high as originally advertised?
That doesn’t matter, publicity
It’s not surprising that it was exaggerated.
Moreover, haven't we already said that the land in the northern plains is barren? The low yield is acceptable. At least the planting cycle of this new crop is indeed very short. Based on this time, at least three rounds of harvest can be achieved in a year.
But when the second round of planting yielded fewer potatoes, Amamantis began to realize something was wrong.
At this time, the old farmers who followed him to open up wasteland and build new villages had already speculated that the harvest of the third round of planting would be even worse.
"Isn't it said that this kind of crop is very high-yielding? Isn't that the bullshit Baron Glamorgan who became a nobleman with this thing, and also has a Winter Town as his territory?"
Amamantis couldn't understand how David Glamorgan could get enough food stably when they were all potatoes.
"This... Sir, could it be because there are very few people in Winter Town?"
In fact, the nobles of Iron Tree Castle do not know the specific situation of Winter Town, and their information is still based on the information Maloney Mansfield originally brought back.
According to that information, the population of Winter Town is quite sparse, with only a few residents.
As for how David later obtained the establishment of Winter Town from the royal capital, no one in Iron Tree Castle knew very well;
However, they speculated that Baron David Glamorgan, who obtained the establishment of Winter Town, should have recruited people to increase the population in the territory.
However, no one knows the exact number. It is just based on estimates, and it is speculated that the number should not be too much.
In addition, throughout the year, the surrounding villages and towns have tacitly intercepted civilians who wanted to go to Winter Town. They felt that the population of Winter Town must be very small.
Without a sufficient population, even if Winter Town is called a town, no one takes it seriously. In the eyes of these people, it is still a remote village.
"If there aren't many people... do you think we can get enough food from the Baron of Glamorgan?"
"This... Winter Town is the territory of His Majesty the King."
"Of course I know, so we are going to borrow some food from the respected Lord Baron Glamorgan to get through the current predicament."
Although Amamantis said he was "borrowing", everyone around him understood what he meant.
While the village chief of Amamandis is studying how to borrow grain and other supplies in a friendly manner with Baron Glamorgan, the farmers in his village are also having a headache on how to spend this winter.
Farmers from Tieshubao, for those farmers who came from afar and wanted to go to Winter Town but were detained in Tieshui Village, learned about how harsh and cold the winter on the northern plains is.
And their current food reserves are definitely not enough to sustain them through the long winter.
When these farmers from other places learned about the problems they were about to face, they began to regret their original choices. They never imagined that the farmland they had traveled through mountains and rivers and worked hard to obtain would not only make them unable to live a good life.
, there is even a question mark as to whether he can survive.
"If this place is really that bad? How was Winter Town established?"
"Who knows? Maybe like the village chief said, His Majesty the King actually gave the Baron enough supplies."
"Why did His Majesty the King do this?"
"Maybe the Lord Baron Glamorgan is actually... His Majesty's illegitimate son."
"You don't want your life? You actually arranged for His Majesty the Kingdom?"
"What are you afraid of? I am not living in Winter Town under the rule of His Majesty the King or that Baron."
The topic of discussion gradually shifted from survival to gossip, but there were also some sober-minded people who were considering their own way out. Z.br>
"Then, there should be enough food in Winter Town..."
"Maybe!" The speaker looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he whispered his plan: "If things go wrong in winter, I will run to Winter Town."
"What's the use of running here in winter? Is it possible that Lord Glamorgan is still very kind?
Give you food and shelter to help you survive the winter?"
"I met two friends on the way here before. They didn't stop in any village, but insisted on going to Winter Town... If I can't survive the winter, I will join them." At this point, the man was helpless.
He sighed: "At worst, I'll work as a contract farmer for them. Let's survive first!"
"..."
Although they spoke in a low voice, the people around them heard it more or less. Among these people were farmers who knew those two people. They all regretted their decision in their hearts. It would have been better if they had firmly gone to Winter Town.
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Some regret it, but of course there are others who don’t. They feel that even if they go to Winter Town, their situation will not be much better than now.
They are all on the northern plains, they are all on this barren land, and they are all growing potatoes. I’m afraid everyone’s situation is similar!
Similar conversations and thoughts occur not only in Tieshui Village, but in almost all villages and towns on the northern plains.
Even in Shuanghan Town, some people had similar thoughts at this time: If you can't survive, can you go to Winter Town?
As Sean Forrester, who had real contact with Winter Town, he also began to think seriously: Should he "borrow" some food from Baron Glamorgan?
However, in the end, he was still wary of attacking His Majesty the King's territory and decided to attack the villages in the southeast first.
"First kill these idiots who don't know how to behave! They dare to run wild in front of our Forrester family. They don't know how to live or die!"
The road to the west of Shuanghan Town is blocked by Winter Town. To the north is a worse and more severe area. Shuanghan Town can only develop in two directions: the southeast.
As a result, a village blocked the only direction of development, which made Sheen Forrester extremely angry and prepared to let these idiots get out of the northern plains.
While the entire northern plain was undercurrent and various conflicts could break out at any time, David and Laura visited the completed Glamorgan Castle and discussed what kind of furniture should be purchased for each room.