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Chapter 32 The Return of the Harvest

"Ronan, you are amazing."

In a conference room, Ronan was looking at the list in his hand while making plans for cleaning and exterminating rats in Black Rock City.

Sitting next to him, Cassana rested her chin on her hands and watched him work with twinkling eyes.

In the past few days, various people have been coming and going in and out of this meeting room. There are Rudolph, Arman and others she knows, and there are many nobles and businessmen she has never seen before.

They were talking about all kinds of things that Kassana couldn't understand at all, and she tried to make sense of it, but in the end she could only make her head dizzy.

But Ronan by his side can always solve each other's problems quickly, making them bow their heads and leave convinced.

I don't know why, seeing this scene, she felt hot in her heart, and she couldn't be happier.

Ronan at the side heard her praise, raised his head to see her burning eyes, and was stunned for a moment, coughed a few times and put away the list in his hand.

The list is the specific data that old Motou obtained after entering the castle in the past few days and counting the property and supplies of the Paikes family.

Even with his face, he was a little embarrassed to be praised like this while trying his best to dig out his family's wealth.

I just hope that Viscount Pecks knows, and can rest in peace.

"Blackstone City itself has formed a solid operating system, I just changed some details on this framework." Ronan didn't care about her praise.

As he said, the interests of all parties in Black Rock City have already been stabilized. While Ronan doesn't need to worry too much, it also means that it is difficult for him to control it.

As far as caravans are concerned, the Blackstone Commercial Road connecting the four northern counties where Blackstone City is located and the central city is the city's greatest value.

The caravans of the major families and chambers of commerce are the blood of this business road, and only when it flows can the Blackstone business road exert its significance.

These caravans have long been deeply rooted in Black Rock City, and their forces are intertwined.

Although their principals came to pay respectful visits to Ronan, the acting city lord, that was all.

These most important caravans were not under the control of Black Rock City. The previous Viscount Pecks relied on trade and taxation to develop his family, and had no intention of forming his own caravan.

Ronan didn't change his mind either. Black Rock City was just his window for foreign trade and camouflage. What he really wanted to develop was his Cold Wind Collar.

After the Pecks family's supplies were all counted, Ronan asked Old Motou to take White and the others to collect refugees in the village outside the city.

Due to the deserted farmland in the village, there are currently many displaced victims outside the city who have nowhere to go. It happened that Ronan recruited all of them and packed them back to work as laborers.

At present, more than 7000 refugees have gathered. Because there are many Black Death patients or their family members among these refugees, they are prohibited from entering cities and other places, and no one is willing to take the risk to take them in.

Ronan wasn't worried. He had saved a lot of immune potions from Triumph City.

Although it is impossible for everyone to have a bottle, drinking it after mixing it with water is enough to solve the disease.

Also makes them recover slowly so as not to draw attention.

There were a lot of people, but the accompanying Castle Army just happened to be able to guarantee their order along the way.

Not only that, Ronan also relied on his right to act as the city lord, and summoned more than 100 masons and carpenters from Black Rock City to take them back.

Coupled with the various metals, food and other materials sponsored by Vicky and Ashford, as well as Ronan's purchases in the city, he can completely expand and build after returning to the Cold Wind Territory.

His initial goal was to build a town around the castle that could accommodate at least 1 people.

Then use this as a foundation, and the frozen soil facing the north will continue to radiate small and medium-sized strongholds. These strongholds will be built on various resource points in the frozen soil, including ore, wood, and fur.

Having a general idea about the future development of his territory, Ronan stood up and stretched.

In the three days after the end of the noble council, he was busy with various management plans for Black Rock City, and now it was time to return to his Cold Wind Territory.

"We are leaving this city today. Is there anyone else you want to say goodbye to? I will accompany you." Ronan asked Cassana.

Hearing his words, Cassana leaned on the table with a small face and stared blankly for a long time.

Then she got up and hugged Ronan for the first time since that night.

"No, I only have you."

"Everyone gathers and prepares to welcome the lord!"

After receiving the letter from the raven, Ed led the soldiers to greet him on the road outside the castle.

It's just that when he saw the huge team gradually emerging, he stopped in place and scratched his head incomprehensibly.

A huge team of thousands of people, at least hundreds of carriages, a continuous convoy that can't be seen at a glance, and a cavalry team of more than 200 guards on both sides.

If it weren't for the fact that the leaders were Ronan and Lao Motou, Ed thought he had waited for the wrong person.

Not only him, but even the 110 soldiers behind him wiped their eyes in disbelief, suspecting hallucinations.

"Brother, are you going to rob Black Rock City?"

Ed couldn't help swallowing, and quickly stretched his head to look back, fearing that thousands of soldiers were still chasing after the convoy.

If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb!Ronan glared at him and told him to quickly take someone to manage the crowd behind him.

When all the carriages of the convoy had stopped and the crowd began to set up their tents, Ronan called the important people present to gather in the main hall of the castle.

As the local lord, Ronan sat at the head of the table, with Cassana sitting beside him.

On the bottom, Arman, the commander of the castle army loyal to Cassana, and Ed, the commander of the cold wind army loyal to Ronan, sat on both sides.

Next to Ed was Old Motou, the chief steward of Hanfengling, and next to Alman sat the leader of the craftsmen—Leo, a craftsman with more than 40 years of experience in architecture and sculpture.

After getting to know each other, Leo is discussing the construction of the new castle with Old Motou.

Ronan decided to keep the crude castle in the cold wind collar as a secondary castle, so that it would be convenient for him to conduct research alone in the future.

Not far away, a more magnificent lord's castle will be built as the main castle for Ronan and his family to live in.

Regarding the construction of this castle, Lao Motou hopes to build it into a solid axis ring castle.

That is to say, the castle has two concentric castle walls, the outer wall is reinforced, and the inner wall is much higher than the outer wall, in order to allow the archers on the inner wall to have a larger field of vision and shooting range, thus forming the inner and outer walls. of crossfire.

Not only that, four towers will be built in the inner wall to ensure that all blind spots are controlled.

What happened to the Pecks family in Black Rock City made Old Mo worried, so his construction philosophy repeatedly required to ensure the safety of the castle.

But Leo was not too happy.

According to Ronan's overall plan, a town of [-] people will be built on the outskirts of the castle, and the defense work can be done by the buildings in the town.

We must know that while the axis ring castle ensures safety, it will also greatly limit the space inside the castle, seriously affecting the quality of life.

He even recommends the urbanized central castle. While ensuring the basic wall barrier, use a large number of stained glass to make glass inlaid windows, and set up skylights everywhere, so that the owner of the castle can always look down on his territory through the windows.

In other words, it is to trade defense for art and beauty.

(End of this chapter)