Chapter 101 Changes in the Past Half Year

"You should relax your reins and trust your mount as much as you trust your weapon." Lind pointed out to Nymeria loudly as he watched Nymeria riding the Norn and galloping past like a gust of wind. Ways to control the wild horse, King Moon Girl.

Nymeria chose the larger of the two wild horses and named it Moon Girl, corresponding to the Moon Girl constellation in the sky.

However, the Mustang King was tamed by Lind after all, and she had to tame it herself if she wanted to ride it. In the following months, she was able to ride the Moon Girl, but it still took some time to fully control it.

While Lind was watching Nymeria adjust her horse-control techniques according to the method he taught, he suddenly heard a crow and couldn't help but look up. Then he saw a crow flying overhead, heading towards the north. Fly away.

It has been more than half a year since I returned to Tengshi Town from High Court. Everything in Tengshi Town has been changing in an orderly manner. Some changes were within Linde's expectation, and some changes were beyond his expectation. The only thing What is certain is that Tengshi Town is now more appropriately called Tengshi City.

The castle in Tengshi Town had been completely repaired more than a month ago. Originally, Linde thought it would take a year or two, but with Moroya taking over, the somewhat chaotic construction site was re-planned and the division of responsibilities and powers was It is also simpler and more direct, eliminating a lot of unnecessary processes, thus doubling the repair progress of the old Tengshi Town Castle.

Because the castle in Tengshi Town has been repaired, and the ruins under the castle have also begun to be repaired and re-integrated into the town of Tengshi Town, Linde's military camp was moved to the other side of the Mander River.

Although the current military camp is still a bit crude, Moroya built it according to the specifications of the fortress before building the military camp. Once the construction is completed, it can be used as the second town of Tengshi Town.

Because of this, Moroya also chose a suitable location and began to build a stronger stone bridge.

With so many projects being carried out at the same time, in addition to money, a large number of workers are also needed. Fortunately, in the past six months, Tengshi Town itself has attracted a large number of refugees, and Linde's reputation has also attracted many free people who believe in the Seven Gods, making The population of Tengshi Town suddenly reached more than 30,000 people from a few thousand people. This does not include the civilians who have no intention of settling here and are just looking for work here, so there is no shortage of available workers here.

The reason why several major projects in Tengshi Town are being carried out at the same time is not only because of the emergence of a knowledgeable person like Mo Luoya, but more importantly, there is no shortage of money in Tengshi Town.

On the third day after Lind returned to Tengshi Town, the appointment letter from Highgarden had been sent to Tengshi Town, but this appointment letter was only for Nymeria. As Vilas said, Highgarden Appointing Nymeria as the guardian of the Mander River, although this is just an empty title without any real power, but it has extremely high authority in name, and almost the entire Mander River is within her authority.

In fact, the position of Guardian of the Mander River has existed a long time ago, but this position is thankless. Accepting this position will arouse the hostility of the lords along the Mander River, so the lords of the Reach disdain this position. The duties are usually held by the court nobles of Highgarden. For example, the last Guardian of the Mander River was also the steward of Highgarden during the period of Duke Leo Tyrell.

Along with the title of guardian came an interest-free loan of up to 100,000 gold dragons and the right to mint money from Rose Bank. It was this 100,000 gold dragons that accelerated the construction progress of Tengshi Town, turning it into a city in just half a year. It has become a large-scale city, and it is also because of the silver deer minting rights obtained that Tengshi Town has no pressure on the subsequent construction funds.

Because Mo Luoya re-explored the silver mine, she found that the silver mine was not only a very large mine, but also a smaller gold mine. With these two precious metal mines, Tengshi Town would grow in the next few hundred years. There is basically no shortage of funds in the middle of the year.

After discovering the gold mine, Nymeria considered mining the gold mine as soon as possible so that she could repay the Tyrell family's loan of 100,000 gold dragons. However, Lind suggested that she should not mine the gold mine or repay the loan, but instead ask for help. The Tyrell family's Rose Bank borrowed 100,000 gold dragons.

Nymeria didn't understand why Linde did this, but she thought that Linde would not harm her, so she followed Linde's instructions without asking any more questions. As a result, she still borrowed 100,000 gold dragons without any harm. The impact of the previous one hundred thousand gold dragon loan.

On the contrary, after Moroya heard Linde's suggestion, he immediately understood that Linde wanted to use this method to make the relationship between Nymeria's Tengshi Town and Highgarden closer. What in this world? Relationships are likely to fade over time, only debt relationships will deepen over time. Once debt reaches a certain height, debt can become the best protection.

