Transcendent Noble

"sou" An eager arrow shot through Ant-Man's head. It turned awkwardly a few times, and finally fell to the ground and died.

"Okay!" Nelson cheered a few times, but was embarrassed to find that no one of the more than 300 soldiers responded to him, so he closed his mouth in a serendipitous manner.

Victor put away the double silver short bow, smiled at Nelson's shoulder and said, "We won."

"My lord, we won!" Nelson grinned. With a smile.

Ant-man’s blood stained the green earth, and hundreds of ant-man corpses lay across the valley. Strong war mastiffs shuttled back and forth, stacking ant-man’s corpses in one place. A rocket ignited the pile of corpses, and a raging flame burst forth. The heat wave accompanied by the stench forced Victor to retreat again and again. This is the last group of ants in the territory, Victor can only burn them on the spot, because there will be no more ants to devour their bodies.

Instructing the militiamen responsible for cleaning the battlefield to pay attention to controlling the spread of the fire, Victor left the valley with a large group of troops. Walking outside, Victor took a deep breath of fresh air, and sighed: "It's finally over."

After 7 months, Victor took the lead to clear out the colony of ants in his territory. In the future, Victor only needs to intercept and kill the retreating Ant-Man leader.

In this ant plague, all the villages under Victor’s name were damaged to varying degrees. More than 100 people died or were missing. There are still less than 300,000 mu of purple cane forest on the side. At the same time, Victor also lost more than 3,000 square kilometers of territory, and the loss was heavy.

However, Victor's gains are equally great. Due to the ant plague, all the troubles in the territory were swept away, the crisis of the refugee tide was eliminated, and Pinghu and Mithril Mine fell into Victor's hands. In addition, Alchemy Tower’s soul fire ceiling and capital reserves are increasing. Now he has 467 monkey militiamen, 71 Concealed Ox militiamen, 236 auxiliary soldiers, 61 war mastiffs, and 113 Golden Crow crows.

Victor also successfully controlled the mountains on the west side, and built a fortress and a complete production system there. As long as the resources in the mountains are not exhausted, Victor can continuously obtain various weapons, food, medicine ingredients, and meat. , Fuel, fast bird and so on.

In terms of politics and diplomacy, Victor became the kingdom’s hereditary viscount and had the basis for soliciting Knight. He has formed a close alliance with the York family. If he is attacked by the ant-man again, he will continue to weaken the ant colony and strengthen himself with the help of the military power of the York family. The use of Mithril to establish secret trade relations with the eastern neighbors will help cope with the possible blockade and isolation of the kingdom. You can also use the territory of Count Chebman to realize the strategic vision of the caravan moving east.

It can be said that the future development prospects are already vast. Victor only feels refreshed and spirituality exciting.

"Qua" a Golden Crow flew from the east, flying in circles in the air, Victor eyes shined, said with a smile to Nelson: "Someone came from the east, it should be Chebman's house. You take the promised materials and gold coin to see, and then pull the materials to Pinghu Village."

Nelson responded and led the thirty alchemy militiamen to the east. Victor returned to Pinghu Village with the rest of the alchemy militia.

On the way, the endless purple cane forest is now ruined and barren. Broken and rotting purple cane can be seen everywhere, and the ground is pitted, but Ant-Man dug out the roots of the purple cane. . It will take at least 30 years to restore the purple cane forest.

"Renault, you have also loaded the gathering and planting skills, and the purple cane forest has been destroyed. Is there any way to plant crops such as barley and wheat on this land?" Victor frowned and asked the alchemy militia , The purple cane forest was destroyed by Ant-man, and millions of acres of land were vacated. Victor would not sit back and watch these fertile land overgrown with weeds and thorns.

"My lord, there is no way." Renault's answer was as simple and affirmative as ever.

Victor is speechless. The land that can grow purple cane cannot grow crops, but this is the fact.

Purple cane is the food of the forest people. It has a characteristic, that is, the root system is very long. The rhizome of purple cane is close to 1 meter, and the roots are as long as five meters. Only the annual rain can meet the needs of purple cane growth. Human crops and vegetables are not good, and they cannot survive without adequate irrigation. Therefore, human farmland is distributed near rivers and lakes.

The black liquid river runs through the Centaur Hills. It has a length of 87 kilometers in the Victor collar, forming one large, two small and three lakes, which are the most important water sources in the Victor collar. The black liquid river is relatively shallow, and the deepest place is less than 1 meter, so it has no shipping value, but it is enough to irrigate farmland. Due to hilly terrain restrictions, Victor can cultivate up to 500,000 acres of farmland along the black liquid river bank.

The 500,000 mu of arable land sounds a lot, but the output is pitiful. The agricultural technology in this world is very backward. In order to maintain soil fertility, farmers implement a simple grass-field rotation system, that is, half of the cultivated land is planted with grass and half of the cultivated land is planted with crops. The yield of grain per mu of arable land is almost 280 catties, of which 140 catties of seeds, the real output of grain is only 140 catties. 250,000 mu of arable land can harvest 17,500 tons of grain every year.

