Age of Empires From Scratch

Eva didn't mind, she wished she could get more work for herself.

However, David knew from the bottom of his heart that with the development of Cold Winter Town, Eva, as his assistant officer, would have to deal with more and more intelligence information. I am afraid that he would not have the extra energy to deal with trivial matters.

"Until then, let Elias work part-time!"

Anyway, Elias Parker, the etiquette officer, is currently working as a housekeeper and servant. With the increase in population, after recruiting some servants, Elias only needs to work as a housekeeper part-time.

In comparison, it is more difficult to find a qualified chef, and it may be necessary to select a suitable target from other worlds.

This goal has to be that he has no worries in the original world, is willing to settle down in Rinwinter Town, and has no ambitions himself.

After thinking for a while, David realized that it is very difficult to find the right person, and maybe he can only follow the fate.

"Or, let Jonah help train some cooks."

"Do you want Jonah to start cooking school?"

"That's pretty good." The school is called New East, and let Van Cleef develop some intelligence personnel from it, maybe it can become the main source of intelligence for the Winter Empire?

However, before cultivating professional intelligence personnel, if Winter Town wants to obtain surrounding intelligence information, it can only rely on the simplest and most direct way: to go around and patrol.

As time passed and autumn approached, an ominous atmosphere began to pervade the northern plains.

The interior of many villages is full of low air pressure, and various contradictions have accumulated to a certain extent, so there is no need for a trigger to detonate these troubles.

The way David learned about this information, apart from soldiers and Arcee’s daily inspections, they could find more and more people who wanted to invade the border of Cold Winter Town, that is, people from other villages began to come to Cold Winter Town up.

Some mature farmers with some age and accumulated experience realized that something was wrong after seeing the harvest getting worse and worse and estimating the approximate harvest yield of the crops.

Many people started to flee: most of them chose to escape from the northern plains, and only a few, that is, farmers who were too far away from Iron Tree Fort and closer to Cold Winter Town, came to David with the idea of ​​trying their luck.

Although in the eyes of these farmers, the northern plains are not as good as advertised, but since Cold Winter Town has existed here for more than three years, there should be a relatively stable way to obtain food, right?

They don't know whether their guess is correct, but they can be sure that if they stay in the original village, they will definitely not be able to survive this winter.

After some farmers fled from other villages to Cold Winter Town, David and Arcie increased the detection distance and flew further a few times.

Although the scene of the conflict was not directly seen, some villages have obvious signs of being attacked.

Among them, Tieshui Village, located in the south of Lindong Town, is the most serious.

Iron Water Village is a village named after the river that flows out of the Iron Tree Forest. This village is located in the south of Rinwinter Town, a distance from the pioneer camp that was destroyed by the elves.

The head of the village, Amamandis, felt that if he kept a sufficient distance from the iron tree forest, he would not attract the attacks of the elves.

The facts gave the village chief a big blow.

The elves in the Iron Tree Forest built a temporary camp directly on the site of the original pioneer camp, facing Iron Water Village far away.

Throughout the year, conflicts broke out between the two sides from time to time. With the help of several noble forces, Iron Water Village was established.

Amamandis, the village head of Tieshui Village, was relieved at first, and only waited for the farmland to be reclaimed. With stable crops, Tieshui Village gradually grew.

As for the cold winter town in the north? Let that lucky Baron of Glamorgan be proud of himself for a while!

Unexpectedly, although the farmland has been reclaimed, and the first round of planting has also successfully harvested potatoes, the output seems to be not as much as advertised at the beginning?

That doesn't matter, and it's not surprising that it is exaggerated when it is advertised.

Moreover, hasn't it been said that the land in the northern plains is barren? Low yields are also acceptable. At least the planting cycle of this new crop is indeed very short. Based on this time, at least three rounds of harvests can be harvested a year.

But when the second round of planting yielded fewer potatoes, Amamantis began to realize that something was wrong.

At this time, the old farmers who followed him to open up wasteland and build a new village had speculated that the third round of planting would have a worse harvest.

"Didn't it mean that this kind of crop is very productive? Didn't that shit Baron Glamorgan become a nobleman because of this thing, and he also has the town of Winter as his territory?"

Amamantis couldn't understand, it was also potatoes, how did that David Glamorgan get enough food steadily?

"This... my lord, could it be because there are very few people in Winter Town?"

