[Chapter 147: Opening up a medicinal field]

Fifty new soldiers are really too much. There are only more than 400 people in Winter Town. Floyd and Gareth Stanton think that recruiting another twenty new soldiers will be enough.

If these twenty new soldiers can all complete the training and become formal soldiers, plus the original ten soldiers, there will be exactly three teams, which is enough to ensure the safety of Winter Town, and they can even take turns to rest.

“These matters will be left to you. For the temporary military camp, you can just go to Edwin directly.”

David did not participate in the specific affairs, not to mention that he did not know how to train soldiers. Moreover, through the previous conversation, he had discovered that this world seemed to have some special methods in training soldiers, and he was very curious about this.

Wait until the two guards knights went to do their own things: one went to carry out today’s daily patrol; the other began to make preliminary preparations for recruiting new soldiers.

David glanced at Eva beside him and asked about the situation of the pharmacist Cordell.

If Freud hadn’t mentioned this pharmacist, he would have almost forgotten that there was such a person in the town: “What is the pharmacist Cordell busy with recently?”

“Mr. Cordell usually wanders around Winter Town, and seems to be observing the land conditions.”

“Observing the land conditions?”

“Well, Mr. Cordell found me yesterday and said that he wanted to open up a medicinal field in the south of the village.” Even if David didn’t ask, Eva would report this to David: “He should have been looking for a suitable place before.”

“Oh! So…” When Cordell came to Winter Town, the weather was still very cold and not suitable for growing medicinal herbs.

Moreover, Cordell was not familiar with the land and climate environment of Winter Town, and needed to observe for a period of time, so there was no movement.

Now he should have completed the investigation and officially started his work.

“You can handle this kind of thing directly.”

Eva just smiled sweetly, and then started to talk about the next thing: “Miss Sylvanas came to me before and asked me something.”

“What did she ask you?”

“About the elves.”

“Elves? Oh…” David understood why Sylvanas asked Eva about the elves. It was probably because she noticed that some people in Winter Town looked at her and Liadrin differently! Fortunately,

most of the townspeople in Winter Town are craftsmen from Storm Kingdom, and there are only a few farmers from Iron Tree Castle.

Others such as Floyd, Gareth Stanton, Elias and pharmacist Cordell are all from the Royal City of Tilan.

The relationship between Iron Tree Castle and the elves is extremely bad, but the people in the Royal City of Tilan only know some of the situation and are not as hostile to the elves as the people in Iron Tree Castle.

If Floyd and the others were from Iron Tree Castle, they would have asked him what was going on with Sylvanas a long time ago?

After dealing with trivial matters for a while, David took Eva and Elias to find Cordell who was wandering in the south of Winter Town.

“Sir.” Because he accepted the recruitment of Lord Glamorgan, strictly speaking, Cordell, like Gareth Stanton and Floyd, was a subordinate loyal to David.

In terms of subordinate relationship, he was closer than Elias Parker beside him.

Elias was sent to David by the Kingdom of Tiran, not David’s subordinate, and he was loyal to the royal family of Tiran.

But for some reason, this pharmacist had been treated coldly by David since he came to Winter Town, and it was not until today that they really had a private conversation.

“Mr. Cordell.”

“Sir, just call me Cordell.” Cordell was very respectful and humble.

“I heard that you are going to open up a medicinal field?”

“Yes, sir.” Cordell explained briefly. As a pharmacist, he must have a source of medicinal materials. If he was in the capital, he would not have to worry about not having medicinal materials.

But after coming to Winter Town, he could only choose to be self-reliant and grow medicinal materials himself. If he couldn’t grow them, he could only go to the nearby big city, that is, Iron Tree Castle, to purchase them so that he could stockpile enough medicinal materials.

Only in this way can he prepare various potions and help the Baron solve various medical problems – this trouble is not limited to the needs of Baron Glamorgan himself.

When a large-scale disease occurs in the territory, the pharmacist serving the lord needs to provide solutions and suggestions.

“Open up the land nearby?”

“Yes, sir.”

David looked around. This place is located in the south of Winter Town. Will’s blacksmith shop is just north, but it is a distance away.

In terms of location, this place is a bit far from Winter Town.

“Is it a bit far from the town?” David didn’t think that the pharmacist was trying to play any tricks. He had followed him to such a remote place as Winter Town. Living alone outside the town would not have any practical benefits for him. “

The main purpose is to avoid the busiest area of the town.”

