In the upper camp, more than a dozen alchemical crows rise and fall in an open space. They are enjoying delicious food, chopped fresh meat and full wheat.

    The guards in the camp are not surprised at this. Now everyone knows that this big bird named dust falcon is a pet domesticated by the Lord and is very useful.

    In Victor''s collar, guards can simply use the dust falcon. When the guard team goes out to patrol, it will take a dust falcon. If it needs to send a message to the camp, just point out the direction to the dust Falcon and make a special gesture. The dust Falcon will fly back to the camp with a letter. After completing the task, the dust Falcon will fly back to the patrol. It can remember the direction and smell, which is much more flexible than the red eyed crow. Therefore, the dust Falcon has become the favorite partner of the guards.

    Victor scattered the golden wheat on the ground and led the gold crows to compete. Looking at these energetic birds, Victor couldn''t help smiling.

    Victor has created 8 alchemy militia, 19 alchemy auxiliary soldiers, 25 alchemy crows and 5 alchemy war mastiffs. There are 3350 gold sols left in the alchemy tower. In Victor''s view, the alchemical crow is the most cost-effective alchemical unit. It was these alchemy crows that allowed his orders to be transmitted to each escort team within dozens of minutes, kept smooth contact with each village, and helped him monitor the edge of the territory to prevent unknown threats.

    The alchemical war mastiff is the unit with the lowest cost performance. Although they are powerful and smart, they have obvious limitations. First, their size is too conspicuous. Secondly, their main weapon is 8-10 cm long tusks. It''s OK to deal with small and medium-sized targets. It''s difficult to kill large targets at one blow. Dogs usually eat their prey alive, which is why. The most important thing is that each alchemical war mastiff has a life span of 800 gold sols and an average of 200 gold sols per year, which is the most expensive of all alchemical creatures. Therefore, Victor did not want to produce more war mastiffs.

    He scattered the last handful of wheat. Victor clapped his hands and walked to his office. When he entered the room, Lilia and Nelson were admiring the huge bear skin. They had been watching it for half an hour.

    Seeing Victor coming in, Nelson asked excitedly, "it''s incredible, sir. A ferocious bear was shot and killed so easily. How did they do it?"

    When Victor asked Nelson to identify the bear skin, Nelson couldn''t believe his eyes. Only the fierce bear had such a huge bear skin. Then he checked it carefully and found that the bear skin was extremely tough and difficult to be hurt by the sword. It can be confirmed that this is a fierce bear skin.

    Fierce animals are extremely difficult to hunt. They are not only very fast, but also have excellent endurance. Most importantly, violent animals are very sharp and can avoid most traps. Like such a ferocious giant bear, Nelson admitted that he was not his opponent, and an ordinary crossbow could not even shoot through its thick skin. Now, the invincible monster has been shot and killed, and even its skin has become a booty.

    Nelson knew that Victor had a secret force under his command. It was these people who went to patrol the mountains. Unexpectedly, they not only completed the task, but also hunted and killed a ferocious giant bear.

    Victor stroked the glossy thick bear skin and said casually, "they''re just lucky. This giant bear is mating with a female bear and happened to be met."

    Although Victor had something to hide, the nature was the same. Anyway, he died for the female bear.

    "Nelson, I don''t know much about the leather of violent animals. How much do you think this leather can sell?" Victor asked with a smile.

    Nelson reluctantly touched the bear''s skin and said, "Sir, leather is a relatively cheap commodity in dodo Kingdom, but a complete ferocious giant bear''s skin like this needs to sell at least 10000 gold sol. After all, the leather of ferocious animals is very rare. As for what price Gambis can sell, I don''t know."

    "So much money?"

    Victor was shocked by the price. 10000 gold sol is a huge sum of money. With this money, he can produce at least eight more alchemy militia.

    "Don''t sell it. This bear skin can make Victor a suit of leather armor." Lilia quickly objected.

    Lilia''s intimacy moved Victor a little. With his current physique, he can fully equip lock armor, but it will affect flexibility and speed, so Victor still chose leather armor. Ferocious bear skin is the excellent material for making top leather armor. But for Victor, money is the most important now.

    Victor shook his head and said, "bear skin must be sold because we''re going to expand the guard soon."

    Nelson''s eyes lit up and grinned, "Sir, is this true?"

    "Victor, no! There are not enough manpower in the territory now. How can we expand the guard at this time?" Lilia said to victor, ignoring Nelson''s eyes.

