MTL - Age of Empires From Scratch-Chapter 176 The dark and raging northern plains

  Chapter 176 The northern plain with dark tide

  Eva didn't mind, she wished she could get more work for herself.

  But David knew in his heart that as Cold Winter Town grew bigger and bigger, Eva, as his assistant officer, would have to deal with more and more intelligence information. I am afraid that he would not have the extra energy to deal with trivial matters.

   "Until then, let Elias work part-time!"

  Anyway, Elias Parker, the etiquette officer, is currently working as a housekeeper and servant. With the increase in population, after recruiting some servants, Elias only needs to work as a housekeeper part-time.

  Compared with it, it is more difficult to find a qualified chef, and it may be necessary to choose a suitable target from other worlds.

  This goal has to be that you have no worries in the original world, are willing to settle in Cold Winter Town, and have no ambitions yourself.

  After thinking for a while, David realized that it is very difficult to find the right person, and maybe he can only follow the fate.

   "Or, let Jonah help train some cooks."

   "Do you want Jonah to start cooking school?"

   "That's pretty good." The school is called New East, and let Van Cleef develop some intelligence personnel from it, maybe it can become the main source of intelligence for the Winter Empire?

  However, before cultivating professional intelligence personnel, Cold Winter Town can only rely on the simplest and most direct way to obtain surrounding intelligence information: to go around and patrol.

  As time passed and autumn approached, an ominous atmosphere began to pervade the northern plains.

  Many villages are filled with low air pressure, and various conflicts have accumulated to a certain extent, so there is a lack of a trigger to detonate these troubles.

The way David learned about this information, apart from soldiers and Arcee’s daily inspections, more and more people who wanted to invade the border of Cold Winter Town were found, that is, people from other villages began to come to Cold Winter Town up.

  Some mature farmers who were a little older and had accumulated some experience realized that something was wrong after seeing the harvest getting worse and worse and estimating the approximate harvest yield of the crops.

  Many people began to flee: most of them chose to escape from the northern plains, and only a small part, that is, farmers who were too far away from Iron Tree Fort and closer to Cold Winter Town, came to David with the idea of ​​trying their luck.

  Although in the eyes of these farmers, the northern plains are not as good as advertised, but since Cold Winter Town has existed here for more than three years, there should be a relatively stable way to obtain food, right?

  They don't know whether their guess is correct, but they can be sure that if they stay in the original village, they will definitely not be able to survive this winter.

  After some farmers fled from other villages to Cold Winter Town, David and Arcee increased the detection distance and flew to farther places several times.

  Although the scene of the conflict was not directly seen, some villages have obvious signs of being attacked.

   Among them, Iron Water Village, located in the south of Lindong Town, is the most serious.

  Iron Water Village is a village named after the river that flows out of the Iron Tree Forest. This village is located in the south of Rinwinter Town, some distance away from the pioneer camp that was destroyed by the elves.

  The village head of Ammantis, who established the village, felt that if he kept a sufficient distance from the iron tree forest, he would not attract the attacks of the elves.

  The facts gave the village chief a big blow.

  The elves in Iron Tree Forest built a temporary camp directly on the site of the original pioneer camp, facing Iron Water Village far away.

   Throughout the year, conflicts broke out between the two sides from time to time. With the help of several noble forces, Iron Water Village was established.

  Amamantis, the village head of Tieshui Village, was relieved at first, and just waited for the farmland to be reclaimed. With stable crops, Tieshui Village slowly grew.

  As for the cold winter town in the north? Let that lucky Baron of Glamorgan be proud of himself for a while!

   Unexpectedly, although the farmland has been reclaimed, and the first round of planting has also successfully harvested potatoes, the output seems to be not as much as it was originally advertised?

  That doesn't matter, and it's not surprising that it is exaggerated during publicity.

   Besides, didn't it be said long ago that the land in the northern plains is barren? Low yields are also acceptable. At least the planting cycle of this new crop is indeed very short. Based on this time, at least three rounds of harvests can be harvested a year.

   But when the second round of planting harvested fewer potatoes, Amamantis began to realize that something was wrong.

  At this time, the old farmers who followed him to open up wasteland and build a new village had speculated that the third round of planting harvest would be even worse.

   "Didn't it mean that this kind of crop is very productive? Didn't that **** Baron Glamorgan become a nobleman because of this thing, and he also has the town of Cold Winter as his territory?"

  Amamantis couldn't understand, they were also potatoes, how did that David Glamorgan get enough food steadily?

   "This... my lord, could it be because there are very few people in Winter Town?"

