Chapter 341 Transportation Channel

"Your Highness, do you know who sent these people?" After Vader left, Carter approached and asked.

"The one who owns the pill, apart from the church, is Timothy. Garcia is far away from Greycastle now, and it is unlikely that she still misses me." Roland sighed, "Compared to the former, Timothy is more likely, he Now I don’t dare to send a large army to leave the capital, but that doesn’t mean he won’t retaliate against me.”

Fortunately, these assailants who mixed into the crowd only carried pills, and they were not covered with gunpowder all over their bodies. Otherwise, if it detonates in the crowd, the efforts of the past two months will be in vain.

Roland was not worried that the "Death Squad" he sent would threaten him. When Nightingale was not around, he would bring more than a dozen personal guards with him wherever he went, and he also wore the God's Stone of Retaliation. Not to mention drug addicts, even an extraordinary witch can hardly get close to her under the pressure of ten revolvers.

He found that in less than a year since he took the position of lord, his mentality has changed a lot. If you are here for the first time, seeing this posture will inevitably make your legs weak and be at a loss. But just now, although he felt a little nervous, he still pretended to be calm on the surface - he knew that the guards would stand in front of him and stop the enemy desperately, and as the focus of the crowd's eyes, he couldn't have The slightest loss of composure surprised even himself.

"Call all the people from the envoys over and ask them about the detailed process of their recruitment," Roland turned to Barov and said, "I need to know where these people boarded the sailboat."

"Yes, Your Highness." The head of the city hall looked a little gloomy, probably because he didn't expect the proud subordinate he sent out to make such a major mistake, and felt quite embarrassing.

"Don't be too harsh on them, first ask about the situation before talking."

After all the refugees passed the checkpoint, Roland returned to the castle office. This time, the news brought back by the envoys surprised him—in the southern region, there were a large number of displaced people. Eagle City and Clearwater Port were destroyed by war, and many fields outside the city were abandoned. Coupled with the weird weather this year, the temperature in all parts of Graycastle has dropped sharply, the price of food has been rising day by day, and even the price of slaves has dropped by half.

As long as he can establish a reliable transportation channel, he can continuously introduce these populations to the Western Territory—in fact, according to the report of the envoys, after hearing the development and recruitment order of Border Town, many refugees have already begun to spontaneously come to the Western Territory. Advance to the west.

However, the difficulty lies in the "transportation channel".

The heavy snow of the Moon of Demons blocked the entire land transportation, and if you want to bring people in, you can only transport them through the Chishui River, and Border Town only has a small town ship that can't move without relying on a witch, which is far from meeting the demand—— If there are ships sailing on the waterway all the time, at least twenty or so inland sailboats must be invested.

For example, the envoys sent out this time fell into such a predicament: only a small part of the golden dragon they carried was used to attract refugees, and most of the rest was spent on hiring ships and resettling people. So far, only 400 people have arrived in Border Town, and more than 3,000 people are still stranded in Liuye Town, Silver Light City, and Falling Dragon Ridge, waiting for ships to be transported.

In addition, each ship owner is well aware of the current situation in the Western Territory, so they have raised the price very high. The estimated cost of these 3,000 people alone is already the same as the previous Royal Capital Rescue. This is not a long-term solution at all. Roland thought for a while, and decided to send a letter of appeal to the Margery Chamber of Commerce, hoping that the other party would not quote a price that was several times higher for Lightning's sake.

But if you want to completely cut off this part of the expenditure, you still have to build your own boat-now the quality of steel and cement has been greatly improved, and you can build stronger and larger inland flat-bottomed boats, using steam engines as power to build this boat. Chishui River traffic line.

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After lunch, Barov knocked on the door and walked in, "Your Highness, I have roughly clarified the situation."

"explain."

"A disciple named Salem was in charge of going to the Northland to attract refugees. On the way back, due to lack of boats, he contacted friends he had met in the capital before, hoping that they could help inquire about or hire some merchant ships willing to go to the Westland." Baro The husband sighed, "This is where the news should have come out... He placed all the refugees in Silver City, which is only half a day's journey away from the capital, so it's not difficult for Timothy to make a move."

"How many people are currently stranded in Silver City?"

"About 800," Barov said in a low voice. "It takes half a month for merchant ships to go back and forth. When the next batch of refugees arrives, we don't know what will happen. Or...immediately call back the first army team and send these people Give up."

"No no, how many people Timothy inserts in, we can just eliminate them one by one. At that time, we just need to check the checkpoints and let them pass through the cards separately." Roland shook his head and said, "If the refugees are thrown in Silver City No matter, what if someone returns to the Northland and publicizes what happened to them? We will never try to attract people from there again."

Under Sylvie's clairvoyant observation and Nightingale's questioning of the mantra, no spies or assassins could hide, so he wasn't worried about it, as long as they didn't hurt other refugees.

"Yes, Your Highness." Barov coughed twice before asking, "Then...the treatment of Sai Lun, you see..."

"what do you think?"

He hesitated for a moment, "This happened because he was too careless. I suggest that he be removed from the city hall and fined for two months' salary. The fault of Sai Lun was not intentional, nor did it cause too much damage. It is not appropriate to distribute the mining area on the North Slope due to serious damage.”

Roland couldn't help laughing out loud, and the other party wrote his heartbroken expression on his face, "Don't worry, I've made a decision. Considering that he made this mistake because of lack of experience rather than dereliction of duty in the subjective sense, it can be taken from Light treatment. After all, this is the first time he has held such a position... I remember he is only in his twenties? If so, after this lesson, he must be able to grow up quickly. Just fine him two months' salary. "

"I obey," Barov immediately bowed, "I will do as you say."

The prince smiled and shook his head. Although he said it very harshly at the beginning, when he really wanted to punish him, he showed an indistinct sense of resignation—after all, Salem had been by his side when he was in the capital, and it was the same. A group of disciples who first arrived in Border Town. In Barov's eyes, it is almost the same as the children he raised.

"Go down."

After dealing with this matter, Roland stretched. He took out a few blank sheets of paper from the drawer, and when he was about to draw a sketch of the steam cement boat, Ye Zi suddenly ran in.

"Your Highness," she said excitedly, "The Yuanwang is back!"

"Really?" Roland stood up abruptly, and followed her quickly to the back garden. I saw the huge hot air balloon slowly descending, and the shadow of the airbag made the light in the courtyard a bit darker.

As soon as the hanging basket hit the ground, Anna jumped down. Roland opened his arms and went forward, who smiled and hugged him gently.

"I'm back."

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