Chapter 1 New Home, Two Years
When the sun sets in the west, red clouds bloom in the sky, and dumplings walk on the wet and soft beach. He wears a simple dress, takes off his shoes and socks, and wades into the cool water. When the dusk is deep, he climbs up the hills of the castle standing on the shore, sits on the rocks, chews a grass, and looks at the sea water that gradually fades away.
Before I knew it, I had arrived in this room for several weeks, and the first step in the time-traveling Tangyuan, which had passed through the treasure book, also gained some understanding of the world I was in from the words of the people around me.
There is a huge city in the center of the mainland called Santo La Bole. Tangyuan felt it was familiar but didn't take it seriously. He thought it was very far away and seemed to have nothing to do with him.
The town he lives in is called Laika. It is said to be at the westernmost end of the mainland. Although the morning land around it is not fertile, it has never had a famine. Because the income from boiling salt is even richer than that of many inland areas. The Rhine family ruled relatively mildly, and various taxes were much lower than other places. All walks of life were booming, including blacksmiths, actinators, stonemasons, carpenters, and tailors. The wool produced in the territory was the best in the western part of the mainland, and it also brought rich income to trade merchants along these towns along Roderick and Stowe.
In addition to this town, there are several small villages extending inland that guard the territory of the Rhine family. There is also a lot of mines, fertile land and other things. Tangyuan found that his new home was indeed a self-sufficient Gamelo. Of course, it would be even more perfect if there was no villain who wanted his life in the dark!
"Your complexion looks much better."
The person who spoke was named Al Wolft, who was the middle-aged uncle who guarded the bedroom when Tangyuan woke up. He was the captain of the Rhine family's guard. Although he was only in his thirties, he was a hundred swordsman from the entire western continent. It is said that he was a declining nobleman. When he was young, he was helped by Tangyuan's father who had already been murdered by Tangyuan. After Yicheng, he refused to take the recruitment of many great nobles and went to the remote western place to serve Tangyuan's family without fame and fortune.
During this period, Gu Tangyuan observed this bearded uncle who was almost admired by everyone around him. He was a person who was upright and respectable, easy-going, liked to joke but also valued morality. He could be said to be the embodiment of the Knight's Code. If it weren't for this reason, the little nobles in remote areas such as the Rhine family might not have been able to attract celebrities like Al and Wolft.
"Teacher Al, didn't you just call me Closhy?" Closhy (this name is later.) is the name of Tangyuan in this life. After his parents died without meeting each other, Tangyuan, who was only six years old, became the only legal heir of the Rhine family and was also the loyalty target of the hundred people killing swordsmen.
During the coma of Closhy's poisoning arrow, Hundred Mans Killing Swordsman was afraid that there would be any mistakes in the Rhine family's only seedlings. He couldn't untied his clothes and stayed asleep by Closhy's bed for a week. Even after his health improved, he almost never left him. That kind of nervousness and concern was not something that could be pretended just by wanting to pretend. Of course, Hundred Mans Killing Al was too cautious and made him feel a little unhappy if he couldn't enjoy the care of the white and tender maid, but this did not prevent him from labeling the other party as a good person who was honest, reliable, and trustworthy.
Since he was determined that Al was in charge of his own safety, Wolft could trust him, and the new arrival of Closch naturally wanted to win him over. On the one hand, he ordered the housekeeper to improve his treatment, and on the other hand, he respected him more in terms of words than before. A few days ago, he also worshipped a hundred swordsmen as his swordsman's swordsman. Although he failed to let Mr. Al bow down and shouted to show his loyalty, it was not completely ineffective.
The apprenticeship is not just to win over the other party. A week ago, when I met a hundred-man swordsman in the castle courtyard, Cloxi really shocked the other party's martial arts. The heavy sword that most people don't necessarily play with both hands gives him a hand to dance tightly and airtightly. The heavy sword seems to have no weight in his hands. The slash is swinging rapidly, the block is light and agile, and the sword flows beautifully, and there are no extra movements. Perhaps it should be said to be perfect. Standing a few meters away, Cloxi can even feel the powerful wind pressure brought by the sword dance. Even if he doesn't understand sword skills, he can still experience the extraordinary strength of the other party. That is definitely real!
