I'm really a crispy French

Chapter 96

"Is the Church of the God of Nature a church that likes to deceive?" Leon tapped the table with his other hand, "They are all devout priests, what good is there to deceive you about this matter? But I am indeed I lied to you, I know you can't rule the world, if you can, you can't give me the world. I can pave a road for you, as for the price... I want building materials, farm tools and cloth, etc. In short, it is the materials needed in the initial stage of the construction of a territory. You can give me as much materials as you need to build a road."

"...Your Excellency, your request is too general."

"Then please wait a moment, I will ask the superiors of the church, and then give you the specific material requirements." Leon nodded to Mombe, and the wooden man Mombe came back to life at this time, and nodded to him .

Modosu's face became ugly again: "You should know that we want you to build roads just to save money. How about the supplies of [-] gold coins?"

"What's the price for hiring a demigod?" Leon looked at Morifio on the other side.

"One hundred thousand gold coins, however, generally demigods do not lack gold coins, so one hundred thousand gold coins is only a symbolic gift, the real reward should be favors, or expensive treasures."

"Are you a demigod?!"

"Nonsense, didn't you hear them call me Your Excellency?" I don't know if I'm a demigod or not, and I don't know, anyway, if others say yes, I am.

Modosu's face turned blue this time, and Leon wondered what color his face could turn into.

"Your Excellency, please forgive my rudeness." He stood up and saluted cautiously, "I am very glad to meet you. Please allow me to offer thirty thousand gold coins as a thank you for your willingness to meet me."

After finishing speaking, Modosu turned around and ran away, but before he ran away, he did leave a thank you gift of [-] gold coins.

Mombe saw that Modosu disappeared, so he helped him intercede: "Your Excellency, Modosu belongs to a small local chamber of commerce. They have never seen the world and are too arrogant. I will respond to the archbishop..."

"It doesn't matter." Leon interrupted Mombe, "He reacted quickly and didn't say anything too much. Thirty thousand gold coins are enough to write off this matter. In fact, I really want to call Mr. Modosu a good man."

"Thank you for your kindness." Along the way, Mombe was actually quite dissatisfied with Leon, thinking that these two children were really messing around.But all dissatisfaction dissipated at this moment.

Modosu's performance actually taught Mombe a lesson.Instead of thinking of Leon as a child, think of him as a demigod.Demigods are almost the top of the power on the ground. They are not demigods from the church. Generally, they have weird temperaments. Arrogant and violent demigods can already be regarded as good-tempered. There are demigods who kill for no reason and even eat people. .

But no matter how bad the character of the demigod is, there are countries willing to recruit worshipers. After all, the church will not intervene in the national war, unless it also involves religious wars, or the country itself is a political and religious one.The sharecroppers he killed were also because those people deserved to be killed.Like Leon, if he is an adult demigod, he is not only good-tempered, but also has high morality.

Mombe sighed in his heart, he had been trying to correct his attitude, but only now, he really corrected his attitude.

Except for the episode where the "good guy" Modosu sent [-] gold coins, there was no surprise after that. Leon and Eldi could devote themselves to their construction.The adults would not say anything more, but obeyed the orders of the two children calmly, although except for Hogan, the adults behaved more like playing house with the children.

In addition to their tools, the artisans brought the large wooden basin that Leon requested.Large wooden basins and large wooden barrels are actually valuables in this world, of course for ordinary people.A cooper is a specialized craftsman. It is a technical job to splice wood into wooden barrels.So in many languages ​​in this world, rice buckets are swear words, not because rice buckets can only hold rice, but because rice buckets are all failed products made by apprentice coopers. They cannot hold water and will leak.

——Although the Principality of Gretel is considered to be in the south of the Muller Federation, the upper-class people here speak Fakia, which Leon had already learned when he was in Diller City.In addition, there are some local dialects. On the way here, Leon and Eldi have already been able to speak them.

These large tubs are used by Leon to bathe everyone.He first called the wife of Tom, the captain of the second team, her name was Lily.

