A war that took place in the north of Burgundy did not seem to have much impact on the people far away in the paradise valley of southern Xinjiang, but the aftershocks of the war eventually spread to the valleys south of Netz.

When the owner of this valley was mediating and fighting in Swabia, the valley was also a busy scene.

In the workshop area under the hills at the bend of the river in the southern part of the intervalley in the dense forest valley, the smoke from the fires filled the five or six wooden houses in the workshop area, the sound of clanking iron, and the bang bang bang of wood chopping.

The sound of sharpening swords has been heard in this busy workshop area for several days and nights.

The craftsmen and laborers in the textile workshop and the brewing workshop stopped their work and were all assigned to help in the weapons workshop and carpentry workshop. The young and strong ones helped the blacksmiths to carry iron materials and swing hammers to make embryos.

The weak helped cut down wood to make spear handles and shields, and the female peasant workers were responsible for grinding swords and assembling weapons. Even the old, weak and young family members in the workshop area were mobilized and went to the mountains and forests to collect firewood, add fire to the stove, and make fires.

meal......

In less than a week, the old carpenter Bader, the adjutant of the craftsman, led two Swabian craftsmen, twenty craftsmen, and more than thirty craftsman apprentices. With the assistance of a large group of servants and laborers, they made enough weapons to equip a hundred people.

armor.

"Old housekeeper, we are making the last batch of weapons and armor today. There are ten daggers in total, twenty-one winged iron spears, one set of half-body plate armor, five sets of iron-studded cotton armor, and fifteen disc helmets.

, eighteen shields, in addition to thirteen pieces such as broadaxes, ball-peen hammers, and flails. These armaments are enough to assemble twenty peasant soldiers."

"However, the materials for making the crossbow were used up yesterday. The most important bones for the crossbow have been used up. We have no way to make the crossbow for the time being."

In the weapons workshop, the craftsman's adjutant Bard led the valley civil affairs officer Cooper to inspect the weapons production in the workshop. This was the third time in his busy schedule that Cooper came to the workshop area to speed up the production of weapons and armor.

Because there are still some troops rushing north to help, waiting to be equipped with weapons and armor before setting off.

Cooper was not familiar with military affairs, but he had been with Art for five or six years, and the army fought successive wars. Even this old man with a gray beard was forced to learn some military affairs.

Old Cooper casually pulled out a dagger from the wicker basket. Due to the tight time and heavy tasks, these daggers had no time to make fine and beautiful scabbards. Most of the daggers could only be roughly sewn into a leather scabbard, or even

Some were directly wrapped in coarse linen cloth. However, although the fancy scabbard was omitted, the quality of the dagger itself was still excellent. These were relied on to kill enemies and save lives on the battlefield. Cooper would rather save the time of making the scabbard.

I dare not skimp on the craftsmanship of the sword body.

"The blades of these weapons are still very good. You have done an excellent job. After the last batch of weapons are produced, the workshop will take a day off. I will have a sheep slaughtered to celebrate your success. In addition, you remember

Let people prepare enough whetstones, at least three of them will have one whetstone. The fighting on this battlefield is not as good as usual, and the weapons are very damaged. After a fierce battle, the sword blades will become jagged. Without enough whetstones, there will always be a sharpening stone.

We can't let soldiers sharpen their swords with their palms."

Cooper handed the dagger to the Swabian weapons craftsman and weapons workshop manager Deem Hand Zheng who was accompanying Bud.

Dim stretched out his hands to take the dagger from Cooper and put it back into the wicker basket. He said to Cooper in very blunt Burgundian: "We, remember~ The civil affairs officer said that weapons and armor are all

Be the best!”

Cooper nodded approvingly to the weapon craftsman Dim, "Dim, Bard often told me about your superb craftsmanship skills. The army also reported that the weapons and armor produced by the Valley Weapons Workshop are very sophisticated, even those of the palace guards.

The army likes our weapons and armor, and you have a share of the credit for this. I will definitely take credit for you when your lords and others return from the Northern Expedition."

"By the way, according to the information we received, our caravan will bring you and Luca's family back to the valley at the end of this month. The Civil Affairs Bureau has built two wooden houses for your family. By then you can live with your family.

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When the Swabian weapons craftsman heard that his relatives, who had been away for two years, were about to meet again in the valley, his joy was beyond words. He kept crossing himself with his right hand and prayed softly in Swabian.