He just came to a strange world and couldn't even figure out the situation around him. If he had hugged such thick legs, after all, before he had strong self-protection power, this hundred-man swordsman was his greatest backer and life guarantee.
Cloxi did not forget that there was a villain who wanted his life in the dark. The better his ability to save his life, the better. He could bring his relationship with Al and Wolft, and learning to learn from his masters, so it would be natural to achieve multiple goals.
Moving his body to the inside of the rock, Cloxi patted the position beside him and signaled Al to sit down. He untied the thin sword around his waist and put it on one side. Al kicked off his boots and climbed onto the rock and sat cross-legged beside Cloxi.
Speaking of which, he has been working in the Rhine family for ten years. He treats Closhy not as good as having feelings for his children and nephews than having them. His biggest wish is that Closhy can grow up healthy and become an excellent lord like his father.
However, since he woke up from injury, Cloxi gave him a strange feeling. The innocent and cute boy in the past had a little more depth that was not consistent with his age. Sitting on the mountain like this was not the behavior he should have at his age. As for the rest, Al didn't think much about it, but attributed this to growing up after experiencing life and death.
"I heard that you and the butler stayed in the hall for several hours today to check the books of the territory." Al smiled. Although the lord's wife seemed to have taught her son in this regard, Al did not think that he could handle these at his current age. After checking, the old steward praised his little lord and was regarded as a polite compliment by his subordinates. Despite this, he was still very happy. Although he seemed a little naive, Cloxi was already trying to prove himself. It was a rare expression for his age. The hardships did make people grow up.
He could probably guess what Al was thinking. Cloxi didn't care much and smiled with his lips: "As a lord, I have to know how many Bira I have."
As he stroked the stubble on his chin, Al replied in agreement. "Oh."
Speaking of which, the Rhine family's territory is not very rich, but because there are other outputs in addition to grain and trade with merchants, most people can just have enough food. Even in this town and a few nearby villages, a territory with a population of less than 6,000 had to maintain a guard of nearly 300 for some reasons. The pressure on finance can be imagined.
"I want to sort out the roads between villages in the territory, and to repair the roads connecting Storna along the way, so that the circulation is more convenient..." Clossey, with bright eyes, picked up a small stone and explained to Alphabet on the rock.
I learned from the housekeeper several of his main sources of income. After finding out the surrounding situation, he decided to make some changes to enhance his strength. Closs felt that Al seemed to know who was secretly attacking the Rhine family, but he did not tell himself that with Al's personality, the other party must be the one who cannot afford to provoke the Rhine family. Al probably concealed it for the purpose of protecting himself. However, whether it is to save his life or to find out the villain who plotted against him to take revenge, it is always easier to have money. It seems that it is not difficult to increase territory based on the situation I have recently observed, but first, you must repair the road. If you want to be rich, you should build the road first.
The money belongs to the Rhine family. As the lord, Cloxi is his own business. In addition, the roads in the territory are good for all villages and towns. It is not very important for the village chiefs of those villages to recruit some of them. Al frowned and thought for a moment, and nodded in agreement.
The two sat on the rock and said something else. Until the night became darker and the air became a little chill, they walked towards the castle on the hillside one after another.
The shepherd drove the bleating sheep over the hills and returned to the town, and the fish boats that went out to work also returned to the port one after another. Widths of smoke arose in the town during the hustle and bustle of daytime. How long can the peaceful and peaceful days last?
It has been two years since I came to this world, and Clossi's attitude towards the new environment has also changed slowly from the beginning to be cautious, suspicious, and guard against it. He tried to understand, accept, and integrate.
Two years of long or short is enough for him to make some changes to the surrounding environment. After the initial proposal to build a road was implemented, Clossi used the Rhine family's old foundation to rebuild a salt field, which was named a prodigal son, and simply had the support of the guard captain Al to finally proceed smoothly. Even so, the huge investment in the first year almost dragged down the fragile finances of the Rhine family. It was not until a year later that the energy of the salt field was gradually released, and the huge profits brought to the Rhine family slowly changed. Seeing that Bila was coming, the guys who kept calling out the prodigal sons behind the scenes were immediately flattered and changed to the lords, and God blessed the Rhine family. When Guan Erye, who was famous in the fence, he would cover his face in shame when he saw them.
