Chapter 100 Harvest Time
It was only after mid-April that spring slowly arrived in Eindhoven, and there was no hint of chill in the air.
However, the seasons here are crazy, and it can rain and be sunny on the same day.
The fireplace in the bedroom was rarely lit, and the air was not cold. When Olivia got up and washed her face, she only wore a cashmere robe.
Her due date is still five months away, but she is already four and a half months pregnant. The system has adjusted her body shape to the corresponding form, and her belly is slightly bulging, but her toes are still visible.
In the early morning, with a drizzle outside, it is actually a good time to take a nap at home.
However, in recent days the army has recruited more than 800 new soldiers, and the 200 new soldiers recruited by old Renault from Dunfermline have also arrived in Eindhoven one after another.
There were a total of one thousand new recruits to arrange and train, and there was a lot to do, so Caesar suddenly became busy.
He washed Olivia's face, served her tea and water, and finally half-knelt on the ground, resting his cheek on her belly and listening for a long time.
The system simulates touch in all directions, and Caesar can even feel the movement of the little feet through his belly.
However, Olivia did not experience any real pregnancy symptoms, neither morning sickness nor any adverse reactions, and she didn't even feel any extra weight.
If Caesar hadn't told her what he felt, Olivia would have had no reference at all.
He got up reluctantly and lingered in front of Olivia for a while before going out and going directly to the barracks for breakfast.
At this moment in the port barracks, all the newly recruited soldiers are helping to set up the camp.
The camp is about the size of a workshop. Five new buildings will be built this month, and the new soldiers can only stay in the warehouse for now.
They can only move in after they have built barracks for themselves.
The materials used to build the barracks are artificial cement, red bricks, yellow sand, and wood, which have become popular in recent months.
These new recruits were temporarily divided into fifty groups by fifty veterans, with twenty people in each group.
The old soldiers had a task assigned by Caesar, which was to use the time of building the houses to quickly get familiar with the twenty new recruits they were responsible for.
And these soldiers were trained according to the rules set by Caesar, so that they had some basic discipline and were familiar with the laws of the town.
A month later, the barracks will be completed and the soldiers will be re-evaluated and re-assigned to teams based on the observations during this period.
Before the assessment, the veterans are responsible for observing the potential and strengths of the recruits, summarizing and reporting.
As for the content of the assessment, it is both civil and military. Discipline is assessed first, and then military branches are assigned according to each person's physical fitness test.
These military affairs were left to Caesar, and Olivia didn't have to worry about anything.
Occasionally, old Renault would visit the barracks in Einweiden.
Olivia was very relaxed. Ever since the trade banquet and the ship sailed out to sea, she had been eating and drinking in the fortress all day, waiting for the mission to be unlocked.
Besides, Lanie, Sansa, and Theresa all lived in the fortress, so she didn't feel bored.
After getting up every day, I go to the larger restaurant downstairs to eat with them, and then visit Lainie and Sansa in class.
These two baronesses, future candidates for noble ladies, also found it very difficult to learn the various formalities.
Lainie was better off. After all, she had studied in a monastery for a year or two, and had a good grasp of basic etiquette and knowledge. Since she had a talent for business, she also learned housekeeping, accounting, and other mundane tasks very quickly.
Sansa's situation is more miserable. In addition to managing general affairs, she also has to be trained in etiquette for a while.
Olivia often rescued the two of them from Theresa's clutches and took them out to play under various pretexts.
During this period, the city's population and the number of various business organizations have once again increased.
The population of Einweiden has reached over four thousand.
Of the 600 people who failed to be selected as soldiers but still stayed to work in Einweiten, 400 went to the Urban Construction Department.
Working as a laborer in the Urban Construction Company is much better than working as a laborer for a small private contractor.
Half of these four hundred people were assigned to the manor to help repair the chapel.
With twenty more builders in each chapel, the construction speed increased significantly.
At this rate, by the time the ship reaches the island, the manor church will be completed, and new main quests and dungeon quests can be unlocked at the same time.
Olivia has now run out of patience.
After holding a trade conference and establishing an association, the outside world became aware of Einwidden, and the conspiracy allegations against her disappeared without a trace.
She knew that a person would usually be jealous of people with similar abilities to themselves, but would never be jealous of people with a huge gap in abilities.
Now that the association has been established, Olivia has sent association badges to each member, and these badges are divided into different levels.
She invited several barons with whom she had cooperated for a long time to become senior members, while other barons who had just started to cooperate were only junior members.
