Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 50 Entering the Warring States Period

  The development team is generally composed of civilians, because the main task is to open up wasteland in no man's land, so there will be no soldiers to accompany them, let alone knights.

   But this refers to the development team in the general sense. There is a special development team that is dominated by soldiers, that is, the team that builds military facilities such as sentry posts and fortresses.

   "Could it be that a new guard post is being built?"

This is not incomprehensible. Originally, there was a northern sentry post to the north of Iron Tree Fort. Now the plain north of the northern sentry post has been included in the territory of the Kingdom of Tilan, so it is normal to establish a new sentry post in the border area that has been clearly detected. things.

   "It doesn't look like it." Addis recalled various details, and no matter how he looked at it, he didn't think that place was building a new guard post.

"Then there is only one possibility left." David didn't think this would be the case at first, but after ruling out a few possibilities, there is no other answer: "Iron Tree Fort has divided up this plain area, then An area was given to a certain nobleman."

What Adis saw may be that the noble brought the farmers he hired to develop and construct his fiefdom. In this case, the other party may not only want to build a village, but directly build a town: "Have you counted where there are How many people?"

"Not less than thirty people." Addis recalled, he just observed from a distance for a while, not sure that he saw all the people: "If they were really sent out, maybe this is just the first batch, Someone will come later."

   "It shouldn't happen this year, unless they want to travel in the wind and snow." After David finished speaking, he realized that these people might not know what winter in the northern plains was like, and began to consider whether he should remind them a little.

  He has no hostility towards these newcomers, nor does he feel that the other party has invaded his territory. He is very clear about how much he has. He is a small village head and can't control so far away.

Of course, if the other party builds the town at a distance that is visible to the naked eye from Cold Winter Village, he will not be happy. Such a short distance means that conflicts will soon erupt between the two sides over the land, and it also means that David’s village is completely empty. room for development.

   "Could it be... that's what the nobles intend?"

  Although the Kingdom of Tilan issued a development order to encourage civilians to reclaim wasteland to help the kingdom expand its territory, he really couldn't think of an example of a commoner who became a great lord by virtue of the development order.

  In the past, he took it for granted that the 'village chiefs' had limited knowledge and ability. After the village developed to a certain level, it would exceed their ability, and there was no way to upgrade it further.

   Now it seems that things are far more than that simple-the common people do lack further ability and vision, but the kingdom has also used some means to restrict it.

   "I used to think that a land as large as the Northern Plains could be developed into a big town smoothly with the Golden Finger. Now it seems that I am quite naive."

   Laughing at himself, David didn't feel any dissatisfaction. If he sat in that position, he would do even better.

   And so far, it seems that things are not that bad. As long as he develops step by step, he can still develop Lindong Village.

   "Tomorrow I will go and see for myself."

  He is going to meet this new neighbor in person. It’s fine if he didn’t know it before, but now that he knows it, at least he needs to find out the identity and general character of the other party.

  Considering that the two villages are so close, some trade activities may be possible. It would be nice to have a market between the two villages in the future.

  After thinking wildly for a while, David planned to lie down and rest after completing various exercises as usual, and get up at dawn tomorrow, and set off to see the new neighbor in the northeast.

  Unexpectedly, before I had dinner, some acquaintances came to Lindong Village to visit me.

   "Captain Gregory, welcome to Cold Winter Village." The one who suddenly came to visit him was none other than Gregory, the captain of the northern outpost, the one who bought fifty kilograms of potatoes with him.

"I haven't seen you for a while, Village Chief David." Gregory greeted David warmly. At the same time, he looked at Lindong Village curiously. Potatoes that are about to ripen are growing all over the place: "It seems that Lindong Village has ushered in a bumper harvest. These are potatoes!"

"Yeah, this winter won't be as sad as before." David noticed that after Gregory came to the village, he kept looking in the direction of the farmland. It seemed that Gregory was here for potatoes. "Captain Gregory, does he want to buy some more potatoes this time?"

   "That's right." Gregory readily admitted: "The quantity to be purchased this time is very large."

"Oh?" David looked at Gregory, then turned his head to look at the soldiers who came with Gregory, and several carriages, and some of them were completely empty: "It seems that Gregory Captain Gauli is well prepared, how much do you want to buy this time?"

