King: Start with tauren plowing

Chapter 71 Changes in the Situation in the North

"Fart, you are the fat pig. I'm a relative of Viscount Kate O'Hara." Sherlock turned his face to the side and gestured: "Have you seen the red mark? Your Lord Baron did it back then."

"What on earth do you want?" The servant originally wanted to curse and beat him, but he held back after thinking about it.

"I want to buy some animal skins and lambs from you. Your lord baron slapped me, so I won't ask him to apologize. Just buy the goods cheaper."

"It's not cheap. This price is all set by Butler Mark."

"Really not?"

"No."

Hearing this tragic news, Sherlock immediately fell down in despair, but the situation was stronger than others, and he had to buy what he had to buy.

Viscount Kate stayed in Winter Fortress for a few more days to understand all these decrees of Shire, and then bid farewell to Shire.

……

At the gate of Winter Fortress, Charles was seeing off his ally, Viscount Kate O'Hara.

"Baron Shire, please believe me, you will receive assistance from various nobles in a short time, and you will get at least hundreds of carts of grain and thousands of serfs."

Kate, who felt that he had benefited a lot recently, got on his horse and ordered the caravan to move forward. He now wants to return to Rengar City immediately to practice his newly learned laws.For example, the unified weights and measures, he can't handle open justice, but he can still do preferential treatment for veterans, cleanliness and sanitation.

Sherlock is taking care of the caravan, and the goods in the caravan are northern animal skins, sheep, and various accessories and musical instruments with the style of northern Xinjiang.These things are not worth much in Winter Fortress, especially after obtaining tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

But in the south-central part of the Kingdom of Sisinoa, these goods can often be sold for a good price.

When they came, Viscount Kate's convoy was led by knights, protected by infantry, and pulled by serfs.Later, the knights' horse armor was pulled off by Charles, and now the knights had to walk.

It's not that Viscount Kate didn't care about Shire, especially after the two sides concluded a military alliance, but this Baron Shire has a very thick skin. The orcs in the north said something, and what they meant was that if these armors were taken away, Shire would not be able to defend the Winter Fortress, and Kate was the sinner of the entire Sisinoa Kingdom.

Viscount Kate had no choice but to admit defeat and took a step back. Without the horse and armor, there must be weapons, just return the weapons.

It came back, but it wasn't free. If the iron Kate could barely accept it, it turned out to be a bunch of wooden spears.

Kate immediately said that he had no money. He had brought dozens of carts of grain to Winter Fortress to sell, but now it was all in Shire's hands.

Shire said that if he has no money, he can use credit in the name of the O'Hara family, which made Viscount Kate want to curse.

But in the end, the matter was resolved smoothly. Now that the two sides have concluded a military alliance, it is naturally impossible to turn their faces over these trivial matters.

After seeing Kate off, Ciel took old Mark and Abudkader back to the halls of Noxus to summarize recent developments.

Now Winter Fortress is in a stage of rapid development. First of all, the food issue that is most concerned by Shire. Now Winter Fortress has about 3000 human leaders and more than 9000 tauren leaders. There are 800 human soldiers and 1300 tauren soldiers. People, a total of 2100 full-time soldiers, the military-civilian ratio reached 1:5.

This ratio is very dangerous. If you rely solely on self-sufficiency, you will collapse in less than half a year.However, Winter Fortress has been fighting east and west, plundering wealth, and it can barely maintain it.

Considering the 1:3 military-to-civilian ratio of Winter Fortress, Shire would even proudly say that Winter Fortress is developing in a healthier direction.

Moreover, the food stock has also made great progress. Before the Cold Winter Fortress had 3000 people, there were 3 months of food storage, and the total food was hundreds of thousands of catties.But now, Winter Fortress has millions of catties of grain and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep. Even if the number of people increases to 12000, it can last for more than six months.If the follow-up development of Winter Fortress is not considered, and the goal is only survival, it can last for more than nine months.

In addition to the great progress in terms of food, other aspects of Winter Fortress are also developing.Before Winter Fortress, there were only a dozen carpenters, but now there are dozens of apprentices starting out, and hundreds of apprentices are about to start learning. In the next few years, carpenters will show a blowout development. These extra carpenters can make wooden plows, create Longbow, build houses.

The actual territory of Winter Fortress is also increasing. When the northern orcs were not defeated before, the civilians of Winter Fortress could only hide in Winter Fortress. Once they stepped out of the fortress, they were in danger of being attacked by orcs.And now, from Winter Fortress to the Nocle River, this territory is completely decided by Winter Fortress.

In addition to these external and obvious changes, the interior of Winter Fortress is also undergoing slow and profound changes.If someone from last year came to this year, he would find that Winter Fortress has become clean, orderly, and prosperous.

The administrative system of Winter Fortress was too rough before. In terms of government affairs, Charles directly approached the old Mark, but now there are a group of low-level veterans acting as the grassroots ruling system. These veterans are naturally supporters of the Noxus family. For Rin The grassroots management of Winterhold has helped a lot.

The improvement of the grassroots governance system has gradually established and improved the order of Winter Fortress, which has further promoted the promulgation of decrees.Otherwise, no one would help to implement the cleaning campaign of Winter Fortress, the unification of weights and measures and other decrees.

These internal perfections further attracted the arrival of merchants. The good order and huge profits made these merchants abandon their wives and children and go to Winter Fortress to sell food.

However, behind the prosperity of Winter Fortress, there are also many hidden dangers.

First of all, there is the problem of food. It is autumn now, and it is late autumn, and there is only one month before winter.The newly reclaimed farmland in Cold Winter Fortress cannot grow crops. It can only be planted in next spring and harvested in autumn tomorrow. It will take almost a year. This means that there is a shortage of millions of catties of food in Winter Fortress, almost thousands of cars food.

Moreover, there is no iron ore in Winter Fortress. Most of the tauren now use the weapons obtained from the previous victory over the Hammer tribe, such as hammers, axes, sticks, and various strange weapons. Some tauren even have no iron ore. Quality weapons, only wooden spears.

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Three days after Viscount Kate left, another news came from the north.

Before, Shire asked Peter to lead two tauren centurions to snatch people from the Fang tribe, and the result was very smooth. Not only did they bring back Peter's family of centaurs, but they also brought back more than 200 centaurs.

These days, Shire has tasted the benefits of the centaur cavalry. When marching and fighting, the centaur scouts are like playing a strategy game with the map turned on.But it's a pity that he only has fifty or sixty centaurs under his command.

(End of this chapter)