Warlord: King of All Clans

After nearly three months of construction, except for the lord's castle, all other facilities in the Gravel Castle have been put into use.

Outside the southern city wall, large areas of cassava plantations were opened up, and relatively fertile and flat land was planted with crops such as flax and beans.

In the gravel hills to the north, large pastures have been opened up, where many cows and sheep are grazed. However, now that it is winter, the cows and sheep have been driven into the gravel fort and hidden in the leeward corrals.

The mountain pass where the Gravel Fort is located is low at both ends and high in the middle, and wide at both ends and narrow in the middle.

The northern city wall was built at the highest point in the middle of the mountain pass, less than half a kilometer long, so the entire Gravel Fortress was hidden behind the leeward slope in winter.

Only the soldiers standing guard on the north city wall had to endure a north wind that was even stronger than outside the mountain pass.

But the lords here gave too much, and even if the militiamen were frozen standing on the north city wall, they were unwilling to leave their posts and let the wages they deserved go to waste.

In Hewan Territory, the militia cooperated with the lord's army to stand guard and patrol, and they were even paid, which was outrageous.

A twelve-year-old child accompanied his older brother, a craftsman, to grind boulders on the north city wall for a whole day, and the kobold chief of Stonebreak Castle gave him ten copper coins.

Originally, opening up the wilderness was an extremely dangerous activity, not to mention that it was done in late autumn.

The refugees who followed had already been preparing for their own demise.

But once we reached the gravel hills, everything was so simple and smooth.

The laborers only needed to focus on construction, the refugees on reclaiming the wasteland, and the militiamen just had to sit back and wait for the cold wind. Not many people died, but they actually managed to gain a foothold.

Of course, everyone knows that all this is built on the massive material assistance from the River Bay Peninsula.

Large amounts of food, clothing, ironware, tools and armed protection are the basis for conquering the wilderness.

The team arrived at the south gate of Gravel Fort. Leo acted as a tour guide and pointed at the walls of Gravel Fort to introduce it to Rigolav.

"Godfather, this is the Stonebreak Castle."

"The entire Stonewall Fort has fifty regular infantry, fifty Basaka longbowmen, one hundred sword and shield militiamen, and one hundred militia crossbowmen. The remaining young and strong will also be regularly organized for city defense training."

"As long as there are no extraordinary people involved, these troops are enough to defend the city walls during the battle."

Rigolav, accompanied by him, dismounted and walked into the city gate. He observed the layout and defense facilities of the Gravel Fort, as well as the military appearance of the guards, and nodded: "Not bad."

Gravel Fort is currently managed by Vic and the little dog-headed man Nain, but Vic only likes to torture the soldiers under his command and does not like internal affairs.

So in fact, Nairn is in charge of handling most of the civil affairs. If he encounters a problem, he can only consult the other two dogs playing with cement, but he issues orders through Vicki's identity.

Fortunately, before the humans left, they had arranged all the important matters, and they basically only needed to act as supervisors.

Seeing Leo's team coming, the kobold internal affairs officer Nain clamped his tail tightly, hiding behind the guards and not daring to show up.

Because he was corrupt!

Vic went back to attend Leo's wedding. During the time he was away from Gravel Castle, Nairn embezzled a pound of taffy.

He is no longer a loyal dog!

Nairn didn't want this to happen, but the toffee sent by Hekou Town was so delicious.

But Vic didn't care about all this and just let them be piled up in the warehouse he was in charge of.

Secretly eat a bite in the morning, secretly eat a bite at night, and after a few days, the bag of toffee is gone!

Martin, the biggest refugee leader, withheld 160 silver solis from his subordinates' wages as a "reward".

Luke, the biggest craftsman, accepted 213 silver solis as "tuition" from the apprentice class.

And he, a humble dog-headed man, pocketed all the sesame-seed candy that cost twenty coppers and was sold for one silver coin!

Today, filled with guilt, he will confess his crimes to humanity, even if his legs are broken.

Olivia searched the crowd in the carriage and found her godson, little Nairn, whom she was worried about. When she saw him with his head down, his tail between his legs, and his face showing the fact that he had done something wrong, she immediately shouted coldly, "Nairn! Come here!"

When the dog-headed man Nain saw the human mistress in the carriage, he immediately stuck out his tongue and let go of his clamped tail and began to shake it.

There is help! Mom is here!

The kind human matron would not break his legs, but would only mentally whip his head.

But Nain, who often makes mistakes, has a very high resistance to Shadow. Every time he gets punished he screams miserably, but in fact it doesn't hurt at all!

Little Nairn climbed into the carriage happily.

A few minutes later, a dog fell off the carriage with a thud, and lay on the ground, sticking out its tongue, pretending to be dead in pain.

It turns out that it wasn't because I had high magic resistance, but because my mother didn't use enough strength.

Soon, the chief craftsman Luke and the chief refugee Martin were hung at the city gate for the people entering and leaving the Gravel Castle to see.

If they were not hanged within a day and were able to hand over their embezzled proceeds, they would still have a chance to stay in the River Bend Territory.

At the same time, Olivia also asked Seti to remember that it was time to pay the dogs' children.

Before this, apart from having food to eat, no one had thought of paying Gouzi a salary, so Nain had to rely on embezzlement if he wanted to get something for free.

Olivia feels that she still has a long way to go in becoming a mother.

Rigolav stood on the wall of the Stonewall Fort, suddenly pointed to the forest in the east, and asked Leo: "Do you know what is behind this forest?"

Leo looked at the endless eastern forest and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Is that the north of Isenbor? World Tree Avenue?"

Rigolav explained helplessly, "That is the Gladstone family knight territory, three pieces connected together."

Leo suddenly realized, then sneered, "I heard from Urian that one of the three knight territories of the Gladstone family was destroyed by the foreign coalition forces. Now they are living in poverty and can't even afford to support their soldiers."

"If he dares to cross this Hundred Miles Pine Plain and show up at Gravel Castle, I will make sure he never returns!"

Upon hearing this, Rigolav just nodded and said nothing.

Rigolav stayed in the Stone Castle for half a day and set off back in the afternoon. He told Leo not to see him off, but to stay with his new wife and take care of domestic affairs.

On the way back, Rigolav suddenly said to his son Roman, "Don't stay in the hot spring villa all the time. Go to the river bend more often, especially to see what Leo is doing."

Although Roman is upright, he has inherited Rigolav's seriousness and old-fashionedness, and he secretly repulses Leo, a street urchin.

Now we call each other brothers, but it’s just mutual respect, not yet to the point of heart-to-heart communication.

Rigolav seemed to be able to read his thoughts and said in a deep voice: "If you want to run a knight territory well, you still have a lot to learn. Even if you can't learn his way, you might as well take a look at what he has done, and then ask yourself if you can do it."

"Yes, father." Luo Meng could only lower his head and respond.

Rigolav rode for a while and suddenly sighed, "It's a pity that he lacks ambition and is good at defending the territory but not at expanding the territory. Otherwise, he would have been a great hero."

"Is a hundred miles a long way? I have five hundred men at Gravel Castle. The Gladstones won't survive more than three days."