Just like when Leon yelled "Tom!" to the tenant farmers, at least hundreds of men, big and small, would agree to him; Leon yelled "Lily", and hundreds of women would agree to him.And it's not only the earth that gives children nicknames, these sharecroppers, as well as the poor in Diller City, they also give their children nicknames.

Many families call their children one, two, three, and four, and they don't give them a big name until they are about eight years old.Basically, the eldest son and eldest daughter have the same names as their parents, and the later children are named after their neighbors, or furniture and utensils, or the flowers and plants on the roadside.

Lily is actually only in her 30s, but she already has gray hair, and her thin face is full of wrinkles. Compared with others, Lily is also timid, but at least she dares to tie her hair up, and her face is cleaned better than others clean.

"Master." Lily knelt on the ground. Before they called the two children the young master, but now they also know that there is no young master, only two masters.

"Lily, men and women will do different jobs in the future." Leon looked at her and said, "So, I want you to choose a woman, and you are the first female captain."

Lily grabbed her skirt tightly: "We... what are we going to do, sir? Do you want a young girl?"

Leon raised his eyebrows: "Lily, what do you think is the reason why we killed those men?" Leon explained to Eldi, but it seems... His explanation is also incorrect, why take it for granted?You should still ask.

Lily immediately fell to the ground: "You, your will decides everything, sir!"

"Don't you think these guys hurt so many girls and they should be punished?"

Lily raised her head abruptly, and looked at Leon with the eyes of a monster. When she realized what she was doing, she lowered her head, and then fell silent. Obviously, she didn't know how to answer this question.A little bug on the ground saw Lily's face hidden in the shadows, and it was full of disapproval.

Leon sat on the ground, crossed his legs: "Talk to me, look, there is no one else around now. We killed those who hurt others, why are you afraid of us instead?"

"If... If I don't say it, will I not be able to become the captain?" Lily bit her lip and raised her head again.Her husband Tom is the captain of the second team. In addition to getting the same rewards as others in their work, these captains can also get a "captain's reward" that others do not have.It should be the same for the female captain.

"I need someone with courage, and if you don't have courage, you're not someone I need. And of course, be honest."

Lily trembled nervously. She was afraid of being killed if she told the truth, but she was also afraid of losing her position as the captain: "I have been a daughter-in-law, and the best seller is that mother and daughter serve a man together. Men don't I like little girls not because of... hurt, but because little girls are impatient with X."

The word hurt sounded oddly out of Lily's mouth, and it seemed she rarely, if ever, used it.

"We are afraid of the master, we are afraid that the master will kill us too."

"I understand." Leon nodded, this time he really understood, "No little girl, I want you to choose an adult woman like you, strong and able to work. The first thing you want to do The thing is to shave everyone’s head, group by group, and take them to the water to take a bath. Scrub them clean, and then soak in hot water. Because I don’t want to see lice on people’s bodies.”

Leon and the others would scrub their bodies with cold water along the way.But the awakened person is different from ordinary people. Even if the awakened body is bathed in cold water in a world of ice and snow, there will be no problem.But even in such a warm environment, ordinary people are likely to get sick when they take a bath.So ordinary people are not unaware that a dirty body can make people uncomfortable, but taking a bath is almost equivalent to death.

"Don't worry about getting sick. If someone is not feeling well, you can go to the soldiers or Father Hogan. I let you take a bath. If you get sick because of taking a bath, I will bear the cost of treatment. Also, burn all the changed clothes If you drop it, I will also give you two sets of clothes to match each other."

"Thank you for your kindness, sir!"

"Go to work." Leon nodded, and Lily left happily.As soon as she left, Eldy came out from behind the tree. He touched his chest and let out a sigh of emotion: "Smelly fish that grow up in the mud will not think that they are full of stench."

They think that these people see too many untrustworthy lords, which is only part of the reason. The real dominant reason is that these people have faced countless difficulties since birth, and the harm that adult men do to children is also caused by them. It was regarded as a kind of difficulty and ignored.

It is reasonable for Leon and Eldy to kill people and the soldiers in the team.For sharecroppers, they can only understand that "the master killed someone", because that kind of thing is reasonable to them, they have experienced it themselves when they were children, or they have seen others do it.Those children who have not been harmed, it is not that their parents dote on them more, but that the men around them have other objects to vent.

