Du Wei's almost crazy decision shocked everyone. But everyone knew very well that the young Duke definitely didn't look like he was joking. Maybe he was crazy, but he was definitely not joking!
In the following days, Du Wei mobilized almost all his men.
Originally, the four thousand infantrymen commanded by Robert were already stationed in a military camp outside the city of Gilyard. The problem now facing Duwei was that the weapons and equipment in stock could only arm a thousand soldiers.
Damn Governor Bohan, his people looted too hard when they withdrew, and even took away all the basic weapons and equipment. Du Wei looked at the equipment in the warehouse, and a lot of it was rusty. He barely scraped it together.
Eight hundred sets were brought out, and eight hundred soldiers were first armed...
The remaining more than 3,000 people can only train with bare hands for the time being.
Fortunately, Du Wei had already made some plans before coming to the northwest. He immediately sent people to attack almost the entire northwest region to purchase all the needed building materials.
In the warehouse of Giliar, the capital, Du Wei was pleasantly surprised that there were actually a lot of building materials that could be used. Obviously, the previous government also realized that this dilapidated city could not survive without repairs, and also prepared a batch of materials.
, but the lack of funds caused this plan to be shelved indefinitely.
Of course Du Wei happily accepted these things.
After he assigned a series of tasks to his subordinates, he hid in the dilapidated Governor's Mansion with the door closed. He didn't know what he was doing. Only occasionally did Du Wei summon some craftsmen, but the content of their conversations was unclear.
They were all strictly ordered to keep it secret.
Time passed quickly for more than half a month. During this more than half a month, Mu De led a group of servants and almost broke his legs. He spent a lot of gold coins to buy countless supplies, wood,
Mud and tiles, etc... But what surprised everyone was that no food was purchased.
General Longbottom wrote a letter, then found several people to copy it, and then sent people to send it out everywhere.
In fact, the content of each letter is exactly the same:
"I'm back in the northwest. If you're willing to do it with me, come to Giliyar City and report!"
The signature below is an oddly shaped pattern.
General Longbottom was gathering his old troops. Soon, in less than a month, there were more than a thousand people in the military camp outside the city. These more than a thousand people were the elite troops that had followed General Longbottom across the northwest.
Ground cavalry. After these veterans retired, most of them went home to work as farmers, tailors, blacksmiths, or even small laborers.
A month later, five thousand sets of infantry armor weapons and equipment, as well as armor weapons capable of equipping two thousand cavalry, were all delivered. In this matter, the most famous rich man in the empire, Delanshan Warcraft, helped a lot. This big man
The merchant deals in many weapons and has many relationships with the military. The weapons Du Wei purchased from him are all configured according to the first-class standards of the empire's main battle legion. In addition, there are military short crossbows, long bows, etc.
etc.
This time, Du Wei spent hundreds of thousands of gold coins. The army is really a bottomless pit of money.
Relying on Longbottom's connections in the northwest, he purchased several thousand more high-quality war horses. In this way, Du Wei currently has 4,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry. Finally, he no longer has to carry fire sticks. Everyone is armed.
Got up.
Longbottom trained his old troops for a few days. These guys were washed away from the secular dust and regained their military demeanor. In the military camp outside the city, General Longbottom's loud voice could be heard every morning:
"Get up, boys! Put on your equipment, mount your horses, let's start training! If anyone falls behind today, I will punish him by washing everyone's boots!"
No one knows how this general trains his old troops. They only know that he will call the group of people early every morning. Then they all ride out and will not come back until the evening. Sometimes, they go out for two or three days.
But every time they come back, these guys are half-dead from exhaustion and covered in dust, as if they were fished out of a mire.
As for Philip and other disciples of Lan Hai, it was not difficult to control the administrative structure of Desa Province in the shortest time. In fact, in such a poor area, there is really not much daily administrative work to do.
Everyone was busy. Even Hussein didn't have time to rest. Duwei dyed his hair blue with a special potion. And because he was blind in one eye, the paladin's face
Wearing an eyepatch. In this way, I believe no one in the northwest can recognize the most wanted criminal in this temple.
Fortunately for Du Wei, a barren area like Desa Province probably didn't even care about temples, so there were only two religious houses in the entire Desa Province, and they were both close to Nulin Province.
Knight Robert was very busy. Du Wei not only gave him the command of the four thousand rebels, but also made him responsible for the recruitment of new soldiers. There was nothing he could do. Du Wei had too few people under his command.
This place in the northwest has strong folk customs and is an area that can send out strong troops. Unfortunately, the population is sparse and only 3,000 people were recruited in a month. Knight Robert organized a reserve infantry regiment and mobilized a few of his men to practice every day.
And Hussein is also a very good candidate sent by Du Wei to help Robert Knight train. Hussein was originally the Grand Knight Commander of the Holy Knights. Someone who can lead the Holy Knights should train these new recruits well.
There shouldn't be much of a problem. Of course, Hussein was training cavalry, which was not too difficult a job. Because in the northwest, although it was barren, almost every household had one or two horses, and children could ride horses.