    Victor tapped gently on the table, and the expansion of the guard was his deliberate decision.

    At present, the internal planning of the territory has been on the right track, and has formed an interest alliance with the York family diplomatically. The York agents also withdrew. Victor also provided several advanced design drawings to the York family. Fortunately, these design drawings are not sensitive technology, and it doesn''t matter if they leak. Most importantly, Victor wants to keep the secret of alchemists. If the York family spies continue to operate in the territory, it is difficult to ensure that the dull alchemists will not be exposed to them.

    Victor wrote a letter to Sylvia, fabricated the source of these technologies, and shamelessly threw the pot on Sophia''s head in order to cover up the existence of alchemists. Victor believes Sylvia will not doubt that the content of the letter is the most reasonable explanation. Even if there is a loophole, Sylvia will complete it according to her own logic. No matter how smart a person is, he can''t doubt what he doesn''t know. Alchemy is what the York family doesn''t know.

    Now that the nail has been pulled out, Victor can confidently and boldly enrich his strength. The first step is to recruit more people.

    Victor pondered for a moment and said, "I remember that master Edwin said that we can''t control more leaders without enough strength. Therefore, if we want to recruit more people, we must first expand our armed forces. Moreover, our territory is very large and needs more soldiers to control it."

    The hereditary Baron leader covers an area of about 5000 square kilometers and has a population of about 10000. The Baron''s full-time guard generally does not exceed 300, as well as 1-3 knights and about 10 trainee knights. Victor''s collar covers an area of 12000 square kilometers, with a population of more than 2000, 100 guards, Nelson comparable to Knights, 8 alchemical auxiliary soldiers and 5 alchemical war mastiffs. Although Victor doesn''t have a knight, Victor''s high-end force is not slightly weaker than that of an ordinary baron. The silver crossbow gives victor the money to fight with the knight. The heavy crossbow can easily shoot a ferocious bear, so it''s no use shooting an ordinary knight. The problem now is that Victor''s territory is too large. He is also preparing to mine fine iron ore and oil wood in the mountains far from the center of the territory, so he needs more guards.

    Nelson nodded again and again, deeply convinced of the Lord''s decision. Linda has complained to him more than once that there are too few people in the security team and asked for the deployment of his guards. Nelson had a headache. The guards needed to patrol too much, and they had to send someone to act as a coachman.

    Lilia also nodded and said, "we really need to expand the soldiers, especially sister Linda''s security team. Recently, free people have been moving to our territory, and more than 70 people have been accommodated in the free people''s camp. It is estimated that someone will come later."

    Victor did not find it strange that the free people moved in. Now it is a warm season, with lush vegetation and wild vegetables everywhere. It is the time for the free people to move.

    "According to the method taught by Barol, separate these new free people, ask them one by one, and try not to let spies in. In addition, these people can not participate in the labor of the village, but can only be engaged in carrying and road construction." Said Victor.

    Lilia frowned and said, "Victor, if these people are not allowed to work in the village because of spies, we still don''t have enough manpower. Even recruiting free people from Heibao town can''t eliminate the problem of spies."

    "Who said we were going to recruit free people from black Fort?" Victor smiled. Seeing Lilia and Nelson looking at him with puzzled eyes, he said, "aren''t there more than 600 people in Pinghu village?"

    Victor knew, of course, that there would be a large number of spies to recruit people from Heibao Town, and maybe York was not the only one. But even if there are spies in Pinghu village, there are very few. Who cares about a free private land? Even in Victor''s early days, the York family planted several spies for special reasons.

    "Your Excellency, are you ready to attack Pinghu village?" Nelson asked with bright eyes.

    Victor said coldly, "I''m going to summon Bayer again. If he doesn''t want to see me, he can only send him to the Lord of glory."

    Victor originally planned to recover Pinghu village in two years, mainly because of the intervention of the chebman family. Ten days ago, the old knight of the York family bluntly killed two spies of the chebman family and expelled one. This is the York family''s warning to count chebman. Victor decided to take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the time when count chebman was frightened to pocket Pinghu village.

    Moreover, under the pressure of the alchemical war mastiff, Pinghu village can no longer provide purple sugarcane to the chebman family. Victor believes that the chebman family will not react to the attack on Pinghu village. Anyway, the mountain camp has been favored by the chebman family.

    "My Lord, I''ll go back and gather people to make a battle plan." Nelson said excitedly that he didn''t believe Bayer would answer the call. The guy had refused the Lord''s repeated calls.

