Black Iron Crown

"Earl Wesley said that the royal family has insufficient control over remote areas like the northern border. Earl Zhebo, the most powerful lord in the northern border, is likely to want to unify the northern border. Let us be careful!" Sir Corder He narrowed his eyes and said, "He also said that if we can integrate the entire Northern Territory, the royal family may give you the title of Grand Duke!"

"Lord Baron, you are protected by the Holy Father. The Holy Father's messenger who descended from the sky is the best proof. I believe you can become the one who unifies the northern border, but at least we have to be on guard against Earl Zhebo!" Religion Faith is still very important to people in this era. Whether it is the emperor or the common people, as well as these lords, they all firmly believe in the existence of the Holy Father.

And he also firmly believed in the magic stick trick of Reiner's messenger from the Holy Father. In this way, both Sir Codd and the people who saw this scene believed that Reiner was really the chosen one.

"Okay... I understand...!" Reiner nodded slowly and looked down at his palm prints: "Earl Zhebo..."

"That is to say, the unidentified person next to Baron Robian could be Earl Zhebo's person? Was it Earl Zhebo who asked Baron Robian to attack Fort Morland?" Reiner thought in his heart.

"It is very likely that this is the case. Otherwise, Baron Lobean will definitely impose martial law on the territory, and he will never go to Fort Moreland at the risk of a small group of Klade people fleeing in this snowy day. fight."

"Could it be that Earl Zhebo is really planning to integrate the Northern Territory?" Reiner tapped the table lightly while thinking about the problem. "

There is a lot of steel in the northern border, and 70% of the steel in the entire empire is produced in the northern border. This is a rare place where a strong army is produced. With the iron ore here, he can rely on the ore to create a large amount of chain armor Armored troops, which have a huge advantage over other noble armies that cannot wear armor due to price.

Thinking a little deeper, the iron materials of the royal family basically come from the northern region, and most of the armor of the royal army comes from the steel of the northern region. If he integrates the northern region, it means that the royal family's steel lifeline Everything is in his hands.

He can use this to coerce the royal family to demand more benefits, even a Grand Duke of the North who commands the North is not impossible.

If his ambitions were even bigger, and he used force to directly seize the iron mines of the royal family, cut off the supply of steel to the royal family, and force the royal family to send troops to the North, then the other great lords would very likely disregard the powerful military power of the royal family and directly attack the imperial family. The royal army attacked.

This is a dilemma. As long as he can unify the northern border, he will be at a very disadvantage for the royal family no matter what.

Reiner didn't care what happened to the royal family, he was not an original product, not to mention that the relationship between the northern land of Morland and the imperial capital of Morland is already very far away, not to mention eight shots, at least five shots are out of reach.

He doesn't have any opinion on whether the royal family is dying or prospering. If it is prosperous, he may seek out relatives for his own better life, but if the royal family is unlucky, he will definitely distance himself from it.

What he really cares about is that Earl Zhebo may have the idea of ​​unifying the northern border. Even if he is lucky enough not to be killed or take back the territory, the difficulty of the main task will definitely increase exponentially.

Now that he has accepted the task, he must do it, otherwise, he can't stand the loss of thirty years of life. Before, he could be lazy and deceive himself, but if the northern border is really unified, then he can really There's no chance.

Frowning tightly, Reiner knew that his expansion plan had to be put on the agenda.

Sir Corder discussed with Reiner, but they didn't come up with any useful plans. The two chatted for a while before leaving.

At this time, the snow in the North has almost melted, although the weather is still a bit cool,

But the season of spring plowing has come.

After a whole winter of reclamation, the amount of arable land that Leiner can directly control has reached nearly 40,000 mu, almost doubled, which means that this year, the amount of cultivated land that can be cultivated has reached 30,000 mu, only 10,000 mu The land needs to fall fallow for alfalfa.

This means that this year's food production can at least triple. In this era, having food means having an army and having money. The original soldiers only needed food to be used as military pay.

After all, this is a desolate and remote northern land, and what people need is nothing more than food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. There are not so many fancy things and commodities that require them to spend money on them.

The frigid wheat seeds were originally obtained by Reiner from the system's novice gift package. Frigid wheat seeds are an improved variety that lives in frigid regions. Not only does it have a higher yield than ordinary wheat, but it can also be planted in places with cold weather.

However, the quantity is not large, only 2,000 mu, and we can only plant all the cold zone wheat until next year after the harvest.

And what Reiner valued the most was undoubtedly the 500 mu of ice sugarcane seeds, which was the source of income he was looking forward to the most.

You know, in the entire Ridka Empire and even the surrounding countries, people can only taste sweetness through honey or fruit, or fruit juice, and they have never even heard of granular sugar.

It can be seen from this that what a huge profit Lai'an will get after refining the sugar. It is not impossible to get hundreds or even hundreds of gold coins per kilogram of sugar. At that time, won't he be able to use crazy troops to support wars? up.

Of course, he knows that it is not possible for a single industry to support an army. The royal family will spend 40,000 to 50,000 gold coins to support the more than 8,000 direct troops every year. It is useless to say that the arms of your system need higher military pay to maintain, no matter how much sugar you produce, no one will buy it.

In one winter, the three blacksmiths sent by Leiner to make agricultural machinery had very fruitful results. The production of agricultural tools is very simple, far easier than long swords, gun heads, and armor.

After three months of overtime work by the three people, everyone was assigned one or two pieces of iron farm tools. With the help of these iron farm tools, the serfs worked much faster.

Otherwise, Reiner was really worried about whether these people would be able to sow all the seeds before the end of spring plowing.

At this time, things were in full swing in Fort Moreland. They rolled up their sleeves and barefooted in the field, looking for hay for a winter. The flock of flocks that were much thinner were also in the shepherds of Reiner. Driven by them, they walked to the forest in the northern part of the territory, where they looked for young grasses that emerged from the ground early to fill their stomachs.

Under the prayers and blessings of the monks of the state church of the empire, the Colin Church, the spring plowing, which symbolizes the lifeblood of a territory, officially began.