Time flies, and although the world is chaotic, it is not every day that we have to fight and beware of hidden arrows coming from behind. Under the theme of chaos, there is also stability and feasting.

In the past half year, Karl has had a good time with the addiction of being a noble. In addition to inspecting the territory, his daily activities include drinking tea and wine in his manor, reading books, and enjoying the service of the servants. Of course, this

The service is very serious, Carl is not a casual person...

Of course, there are also casual places. Ever since what happened with Juliana, occasionally, Karl would be a little gentle with Juliana on lonely nights. After all, people all have desires, and Karl cannot be regarded as a saint.

Moreover, Juliana is also an absolute beauty in appearance, with every bulge and bulge she should have.

However, Karl did not want his housekeeper to be pregnant. Not to mention whether it would affect the operation and work of the territory, the child born in this way was an illegitimate child. An illegitimate child was very miserable, much worse than the second son. He

But if you don't plan to have such a child born, that would be irresponsible to your child.

Karl always lamented that the contraceptive measures here were so poor that they could only use very primitive things, such as animal intestines. Sometimes Karl really wanted to invent condoms, but unfortunately, he did not have such industrial level.

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But having said that, the issue of future generations is indeed very important. A nobleman always needs heirs to inherit his territory and wealth, especially a nobleman like Karl who is in danger. Who knows if any accidents will happen?

Once he dies, the family will be extinct.

But when others mentioned this matter, Carl would always say: "No hurry, no rush."

He is not in a hurry, but his entourage, Baron Diaz and Lady Elsa are quite anxious...

However, there were some disturbances in the relatively stable days of the past six months. As expected, this place is close to the territory of the Flor people, and it suffered four robberies in the past six months!

This is not a small number. He comes four times in half a year, on average once every more than a month. This is not a castle. It has incomparable walls and towers. He is not a count or a duke with strong power. This is just a castle.

It's a small manor, and he is just a knight, at best a knight with a wealth of wealth.

Fortunately, the four robberies were only small-scale, with only twenty or thirty people each time. Karl was easily repelled, and even captured a group of prisoners as labor force to make up for the casualties caused by the war.

But Karl couldn't be happy either, because he felt a little weird, and the harassment from the Flo people was becoming more and more frequent.

It stands to reason that knowing that he has a strong defensive force here, of course compared to those small raiding forces, those Florians should not come against the wall if they are not powerful enough, at least they should not come against the wall so frequently.

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But there was nothing he could do. He couldn't understand the language of the Flor people, so he couldn't get any information from their mouths, and he didn't have anyone under his command who could speak the Flor people's language.

In the end, he had to give up and enjoy his aristocratic life. During the period, he even held a banquet for Baron Dias and his family, Sir Nord and even Sir Alden. It was still very useful to promote the relationship between the families through the banquet.

important.

Sir Nord is very satisfied with Berg's current situation. He was very happy after the banquet. To be honest, Berg may be enjoying better treatment than him now. Of course, this only refers to material life. After all, Sir Nord needs to take care of that.

The small amount of money was used for the maintenance of his own equipment, and there was not much spare money, and Berg did not spend that much.

But Karl noticed a very strange thing, that is, Constantine didn't seem to be very willing to talk, and he would only say a few perfunctory words when Sir Alden occasionally chatted with him.

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"My lord, my lord, I succeeded! I succeeded!"

As soon as the genius dawned, Carl's manor rushed into his blacksmith. Allen's face was filled with excitement and a strange red color, as if his blood vessels were about to burst with hot blood at the next moment.

"Successful? Allen, what do you mean by success?" Carl frowned and asked seriously.

"The cold forging method you taught me! I successfully used this method to make a sword. This sword is harder than the previous one, and has enough toughness to not break easily. It perfectly meets your requirements.

This is a huge breakthrough!" Alan shouted.

"Really? God bless, that's really great, take me to see it quickly!" Karl showed a look of joy on his face. If it really succeeds, it would be of great significance.

"Sir, I brought the finished product here." Allen took out the long sword he was wearing and handed it to Karl.

Karl took it carefully, as if it was something fragile, for fear of breaking it.

The blade of the sword is very long, longer than his sword. The surface is polished so that it glows with cold light, making people shudder. The slight stripes make the sword look more beautiful.

"Wow!"

