Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 26 Whose child is this

After a simple breakfast, David brought the necessary items: the development order, and potatoes used as evidence—because too many people who gave up returned to Iron Tree Fort, David was worried that their propaganda would definitely make Iron Tree Fort People have preconceived ideas: it is absolutely impossible to establish a village in that area.

   But after the development order was actually shown to the special reception staff, David realized that he might have thought wrong.

   "Please wait a moment, there will be special officials to deal with this matter later."

The reception staff were very polite and did not offend David and Laura because they wore very 'civilian' costumes. They even brought some fruits and snacks after leading them to a special reception room .

"This thing tastes good, it looks like an apple, but it tastes a bit like an orange." Laura is very curious about all kinds of things in this world, so naturally she will not let go of these uneaten foods: "Snacks are just so-so. .”

Compared with Laura's hometown, the material life in this world is much worse. Maybe the upper-class nobles don't lack enough material resources to eat more delicious snacks, but good things of that level are not enough. Maybe bring it out to David at this time.

   Just as Laura was evaluating these snacks, the door of the reception room was pushed open again, and a tall and handsome middle-aged man walked in from the outside.

"Hello, I'm Inspector Maloney Mansfield of Fort Iron Tree." Maloney has a pretty good appearance and excellent temperament, with a tall and straight figure and high-end clothes that can show her official status. If this image appeared in the outer city, there would never be half a civilian within a few meters around him.

   "Hello, Lord Inspector." He gave a nondescript bow to the Inspector, and confirmed that the other party did not show any dissatisfaction because of his etiquette, David secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

One of the reasons why he joined the development team at the beginning was that it was too easy to meet nobles and various officials in Iron Tree Fort. Even if he didn’t have to meet nobles or officials, he had to kneel or something, but he couldn’t bear to keep bowing his head. .

  As for the fact that he came here to report on the development order, why did the inspector come to see him? This is not surprising to him.

  In the Kingdom of Tilan, the king is the supreme ruler of the kingdom in general, and then the land of the kingdom is entrusted to the great lords, so the responsibility for managing these lands falls on the lords.

In order to facilitate the management of their territories, the great lords either continue to entrust the territories to relatives and trusted subordinates, let them manage those places, or appoint various officials to assist them in handling various affairs—in general, two items in parallel, because no lord will divide all the land in his hands.

  Since these officials are completely appointed by the lord, even the king cannot interfere, so the names and powers of the officials are very arbitrary, depending entirely on the lord's thoughts at the time.

In other words, there is no fixed statement about what position is responsible for what work, so don't think that this official position is an inspector, but unless it is the upper class of Iron Tree Fort—that is, the nobles and officials (there are very few officials who are not nobles) , it is difficult for outsiders to figure out the scope of this authority.

"This is David who successfully built a new village! I didn't expect him to be so young." From the moment he entered the reception room, Maloney Mansfield was looking at the two people in the room. These two are very outstanding young people.

What puzzled him was that the two of them didn't seem to be of civilian origin, and because of this doubt in his heart, coupled with the self-cultivation he had cultivated over the years, he was very friendly and friendly: "A very outstanding young man, for that How bad the environment of this land is, I have heard it from many people."

"Yes, Lord Inspector, the environment in that place is indeed terrible: winter will come earlier and last longer. And the winter is very cold, and it will snow from time to time. In this environment, it is impossible to catch any prey. And the land is not very rich, and the various crop seeds we brought with us at the beginning could not grow on that land at all.”

  Maloney Mansfield always kept a friendly smile on his face, nodded from time to time in response to David's words, and asked at the most appropriate time: "How did David overcome these difficulties?"

"Originally, I was ready to give up when I survived the second winter. At that time, I just wanted to survive until spring, collect enough food to make dry food, and then set off to return to Iron Tree Fort. But I accidentally found a kind of food." David took out the specially brought potatoes: "This is this kind of crop, I call it potatoes, because they are dug out of the soil, and they look like much bigger beans."

   "It's really vivid." Maloney took a potato, held it in front of his eyes and looked it over carefully: "Can this thing be planted?"