After Cordell explained, David understood that the pharmacist had deliberately left a space for development, allowing him to open up a medicinal field in an area as far as possible.

“If that’s the reason, this place is even less suitable. We’d better go to the north.” David suggested that Cordell should not cultivate medicinal fields in the south of the town: “This place may become a residential area for new residents.”

“But there is construction going on in the north, right?”

Cordell ran to the south because there was a large construction site to the north of the town. Only the area near the Winter River was not “harmed” by the group of craftsmen, but he couldn’t cultivate the medicinal field there because it was too close to the river.

“The edge of the Winter Forest should be suitable.”

David was referring to the open space on the south side of the Winter Forest, west of the simple railway that connected the mine to the construction site.

“Well, it’s indeed suitable there.” Cordell thought about it and thought that it might be more suitable than here, so he decided to cultivate the medicinal field there: “Sir, I heard from Knight Stanton that a new village has been built nearby?”

“Yes.” David looked at Cordell, curious about what the pharmacist wanted to say?

“In that case, a caravan will come to Winter Town soon.”

“So…”

“Sir, I may need to purchase a large amount of medicinal materials from the caravan.”

David finally understood what Cordell wanted to say. The reason he came to him was similar to that of the two knights: to get money!

At the same time, he also remembered that he had never paid Cordell.

However, Cordell didn’t want his wages, but work expenses.

In theory, the funds for purchasing medicinal materials should be provided by the Lord, so the medicines prepared by the pharmacist are all the property of the Lord.

In addition to receiving the due remuneration, the pharmacist’s extra income mainly comes from the Lord’s reward, and he does not need to rely on selling medicine to live.

“You will ask Eva for part of the funds later. If it is not enough, you can ask Eva for more.”

“I understand, Lord.”

After coming here for so long, these people who came from the capital realized it. The

person who is really in charge of Winter Town is actually the young woman Eva McKenna. She is the chief steward of Winter Town and the chief assistant of Lord Baron Glamorgan.

However, no one underestimates this beautiful woman, because Eva has done a good job.

Moreover, after observation, everyone found that this Eva McKenna seems… seems… probably… not that kind of relationship with Lord Baron Glamorgan.

“Ahem, sir!”

Thinking of this, Cordell suddenly remembered something important, and whispered to David: “Although sir is in good health and full of energy, you still need to be moderate…”

Cordell also secretly handed a bottle to David when no one noticed.

David took the small bottle in a daze, and then realized what Cordell meant.

“…”

He sighed secretly, the sound insulation of the new house can’t be so bad. He put the bottle away casually, and then walked back with Eva and Elias who pretended that they didn’t see or hear anything.

After getting permission, Cordell went directly to the north of the town, preparing to determine the location of the medicinal field first, and learned from the Baron’s practice to circle the place and put a sign, so as not to be harmed by the group of craftsmen if he was slow. David

returned to the table in front of his wooden house. As the temperature rises, he prefers to deal with things here. Even if there is nothing to deal with, it is a kind of enjoyment to just sit and look at the surrounding scenery.

Before I had time to sit down, I found that several people were led by Gareth Stanton and were walking towards Winter Town from a distance. Judging from their clothes, they should be ordinary civilians.

Standing by the wooden table, I waited until Gareth Stanton and his men came to me.

“Sir, these people want to settle in Winter Town.”

Gareth Stanton explained the situation in one sentence. David nodded and turned his attention to these civilians.

There were four people in total, three of them were in their early twenties, and one was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight, all young people.

“Welcome to Winter Town.”

David looked at the young people carefully. They looked very thin and their complexion was not very good. But David didn’t despise them. He believed that as long as they rested for a few days, these young people would soon recover and contribute to the development of Winter Town.

Ever since King Abelson helped David promote Winter Town all over the country, David had been looking forward to people from all over the country coming to join him.

He had heard that some people had come to the northern plains one after another, but few came to Winter Town.

To be precise, only one person had come so far.

Until today, we finally saw more civilians who wanted to settle in Winter Town. Maybe this is the beginning of a population boom?

While David was imagining a better future, Elias introduced David to them: “The man in front of you is the Lord of Winter Town, Baron David Glamorgan.” He

then welcomed them.

“Winter Town welcomes you very much. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will get whatever you want here!”

(End of this chapter)