Chapter 13 Conspiracy
The stars twinkled in the endless night, a crescent moon rose from the east, and the owl flew silently in the night sky.
Two people stood on an arrow tower in the castle, looking at Frederick in the training ground with interest.
Frederick was practicing the footwork he learned this morning. Although his movements were slow but very standard, there were ten small elemental balls spinning around his head.
In other positions on the training ground, Jurgen and other young people who have also received the teachings of Richard Nall are also practicing sweating profusely.
Richard Nall sighed: "With such young people, the future of the Wesson family is limitless."
He did not arrange for anyone to train by themselves during the day and at night, just to see what the young people's temperament was like.
No one is lazy these nights.
“Let’s just live on.” Psyche said, holding a lollipop in her mouth. “The main reason why you can reach the height of a sword master is that you can live long enough to become a sword master.”
< br>Richard Nall smiled bitterly. It was true. More than half of the young people in the training ground were as qualified as themselves when they were the same age. When he was young, there was no shortage of geniuses in the world.
War, World of Warcraft, conspiracy, arrogance, being unable to bear the setbacks and giving up... Too many talented people fail on their way to the top.
Psyche then said: "I plan to let Frederick inherit my inheritance."
It was Richard Nall who had seen countless storms and waves, and was also moved by this short sentence. The words frightened him, and he asked in disbelief: "Could it be that you..."
When he met Psyche, he was not much older than Frederick. At that time, his master called Psyche "sister" , now I have reached the point where I am upset that my daughter is not married yet because of her age. One can imagine how old Psyche is.
"I am leaving this world." Psyche said calmly.
There was a sad expression on Richard Nall's face, and tears were about to come out.
The legend of Psyche has been circulating in a certain level of circles. When your strength reaches a bottleneck and it is difficult to break through, she will appear to give you guidance. Richard Nall is one of the beneficiaries.
"How long...how long?" Richard Nall asked.
"Three to five hundred years." Psyche replied calmly.
Richard Nall's expression changed several times, and finally said: "I can't send you off."
The stronger the person, the longer he lives. People like Richard Nall can live to be 150 or 60 years old without any problem.
After three to five hundred years, whether the grave will still be there or not is not a question.
Richard Nall suddenly said to Psyche very solemnly: "I have a request. Please fight me with all your strength when I am a hundred years old."
They People in this circle knew that Psyche was very strong, but they didn't know how strong she was. No one had ever seen her use her full strength.
Psyche replied calmly: "Let me know when the time comes."
At the same time, in Cologne, the capital of the Rhine League, a conversation related to the Wesson family was taking place in the most distinguished box of a theater.
King William of the Rhine League is in his fifties this year. After the failure of the war with the Kingdom of Gaul last year, he suddenly aged by more than ten years. He was lying feebly on the deck chair. The opera on the stage could no longer attract people. A sliver of his attention.
Beside him, Earl Ehrenfeld, who is in charge of intelligence work, is reporting the latest intelligence collected to the king.
“Recently Baron Philip von Ertal, a diplomat from the Principality of Mainz, appeared in Mingxing City of the Principality of Bain.” Count Ehrenfeld said in a low voice, “There are signs that, The Principality of Mainz and the Principality of Byrne will seek the possibility of improving their relations." William said "Hmm" and said after a moment: "Tightening the control of Nuremberg City will be difficult if the three parties unite."< br>
Count Ehrenfeld received the latest instructions and continued: "Intelligence has confirmed that Weisenland is recruiting people through the Stonemasons Association in Nuremberg to prepare to dig a canal connecting the Rhine and Danube rivers."
William was silent for a long time and asked: "Are there many victims this year?"
Earl Ehrenfeld immediately replied: "The snow last winter was heavy this year, and there was a big flood when the snow melted in the spring. , it hasn’t rained since the beginning of summer, and people have fled from villages in many places." William thought for a moment and said, "Just tell the victims that there is a way to survive in Weisen."
< br>"Say hello again and ask them not to stop them along the way, but not to let them go."
Count Ehrenfeld immediately understood what the king meant.
Wesson has a population of 30,000 because the land can only support so many people.
If there were an influx of 40,000 to 50,000 disaster victims at once, these people with nothing would eat up the entire territory like locusts.
At that time, even a few more sword masters will not help.
As for reclaiming land, the landowners can only say "hehe".
To reclaim wasteland, you must first clean up the ground and underground. This requires cutting down trees, clearing shrubs and weeds on the ground, and clearing underground roots.
The simplest of them is to cut down trees. It is very tedious to eradicate shrubs and weeds. The entire land must be shoveled bit by bit. If you encounter perennial old vines, you need to bend down and cut them off with a knife.
It is not impossible to set fire to the mountains, but a village needs to leave a forest of firewood, and building a house and making furniture also requires wood. If the fire cannot be controlled, it will be "hehe".
Cleaning up the root system also requires hoeing the ground bit by bit to dig out all the grass roots, otherwise it will be "cutting the grass without removing the roots, and the spring breeze will grow again."
The most difficult thing is to dig out the underground tree roots. These roots are large and deep, which is very labor-intensive.
Then there is land preparation. All large and small stones in the soil need to be cleaned up, soil clods need to be plowed, slopes need to be leveled, and some depressions need to be filled.
After the land is leveled, you can theoretically plant things, but there are still two problems. One is the water source and water conservancy facilities need to be repaired. The second is that the land fertility is insufficient and you need to fertilize and plant beans to nourish the land. Otherwise, Whatever you sow, there will be no harvest.
In addition, there are two huge investments in agricultural tools and livestock.
Even if all manpower is used, the agricultural tools needed for tens of thousands of people to cultivate and cultivate do not fall from the sky. This requires real money and silver to buy.
Three or five years have passed by the time the grain harvest in the land is enough to produce a surplus. During this period, land reclamation involves only input and no output.
Everyone's productivity is the same these days, so there is no need to send spies or anything like that. A simple calculation can estimate how much food reserves and funds the Wesson family has.
With tens of thousands of victims pouring into the Wesson Territory, accepting them is a dead end for the Wesson family, and not accepting them is also a dead end.
The Wesson family is powerless to do anything about it. With their power, they cannot stop the arrival of the victims. They can only choose between a dead end and a dead end.
(End of this chapter)