The town of Boulder, the only settled place in the southern wasteland of Tyniec. However, there is almost no land suitable for farming, and there are no forests and lakes for hunting and fishing. It is even inconvenient to obtain drinking water that can provide residents with survival.
However, under the leadership of two experienced well diggers, the stationed patrol soldiers and several dependent households spent more than three months digging three deep wells, and finally succeeded in digging a well.
Patrol Captain Obote and several patrol officers accompanied Art as they stood beside a deep well built with stone barriers like a circular castle. They pointed at the wellhead and said, "Sir, it is really not easy to dig a deep well. We dug three times before we reached the waterline. The deepest one was a full forty-six feet. Once, the walls of the well suddenly gave way and almost buried Benson and another brother who was digging the well."
At this time, Benson, deputy captain of the patrol squadron, finally lifted half a bucket of water from the deep well with a sling. He poured the water into a wooden bowl and handed it to Art with both hands.
Matt took the wooden bowl and looked at this man who once planned to be a deserter. The battle where bandits attacked Boulder Town more than a year ago left him with a scar on his neck. The scar made his whole body look more powerful. "Benson, Obote recommended you at that time. I was still hesitant when I became the vice-captain, but now it seems that you did not disappoint Obote, nor did you disappoint me. "
After speaking, Art picked up the wooden bowl and drank it in one sip. The well water here was not very sweet, but Art drank it very refreshingly.
Matt put down the wooden bowl and encouraged everyone around him: "This well is just your first step. As long as everyone is willing to work hard, I believe you can build Boulder Town into an oasis in the wilderness."
Of course, words of encouragement are not enough. He continued: "This time when I return to the valley, I will discuss with the Civil Affairs Bureau and ask the Civil Affairs Bureau to allocate people and funds to improve the environment of Jushi Town after the beginning of this spring. Wells like this will continue to be dug. When there is enough water source, the Civil Affairs Bureau will build a livestock shed next to Jushi Town. Raise some pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks for food in Jushi Town. The land around Jushi Town cannot grow food, but some shrubs, trees and alfalfa can barely grow. Maybe in a few years this place will be a dense forest full of vitality. "
"As long as you serve me loyally, I will never let you suffer."
“Thank you, sir, for always thinking of your subordinates. We will definitely do our best for you and use our lives to fulfill your military orders.” Since Obote has more people in charge, his speech will naturally become more upper-class.
Several patrol officers around him also expressed their opinions.
Matt nodded happily and said to Obote: "Let's go and see your new cell again."
Obot and his entourage accompanied Yate to inspect the cells built in the garrison camp. In recent years, the bandits captured by the patrol team and those transit merchant travelers who tried to evade transit merchant taxes or resisted with arms were imprisoned. There are three fates for these people. The lightest one is to be released after paying a punitive tax. The second is to be turned back to the valley and sent to the construction officer as a slave to undergo transformation. The most serious are those ruthless bandits and unrepentant armed merchant travelers. The patrol team usually does not leave these evil people to waste food. Waiting for them will be beheading orders issued by Art or the legion command camp.
After inspecting Jushi Town, Art went to a newly built wooden house in the Jushi Town camp and held a meeting with the patrol team leader and above to arrange the tasks for the patrol team for the next period of time.
After spending the night repairing in Boulder Town, the Wells Army continued to advance towards the Beiguan Army Fort deep in the wilderness early the next morning.
In order to allow the army to master the rapid change of marching and marching combat formations as much as possible, Art ordered Odo and Angus to take most of the Welsh Army to continue practicing military formations and marching arrays while walking.
But Art himself left the brigade and led several of Ron's personal guards to bring the gifts brought back from Paris, mount the war horses and rush back to the Valley Wooden Castle in advance...
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The Valley Wooden Castle, even the birthplace of the Valley Barony, is also the ruling center of the entire barony.
It is also the residence of the lord of the barony. Although the Valley Wooden Castle is not as wealthy and prosperous as the Sapp Castle run by Baron Galvin, the rise here is really shocking.
The scale of today's wooden castle in the valley has almost doubled from that of two years ago. Civil Affairs Officer Cooper is worthy of being a builder and craftsman. He is indeed outstanding in the layout and design of the fortress city.
With the establishment of three villages and a workshop area in the valley in the southern part of the valley, the original chaotic layout of the wooden castle in the valley has been significantly improved. Cooper reclaimed a large circle of open space around the original wooden fence outer wall, leveled it and divided it into three areas, namely residential area, livestock area and business square. There are some wealthy people in the outer residential area. The common people and military dependents began to purchase land from the civil administration to build houses. Several wooden sheds for raising pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks were also built in the livestock area. However, the commercial square was full of grassy open space, which was basically useless except for the children in the fort who occasionally played and played in it. Many people did not understand the intention of the civil administration officer Cooper, but Art was very happy with it.
In order to give the territorial residents living on the periphery a sense of security, Cooper built an outer wall made of miscellaneous tree branches and set up two "fort gates" in the north and south.
In sharp contrast to the sparse appearance on the outside, there is a lively scene inside the high fence of the wooden castle.
