Traitor Summoning System [Infrastructure]

Leonard was listening to the bard singing.

The bards at this time, the so-called real bards, are not as beautiful as in the movies and novels. In the movies, the gates of each lord’s castle are opened to the bards, and the bards go in to sing, play the piano, Eye to eye with noble ladies, of course, sometimes with the lord, and received various forms of warm hospitality.

But in fact, real bards had a low status in the middle ages most of the time, and they didn't do much the same things as in the movies...they had multiple identities, and their performance was not just playing the harp Singing also includes various juggling performances, hula hooping, torch throwing, monkey training (?) and so on.

General wars must be followed by bards. Some of them are responsible for blowing trumpets to boost morale, and some are in charge of night watch, or serve as literary soldiers.Of course they will also write songs to record how the war happened, the details of the war, and sing about the lords they serve.

In the real Middle Ages, there were no historians. Most of history is what religion says. Of course, there are some historians.

At this time, the role of bard came out.

Generally, lords seldom like love songs, so bards will sing some war epics.

After listening to it for a while, Leonard said, "Any other performances? I'm tired of listening to these songs."

That's all he listened to in Great Thorn Castle. He sang hundreds of lines back and forth to the same tune, and his head got dizzy.

Then the bard started throwing three torches at the same time, and danced on his high heels, and kept throwing torches back and forth.

Bachelor Rutherford next to him praised: "What a powerful bard, he's so dexterous, he won't be able to step on shit in high heels."

puff--

Leonard: "..."

Leonard: "Praise others if you can."

This way of boasting is also ingenious, but don't tell me, it really fits the current special background.

Then the bard said: "My lord, I still have a unique skill, put my head inside a lion's head and stay for a while."

Leonard: "..."

This is also a traditional skill of bards, and many bards will indeed do this in order to gain a position.

"I don't have any lions here," Leonard said.

Some castles do raise some ferocious beasts. Leonard definitely doesn't need to raise ferocious beasts. He has to feed them. It would be nice to have a few slaves when he has the time.

The bard gasped, "Do you want to see me and the bear perform? I can do it too."

Leonard: "Huh?" Put your head in the bear's mouth?Fight a bear?Mao Zi's true colors?Speaking of which, the bard's hair is indeed red.

Rutherford, a well-informed university student next to him, said: "Well, in fact, honey was smeared on his lower body, and then the bear was put in, and then some exciting and somewhat indecent performances were performed."

Leonard: "..."

Lu Bu next to him sprayed wine directly: "What the hell."

Good guy.

The entertainment life of medieval lords is really colorful.

"Forget it." Leonard's mouth twitched, "Let him go down."

The bard sighed regretfully and left.

……

Dorothea's caravan came back, and this time, besides the cattle, he brought back two large hounds and a small hound.

The two big hounds were very well trained and looked majestic.

Leonard is also a dog owner from now on!

"Buy some more cats." Leonard said to Dorothea, "Catch the mice in the castle, um, and you can pet them by the way."

Cats were ominous in many times in the Middle Ages, but not all the time, at least in this continent, cats were not associated with evil.

In fact, many people in Rome kept cats. At that time, they did not eat freshwater fish, which were mainly used to feed their cats.

Leonard stroked a mighty hound, and immediately felt like a lord.

Take the knights under your hands and lead the hounds to go hunting, hehehe, hehehe.

Seeing that Leonard liked these two hounds very much, Dorothea knew in her heart that what the noble lord likes, the lord of the family may also like it.

Leonard: I have planted so much land, can't I enjoy it!

Batches of coke are being smelted, and bricks are still burning. Cai Lun leads a group of slaves to make heating facilities in full swing, and Lu Bu's latest job is to lead everyone to prepare forage for winter.

Here, it is inconvenient for many people to get fodder for livestock in winter, so they slaughter livestock before winter.

Of course Leonard wouldn't do that.

He asked Lu Bu to be responsible for the forage problem in winter during this time.

Of course Lu Bu understood this very well.

In terms of concentrate, barley, bran, etc. are all good feeds, but just like people eat various foods, livestock also need to eat different types of food to be healthy.So Lu Bu took his slaves to collect a lot of pasture, green grass, vegetable leaves and other materials, spread them out to dry in the clear weather after the heavy rainy season, and then tied them into bundles to make hay, and put them in the warehouse for later use. .

The warehouse in Little Thorn Fort is still very large. There were not so many materials that were not needed before, but now they are finally used.

Conrad, the butler, has more and more work, but he's very happy about it.

In addition, Lu Bu also silages a batch of grass.

Silage is an important technology for raising livestock. Of course, ancient China knew about silage a long time ago. It has a history of more than 500 years and is a great creation of the working people, while it started in Europe in the 18th century.

The ancient Chinese were really cheating.

Specifically, silage is to put fresh forage into a silo or tower, and then be fermented by microorganisms in an oxygen-free environment for long-term storage.The grass under the silage is soft and juicy, and has good palatability, which is conducive to livestock breeding. This is a great way to make a fortune in animal husbandry.Winter is a good time to grow fat, and the forage at this time is very important.

Cai Lun also knows silage technology, this guy can do everything, but he is busy with heating, so Lu Bu does it.

