In the days of rebirth as a lord

Mu Ziyu took the sword and looked at it, and immediately noticed the extraordinaryness of the sword.

First of all, the shape of this sword is different from the swords worn by knights today, it is slightly longer and narrower.The second is the material, which looks like metal but not entirely like metal, like some kind of stone but lighter.

Pull it out and take a closer look, the blade is shining with a sharp cold light.In order to demonstrate the sharpness of the blade, Cecil picked up a piece of paper and flicked it over the blade, and the paper broke in half in the blink of an eye.

This is more rare than hair blowing!

"Your Highness should keep such a sharp weapon for self-defense." Mu Ziyu put the sword back into the scabbard and handed it back to Cecil.

What man doesn't love a powerful weapon?Mu Ziyu also liked this sword, but he cared more about Cecil's safety.

Mu Ziyu's actions made Cecil no longer so lemony.He didn't mean to take back the sword, but said: "I'm not good at using a sword. This sword is too sharp and it's easy for me to accidentally injure myself. It's better for you to hold it to protect me, so that it can play its greatest role."

Mu Ziyu didn't know which sentence was touched by these words, so he took a deep look at Cecil and said, "Okay, Your Highness."

So far, Mu Ziyu no longer mentioned the matter of returning the sword.

The church is gone, and the Duke of Morton is still here.In order to prevent the Duke of Morton from finding out the current level of armed forces in Ott Village, Cecil specially ordered the patrol army to suspend training and do some basic construction such as road repairs and house building.

"His Royal Highness's army can defeat robbers, how can we arrange them to do the work that any slave can do?" Duke Morton asked.

Cecil said nonchalantly, "What about defeating the robbers? It's just a group of extremely hungry refugees who gathered and broke into the village to grab some food. When they saw the castle crowded, they turned around and fled in all directions. It's not worth mentioning." .”

After not inquiring about the army, the Duke of Morton proposed to check the growth of the crops in the field, and he naturally noticed the large cornfield planted by Cecil.

"What kind of crop is this? I don't seem to have seen it before." Duke Morton asked, pointing to the corn that had grown to half a person's height.

Cecil replied: "I bought it from a traveling merchant in the capital. It is said that the harvest of this piece of land can increase hundreds of times, so I planted all the places that can be planted."

Increase hundreds of times?

Duke Morton almost laughed out loud!

If it was to increase the production several times, Duke Morton would have to be vigilant, but the little prince opened his mouth hundreds of times, and Duke Morton immediately concluded that this fool was cheated by traveling merchants.

It might not be possible to harvest even a single grain during the harvest season.

"That's really good. Your Highness wants those serfs to take good care of these crops." Duke Morton said with a smile.

Cecil couldn't see what Duke Morton meant, and he didn't care.After all, he told the truth, but the other party didn't believe it, so don't blame him for developing too fast in the future.

Before Cecil's patience ran out, the Duke of Morton was finally ready to say goodbye, and before leaving, he invited Cecil to attend a banquet at the Duke's Castle in Sauter City in the last month of the harvest season.

It stands to reason that such a banquet should be held by the lord Cecil. Firstly, it is to stabilize the authority of the lord, and secondly, it is also convenient for other nobles in the territory to pay taxes.

Now the lord of Galiata State is Cecil, but this kind of banquet is still held in the Duke's Castle. The Duke of Morton even grandly invited Cecil to go, making Cecil want to turn a blind eye.Is this behavior a provocation or a provocation?

Cecil silently made another note to Duke Morton in his heart.

"Although this banquet should be arranged by Your Highness, but now your castle... other people don't want to cause trouble for His Highness. Since it was held in Sauter City in previous years, there is no need to change it this year and in the future. Otherwise, you will have to notify the other nobles one by one." The Duke of Morton said this, but his eyes were fixed on Cecil's reaction.

"Thank you Uncle Morton for the invitation, I will definitely go then." Cecil said happily, without any dissatisfaction.

It’s okay to hold the banquet in Sauter City in the future. Anyway, we can’t change the venue of the banquet, so let’s try to change the owner of the castle in Sauter City.

On the way back, the Duke of Morton suddenly spoke to the servant driving the carriage, "After we go back, the Duke Castle will have more soldiers."

"My lord, is there going to be a war?" The servant immediately asked worriedly.

After all, raising soldiers consumes a lot of money and food. If there is no need to increase the number of soldiers, it is not cost-effective unless there is a war.

"Maybe, our third prince has made me vigilant for a long time." Duke Morton said with a headache.

The prince who used to be as timid as a mouse has changed drastically in about half a year, making Duke Morton feel a faint threat.

Although the other party's land is full of unfamiliar crops that no one has ever seen—corn; although the slave soldiers are lazy, only guarding the gate and patrolling—in order to hide their strength; although the third prince is still very weak—if Not counting the words of Mu Ziyu who followed him closely.

However, the Duke of Morton just felt threatened.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the simple castle, the third prince would rather give up a luxurious and comfortable life and a decent aristocratic ostentation, and sell his personal finances to support the people in the territory. This alone is enough to make people dread up.

Of course, the Duke of Morton knew the importance of the population in the territory, but he couldn't do what Cecil did, even if he lowered his living standard, he had to feed the population in the territory.

I couldn't do it myself, but Cecil did it, which was why Duke Morton was afraid.

The production of ceramics is more difficult than Cecil expected. Even if Cecil exchanged the best kiln structure diagram from the system and built a kiln, it is not so easy to find craftsmen who make pottery embryos. of.

In addition, although high-quality clay that can be used to make porcelain has been found, due to the limitation of fuel, the kiln fire has never reached the temperature for firing porcelain, and at most it can only produce higher-quality pottery.

"The pottery is just pottery, control the output, we use the fired things ourselves." Cecil has no better solution.

Fortunately, pottery is not cheap nowadays, and it is still very popular as a reward for those in the territory.Some people in Jiazhong even took the grain to the pottery workshop to exchange for a pottery pot.After all, cooking in clay pots saves a lot of fuel than in stone pots.