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After chatting with Tanya for a few more words, George patted Tanya on the shoulder, said goodbye to her, and walked towards the castle area leading to the stables.

Because he didn't use the holy objects to dispel the fog in the past two days, he had a lot of things in his mind when he was "parading", and he didn't look at the city carefully. Today, George was in a good mood, and he couldn't help but take a good look at the city on the road.

Before, when George saw this castle, he had a sense of déjà vu. But he thought about all the castles he had seen, but none of them could match.

Now, he can know the reason for this déjà vu.

If the Black Pearl Castle reminds him of the huge and luxurious "Windsor Castle in England". The tall and magnificent Windy Castle reminds him of the "Eyrie" on the top of the mountain, then this is the very wide "Winter City".

"The north is the ice wall" George shook his head.

The Skyhawk Castle is built on the largest hill in the center of the Green Hills. Its architectural pattern is not as dense as that of the Black Pearl Manor, but very sparse - the money of the Black Pearl Manor was spent on the castle building, and the money of the Wind Song City was spent on the fortress, fortress and tower (each urn can actually be regarded as a small castle).

And the money of the Skyhawk City is probably mostly spent on the city wall - no wonder, it is located in the hills surrounded by plains. There is no danger to defend. The soil is not suitable for deep digging. If you want to defend the city, the castle must have all the internal organs.

The inner wall of the castle surrounds one-fifth of the entire city, which is actually a city area. There is a big difference between the inside of the castle and the outer city, and the residents here are more concentrated. The buildings in the castle are also mainly bluestone and granite. There are more than 20,000 residents in total - most of them are craftsmen and tenants, serfs, knights, and sergeants of the Duke of Skyhawk. And the blacksmith workshops and alchemy workshops of the Skyhawk family are mostly built in the inner walls of the castle.

Outside the castle, the residents are actually somewhat scattered. These houses are scattered on the hills, at the foot of the mountain, and even at the foot of the mountain. They are connected by several main streets. Because this place has a warm tropical marine climate, there is basically no great demand for heating in winter, so the residents' houses are also large, and the balconies on the second floor are open, and the balconies of many houses even occupy most of the second floor.

Outside the building is the residents' own garden, which looks like a classical villa.

In these gardens, many roses, tulips and other flowers and plants were planted in previous years to make perfumes for the residents themselves.

When merchants from other places come here to trade, these things and the fragrance they emit are the facades - the residents in the city who can live in the city instead of living in the farms outside the city bordering the farmland are mostly rich families, either with their own small workshops or running industries for some noble lords.

And most of the residents, no matter who they work for, can also undertake private work - musk must be related to the nobles. But other perfumes, they can make them themselves.

In summer, flowers bloom here and birds fly around the city. On many tall buildings in the Skyhawk Castle, you can see many Skyhawk nests.

At the easternmost end of the castle, there is even a small garden woodland surrounded by buildings and walls, and there is a small horse farm and a large stable in the woodland. Further east is outside the city. Going out of the door is the large horse farm outside the Skyhawk City, and further east is the "Skyhawk Hunting Forest".

When George is heading east now, he can see the endless hills and forests in the distance that extend all the way to the depths of the fog.

Such a large castle, I am afraid, cannot be built without several centuries, financial and human support, and the efforts of several generations. And such a family is the real noble in the south.

When passing by the military camp, George whistled at the dog-like Aji who was training the recruits under the overpass.

After hearing the boss's call, the little Aji flew up a few steps on the wall and followed the boss's ass.

"Boss, are you guys dating over?" Aji winked.

Looking at the five horses picked out by Aji, George reached out and stroked the most beautiful horse with silky hair, and couldn't let it go.

This horse has a shoulder height of 1.63 meters, a thin head and a high neck, slender limbs, thin skin and fine hair. It looks very handsome.

In the demonstration at the horse farm just now, it walked lightly, carrying the fat man Moss over obstacles, as if walking on flat ground!

This fierce horse was very irritable just now, but under George's secret call, it was already very obedient. When it saw George, it was like looking at its mother.

From its big eyes, George could see its very human emotions.

This war horse is very rare.

Last year, in order to fight the war, Old Sky Eagle not only pulled out most of the horses in the horse farm, but also collected all the horses in the hands of his people.

Now, a large part of them were lost in Luodunk, and after the fall of Bishui City, the transport team of the Sky Eagle was also "broken up" in the chaos of war - those laborers who had to serve in the war could no longer survive in the Sky Eagle. In the war, the control of the Sky Eagle over the transport team has been reduced to the extreme. So many laborers ran away with the money.

In fact, most of these horses and food were lost in the kingdom of Elda. Many of them were secretly looted by other lords in the kingdom, or simply "seized" to compensate for their losses - in order to build an army, the old Skyhawk borrowed a lot of money.

If the Skyhawk family had money now, they could pay off the debts owed to those lords. Horses, food, and people could all be returned. But with the current situation of the Skyhawk, I'm afraid there is no hope.

George didn't plan to count on those lords, he would slowly deal with Alfonso one by one later. As for now, he and Leighton had to "create something out of nothing" and get horses from the people of the Southern Wilderness.

And if this deal is negotiated, the horses of the Skyhawk in the future will not only gradually become abundant, but the quality of the horses will also far exceed the original situation!

It must be said that the horses brought by Moss made George feel extremely surprised. Although the horses that Aji picked out were carefully selected by Aji, the "low-quality horses" that Moss mentioned in the stables were also of the middle level in the Kingdom of Elda!

"Boss, Moss is not bragging (Moss: "Moss never brags!"). These horses are all good horses that are picked out by thousands of people!" Aji sighed and said, "However, I don't recommend that we purchase a large number of the one you like."

Hearing this, Leighton on the side nodded secretly - he also knows horses and loves horses. He knows that this is the best horse, but it is too expensive and not suitable for use here. It is also difficult to sell it.

Leighton already has an idea of ​​which horses to buy, but some things still need to be decided by the boss - he can't handle this big guy.

To be honest, Leighton was very surprised to be able to talk about this today. Before, these southern wilderness people had been very stubborn about many things and would not give in - only selling a few hundred horses. Now they are all loose, and their attitude has changed 180 degrees. Today, they actually took the initiative to talk to him.

Moss actually asked himself how many horses he needed today.

According to George's previous arrangement, Leighton increased the number of horses that Skyhawk originally planned to purchase by ten times - that is, 60,000. Some were war horses, and some were draft horses.

Things came to a standstill here.