"You want to select fighters from these people, do you regret agreeing to me?"

"Of course not." Aldi clenched his fists as if he glanced at Leon, "Just take out the smelly fish, wash them, and then put them in clean water. When they know that clear water is more comfortable to swim, and that fish and shrimp are better than fish The stinky mud tastes sweeter, and it will become a clean fish."

Lily picked nine women, not just from the second team, but also from several other teams.They themselves take a bath under the protection of the female warriors, put on clean clothes, and arrange their hair.Then follow the team, team by team to take a bath.There were also some confusions in the middle, but they were dealt with by themselves, or the soldiers directly suppressed them with strong means.

Then the women's first team became the adults who lived in the big house first after the children, and then they began to sew quilts and sheets for other tenants in the big house.During this time, the men were clearing land and building houses, and other women and children were still gathering.

But the man who built the house worked hard, yes.The women and children who collected it worked very hard, not bad.The women who mend in the big house are also working hard, and they are still good.However, the sharecroppers who opened up wasteland... hehe.

The soldiers all have sharp eyes, and the training as a soldier is also heavy physical labor.Whether the tenant farmers are not physically strong enough to wield their hoes, or whether they are deliberately lazy to drive and stop three times, they know very well.Even the three captains of land reclamation are only a little better than ordinary tenant farmers in their work.

Leon discussed with Eldy. This situation is also very troublesome. In the final analysis, it is still a matter of trust. I have already told Jack that the team with the best work will be the first to obtain the right to use the land. Either they think Impossible, or they can't think of what they can get by obtaining the land use right.

"Cut their food?" Eldy thought of punishment.

"It's useless, right? It's like killing those men, sharecroppers only see us kill. If food is cut, they don't think it's punishment for their mistakes, they just see us cut their food, further destroying trust. "

Eldi puffed his cheeks in anger. If he couldn't cut down on the food, he couldn't let people beat people with a whip, otherwise there would be no trust at all.

"I... suddenly thought of an idea, we can do this..."

At noon that day, Aldi went to the big house where the women sewed sheets and quilts: "Here are the sheets and quilts you sewed. This is a qualified product. This is a high-quality product and a low-quality product. From today on, as long as you sew If there are enough five qualified products, you can eat in advance. One superior product is equal to one semi-qualified product. If you make more than five qualified products, you can get paid, one copper coin for each qualified product, and one and a half copper coins for one superior product. Production in a day If you make more than three inferior products, you are forbidden to eat that day! If you make more than three inferior products for three consecutive days, you will be kicked out of the sewing team!"

The knights who were too idle to go hunting every day finally had a job to check the sheets and quilts.If there are extra sheets and quilts, they have to transport them to the city to sell them.

After Aldi announced, lunch began. The women who got to eat first were shocked to find that there were a few pieces of white bread, cheese, and ham in the food!They have only seen these things in their previous lives, and they may have smelled them from afar, but they never imagined that they could take a bite. Now their dreams have come true.

These women are full, and the next batch can eat coarse bread and drink thick mushroom and wild vegetable soup.Waiting for the last batch...the only thing waiting for them is pure vegetable soup.People who have been full for a few days before today are suddenly hungry today. The feeling of hunger is especially uncomfortable.

In the afternoon, the acquisition team and construction team also had eating standards.The collection group is relatively simple, divided according to the quality and weight of the collection.The quality and speed standards of the build group are a bit of a hassle.

Another day passed, and the next morning, the cultivation group also had a division standard, not only by how much land was dug, but also by the depth and fineness of the cultivation.Whoever finishes first will come out to eat first. If no one finishes by the specified time, the best food will be taken away and distributed to other groups for the next meal.

Subconscious mind: people depend on food.

In October, basically everyone lived in a simple big house, which can also be called a dormitory, a very long wooden house, and each wooden house has about twenty bunk beds. A small suitcase and a chair.It wasn't just sharecroppers who lived in such conditions, but others, including Leon and Aldee.

For the time being, there is no trouble for the tenant farmers, because almost all of them have exhausted their physical strength in labor—their food unexpectedly has sugar, honey, and delicious creamy white pastries. Desperately.In other countries, some knights swear allegiance to a lord not for money, but for food, it seems that it is not necessarily a rumor.