It was not a whim to Closei risked the reconstruction of a salt farm under pressure. With his understanding, some of the coastlines of the entire western continent are wrapped in mountains, and there are very few flat sea outlets like Laika Town. Although Laika Town is not big, it is the main salt production area in the western continent. The salt produced has been in short supply since the Rhine family ruled this land.
Before, no one from the Rhine family thought of expanding salt production to increase their income, but they failed to succeed due to excessive consumption of manpower, capital, and technology. Otherwise, it would not be the turn of Closi to show off. In fact, Closi's approach was very simple, but he slightly changed the method of salt making.
Before this, Leica Town mainly extracted salt through the original "frying" and "boiling" method. Using the decoction method to prepare sea salt not only has low yields, but also poor quality, and requires a lot of manpower to collect fuel for "frying" and "boiling". For Leica Town, which has a small population, this precisely limits the possibility of mass production of salt. As a "informed" time travel gangster, Clossi saw the disadvantages at a glance.
Although he has never been to a salt field, he still has the common sense that the method of extracting salt from seawater is the "Salt Field Method". Using this method, it is necessary to choose large flat seaside tidal flats in areas with mild climate and sufficient lighting to build salt fields. According to these conditions, Leica Town can easily achieve it.
The salt field is generally divided into two parts, an evaporation pond and a crystallization pond. Now, seawater is introduced into the evaporation pond. When the water evaporated to a certain level after sun exposure, it is poured into the crystallization pond. If the sun continues, the seawater will become a saturated solution of salt, and the salt will gradually precipitate after sun exposure. What he needs to do is to invest some funds to lay the salt field as well as possible to reduce the losses taken away by penetration.
Although he cannot use three-dimensional steaming method to improve the evaporation efficiency of salt water like the modern salt fields on earth, the salt fields he built are definitely unique in this other world! They are simply an inexhaustible Bila extractor. When the first profit came back, Cloxi piled up the money in a bed of fun, then threw himself into the pile of money, fulfilling his childhood dream of swimming in the sea of money, rolling around and rolling around, having a lot of fun.
No wonder everyone says that traveling through another world is good, and knowledge is the power~~~!
Although he has been busy making money from other people in the past two years, Clossi has not lost his own training. In the first year, he was able to splash the sky with his two-handed sword dances that adults use. In the past year, he has made great progress in carefully tuning sword skills by 100 people.
In Aer's eyes, this disciple quickly absorbed everything he could learn from himself with his amazing talent with his extraordinary perseverance. He steadily swung and cut off, gradually mastered martial arts, and accumulated experience rapidly.
When the second year came, ordinary warriors in the territory could not even become his opponents, and even against hundreds of swordsmen, they could still gesture for a few moves.
Aware of the disciple's natural divine power, Al even asked the blacksmith to create a giant sword for him that weighs three times the weight of an average two-handed sword. His attitude towards Clossi gradually became stricter. His expectations for this disciple were getting bigger and bigger. Sometimes he could even think that he might be teaching an amazing figure!
In fact, Close also realized that his body was a little special. Of course, this feeling was not because of his stinking beauty. He seemed to always feel a special force surging in his body guiding him. No! It is better to say that it is a human being... or the root power of being a living being.
Vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch, Clossi found that his five senses seemed to be far beyond the scope of ordinary people, and were not accessible in his previous life, and they were keen or even sensitive. And from these keen five senses, a vague and indescribable force was vague and indescribable. The sixth sense? Maybe, he attributed these to the time travel welfare that cures all diseases.
Of course, talent is only one aspect to achieve something that others cannot achieve in ten or even in their lifetime in just two years, and hard work is indispensable. In the two years that have been here, no matter how windy, rainy, severe cold and hot, they will complete harsh and even cruel training under the guidance of Al every day, trying every means to hone their body and spirit. Thousands of waves of heavy swords day after day have almost become an instinct! It seems that only by holding the rough hilt of the sword can we drive away the fear of unknown enemies in our hearts.
Clossi never forgot that there was a boss who should be hidden behind the scenes and ready to attack him at any time, although there was no movement from the other party in the past two years...
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Chapter completed!