Chapter 6 Legolas(1/3)
In this flash, another half a month.
In the past half month, there has been a lot of news that has been spread to Yang Zheng.
First, Ramonster led a Royal Guard of 2,000 people to wipe out the thief thief 300 miles east of Thorotun. The thief was famous and famous for being elusive. It has existed for more than ten years, but it was destroyed in the past, and Ramonster's reputation rose sharply.
Second, stirrups began to become popular on a large scale. All the knights of Weirong Kingdom were equipped with stirrups, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the knights. Moreover, this thing was easy to imitate, and Cangyue and Liuyun also took action. Yang Zheng, as the inventor, was later awarded the title of "Father of Cavalry".
Third, Yang Zheng’s aristocratic territory was finally approved.
According to the law, as a hereditary Count, Yang Zheng was able to obtain a county area.
But when the fief came down, Yang Zheng was surprised that his territory was actually a county, which was a fief that only nobles above the marquis could obtain.
Wigolan County, located in the Juma Province in the southern part of Weirong, is an inland county with an area of 8,847 square kilometers.
This is the only information that Yang Zheng found in the territorial seal book.
After the territory was granted a letter of seal, Yang Zheng had to rush to Wigolan County within half a month. Because Yang Zheng had not received his appointment letter in the military headquarters until now, Yang Zheng's current identity is only a lord. The Golden Snake Talisman had long been taken back, and the control of the Eastern Front was no longer in Yang Zheng's hands.
For a month and a half, Yang Zheng tried to guess what the upper class meant.
He also asked Rachel many times, but the answers he gave him were all vague.
In other words, the troops he can control now can only be his own personal soldiers and ranks one thousand. This is because his territory is relatively large and calculated according to the Marquis's organization.
There is no control over the organization above, so Yang Zheng can choose from the army at will.
When the news came back to the Eastern Front, all the soldiers of the Demon God Camp started.
They all demanded to leave their military status and join Yang Zheng's personal military organization.
After the storm, Gui Zang had no choice but to ask Yang Zheng to come forward to suppress it. Finally, he drew five hundred more people from the Eastern Front Demon God Camp and formed Yang Zheng's personal guards with the former Five Hundred Demon God Camp soldiers who were originally staying near Soroton.
Guizang equipped all of these thousand people with the best swords, horses, helmets, and bows.
All a thousand people gathered in Demark.
Just wait for Yang Zheng to prepare everything before heading to Wigolan County.
It has been half a month, and the rain has not stopped much, and it continues to be like plum rain in the Jiangnan season on the earth.
The backyard of the palace.
Yang Zheng held a wooden sword in his hand and shouted at a little boy standing opposite him: "Stand up."
The little boy had blonde hair, extremely white skin, handsome and cute appearance, and could vaguely see some of Rachel's shadow, but he was lying on the ground now, his face was red, and he was breathing heavily.
A pair of light blue eyes looked at Yang Zheng with grievance and fear, looking extremely pitiful.
Yang Zheng frowned: "Why not hurry up."
The little boy almost cried, his lips grinned, and finally he held back. He knew that the big teacher in front of him was not like the teachers he used to be. They could not help him when he cried. Over the past month, he had been tragically punished.
After finally getting up, he let out a sharp "ah"!
Then he limped towards Yang Zheng, and the wooden sword waved repeatedly, but he was also very scheming, but he might be too tired, and the trajectory of the sword was very false.
After Yang Zheng blocked it casually for a few times, the wooden sword fell on the little boy's butt again.
There was a "pop".
The little boy rushed to the ground. This time, he couldn't help it and cried out loud.
"Anzai!"
Rachel's heartache voice came, she trotted over and helped the crying little boy up, first checked whether he had fallen or not, and then glared at Yang Zheng fiercely.
"A loving mother defeats her son..." Yang Zheng muttered.
"What did you say?" Rachel yelled.
Yang Zheng completely ignored her "killing eyes", casually tied the sword flower, and said calmly: "Don't worry, I'm very responsible in my actions. As a child, I will grow bigger after falling."
Hearing his "self-righteous" remarks, Rachel scolded: "How old are you? You are like an old man."
In fact, Yang Zheng is already quite old. He was already twenty-six years old before he fell into another world. In short, he has been in this world for more than three years and is almost thirty years old, but his body has not changed much after being transformed by Barbie.
He curled his lips: "Anzai, will you go and fight crickets?"
"Ah, OK, OK." Sidi An, who was crying just now, immediately broke out from his mother's arms and ran to Yang Zheng to hold his hand: "Teacher, is the "Fire Dragon King" you caught last time still there? I caught a "green-horned crab" the day before yesterday, and I will definitely bite the Fire Dragon King to death..."
Seeing Rachel with a dull face, Yang Zheng spread his hands, and his eyes were so clear: Look, your son has nothing to do.
Ask a maid to accompany Anzai to squat in the corner to fiddle with crickets.
Yang Zheng walked slowly to the pavilion.
Seeing Rachel turning her head away, Yang Zheng smiled and said, "I'm still angry."
The queen is sometimes terrifyingly smart, but sometimes she is so angry that she is very angry.
"An Zai usually listens to me very much. When you come, he will be naughty. I would have known that I would not let you be his teacher."
