After scolding Rupert, the thin, wrinkled old man pushed him away and walked to Clement and bowed.
"Dear Lord, please forgive Rupert for his rudeness!"
Seeing this, Clemont quickly helped the old man up.
"You must be Grandpa Barr! Please get up quickly!"
After hearing Baal's words, everyone around them looked at each other, and then looked at the lord indifferently.
"Hey" Clemont sighed inwardly. He had expected this situation on the way here, but he still felt a little uncomfortable after seeing it.
"I know that everyone has resentment in their hearts, but now that I'm here, I will definitely lead everyone out of the current predicament. I just hope that everyone can believe in me! Even if I bet on my name, Clement Thacker!"
Looking at the clear eyes of the lord in front of them, the indifference in everyone's eyes seemed to have faded a little.
After that, Clemont looked at everyone and said again:
"On the way here, I..."
After telling everyone about the encounter with the monsters in the future, Barry, who was behind Barr, also stood up and said: "Yes, I also discovered the strange movements of the beasts when I was hunting, which was very similar to the previous beast tide, so I rushed back overnight to report the news.
, I met the lord on the way back."
"That should be correct. Those monsters that Lord Lord encountered should be the vanguard of this beast king! But if the second-level monsters can be used as the vanguard, this beast wave should be quite big. We need to prepare in advance.
,Barry you..."
At this point, the old Barr suddenly stopped, then looked at Clemont awkwardly and said: "Let the Lord decide on this matter!"
At this moment, Clemont didn't want to and couldn't refuse. If he wanted to convince the people of the territory in the future, he had to perform convincing feats.
So he asked in a deep voice: "Grandpa Barr, I need to know the current situation in the territory!"
“We have 168 households in Claremont Territory, 88 of which live in Claremont City, and the other 80 households are distributed in Carlo Village and Dean Village.
The total population is 472 people, including 268 young adults..."
Listening to the data from Barr's mouth, Clemont's face gradually became serious.
The population is too small. Although there are 268 young and middle-aged people, many of them are more or less disabled, which means that there are only 200 people available.
This level of people is far from enough whether it is to deal with the coming beast tide or the future development of the territory.
What's more serious is that there is no profitable industry in the territory, and even the crops grown can only keep the people in the territory fed and clothed.
Forget it, let’s get through the difficulties before us first. After thinking of this, Clemont raised his head and asked:
"Grandpa Barr, how many weapons do we have in our territory now?"
Barr thought for a while, and then replied bitterly: "When the lord was here, he left more than two hundred weapons, but they have been used up in the past ten years, and now there are only about twenty in the warehouse!"
Upon hearing this number, Clemont's head got bigger.
This is simply a heaven-collapsing start! If you want people, no one wants weapons, no weapons, no money, no money, how can you play this?
After frowning and thinking for a moment, Clemont suddenly raised his head and asked:
"Grandpa Barr, is there a blacksmith in our city?"
"Yes, Rupert is the only blacksmith in the city!"
Barr pulled Rupert behind him forward and pointed.
"Rupert, how many people work in your blacksmith workshop and what is its production capacity?"
After hearing the lord's question, Rupert thought for a while, and then said: "Back to the lord, the workshop currently has two apprentices and me. If it has the production capacity, it can produce about forty or fifty hoes a day!"
"Well, let's see how much of this kind of thing you can produce in a day?" After pulling out a piece of charred wood from the fire nearby, Clemont began to draw on the ground.
After a while, a round object with spikes all over its body appeared on the ground.
"Of course, you don't have to make it so round when you make it, but the spikes on it must be sharp!"
After dropping the charred wood in his hand, Clemont added.
Rupert looked at the drawings on the ground carefully. After a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he asked with some excitement: "Good thing, really good thing! Lord, what is the name of this thing? If we build more of these things, then
The beast tide is not that scary!"
Hearing Rupert's compliment, Clemont shook his head.
"This thing is called Iron Tribulus, but it doesn't have that great effect. Its function is just to slow down the beast tide. The real killing move is something else."
Yes, this thing is something that Clemont saw in a book in his previous life. It is specially used to deal with cavalry, but it is also effective against beasts.
"The beast tide will arrive in about two days. During this period, you can build as many as you can!"
"Don't worry, Lord. It's not difficult to make this thing. As long as I have enough materials, I can make a lot of it in two days."
"There are still some useless iron tools and previously damaged weapons in the warehouse. You can take them all!"
Seeing Rupert looking at him, Barr waved his hand generously.
"Well, time is urgent, you can start tonight!" After arranging this matter, Clemont said to the others: "Everyone, go back and rest now! Meet here tomorrow morning, everyone who is able to move at home
Call me, I’ll treat everyone to eat World of Warcraft meat tomorrow!”
After seeing everyone off, Clemont followed Barr to Barr's home.
"Lord, I have sent people to clean up your castle, so I am asking you to stay at my house for one night!"
"It's okay, Grandpa Barr, I don't care where you live!" Clemont waved his hand.
Not long after the three of them sat down, a woman with a yellow face and tattered robes walked in and placed a plate of dark strips of food on the table.
"Lord, you have been traveling for such a long time and you must be hungry. If you don't mind, eat some!"
Clemont was indeed hungry, so he picked up a piece of black bread and took a hard bite, but the next moment, he felt a sharp pain at the root of his teeth.
Looking at Clemont's red face, Ferdinand on the side smiled, then picked up a piece of black bread, broke it off from the middle, broke off a small piece with his hand and put it in his mouth, waiting for it to be wet with saliva.
Started chewing.
Perhaps understanding the lord's embarrassment, Barr immediately asked his grandson Barry to bring two bowls of boiled water and placed them in front of the two of them.
After finishing the piece of black bread with boiled water, Clemont asked: "Grandpa Barr, do you always eat this kind of food?"
Upon hearing Clemont's inquiry, Barr sighed.
"Yes! Since there was no lord here, our life has plummeted. Without the protection of the lord, we have to guard against the frequent beast tides. On the other hand, we have to be oppressed by the nobles of other territories. We can harvest only a handful of food in a year.
But it’s pretty good to have black bread to eat!”
Hearing Barr's words, Clemont felt a little uncomfortable. In the final analysis, the current situation of these people was related to him, because this territory belonged to him when his body was born.
"Lord, you don't have to blame yourself, it's our blessing that you didn't abandon us!"