Black Iron Crown

Reiner was wearing a heavy cotton coat, standing on the roof of the main castle of Mecaron Castle.

The 18-meter-high roof can be seen far away. Reiner likes to stand here and overlook his own territory, a land that can give and take whatever he wants under his authority.

At this time, the northern border has completely entered winter, and the soil is covered with heavy snow, burying all vitality. All kinds of animals living in the wild are struggling to survive in such a horrific environment, trying their best to make themselves through this time. long winter.

The residents of the northern region enjoy the grain harvested in autumn and the mutton sold by Rainer's large-scale slaughter of sheep in their warm homes.

After eight or nine years, Leiner's original 50,000 sheep have grown to more than 200,000. Such a huge number is completely enough to supply the meat in the northern border.

Moreover, Reiner also set the price of meat at a cost price, which basically cannot provide much income for Reiner.

He did this to improve the physical fitness of the residents in the northern border. The gods of the northerners were taller and stronger. Because there was no exploitation of the serf system, each of them was basically 1.6 to 1.7 meters tall.

And Reiner knows very well that what people need to grow tall and strong is nothing more than meat, egg and milk. Therefore, in the northern border, goat milk and mutton are very cheap and popular.

In addition, Leiner had distributed a lot of sheep back then, and now the knights under his command probably have dozens of sheep in their homes, and many ordinary soldiers also have several sheep in their homes.

The fact that the residents grow taller means that Reiner has better sources of troops. With the same training intensity and time, the taller ones are more effective than the shorter ones on the battlefield. This is undisputed.

Therefore, the quality of life of these residents is quite good. They have goat milk to drink and mutton to eat. The hunters who live near the forest have more meat. In recent years, the height of the new generation of teenagers has grown at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Quite a few teenagers grew to 1.7 meters when they were 16 or 17 years old, and some even reached 1.8 meters.

Smoke rose from several villages around the city of Mecaron, and no one died of cold and hunger in the northern border for several years.

But this year he began to worry about his subjects.

There was a thick layer of snow on the ground, enough to reach people's knees, but there were still snowflakes floating in the sky, swirling and falling.

After a while, the cold wind suddenly became more violent, and the snowflakes also fell from the sky with the strong wind, like goose feathers falling.

The so-called salt sprinkled in the air can be imitated, and the metaphor of willow catkins being blown by the wind cannot describe the current snowfall situation at all. Less than ten minutes after Leiner stood on the roof, the roof that had been cleaned of all the snow was once again. A snow layer five to six centimeters thick appeared.

Moreover, Leiner discovered that such dense heavy snow had no intention of stopping at all, and was still flying from the sky to the ground.

Reiner's heart became more and more irritable, he hurriedly left the rooftop and returned to his study.

After finding Earl Codd, Reiner ordered him to warn all the villages in the north to strengthen the houses and clear the snow on the roofs in time to prevent heavy snow from collapsing the houses.

It has been a long time since the house collapsed by the snow has not appeared in Leiner's territory. Since the Northern Territory was unified by him, he no longer forbids the residents to cut down trees.

As long as you submit the purpose of felling to your village official, you can choose wood that is less than 100 years old.

Therefore, the residents' houses are relatively strong, and they will not collapse due to heavy snowfall in previous years.

But this year is different from the previous situation. So far, the amount of snowfall has almost reached the amount of the past winter, and it is falling on the roof. Reiner estimates that the houses of ordinary people are difficult to support.

Once the residents' houses collapsed on a large scale, it would be a terrible disaster for Rainer and everyone in the northern border.

Losing the house in the other three seasons is nothing. Although life is uncomfortable, at least it is not fatal.

In winter in the northern border, if the warm houses are lost, then the next thing they will face is mass death of residents, which is intolerable to Leiner.

"Order the lords everywhere to pay attention to the situation of houses crushed by snow, and try to avoid disasters!" Reiner's heart became more and more irritable.

"By the way..." Reiner suddenly remembered, and said to Earl Cod: "Take out 20,000 tons of grain from the warehouse and send it to the grassland to the east. The vassals on my grassland don't have much arable land. Such a snow disaster is estimated It will bring them even greater disasters, let them spend this winter with this batch of food!"

At the same time, Leiner had some ominous premonitions in his heart. Leiner always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of it for a while. He could only let the recruits step up their training and quickly have a certain combat power.

On the prairie at this time, Baron Samuza was fidgeting and pacing in his small castle.

"Has the snow stopped?" He asked the entourage beside him.

"No, my lord, it's still snowing outside, and it looks bigger than before..."

"Damn it!" Samuza cursed angrily and in a low voice.

As he spoke, he asked a close friend next to him: "How much hay and grain do we have left, and how long is it enough for our cattle and sheep?"

The confidant hesitated for a moment, and then said: "According to the current consumption rate, our hay can last for about two months, the snow is too thick, and the cattle and sheep can't open the snow to eat the grass below... ..."

Samuza was even more disappointed after hearing the report, and he paced back and forth more frequently. After a while, he said: "Send someone...no, you go to His Majesty's Mecaron City in person, and report to him Report the situation here, try to get a horse of grain and hay from His Majesty, and tell him that I am willing to pay cattle and sheep to buy it!"

The confidant nodded immediately when he heard the words, walked out, rode his horse and braved the wind and snow, and left the range of this small castle with a few entourages.

At this time, the imperial capital also had a rare snowfall, but the amount of snow here was nothing compared to the northern border and the prairie.

Some residents died of freezing and starvation, but such cases are not many, after all, the climate here is much milder than that in the north.

Earl Redmara was thinking in his study: "Since it has snowed so much even in the imperial capital, the grasslands in the north and east should be more severely affected, right?"

Thinking of this, he immediately went to the queen's room to discuss what he could do about the snow disaster.

"You mean, win over the grasslands in the east and let them join our camp to fight against the northern border?" The queen hesitated for a while.

"That's right, Your Majesty, the snow is so heavy this year, the northern border and the grasslands will definitely receive a more tragic disaster than us, and as far as we know, the Grand Duke of the Northern Territory Lena is still carrying out his military expansion campaign, I I really can't think of anyone other than us and their target.

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