Now the weather has finally started to cool down, but it is not as cold as Diller City, and people can still walk outside in unlined clothes.Even some of the first planted vegetable seedlings have begun to germinate.

After the house, the first thing to start building was not the church or the mansion of the lord, but the factory building.

The weaving workshop, Yarman City is actually rich in cotton. I heard that in the mountains northwest of Yarman City, there are several mountains, and the mountains and plains are full of wild cotton. Many of them are natural colored cotton. Every year, the local people will organize people to visit Pick cotton.But the people in the Principality of Gretel are lazy, and the rewards given by the organizers are not high. More cotton is picked, and more cotton is rotted in the ground.

When Leon and Eldy came, it was just in time for the cotton harvest.In addition, those who caught up with the cotton harvest were the merchants who came to scream at the spice auction. Some of these merchants came to eat, drink and have fun, while others were unwilling to waste a little time and began to look for business opportunities in the local area. The latter found colored cotton.

The cotton cloth woven from colored cotton is not as gorgeous as the cotton cloth dyed with dyes, but it has another kind of beauty, and the advantage of this kind of cotton cloth is that it does not fade.However, the cost of transporting the cotton bolls out is huge, after all, the traffic in this place is not ordinary.So at least it must be spun into thread or woven into cloth, and it is best to make clothes—this kind of cloth cannot be sold at high-level, and it should be aimed at the middle class in time, and a small number of low-yield people, so it is best to make ready-made clothes. Good sale.

At that time, Leon happened to have extra sheets and quilts pulled across the city, along with some pillowcases, curtains, and ready-to-wear.He was buying fabric, and the clothes for those people were old clothes from thrift stores.

Before that, although there were clothing stores in Alman City, they were very small.Hope that the products pulled out from the village are all real materials, and they are cheap enough, which has attracted many customers.But this is a small city after all, and the demand is not great.It just attracted these businessmen, including the Modosu who threw [-] gold coins in vain.

The location of Hope Village is really good. As long as you drive another three or four hours to the southwest of the village, you will be able to reach the edge of a large lake. transport goods.Although the waterway is not very safe, there are water monsters and the like, but it is several times stronger than the land way.

The road to the lake has been opened, and another group of people has built a port by the lake. This port is paid for by merchants.The first batch of goods after the completion of the port has also been booked - the clothes sold in Xiwang Village leave the port, and the energy stone textile machines purchased by Leon enter the port. The factory building now is for the textile machines.

This year, the cotton bolls in Yarman City were picked with extra care, because it was not just the local familiar faces who bought the bolls, and the purchase price was twice as high as in previous years.Passing through the streets of the city, you can see many men, women and children picking the seeds in the cotton bolls in the sun and drying the bolls by hand.Of course, there are still many people who just lie on the ground lazily without doing anything.But saying that everyone in the Principality of Gretel is lazy, now it seems that it is not necessarily...

"Should we grow cotton? Food can be bought, and there is no food in this place, but there are other foods." Eldy... a little moved.

The warehouse in Hope Village is already full of baskets full of cotton, and there are some small black bugs crawling around in them. As long as they are dried and processed again, the small bugs don't matter.Cotton will be of great value to them if the business can go on forever.In fact, he wasn't the only one who thought of it. People around Alman City had already started to grow cotton.

In the climate of Alman City, occasionally the peaches here can bear fruit twice. Although it is not the season for planting cotton, but if you plant it, maybe there will be a harvest?Anyway, it must earn more than food.

"No, we can let some of the land grow cotton next year, but this year we must plant all the grain according to the plan! Cotton can be bought, but we just earn a little less. Although we can also buy food, it is tantamount to giving our throat to others .And the feeling of eating wild fruit and barbecue is completely different from the feeling of eating bread." Leon immediately refused.

Not only because of the reason for speaking, but also because of the matter of storing food, it seems to have become an instinct of Leon.It doesn't matter when there are only him and Eldy, they can always have food, but when they become a big family, Leon's need for food suddenly becomes urgent.