The owl quickly flew to the tower of Mecklenburg Castle with the news. There was a servant who was responsible for managing intelligence in the attic on the top floor of the tower. However, such a servant was also a member of the Brotherhood of Blood Drops. When he received this linen with ink drops on it, he knew that it was an urgent letter and needed to be reported to Harvey immediately. Therefore, he took the letter drawn in linen and trotted all the way inside the tower and quickly found Harvey's bedroom.

"Oh~~." Harvey had the habit of sleeping in. When she heard the knocking sound of the door, she turned over and smashed her mouth, covered her head with the pillow filled with goose feathers, and curled up into the warm bed. However, the people outside the door did not seem to be planning to let her go. The knocking sound was louder than the other, and finally made Harvey, who could not bear it, sit up suddenly.

"Come in, you'd better have a reason to do this, otherwise I'll shoot a few holes in you." Harvey used his hands to push away the long hair in front of his forehead, revealing his sleepy face and hazy sleepy eyes. The servant who walked in was frightened when he heard Harvey's words, but he still remembered his duties.

"Master Harvey, you said that if you find such ink drops, you must hand it to your hands immediately." The servant handed the thick linen piece in his hand to Harvey's hand. When he saw the ink drops on the linen, he immediately jumped off the bed. She opened the linen and looked carefully.

"When did you receive it?" Harvey raised his head and asked the servant.

"Well, uh, just now." The servant blushed for some reason, lowered his head and seemed not to dare to look at Harvey, and replied Harvey.

"Well, okay, why don't you look up at me?" Harvey looked at the servant with a red face strangely, but she soon found that she was still "chiluo". Harvey actually forgot that she had the habit of sleeping naked, but she didn't care, just smiled, waved her hand to let the servant go, and then put on her clothes. She walked towards the lord's hall. She knew that Aruod must have accepted his wishes in the lord's hall. Mecklenburg County lacked effective administrative officials, so Aruod had to take turns to order the farmers from various villages and immigration strongholds to come to the castle and accept their petition in the lord's hall.

Petitioners lined up one after another, and when they could not be resolved by traditional customary law, the earls as territories had the right to judge judicially. The conflicts between peasants could only be resolved through the earl's referee.

"Dear Count, he stoned my child and I beg him to hang him." Two peasants kneeled in front of Arod, one of whom pointed at the other and accused Arod.

"But I didn't mean it, dear Count, I didn't know that the damn stone would hit the child. I just kicked the stone with my feet." The accused farmer said to Aruod with a sad face.

"The Earl, based on the church law and the holy Bible, needs to pay double the compensation to the owner of the livestock. If the person is killed, he will pay his life." Monk Evette, who stood beside Arod, explained in accordance with the church's laws.

"Do you have witnesses?" Aruod frowned. He asked the two farmers.

"Some adults, they are here too." At this time, three people walked over and walked in. The crowded people in the hall were talking, and they looked at the people around and the sword guards nervously and at a loss.

"Great Earl." One of the older farmers bowed to Arod.

"Did you see the incident happening with your own eyes?" Aruod looked at the farmers in front of him and asked them. These farmers were all German immigrants and looked like honest farmers.

"Yes." The farmers nodded one after another. The first time they saw the count who lived in such a high wall made these farmers afraid.

"Is it true that the incident happened as he said?" Aruod pointed to the two farmers kneeling on the ground and said to the witnesses.

"That's right." The witnesses kept nodding, nervous like a group of quails.

"Then he had no intention of killing that child at all. He had no subjective intention to commit a crime. Even if it objectively caused the crime, it could only be manslaughter." Aruod said to everyone in the hall. He thought that he always read today's statement when he was eating instant noodles at noon in his previous life. He had an impression of the subjective and objective conviction, and ruling a medieval case was not a minor point.

"But Lord Earl, he killed people. Even if it was not intentional and just an accident, at least one of his legs should be cut off as compensation." Monk Evette leaned down and said in Aroud's ear.

"Since this is an accident, it can only be said that it is God's will. How can we violate God's will and the prisoner compensate the deceased's family for a cow. If there is no money, you will be punished to work for him for a year." Arod quickly made a ruling, and the will of God made everyone dare not object. Although monk Elvit felt that Arod did not make a judgment in accordance with the usual customary law of the lord or the church law, after careful consideration, he felt that Arod's judgment was very fair.

