Celestial Mage

Chapter 228 This Place Has Bad Feng Shui, You Have to Change It (14)

From Yinyue Castle all the way north to Xinyue Town, it takes about one day to ride a fast horse, but if it is an ox cart that transports goods, it takes two days.

But in Huangshui Heights, 150 bullock carts, 60 mid-level Silver Moon Rangers, 300 mercenaries, and more than 2 accompanying civilians were already an extremely powerful force.

Not to mention ordinary bandits, even the baron dare not make a move.

Of course, if Fubosi went crazy, he would have the ability to kill people by bringing the Second Silver Moon Army who was willing to go crazy with him, but it was obviously impossible.

So, it was smooth sailing along the way.

At three o'clock in the afternoon the next day, the convoy arrived in Crescent Town safely.

To be more precise, it arrived at the original site of Yuehui Town.

As the convoy entered the periphery of the town, Rosen began to carefully observe the former Yuehui Town.

It was burned to a piece of scorched earth due to the war, and then a new town was built on top of the scorched earth, but the new town was burned to ruins again.

It's like being cursed by the evil god's bad luck.

The ruins have been deserted for more than a month, and the scorched and broken walls have been covered with a layer of green weeds.

The area of ​​the ruins is very wide, with a radius of about 700 meters, and they are basically wooden buildings.

It must have taken a lot of effort when it was built at the beginning, and there must be many people who have expectations for a better life.

It's a pity that the reality is cruel, and all the longing has been blown away with the wind.

On the edge of the ruins, you can also see a lot of scattered and simple grass sheds.

After hearing the movement outside, the residents in the shed ran out one after another to watch. They were all old people, children and disabled people, but none of the healthy young men and women could see them.

They looked at the convoy, and most of them had curiosity in their eyes, but more fear.

There are a few people with a hint of greed in their eyes.

Borrowing the perspective adjustment of the adventure log, Rosen saw everyone's expressions in his eyes, and secretly sneered in his heart.

'The Iron Arm Brotherhood has a lot of eyeliner. '

After turning his gaze around the shed, he looked at the forest around the ruins.

The nearby mountains and forests were burned to the ground, and within the visual range, there was a rolling grassland.

In the grass, you can see bare blackened tree stumps, many of which are not completely dead, so many new branches have grown.

In the woodland near the ruins of the town, there are a large number of fields that have been simply cultivated, and many of them have been planted with crops.

But because of the lack of care, there are more weeds in the field than the crops, and the crops are thin and weak. It is rare to survive, and the harvest is not a concern.

Rosen looked at it for a while, then turned around and beckoned to a young man in his 20s.

"Gaius, come here and bring the map of Crescent Town."

Gaius is the land official, a talent recruited by Harak.

His future work will be to survey the terrain near Xinyue Town, measure the land, divide the farmland for farmers, and confirm the boundaries of each field.

"Yes, Mr. Rosen."

Gaius came up with a large scroll.

"Sir, this is the map left by the previous land official. It is not very accurate and can only be used reluctantly."

Rosen nodded to express his understanding. In fact, he had seen this picture before and had a new idea.

He felt that the feng shui of Yuanyuehui Town was not good, and the town would have no future if it was built here.

have to change.

At this time, Harrick came to ask: "Mayor, start unloading the truck?"

"Don't unload it yet, our Crescent Town is not built here."

"Ah? Where is it built?" Harak was startled.

"I have a preliminary idea, but I need to investigate on the spot. It will be done soon. Uncle, let everyone rest in place first, and find a place where we can sleep safely overnight."

"Okay." Harrick turned around and went to make arrangements.

Rosen opened the map and glanced casually.

The original site of Yuehui Town had a flat terrain, a relatively wide field of vision, and not too far from the mine, but it also had huge shortcomings.

There are no rivers around here, and any transportation work must be done by animal power, and the irrigation of farmland is a big problem.

In the past, Yuehui Town relied on pyroxene mines to survive, and most of its food was purchased from outside, but now it is different.

With so much land, if it is used well, it can support a lot of people. Even if there is no pyroxene mine, they should be able to live well.