Karl suddenly drew his long sword and slashed into the air. The sound of breaking through the air was startling, making Karl's eyes even brighter.

"A good sword, really a good sword!" Karl couldn't help but admired.

"Kevin, come with me to the training ground and try this sword with me!" Karl planned to bring his military director. Kevin is a good swordsman. Only by playing with him can he learn more about the sword.

How exactly.

"Okay, my lord." Kevin was also very curious. Carl had spent a lot of effort for this sword, and the funds provided to Allen were not a small amount. Of course, he also knew that once there was a breakthrough in technology,

Then it will be simple to create later.

This time both sides of the battle were wearing armor, and Karl didn't want to get hurt by trying out the sword.

"Come on, sir, I'm ready." Kevin obviously planned to let Karl attack, and Karl didn't mind. Indeed, his swordsmanship was a bit weak.

"Ping Pong!"

The sound of the two swords clashing was clear and harsh, and both of them were forced to tremble by the force.

"What a strong shock!" Kevin was a little shocked. This kind of sword gave him a completely different feeling.

The look in Karl's eyes kept flashing. The degree of completion of this sword was far beyond his imagination. Even if there were still some flaws, they were not harmful.

After trying it a few more times, Carl was completely satisfied with this sword.

"Alan, how long does it take you to make this kind of sword?"

Allen knew what Karl had in mind. He wanted to arm his army, so he thought about it and said: "If it were to be of the same level as this sword, it would take me about ten days to build one. If the requirements were lower, maybe seven.

Eight days is fine.”

"Does it take so long..." Karl muttered, "Ten days for a handful? God, I'm afraid it will take several years to arm an army of more than a hundred people."

"This is mainly due to my lack of manpower..."

Karl suddenly realized that, having said that, since arriving here, there have been few people at Allen's place. In addition, Allen himself only has two blacksmiths there, and the other one is still very low-level and is now working as Allen's assistant.

Guy.

"Okay Alan, you are looking for apprentices in my territory. Find as many apprentices as you need and let them help you. I will provide the funds. In short, we must build enough weapons as soon as possible." Karl said solemnly.

"Okay, my lord." Allen knew that Karl was very anxious about this, so he agreed directly.

"Now that we have weapons... we still need enough armor..." Looking at Allen's retreating back, Karl murmured, armor is much more important than weapons, as can be seen from the fact that in ancient China, knives were not allowed but armor was tight.

But he knows that this is difficult. The cost of armor is much higher than that of swords, and it is simply not something he can afford now.

"Go back and find Berg." Karl seemed to have thought of something and ordered.

It didn't take long for Berg to arrive in a hurry.

"Berg, how is your contact with the Chamber of Commerce in Havel Town?" Karl asked Berg to contact the Chamber of Commerce in Havel Town not long after he arrived here. He hoped to open up business in his territory.

trading.

If we continue to close off our territory and only develop agricultural self-sufficiency as before, we may never develop.

"Sir Karl, I have already talked with the chamber of commerce there, and they are willing to allow caravans to come to us for trade."

"Yeah, that's really great." Karl nodded. The coming and going of caravans can always bring huge benefits. Countless merchants have formed a huge network under the organization of the Chamber of Commerce.

"But Lord Carl, there is one thing we must consider." Berg's voice was a little worried.

"What?"

"Commodity, Master Karl, what should we trade with? There are no specialties in our territory. Even if we want to sell it, we can only sell some agricultural products. But we also need to use those things. Even if we have some leftover, we won't be able to sell much."

Berg sighed.

"Ha, maybe we didn't have it before today, but after today we will have a special product." Karl chuckled.

"You mean?"

"Sword, maybe you don't know that Allen has successfully created a new sword. That sword is much better than most of the swords used now. I believe other nobles and those businessmen who are too profitless to start early will

I'm very interested in this." Karl said decisively.

"Sword? Mr. Karl, but our output is extremely low, don't you still want to arm our army?" Kevin on the side asked doubtfully.

"We don't need to give too much at once. We can give a small amount first and let the merchants take our swords to walk their trade routes. This will take a long time and is enough for us to arm our army.

"Karl explained.

"That's it." Kevin nodded.

"Since your Excellency has already prepared, I will go to the people from the Chamber of Commerce to discuss the specific matters." Berg said no more. What he sold had nothing to do with him.


Chapter completed!