Come to another world and become a lord

Chapter 166 Subsequent arrangements and sudden changes

Carl sat in front of the fireplace, looking out the window at the heavy snow. It was the end of the year, and the winter in the North was incomparable to other places. Most of the roads were covered with snow. Now was not the coldest time, the real coldest time would be around January or February. Such weather was not suitable for fighting. Let's stop the troops and rest. Although we had just defeated the main force of Torrentso, it should have been a good opportunity to continue the attack. But Morgan had experienced too much, and everyone was tired and needed to rest.

I remember that at this time last year, the Great Khan was heading south, and King Philip, in a panic, named him Baron of Reikburg and ordered him to guard the city.

A year had passed in the blink of an eye. He had experienced so many dangers in the past year. He had been fighting with others almost all the time. In early spring, he had a big fight with Morton over the ownership of Porter Village. Then Baron Henry was poisoned, which triggered the defense of Greyburg. He defeated Morton with the help of the mercenaries of the four major chambers of commerce. Later, he was framed and trapped in the capital, and almost lost his life. But in the end, he still defeated Morton and took over Morgan County. He thought everything was over. Unfortunately, after a period of peace, he experienced this great rebellion and the siege of the four earls in the north... What will happen next? No matter what it is, at least he should rest well now.

Of course, there are still a few things that must be done. The first is the problem of Candle Castle. This rebellion also made Carl understand one thing. The local old noble forces are dissatisfied with him. Now that Victor and his party have been eliminated, they have been frustrated, but they cannot be completely eradicated. Especially since Candle Castle is a big city, its complex interests are not something he can sort out in a short period of time. In addition to the nobles, there are also gangs. When he killed Iren with his own hands, he had some conflicts with these people. There are also spies planted by other earls here, and the interest groups they represent. As long as Tilda is still the nominal earl of Morgan County, these people will continue to take advantage of this, constantly challenge him, and try to drive him out of the center of power.

In this regard, he thought of the simplest solution: move the capital! Move the capital of Morgan to Rickburg. That is his territory, his foundation, and everyone is his. Once Tilda enters Rickburg, it means that she is completely under his control, and no one can interfere. Moreover, Rickburg has now become a town with more than a thousand people. It has an excellent foundation. As long as it continues to develop, its potential is even greater than that of Fengzhu Castle.

When he proposed this to Tilda, she did not resist at all and quickly agreed. It seemed that she had accepted her fate.

Apart from that, there were things happening on the tribal side. A few days later, he received a letter from Nura, which first congratulated him on his successful suppression of the rebellion, and then explained the current situation of the tribe.

The letter reads:

"With the coming of winter, the attacks of the orcs have increased instead of decreased. They seem to have become more ferocious and fearless than before. Even explosions cannot scare them away... and our productivity is beginning to fail to keep up with the demand."

This is indeed a matter of concern, and it needs to be resolved as soon as possible, and it is the highest priority now. Since he has returned to Morgan Territory, he should take on the role of production and increase the production capacity of gunpowder to support the needs of the front line. At the same time, there are artillery and muskets. He has wanted to make these two things more than once, but he has been dragging it on until today. However, upon closer thought, muskets are still difficult. The biggest difficulty is the production technology of seamless steel pipes. It is actually very difficult to rely on the blacksmith's own craftsmanship, and even if there are skilled craftsmen who can really make it, it cannot be mass-produced. In order to make muskets, first of all, you need to invent machine tools and perforating equipment, which is even more difficult. Even he actually has only a vague understanding of the structure of machine tools, and only understands some principles.

However, casting cannons should be possible with the technology of this era. Let's make cannons first, and talk about muskets later. But at this moment, he suddenly thought of a person, the dwarf Goswin, the president of the Hammer Trade Group, one of the four major chambers of commerce. In this world, the blacksmithing skills of dwarves seem to be better than those of humans. Maybe he can ask him about the technology that humans cannot achieve, maybe he can get a breakthrough from the dwarves? With this idea in mind, he immediately wrote a letter to Goswin.

With the end of this great rebellion, the traitors were eliminated, and the pattern of Morgan Territory also changed greatly. After Baron Andre of the South Fortress was executed as a traitor, he incorporated the fortress into Alia's Viscount Territory as his direct territory. Count Campbell Dao was not an ordinary person, and only the girl could guard it to make him feel at ease. At the same time, the traitor Edgar's territory was given to Parn as a reward for his defense of the North Fortress, and Parn was posthumously named the third Viscount of Morgan Territory. The two cities in the west, one city was given to Selena, and the other city was awarded to Altai.