    "Don''t worry, there will be no fierce resistance." Said Victor confidently.

    Victor plans to use the alchemical war mastiff to lead Bayer out, and then use the silver crossbow to snipe him. The remaining diehards are not enough. Pinghu village, which has lost Bayer, will not fight the Lord''s army at all.

    Just as victor was ambitious to implement his plan, he did not know that a terrible crisis was quietly approaching.

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    "Madam, more than 1300 people, led by Paladin Claude, headed for victor."

    The Sheriff of black fort, shacks, looked at the countess Sylvia with trembling eyes.

    "How can they supply so many people on the road?" Sylvia asked faintly, looking out of the window.

    Shanks replied, "Claude collected a large amount of food from the villepins and more than a dozen carriages. The rumors about the work point system were also spread by the villepins'' supervisor."

    Sylvia turned to count York and agent Achille and asked, "what do you think?"

    "SHAX, you''re such a fool!" The Earl of York angrily scolded, "why didn''t you find out about the wilpan family''s plot?"

    SHAX is speechless. This time is the season for the flow of free people, and most of the mobile free people are lazy and can''t find work. SHAX won''t pay attention to the flow of dozens or hundreds of people. But once thousands of people were organized to migrate, SHAX immediately made an investigation. Only the paladin of the church intervened. SHAX did not dare to take more measures, but informed the countess at the first time.

    "Well, it''s not SHAX''s fault. I ignored one fatal defect of Victor''s work point system, that is, it''s too easy to promote vassals! All free people will be crazy about it. It''s a conspiracy and there is no solution." Sylvia shook her head and sighed.

    Sylvia was a little annoyed. It took thousands of years for the vassal system to gradually form a three-generation promotion model. Due to the long time, many lords, including Sylvia, have forgotten why they want to be promoted for three generations, but habitually abide by this tradition. As a result, she did not find the fatal defect of the work point system, but this defect was used by people with intentions.

    "Madam, Baron Victor is in big trouble! More free people will pour into his territory, and there are church people in it. Many countermeasures will not work!" Archer said, "the Baron''s rule will collapse!"

    "What should we do? Will those cheap refugees destroy our purple cane?!" Cried the count of York, his heart breaking at the thought of the destruction of countless precious purple sugarcane.

    Sylvia shook her head and said, "this is not the time to love purple sugarcane! Baron Villepin, even if he is not a straw bag, can''t go there! It must be Queen Catherine who can see through the weakness of the work point system. The question now is, what will she do next?"

    Sylvia continued: "I''m afraid the free people in other territories will also be moved by the wind. More and more free people will move to Victor''s territory, starve to death, cause unrest and make things big. Victor will be held accountable as the Lord. Then, the problem that he has no castle will be discussed. Then victor will be brought back to the Senate for questioning. In this way, the queen will regain control of little victor 。”

    "What a powerful and vicious queen!" Sylvia made another comment with a sneer.

    The count of York took a breath of the air conditioner and asked at a loss, "what shall we do?"

    At first, Sylvia plotted against Villepin in order to intensify the rift between victor and the prince party. Unexpectedly, Catherine''s counterattack would be so insoluble. If Victor was given more time, he might be able to withstand the crisis, but now Victor has no such ability.

    "Inform the blood Fox and let him bring people into the free people. Those free people must not attack Victor''s camp. Victor''s safety must be ensured."

    "And then?" The count of York rubbed his hands and asked, confident that Sylvia would solve the problem.

    "Then we''ll watch!"

    "Ah!"

    Sylvia chuckled, "otherwise, what can we do? Should we force the free people back? Or kill them all? The church will not allow us to do so!"

    Sylvia didn''t care about Catherine''s plot. Catherine caught Victor''s fatal weakness, and Sylvia also caught Catherine''s weakness. As long as Sylvia insisted on leaving victor in black castle, Catherine had nothing to do.

    "I''m not as good at playing the rules as you, but I only talk about strength with you!"

    Sylvia looked out of the window. A gardener was looking after her roses. Some of them had withered and others were thriving.

    Dark red surged in Sylvia''s dark blue eyes, and the dead roses gradually turned into fly ash and dispersed with the wind under the countess''s gaze.

    "Victor, let me see what you can do. If you can''t solve it, I''ll collect you in the greenhouse."

    Sylvia has charming eyes and pink face.