The inner side of the spire fence of the wooden castle is the most "prosperous" place in the entire valley barony. Needless to say, the two-and-a-half-story lord's mansion in the northeast corner was designed and built under the supervision of Cooper himself. It is definitely not luxurious but very grand;
Next to the lord's mansion is the house of the civil administrator Cooper. This old man is still single, so his house is only a large thatched wooden house with a small one. The big one lives by himself, and the small one houses the servants assigned to him. Art has proposed to build another mansion for Cooper many times, but Cooper always refused;
Back to back with Cooper's house is a large row of newly built wooden houses, with six side-by-side bays. This is the official office of the valley civil affairs, occupied by civil affairs officers, settlement officers, commercial officers, construction officers, workshop officers and their subordinates. There is a house used as an official room, with one or two simple wooden tables and a few low stools in the room. However, most of the civil affairs officials are busy working separately for a long time and rarely can sit in the official room. However, Bashui, who also serves as the peace officer, and the judicial officer. Cooper, the official, often tried criminals here;
Outside the civil affairs office are residential buildings represented by the Scott family's new house. There are roughly three types of people who can live in the wooden castle - army officers and soldiers Relatives, subordinates of civil affairs officials, workshop craftsmen, caravan attendants and a small number of wealthy citizens who enjoy the treatment of officials. Basically, their families have people who receive the grain from the public warehouse and receive military salary, so they can basically live here without the land.
Emma's house is no longer used as a tavern and hotel. Cooper slightly transformed the large straw hut that was originally used as a soldier's barracks into a wooden fort that combines a tavern, hotel, and shop. Emma is still entrusted by the civil administration to manage the place with several soldiers and officers' family members, and continues to enjoy the salary of officials.
The center of the wooden castle is still a small church and a parish school. After the autumn harvest last year, Cooper ordered the construction adjutant Geer to lead the people to expand the church. Today's church is much larger than the original. In addition to the parish priest Hami, the church is In addition, there are four branch deacons who were selected to study with Hamish; these people memorized some biblical essentials with Hamish, and as long as Art brought back the superior church to allow Hamish the right to appoint low-level teachings, they would become clergy in several territories.
In the parish school next to the church, Guy, the warden, is teaching basic numerical calculations. Sitting under the hall is the second batch of parish apprentices. Most of these apprentices are children selected from military, civil and territorial families, and the first batch of apprentices is headed by Matthew. Several braver boys were transferred into the Welsh Legion, and the remaining first batch of apprentices were also arranged to enter the civil affairs system such as workshops, settlements, commerce, and construction to receive clerk training. It is estimated that in another year and a half, these people will be the main civil affairs officials.
The area behind the church was originally a mill, a blacksmith shop, a carpenter shop and other places. Now the workshops have been moved to the workshop area south of the valley. Only a small shop for repairing wood and ironware is left here, and the rest of the space has basically become a residential area for military and civilian officials.
The Mill Bakery and the Valley Hospital are also in this area. These three places are under the jurisdiction of the civil administration. The hospital has been expanded on the original basis. It already has three rooms, two large ones are used to house the injured, and the other small one is the residence of the medical doctors. After the doctor Thomas was transferred to the army doctor, it became the residence of the Persian doctor Farnaz.
Since she was baptized and became a believer, the initial sense of rejection among the people has disappeared. In addition, Farnaz is indeed a skilled healer and serves as a professor in the parish school, so she has become more and more respected by everyone.
However, there is a lot of gossip about beauty. Farnaz is very beautiful to begin with. After being promoted to Civil Affairs Manager and receiving a full salary, she also likes those "enchanting" dresses very much, so there are always some scandals that are both false and true. At first, people speculated that Lord Art would take this woman as his mistress, but Art soon married Lottie, the only daughter of Baron Sarpburg, and this rumor fell into disuse. Then slowly, it was rumored that Art's right-hand men, Odo and Angus, were related to Farnaz, because the two were indeed because of Occasionally, Odo and Angus would discuss matters concerning the treatment of wounded soldiers with Farnaz. In fact, Odo and Angus were just doing business. Odo was a native of the North, and he only liked those women in the North with thick waists and big butts. Farnaz was definitely not a beauty in his eyes, and although Angus once coveted Farnaz's beauty, no However, because he had participated in the Holy War and had a natural hatred between pagans, he had no intention of letting the Persians stay by his side; the last scandal was with the trade officer Salt. Farnaz liked to dress up, but those luxury goods were rarely available in the valley before, so Farnaz often begged to go out for business. Yi's Salter came back from buying some accessories, aromatherapy and other things for her. Salter was a single man, and as time passed, Salter began to have thoughts. Every time Salter returned to the valley, the first thing he did was not to visit his children, but to knock on the door of the hospital with a gift specially bought for Farnaz...
Att doesn't care about these and doesn't have the energy to take care of them. As long as it's not forced buying and selling, he will just let it develop.
· The wooden castle in the valley can be regarded as the most stable place in the entire valley, but as the "ruling center" it must still be guarded by soldiers. The open space downstream of the stream outside the wooden castle was once a training ground for soldiers during the patrol period, and has now been turned into the headquarters of the command camp (headquarters) of the Valley Guard Corps. Several barracks were built in the open space, and the standing peasant soldiers of the security team and the peasant army were stationed in them. The cells for holding war slave criminals were also next to the camp.
· Every day in the wooden castle in the valley, a small team of six peasant soldiers stood guard with weapons. There were two at the fort gate, two at the gate of the lord's mansion, and two peasant soldiers were responsible for patrolling and guarding everywhere.