Chapter 227 Chapter 199: City of Miracles

Everyone was shocked by Du Wei's almost crazy decision.But everyone knows very well that the young Duke doesn't look like he's joking.Maybe he's crazy, but it's definitely not a joke! In the following days, Du Wei mobilized almost all his forces. The original 4,000 infantry led by Robert had already been stationed in a barracks outside the city of Gilliar.The problem facing Du Wei now is: the weapons and equipment in stock can only arm a thousand soldiers. Damn Governor Bohan, his men ransacked so hard when they retreated, they took away even basic weapons and equipment.Du Wei took a look at the equipment in the warehouse, and many of them were rusted.Barely put together 800 sets, let 800 soldiers arm themselves first...

And the remaining 3,000 people can only train with bare hands for the time being. Fortunately, Du Wei had already made some plans before coming to the Northwest. He immediately sent people to attack in all directions, and traveled almost all over the Northwest to buy all the building materials needed. In the warehouse of Gilliar, the capital, to Du Wei's surprise, there are still a lot of building materials that can be used here-apparently, the previous government also realized that this dilapidated city could not be repaired, and prepared a Batch of materials, but the lack of funds, so that the plan was shelved indefinitely.

Of course Du Wei happily accepted these things with a smile. And after he assigned a series of tasks to his subordinates, he hid himself in the dilapidated governor's mansion, closed the door, and didn't know what he was doing.Only occasionally Du Wei would summon some craftsmen, but their conversations were strictly kept secret. Time passed quickly for more than half a month. During this half month, Made led a group of servants and almost broke his leg. He spent a lot of gold coins and bought countless supplies, wood, Mud tiles, etc... But to everyone's surprise, there was no purchase of food.

General Longbottom wrote a letter, and then got a few people to copy an unknown number of copies, and then sent people around. In fact, the content of each letter is exactly the same: "I have returned to the northwest, if you are willing to do it with me, come to Giliar City to report!" The signature below is an oddly shaped pattern. General Longbottom was gathering his old troops.Soon, in less than a month, there were more than a thousand people in the barracks outside the city.These more than a thousand people are all the elite cavalry that once followed General Longbottom across the northwest.After these veterans retired, most of them returned home and became farmers, tailors, blacksmiths, or even small laborers.

A month later, 5,000 sets of infantry armor weapons and equipment, as well as armor weapons that can equip 2,000 cavalry were all delivered.In this matter, De Lanshan Warcraft, the most famous rich man in the empire, helped a lot.This big businessman operates a lot of weapons and has a lot of relationship with the military. The weapons that Du Wei bought from him are all configured according to the first-class standard of the main battle army of the empire.In addition, there are military short crossbows, longbows and so on. This time, it cost Du Wei hundreds of thousands of gold coins.The army is really a bottomless pit of burning money.

Relying on Longbottom's relationship in the northwest, he bought thousands of high-quality war horses.In this way, the 4,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry in Du Wei's current hands finally don't need to hold fire sticks.Everyone is armed. Longbottom had drilled his old unit for a few days, and the guys had washed off the dust and looked military again.In the barracks outside the city, General Longbottom's loud voice can be heard every morning: "Get up! Boys! Put on your equipment and ride your horses, we're starting practice! If anyone falls behind today, I'll punish him to wash the boots of everyone!"

No one knew how the general drilled his old troops, only that he would call up the gang every morning, and then all of them would ride out on horseback, and would not return until evening.Sometimes, it is two or three days after going out. It's just that every time they come back, these guys are exhausted and covered in dust, as if they were fished out of the mud. And Philip and other disciples under the Blue Ocean Sect controlled the administrative organization of the Desa province in the shortest time-this is not difficult. In fact, there is really not much daily administrative work to do in such a poor area.

Everyone was busy, and even Hussein had no time to rest. Du Wei dyed his hair blue with a special potion, and because he was blind in one eye, the paladin's face Wears a blindfold.In this way, I believe that in the northwest, no one can recognize the most wanted criminal in this temple. Fortunately for Du Wei, such a barren area in Desa Province probably doesn't even look up to the temple, so there are only two religious places in the entire Desa Province, and they are all near Nurin Province. Knight Robert was very busy. Du Wei not only handed over the 4,000 rebels to him to command, but also made him responsible for recruiting recruits—no way, Du Wei had too few people under his command.

In the northwest, the people are strong, and it is an area that produces strong soldiers. Unfortunately, the population is sparse, and only 3,000 people were recruited in a month. Robert Knight formed a reserve infantry regiment and mobilized a few of his own men to practice every day. And Hussein is also a very good candidate sent by Du Wei to help Robert Cavaliers train.Hussein was originally the Grand Knight Commander of the Holy Knights, and someone who can lead the Holy Knights should train this group of recruits well, and there should be no big problem.Of course, Hussein drilled cavalry, which was not too difficult a job.Because in this place in the northwest, although it is barren, almost every household has one or two nauseous horses, and children can ride horses.

