Chapter 153

The light wind swept over the hills, and the long Artemisia moved with the wind. Three ox carts rolled over the grass and left deep ruts. Nelson was on the ox cart and said to Linda nearby, "bypass this hill, which is the land granted to us by adults. There are lakes, woods, rivers and grasslands. You can hunt and fish. You will like it."

Linda closed her eyes and leaned lazily against Nelson's broad shoulders. She looked as if she hadn't woken up. After a long time, she said leisurely, "the fief can't run. As for, did she run here early this morning? Lord Victor is going to hold a round table today."

Nelson said awkwardly, "it's not old John. They can't wait to come and have a look. We'll leave in a minute. We won't miss adults."

Victor canonized 300 square kilometers of Nelson's land, and the most excited was the members of the War Bear mercenaries. Today, before dawn, Nelson was forcibly pulled out of bed by a dozen old mercenaries, shouting to see his territory. As a last resort, Nelson had to find three ox carts and run over to see the scenery with these disabled old mercenaries. But Nelson pretended not to care, but Linda was amused.

"Just pretend. There's no need to go there in person for such a thing. You can find anyone to lead the way with so many men."

Nelson said with a smile, "you're not the same. You haven't been to that land. You didn't come as soon as you called."

Linda was speechless, and then angrily pinched the soft meat between Nelson's waist and ribs. As soon as she tried hard, her fingers were bounced off by Nelson's muscles. She couldn't help shouting, "there's something moving in your clothes!"

Nelson scratched his head. After practicing Fu Niu's secret form, his muscles seemed to live. If he did not control it, there would be such a natural reaction. This phenomenon can be eliminated only by practicing Fu Niu's secret form to the point of sending and receiving from the heart. But Victor told him that he should never mention the secret cultivation to anyone.

"How could there be something? You must not have slept well. Come and lean against me and sleep again." Nelson quickly coaxed.

After giving Nelson a suspicious look, Linda leaned on her husband and closed her eyes. A moment later, she said, "I remember you told me to be a lord in 30 years. Unexpectedly, you really did it in the past 12 years."

"In fact, that's what I said to deceive you. At that time, you were the most beautiful girl in the mercenary regiment, and many people stared at you. At that time, I didn't have the strength now. Unexpectedly, you foolishly believed it. Now, you foolishly become a Lord." Nelson smiled proudly.

"I don't want to be your Lord's lady. You should marry a noble lady and give birth to a group of children. If your wife wants, I'll be your personal maid. If she doesn't want, I'll be your lover." Linda said faintly.

Becoming a lord is the limit that ordinary people can reach, but it is very difficult to obtain the title of Lord. Many knights are just Lords. For example, Bruce was once a lord of fiefdom, and those trainee knights are not even Lords. It is even more difficult to obtain the title of Lord as an ordinary person. Nelson's strength was comparable to that of a powerful knight, but he never expected that he would really become a lord or a fiefdom aristocrat with hereditary territory.

Although Lord is the lowest nobleman, he is recognized as a nobleman after all. Now, Nelson is a real aristocrat and a fief aristocrat with hereditary territory. Therefore, Nelson is qualified to marry an aristocratic woman. In fact, many aristocratic ladies with poor family are willing to marry the Lord of the fiefdom, and even those trainee female knights who have no hope of stepping into the bronze stage are willing to marry it. 300 square kilometers of hereditary territory is the limit of a lord, which is more respected than a court baron.

As Linda said, the Lord of fiefdom should marry a woman of Knight's blood. Only in this way can the family prosper. That's how many new families were born. But Nelson was unaware of Linda's efforts. He said carelessly, "let our son do the thing of marrying a noble lady. You'd better be Lord Randall's lady honestly."

"You rammer!" Linda caught Nelson's ear with tears in her eyes.

"Why cry? Lord, it's no big deal. I can make greater achievements in the future." Nelson said disapprovingly.

"Ha! Lord, nothing great? Can you still be a baron?" Linda was annoyed by Nelson.

"I don't know, but I believe Lord victor. Well, Lord Victor is not an ordinary aristocrat. His ideas are different from others. He doesn't value what others value, and he values what others don't value. We just have to follow adults." Nelson replied.

"I didn't expect you to know Lord Victor so well. What do you think adults value?" Linda asked curiously.

