The tail of the earth season, the weather began to become hot. Especially on a sunny day like today, it''s hot and people just want to hide in the shade.

    The brick kiln village led by Victor has no shade. More than 200 strong farmers, braving the sun, are busy on the open field. Their bare arms and sweaters, their bare backs covered with sweat, but they had no time to wipe them. Countless green bricks were moved from the drying room to a two wheeled scooter. The coachman pulled the heavy scooter straight to the loading and unloading yard, where more than a dozen strong and durable ox carts were waiting to load.

    On a hill in the south of Zhuanyao village, a lot of houses have been built on the shady side. This is the residential area of the villagers of Zhuanyao village. Every house here is made of bricks. Now the main use of wood is as fuel. The huge brick kiln below consumes countless dry firewood every day.

    Victor stood under a canopy on the hill, overlooking the brick kiln village below. Victor had a sense of satisfaction whenever an ox cart full of green bricks left the loading and unloading yard.

    "Sir, since the giant brick kiln was put into use, there have been 60000 bricks out of the kiln at one time. Now we produce 12000 green bricks every day." Dean, head of brick kiln village, proudly introduced to victor.

    Dean volunteered to be the head of brick kiln village. Although he was still eager to cultivate the land, he was still impressed by the magnificent building when the chimney more than 30 meters high was built. In fact, other village leaders are also very tangled. Everything here is like a miracle in their eyes. In brick kiln village, the whole process from embryo making to brick making can be completed in only 20 days. This efficiency is beyond the imagination of the villagers'' team leader. According to their previous experience, the process of drying the soil alone takes as long as four months. Therefore, when the first batch of green bricks produced by the giant brick kiln came out of the kiln, hundreds of villagers cheered for it. This exciting scene infected everyone. Dean immediately recommended himself to Victor as the village head of the brick kiln village, and then other village leaders began to compete for this position. Finally, Victor chose Dean. He just wanted to encourage this atmosphere of volunteering.

    Victor picked up a finished green brick and squeezed it hard. The brick didn''t move. This aroused Victor''s interest. He began to exert force secretly according to the force method of Funiu''s Secret shape. Finally, a crack appeared in the solid green brick, and finally one broke into two.

    Dean was stunned. He knew the quality of these bricks. They were much stronger than the bricks made by local method. How could they become so fragile in Victor''s hand? Dean quickly picked up the broken bricks on the ground and pinched them with all his strength. There were still no cracks in the bricks.

    There is no problem with the quality, that is, the Lord''s strength is far beyond ordinary people. Thinking of this, Dean looked at the LORD with admiration.

    Victor''s expression was as plain as water, but his heart was secretly complaining. Now his physique has reached 10 o''clock. He is also proficient in the cultivation of Fu Niu''s secret form. Just now he mobilized the power of the whole arm to pinch the green brick. Of course, the green bricks fired by the alchemy auxiliary soldiers were very strong, and it was too heavy for Victor to pinch them with his fingers. Now the whole arm he hid behind him was twitching. With Victor''s current muscle mass, it was difficult to continue to bear the force of Fu Niu''s Secret shape.

    I knew I wouldn''t install it! Victor shook his arm quietly and said to Dean, "I''m still satisfied with the quality of these bricks. Do you have any difficulties in presiding over the brick kiln village now?"

    Dean''s eyes turned and he glanced at alo on one side, but the chief craftsman of brick kiln village was as unresponsive as wood, which made Dean very frustrated.

    Arlo''s brick making skills are excellent, but he is too dull. Dean originally hoped Arlo could help him put forward conditions to the Lord. Now he can only speak by himself.

    Dean hardened his head and said to victor, "Sir, we need more people. Now the workload of brick kiln village is very heavy every day, and the big guys are very tired. Therefore, I hope adults can send more people."

    Victor domor has been silent for six months since he took control of the territory. In addition to the hill camp, two farms, a brick kiln village and a Carpenter Village, have been built in the territory. Flax village has been built and blacksmith village is under investigation. The biggest problem now is the shortage of manpower.

