Chapter 30: The Useful Farmer
For modern people, what Leon taught Sarah is indeed an effective marketing method.
This camp is of little use to Leon, but it is quite important to the Horn Summoning Rangers.
Selling the right things to the right people is like getting something for nothing... er... it is the basic logic of 'resource integration'.
The next day, Li Ang began to inspect the construction site.
That is the wooden bridge .
Two rows of wooden piles had just been driven into the river, and the piles were connected and reinforced with wood.
The longitudinal beams connecting the wooden piles have also been erected.
However, the bridge deck has not yet been paved with wooden planks, so it is not yet suitable for normal traffic - unless you cross the bridge on the longitudinal beam like a balance beam .
Li Ang stood by the bridge and thought for a long time, but did not order the demolition of the bridge that was about to be completed.
Instead, he brought in a dozen carpenters to make some minor 'technical adjustments' to the bridge.
After giving detailed instructions to the carpenter, Leon asked Klose and his stormtroopers to stay in the camp to guard the prisoners, while he continued to move westward with the crossbowman and the remaining carpenters.
Since he was planning to sell this camp to Ralph, he would have to build another nomadic camp for the Jatu people within the jurisdiction of Lion Lake City.
That is to complete his previous deal with Ralph.
No matter how you try to take advantage of the customer, you must complete what you promised to do and make the customer satisfied.
This is the principle.
The strong men of Mettenheim are useless for construction work, and half of them are injured.
This is different from the game. The wounded in the team will not heal automatically. They need treatment from a doctor and rest.
Perhaps the only advantage is that injuries will recover faster - this has been verified when Li Ang just crossed over, and this may be the biggest benefit that this half-baked system brings to the team.
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From the camp to the west, there is nothing but wasteland everywhere.
Similar to the uninhabited area shrouded in fog south of Changhe Town, this side is also a vast wilderness, but the altitude is higher and there are more hills and gentle slopes.
According to the map provided by Ralph, this area was not originally a wasteland. There should have been many villages there - there were many small circles drawn on the map.
But Li Ang didn't see any village. All along the way there were green grasslands and gentle hillsides, with some jungles occasionally, which was very suitable for nomadic people to survive.
After walking for half a day, Li Ang estimated that the convoy had entered the jurisdiction of Lion Lake City, and finally found an abandoned village.
Like Changhe Town, Shihu City is also a large county. Decades ago, it was the largest county in the entire continent.
But the significant difference between Changhe Town and Shihu City is that Changhe Town has been expanding outward in recent years, while the outer territories of Shihu City have been encroached upon by the Jatu people in the past few decades.
Because Brave Shield Castle blocked the Jatu people's progress, they could only plunder in the direction of Lion Lake City for the past few decades.
The Lion Lake City, originally located in the northern center of the Kingdom of the Fierce Lion, has now become almost a frontline. There is no village has become a no-man's land.
This abandoned village is now just ruins with weeds all over the ground. It looks like no one has lived there for at least a decade.
Comparing the extremely simple "detailed map" with the map, Leon confirmed that this place belonged to the jurisdiction of Grand Duke Alma's Lion Lake City, and ordered the construction of the Jatu nomadic camp in this abandoned village.
This piece of ruins was probably the remains left under the iron hoofs of the Jatu people.
It's just right for framing others.
Two mercenaries were sent to keep watch at the top of a nearby hill, while the others began to unload the goods, and the team became busy.
"I'm sorry, sir, but what does the nomadic camp of the Jatu people look like?"
I thought everything was going well, but I didn't expect that the carpenters who were the main force in the construction of the camp had some troubles - they had never seen the camp of the Jatu nomads.
In fact, few people have seen it. To be more precise, few men have seen it.
After all, there are basically no survivors among the Jatu people, and most of the men who have seen the Jatu camp are no longer alive.
They can see the women who were abducted, but they can't come back.
After all, Li Ang came from the 21st century, an era of information explosion, and his way of thinking had not yet completely changed. He subconsciously thought that the appearance of the nomadic camp should be familiar to many people...
But people of this era didn’t have the Internet, so how could they know so much? Travelers like Sarah are already among the most knowledgeable and top intellectuals in the entire continent.
The problem was, Sarah wasn't here, and she certainly didn't know what Camp Jatu looked like - she, a woman, didn't dare travel to Jatu territory, otherwise she would definitely become a unit of value.
For example, one Sara is equal to ten horses or two iron pots...
The mercenaries in Changhe Town also looked at each other in bewilderment. Most of them had seen the Jatu people before, after all, they were enemies they had been fighting for a long time around Yongdun Castle.
But when asked about the camp... everyone could only shake their heads.
Just when everyone was at a loss, two timid figures stood in front of Li Ang.
"Sir...we have seen Jatu's camp..."
Li Ang raised his head and saw two men standing in front of him. They were wearing leather hats and wrapped in messy and low-quality equipment.
On his back was a light crossbow, which was the equipment that Ralph had 'sponsored' previously.
These are the two bastards who lied that they were crossbowmen, the only two "farmers" in the team list.
Probably due to a life full of hardships, the skin of these two farmers is very rough and their ages are basically unrecognizable. It is possible to say that they are in their thirties, but they also look like they are in their fifties.
Li Ang was a little surprised: "Have you seen it?"
One of them nodded and pointed at the ruins beside Li Ang, saying in a very low voice: "Sir, this village... was once our hometown..."
"Sir... I still remember that more than ten years ago, the day before the village was robbed, the knights came to collect taxes... After we paid the taxes, we ran out of food, so we went into the mountains to hunt... Unexpectedly..."
The two farmers had red eyes and their bodies were shaking as they talked about the past. This is definitely not something that can be faked. Those who have such acting skills are basically either Oscar winners or presidential-level bosses.
Li Ang spat and cursed, "Whose territory was this village in the past? They collected taxes but didn't protect the village. They are such a piece of shit!"
We learned from two farmers that this village, which has become a wasteland, was once called 'Holden', which means gray settlement.
Moreover, it was where the Horton family started their business hundreds of years ago!
The Duke of Alma's surname actually came from a ruined wall that had been completely destroyed and overgrown with weeds.
These two farmers were the last villagers in Holden Village.
More than ten years ago, this place was looted by the Jatu army, and the two villagers were hunting in the nearby mountains at that time.
The Jatu people had temporarily camped nearby. They were lucky enough to escape because they discovered the Jatu camp and hid far away in the mountains.
The families of the two farmers have long been buried in the earth, but the deep hatred makes them remember everything about the Jatu people.
Leon felt that his luck seemed to have turned, and the goddess of order, Eunomia, was probably taking care of him.
Originally, he took in these two hooligans because he planned to use them in the future when growing crops in his territory.
After all, farming is a natural skill that all Chinese people always cherish.
A farmer is someone who is good at farming, and he can also be counted as two subjects - when the House of Nobles examines a territory, it requires a certain number of subjects and fields in the territory.
Moreover, you know, he distributed weapons to these two farmers.
However, after these two people received the light crossbows and infantry swords, they were still shown as "farmers" in the team list.
Therefore, Li Ang believed that these two people were probably very talented in agriculture, which led to their poor combat effectiveness - otherwise, if they were fully equipped, they should at least be upgraded to a "militia", right?
But unexpectedly, these two people showed their special value so quickly.
It was not until the two men took off their equipment, took off their hats and coats and began to work with the carpenters in sweat that Li Ang suddenly realized.
——After these two people took off the things they were wrapped in, they became "refugees" in the team list...
Well...the level of fake and substandard goods these days is beyond your imagination...
