Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 73 is only a battalion

   "Four hundred people!"

  David is very happy, this kind of happiness is not even covered up at all. Fording originally wanted to remind David to control his expression, but Van Cleef has already noticed the happy David, and it seems that it is too late to remind him.

   "Four hundred people is quite a lot." Van Cleef was not angry with David, he had been angry for a long time, and the most angry moment had passed. Now he is even in the mood to explain to David why there are 'only' 400 people: "These 400 people include the leaders of the stonemasons union and all the senior craftsmen, and the rest are family members and a small number of ordinary craftsmen and miners."

"I don't think I'm too small, do I look like I think people are too small?" David pointed to the corner of his mouth that had been raised all the time. At this time, he took a tube of lipstick and painted him big red lips, and he could go to Gotham to plot against Batman. : "What are the remaining people going to do? Do you want to keep people there for a long time so that they can be taken care of when needed in the future?"

   Of course, there are not only so few members of the Stonemasons' Union, let alone family members among the four hundred members. At its peak, the Stonemasons' Guild had hundreds of high-level craftsmen alone, and there were many middle- and low-level craftsmen below. If the workers who actually built Stormwind City were counted, the number would be even greater.

  Even though the stonemasons' union raised a flag of rebellion later, and some people were unwilling to work with Van Cleef and chose to leave their group, the remaining number was still astonishing.

  If you count the various robbers and bandits that were absorbed later, the Defias Brotherhood currently has thousands of members scattered in the Westfall, and many members are scattered throughout Elwynn Forest.

  If Van Cleef can recruit and bring everyone here, Cold Winter Village can even develop directly in the direction of Cold Winter City.

But that's impossible, not to mention that the Defias robbers and thieves David, who currently account for more than half of the population, don't like it at all. Even the artisans and miners he wants to poach, not everyone is willing to go with Van Cleef. Life in another world.

Just as David had expected, many middle and low-level craftsmen felt that little people like themselves would not attract any attention at all. If Van Cleef did not lead them to continue fighting the Kingdom of Stormwind, they would go back and continue to be ordinary civilians in the Kingdom of Stormwind That's it.

  There is another part, although they want to leave the Kingdom of Stormwind, they don't want to go to another world. The orc invasion brought a huge shadow to the people of Azeroth, and many people resisted this kind of thing from the bottom of their hearts.

  Van Cleef finally decided to leave the warships that were originally intended to destroy the Stormwind Kingdom to these people. These people can take a boat to the Kingdom of Lordaeron, or go directly to Kalimdor to open up a new home there.

"The craftsmen will all leave the Defias Brotherhood. It is no longer the organization that was created to seek justice." Van Cleef used the most concise words to describe what happened during this period, his own decisions and arrangements. He narrated it: "Everyone, like me, has no nostalgia for it."

   That is to say, the members who originally established the fraternity with Van Cleef will take this opportunity to break away from the fraternity and sever ties with this criminal organization ever since.

Among them, those who are willing to continue to believe in Van Cleef will come to Cold Winter Village, and the rest will find their own place. people who come over.

   This is a good thing for David. Fording only needs to take some time to take over the four hundred people, then he can get out of the dead mine and go to his own business.

   "However, even if you leave the fraternity, that organization will continue to use your name to continue to run amok."

  Van Cleef sneered, as if he had thought of this a long time ago: "It doesn't matter, it's a fact that I lead people to fight against Stormwind, even if I don't do anything, those nobles will pour dirty water on me."

  His reputation is already very stinky, how can it be so bad? What's more, he didn't care about how the people in the Stormwind Kingdom viewed him for a long time.

   If he had any obsession with the world of Azeroth, it was that he couldn’t personally help his brothers get the justice they deserved. Coupled with the loss of control of the Defias Brotherhood, he felt that he was a very failed leader.

"They will all come to Cold Winter Village, and they will be your subjects in the future. I hope you can treat them well." Van Cleef's appearance of entrusting everything makes people suspect that he will use a cruel barb to himself in the next second. Come on the neck.

   Fortunately, just when David suspected that Van Cleef was determined to die, the top architect in Azeroth brought up a new topic, making David realize that this guy has not lived enough.

   "In the next period of time, I will ask Lord Fording. I will take a look around during this time and think about how to plan and build your city."

"Are you too anxious? Shouldn't you consider building a house to accommodate everyone?" David is most concerned about the population and these craftsmen. The village has a good impression.

