Lord: Taken away from inheritance at the beginning.

The day after Feliton sent the ransom, Luo Ning set off and rushed back to Hillwood Town.

He brought a large number of people with him when he came, but when he returned he only took McCann with him.

Although it seems that there will be no new conflicts between Gray Earth Village and the Black Collar Tribe in the near future, if a war breaks out between Mountain Forest Town and Thain Territory in the future, there is a high probability that it will still be in this place.

Therefore, leaving the knights to live here and familiarize themselves with the environment in this area will be very beneficial to future actions.

In the past few days, although Ruidal said he was resting, he just did not use swords or force. He did not stop doing some daily tasks.

For example, discuss training plans with McCann, screen out unqualified militiamen, direct the construction of sentry towers and several scout camps at the border, form a team of knight hunters to raid the gray soil village and its surrounding mountains and forests, etc.

Luo Ning saw that the defense here was well organized by Redal, so he was naturally very relieved to hand over the front line of Huitu Village to Redal.

He couldn't help but remember that when he summoned the other party, he said that he was the commander of the Flame Expeditionary Army.

Now it seems that although Ruidal's memory is incomplete, his talent as a commander has gradually been revealed.

After returning to Hillwood Town, Luo Ning immediately found Political Officer Wilson and asked him to cooperate with McCann to select 64 soldiers who needed to form a complete knight squad.

After taking care of this matter, the only things he needed to focus on were iron smelting and kiln construction, and, yes, daily dog ​​training.

The black tiger grows very fast. In just over ten days, it has already grown to 30 centimeters in size. It really looks like a puppy.

Perhaps he was hanging out with some captured dogs in the past few days. Luo Ning snorted a few times, and the little guy ran over like other dogs, with his little tail wagging non-stop.

Sure enough, environment is really the best way to change a person, no, a dog.

However, Luo Ning also knew that raising a dog with a dog could only train obedience. After all, the black tiger was a magical beast and could not really be regarded as a dog. The targeted training was still needed.

Now Eileen has to prepare lessons every day and takes an hour in the evening to guide David, Bella and others in reading and writing. Luo Ning needs to take on some training tasks.

He planned to take the black tiger with him for a walk in Wushan when he was older and hunt some small animals.

The temperature gradually drops. After entering December, the temperature will be at most a few degrees during the day and will drop to zero degrees at night. According to usual experience, Shanlin Town will soon experience a snowfall.

In order to survive the winter safely, farmers have stopped cultivating wasteland and spent most of their time repairing their houses to withstand wind and snow, while storing enough firewood and wild vegetables for the winter.

In the past, this time would have been a tense season. The residents had to pay money, food, or labor to purchase the rights to cut down trees from the administrative officers. For them, they had to pay a certain price for each tree they obtained.

Some people don't have these three things and can only pick up some dry branches secretly.

But a little dry branches can't solve the problem, so in previous years, people froze to death due to the cold.

But things are different now. Luo Ning has opened up the policy of cutting down trees.

As long as it is within the scope he has designated, the residents do not need to pay any price for cutting down trees.

This is a great good thing for all the people in the territory.

As a result, those with young men at home basically spend the rest of their time in the mountains, except for spending the night at home.

Even if they use stones to chip away at them, they still have to get back one or two trees before dark.

Although it was hard work, they praised the lord's policy while working.

It's actually nothing more than a win-win situation.

Luo Ning used their enthusiasm to increase the speed of clearing roadblocks and speed up the opening of roads to the outside world and the three northern villages.

"Sir, as per your request, I have changed the open kiln into a sealed one."

On December 5th, potter Jim brought a happy event: the renovation of the kiln was completed.

Luo Ning clasped his hands and looked up and down, left and right, at the two-meter-high kiln room in front of him. Although it was only the first version, the appearance was somewhat similar to what he remembered.

Moreover, the independent kiln room, air duct, fire duct and other structures he required were all complete, but the construction materials were a bit inferior and no refractory bricks were made.

"Yes, now that we have the materials and space, we can try firing the first kiln."

In recent times, the steps of refining clay, trimming and drying the clay have been completed;

A large amount of feldspar needed to make the clear glaze has also been excavated. After cleaning and grinding, it has now become powder. It only needs to be made into a slurry before glazing.

Luo Ning was looking forward to it.

But obviously I can’t see the results today, it still needs to dry after the glaze is applied, and it still needs a few days to prepare.

The kilns here are almost ready, and the next key point is the blast furnace for ironmaking.

The construction of the newly built blacksmith shop is also in full swing. Luo Ning has produced simple drawings of its internal structure, and its construction is much more targeted than the kiln for firing porcelain.

However, compared with kilns, iron-making blast furnaces need to be combined with larger blowers, and the separation of molten iron and slag at the bottom also requires some design. The overall complexity is much higher.

Luo Ning took the opportunity to inspect the construction of the new blacksmith shop and found that the progress was quite satisfactory. He believed that there should be considerable gains by the beginning of next spring.

"grown ups!"

On the way back to the castle, Luo Ning met Wilson who was rushing back from Qingzhu Village. Behind him were three newly recruited cavalrymen who were able to ride horses.

"It's Wilson, how's the situation over there?" Luo Ning asked.

In the second half of November, Wilson took the village chiefs and team leaders of Shanlin Town to Qingzhu, Ziguo and Huitu Villages.

In Luo Ning's terms, it is called agricultural technology guidance. Wilson needs to lead people to teach Shanlin Town's existing planting plans to Selis and others, so that the planting technology of these three villages will gradually move closer to Shanlin Town.

"This time I went there mainly to check the winter preparations of these three places."

"Your kindness to the people in the territory has allowed them to have enough firewood and food in their homes, so there should be no problem in surviving the winter."

"I have also conveyed your order to the commander, Knight Horn and the village chief of Selis. No one in the territory will be allowed to freeze to death or starve to death due to the cold."

Luo Ning nodded. Wilson was indeed becoming more and more like a "chief executive", and his enthusiasm and initiative had been greatly improved.

He was just about to praise him when he suddenly felt a cold feeling on the tip of his nose, and discovered that snowflakes had begun to fly in the air at some point.

"Snowing!"

This was the first winter he had traveled through, the first snow he had seen.

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone, please come back to the castle with me."

At the same time, outside the Gray Earth Village.

Redal took Bablin, Tom and others to the border for a year-end contest with Joffrey, the former leader of the black-collar tribe.

Originally, Redal had no interest in this inexplicable battle, but the other party mocked, abused and provoked the sentries and scouts for several days.