The ordinary person in this world is very strong and can eat well. Adult men need about 1.5kg of food a day. The most terrible thing is that here is 16 months a year, 36 days a month, and counted as an adult. People eat 0.8 tons of grain every year. In other words, the 9,000 square kilometers of territory can only feed 20,000 adult men by farming alone. Counting women and children, if there are more than 30,000 people, there will be food shortages.

This is why the leaders of Centaur Hills cut down the purple cane forest. They planted alfalfa and drought-tolerant rye on those lands, and supplemented the lack of food by raising cows and goats. And regularly organize leaders to carry out gathering and hunting activities. If Victor takes the same measures, the optimal population size of the territory cannot exceed 40,000.

"Renault, can sweet potatoes be grown here?" Victor asked expectantly.

Reynolds shook the head, "My lord, sweet potatoes also need water."

The hundreds of thousands acres of purple cane forest worth millions of goldsall, but now it can only be planted Inexpensive pasture, cattle and sheep, but the matter is over, Victor can only sigh, "Uh, then grow grass and cattle, beef tendon, cowhide is still very useful."

Wait for Victor. Nelson was already waiting for him when he arrived in Pinghu Village.

"My lord, all the supplies and gold coins from Chebman's house are here." Nelson greeted him with joy, and said, "40 bullock carts, 40 healthy bulls, and 40 bulls. Cows, 200 sheep, 120,000 pounds of wheat seeds, 10,000 pounds of salt, 40,000 kinsoul and 1 pound of fine gold."

These materials were proposed by Victor to Chebman’s family. The most valuable thing for 10,000 gold sols is the pound of fine gold. Although they add up to not enough 10,000 gold sols, it is Victor's most desperately needed material. This time, Count Chebman can’t be considered stingy. If Victor didn’t insist on it, he would rather give 50,000 jinsols than use materials to offset it. The lord near Centaur Hills was more or less affected. It can be seen for some time in the future. There will inevitably be a gap in internal grain, and in this case, money may not necessarily be able to buy grain.

Victor handed the wooden box filled with fine gold to an alchemy militia and motioned to him to take it back to the secret base, but saw Nelson staring at the wooden box eagerly, saying with a smile: "These fines Gold is useful to me. Next time you trade with Chebman's family, you can consider forging two fine gold tomahawks."

"Thank you, sir." Nelson touched his head sorry.

"This is what you deserve. If it weren't for you, our purple cane will not be left." Victor nodded said again: "When these goods are unloaded, you will bring ten double wheels. Dock, go pick up Lilia, they should also set off."

"Yes, my lord." Nelson said excitedly. He had been waiting for this day for a long time.

After a while, Nelson took a dozen militiamen and left happily. Victor turned his head and ordered: "Jack, take 150 people, first clean up the ruins of Pinghu Village. , Drag all the debris to the brick kiln village as fuel, restart the giant brick kiln, and produce ordinary blue bricks.

Shake, you bring 50 militiamen and 80 auxiliary soldiers to clean up the hill camp. Ruins, where you build a blacksmith shop, produce farm tools, extract cane sugar, brew purple cane wine, and make coffee.

Morey, you take 150 people to choose a location at the mouth of Pinghu, and build a place that can hold 1,000 Human camp."

Watching the alchemy militia start to move, Victor is full of confidence in the future. In order to rebuild his territory, he brought out a total of 500 homunculus from the mountain fortress. This will be the first time that the homunculus is large. The scale is integrated with the ordinary person, and Victor no longer needs to hide it.

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Lilia wore an elegant long dress, standing in front of Victor’s leaders, and said coldly: "Master Victor has already wiped out the Ant-Man in the territory, and now it's time for us to return to the territory! I know that some of you are afraid, some are unwilling to leave Black Castle Town, and some want to betray Lord Victor! Make your choice and be willing to cooperate. I went back, stood behind me, did not want to go, stay where you are, Lord Victor will not embarrass you."

The crowd suddenly became commotion, and the war bear mercenary stood behind Lilia first. Then Maureen walked out and bowed respectfully to Lilia. Standing behind her, Dean and the other village chiefs also stood up. The guards, the members of the work points system all stood up, and then the women and children. In the end, nearly two hundred people stayed in place.

Everyone looked at these people coldly, only Dean lowered his head with a flushed face, leaving mostly the villagers of Zhuanyao Village, who were also his subordinates.

"I'm very satisfied that you can stand over." Lilia lightly said to Dean.

"Madam, I'm sorry, I didn't expect these people..." Dean was ashamed of himself, and only his team members and their families followed him.

"It’s okay, it’s a good thing. What the adults said is the burning of real gold, this is the case."

Lilia sighed, most of the villagers in Zhuanyao Village are new to Victor. Freedmen under the leadership, they have not experienced the offensive and defensive battles in the hill camp, nor have they joined the work-point system, and they have no family members. When the monster swept the territory, they would naturally choose a stronger lord, not to mention the York family has been wooing them. Lilia knew this well, but she didn't expect that Dean would also choose to return to the territory. He was the key target of the York family.

"Lilia, the clerk of York's family refused to lend us dry food, and even refused to return our carriage! However, Lord Nicole has already gone to him." Old John dragged the wooden fake The legs came over and said flustered and exasperated in Lilia's ear.

"I see."

Lilia's indifferent surprise surprised Old John, how did this girl become different from before.