Soon, the barracks outside the city were in full swing. When the second month came, everyone began to wonder if Lord Du Wei had really gone crazy. He said three months to build a new city, but now a month has passed, but he has been hiding in the Governor's Mansion all day long. A large number of building materials have been transported to the address of the selected new city by the Loulan Lake.There used to be a small town with less than a thousand people, but now a large amount of supplies are piled up there like a mountain.Du Wei thought of a lot of ways to hold back the five hundred imperial guards and let them serve as guards to guard the supplies by the Loulan Lake.These Royal Forest Army have been a little dissatisfied.This place in the northwest really made them a little unbearable. Everyone hoped to return to the world of flowers in the imperial capital as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Du Wei finally didn't make everyone wait any longer. On the fifth day of the second month, he finally walked out of the Governor's Palace.Everyone noticed that the Duke's already thin body seemed to be even thinner, his face was a little pale, his eyes were a little red, and his face was full of exhaustion.But Du Wei is in good spirits. "Gentlemen, remember today, because starting from today, you will witness a miracle happen with your own eyes!" ... Early this morning, all the residents of the small town by the Loulan Lake were called out, and the location was in the farmland outside the town. The land in the northwest is barren, but by the Loulan Lake, the land is not bad because it is close to the water source.Grain production is relatively high in the Northwest. Du Wei issued an order to thousands of residents in the town, he needs some people who can do farm work, the more the better! "You just plant it for me, and then harvest it for me! It's as simple as that." Du Wei's order was very clear: "And your rewards... All the workers, you can take ten cents of the grain you harvest. one." This weird order surprised everyone present. Who can't do farm work?After all, this kind of town is full of farmers, and even women can do farm work. According to Lord Du Wei's order, everyone planted all the seeds distributed into the ground.It took everyone two days. At the beginning, everyone was waiting to see the joke... Is this noble gentleman an idiot?Planting this season?Or does he have too much food, wasting it for fun? But soon, everyone stopped laughing. In the early morning of the third day, Du Wei appeared on the stage wearing his magician robe, and then he carefully asked people to carry out more than a dozen buckets of water, then he carefully observed the weight, took out a bottle from his arms, and Each bucket of water has a few drops of liquid. Du Wei began to cast magic. The magic he cast was not complicated, it was just a water magic that any intermediate magician could cast. After he finished chanting the incantation, everyone could see clusters of vortex airflow appearing between the hands of the noble lord very quickly. The vortex airflow had infinite suction and sucked the dozens of barrels The water was all sucked up.Seeing more than a dozen water jets soaring into the sky, the air flow above the head became more and more turbulent.Finally, after Du Wei chanted a few spells loudly, the wind picked up... The vortex gradually formed a small rain cloud, and then under Du Wei's command, the dark cloud floated above the farmland... The sun is shining, but the thin raindrops have already swayed under the dark clouds... The drizzle fell silently and evenly on the farmland, from south to north, from east to west.After the clouds dispersed and the rain gathered, under everyone's shocked eyes... In the originally bare farmland, sprouts emerged from the soil one by one, and then grew wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye! In less than half a cup of tea, the originally bare fields were already full of crops! Witnessing this miracle, countless ignorant farmers began to pray loudly, and more people knelt on the ground looking up at the sky, shouting the name of God excitedly. "What are you waiting for! It's time to harvest food! No matter how much you harvest, you can share one-tenth of the fruits of your labor." With Du Wei's order, thousands of farmers waved their sickles like crazy and rushed to the fields... This scene repeated for fifteen days!And every day, Du Wei can make the dealers in the farmland grow repeatedly two or three times! After a long time, everyone will be overwhelmed!The grain in those farmlands seemed to be growing like crazy. After harvesting like this for a few days, many people were exhausted. Du Wei immediately asked the thousand recruits he brought to supplement the labor force. And then, the problems that happened were even more bizarre.The sickles were not enough, and the recruits simply took out their swords to harvest, and finally even all the granaries were full.The food that cannot be put down can only be left in the open air in the town. Seeing the piles of grain getting higher and higher, everyone wondered if they were crazy or dreaming.But the soreness in the waist and legs made everyone sober. From then on, the way these people looked at Du Wei was almost the same as looking at a god! In fifteen days, the farm by the Loulan Lake was harvested countless times.A large amount of food made the huge motorcade prepared by Du Wei busy.One by one granaries were built.It was not until the end that everyone was too tired to move that Du Wei ended this crazy move. And the result is... Du Wei estimated that in the next year, the food prices in the two northwestern provinces will be greatly reduced! Then, in the town, a grand and unprecedented celebration was held.All the people went crazy, drinking and dancing, cheering for the harvest created by the gods.The festivities lasted all day and all night, and everyone got drunk and drank all the wine they could find... but no one felt sorry.Because next, they don't lack food for winemaking! After the carnival, after everyone rested for a day, Du Wei announced: "Start building the city!" For more than a month, Philip