ebookslot Chapter 63: High
Chapter 63: High
Early the next morning, Mrs. Morrill led the women's team and the knights' guard to escort nearly three thousand people back to Ashwood.
Ron will return to Ashwood after the city walls are built.
Before coming, Ron gave Old Hall a new order: to have the territory build dugouts and adobe houses with all its might, otherwise the three thousand people would not be able to find a place to live for a while.
Even if we set up tents, we can't accommodate that many people.
However, before undergoing brainwashing education, Ron dared not leave in Harvest Town, lest he become an unstable factor.
Thun led the newly rescued Grimm to Ron's tent.
One hundred and twenty Grimm followed behind him, men, women, and children, with gray-green skin and faces much gentler than goblins.
Some were still wearing animal skins torn from the tribe, while many more were barefoot, their soles covered in bloodstains from the stones.
They stood by the campfire, looking at the Green people in front of them, dressed in uniform leather armor and with short knives at their waists, their eyes filled with confusion and hesitation.
Thun walked up to Ron and knelt down on one knee.
"My lord, all 120 Green people from the Earth Dragon Tribe have been brought here."
This is Ron's rule. Although there will be more and more Greens in the future, he must do this, especially for those Greens who have no names. He will personally name them. The purpose of doing this is only one: to make them remember who gave them everything they have now.
Only when the second generation of Grimm grows up will they no longer need to work so hard.
"The Greens are your new identity, and you will become my subjects, Ron Ashwood's subjects. As long as you remain loyal to me, you will have enough to eat..."
Ron briefly explained what he had to say, and Thun immediately translated it for the new Greens.
"Thun, starting tomorrow, gather all the Grin who do not understand the common language of humans. I will hold literacy classes, and you and Schulte will teach them the common language of humans together."
Thun immediately knelt on one knee to pay his respects.
"Yes, my lord!"
Schulte was another Grimmman who was already fluent in the Common Tongue and could even be described as a scholar among the Grimmmen.
He is very passionate about learning, especially human culture, and he enjoys it immensely. Recently, he has even become fascinated with teaching, mainly teaching the Grimm people.
Ron looked at the Green man in front of him, whose face was full of fear and doubt.
"After the Green people learn the common language, they will be treated the same as other citizens, receiving housing, work points, and food rations."
Thun did not stand up. He lowered his head and said in a low voice, "My lord, the Grimm will always be your sword."
Ron reached out and pulled him up from the ground. "You're not a knife," he said. "You're my cousin. Your mother's name is Tracy Ashwood, and your last name is Ashwood. A knife is a tool; you're not."
Thun's throat moved, his heart filled with overwhelming emotion.
In the evening, Ron walked alone up the cliff face on one side of the canyon.
The setting sun bathed the entire basin in gold, and the vines of the ground yam swayed gently in the wind.
Most of the tents in the basin have been dismantled, and the militiamen are sorting and piling up timber and animal hides. On the cleared ground, people are measuring the foundation of the city wall.
Further away, the rubble at the pass was being cleared, and the excavated earth was piled into neat mounds.
Tang En walked up behind him.
"My lord, if this place were planted entirely with rock potatoes, the territory would no longer have to worry about food."
Ron nodded: "This is our second city. The only downside is that it's a bit far from Ashwood."
The straight-line distance between the two places is more than 50 kilometers.
After thinking for a long time, Tang En finally mustered up the courage to suggest, "My lord, I suggest that a new town be built between Ashwood and Harvest. This would make it easier for people to travel between the two places, and would allow for timely reinforcements no matter which one is attacked."
After all, he used to be just an agricultural officer, a low-ranking official in the territory. It was only after joining Ashwood Territory that he was frequently questioned, and now he has the courage to offer his suggestions.
Ron nodded: "Good suggestion, then I'll leave this to you."
Upon hearing this, Tang En thought his suggestion had been rejected and that the lord was making fun of him.
Tang En quickly apologized, "I'm sorry! My lord, I spoke out of turn."
Ron shook his head: "Your idea is correct, but we simply don't have the manpower right now. We've swallowed so many people at once, and there are still nearly three hundred Greens in our territory. I don't dare to move until they've all been digested."
Tang En nodded in sudden realization.
"That's right. As a territory official, one should be bold in asking questions and courageous in seeking verification. This will lead to better development for both the territory and oneself."
After Ron finished speaking, he patted Ton on the shoulder.
Tang En was almost fifty years old, and Ron's words stirred his emotions so much that he almost wanted to kneel down and bow to Ron.
This must be what it means for a scholar to die for one who understands him!
Ron withdrew his gaze and turned to walk down the cliff.
"Starting tomorrow, the canyon renovation project will officially begin. We need to build the three city walls as quickly as possible."
"Yes, my lord."
Early the next morning, Ron went to the mouth of the canyon to build the city wall. Now his magic power has reached 987. Apart from the 280 magic power loan he needs to pay to the system every day, the remaining magic power can be used to accelerate construction.
In addition to his innate ability to increase construction speed tenfold, the Architect Mage also possesses the skill of accelerating construction.
However, each use requires ten times the magic power, and the effect is only to double the building efficiency.
But Ron is different. There is no limit to the speed of his construction. He increases the speed by one time with one times the magic power, and by ten times the magic power, he increases the speed by ten times. As for whether there is a limit, he doesn't know.
It would normally take an hour to build a 20-meter-high brick wall, and that was after he used creation magic to reduce the construction speed.
Ron arrived at the mouth of the canyon and looked at its width of less than sixty meters. He didn't build it according to the height of Ashwood Town. Anyway, it was such a short distance, so it wouldn't matter if it was built a little higher.
Built to the standards of the Xi'an Ming City Wall, it was 15 meters high, with a terrifying 23 meters wide at the base.
Ron squatted at the designated spot on the wall base, his hands pressed against the ground.
As the civil engineering work commenced, soil surged from the ground, like a sleeping earth dragon being awakened.
They are stacked and compacted layer by layer, and for every meter they rise, the width of the wall shrinks by one centimeter.
The Grimm people present instinctively took a few steps back, and some knelt down, thinking it was a miracle.
It took Ron four hours to raise the first section of the adobe wall, consuming nearly 80 units of magic power. If the blue bricks were to be laid, it would consume at least another half of the magic power. This means that it would take Ron six hours to build a section of such a wall, and the magic power consumption would be eight times that of a six-meter-high blue brick wall.
However, after seeing the height of the adobe city wall, Ron nodded in satisfaction.
Goblins couldn't breach such a wall using only siege ladders.
By the time he finished building this section of the city wall, the sun had already set.
But the area beneath the city walls was already crowded with people.