Rise of the Lord of Mount and Blade

On the way to the castle on the other side of the village, the mayor of Flower still did not spirit slowly recovers from the bet that Richard just made, and he was only a few steps away from the gate of the wooden fort. When he was away, he asked Richard with some difficulty.

“My lord, do you really want to exempt the villagers of Luofei from paying taxes for three years?”

“I haven’t lost yet, Mayor Flower.” Richard did not Answer him, said with a faint smile.

Although the mayor of Flower is happy to see the villagers exempt from tax, he is even more afraid that the viscount will not be able to give enough tax to the earl because of the tax exemption.

“I don’t think you will lose, it’s just that…”

He was interrupted by Richard before he could finish. “Mr. Flower, please Believe me, I will not do anything unsure.” He said.

After that, two soldiers in leather armor guarding the door of the first wooden wall outside the castle greeted him, saluted, and said, “My lord, you are welcome to come back.”

The two soldiers and the entire castle knew about Richard, so even though they hadn’t seen Richard, they could still recognize him.

Richard nodded responded, and then walked in with his subordinates. Two soldiers watched them enter. After they walked away, one of the soldiers whispered, “This is the new Sir Alex? It looks younger than me.”

“What’s the use of you being bigger than him, he is destined to be a nobleman by birth, you can only stand guard with me here.” Companion said mockingly.

“Yeah!” The soldier asked himself for being boring, sipped angrily, and stopped talking.

……

Richard didn’t know what happened behind him. He walked into the first wooden wall and was looking at the facilities inside. The blacksmith’s shop and the stables were all set up here. Here, because of the particularity and preciousness of the blacksmith’s profession, the whole family is housed in the first enclosure outside the castle. Richard glanced at the small space, and the stable that housed the two horses was on the right side of the gate. A youngster in a gray short robe was holding a wooden tool and picking up a mountain of haystacks next to the stable.

He looked towards the other side again, and the blacksmith with the red apron in front of him was staying in his shack ding ding dong dong, beating the red iron blocks, and all kinds of iron were placed beside them Tools, and a fireplace with flames burning inside. The blacksmith’s house lives next to this iron shack. It is a long wooden shack with a towering tree in front of the door.

See Richard observing the direction of the blacksmith’s house, and the mayor of Flower, who followed him, introduced: “My lord, that’s the blacksmith Martin’s family. He has lived here for more than 20 years.”

“Hmm.” Richard nodded, walked along the dirt road towards the small stone castle. The outside of this stone castle was surrounded by a circle of two or three meters deep trenches, connecting the castle and the outside by two A suspension bridge pulled by chains, this suspension bridge will be lowered during the day, and once it is night or when the enemy comes, it will be raised, and guards will stand on the battlements and shoot outwards to resist.

In front of the suspension bridge, there are also two guards wearing red and yellow checkered robes with a black eagle with a bird’s beak and an olive branch tattooed in the middle. Their helmets are that kind of pot helmets. It is rusty.

“Master Viscount.” The two guards stretched their hands without lance to their chests, bowed, and said respectfully.

“They are Yarosnov and Jenike, and they are basically on duty here every day.” Village Mayor Flower introduced with a smile.

“How long have you been here?” Richard asked, looking at the two fully armed guards.

“With the help of Lord Noel, I have worked here for three years, and Jenike is only one year younger than me.” said the guard named Yarosnov on the left. Richard discovered that this youngster looks a lot Kind of a sign.

Richard nodded, did not continue to speak, and continued to walk towards the inside of the castle.

The interior of the castle of Fort Loffey is very dark. This is also a common problem of almost all castles of this era. Even if the sun is outside, the places inside the castle without windows still need torch to illuminate. Oh, by the way, because candles are expensive, people use the most common torch for lighting. Even those wealthy aristocrats will only take out candles for lighting when they hold a banquet to show off to the guests. Own wealth.

Walking in this castle, Richard’s only feeling is depression. This is different from his hometown in Holt. The castle he has lived in since childhood is bigger than this, and the servants inside are also More and the decoration is better than here, and in this “country nobleman” castle, except for the fixed burning torch, the walls are bare, without other decorations, and the scale of the castle is not large, only three floors. High, the highest floor is still the lord’s room, the number of servants is not many, basically hired from Luofei Village.

Oh, there should be an old steward here, but with the death of the previous Viscount Noel, the distraught old steward handed over all the affairs here to the village of Luofei Village. Chang asked him to deal with it together, and then returned to his hometown.

In other words, apart from a few dozen servants and a few guards, there are no other people in this castle, and even many of those servants return to live at home and wait for the early morning. Work in the castle again.

Richard doesn’t know what to say, saying that he is miserable, but he is much better than his peers whose power is emptied by the people underneath as soon as he crosses, because he basically started from scratch and said he is not miserable. However, there is nothing in the territory, and it takes a lot of energy to make changes.

Fortunately, the system he has can help him.

……

That night, because I was a little tired all the way, Antico asked the village chief to go back first, and waited until tomorrow to report to him about the things here. He ate in a hurry. After dinner, he went to rest in the room reserved for the Viscount.

The room dedicated to the Viscount is actually nothing special, and it’s even inferior to Richard’s room since childhood. This room has not been specially decorated. The walls are exposed rough square stones. The floor is a wooden floor composed of long planks. There is also a large carpet on it. Richard can’t see what material it is made of. Into.

Except for the double bed covered with woolen sheets, which is more eye-catching, the furniture in the room is only a locked wooden box, a wooden table and a few chairs, and A wardrobe. Richard guessed that the locked wooden box should be for the lord to put more valuable things and private items, such as the certificate of seal and the title deed of personal real estate, etc.

And the closet was also empty. The clothes of the former Viscount were buried in the coffin along with the corpse of the Viscount. Richard did not bring a few of his own clothes, so the closet will remain in the short term. Empty state.