has worked hard to recruit thousands of workers from all over the Desa Province, and also collected all the craftsmen that can be found in various places.I finally waited for the Lord Duke to announce the start of the construction of the new city...but only half of the three months he said were left. Witnessing the super bountiful harvest created by the Duke with magical magic, Philip's original doubts have been shaken!To be able to create such a miracle... Maybe it is not crazy to build a new city in three months! "All you need is to work at night." Du Wei gave a simple order to the thousands of craftsmen Philip hired: "You don't need to do too much heavy physical work, in fact, I just need you to do some tinkering. It's just a pounding job." Afterwards, Du Wei once again demonstrated his miracle! Just like creating a good harvest, Du Wei asked Madd to send people to plant a sapling outside the selected new city address, and then he used the "time lapse" spring water to artificially rain again. Afterwards, nearly a thousand saplings, most of which grew into towering trees within a day! After blowing the horn of life, a thousand giant treants were awakened... What awaited them was a mountain of materials... There is no doubt that the most primitive treant companions without much self-awareness are the best laborers. They are infinitely strong, tireless, and very obedient! Those huge stones that require dozens of people to move can be easily lifted by a treant and placed where they should be placed. At the beginning, those craftsmen were frightened by these huge monsters. They ran around like crazy, thinking they saw monsters, and they were quieted down under the suppression of Du Wei's army.Then, after confirming that these giants were not dangerous, soon, thousands of craftsmen worked hard! As Du Wei said, most of the heavy physical work has been undertaken by these giants, and what the craftsmen need is just tinkering and knocking. For example, when building the city wall, the tree people easily laid a layer of stones, and the craftsmen immediately rushed to fill it with sand and the like... In less than ten days, the city wall to the north has begun to take shape! This speed is frighteningly fast! Philip led a group of Mr. Lan Hai's disciples to act as supervisors. Each of them assigned tasks, and they were busy commanding around with architectural drawings in their hands. Facts have proved that Du Wei did not talk big. With this group of powerful giants as labor, there are still five days left in the third month that Du Wei promised.The main city wall of the new city has been completely constructed.All the city walls were designed with diamond-shaped undulating corners, and the city walls were fifteen meters high, which was already the standard for a first-tier city in the empire.Such a rhombus-shaped city wall will be extremely strong! Under the protection of the 20-mile-long city wall, it will be Du Wei's new capital in the northwest! Loulan City! In private, though, everyone gave the city a new name: City of Miracles! ... Of course, this "City of Miracles" is still just an empty shell, except for the outer main city wall, the inside of the city is just blank.Du Wei designed several avenues running from north to south and east to west, and the surface has been laid.But the surroundings are empty.The only building in the city is a castle. This will be Du Wei's future Governor's Mansion. The general framework of the new capital city has been built within three months, and the rest are the buildings in the city.Then there is the headache of immigration and relocation.These things cannot be done in the short term. According to Philip's calculations, it would take about a year before the new capital fully became a city worthy of the name. Before that, Du Wei had to stay in the old capital of Gilliar. The residents of the small town by Loulan Lake became the first settlers of the new capital. After receiving a series of guarantees, they gave up their homes: that small town became the residents of the new capital.After worrying about food, I started to build up my new family... After several months of busy work, the number of people who are definitely willing to move has reached 30,000.The western part of the city in the new capital already looks a bit like that.Any citizen who moves to a new city will receive a promise from Du Wei to exempt all taxes for one year. The construction of the new city also provides a large number of employment opportunities, and those farmers don't have to worry about losing their source of livelihood after they come to the city—not to mention, Du Wei allows them to keep their original land. Gilliar City is the most immigrant, because after Du Wei announced the preferential conditions for exempting all taxes for one year, he also announced a news: Gilliar City will no longer be a city in Desa province.At the same time, there are no plans to station any troops here. Without the protection of the city wall - if the dilapidated city wall can be regarded as a "city wall".Without the protection of the army, it would become a favorite haunt of horse thieves and robbers.As a result, citizens who feel insecure have to choose to relocate. The migration of 80,000 people cannot be accomplished overnight. However, there is no need for Du Wei to worry about these issues.Philip will take the disciples of Lan Hai as the first batch of administrative officials in his Governor's Mansion, responsible for all immigration and relocation issues.And Knight Robert is responsible for leading the army to deter, in case something happens during this period. What about Du Wei? He once again got into the governor's mansion in Gilliar and started his mysterious research life. Hussein was given a new task by Du Wei.The mighty paladin will travel to the Frozen Forest and across the Great Round Lake to the valley where the Treants live. ——Because the "time lapse" spring in Du Wei's hands has almost been exhausted! To be able to enter the Frozen Forest safely without worrying about the harsh conditions and powerful monsters haunting there, and without worrying about leaking secrets, only Hussein is qualified for this job.