   "Yes, and it grows very fast. I have harvested it once before I came back."

   Maloney Mansfield, who didn't pay much attention to it at first, showed a look of surprise. According to David's words, he only discovered this thing after the second winter, that is, the last winter.

   That is to say, this kind of food was found at most two or three months ago, and the time of trying to plant it will not exceed three months, but it has already been harvested once?

   "This thing grows so fast? How's the yield?"

   "The yield is very good." David originally just wanted to bring potatoes to prove that he really built the village. But seeing the reaction of Inspector Maloney, he felt that he might have some unexpected gains. Maybe he could really get some material support from Iron Tree Fort: "Before I set off to return to Iron Tree Fort, the people in the village People have already started the second round of planting and expanded the scope of planting."

"Hmm..." Maloney nodded. As for whether this crop is really as miraculous as David said, he will not ask or even question it here. It is stipulated that he will go on a field trip next.

  So, what is the situation, he will have a clear answer after seeing it with his own eyes.

   "Rindong Village, is this the name of the village you named it?" After chatting a few words about the general situation, Maloney asked for a development order to check.

  As an official in charge of this matter, he has special identification means to judge the authenticity of the development order. After confirming that the development order is genuine, Maloney looked at the name of the village.

"It was a name I decided on with a few other people. The cold winter there left a deep impression on each of us." David is not lying, he will never forget those two years dominated by cold winter of fear.

"Nice name." Returning the pioneering order in his hand to David, Maloney also reminded David formally: "Keep this pioneering order safe. It is a proof before you get a formal letter of appointment." The most important item of your identity."

By the way, he also explained the next process to David: In fact, the next thing has little to do with David. Maloney will summarize and report the various situations in detail. After obtaining the permission of the Lord Iron Tree Fort, he will lead a A team went to the village for a field trip.

Then Maloney will report it based on the results of the on-the-spot investigation, plus various geographical information, and after being approved by the lord of Iron Tree Castle, Dudley-Marquis Morgan, he will sign a series of documents. These documents are in triplicate, one Keep a file, send one to Tilan King City, and one to the new village head David together with the newly released letter of appointment.

   To get these things, David needs to provide a development order, otherwise he will not get the letter of appointment and the document that symbolizes that he is different from other villages in the kingdom and is equivalent to the kingdom's little lord.

  David realized at this time that the development order is more important than he originally imagined.

"Next, you need to wait in Iron Tree Fort for a few days." Maloney Mansfield just clapped his hands, and the attendant who had been outside the door immediately opened the door and walked in: "My attendant will arrange accommodation for you. The place."

Arranging accommodation directly for David and Laura is so that Maloney can find them at any time in the next few days. The accommodation he arranged was better and more convenient.

   From this point, it can be seen that although Maloney Mansfield is kind and friendly, the arrogance in his bones cannot be truly hidden. From the beginning to the end, he never asked if the two of them have a place to live? Where do you live?

  Although his opinion was ignored, David did not reject the arrangement of the Inspector, but just asked if he could go to the outer city to deal with some matters?

"Of course, it's better to take Huey with you, it will save a lot of trouble." Huey is the attendant that Maloney called in. Maloney asked David to take Huey with him when he usually went out, not for the sake of The main purpose of monitoring David is to avoid any trouble David may encounter when entering and leaving the inner city.

   "Thank you very much, Lord Inspector, for taking care of me. Then I won't disturb your business." David understood Maloney's intentions, and after giving a serious salute, he left the reception room with Laura.

  David didn't know that Maloney Mansfield was always looking at himself and Laura, thinking about his identity in his head.

"David... Interesting young man, who is the illegitimate child?" He couldn't believe that this young man named David was born as a commoner: "And that young woman, why did she leave it outside? What a waste of time." An outstanding appearance."

   In the bottom of her heart, she secretly complained about the unreliable Maloney Mansfield, and soon put her thoughts on the work she was about to deal with.

   "If you go to the north, you need to prepare a lot of things."

   Wishing everyone good fortune, handsome men and beautiful women in the new year!

  (end of this chapter)