  Actually, the nobles of Iron Tree Castle are not clear about the specific situation of Cold Winter Town, and their information is still based on the information brought back by Maloney Mansfield.

  In that document, the population of Cold Winter Town is quite sparse, with only a few residents.

   As for how David got the establishment of Cold Winter Town from the capital, the people in Iron Tree Castle are not very clear;

  However, they speculated that Baron David Glamorgan, who had obtained the establishment of Cold Winter Town, should have recruited the population to increase the population in the territory.

   But the exact number is not known to everyone, it is only based on estimates, and the number should not be too much.

  In addition to this whole year, the surrounding villages and towns tacitly intercepted the civilians who wanted to go to Rinwinter Town. They felt that the population of Rinwinter Town must be very small.

   There is not enough population. Even if Lindong Town is called a town, everyone doesn't take it seriously. In the eyes of these people, it is still a small remote village.

   "If there are not many people... Do you think we can get enough food from the Baron of Glamorgan?"

   "This... Cold Winter Town is the territory of His Majesty the King."

   "Of course I know, so we are going to borrow some food from the respected Lord Baron Glamorgan to get through the current predicament."

  Although Amamandis said "borrow", everyone around him understood what he meant.

  While the village head of Ammantis was researching how to borrow food and other supplies friendly from Baron Glamorgan, the farmers in his village were also having a headache on how to survive this winter.

  The local farmers from Iron Tree Castle, for those farmers who came from afar and wanted to go to Lindong Town, but were trapped in Iron Water Village, they popularized how harsh and cold winter is on the northern plains.

   And their current food reserves are definitely not enough for them to support the long winter.

  These out-of-town farmers began to regret their original choices when they knew the problems they were about to face. In any case, they never imagined that the farmland they had traversed mountains and rivers and worked so hard to obtain would not only make them unable to live a good life, but would even put a question mark on whether they could survive.

   "If this place is really that bad? How was that Winter Town established?"

   "Who knows? Maybe, as the village head said, His Majesty the King actually gave the baron enough supplies."

   "Why did His Majesty the King do this?"

   "Perhaps the Lord Baron of Glamorgan is actually... His Majesty's illegitimate son."

   "You don't want to die? You actually arranged for His Majesty the Kingdom?"

   "What are you afraid of? I don't live in Winter Town under the rule of His Majesty the King or the Lord Baron."

  The topic of discussion gradually shifted from survival to gossip, but there are also some clear-headed people who are thinking about their own way of life.

   "Then, there should be enough food in Winter Town..."

   "It should be!" The speaker looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he whispered his plan: "If the situation in winter is not right, I will go to Cold Winter Town."

   "What's the use of running over in winter? Could it be that the Lord Baron of Glamorgan will show kindness and give you food and shelter to help you survive the winter?"

"I met two friends on the way here before. They didn't stop in any villages, but insisted on going to Cold Winter Town... If the winter can't survive, I will go to them." Speaking of this, the man sighed helplessly He breathed a sigh of relief: "The big deal is to be a contract farmer for them, let's talk about it first!"

   "..."

Although they spoke in a low voice, the people around heard it more or less. Some of these people also knew the farmers who knew those two people. They all regretted their decision in their hearts. It would have been nice if they had firmly headed to Cold Winter Town. .

  Some regret it, and naturally some don't regret it. They feel that even if they go to Cold Winter Town, their situation will not be much better than it is now.

   They are all on the northern plains, they are all in this barren land, and they all grow potatoes. I am afraid that everyone's situation is similar!

  Similar conversations and ideas didn’t just happen in Iron Water Village, but in almost all villages and towns on the northern plains.

  Even in Frost and Cold Town, some people had similar thoughts at this time: If you can’t make it through, can you go to Cold Winter Town?

  As Sean Forrester, who has had real contact with Cold Winter Town, he also began to think seriously: Do you want to "borrow" some food from Baron Glamorgan?

  However, he was still apprehensive about attacking His Majesty's territory in the end, and decided to attack the southeast village first.

   "Get rid of this group of idiots who don't know how to measure first! They dare to run wild in front of our Forrester's house, they don't know what to do!"

  Frost Cold Town's road to the west is blocked by Lin Dong Town. To the north is a worse and harsher area. Frost Cold Town can only develop in two directions to the southeast.

   As a result, a village blocked the only direction of development, which made Sean Forest extremely annoyed, and prepared to let these idiots get out of the northern plain.

   When the entire northern plain was undercurrent and various conflicts would break out at any time, David and Laura visited the completed Glamorgan Castle and discussed what kind of furniture each room should be equipped with.

  (end of this chapter)