Yang Zheng didn't care about it, but looked at the drizzle outside and told a story: "I used to catch a canary, and its screams were very beautiful and lively. So I liked her very much, catching the best bugs for her and making the best and most comfortable cage. But gradually, the canary became fatter and could not scream anymore. She always lazily lay in the cage without moving. Later, because I was going to move and there was no birds there, I opened the cage and put the canary out... Unexpectedly, three days later, I watched a cat walking past me with her in her mouth..."
Rachel's face turned pale.
"Don't say something that's so terrible."
"Do you think Anzai looks like a canary locked in the big cage of the royal palace?"
Ah! Rachel's face was terrible white, and she trembled all over: "Stop talking."
"Geeh..." An Zai's happy laughter came from the distance: "Win, Green-horned crab win..."
Yang Zheng smiled and said, "He is much happier than before, isn't he?"
The queen looked unstable, but finally breathed a sigh of relief: "You are always able to say so many fallacies, but it is impossible to believe it. Don't use An Zai as an analogy in the future?"
"The lower official obeys the order."
Yang Zheng bowed solemnly, and Rachel gave him a blank look: "Yes, yes, yes, there are no outsiders, who can you show off this way? I know that you are a polite person, but in fact no one looks down on you in your bones."
"Sit down first, I have something to tell you."
After Yang Zheng sat down, Rachel's face was already a little solemn. She turned on a parchment book on the table and saw a map of mountains and rivers.
"A Zheng, take a look."
She pushed the parchment book to Yang Zheng, and saw a few small words written on the top of the book, Weigulan County, Giant Horse Province.
"The map of Wigouran County," Yang Zheng exclaimed. It looked carefully. The terrain of Wigouran County was relatively low. The entire county was basically plain. A huge river originated from Loch Ness, Tamarg County above Wigouran County, and crossed the entire county. Other small rivers made up for the county like spider webs.
"There are so many rivers." Yang Zheng frowned slightly and looked on.
Except for Wigolan and Macon counties, the main cities in the county are all small towns. Then he saw the appendix and the Wigolan era population table.
A problem was immediately discovered, and there was a sudden population decline every three years in Wigolan County.
This year is another third year since the last sudden population decline.
"Your Majesty, what's going on? Why does the population keep suddenly declining? The population has increased a lot the next year."
Rachel looked at the continuous rain outside, with a faint sadness in her eyes, and said two words: "Flood."
Yang Zheng was shocked.
No wonder he has been in a state of uneasiness these days, and he can't figure out why the upper class gave him such a large territory. Unexpectedly, his ominous premonition was verified.
Flood and beast.
It has been one of the most terrifying disasters for mankind since ancient times, not to mention the Blue Wind Continent where civilization is so backward.
Just look at the entire terrain of Wigolan County is dozens of meters lower than the nearby counties, and the rivers in the entire county are crisscrossed, just like Heze Country.
Rachel continued: "The Weirong Kingdom has a continuous heavy rainfall every three years, and the south is even more prosperous. In the past few days, it is probably raining heavily and the water level has risen sharply. Therefore, every three years, the population of Vigolan County will migrate to nearby counties and provinces in large numbers, but this is also the most difficult time to reconcile. When the flood comes, the unique "water thieves" in Vigolan will come out."
"Water thief?"
"Well, it's just water thieves. They usually hide in the crowd and work and live like normal people. But when the flood comes, the whole people will migrate, and they will turn people into thieves and rob them everywhere. At that time, the entire Wigolan County was in chaos."
After one wave has not yet settled, another wave has emerged. The bad nature of human beings is actually more terrifying than nature.
Yang Zheng stared at the sheepskin map, but he didn't know what to miss.
"I didn't expect the parliament to grant you such a territory. When I want to stop it, the letter of seal has been issued." Rachel said a little apologetically.
"It's not your business," Yang Zheng said calmly: "I was the one who suddenly appeared and got close to you again. It's normal for them to be alert. Besides, Raymonster's power is not as weak as we imagined. I always feel that he is a bit abnormal in the kingdom."
"Well, now, I can only deal with the situation. In fact, if it weren't for the flood every three years, Wigolan County would be a good place. Its iron ore veins were the highest in the entire Weirong Kingdom. Otherwise, the flood would not have receded, and so many people would have rushed back immediately."
Yang Zheng felt aroused and asked, "Can those iron ores be used casually for the lord?"
"How is it possible? Iron ore is the foundation of the country. Weapons and armors depend on this thing. How can the country give it to the lord? However, it is not without benefits to be a lord. All the mining rights of those iron ore are in the hands of the lord. You only need to hand over a certain amount of iron into the lord every year. Moreover, when you package the iron ore to the merchants below, the lord can draw 40% from the iron ore tax. Don't underestimate this 40%. The iron ore tax is very heavy, and 40% is already a large amount. There is also the profit of iron ore trading, and the lord can also draw 20%.
Yang Zheng was surprised. Iron was super expensive in this era, and it was a completely super profitable industry. With such a large mine vein, just a tax draw is astronomical, and it can even make profits.
"Don't be too happy too early. Wigolan County is indeed very rich, but it must have a life to spend. The flood once every three years is enough to empty your inner treasury. You don't know that Wigolan's money to control the flood does not have a single treasury to allocate silver. All the lords have to pay for it themselves. Moreover, all the first two lords were killed by the water thieves."
A basin of cold water made Yang Zheng lose all his enthusiasm.
At this moment, the tree was already in its fortunate situations, and Yang Zheng no longer thought about those annoying issues, so he could only talk about it when he arrived at the territory.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Rachel also looked at the gloomy sky with some melancholy.
To be continued...