Becoming a lord in another world starts with farming

Owen, who felt his nose was about to malfunction due to trying to make fertilizer, had just returned to the territory when he received bad news from Curranth. This made him, who had become more relaxed as the territory's strength grew, become anxious again, and his anxiety increased day by day.

This is the second time Correns has returned. The first time he brought back all the female serfs in Mara Town, but they were only thirty-fifty, which did not have much effect on adjusting the male-female ratio in the territory, but Owen still gave him He rewarded and gave him two days off.

However, Currens, who had only made this achievement, did not give up. He begged Irving to give him another chance.

Since the more people in the territory, the better, Irving once again organized a larger fleet.

Corens was really hardworking. After being gone for more than half a month, he managed to bring back three hundred serfs, one hundred of whom were women.

Owen was delighted, but he was also curious about where he got so many serfs, and he didn't understand until he heard the result.

In fact, it is very simple. Mara Town is just one of the transfer stations in the North. It is not the only one, and it is not the only one with serfs. In fact, the closer to the border of the empire, the more serfs there are, and the proportion of women is higher. But once The trip was not easy. If you did not bring enough food, the mortality rate of the serfs along the way was not low. With other risks, it was easy to lose everything.

Kelunsi also dared to go because the food and grass provided by Owen were enough for his troops, but it was also a lot of effort and effort along the way, and he lost a lot of weight.

But this time when he returned, Curranth also brought bad news. The empire was preparing for the second Northland pioneering mission.

The first Northland pioneering mission lasted for several years. Tens of thousands of people went to the Northland one after another. They fought with barbarians, fought with wild beasts, and fought with their peers. In the end, only one out of ten people who survived could stand. Even fewer have a firm foothold.

In the following ten years, there were those who took the initiative to dig for gold, those who were passively distributed, and a steady stream of refugees, totaling hundreds of thousands of people. It was these people who used their lives and sweat to create the prosperity of the empire's borders today.

But when this life-devouring land began to breed wealth, some people became impatient and prepared to intervene. In other words, the peach pickers came.

According to the information obtained by Curranth, this time the pioneering group is no longer a death pioneering group mainly composed of criminals and refugees, but a group mainly composed of the second sons of nobles who have no inheritance rights, down-and-out young nobles, wandering knights, and mercenary groups. Plunder group.

"You're coming here with bad intentions," Owen said with a sigh while sitting in the study.

This is not the early stage. We need to compete for land with the barbarians in the north. We must have enough force to survive.

Today's Northland is much peaceful. Although there are conflicts between neighbors, no one will really kill him. If not, Owen would not be alive. It was not until his actions were too big that he alerted the neighbors and prepared to attack him.

This is mainly because the Northland is too big and there are too few people. There is really not much room for conflict between them.

Moreover, if the Northland falls into internal strife, it is impossible to survive, so hoes are more suitable for the current Northland than swords.

In this case, is it necessary to form a fully armed pioneer team?

The facts are obvious. It is obvious that this armed pioneer group is not here to help everyone build their home together. Owen can even guess what the other party will do, and Maya has specially reminded him about this.

Just find a piece of land and occupy it, then create conflicts and start a war with your neighbors. Then of course the winner will own everything.

You know what you know, but Owen can't change anything.

The essence of aristocrats is that they are greedy devourers, and their desire for power and land is endless.

In the beginning, the border of Northland was just a place where they discarded garbage, which was insignificant. But when the garbage decomposed and turned into nutrients, the land that began to become fertile was no longer so dispensable.

Of course, the current Northland is not worthy of the big nobles, because they don't like it at all.

The great nobles are already above ordinary nobles. They have a long history and heritage. The huge territory is more like an independent kingdom. In fact, the duchy is also called a principality, and the marquis is called a princedom. This shows the power and influence of the great nobles.

Coupled with the feudal nobles who support the great nobles, each great noble has a decisive influence in the empire. They are the top predators entrenched in the behemoth of the empire. They have no shortage of interests and cannot be busy for three melons and two dates. , not enough to lose points.

The problem is that there are too many nobles in the empire. Even if the emperor and the great nobles have consciously reduced the enfeoffment of titles long ago, the number accumulated over a long period of time is still an unbearable number. For this reason, canonized nobles have appeared.

Enfeoffment is to divide a part of one's own land. Unless the nobles who enfeoff the land betray or completely cut off, this part of the land can never be recovered, and this is an eternal pain in the hearts of the great nobles and the emperor.

The canonization is simple. There is only a title but no land. Even if the title can be hereditary, the status cannot be compared with the feudal nobles. It was they who promoted the Northland Development Act in the first place, because their desire for land has almost become an obsession.

However, there are also some feudal nobles who support this decision. Firstly, the nobles' desire for land is endless. Secondly, there is only one descendant who can inherit the title. The remaining ones can only find another way to make a living, which is not conducive to family development and risk sharing. Therefore, in the long run, developing the Northland will be beneficial to them.

But not to mention the bitter cold in the North, it is still the territory of the barbarians in the North. If you want to develop it, you must use at least one million people and material resources. Even the empire cannot bear this outrageous expense. After all, such a huge investment, if you want to see The benefits will have to wait at least several decades, and no one will do that.

So in the end, the Northland Development Act became the Northland Development Corps, which guided the private sector to develop the Northland, and then started to pick the fruits after the completion of the project.

This is a conspiracy, and there are many smart people who have seen this, but after seeing it, no one can actually resist the temptation of the land. Even if they know that they will escape death, there is still an endless stream of people going to the Northland, especially when After the empire moved away from the Northland noble title, which was a big killer, it pushed the development of the Northland to a climax. Otherwise, the heavy death rate would have scared people away.

Now twenty years have passed, and although the Northland has not yet reached a mature stage for harvesting, some people can no longer bear it, because when the Northland is truly developed, it will not be their turn to intervene.

This is the only thing Irving can be thankful for, because most of the people who take action at this time are small and medium-sized nobles in the empire, and they may not even be the main force of the family. It is more like a casual move, so there is no need to worry about being crushed.

Moreover, Owen's territory is far away from the empire's border. The Second Northland Pioneer Group will not be able to affect him here at least in the short term. However, as the territory develops better and better, some hungry wolves will definitely be attracted to it, and then there will be constant trouble. .