After looking at the map a few times, his gaze was fixed on the right side of the map. Ten miles east of Yuehui Town, there is a meandering river passing through the mountains and forests.

He immediately asked Gaius, "What is the volume of the river in the east?"

Gaius shook his head: "This is a tributary of the Hanshui River, called Moon Creek."

"It's not far from the origin of the river. The flow of the river is small, the river channel is narrow, and the terrain on both sides of the river channel is complicated."

"There is a dry season for half a year every year, and in the flood season between spring and summer, it is easy to have astonishingly destructive flash floods."

The implication is that the river is not easy to use.

But Rosen thinks it is good. In his opinion, as long as the water volume is enough, it doesn't matter if it is unstable, and a dam can be built to regulate it.

He thought for a while, then turned his head and shouted to Chapolei, who was chatting with the rangers, "Uncle, I'll take a look around, pay attention, and watch out for sneak attacks by the rebels."

"Okay~"

Xia Bolai waved his hand to express his understanding.

Rosen reached out and grabbed Gaius' arm: "Come on, let's go directly to the river."

After speaking, he activated the flying technique, took Gaius into the sky, and quickly flew towards Moon Creek.

After flying for a few seconds, a figure quickly followed, but it was Serendis wearing a neat leather armor.

She said: "Together, so that we can take care of each other."

Rosen's heart shivered, and he knew that he was a little careless. After all, this is not Silvermoon Castle, which is protected by the Earl.

He nodded, "Okay."

So, the three of them flew eastward all the way.

In the sky, Gaius could only feel the strong wind coming, and the ground below him was empty, and the ground retreated quickly. He felt both excitement and fear, and couldn't help screaming.

About 5 minutes later, the three of them stood on the top of a short mountain next to Yuexi River.

Gaius stepped on the solid ground again with both feet, his legs softened, and he sat down on the ground, breathing heavily.

"Mayor of the town, next time, please notify me in advance so that I can be prepared."

"I will."

Rosen and Serendis stood side by side on the top of the mountain.

Serrandis looked around, carefully guarding his surroundings.

Seeing her like this, Rosen simply exchanged his flower staff for her, while he took the holy dagger.

"Honey, I'm going to focus on surveying the terrain next, and I have to rely on you to protect it."

Serrandis curtsied to Rosen jokingly, and said with a sweet smile, "Of course, Lord Mayor."

Rosen began to focus on observing the Moon Creek in front of him.

It was early autumn at this time, and the water surface of Yuexi River at the foot of the mountain was about ten meters wide.

But that's not the point.

He found that most of the sides of the stream were high mountain walls, which just outlined an irregularly shaped valley.

Rosen was overjoyed: "It's really a good place to build a dam."

"Alice, let's look up and down the river."

The two flew high into the sky, overlooking the stream and the surrounding terrain from afar.

It was not enough to look at one place, so I followed the stream up and down for more than 20 miles before returning to Gaius.

Before Gaius could speak, he pulled him up and flew into the air again. After flying downriver for 10 miles, he finally landed on a relatively open and flat plain.

"The mayor of the town." Gaius couldn't finish his sentence.

Rosen waited for him to recover, pointed to the scorched land around him, and said, "What do you think, how about New Moon Town being built here?"

"what?"

Gaius came back to his senses and began to carefully look at the surrounding terrain. After looking around, he looked at Rosen again, hesitating to speak.

"Want to go to the sky to see?"

"Yes." Gaius swallowed, with uncontrollable horror in his eyes.

Rosen immediately satisfied his thoughts, and flew him all the way to a height of hundreds of meters, looking down.

Gaius was shaking violently all over, and it was with great difficulty that he overcame his fear and carefully surveyed the terrain below.

After watching for a while, he opened his mouth and said.

"Mayor, this is a good place. The only problem is that once there is a heavy rain in summer, the upstream mountain torrents will erupt and wash all the way down, easily submerging the land."

"Then how about building a dam upstream and an aqueduct downstream, releasing flood water along the aqueduct in spring and summer, and storing water in autumn and winter?"

"Oh~ this should work, but this is a big project."

"As long as you can."

