The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 851 Beidu Fort

"Are you still going to hide it from me?" Fenglin Youlan looked at Long Xi and sighed helplessly.

When he raised his head again, his eyes were filled with sadness and pain. He looked at his dragon and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"You know..." Long Xi seemed very surprised and amazed. After all, Fenglin Youlan should not have discovered it so quickly if she had concealed it on purpose!

"Yuehua...you...you will lose your future!" Fenglin Youlan choked up. Long Xi still has a long life to live, and he shouldn't give up his bright future for her.

"If we don't even have the present, how can we talk about the future? My knight!" Long Xi looked at him gently without any evasion in his eyes.

"The destiny of a dragon knight is in the sky, not on the ground looking up. The same goes for a dragon! If I can't live as a dragon, I would rather die!" Long Xi said calmly.

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"As for Youlan, just treat her as a normal hero!" Roland called a small meeting with Adolf Heinrich and others.

"Why? Didn't his dragon resurrect?" Darion Nightblade asked puzzled.

"The situation is special! His dragon is not fully recovered! It just used the dragon's special skills to restore its normal size!" Roland shook his head and sighed.

"You mean a big flying lizard?" Adolf Heinrich understood the situation as soon as he heard it. Although the metaphor was inappropriate, it was definitely suitable.

"Almost. So you better be careful. Don't treat him as a dragon knight in all your actions! I don't want any dragons or dragon knights to die!" Roland said solemnly. Casualties in war are inevitable, but Roland hopes that he can protect most of his men.

"Okay!" Adolf Heinrich nodded. The main purpose of this meeting was to remind everyone not to really use Fenglin Youlan as the Dragon Rider Commander! Otherwise, if they really fought, something bad would inevitably happen!

"Okay, let's adjourn the meeting! Keep your mouths shut when you go out, don't mention this unless necessary. At the same time, try to think of a way to see if there is any good way to treat the dragon clan's origin injuries!" Roland rubbed his brows and said in distress. He thought he had an extra helper, but he didn't expect that Fenglin Youlan, who had just climbed out of a pit, fell into another pit.

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"The wheat is growing well this year!" The man reached out and wiped away a wheat ear, peeled off a few grains and put them into his mouth.

"Lord Lance! Salute you!"

"Hello, sir! Thanks to your majesty!"

Several farmers surrounding the farmland were sitting under a tree beside the ridge to rest. They were chatting and did not notice Baron Lance who suddenly appeared. They did not react until Lance spoke. Then these farmers bent down and touched their chests, and saluted Lance with expressions of great respect.

"No need for the gift. It looks like the harvest this year will be good!" Lance said with emotion as he looked at the endless waves of wheat.

"Yes! This year the climate is pleasant, with good weather and good harvests! It's a year of bumper harvest!" several farmers said hurriedly.

"I'm leaving first! If you need anything, you can come to Beidubao to find me!" Lance nodded to the farmers and then got on his horse. ...

"What have you been doing again?" Nina Bonn asked curiously while patting Lance's cloak as she helped him dust off his body.

"Go out and check on the people. After all, I am the governor of Beidu Castle!" Lance had a headache.

As one of the newest cities in the kingdom, this place means opportunities and dangers. The brave Lagran people came to the wilderness with their families and built their own Beidu Fort on the site of the original Beidu Fort. Lance, under the order of Roland, brought soldiers here to protect the people. At the same time, as the most useful plug-in in the kingdom, Lance also shoulders the duties of the governor here.

"The harvest this year will be very good. What do you have to worry about?" Nina looked at her lover in confusion. As a former village girl, she was also familiar with farm work and could tell the harvest at a glance.

  "I'll always feel uneasy if I don't take a look! I have to look around more! Look around more!" Lance took a big gulp of water and took a breath. It is very rare for the nobles of Lagran to be separated from the masses. It is a tradition of the Lagran Empire for the lords and consuls to go deep into the people from time to time. One is to let the people see who the rulers are, and the other is to stabilize the people's hearts and explore the people's sentiments. This is also a product of the nobles who were scared of riots in the early days of the empire. Those nobles who lived deep in the castle and didn't even know what the territory was like had long been hung on the flagpole by the old farmers under their command!

"What's the trick?" Nina looked at him with a smile.

"Well... the harvest this year should be good..." Lance could only answer like this after holding it in for a long time. After all, he was not good at farming and could only make inferences based on whether the seeds were full and growing vigorously. He also listened more to the farmers' stories and the investigations of the grassroots officials below.

As for what kind of basic officials could Roland's makeshift team have? So Lance, who was basically a commander without troops, could only ride his horse all over the place to understand the situation.

"Hehe~" Nina laughed at Lance's embarrassed look.

"Oh! By the way! Ajax has just come down. She asked me to give you this letter. It's an order from the kingdom!" After laughing, Nina suddenly remembered the important matter and quickly took out Ajax's letter and handed it to Lance.

"Oh? Let me see!" Lance quickly took the envelope, opened it and started reading. Curious Nina also leaned over to look at it together.

"Crash!" Lance closed the letter, placed it on the candlestick, lit it, and threw it into the fireplace.

"Another group of immigrants is coming!" Lance frowned.

  "We don't have much food left in our warehouse! Can the taxes from this autumn harvest really support the city?" Lance couldn't help but wonder. After all, the order from the City of Rapids told Lance that he needed to feed these immigrants himself. The question was, could the taxes from the autumn harvest really be enough to support these people for a year? After all, the construction team led by Radil was still in Beidubao for supplies!

"Since the queen of Rapids has given the order, it should be possible. I don't think the king and queen would joke about starving their own people to death, right?" Nina thought for a moment and said.

"Hmm..." Lance could only suppress his doubts in his heart and ask them next time he saw them.

In fact, Beidu Fort had been developing the wasteland for more than a year, and Duke Joelstia of Jiliu City had also calculated how many people the cultivated land could support. This time, they diverted several thousand refugees to them, but it was not enough to overwhelm Beidu Fort. In addition, Radil and others were almost building Jiliu Avenue to the original site of Pingnan City. As the frontier of development, Beidu Fort naturally had to start taking on the responsibility of connecting the east and the west, at least before Pingnan City was built...

In the autumn of the year 2952 of the Third Era, as the last hammer fell, the Rapid Avenue, which started from the Rapid City, finally reached the site of the former Imperial Pingnan City. This meant that the kingdom was about to open up its east and west jurisdictions and completely swallow up the Lagran Plain.

"Is Longya Fort just ahead?" A laborer working on the construction site wiped the sweat from his head and looked towards the east.

"It's still early! There's the old site of Wind Chime City in the middle! Thank you all for your hard work!" Radil walked up with a smile and greeted everyone.

"But it will be soon! The political center of the kingdom will be moved to the city of Raglan soon!" Radil said with a sigh. It can be predicted that the location of the political center of the Kingdom of Rapids will soon be degraded to the capital of the North.