They were not treated the same way under the treaty.
So, these people took advantage of the industry standard and fought each other, just to compete for more status in the association and get more raw material orders.
However, this can also be considered a kind of healthy competition.
At least, if someone submits unqualified materials, they will be immediately replaced by other members.
The only one who was still plotting against her and Caesar was Baron Kanta next door.
This person tried several times to send people to bribe the maids around Olivia or the stewards in the territory, but each attempt ended in failure.
He sent people to bribe these maids or stewards, simply to sow discord and find faults in the Baron's Mansion to resonate with the stewards or maids.
Only when there is resonance can we naturally buy them over and drive them to do things.
However, since these stewards and maids were registered locally, they were affected by Graya's passive skills and could not shake their favorability towards her at all.
If the goodwill cannot be shaken, then resonance cannot be generated. These troublemakers will only bring trouble upon themselves, asking the maids or stewards to find out, and eventually they will be caught and thrown into prison.
Olivia could also understand why Baron Kanta disliked her.
Looking at the entire Constant County, although the little earl is there, he doesn't care about anything, and everything is decided by his father.
But the Earl's second son did not often stay in Constant County, so Baron Conta, as a relative of his mother's side, did not actually get any benefits.
Now in the whole of Constant County, everyone only knows Einwidden. Even the young earl is not taken seriously, let alone him, the Baron of Constant.
He had been a big shot in the south, but was treated so coldly when he came to the north. He was very unhappy and of course he had to do something.
In fact, this cold treatment was not really cold treatment, but he could not stand the lack of preferential treatment and equal treatment.
Olivia had no choice. If she wanted to complete the mission, she would inevitably offend many people. However, the defense layout against such people had been fully established, and the entire Einweiden was airtight.
Her policy structure and management system were gradually getting on the right track, and the effects were beginning to show. He would still have days of anxiety in the future.
At the same time, on the blue sea, the fleet left the north and headed straight to the south of the continent.
The fleet set out from the port in mid-April and arrived at the port of the Galamu Kingdom in late May.
The two large ships, along with four slightly smaller ships belonging to the association members, looked after each other along the way and crossed thousands of nautical miles safely and smoothly.
After sending the merchant ship to Galamu, Letilen came to the island in Moni with dozens of guards.
Letilen and Moni went to see the island owner with gifts. With the island owner's warm hospitality, they were allocated a piece of arable land they wanted, which they then divided among themselves privately.
Although the island owner could not speak Alta, he still wrote a document with the help of an interpreter.
He also brought Letilen and Moni to the sea goddess worshipped by the islanders and made them swear an oath of cooperation.
Letilen came to rent the land on behalf of the Baron's Mansion, and he didn't care about so many religious matters. As long as he could complete his lady's task, he would worship even foreign gods.
Afterwards, Letilen and Moni came to the land leased to them on the island.
Here on the hillside of the island, the conditions are very suitable for farming.
It has the warmth of an island and the protection of mountains, so it is not destroyed by typhoons. The slope is not too steep, so gentle terraces can be cultivated.
The two of them divided the land very fairly and justly. They first measured the land and then discussed the crops they wanted to grow.
Following Olivia's instructions, Letilen said he wanted to plant plants that liked dry and warm weather.
So we allocated a 20-hectare piece of extremely standard sandy loam land with excellent drainage and plenty of sunlight.
The two wrote a formal contract.
Following Jagabu's instructions, Letilen planned to arrange for the guards to reclaim wasteland, deep-plow the land, and burn it, using wood ash to solve the problem of pests and diseases.
Meanwhile, in Einweden, in late May, the weather had begun to warm up, and the residents had changed into single-layer linen clothes to wear while working.
Within a month, under the management of each department, the entire Eindhoven operated very steadily, like a precision machine.
In a way, it freed Olivia's hands to a great extent.
When you reach this stage in the game, it’s time to sit back and reap the rewards.
In the fortress, Olivia, who was lying in the living room watching Sansa and Lainey learning embroidery, suddenly felt a vibration in the ring.
She opened the system and found that both tasks were completed at the same time.
Congratulations on completing "Pilgrimage. Primary"
Mission Description: There are ten churches in the territory.
Mission Progress: 10/10
Mission Rewards:
+99 Experience Points
Congratulations on completing: "Plantation"
Mission Description: Own a piece of southern real estate of no less than 20 hectares by any means and establish a plantation.
Mission Rewards:
＊5《Youxue Qionglin》
5. The Art of War
*5 The Wealth of Nations
+555 XP
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