But Altai was a little reluctant at first. He said that he would serve the Khan without asking for anything in return, but he would reward those who had made contributions, which was Karl's principle. In the end, the other party couldn't persuade him, so he had to accept it and expressed his loyalty once again.

In addition, there was Bishop Eleanor. The girl handed over all the recently accumulated verdicts of vicious cases and asked him to make the final decision. For some reason, Eleanor now seemed to be particularly on his side. In the past, the girl insisted on the Vatican's control over judicial trials, but now all cases involving the death penalty and disability penalties will be sent to him for the final decision. He roughly flipped through them and found that a man killed his wife and children with a hoe in anger because of family trivial matters. The two quarreled, and finally turned into beatings, and finally someone was killed. He roughly browsed through them and found that most of them were impulse killings. The number of murders in the past few months seems to have increased a lot, which is more or less related to the unrest in the world. Carl sighed, and then signed the four words "allowed to execute" on each verdict.

In this way, he spent a whole day to roughly deal with the accumulated government affairs in the territory. Then the last thing was about the three captured people: Yasha, Hilde, and Dongfang Yao. What should he do specifically?

Yasha had clearly proposed to pay the ransom, but this was not attractive to him. Morgan County was not short of money now. Moreover, it was not easy for him to just pay the ransom after causing him so much trouble.

"Let's trade them," he said to Arya. "Take the three of them for the entire Barony of Bertie."

"Three people in exchange for four cities? Will the other party agree?" Alia expressed her concern.

Karl, on the other hand, seemed full of confidence. Of course they would agree. He had already known from Amira that these three were the real decision-makers in the Earldom of Torrenso, and Earl Mia was more like a decoration. It didn't seem too much to change a few cities for such people.

But when he put forward his conditions to Yasha, he was strongly refuted by the other party.

"You have no choice in this matter. Even if you disagree, I can still take over the entire Berti Territory by force." Carl replied bluntly, "I am willing to negotiate with you now, but I just want to save a few lives. What's more, this was originally the territory of Morgan Territory. Now I am just returning it to its original owner."

When he said this, he could clearly see Yasha's expression dejected.

When Carl emerged from the dungeon, an irrepressible smile appeared on his face.

"They agreed?" Aaliyah asked.

"Of course, they have no choice." Carl replied happily.

The next step was to write a letter to Mia. In addition to Carl's signature, the letter also included the signatures of Yasha and the other three. It was then sealed and sent out.

Then there was a boring wait. It had been more than a week, but there was no response from Dorenso. Just when Karl was puzzled, he suddenly got the news that Count Mia Dorenso had come to Morgan Territory in person and was now in a small town called Fort Desolate Hill in the west.

This news also made Karl breathe a sigh of relief:

"She finally responded~ Since the Earl from the opposite side came in person, we can't be too rude here~"

Then a huge welcoming team set out from Rickburg and headed for the border town. Among them were Alia, Selena, Mage Amira, Bishop Eleanor, and even the nominal Count Tilda of Morgan County - sitting in the Earl's exclusive gorgeous carriage, escorted by Carl himself.

The Fortress of the Desolate Hills was once the territory of the traitorous Baron Gus, and has now been granted to Altai as its main city. Its walls are made of rough stones and mud. Although they are of a certain height, they lack a solid structure. The erosion of the years has left the walls covered with cracks and mosses.

The city gate was also dilapidated. The wooden door panels had long been eroded by wind and rain, and the iron door knockers were covered with rust and creaked. There were almost no watchtowers on the city walls, only a few simple sentry posts to guard the surroundings. Occasionally, a few tired guards could be seen on the city walls, but they were also careless.

There were only about a hundred residents in the city, all of whom lived in poverty. Children could often be seen running barefoot in the mud on the streets, their laughter carrying a hint of childish carefreeness.

At this time, Karl was standing in the lord's bedroom, looking at a girl on the bed, with a puzzled look on his face, even a little stunned:

"What on earth is going on? What happened?"

The person lying on the bed was none other than the Earl of the Earldom of Torreso: Mia Torreso! The girl had lost her former vitality and willfulness. Now she lay motionless on the bed, unconscious, with a high fever, and a painful expression on her face.

"The guards said that when they found her, she was outside the city gate, barefoot, with tattered clothes on. She was obviously very weak, but she still shouted that she wanted to see you, Khan." Altai said, "No one knew her identity at the time. They just opened the city gate out of kindness. It was only later that they knew she was Mia."

"Hmm." Carl nodded thoughtfully. Although he didn't know what happened exactly, something big must have happened in Torrentso!