Nelson thought for a moment and said, "my Lord, you value us."

"We?" Linda turned her eyes and asked, "including those strange free people? Are they really gathered by you?"

"Absolutely true." Nelson patted his chest and said firmly.

"Hum! They are all young and strong, not even a woman or child?"

"In that case, how can I take in a burden? I don't want free people with children and women." Nelson said solemnly.

Linda stared at Nelson's firm face, leaned her head on his shoulder, and smiled at the corners of her mouth. Although her husband was not a smart man, he was by no means a fool.

A moment later, the ox cart stopped. Nelson and Linda stood in front of a lake. The lake was not big or small. It looked like 1500 mu. Opposite the lake was dense woods and rolling hills. It was early in the morning that a thin mist floated on the lake, and the clouds in the sky and the green trees in the mountains were vaguely reflected on the lake. The blue waves were rippling and the sky was high and the clouds were light. Linda couldn't help taking a deep breath.

"How beautiful."

"There is fertile land and abundant water, but there are too many hills. Up to 40000 mu of cultivated land can be reclaimed along the lake bank and mountain streams. The forest area is large, with many high-quality timber, wild animals and berries. I just don't know whether there are mineral veins in the mountain. Well, I want someone to explore." Nelson said proudly.

"When the adult's territory is on the right track, we can recruit Lingmin and build a villa by the lake bank." Nelson turned to his wife and said, "Linda, don't drink bluegrass soup again. We'll have some children. When they grow up, I'll take them hunting."

The mercenary's life is vagrant and precarious. They have no conditions to raise future generations. They have been together for many years and have no children of their own. Now they are different. Linda nodded her head gently and said, "I listen to you."

"Ha ha, it's good to have children!" Old John dragged his prosthetic leg over and continued to say, "you have more strong boys. We old guys are responsible for practicing them hard."

"Bah! The beauty of thinking." When she heard that old John was going to practice his son, Linda was very worried, even though she was not pregnant.

"Seriously, Nelson boy, you are a lord now. We old guys want to make a living under you. Just give us some land." The old mercenary came forward with an iron hook and said.

"What? Lord Victor has treated you badly? You are his vassal. Without his consent, this is betrayal." Nelson smiled.

Old John shook his head and sighed, "the goat hotel is gone, which has cost adults thousands of gold sol. We old disabled people still have the face to be Lord Victor's vassal. Just go back. If it's difficult for you, we'll be Lord Victor's leader."

These old guys are still so fierce, but if they are not strong, they won't be mercenaries. Nelson thought in his heart, but said, "there's such a cheap thing! If sol didn't say he lost thousands of gold, even two chefs were poached by the York family. You'd better go and work for adults."

A dozen old mercenaries looked at each other, and one of them couldn't help saying, "we can't farm. What can we do?"

"Hey, hey, it won't be cheap anyway, you old people. When you go back, go find Barrett and he'll arrange it." Nelson picked up Linda and ran away. As he ran, he shouted, "let's go first. Remember to find Barrett."

In the twinkling of an eye, Nelson had disappeared, leaving only Linda's laughter rippling by the lake.

"Nelson, you haven't made it clear yet. He runs faster than a rabbit." Cried old John with hatred.

When Nelson and Linda walked into the meeting room, it was full of people. Although it's a round table, Victor's seat is the head. On his left is Lilia, and the two empty seats on his right are Nelson and Linda. Along the way are Maureen, Benson, boots, Dean, Philo, Kent and George, all of whom are Victor's village leaders. Benson and boots were dismissed. Because they performed Victor's task of gathering the mountain people, they now return to the management level again.

After Nelson and Linda sat down, Victor said, "everyone is here. Let's get straight to the point. Lilia, report the current situation of the territory."

"Yes." Lilia said in a loud voice, "at present, our population is 1495, including 572 free people gathered by Lord Nelson, 570 members of the work point system and 353 women and children. There are 120000 pounds of wheat seeds, 240000 pounds of sweet potatoes, 10000 pounds of salt, 200 sheep, 70 Qianniu, 40 dairy cows, 35 war horses and 7 young horses in the camp. That's all."

"Well, there are 1142 young people in our team. Then, Nelson and Linda, how many people do you need?" Victor asked them.