"Thank you, the Count, the fair, and the kind," the prisoner said thankfully, and the people around him felt that Aruod did not hang the prisoner easily, but instead listened to the witness's testimony and made a cautious decision. A lord who did not enforce the law hastily is a blessing for the people.

Just as Arod finished his ruling, Harvey walked to Arod and handed the information that the blood droplets were sent back to Arod. Looking at the pattern and ink droplets on the linen, it was obvious that the leader Rostock finally took action. Seeing this, Arod immediately stopped accepting the petition. When only monks Elvit and Harvey were left in the hall, he handed the linen to monk Elvit.

"Sir, how should we face the enemy?" Monk Elvitt was also a smart man. When he saw the pattern on linen, he immediately understood, but he was a little confused about the matter that should have nothing to do with him in combat, why did Aruod show him the information.

"How many enemies are there?" Arod did not answer Monk Elvit, but asked Harvey instead.

"My man has just taken root in Rostock County and has not received specific information yet. Who knows that the leader who likes men will suddenly attack us." Harvey held his chin with his hand and leaned against the stone pillars in the hall. The members of the Blood Drop Brotherhood are of uneven quality and have a short time to establish. It is already very efficient to be able to send messages back as soon as the leader of Rostock sends troops. More detailed information requires higher intelligence analysis capabilities.

"Well, then you can know the direction of the attack." Arod sat in the lord's seat and asked Harvey. As the spy leader, Harvey, is undoubtedly qualified, but Arod's military power is still in the stage of formation and recovery. He was worried that he could not withstand the attack of the new invasion, so he asked anxiously.

"The attack from Rostock County to us is nothing more than two roads in the northeast direction, and it takes about two days from the border to Mecklenburg Castle. It depends on the size of the enemy's army. If it exceeds a thousand people, it may take more time." Harvey analyzed to Arod.

"What thousand people?" Monk Elvit's face turned pale when he heard this. After Aroud's army quelled the rebellion, it could gather up to more than 300 people, which was the addition of untrained Germanic immigrants.

"Have you been to the terrain of the border area?" Arod also frowned. If the Rostock people launched a thousand people to attack, then he would have to make a difficult choice, whether to clear the villages in the territory, concentrate all the people into the castle, rely on the strong castle to consume the Rostock people, or to mobilize all their strength to defend their territory in the field.

"There are forests and hills everywhere." Harvey, the spy chief appointed by Arod, was always elusive, but she was very competent. There were almost no places she had not been to in the countryside and borders of Mecklenburg County. She was like a lion patrolling the entire territory.

"I understand, Monk Elvit, take advantage of the enemy's arrival, and try to earn the materials and food into the castle granary as much as possible. Even if you spend a lot of money, you must buy the food back from the merchants. There is also news of the Rostock attack. Don't spread it for the time being." Arod stood up and ordered Monk Elvit, the policy of clearing the barriers is the most stable strategy. As for everything outside the castle, you may have to give up. Arod thought a little unwillingly.

"Yes, Lord Earl." Monk Elvit knew that the situation was urgent, so he hurried out of the lord's hall and followed Arod's orders to execute.

"Have, you secretly bring this news to Julian and ask him to bring the trained slave soldiers here." Arod looked at the back of Monk Elvitt leaving, and then ordered Harvey.

"So what should I do with the people from the Rage Lion Castle and the smelting base?" Harvey asked.

"It's okay to stay away from the Rostocks' offensive route. As for the smelting base, all the people who evacuate into the castle." Aroud ordered.

"By the way, I met some friends on the southern border of our territory and asked me to find them. Maybe they will help us at critical moments." Harvey's eyes rolled and said to Arod.

"Oh? Friend, are you a mercenary?" Aruod asked curiously. The woman in front of him was very powerful, and he didn't even know that there were her friends on the border south of him.

"Ha, I met my friends when I fled to Mecklenburg County. Don't worry, they are not mercenaries, but you have to give them some promises after the matter is done." Harvey's eyes with long eyelashes flashed a few times, and a mysterious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said to Arod.
Chapter completed!