  Before that, he was not in a hurry to urge everyone to start work—you have to give everyone a taste of the sweetness first, and then let everyone who is full of motivation start work. David felt that he was doing the right thing in this regard.

   But Van Cleef thinks that he can only wait in the village dryly. Nothing to do will make him entangle himself in the various mistakes he has made, so he might as well get busy and avoid his wild thoughts.

"That's it..." David got up and went back to the wooden house, and took out a textbook for learning the local common language in Azeroth's common language. After finishing writing and sorting it out, Laura helped to print it out in batches: " You can learn the language here first, and then teach this language to everyone."

   "Language..." Only then did Van Cleef realize that this is another world after all, and of course it has its own language, just as the orcs also have their own language, and the elves also have their own language.

   It's just that he mainly came into contact with Fording from the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and David also understood the common language of Azeroth, so he ignored this problem.

"This is indeed a priority problem." Although Van Cleef saw that David's village was full of dozens of people, he brought 400 people here, and it seemed that Azeroth's common language could become the "mainstream" of the village. language.

   But what's the point? Is it possible that everyone will never have contact with other people in this world? The language of this world must be mastered after all.

"Then I'll learn a new language while observing the surrounding terrain." Van Cleef is still not ready to give up his plan, and insists on inspecting the terrain environment around the village of Cold Winter: "As for everyone's residence, I noticed Two big houses have already been built, and it is enough to build a few more similar ones, and it is enough for everyone to have a temporary shelter."

  As for a better house, of course, he will have to wait for him to inspect the surrounding environment before he can decide how to build it.

   "You can decide on your own." David didn't say anything more to persuade, and it is true that there is no work assigned to Van Cleef for the time being, so let Van Cleef do what he wants to do.

   "Believe me, a more perfect city than Stormwind City can be built."

   "..." David blinked, suspecting that he had heard it wrong: "Well, building a town is enough for now."

  Van Cleef ignored Davy, his eyes were shining, and there was a fire burning inside.

  David saw Van Cleef like this, and felt that the leader of the stonemasons union might want to express his dissatisfaction with the Stormwind Kingdom in another way. This should be a good thing for him, and he decisively chose to shut up. Let's talk about everything after Van Cleef inspects the environment!

   Maybe then the top architect of Azeroth calmed down. Not to mention how many materials are needed to build a city that is more perfect than Stormwind City. Manpower alone is a problem. How can there be enough workers in Cold Winter Village for him to mobilize?

   Turned his head and chatted with Fording for a few more words. Fording said that it only takes a few days for the four hundred people to come to Cold Winter Village. During this period, everyone's residence must be built as soon as possible.

   "I will give priority to bringing craftsmen and strong miners here. If there are more people, the speed of construction will be faster."

   "Well, this is also a way."

  David’s original idea was to send a batch over first, and then build houses quickly, so that people would be transported here while building, ensuring that everyone would have a place to sleep when they came.

However, after Van Cleef noticed the abnormality of the Brotherhood, he chose to cut off the connection with the Brotherhood as soon as possible under Fording's suggestion, so that everything must be fast, and even everyone did not bring too much luggage, only some carry-on Important items to ensure that you can escape from the Defias Brotherhood in the shortest possible time.

   In the end, it became what it is now, with four hundred people pouring into Cold Winter Village in one breath.

   "House, food storage, daily necessities."

  Four hundred people are not too many, and if they are less, they are not too many. David has changed from a small village chief who is only in charge of more than 30 people to managing more than 400 people, and he really feels a little pressure in his heart.

  When Van Cleef and Fording went back to be responsible for "transporting" the people over, David took a notebook and started writing non-stop, for fear that he would miss any details.

"What are you writing about?" After Peggy and Sharon helped Eva build a house for a day, when the women were taking a walk to relax, they saw the village chief lowered his head and stopped writing, scratching his head from time to time, as if he was doing something. The scum of the test paper.

   "Fordin has already convinced Van Cleef that about 400 craftsmen, miners, and their families will come to Rinwinter Village. I am looking at what needs to be prepared to accommodate these 400 people."

"Oh~" Peggy and Sharon suddenly realized that both of them knew that David asked Fording to go to the world of Azeroth to recruit craftsmen. Camp! It shouldn’t be difficult to manage.”

  (end of this chapter)