Compared with the smooth implementation of Nymeria's appointment, the appointment of the commander of Linde's bandit suppression in the Reach has not been implemented for a long time. Without the implementation of the position, Linde cannot legitimately and significantly expand the army. He can only temporarily The official cavalry team was expanded to the limit of one thousand people, and other soldiers were placed under Nymeria's name.

After returning to Tengshi Town, Linde began to expand the cavalry. He first expanded his Guards to 500 people, of which 100 were composed of mercenary knights and the rest were free riders.

Although these are the lowest mercenary knights in the knight class, this does not mean that their abilities are poor. The fact that they can survive after accepting employment from different noble lords and going to the battlefield has proven that their abilities are very high. Same thing.

But Linde was unable to recruit them all. For a lord like Nymeria, after Tengshi Town is fully built, it would be good to be able to maintain four to five hundred mercenary knights with various tax revenues. Mainly because there is a gold and silver mine supporting it behind.

Most lords only retain a dozen mercenary knights at most, and will temporarily recruit mercenary knights when needed. Only big nobles such as the Tyrell family can maintain two to three thousand mercenary knights, and can recruit them temporarily when necessary. Hire knights to double or triple the number.

Lind was able to recruit so many mercenary knights mainly because he made a lot of money in Dorne. In addition, his knight's armor and sword did not cost money, and the Tyrell family paid out the full amount in time every month. military expenditure, thus giving him very sufficient funds to expand his manpower.

In addition to the expansion of the Guards, Linde also expanded five cavalry teams. Each cavalry team is composed of a standard ten knights and ninety riders. The first and second ones are still composed of Bryn Rivers and Scar Eyes. Mitte served as captain, while the 3rd to 5th Cavalry were captained by three sworn knights whom he recruited after returning to Tumblestone.

After Linde's amazing record and the name of the God's Chosen spread, a large number of mercenary knights came to Tengshi Town hoping to join Linde's command, even though Linde is now just an ordinary follower of the Tyrell family. Knights, they still believe that following Linde can have a future, and there are also some powerful players among these mercenary knights.

Linde selected the three most suitable knights from these good hands and became the captains of the three cavalry teams.

Among these three people, the captain of the Third Cavalry was an acquaintance of Linde's. This man was the knight Balin from across the Narrow Sea who won the lance duel championship in the King's Landing Tournament a year ago.

After participating in the martial arts tournament, he disappeared after receiving his 50,000 gold dragon bonus. Everyone thought that he had been killed and the 50,000 gold dragons had been robbed. However, the actual situation was that he met himself after the martial arts tournament. The enemy on the Essos continent later robbed him of the bonus, and he was thrown to an uninhabited island and left to fend for himself.

Not long ago, he was lucky enough to encounter a ship that was returning to King's Landing from the Essos continent, but it deviated from its course due to a storm. Later, when he returned to King's Landing, he was penniless, and happened to meet Teng. Stone Town sent people to King's Landing to recruit refugees, so they came to Tengshi Town to see if they could find a job.

After arriving in Tengshi Town, he happened to meet Linde's expansion of the cavalry team, so he signed up. Later, he showed his equestrian and horse fighting skills in the competition, passed Linde's interview, and was finally recruited by Linde. After arriving under his command, he became the captain of the 3rd Cavalry.

As for the identities of the other two captains of the cavalry, they are also ordinary. One is Daisy Mormont and the other is Rosso Brun.

Lind was also very surprised when he heard the name of Daisy Mormont. When he was reading books in his previous life, he was extremely impressed by this female warrior from the north who did not appear much but had a distinctive personality. In the fire world, there are only a handful of women with her tall stature and superb combat skills. If she had not died in the Red Wedding, she might have been as famous as the beauty Brienne in the Seven Kingdoms.

It was also an accident that Daisy Mormont came to Tengshi Town. For some reasons, according to the custom of Bear Island, she traveled to the Seven Kingdoms as an adult to gain more knowledge. On the way, she would also accept some money for travel expenses. This time she received the task of escorting the caravan to Tengshi Town.

After arriving in Tengshi Town, she immediately met with Nymeria, because she had heard about the reputation of Nymeria Fudley, Earl of Tengshi Town in King's Landing, and knew that she was an extremely powerful female warrior. , so she wanted to come to see Nymeria and compete with her as a warrior.