Digging silage cellars is particular. First, it must be in a convenient place, and then it must be leeward to the sun. There must be no groundwater, and the land must be firmer.There is no shortage of manpower here, so Lu Bu dug a rectangular silo with his slaves, built it with bricks, and plastered it with lime mortar.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a certain material. For physics, you can find Cai Lun, and for chemistry, you can find Gongsun Sheng.

At this time, the importance of having bricks is reflected. If you want to build any building, you can use a cart to pull the bricks and build it in one day.

Everyone in the territory is busy now.Leonard looked around and found himself idle again.

Leonard returned to the castle for dinner. He gnawed on the hard bread and thought, um, I've wanted to make yeast for fermenting bread for a long time. Now that there are plenty of supplies, I'll give it a try.

The first thing to do is the yeast mother liquor, and Leonard used the fruit preparation method.

He picked apples, which he had the most on hand, and had a high success rate of using apples as a mother liquor for yeast. Apple yeast and grape yeast are the two most common fruit yeasts.

The flavor of bread made by different yeasts is different. The longer the yeast you keep, the better the flavor of the bread.

First, Leonard boiled the bottle with water and sterilized it at high temperature.

When cultivating yeast, you must first pay attention not to mix any bacteria, otherwise this long-term fermentation is too easy to mold.

Cut the apples into small pieces and put them in a high-temperature sterilized bottle - of course the kitchen knife and chopping board also need to be sterilized.

Then pour in the cold boiled water that has been boiled and let it cool, then put honey, and cover it.Stir daily with sterilized tools.

Leonard used to use white sugar, but it is also possible to use honey here.

A few days later, Leonard noticed white mold appearing in the bottle.

Well, it looks like the dirt got in and failed.

It's normal to fail under such conditions, Leonard was not discouraged, he sanitized again, and redid it.

He stretched his neck to observe every day, and the mold never appeared.

A week later, when the lid was opened, there was a smell of wine, and very rich small bubbles appeared around the apples.

Leonard took a sharp breath happily, ah, this taste is powerful and successful.

Fish out the apples to make jam. Although there are plenty of supplies now, don't waste them.

The original liquid inside is the original yeast liquid.

The most difficult part is over, and the next step is to feed the yeast.

Leonard poured the same weight of flour into it and stirred it evenly, then he went to do other things. When he came over at noon, he saw that the dough had swelled into a big bag.

Completely successful.

The next thing is quite fun, just like keeping pets.

Pull some yeast out to make bread, and the taste of the remaining dough will gradually become sour, and water will precipitate out, which means that the yeast needs food, and he needs to feed the yeast.

Add flour, then add some water, the dough expands again, after a while, the yeast is hungry again, continue to repeat this process, keep adding flour, add water, the fermented dough continues to flow.

The longer the time passes, the faster the yeast will be hungry and the volume will expand larger and larger.

It would not be worthwhile for the family to raise their own yeast, but Leonard has such a big castle and makes a bunch of bread every day, so Leonard is only worried about not having enough yeast.

……

The stone castle absorbs heat at its hottest, then releases the sweltering heat into the air in the evening.There's not even a breath of wind, it's terribly stuffy

The gentle afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled in Little Thorn Castle, and came in through its narrow windows.The hall of Little Thorn Castle is hung with tapestries, cloth and satin in every color.Various stories are depicted on it.

Leonard and Milton, the town councilor of Evening Bell, are taking a walk.

Leonard is fine and likes to go for a walk with this silver-haired political officer.

“Before winter or after the first snow of winter, when wildlings from the south venture in, it can be a messy time,” Milton said.

"They come to find food," Leonard said, which is similar to historical nomads.

"Yes." Milton said, "But this year there is a large army, so it should be fine."

What about an army of 150 people?

"Do they speak our language?" Leonard asked.

Milton shook his head: "Most of them won't."

"Some will." Leonard said, "Why not capture them as slaves?"

"These people are not easy to tame, they are not easy to obey," Milton said.

Leonard nodded, "So..." Lu Bu would probably like these people as soldiers. "If I give them a house and residence, do you think they will willingly become my subjects?"

Milton paused and said, "My lord, I know that you often have good ideas..."

"Well, I also know that my thoughts are good." Leonard said.

Milton took a bump, then said, "But a lot of the time it's not that simple."

"I also know, but I am the lord, I give simple orders, and you complete the complicated work, isn't it all like this?" Lennarn said.

"Huh? Ah, it seems to be too." Milton said.

"You can now receive one more silver coin every month," Leonard said.

Milton said shyly, "Yes."

"I didn't give you a salary increase to sympathize with you. Your income is already high enough. I raised the treatment for the slaves because the slaves received too little before, but you have received enough before. I I will give you one more silver coin to allow you to do more things, and you have to afford this silver coin.” Leonard said, “Don’t keep thinking about evasion and complacency, I reuse you to do some practical things. practical things."

Milton's expression became solemn: "I understand, my lord."

"Well, this is my will," Leonard said, "If there are savages coming here before winter, give them food and tell them that if they can't survive, bring their own clan to my territory, and I will arrange accommodation , My territory welcomes all outsiders with good intentions."

Now in this land, Leonard has the ability to open his own door, accept travelers from all directions, and accept the scrutiny of various forces.

His own strength is his greatest confidence.