"Thank God, thank you~ Sir Civil Affairs Officer, God bless Lord Art~" Dim kept expressing his thanks, then walked out of the weapons workshop and ran towards the woodworking workshop next to where spear shafts, arrows and shields were made. Obviously he wanted to

Share the joy with Luca…

Heading north from the Gongfang District along the flat and wide carriageway along the river bank, four villages have appeared on both sides of the road. At this time, in several villages there are young people wrapped in winter clothes and carrying bags, led by the village chief.

Assemble towards Beiguanjun Fort.

These people are not fighting peasants and soldiers who went north to Yona Province. In fact, after receiving the military order from Art ten years ago, in just three short times, the Baron of the Valley had assembled more than seventy young and registered peasants and soldiers and rushed to the Beiguan Army Fort to participate in the emergency.

After training, these people had already arrived at the garrison camp in Boulder Town two years ago, waiting for the valley to be equipped with weapons and armor, and then immediately went north to Yona Province via Andermatt Castle.

Earlier, Bass, commander of the Valley Guard Corps, had dispatched patrol captain Obote to lead forty patrol soldiers, including bandit suppressor Redoan, to the battlefield in advance to report back to Art.

Now walking on this road to rush to Beiguan Army Fort are the second batch of conscripted peasant soldiers from the Valley Barony. They total 80 people. After training at Beiguan Army Fort, they will be arranged to the southwest farm, Winches.

Dayton Manor, Lane Manor, Boulder Town Garrison Camp and Beiguan Army Fort will make up for the garrison shortage left by reinforcements from the north.

Most of these peasants and soldiers who are about to be drafted have strong bodies and energetic looks. Although the winter clothes on their bodies are not flashy, they are thick enough. The bags on their backs are also bulging. The young farmers also have smiles on their faces.

There are farmers laughing and playing.

In this valley barony, recruiting peasants and soldiers is definitely not a heavy service, on the contrary, it is a symbol of status and rights.

In short, not everyone here has the right to be drafted. First of all, only those young and strong citizens who have lived in the valley for more than a year and have done no evil will be registered as peasant soldiers by the garrison; secondly,

Registered peasant soldiers do not necessarily have the opportunity to become peasant soldiers. The valley civil affairs and garrison corps must determine the recruitment quota and scope according to military orders; finally, it is a right because the recruited peasant soldiers here are entitled to salary and food supply.

, and the subjects who have been drafted as peasant soldiers will have priority to enter the army and become combat soldiers...

Therefore, when the civil affairs officer Cooper and the garrison commander Bass jointly signed the recruitment order, the seven to eight hundred male residents in the valley all looked forward to it, hoping that they would become the second batch of peasant soldiers to be recruited.

Dozens of peasants and soldiers who came out of several villages while talking, laughing and playing have arrived at the Valley Wooden Castle. The Valley Wooden Castle has now become a real market town castle, and the hunter's house six years ago has become a reality.

Nowadays, the lord's residence and lord's hall are located in the center of the wooden castle. The wooden castle has been clearly divided into five areas-the lord's palace hall, the church and school area, the commercial trading area, the wealthy officials' residence area, and the garrison barracks area.

The hall of the lord's mansion is still the same size as it was during the knights' period. However, in order to ensure the safety and tranquility of the lord, some of the houses of the original residents around the mansion were demolished and a series of stone outer walls were built. Inside the stone outer walls, the baroness was

Lottie opened a garden, and the courtyard was completely re-paved with cobblestones. At the gate of the outer wall, there were two wounded veterans in armor and spears guarding the gate; under the outer wall of the lord's hall was the valley civil affairs office, which still had the same row of low buildings.

In the wooden house, the civil affairs ministries and the valley garrison commanders all handle the general affairs of the valley here. This is the core of the entire valley barony.

The church school is across the street from the lord's mansion hall and the civil affairs office. The original wooden church was renovated and expanded into stone, the main hall was increased and expanded, and three additional rooms were added as a prayer room, a clerical storehouse and a living room for the clergy;

The parish school next to the church has also been turned into a spacious wooden room.

The commercial trading area is surrounded by the lord's mansion and the church and school. It was expanded based on the wooden castle hotel and the original workshop area. Hotels and taverns, grain stores, cloth, iron farm tools, clothing, tailors, and grocery stores were set up one after another.

The shops are all under the control of the civil administration. The shops are managed by the family members and retired personnel of the military and civilian administration. It can also be regarded as a resettlement measure for the military and civilians. The profits earned, except for daily expenses, are all returned to the civil administration. With the increase in the number of residents and villages in the valley,

, the commercial trade area became increasingly prosperous.

Three areas were artificially designated outside the original wooden gate wall. Eighty-nine mansions have been built in one of them. Most of the mansions are several single-story red-tiled wooden houses. The middle one has two houses.