After Nymeria met Daisy Mormont, she fell in love with the northern female warrior at first sight. After competing with her, she quickly became a good friend.

Originally, Daisy Mormont was planning to join Tumblestone Town and serve Nymeria, but Nymeria rejected Daisy's request to serve. She did not feel that Daisy's strength was insufficient, but that Daisy was not as powerful as her. She would have wasted all her skills.

Because Nymeria is now the earl of Tengshi Town, if the current situation continues, Tengshi Town will soon settle down, there will not be too many disputes, let alone wars, and Daisy’s skills should be used In terms of fighting, she said that she would wait for Linde to come back and recommend Daisy to Linde, because she knew very well that even if the bandits around Tengshi Town had been wiped out, Linde would go to new places and start new adventures. fighting.

So when Lind came back, Nymeria immediately introduced Daisy to Lind. After Lind was sure that the female warrior in front of him who was only slightly shorter than herself was the female warrior from Bear Island, she He directly recruited him under his command, and later appointed him as the captain of the Fifth Cavalry when the Fifth Cavalry was formed.

Daisy gained Lind's attention because of Nymeria's introduction and Lind's own memory, and then became the captain of the cavalry. Rosso Brun relied entirely on his own strength to grab this fourth place. The position of captain of the cavalry.

The position of captain of the Fourth Cavalry was not directly appointed by Lind, but was selected through a competition. All of Lind's sworn knights participated. In the end, Russell Brun fought through the encirclement and won the championship.

The opponent in the final duel was against Daisy. Daisy's chain hammer was obviously not suitable for this kind of single duel. Russell caught a flaw and defeated him, and eventually became the captain of the Fourth Cavalry.

At first, Lind just thought that the name Russell Brun sounded familiar, but he didn’t think much about it. Later, when he was talking to Russell, he learned that he came from the royal territory and was related to the Brun family of Brown Cave Mountain on the Crab Claw Peninsula. Are distantly related.

However, he went to the Bren family hoping to return to the family, but the Bren family seemed to reject him as a distant relative and kicked him out.

After that, he wandered to King's Landing as a free knight. He heard various legendary experiences about Lind in the King's Landing tavern, and then regarded Lind as an object of worship and decided to follow him.

Only then did Linde remember who Rosso Brun was in front of him.

Without his appearance, Lotho Brune would later become the right-hand man of Littlefinger Petyr Baelish, and he would shine in the Battle of the Blackwater River, riding alone to break through the formation and kill the Red Apple family's Ai. Ser Dulwich Fossoway and Knight Brian later captured Ser Jon Fossoway of the Green Apples alive, earning them the nickname "The Apple Eater".

There is no doubt that Rosso Bren is a fierce general. Rushing into battle to kill enemies is his strength. Therefore, he and Daisy's Fourth and Fifth Cavalry are supplemented by mounted archery, and their main attack methods are It is a heavy cavalry charge into battle, and they usually train with Linde. During wartime, Linde will lead the two cavalry teams to charge into battle and kill the enemy.

On the contrary, the Guards were all changed into light cavalry with short bows, and they continued to practice mounted shooting tactics with three other cavalry teams.

In addition to these teams, Linde also asked Rossos to form a 500-man shield and lance cavalry with the Green Blood River orphans as the core, which was temporarily placed under the command of Tengshi Town, while White Deer Wenda's You The cavalry also continued to recruit various bandits and became a secret team with as many as 500 people.

Now this secret team was sent by Linde to the northern edge of Tengshi Town's territory, the area on the south bank of the Blackwater River, to understand the situation there and prepare for the construction of a fortress there in the future.

However, all of this needs to wait for news from Highgarden, and now everything in Highgarden seems to have come to a standstill. There is neither news of the marriage between Willas and Princess Arianne, nor rejection of the marriage. At the suggestion, the Red Viper and Princess Arianne wandered around various territories in the River Bend for half a year as if they were playing, and Willas always accompanied them as a guide.

Any noble of the Riverlands can see that Willas and Princess Arianne have a very good relationship. The two have made no secret of their enthusiasm for each other, and in the past six months, Princess Arianne has also gained the favor of the River. Most of the noble lords in the Bay are no longer as disgusted as they were with a Dornish princess becoming the Duchess of Highgarden. Everyone believes that there is no problem with the marriage between Highgarden and Sunspear, including The Iron Throne and the other Seven Kingdoms.