Nelson's eyes lit up and quickly said, "Sir, at least 150 people."

"Too many, up to 100 of you. These people must be selected from the people." Victor resolutely refused Nelson's request.

The strength of the alchemy militia is comparable to that of trainee knights. Victor has hundreds of alchemy militia, and the security of the territory is not a problem at all. The reason for rebuilding the convoy is only to train qualified officers.

Victor then said to the village leader, "I will assign 100 people to each of your village groups, and give priority to the members of the work point system. You have only one task, that is, reclaiming farmland. I have other uses for the remaining free people."

Dean asked nervously, "don't you have to resume production in brick kiln village, sir?"

"I have arrangements for brick kiln village, Carpenter Village and flax village, including Hill camp." Victor shook his head and said, "we should concentrate on cultivating 20000 mu of cultivated land and planting all crops in the water season."

Maureen coughed and said, "Sir, we don't have enough seeds. 20000 mu of arable land needs at least 1 million pounds of wheat."

Victor nodded and said, "I know, you can plant as many wheat seeds as you have. All the remaining farmland is planted with sweet potatoes."

"All land potatoes? Sir, do you want to plant some grass like alfalfa? There is plenty of water here. As long as you water it frequently, the grass can grow very fast. It is very suitable for raising cattle, sheep and horses. Moreover, we don't need so many land potatoes at all." Said George, the village leader.

Victor said sternly: "As a Viscount, I have a vast territory, but only more than 1000 people, which is not comparable to a baron. Do you think I will be satisfied with this population? The Lord in the west of the Kingdom lost a lot of crops in the ant disaster. In the next two or three years, there will be a shortage of food, which may lead to a wave of refugees. Therefore, we need more food! As long as we have enough food With food, we can accept more refugees. "

"Sweet potato can be used as rations. Its leaves, like grass, will grow after cutting. Although cattle, sheep and horses don't eat sweet potato leaves, wild boars will eat them!"

Humans in this world only raise cattle, sheep and horses, not wild boars. On the one hand, the economic value of wild boars is far lower than that of cattle and sheep. In addition to meat and fat, they do not produce milk and their fur is worthless. On the other hand, wild boars have miscellaneous food habits, fast reproduction and fierce temperament. They do not need to be raised, and they are everywhere in the wild. Due to the lack of large-scale water conservancy facilities, human cultivated land is limited, even if it is developed and mature In human territory, the area of the countryside is also much larger than that of the cultivated land, which gives enough living space for wild boars, beasts and monsters. In order to prevent cattle, sheep and horses from being prey by wild animals, people grow pasture and keep them in captivity near the village. As for wild boars, they are the object of human hunting. In fact, many nobles enjoy hunting wild boars.

However, Victor saw the advantages of wild boars. They ate almost everything, including sweet potato leaves that cattle and sheep didn't eat. Wild boars grew very fast. They could get hundreds of pounds of meat and lard a year, and wild boar manure was also a good fertilizer.

After the ant disaster, Victor's territory was vacated with millions of mu of land, which is suitable for planting grass, raising cattle, sheep and horses. The large beasts in the territory have been eliminated by the alchemical war mastiff, and only wild boars can compete with cattle and sheep for food. With hundreds of alchemical militia, Victor has no control over the territory. Therefore, Victor wants to plant sweet potatoes, raise wild boars in captivity and graze Cattle and sheep.

In fact, Victor can feed more than 3000 people only by the products of territory, mountains and Pinghu. But this is far from enough. Victor needs more people. At least he must meet the minimum standard of viscount, that is, more than 10000 people. If he follows the inherent development model, it will take more than 20 years. With the help of the food shortage caused by the ant disaster, Victor feels that he can To achieve this goal in two or three years, he needs plenty of food before that, and potato and wild boar can solve this problem.

Therefore, Victor redesigned the agricultural production system, collecting, hunting and catching to meet the short-term needs, planting potato, raising wild boar to meet the medium-term needs, planting wheat and grazing cattle and sheep to meet the medium and long-term needs. Victor believes that as long as this production system is established, the upper population limit of the territory will greatly exceed that of ordinary viscount.

"I will arrange free people to fish, hunt and collect wild fruits to meet our daily needs. What you have to do is to farm and raise pigs at ease!"