Chapter 43 The Limits of the Times

"Come and look at these crystals."

As soon as he saw Heidi, Gawain threw a lavender crystal into the opponent's hand.

The lady glanced at the thing in her hand curiously, and her face suddenly showed a look of surprise.

"That's what you told me before, in that treasure house in the mountains..."

"That's right, it's from there," Gawain nodded. Although he didn't bring Heidi this time, he had already told him about the treasure house of the Dark Mountains when he was in Tanzania before, "These crystals It's technology from the Gondor Empire, and see if you can figure out its rune structure."

Any mage whose mind has not been caught by the door will realize the preciousness of these crystals when they see them. Heidi was immediately attracted by these beautiful lavender crystals, but he couldn't help fiddling with them. After that, she could only shake her head slightly with shame: "Ancestor... I'm sorry, I'm ashamed... I'm just a third-level mage, I'm afraid I can't create such a profound thing..."

Gawain looked into Hetty's eyes: "I didn't ask you to make it, just analyze its rune structure—if possible, draw the rune structure. Speaking of making, I'm afraid no one can make something similar in this age. Item: This is directly infused with the magic of the Deep Blue Well."

"The Deep Blue Well..." Heidi couldn't help repeating it after hearing the famous name, and then looked at the crystal in his hand eagerly, "If you just read and arrange the rune structure inside, it would be It's not difficult, as long as you get a set of crystal resonators, you can project what is inscribed in it. But just reading the rune structure...does it make sense? Without the corresponding energy injection technology and activation method, the rune structure is just It's just a bunch of geometric figures..."

"I'll talk about that later," Gawain nodded. "These crystals can no longer be produced. At least until they run out, I want to keep some materials as much as possible."

Hetty sighed and put away the crystal, the look of exhaustion on her face was still there, but after learning the exact news of the "treasure house in the mountains", her mental excitement still made her complexion look much better. Take advantage of the situation to inquire about the construction of the camp.

"The tents can be set up before the sun goes down, and a fence can be set up at the same time. I'm going to set up some magic traps and warning runes around. It should be more than enough to resist the beasts. The lumberjacks found them in the woods to the west. A lot of high-quality wood, the rough wood that has been cut is still piled up in the upper reaches of the Baishui River for the time being. After cutting some more tomorrow, it is enough to let the wood go down the river. In addition, according to the information you provided, I sent two people to the east. Iron ore was indeed discovered, but now we don't have the ability to smelt it, so we can only come a little bit. The most important problem now is the lack of manpower. The advance team is mainly here to investigate the situation and establish outposts. The collection of resources needs to wait for the follow-up. People and horses."

"The main force will come in three days, and the manpower problem can be alleviated at that time—and the tools and materials will keep up." Gawain said, turning his head to look at the camp that was gradually being completed.

He has many plans and plans. The broad ideas from the traversers and the wealth of knowledge from Gawain Cecil have given him confidence. Therefore, looking at this tentative camp, it is inevitable that a feeling will arise in his heart. Share ambition.

The tents are neatly arranged according to the plan, and the surrounding drainage ditches have been dug in the camp. After the water of the White Water River is led into these ditches tomorrow, they can be used to prevent the most dangerous for the new camp. Fire; craftsmen are working wood, nailing them together to make the most primitive fence - that fence does not provide much protection against real monsters, but it is more or less good against wild beasts Useful; the loggers who had gone to the woods to the west have withdrawn,

Resting at the moment...

Everything looks fine.

But after walking into the camp and looking around carefully, Gawain couldn't help frowning.

He saw the numb and timid expressions on the faces of the craftsmen and civilian laborers, as well as their various slacking skills that were not very clever at all, and those tents and fences that seemed to be neat and compliant could be seen everywhere. Cut corners and perfunctory places - a few nails are the most common phenomenon, and some tents are not even tied up at all.

The craftsmen were able to complete their work accurately under Hetty's supervision, but the civilian laborers who helped the workers were just doing random operations - Gawain had actually thought that most of the civilians in this era had no culture at all. , who can neither read nor count, so he explained to everyone in advance how these tents should be set up and how the entire camp should be planned. Besides, almost every single indicator in this camp is substandard!

Don't they know that these tents and fences are their only shelter in the wilderness, their life guarantee for the next period of time?

Gawain thought angrily, then suddenly woke up:

Yes, they don't know.

Because these things belong to the lords, not theirs, even if these tents are given to them in the future, they don't believe they can live forever - sooner or later, after the wasteland is measured, they will be driven to the wasteland inside, and the tent will be torn down and turned into the lord's castle and stables.