    Victor currently controls a population of more than 1200, nearly 700 adult men, more than 200 young women, and the rest are mainly children and the elderly. There are 900 people who can really work. Among them, 100 are guards who do not need to work. Among the remaining 800, 250 are in brick kiln village, 80 are in Carpenter Village, 200 are responsible for building flax village, and 200 are led by Maureen to reclaim land, collect crops, raise cattle and horses, harvest purple sugarcane, make wine and sugar. The remaining dozens are responsible for transportation.

    Now all the village leaders are asking Victor for people. At the last meeting, everyone quarreled over manpower. Dean said he needed more labor, and he was immediately scolded. Maureen said that the main economic income of the territory now depends on crude sugar and purple cane wine, so he needs to transfer manpower from other places. The head of the Carpenter Village, Philo, said with a sneer that the wheels they produced sold very well in Heibao town. If more people were given to him, the income of the Carpenter Village would certainly exceed that of Maureen''s farm. Kent, who was preparing to build the linen village, took out a piece of fine linen and showed it to everyone. He proudly said that this kind of fine linen was prepared by his two men and was of perfect quality. The noble master must be willing to pay a high price for it. Even Nelson was excited by the mood at the meeting, but he was stared back by Victor before he spoke.

    In fact, the biggest manpower gap is the transportation fleet. Bricks need to be transported, timber needs to be transported, purple sugarcane needs to be transported, and even clay needs to be transported in the future. To this end, Victor bought more than 40 healthy cattle in Heibao Town, and the ox cart was made by the Carpenter Village. There were ox carts, but the problem was that there were not so many Coachmans. Victor had to hand over the transportation task to Nelson''s guard. That''s why Nelson wants to expand the guard.

    According to Victor''s plan, the brick kiln village must expand two giant brick kilns, which is related to the grand plan of his castle. In addition, once the blacksmith village is built, he needs hundreds of miners. With the increase of these workers, the territory needs more people to engage in logistics work, including transportation, farming, garment making, security and public security. Victor calculated that he still needed at least 500 strong workers, plus their families, should be about 800.

    Dean looked at Victor nervously. He knew that this request would offend other village leaders, but as the village head, he had to fight for the interests of his subordinates.

    Victor pondered for a moment and said, "there is a shortage of manpower everywhere in the territory. You are already the village with the most manpower. Therefore, we will not send any more manpower to you for the time being."

    Dean was disappointed, but he still said to Victor: "Sir, the villagers are really lucky and hard. Now everyone''s work enthusiasm is not as good as before. If we can''t take measures, I''m afraid there will be a slowdown."

    Victor knew Dean was not threatening him, but the truth. At present, these people do not have wages to get, and relying on meat tickets alone is not enough to boost morale.

    "Well, I allow you to promote 30 leading people every month and recommend two work points. In addition, every time you recruit women, your brick kiln village gives priority to 20. These women can also be engaged in embryo making. We will recruit more people soon. Before that, you need to cultivate more backbone in the brick kiln village."

    When Victor offered the big killer, Dean smiled and nodded.

    Victor encouraged Dean again and left the brick kiln village surrounded by guards.

    In the spacious and comfortable carriage, Lilia, dressed in a white fine linen dress and loose hair, put a candied fruit pickled with sucrose into Victor''s mouth.

    "Victor, why don''t we continue to recruit people? Now, our monthly income is more than 200 kinsol, and we can afford more people." Lilia said sweetly to victor.

    Victor smiled. Now the crude sugar in the territory is selling well. He has sold two silver sols a pound, and those humble wheels have sold 10 Silver sols a pound. But this money is still too little for victor. He needs more money. Victor knew that the best way to make money was to set up a caravan. For example, if Lilia''s long thin Linen Skirt was transported to the Sassanian Empire, the value would immediately increase by ten times, and then if Sassanian cheap sheepskin was transported, there would be five times the profit.

    But the formation of the caravan is not urgent. It depends on the Lord''s contacts. Victor urgently needs manpower now. But before recruiting leaders, Victor had to solve a problem, the problem of spies.

    According to the news from old John and his family, the York family conducted a census of the free people outside the city and took away many skilled free people. The skills of these people were not valued by the York family. They had better craftsmen, but the York family recruited these people. Obviously, they believe that many of Victor''s new technologies were created by craftsmen among the free people. This also shows that Victor''s brick kiln village, Carpenter Village and flax village all fall into the eyes of the York family.