Soon, the military camp outside the city was in full swing.
When the second month came, everyone began to wonder if Duke Duwei was really crazy.
He said he would build the new city in three months, but now one month has passed and he has been hiding in the Governor's Palace all day long.
Large quantities of building materials have been transported to the address of the new city selected by Loulan Lake. There used to be a small town with less than a thousand people, but now large quantities of materials are piled up there. Du Wei thought of many ways to pull the five hundred imperial guards
They were not released and allowed to serve as a guard guarding the supplies by Loulan Lake. These imperial guards were already a little dissatisfied. This place in the northwest was really unbearable for them. Everyone hoped to return to the colorful world of the imperial capital as soon as possible.
Fortunately, Du Wei finally didn't keep everyone waiting any longer.
On the fifth day of the second month, he finally walked out of the Governor's Mansion. Everyone found that the Duke's already thin body seemed to be even thinner, his face was a little pale, his eyes were red, and his face was tired.
.But Du Wei is in good spirits.
"Gentlemen, remember today, because starting from today, you will witness a miracle happen!"
Early that morning, all the residents of the small town by Loulan Lake were summoned to the farmland outside the town.
The land in the northwest is barren, but the land near Loulan Lake is pretty good because it is close to the water source. The grain output is also relatively high in the northwest.
Du Wei issued an order to the thousands of residents in the town. He needed some people who could do farm work. The more the better!
"You just need to plant it for me and then harvest it for me! It's that simple." Du Wei's order was very clear: "And your reward...all the people who work, no matter how much grain you harvest, you can get ten cents."
one."
This strange order surprised everyone present.
Who doesn’t know how to do farm work? After all, these villages and towns are all farmers, and even women can do farm work.
Everyone followed Lord Du Wei's order and planted all the seeds distributed into the soil. This took everyone two days.
At the beginning, everyone was waiting to see a joke... Is this noble man an idiot? Is he sowing seeds in this season? Or is he just wasting it because he has too much grain?
But soon, everyone stopped laughing.
Early on the third day, Du Wei appeared on the stage wearing his magician robe. Then he very carefully asked someone to carry out more than a dozen buckets of water. Then he carefully observed the weight, took out a bottle from his arms, and put it in
Each bucket of water is like a few drops of liquid.
Duwei began to cast magic.
The magic he cast was not complicated, it was just a water spell that any intermediate magician could cast.
After he finished reciting the incantation, everyone could see that on top of the noble man's head, groups of vortex airflows quickly appeared between his hands. The vortex airflow, with infinite suction, swept the dozen barrels
All the water was sucked up. As he watched more than a dozen water columns rising into the sky, the air above his head became more and more turbulent. Finally, after Du Wei chanted a few spells loudly, the wind started...
The vortex gradually formed a small rain cloud, and then under Du Wei's command, the dark cloud floated over the farmland...
The sun is shining brightly, but the thin raindrops are already falling under the dark clouds...
The drizzle fell silently and evenly on the farmland, from south to north and from east to west. When the clouds dispersed and the rain settled, under everyone's shocked eyes...
In the originally bare farmland, buds emerged from the ground one by one, and then grew at a speed visible to the naked eye!
In less than half a day’s work, the originally bare fields were already covered with crops!
Seeing this miracle, countless ignorant farmers began to pray loudly, and more people knelt on the ground, looked up at the sky, and shouted God's name excitedly.
"What are you waiting for! It's time to harvest food! No matter how much you harvest, you can get one-tenth of the fruits of your labor."
At Du Wei's order, thousands of farmers waved their sickles almost like crazy and rushed to the fields...
This scene repeated for fifteen days! And every day, Du Wei could make the bankers in the farmland grow two or three times!
As time passed, everyone couldn't bear it anymore! The food in those farmlands seemed to be growing like crazy. After harvesting like this for several days, many people fell tired. Du Wei immediately asked the thousand recruits he brought to go up.
Supplement labor force.
And then, the problem that happened was even more bizarre. There were not enough sickles, so the recruits took out their swords to harvest. In the end, all the granaries were full. The food that could not be accommodated had to be left in the open air in the town.
Looking at the food piled higher and higher, everyone wondered if they were crazy or dreaming. However, the pain in their waist and legs made everyone sober.
From then on, the way these people looked at Du Wei was almost the same as looking at a god!
In fifteen days, the farm on the bank of Loulan Lake was harvested countless times. A large amount of grain kept the huge convoy prepared by Du Wei busy. Granaries were built one by one. Until finally, everyone
They were too tired to move, so Du Wei ended this crazy move.
And the result is... Du Wei estimates that in the next year, the price of food in the two northwest provinces will be greatly reduced!
Later, a grand and unprecedented celebration was held in the town. Everyone went crazy, drank and danced, cheering for the harvest created by the gods. The celebration lasted for a day and a night, and everyone
Everyone was so drunk that they drank up all the wine they could find...but no one felt bad about it, because next time, they didn't lack the food to make wine!