In fact, the nobles of Iron Tree Castle were not clear about the specific situation of Cold Winter Town, and their information was still based on the information brought back by Maloney Mansfield.

In that document, the population of Cold Winter Town is quite sparse, with only a few residents.

As for how David obtained the establishment of Cold Winter Town from the capital, the people in Iron Tree Castle are not very clear;

However, they speculated that Baron David Glamorgan, who had obtained the establishment of Cold Winter Town, should have recruited the population to increase the population in the territory.

But the exact number is not clear to everyone. It is only based on estimates, and it is speculated that the number should not be too much.

In addition, throughout the year, the surrounding villages and towns tacitly intercepted the civilians who wanted to go to the town of cold winter. They felt that the population of cold winter town must be very small.

Without enough population, even if Lindong Town is called a town, everyone doesn't take it seriously. In the eyes of these people, it is still a remote village.

"If there are not many people... Do you think we can get enough food from the Baron of Glamorgan?"

"This... Cold Winter Town is the territory of His Majesty the King."

"Of course I know, so we are going to borrow some food from the respected Lord Baron Glamorgan to get through the current predicament."

Although Amamantis said it was a 'borrow', everyone around him understood what he meant.

While the village head of Amamantis was studying how to borrow food and other supplies friendly from Baron Glamorgan, the farmers in his village were also having a headache on how to survive this winter.

Local farmers from Tieshubao, for those farmers who came from afar and wanted to go to Rinwinter Town, but were trapped in Tieshui Village, popularized how harsh and cold winter is on the northern plains.

And their current food reserves are definitely not enough for them to support the long winter.

When these out-of-town farmers knew the problems they were about to face, they also began to regret their original choices. In any case, they never imagined that the farmland they had traversed mountains and rivers and worked so hard to obtain, not only could not make them live a good life, but they even had a question mark on whether they could survive.

"If this place is really that bad? How was that Winter Town established?"

"Who knows? Maybe, as the village head said, His Majesty the King actually gave the baron enough supplies."

"Why would His Majesty do this?"

"Perhaps the Lord Baron of Glamorgan is actually... His Majesty's illegitimate son."

"You don't want to die? You actually arranged for His Majesty the Kingdom?"

"What are you afraid of? I'm not living in Winter Town under the rule of His Majesty the King or that Lord Baron."

The topic of discussion gradually shifted from survival to gossip, but there are also some clear-headed people who are thinking about their own way of life.

"Then, there should be enough food in Winter Town..."

"It should be!" The speaker looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he whispered his plan: "If the situation in winter is not right, I will go to Cold Winter Town."

"What's the use of running there in winter? Could it be that the Lord Baron of Glamorgan will show kindness and give you food and shelter to help you survive the winter?"

"I met two friends on the way here before. They didn't stop in any villages, but insisted on going to Lindong Town... If the winter can't survive, I will go to them." Speaking of this, the man was helpless Sighing: "The big deal is to be a contract farmer for them, let's talk about it first!"

"..."

Although they spoke in a low voice, the people around heard it more or less. Some of these people also knew the farmers who knew those two people. They all regretted their decision in their hearts. It would have been nice if they had firmly headed to Cold Winter Town. .

Some regret it, and naturally some don't regret it. They feel that even if they go to Lindong Town, their situation will not be much better than it is now.

They're all on the northern plains, they're all on this barren land, and they're all growing potatoes. I'm afraid everyone's situation is similar!

Similar conversations and ideas didn't just happen in Iron Water Village, but in almost all villages and towns on the northern plains.

Even in Frost and Cold Town, some people had similar thoughts at this time: If you can't make it through, can you go to Cold Winter Town?

Sean Forrest, who had real contact with Cold Winter Town, also began to think seriously: Should I "borrow" some food from Baron Glamorgan?

However, he was still apprehensive about attacking His Majesty's territory in the end, and decided to attack the southeast village first.

"Get rid of this group of idiots who don't know how to measure first! How dare you run wild in front of our Forrester's house, you really don't know what to do!"

The road to the west of Shuanghan Town is blocked by Lindong Town. To the north is a worse and harsher area. Frosthan Town can only develop in two directions to the southeast.

As a result, a village blocked the only direction of development, which made Sean Forest extremely annoyed, and prepared to let these idiots get out of the northern plains.

When the undercurrent was raging throughout the northern plains and various conflicts would break out at any time, David and Laura visited the completed Glamorgan Castle and discussed what kind of furniture each room should be equipped with.