In Rosen's view, this project is not big at all, and it doesn't even have any major technical content. It can be built with only compacted loess, not to mention petrochemical technology.

After looking around, he was satisfied and returned to the convoy with Gaius without landing.

With the previous flight experience, Gaius got used to it a little bit, and actually enjoyed it a little while flying.

When he returned to the team, the young man was still a little bit reluctant.

At this time, Rosen still had about [-]% of his mana left, and Serrandis still had [-]% of his mana, which was equivalent to warming up his body.

He picked up the map, drew a circle on the map with a charcoal pencil, and found Harak in the crowd.

"Uncle, our Xinyue Town is built here. It's about thirteen miles away from here. It's too late today. Let's continue on our way tomorrow morning."

"This?"

Harrick looked at the map carefully, scratched his head, and asked, "There seems to be no way to go here?"

"Currently there is no main road, but there are mountain roads, and the terrain is not too undulating. There should be no problem with the bullock cart."

"But in this case, it's a bit far away from the mine."

After all, guarding the mines for Silvermoon Castle is a major obligation of the lord of New Moon Town to Silvermoon Castle, and cannot be neglected.

"In the beginning, it was a bit far, but it will get better soon."

"Uh good."

Harrick is only in charge of specific government affairs, and the overall direction depends entirely on Rosen. If he says to do it, then he will do it.

"Now the recruitment announcement can be sent out, and this part will go according to the plan we have discussed."

"okay."

The so-called well-discussed plan is a strategy used to deal with the Iron Arm Brotherhood.

Harrick then shouted to the crowd.

"Ola~ Announcer Orla~ go to the shed and read the announcement to the townspeople. Knight Hamill, you send a team of warriors to protect him."

"Officer Griman, follow along and make a good count of the town's remaining population."

These days, farmers are basically illiterate, so there must be a special announcer with a loud voice to read documents to the farmers.

As for the protection of soldiers, it is also necessary. There are rebels in the mountains to the north, and these rebels must have hidden eyeliners among the old, weak, women and children.

And Griman, as a Dianmin official, mainly works to collect statistics on the specific situation of the citizens, and will also be responsible for managing population-related matters in the future.

For example, which family has a baby, which family gets married, and which family dies, he will register it and report it to the local temple.

A group of people led the way.

Rosen was not idle, and together with Harrick, he called together a dozen political officials and began to discuss the detailed town building plan.

This is not his specialty, but it is the specialty of these officials.

Rosen just had to come up with an overall idea and let them figure it out, and Rosen just had to coordinate resources in the middle.

After a while, the civil official Griman came back first and reported the details of the town to Rosen.

"Mayor, there are only 536 people in the town. There are 50 elderly people over 289, accounting for more than half. There are more than 50 women under 120 years old, but they are all over 35 years old. They are ugly and have some diseases. "

"Of the remaining 136 people, 30 are children under the age of 10, and 70 are men with disabilities, either lame, severely hunched, or mentally impaired."

"In short, I couldn't see a decent one, but anyone with some ability ran away."

This situation was expected by Rosen.

"I see, you go to rest."

After a while, Ola the Announcer also came back.

"Mayor, the recruitment announcement has been read out in place, and everyone clearly understands the content of the recruitment announcement. But it seems that no one is interested, and everyone says you are lying."

"Very well, next, you send people to the surrounding villages to make an announcement."

"The core is just one sentence, control food and housing, and the wages are 1 kray a day. You must spread this sentence to the ears of everyone in the New Moon collar."

This sentence is for every citizen, especially for the rebels in the mountains.

Six or seven thousand strong men and women, it would be a pity not to get them out to farm.

"Yes, mayor." Announcer Ola turned around and went to make arrangements.

Rosen turned around and continued to discuss work with other political officials.

Just when he was so busy that he didn't even have time to drink water, a few blurred figures appeared on the hillside in the distance.

These people wore withered white leather armor that was the same color as the ground, and were covered with a lot of weeds. The contours of their bodies were completely integrated with the surrounding grass.

They lay on the ground and watched the convoy in the distance quietly for half an hour before retreating quietly.

(End of this chapter)