Rise of the Lord of Mount and Blade

From Latakia to Laltai Town, it only took Richard almost a day. After entering the town, he arranged to arrest Phyllis, a spy in the city. Under the accusation of the captives, the mission was completed, all the agents bought or arranged by the Berry people in the city were arrested, and the mayor Pearson was tied to the torture in the town square for public display in accordance with the relevant laws of the kingdom.

Seeing that his actions are so efficient, Richard smiled with satisfaction.

Complimented Phyllis verbally and asked them to re-enter the team, Richard ordered people to take away the six spies in public, and accompany him to the only salt mine in the town of Blatay.

Anke Salt Mine is a small salt mine that produces rock salt. Its name comes from Anke Village, 100 meters away from the salt mine. Most of the villagers here are workers in the salt mine, with only a few people working in it. Farming and labor, the salt nugget produced from the salt mine is the only specialty of the village and the only source of income for the village. It can be said that the radiation range of the Anke Salt Mine is not only the Bratai collar, but also more than half of it. Takiab Country.

Because of this, the proportion of salt block trade in the tax revenue of Burlati is also the highest.

Even so, when Richard came to Anke Village, the scene in front of him still made him stunned.

From the outside, Anke Village does not look rich. The mottled walls and peeling walls on both sides of the road show to outsiders how long the village has not been renovated, but there is a piece of land outside the village. You can still see green’s crops and farmers naked and holding farm tools. Richard noticed that there was a tower almost four to five meters high outside the farmland with an iron bell hanging on it, but no one was on duty.

Richard shook the head without a trace. This vigilance doesn’t seem to be very high. If he is really attacked by robbers, the villagers don’t know if they can escape in time.

As he was thinking, he saw a middle-aged man whose hair was wrapped in a long black cloth coming from the entrance of the village. Behind the middle-aged man, there were two youngsters wearing leather armor inside. Richard only took a look and recognized the identity of the other party-he could be dressed like this, probably the mayor of Anke Village.

Sure enough, under Richard’s gaze, the middle-aged man walked up to him and stood only two steps away from Richard’s horse, stroking his chest and saluting, and said respectfully : “Good day, Sir, I am Silas, the mayor of Anke Village.”

Richard nodded and said: “Good day, I am Richard Vareen, Viscount Blatai.”

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As he said, Phyllis, who was standing behind him, took out his aristocratic certificate and showed it to the middle-aged man.

A cursory glance at the nobleman proved that Silas’s smile on his face was even worse. He hurriedly said: “My lord, I’ve heard of your feat to eradicate banditry. You are truly brought to Bratai by God. The savior of the leader!”

Richard made his tone as gentle as possible when he reached out his hand and didn’t hit the smiley man. He said indifferently, “I’m here to see the situation in Anke Salt Mine. Village Chief Silas, you can lead a way.”

“Understand, understand.” Village Chief Silas promised nodded. He had anticipated this because the nobles would come here all the time. It is for the salt mines next to the village. In the eyes of those noble masters, it is not important to have salt mines in this broken village.

Richard didn’t know what he was thinking. Silas took the initiative to lead the way while holding the reins for Richard. The latter sat leisurely on horseback while asking the village chief.

“Silas, when the population was counted two years ago, there were more than 230 people in Anke Village. How many people are there now?”

“Statistics at the beginning of the year There were 345 people at the time. The Murphy family only gave birth to a pair of baby boys a few days ago. I think it may have exceeded this number by now.” Silas thought for a while, replied.

It took only two years to increase the population by more than a hundred. This growth rate sounds a bit low. Richard thought this in his heart, and his brows wrung unconsciously. Silas felt a little uneasy when he saw him like this. He didn’t know where the words he had just said touched the murderous mold.

Yes, Killing God. In the Braté collar, Richard, the new young Viscount’s nickname is Killing God, or “piercing son” by some people. These titles are derived from Richard always likes to use cruel methods to deal with the captured Bailey heretic, crucifying the heretic on the cross, enduring wind blowing and sun shining, and then gradually dying.

Richard’s new nickname is a favorite of the Touraine people. They are delighted that they are ruled by such a brave viscount. Because of his fame, some robbers in the Bulatai community have already Considering to move the position, those raging Bailey horse bandits also didn’t dare to come to Richard’s horse bandit again after the bloodskin group was maimed.

It can be said that after Richard became famous, the overall law and order of Bratai collar has improved a lot.

Our Viscount Blatai didn’t know about this. At this time, he had already walked outside the gate of Anke Salt Mine under the guidance of the mayor of Silas.

Because of the importance of this salt mine, the entire salt mine is surrounded by four or five meters high log walls, and each City Wall section is two meters wide, with fully armed walking on it from time to time. Of soldiers. However, Richard noticed that these soldiers seemed to be in low spirits, most of them were covered in dirt, and they were not as glamorous as the guards of Fort Loffey.

While passing through the narrow and crowded doorway, Silas introduced Richard about the salt mine. As mentioned earlier, most of the villagers in Anke Village have worked in the salt mine. They directly dug a large stepped hole in the ground where rock salt was found, and then opened a person-high hole at the edge of each step, and transported the salt block dug out from it for processing.

Perhaps because they work in the salt mines all the year round, most of the villagers in Anke Village have dark skin, rough and chapped skin, and have symptoms of edema on their faces and lower limbs, all of which look very oozing.

Richard just glanced at them, then took his gaze back, and turned to look at the layout of the entire salt mine. This salt mine also serves as a shelter for the villagers of Anke Village. It is close to the wall. As for the houses with civil structures, Silas said that these houses are for the villagers to live in. Because many villagers simply move into the salt mines to live, the village will appear that kind of dilapidated scene.

“Why not just move all the villagers into the wall to live?” Richard looked towards Silas, and asked, “The village is not protected by a wall. If it is attacked by wild beast robbers, the villagers There is no reaction time at all. It is better to move into the fence and live there.”

“As you can see, there is no extra space in the fence to build houses for the villagers in the village to live in, and the salt mine environment is not Well, the water from the well dug out here is still salty and cannot be used as normal water at all, so most of the villagers can only continue to live in the village.”