Chapter 105 Charlton Manor
The medieval estate was completely economically self-sufficient and independent economy.
The main work of the manor is agriculture, and there are also handicrafts, including carpenters, blacksmiths, the manor brews its own beer, and its own mills and bakers. In short, the manor produces most of the products that people need in their daily lives.
Both free farmers and serfs live in manors, but in fact most of the manors are villages. The owners of the villages and manors are lords, who live in the castle of the manor and control several villages under their rule.
Some quasi-nobles who could not become knights were loyal to managing their own camps by the manor.
Politically, they tend to be neutral. Whoever is the king of the seven kingdoms, these quasi-noble manors will swear allegiance to whom, paying taxes and providing knights to pay local nobles is also their duty.
Lynn has not really understood the manor in Game of Thrones. Hearing that the wheat fields in the northwest suburbs of Twin City are all the industries of Charlton Manor, Lynn couldn't help but be a little surprised.
It is already very close to Twin City. Isn’t the manor a closed village? How did the land expand outside the main city?
Following the farmer's instructions, Lin En and his party embarked on a road leading to a forest, sand and soil.
Starting from the northwest of Twin City and continuing northward, there is a vast mountain forest. The mountains start from Yanmao Bay, the northern bay of Neze, and end in the north of the west suburbs of Twin City.
Charlton Manor is at the junction of the northern suburbs of Hejiandi and the forest.
In the lush forest, the gate of the manor is closed.
Lynn rode a tall horse, behind him was Duncan and Hanniu, and nearly a hundred soldiers from the Guards of the Gripen Knights.
A cavalry rushed from the queue to the gate of the manor.
He shouted loudly to the door, "Open the door! My lord, I want to see the owner of the manor."
The manor is like a pass, built on a sloped mountain road, hiding the entire manor under the protection of the forest. The city walls on both sides of the gate are made of rare bluestone bricks. The manor gate is a thick teak gate, which looks quite grand.
Two heads in guard chain armor costumes poked out of the city wall,
A man with short brown hair leaned his head and saw the cavalry team outside the city, shouting cautiously, "Who is your lord?"
"Master Lynn, the Gripen family in Twin City." The cavalry replied.
A rustling sound soon came from the city wall. Lin Neng waited patiently for a moment, and saw that no one was poking his head out on the city wall, and he couldn't help but frown slightly.
Although he did not claim his rule over Twin City, he actually controlled Twin City. As a vassal of Twin City, this manor may be a knight, or just a quasi-noble, even a nobleman, and his subordinates dared to neglect a current superior lord so much.
This is a bit interesting.
Lynn winked at Duncan who turned his head forward, and Duncan nodded slightly, turned over and dismounted.
Soon, he climbed up the hillside, which was slightly higher than the walls of the manor.
When he looked over the wall and looked into the manor, he saw that the people in the manor were in a mess. Some residents began to be driven away, taking out wooden poles, spears and sickles from the house. On the open space in the manor, some men holding sticks, bows and arrows were gathered.
The women drove the mules and flocks of sheep from the manor into houses and livestock.
Duncan reported the matter to Lynn without expression.
Lynn chuckled.
Is this a robber? A soldier guarding the gate would definitely not be able to order such a mobilization. The manor reacted so quickly, and it seems that he had prepared for it.
Sure enough, it didn't take long.
The copper bell of "Dangdang..." kept ringing in the city. There were no few heads on the wall in front of me, but at this moment, a bunch of manor men holding bows and arrows appeared.
Lin En sat at the right time without any panic. The broken thick bows and arrows in those guys' hands were probably not even a rabbit could not be shot to death.
The two sides confronted for a moment, and a burly and strong man in black armor shouted out from the wall, "Mr. Charlton said, there were no guests in the manor."
Being so hostile.
Lynn said impatiently: "Go! Tell them, that is, I, Lynn Rothschild, is waiting for him for a quarter of an hour. If the owner of the manor doesn't come out and welcome me into the park himself, he will be responsible for the consequences."
The cavalry under his command passed the words of Lynn to the city wall, but what he greeted was an arrow shot from a crossbow.
The arrows are fast and fast, and it seems to be a masterpiece of a professional archer.
The moment the bowstring sounded, the shouting cavalry quickly cursed and retreated with a horse.
Unfortunately, it took some time to adjust the horse's head. The cavalry was shot with an arrow on the waist and ventral side. He flipped down from the horse's back, and with a scream, he fell heavily to the ground, splashing a lot of dust.
Immediately afterwards, a few more arrows were pressed against the position he was just now and shot. If it weren't for the distance that the archer on the city wall was not superb, the injured cavalry might have been shot into a hedgehog on the spot.
Seeing this, Lin En's face turned red.
He looked at Han Niu with an indignant look beside him in confusion and asked strangely: "I have a bad reputation or a good temper in Hejian, or are these little lords crazy? I didn't cause trouble for them, and I feel unhappy?"
The naive cow habitually wiped his head and fell into deep thought.
The thin monkey beside him looked like he was prophetic and stopped.
Lynn glared at him, "You mean."
Sterling, the thin monkey, said hesitantly: "Maybe because there have been rumors that the adults are lustful recently. I heard that the adults are plundering civilian women in the Twin City mansion recently, and some messengers from the nobles of the Heming City came to Twin City. As long as they did not give gifts or women, they were all driven out of the city."
Lynn started to get angry and kicked Sterling off his horse. He seemed to think of something and then rolled aside. The thin monkey covered in mud called back and asked, "You sir, I am still a virgin now. I am greedy and lustful, and some people spread rumors. Who is so shameless and shameless to destroy my reputation?"
The thin monkey patted the mud and raised his head and said, "All of them are close to the Lannister family, and the Frey family's most heartfelt vassal families before."
oh?
"So the owner of this Charlton Manor is one of them?"
The thin monkey made a decisive move: "It must be! No matter whether this lord is a rumor-monger or not, he believed the rumors and even caused the adults to be injustice, it was not true!"
Lin En nodded deeply and looked at the solid fortress-like pass wall.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Then we can't spare them today," he said.
Chapter completed!