13 Five Years (2/2)
These hundred Goblin troops led by a Goblin Knight was named as a Battalion by Ragnar.
Rollo and Lagertha, were especially excited about their own troops, and had started a whole contest by dragging the other Goblin Knights about which Goblin Battalion was the best, which led to frequent competitions and battles between battalions.
The strongest hundred Goblins were selected as the Guard Battalion for Ragnar and were trained by Aslaug. Aslaug had become Ragnar's assistant, maid and bodyguard over these years.
She was quiet, serious and hardworking. She followed all of Ragnar's orders to the letter.
Ragnar also worked over the Lodbrok Village in these five years. Since the day he became the Jarl Borg of the tribe. He changed the whole layout.
In the center of the Village, he made a Lord's Manor for himself. He ordered all of the veteran Goblins of Bjorn's army, who surrendered without a fight against him, to change occupations.
He made them construction workers, and had them construct fences around the village, a Basic Market, a Dining Hall, Wooden Residential Homes, Bathrooms, Blacksmith Shop, Grocery Shop, Logging Field and Barracks.
After they had finished constructing all these buildings, he made them cultivate farmlands.
Ragnar explained the use of every building to Aslaug, and asked her to handle all the administrative matters, by choosing competent female Goblins, and making a council to handle all these matters.
The quite but hardworking Aslaug did not disappoint Ragnar, as she completely formed a village level administrative system, and efficiently managed it.
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Ragnar was patrolling the village for a routine check-in, when he looked behind him to find Aslaug following him quietly as usual. He smiled and asked.
”Aslaug, care to explain me in detail the condition of our fences?”
Aslaug was surprised at the sudden question, and frowned for a second before answering diligently.
”My lord, we have not started further construction on it and it is still the same. Useful only as basic fortification around the whole village. It has a weak defense, and it can only stop wild animals from entering our village.”
”What about the Basic Market and Grocery Shop?”
”My lord, the Grocery Shop distributes various types of daily necessities to our Lodbrok Clan Goblins, as ordered by you in exchange for their work on the construction of the village, in farmlands or in the battalions. While we are efficiently using the Basic Market to barter our other daily necessities from the other tribes that come to visit.”
”Excellent. What about our Blacksmith Shop? How is the production?”
”My lord, that old Goblin you abducted from his tribe complains that he wants to go back everyday. But he still builds a variety of farm tools, such as axes, chisels, and other iron tools and sends them to Lord's Manor at the designated time everyday.”
”Hahaha, that's just Old Green's personality. It is a pity that he is just a Junior Goblin Blacksmith and cannot make weapons for us. What about our Logging Fields and the expansion of our Barracks?”
”My lord, Goblins chosen by you are working diligently everyday to cut and collect wood resources in our Logging Fields. While the Barracks has finished it's expansion, and can now hold our thousand Goblin troops for training.”
”Have the veterans started cultivating farmlands?”
”My lord, the veteran Goblins had reclaimed all the land which is fertile outside our village. They are growing crops. We plan to plant grain twice a year, the first quarter of planting is during early April, the second quarter of sowing is in early July.”
”Splendid. How many residential homes have we made in our village for our current population?”
”My lord, according to a full population calculation of twelve hundred Goblin residents, the village has built 60 residential homes.”
Ragnar turned back to pinch Aslaug's cheeks and he said smiling with bloodthirst.
”Good job, my ice queen. Tell them to hurry up with the construction work, I don't plan to wait much longer before attacking the other tribes!”