    Although the technology produced by the alchemists is a common commodity, Victor will have no advantage if he does not remove them. What''s more frightening is that the York family is very interested in Victor now. If Victor starts recruiting leading people, they must send more spies. Once these people join hands with the already latent spies, they will form an all pervasive intelligence network. Therefore, we must dig out the spies in the territory first.

    Of course, when Victor recruits the leading people, the York family will still send spies, but those people can only climb and roll at the bottom. They don''t have many opportunities to contact the core. They are particularly vulnerable to exposure without anyone to cover.

    "Of course, people have to recruit, but before that, it depends on whether Barrow''s old fox can really help us dig out the nest of mice."

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    Robbie, the steward of Baron Villepin''s house, walked carefully through the castle and was about to see his master, which made him a little nervous.

    Since the family steward was killed in Heibao Town, Baron Villepin has become particularly irritable and often whipped people for small things. Now the attendants in the castle are careful not to make a mistake, so as not to become the Baron''s vent again.

    In a stone chamber, a man in a red cloak was looking out of the window.

    "Good day, my Lord. I heard you summoned me." Said Robbie respectfully.

    The man turned around. He was about thirty years old, blonde, handsome and strong. He was wearing a light blue hunting suit, and a ruby button fastened his fiery red cloak to his chest. It looks vigorous and mature. He was Baron Villepin, the cousin of Queen Catherine.

    Baron Villepin turned and smiled at Robbie''s jaw. "Robbie, I have something for you to do."

    The Baron''s warm and graceful smile relaxed Robbie''s nervous mood. He bent down and said, "at your command."

    "I want you to go to Heibao town and spread a message among the free people. About Baron victor."

    Robbie was excited when he heard that he was dealing with Baron victor. He knew that Baron Victor hated Baron Villepin very much, and they suffered a lot. Robbie is excited to have the opportunity to vent his anger for adults now.

    "Sir, what news do you want me to spread?"

    Villepin smiled and said, "I want you to publicize Victor''s wealth, Lord Victor''s kindness, and his work point system of directly promoting the free people to vassal."

    Robbie was stunned for a long time. He wondered if he had heard wrong. He is good at spreading rumors, but it is the first time to spread rumors praising his opponent.

    "Your Excellency, do you want me to praise Baron Victor among the free people?" Asked Robbie carefully.

    Villepin nodded and said affirmatively, "you heard right, just let you praise him. You don''t need to ask about other things. You can start now."

    "Yes, my Lord, I''ll go now." Robbie didn''t dare ask any more questions and bowed down.

    Seeing Robbie riding away from the castle, Villepin smiled with satisfaction.

    Baron Villepin was not the eldest son of the family and had no right to inherit territory, but he had a powerful cousin. His cousin Catherine was only the daughter of a little noble family. Since she became the queen of Gambis, Villepin''s family immediately got involved with her. But Catherine never took care of these relatives, but severely restrained them. But after Ryan died, Queen Catherine''s attitude towards the family changed 180 °. She quickly appointed many relatives to hold important positions in the court. Even the second son of his family was arranged a territory by Catherine and became the pioneering Lord of the man horse hills.

    Villepin was so grateful to cousin Catherine that he vowed to be loyal to her. Originally, Villepin''s territory and Victor''s territory were connected into one piece and became horns with each other, but Victor patted his ass and changed the territory to the York family. Villepin''s territory was immediately surrounded by the territory of the York family. Now, when Villepin''s motorcade goes in and out of the human horse hills, it will be heavily taxed by the York family.

    Villepin hated victor. When the steward was killed by Victor''s guard, Villepin was furious, but he had nothing to do.

    Villepin wrote a letter to Catherine describing victor in detail. He hoped that her Majesty would severely punish Victor, a traitor. After waiting for a month, Villepin finally received a reply from Catherine. Villepin was amazed by the content of the letter. He immediately began to layout. The first step was to arrange the steward Robbie to praise Victor among the free people.

    "Victor, you''re finished. It''s no use even if you''re Mrs. Rose''s lover. Your Majesty''s layout is inextricable!"