The first floor is the newly built mansion of the Scott family. After the low wooden house that originally stood outside the lord's mansion was demolished, Scott saved a huge amount of money and used part of the civil government subsidies to build this wooden wooden house in the valley. Apart from the lord's mansion, it is the most "

A "magnificent" mansion.

The Scott family should be the absolute "powerful people" in the Barony of the Valley. Scott is the governor, second only to Old Cooper in civil affairs. Scott's wife Emma has now been promoted from civil affairs clerk to deputy civil affairs officer.

As a steward, he received a high monthly salary. Scott's son Ron was promoted to a trainee knight and a military deputy company-level bodyguard. Scott's daughter is now a personal maid beside the baroness, with food and clothing expenses.

They are all provided by the lord's mansion, and the entire Scott family is supported by the valley, so there is no shortage of money and status.

Several other large mansions were also built by high-ranking officers and officials from the military and civil affairs. Although the people who went in and out of them were not necessarily noble, they had no problem with having enough food and clothing.

There are no residences built on the other two vacant lots for the time being. They are residential lands prepared by the Civil Affairs Bureau in advance for the army, the Civil Affairs Bureau and the people of the valley. If someone wants to build a house, they only need to pay the residential land tax to the Civil Affairs Bureau to buy it...

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The roads inside the wooden castle were paved with stones, because the paving of these stones completely changed the muddy original condition of the wooden castle. In addition, large pits for accumulating fertilizer were built around the wooden castle, and the feces excreted by the residents of the wooden castle were forced to

Pour in large pits of retting fertilizer, so the wooden castle rarely has much odor.

At the beginning, the castle residents were not very accustomed to such a clean and tidy castle, but over time everyone got used to it.

Beyond the three open spaces is a real fort wall. This fort wall was built for more than two months by the construction officer Lawrence and the adjutant Geer, who personally led more than a hundred war slaves and cost thousands of pfennigs. The valley wood

Almost all the rocks near the fort and the cobblestones in the stream have become the outer walls of the wooden fort. Such fort walls are enough to withstand the devastation of most low-intensity wars.

Follow the road paved with stones from the wooden castle in the valley and cross the wooden bridge over the stream to the other side. There is a large flat open space with a large row of wooden houses on the edge of the open space. This is the wooden castle garrison area, which is usually occupied by the Valley Guard Corps.

The security team under its jurisdiction is permanently stationed, and every year during the slack season, registered peasant soldiers from several villages in the south will come here to participate in training.

At this time, there were several men who looked like officials standing at the entrance of the garrison camp. The leader was none other than Ruben, the newly promoted civil affairs manager from the village chief of Gujiandi.

Reuben wore a thick linen robe, a sheepskin cloak, a short sword slung around his waist, and a new prosthetic leg he had just replaced on his left foot.

"Steward Ruben, I have ordered to bring the second batch of peasant soldiers from four villages, please accept them." A leader of a newly built village ran up to greet the lame Steward Ruben.

Ruben nodded, adjusted the dagger at his waist, and motioned to the official holding a piece of birch bark next to him to start counting the names. After the rolls were made, these dozens of peasants and soldiers would begin to eat public food and receive salaries.

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"It's getting late today. You guys should stay in the military camp and rest first. Deputy Manager Emma has brought people to prepare food for you. Tomorrow morning I will personally take you to Beiguan Army Fort to take over the defense. The last batch of reinforcements heading north have already arrived.

Let’s set off. Beiguan Army Fort needs to be stationed and guarded as soon as possible. In addition, at noon tomorrow, 20 strong men will be dispatched from among the dozens of you to escort military supplies to the garrison camp in Jushi Town..."

Several village chiefs began to greet their farmers and soldiers to enter the camp...

The gaze continued to move north, past the Beiguan Army Fort, through the uninhabited wasteland, and arrived at the garrison camp of Jushi Town located deep in the wasteland. Seventy or eighty peasant soldiers had just arrived here. They were the first batch of peasant soldiers recruited from the Barony of the Valley.

These people will gather in Boulder Town and distribute weapons and armor after the valley's grain and grass are prepared for disasters. Then, according to the selection and dispatch of Bass, the commander of the Valley Guard Corps, some of the most elite young men will be separated and led by eight instructors to detour to Under Armor.

Fort, entered the Yona province, and then headed north to support the battle.

The remaining peasants and soldiers will be assigned to the Southwest Farm, Wincheston Manor, Lane Manor and the Boulder Town garrison to fill the garrison vacancies...
Chapter completed!