Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 6

After thinking about it for several days, Owen finally decided to limit the number of soldiers to about 50.

These soldiers are really nothing, because at least one or two hundred people are needed to guard the castle, let alone the entire territory.

It can be said that one hundred and two hundred is not too little, and three hundred and five hundred is not too much.

The problem is that the foundation of the Hydera family is too shallow, and Owen can't do too much. Besides, fifty out-of-production soldiers are not too small. He has to set aside some extra progress points to develop the territory, and he can't use all of them here.

Because the recovery speed of the progress value is limited, in order to make reasonable use of it, Owen divided the subsequent development of the territory into four stages, and the second stage has been conceived.

In the first stage, the total number of swordsmen and foot archers was expanded to 20, plus the original eight soldiers, a total of 28 people, and then the two previous servants were incorporated, and they were responsible for food and carriages. In this way, As long as there is a need, 30 people can go to battle immediately.

But when perfecting the first stage, Owen found that it was not enough to have soldiers, but also lacked scouts and doctors.

In terms of scouts, Owen chose the scout cavalry from the Empire era. Although the price of cavalry is relatively high, even a scout cavalry as a light cavalry needs three progress points, but because the Northland is relatively flat, scouts on horseback are obviously more suitable for the environment here.

As for the doctor, the monks in the empire era were a good choice. They are the beggar version of priests. Unfortunately, now you can only save up to ten progress points, and you can't recruit monks worth fifteen progress points. Therefore, Owen can only choose horseback riding and hacking. Among them, companions who are good at healing, although they need to be paid, are better than nothing.

The planning of the first stage is considered to be completed. In the second stage, the number of soldiers in the system will be increased by ten, and then mainly exchanged for farmers and craftsmen to develop agriculture and economy.

Farmers in the Empire Age, despite being cheap, are all talented people. Not only can they farm, but they can also log, quarry, fish, hunt, butcher, and build. In addition to their poor combat effectiveness, they can be called decathlon.

However, after testing, Owen found that the role of system farmers is not as exaggerated as in the game. They can knock out city walls and buildings with just a hammer. In fact, they can only be called craftsmen. They know some crafts, but they are not very proficient , in front of real craftsmen can only start.

However, after Owen's research, he found that as long as other abilities are deleted before being exchanged for farmers, more professional craftsmen will be summoned, such as lumberjacks, miners, fishermen, hunters, butchers, and craftsmen, perfectly filling the vacancies in the territory.

At the same time, the various items in horseback riding and slashing also allowed the territory to obtain sufficient supplies. As long as a blacksmith shop is built, serfs no longer need to use sticks as farm tools, which greatly improves production efficiency.

It can be said that these two games alone have put Owen's territory on the fast track. If the system is officially activated, wouldn't he be flying? !

Time passed quickly while he was busy, and Owen, who had no experience at all, continued to add bricks and tiles to the territory with a hammer and a stick. Fortunately, the slow recovery speed of the progress value gave him more time to think, so that he would not make mistakes in his busy schedule.

On this day, the scouts came to warn. After listening to the description, Owen suddenly realized.

"It's quite early this year, and it seems that I can't wait." Owen said with a sneer, because he knew who was here.

"Let the soldiers assemble and all enter the castle." Owen had already prepared for this day, so he ordered calmly.

Owen boarded half of the city wall, held up the brass binoculars, and a thick black line that was originally blurred in the distance turned into a caravan.

"Five carriages need so many guards? Heh, the visitors are not kind." Owen said with a sneer after counting the number of caravan guards.

Although the caravan makes money, the profits they get in the Northland are also higher than expected, but the cost in all aspects is not low, which makes it impossible for the caravan to hire unlimited guards. Generally, there are a lot of them, even on the border of the Northland. In such a dangerous place, an ordinary caravan will have no more than two guards per carriage, because the men and grooms can take up arms and fight when necessary, which is not too rare. If more people are hired, it will definitely reduce the number of guards For profit, although it does not mean that there is no money to make, but for a businessman, less profit means loss, so it is natural to plan carefully.

So five carriages with twenty or so guards, plus the same number of men and grooms, said that they came for peace, and Owen would have to be stupid enough to believe it.

Owen knows what kind of goods the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce transports every year. It is not worth hiring twenty guards. Now that so many guards are hired, in order not to lose money, they must earn some extra money, such as snatching a nobleman along the way. territory.

No matter who it is, as long as it is not a nobleman, seizing the territory of the nobleman is a very taboo thing. The surrounding noblemen will come to attack the rebel unconditionally, and then carve up that poor guy's territory.

Even if the unlucky nobleman is still alive, in order to thank the good neighbors around him for extending a helping hand and letting them put down the bloody knife, he would have to bleed profusely, so much that he may not be able to recover in a hundred years.

The problem is that the situation of the Hydera family is a bit complicated. The so-called family is only Owen, so according to the tradition of the nobility, once he dies, his mother also has the right to inherit.

If the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce is willing to spend money to operate, it may not be impossible to swallow the Hydera family's inheritance of the title, which is enough for the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce to take a risk.

As for why he didn't deal with him before, but left instead, of course it was because this kind of thing can't be messed up, otherwise, once the surrounding nobles caught him, he would definitely end up being beaten.

To put it simply, the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce wants to play a show, pick itself out, and then occupy the Hydera family justifiably, and this requires timing and time to arrange, so it has been delayed until now.

Although he knew that the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce came with bad intentions, Owen didn't intend to solve it violently, because businessmen in any other world have one thing in common, that is, they don't do business at a loss, so he didn't hide it when he saw the caravan coming. Go to the front and back, and open the city gate directly.

Putting on clean and tidy aristocratic attire and riding a docile training horse, Owen showed an elegant smile that belonged to the aristocrats, and surrounded the caravan with all the soldiers.

Facing the encirclement of soldiers, the guards of the caravan were very nervous. Although they clenched their weapons tightly, their eyes were a little flustered, because they knew very well what would happen when they faced large-scale soldiers. Otherwise, why would they be so obedient when facing nobles? It's not because you can't beat it.

The caravan guards are all like this, and the guys and grooms are even worse. Even if they are not professionals, they can still see that their hope of winning is lower than their wages. Who works is not eating.

The guards and fellows could tell that the situation was not good, and the stewards of the caravan could also see it.

The sword and shield soldiers are in the front, the spearmen are close behind, and the archers are pressing the formation. Once they fight, they will definitely die in pieces, so the caravan stewards can't just watch the two sides clash, even if they didn't come with good intentions before. Now they just want to be reasonable, really, don't lie to you.

(End of this chapter)