Becoming a lord in another world starts with farming

The main reason why Owen insisted on doing this was that he once again improvised and tried to build a series of underground buildings in the Buffalo Territory, the Devil's Horn Forest, and the Territory Castle, and then connected them.

With the castle dungeon as the core, it connects the Devil's Horn Forest, which produces food and fuel, and the Buffalo Territory, which produces iron ore. In this way, several important places can be connected secretly, and all the power can be concentrated quietly. , and it guarantees multiple escape routes, not to mention benefits such as resource transportation and sneak attacks.

Although there are many benefits, the only problem is that the amount of work is enough to build a city, but Owen would rather bury it underground. This shows that he still lacks a sufficient sense of security.

I don't know if it's because of staying underground for a long time. For Owen, the earth is like a quilt covering him when he sleeps alone at night. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, it can at least bring him some sense of security.

Besides, even if he had the ability to build a city, he wouldn't do it because he didn't want to be targeted.

Rapid development is okay within the scope that others can understand or accept. Unexplainable rapid development means projecting the words "I am very suspicious, I have a secret" into the sky with a projector lamp. Don't choose such an exciting method even if you want to die.

The idea of ​​building an underground complex is good, and Irving has the ability to realize it, but I don't know if the time left for him is enough.

After asking the scouts to check carefully and finding no traces of outsiders in the buffalo territory, Owen knew he still had time.

The escape of the descendants of the Buffalo Baron is a hidden danger, but it is only a hidden danger. Even if the other party attracts barbarians, he is not afraid. He just wants to try to see if he can open the upper limit of the progress value again.

Owen's confidence did not come in vain, but came to a conclusion after having enough understanding through Maya's explanation.

The Northland barbarians were not easy to mess with. They were even a personal thorn in the side of the empire at the beginning. However, as the empire developed, the Northland barbarians continued to stand still or even regressed, turning from a serious nuisance to a peripheral nuisance.

After using the first Northland pioneering team to deceive the Northland barbarians several times, the Northland barbarians were forced to move north in order to survive and inherit. This shows how weak the Northland barbarians have become.

It is a consensus that the north becomes more desolate as you go north. Whenever there is a slight possibility, the barbarians in the north will not choose to cross the river and move north, because it is easy to go but difficult to come back.

The problem is that they have no choice. Even if they still have the ability to annihilate the Northland pioneering group, so what? Since the empire can form the first one, there will be a second and third one. It is not impossible to even form ten in one go. .

The empire has plenty of people and can afford them.

Therefore, the wise men of the northern barbarians saw very clearly that the only hope for the northern barbarians was in the north. This was the reason for the great migration of the northern barbarians in the first place.

It is a pity that although they have found a way out, the barbarians will face more difficulties in the extreme north. It is good if they can maintain the status quo, but don't expect to develop and grow.

Of course, no matter how weak the northern barbarians are, they are still not something that a small viscounty in Owen can handle, even if they cheat.

The problem is that the barbarians in the North are not good at planting and mainly focus on herding and hunting, so it is impossible to gather in large numbers.

After all, the beasts in the North are not crops, and grass also needs time to grow. Simply put, a piece of land can support only a limited number of people. If you want to get more prey, you must go farther, so the barbarians cannot gather in large numbers. , can only continue to migrate in the form of nomadic tribes.

It turned out to be okay. For many years, the barbarians in the North have been constantly fighting and compromising with each other. Although there is hatred between tribes, they all have their own living space and nomadic routes. Generally speaking, they live in peace and harmony. .

But after the migration to the north, all order was lost and everything returned to the primitive. Whoever had a bigger fist would have enough to eat. The originally diluted hatred must have accumulated deeper and deeper. As a result, it would be extremely difficult for the barbarian tribes to cooperate with each other. Heaven.

Without cooperation, Owen is really not afraid of a barbarian tribe alone.

The population of barbarian tribes is not too large, most of them are around three to five hundred people, and the most common ones are small tribes of more than a hundred people.

This is mainly because the barbarians are all pot-bellied men. In the past life, the ancient nomadic people did not eat meat every day. They mainly lived on dairy products and food obtained from the farming people.

The problem is that dairy products simply cannot fill the stomachs of the barbarians. As for exchanging food with the farming people, being an imperial frontier soldier is a dead end.

Therefore, barbarian tribes mainly rely on hunting and grazing to obtain food. The food obtained by hunting is unstable, grazing is limited to grasslands, and it is easy to attract wolves. It is difficult to increase the number, so unless it is absolutely necessary, they will not slaughter more livestock. , so it is common to be hungry and full.

Just because they are so edible, the barbarian tribes cannot support too many people. Unless it involves the survival of the entire northern barbarians, most of the tribes will never interact with each other. At most, they will exchange unmarried women in public areas in two or three years. Men and women, keep the tribe fresh with fresh blood.

The Buffalo Baron is only half of the barbarian blood, and his descendants are only a quarter. Even if he establishes a relationship with the barbarian tribe by selling iron tools, it is not enough to get the other party to fully help in revenge.

The barbarians are just barbaric, not stupid. How could they risk the destruction of the tribe to help avenge them? You must know that the most fundamental thing for any tribe is continuity, not gratification. Tribes that really want to do this will not survive today.

It is because of understanding this that Owen does not take the other party seriously, and this is also the reason why he does not go all out to build the city.

Although they knew that the hope of re-crossing the Northern Boundary River was slim, the northern barbarians still knew how fatal it would be for them for the empire to build a city on the Northern Boundary River.

Once a city is built here, it will not only completely cut off their hope of returning, but also become a bridgehead for the empire's northern expedition again. Therefore, the northern barbarians will never sit back and watch Owen build a city in the North Boundary River. One town is the limit of what they can tolerate.

It's too early to say this, the city wall alone can make Owen bald with worry, let alone a complete city.

As the iron ore mining in Buffalo Territory is on track, ten carts of extremely high-quality iron ore are transported to the territory every month. After being smelted with magic horn tree blocks, it becomes refined iron, and then is hammered into various shapes by the big and round blacksmith. To grow tools and weapons, Owen had to increase the number of blacksmith shops in the territory.

Even if Maya can handle most of the territory affairs on Owen's behalf, it does not mean that he does not have to do anything. At least he needs to understand to what extent the territory has developed and what to do next, especially the direction of development. This is something that Maya cannot do for him. He calls the shots.

In the busy life, only Dale and the swelling agent can soothe Owen's injured heart.

I have to say that Dale was even better at this than him, especially when she mastered the transformation surgery, animal ears, tail, furry hair, and the use of the Cartilage Curse, which really opened his eyes. In his previous life, he was definitely an ancestor-level character in the book world.