   "I will buy as much as you are willing to sell." Gregory's meaning is very clear, I will take as many potatoes as you can't eat in Winter Village! That is to say, he wanted to buy everything in the whole village except for what he left to eat.

   "Could it be that the northern sentry has decided to use potatoes as the main ration?" After buying so many potatoes back, is it possible that Gregory is going to let his men eat nothing but potatoes?

  The more I thought about it, the more strange it became. When I was about to ask something more, I found Gregory winking at him, and said in a low voice, "Major David, can we have a chat alone?"

   "Okay, this way please." David thought for a while, and brought Gregory to his cabin.

Although there are many things in his wooden house that are inconvenient for people to see, as the number of people in the village increases, he has developed the habit of putting away those special things. At least on the surface, there is nothing strange about his wooden house place.

  After Gregory came in, he only briefly glanced at the environment of the wooden house and stopped paying attention to the surroundings, but stared at David himself: "Village Chief David, now there is an excellent opportunity in front of you."

   "What do you mean?" David was puzzled. He didn't like this way of speaking very much. He often talked like a riddle for a long time without getting to the point.

   Fortunately, Gregory did not continue to be so mysterious, and directly stated the real purpose of his trip: he hoped that David would devote himself to the family he is now loyal to.

   "?"

   For a moment, David wondered if he had time-traveled again? What script is this? Have you become a general in the field?

   Fortunately, when he was stunned, Gregory was still introducing the family he was loyal to now, and at the same time, David finally understood what was going on.

   It turned out that Gregory was no longer the captain of the northern sentry. After receiving the 50 kilograms of potatoes sent by David, he used these potatoes as the capital for his promotion, and defected to the Forrest family, the noble family of Iron Tree Fort.

After personally testing and confirming the characteristics of potatoes being easy to grow, short cycle, and good yield, Gregory became a knight loyal to this noble family, and followed the fourth son of the Forrester family, Sean Fries Te came to the northern plains to establish new villages and towns.

Nominally, Sean Forrester came to the north in the name of establishing a new border post, but considering that it is too remote and needs to be self-sufficient to a certain extent, it is prepared to follow the standards of a border town building.

However, even if Sean Forrest successfully established a border town, he can only be regarded as a builder. At most, he will be stationed here to guard the border after the construction is completed. - Domain of Forrest.

  So the Forrest family thought of a roundabout way, so that Gregory, who was more familiar with David, came to Cold Winter Village and recruited David to become a subordinate of the Forrest family.

If David joins the Forrester family, then Cold Winter Village and the surrounding area will naturally be counted as the territory of the Forrester family. Considering that David’s Cold Winter Village is a product of the development order, the specific size of this territory It is very flexible, and even directly annexing newly established villages and towns is not difficult to achieve operationally.

  In this way, Rinwinter Village and the newly established villages and towns plus the surrounding large areas have become the territory of the Forrester family.

   Of course, Gregory couldn't explain these things so clearly, but through the information revealed in his words, David wanted to understand why the other party wanted to recruit him.

At the same time, Gregory also revealed more information about the surrounding area of ​​Cold Winter Village: It is not only the Forrest family who are eyeing the large "unowned land" on this plain, but many other families are also eyeing this vast area. soil of.

It's just that at present, only Sean Forester has established a new border town in the northeast of Cold Winter Village, and the team sent by Lord Morgan Marquis of Iron Tree Fort is about halfway between Cold Winter Village and the original northern sentry, that is, the entire The Snowfield Fort was built west of the center of the northern plain.

"In addition, there are more families who will send teams to this plain after next spring." According to Gregory, after next spring, the villages on this land will be like Like mushrooms after rain, they popped up one after another.

   "..."

  Listening to Gregory's description, David suspected that if he had a system or something, there would be a high probability that a voice reminder would appear: Congratulations on entering the Warring States Period!

Resisting not to complain, David continued to listen to Gregory's words. After listening to him, he suddenly discovered a problem: this guy talked for a long time that there was no development prospect in Rinwinter Village. After the big families reached out, Rinwinter It is difficult for the village to recruit people to settle; the situation in the northern plains is very chaotic after next year; the Forrester family is very powerful.

  But he didn't mention a word about what benefits David would get if he defected to the Forrest family?

   "This guy... doesn't pay attention!"

  (end of this chapter)