After the carnival and everyone rested for a day, Du Wei announced: "Start building the city!"
For more than a month, Philippe worked hard to recruit thousands of workers from all over the province of Desa, and also gathered all the craftsmen he could find from all over the country. Finally, he waited for the Duke to announce that he would start building the new city...
...but only half of the three months he said are left.
After witnessing the super harvest created by the Duke with magical magic, Philip's original doubts have been shaken! To be able to create such a miracle... maybe building a new city in three months is not necessarily crazy!
"All you need is to work at night." Du Wei gave a simple order to the thousands of craftsmen hired by Philip: "You don't need to do too much heavy physical work. In fact, I only need you to do some tinkering.
It’s just hammering work.”
Later, Du Wei once again showed his miracle!
Just like creating a good harvest, Du Wei asked Mader to send people to plant a sapling outside the selected new city address, and then he used the "time lapse" spring water to artificially rain again.
Then nearly a thousand saplings, most of them grew into towering trees within a day!
After blowing the horn of life, a thousand giant tree men were awakened... What awaited them was a mountain of materials already piled up...
There is no doubt that the most primitive tree companions without much self-awareness are the best laborers. They are extremely powerful, tireless, and very obedient!
Those huge rocks that require dozens of people to move can be easily lifted by a tree man and placed where they should be.
At the beginning, the craftsmen were frightened by these behemoths. They ran around like crazy, thinking they saw monsters. Under the suppression of Du Wei's army, these guys were quieted down. Later, it was determined that these
After the giant was no longer dangerous, thousands of craftsmen soon started working hard!
As Du Wei said, most of the heavy physical work has been taken care of by these giants, and all the craftsmen need is repairing and knocking.
For example, when building the city wall, the tree people easily laid a layer of stones, and the craftsmen immediately jumped on it and started filling it with sand and other things...
In less than ten days, the northern city wall has begun to take shape!
This speed is terrifying!
Philip brought a group of Mr. Lan Hai's disciples to act as supervisors. Each of them was assigned a task, and they were busy giving directions with architectural drawings in their hands.
Facts have proved that Du Wei was not lying.
With these powerful giants as labor force, with five days left in the third month as promised by Du Wei, the main walls of the new city have been completely built. All the walls are designed to be undulating in a rhombus shape.
At the corner, the city wall is fifteen meters high, which is already the standard for a first-class city in the empire. Such a diamond-shaped city wall will be extremely strong!
Protected by a twenty-mile city wall, it will be Du Wei’s new capital in the northwest!
Loulan City!
However, privately, everyone gave the city a new name:
City of Miracles!
Of course, this "City of Miracles" is still just an empty shell. Except for the main outer city wall, the inside of the city is just blank. Du Wei designed several avenues running from north to south and east to west, and they have been paved. But the surrounding areas
But it was empty. The only building in the city was a castle.
This will be the future Governor's Palace of Duwe.
The general framework of the new capital city has been built within three months, and the rest are the buildings in the city. Then there is the headache of immigration and relocation. These things cannot be solved in a short time.
According to Philip's estimation, it will take about a year for the new capital to fully transform into a city worthy of the name.
Before that, Du Wei had to stay in the old capital of Giliyar.
The residents of the small town by Loulan Lake became the first settlers of the new capital. After receiving a series of guarantees, they gave up their homes: that small town all became residents of the new capital.
After having no worries about food, I started to build my new home...
After several busy months, the number of people who are definitely willing to move has reached 30,000. The western part of the city in the new capital city is already quite attractive. Citizens who move to the new city will be exempted from all taxes by Duwei.
year commitment.
The construction of new cities also provides a large number of employment opportunities. Those farmers do not have to worry about losing their source of livelihood after coming to the city. What's more, Du Wei allows them to retain their original land.
The city of Giliyar has the largest number of immigrants, because after Duwei announced the preferential treatment of being exempted from all taxes for one year, he also announced the news: Gilyard City will no longer become a city in the Desa Province. At the same time,
No troops are planned to be stationed here.
Without the protection of the city wall, if the current dilapidated city wall can be regarded as a "city wall". Without the protection of the army, this place will become a favorite place for horse thieves and bandits. As a result, the insecure citizens have to choose to move.
The migration of 80,000 people cannot be accomplished overnight.
However, Du Wei does not need to worry about these issues. Philip will use the group of disciples with Lan Hai as the first administrative officials of his governor's palace, responsible for all immigration and relocation issues. Robert Knight will be responsible for leading the army to deter, and to
Just in case something happens during this period.
What about Du Wei?
He once again got into the Governor's Palace of Gilyard and began his mysterious research life.
Hussein was given a new task by Duwei. This powerful paladin will go to the frozen forest and cross the Great Round Lake to the valley where the tree people live.
Because the "Time Passage" spring in Du Wei's hand has almost been exhausted!
To be able to enter the frozen forest safely without worrying about the harsh conditions and powerful monsters that appear everywhere, and without worrying about leaking secrets, only Hussein is qualified for this job.