This is the general law of this age, and everyone believes in it.

Despite the disaster in the old Cecil territory, despite the exile here with the team, and even though the construction of a new home has begun, for these commoners and serfs who have survived in the rigid and rotten era, they have already adapted to the hardships. They are accustomed to being numb in the process of suffering, so they will neither have many thoughts of great blessings after great disasters, nor will they have any vigor and vitality to build a new home.

Gawain realized that he had taken it for granted before, and also realized that some of the plans he had worked out for a long time might not be easily realized.

He immediately called Heidi and Rebecca over.

In front of a tent that seemed to meet the requirements, but after a closer inspection, several supports were missing, and the whole was crooked, he pointed to the perfunctory places: "What do you think of this?"

Heidi didn't understand what Gawain meant, and thought it was to blame her, so she immediately lowered her head: "I'm sorry, ancestor, I supervise..."

"No, it's not a question of supervision - you can't just stare at them and put every nail in place," Gawain interrupted. "It's a question of the attitude of the workers."

"Master Ancestor, you can't expect too much from those commoners and serfs," Rebecca thought for a while and explained, "Most of them have little knowledge, except for the work their ancestors used to do in farmland and mines, they Can't master other, more complex jobs. Most of these people have never pitched a tent at all - especially since you have specified the size and function of the tent, and the planning of the entire camp, which is for them Too complicated."

Gawain shook his head: "Is this really complicated?"

Hetty nodded slightly: "The army's camping is so strict, these civilians and serfs can't do this."

"No, it's not complicated at all, I've broken down every step they have to do down to the most basic level, and everyone only needs to do one thing - nail the nails, or tie the rope, or saw the wood Kai, they don’t need to know the whole camp’s plan at all, and what they have to do is not much more complicated than hard work,” Gawain looked at Rebecca and Hetty, “Do you think the commoners and serfs are so stupid that they can’t even grasp this? ?"

Heidi and Rebecca looked at each other, they could see that Gawain was very dissatisfied, but they hadn't realized what the crux of the problem was. And as for Gawain's question - this is a matter of course for the two of them, especially for Hetty.

Commoners and serfs are of course stupid.

They were born in this era and grew up in this era, and neither of them are enlightened people with extensive knowledge and talent, and it is impossible for them to have insights and understandings that are too far beyond this era.

In fact, Hetty and Rebecca are already extremely progressive outliers among contemporary aristocrats - Hetty never allows knights or soldiers in the family to plunder the property of commoners and serfs at will, and finds a way to make every person on the territory Everyone can fill their stomachs, and Rebecca broke the iron law of lifelong serfs and arranged a way for them to become free people, and also allowed civilians and serfs to circulate freely within their own territory, and allowed civilians free business...

Each of these scattered systems can be said to challenge conventions, but the overall ideological confinement still prevents them from completely breaking through a mindset: commoners and serfs are inferior.

Maybe they don't think so themselves, but subconscious things can't be denied by mouth.

Of course Gawain knew this, so he didn't call the two great-granddaughters here to reprimand them or give them some enlightenment, nor was he naive enough to think that with just a few words of his own, he would confuse the civilians in this camp with them. Serfs were transformed into sober, active, and combative citizens.

This will be a long process, and for now, he just needs these people to complete the work requirements he has issued as soon as possible.

"Gather everyone together—civilians, serfs, soldiers, all," Gawain ordered, "while it's still light."

Those who were working and those who were resting were quickly called up, and even Amber, who was telling Betty about her adventures in the treasure house in the mountains, rushed over curiously-beside her was Betty who looked blank.

Everyone didn't know what this ancestor from 700 years ago wanted to do, even Heidi and Rebecca were at a loss.

And those civilians and serfs, they just followed the order numbly and gathered together. The civilians gathered in a group, the serfs gathered in a group, and next to them stood the soldiers responsible for maintaining order.

Many people think that their "new master" has orders again, and it may be more complicated than those complicated "tent-up systems", so some people frown, they think they can sleep when the work is done.

Gawain stood on a large rock and looked down at the more than 100 people below. He had already seen the amber secretly hidden in the crowd. He wanted to find this guy who might make trouble at any time, but after thinking about it, he still Not a word was spoken.

Then he cleared his throat and said loudly in a voice that everyone could hear: "Cecil's subjects, I have something to say - about your future, and the new law of Cecil's introduction. !"