Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

After reporting on the farm matters, Agriculture Minister Fandal, without even taking a sip of water, quickly shifted the focus of his report to fishing and hunting.

"Lord, I have another very bad situation to report. Unlike the booming agriculture in the territory, the fishing and hunting harvest in the territory is declining at a collapsing rate."

"Initially, we could hunt several thousand pounds of prey a day, but now, no matter how many hunters we add, we can't get the hunting harvest to exceed a thousand pounds."

Upon hearing this, the territory's ministers all frowned, as this meant the territory was losing one of its greatest advantages.

Besides farming, which is the proper way, there was no additional income for the territory's food supply.

A few hundred pounds of harvest per day is almost negligible for the current size of the territory, a drop in the bucket.

Su Li had anticipated this for a long time. Fishing and hunting as a means of production are destined to be very unstable and produce very little.

If an outstanding hunter can catch 1,000 pounds of prey a day, how much can 10 outstanding hunters catch in a day?

The answer is definitely not 10,000 pounds, but possibly 2,000 pounds or even 1,500 pounds.

Hunters don't just find a wild boar ridge and have wild boars and animals rushing towards them from all directions.

Under normal circumstances, hunters have to search everywhere to find a prey.

Therefore, the main income of hunters in this world is collecting wild ingredients such as berries and fungi, after all, the Tal wilderness is particularly strong in the forest, which can grow more plants.

If Black Forest Territory has a shortage of 4 million pounds of food, it is really an unrealistic fantasy to rely on fishing and hunting to obtain 1 million pounds of food.

Even if the hunters keep killing, it would take killing tens of thousands of tigers, leopards, wolves, and deer to obtain 1 million pounds of food.

But the appearance of a wolf pack of 100 wolves is enough to be on the daily intelligence report, reminding Su Li to pay attention to vigilance, so as to avoid a large number of hunter deaths. Not to mention tens of thousands of beasts.

Even if the hunters carry the Elf Treasure - Wild Hunt Horn, blowing it once will only attract dozens of beasts from the surrounding area.

Therefore, as the territory gradually stabilized and the income from surrounding fishing and hunting continued to decrease, Su Li had long expected it.

He calmly said: "Fishing and hunting are not a stable means of production after all. If we want to obtain meat, we still have to develop our own pastures and fish ponds well."

"My minister, the burden on you is really too heavy. You don't have to worry about wilderness fishing and hunting anymore. Leave it to Luna Deshan of the Tal Church and let her guide the hunters and fishermen in their work in the wild."

Su Li also wanted this old druid to help him manage the armory and treasury of Black Forest Castle.

Now it seems that this old druid is indeed a very suitable candidate. Whether in terms of needs, interests, or personality, he is very suitable to be stationed in Black Forest Castle, but the only problem is that the burden on this old druid is a bit too heavy.

The territory needs him to be involved everywhere. What if there is an emergency and he needs to open the armory, but he is not in the castle?

However, Su Li immediately felt relieved, there was no need to worry about this problem at all. With the assistance of the intelligence system, he was unlikely to encounter such an emergency.

But his words really resonated with this old druid, and he immediately said: "Lord, you are really wise. I have too many tasks on my shoulders, so many farms and villages need me to be involved. There is also the development of the territory's holy land, the cultivation of seeds, and the promotion of spiritual medicines. I am really overwhelmed."

"So please allow me to recommend a talent to you to be responsible for the territory's pastures and fish farms."

Recommend a talent to me?

Su Li liked this!

As a lord and monarch, what he likes most is his subordinates recommending talents to him.

A wealth of talent is the core driving force for the territory's development and growth.

Su Li immediately asked with a smile: "Someone wants to recommend talent to me? Good, please introduce the talent's situation."

"I heard that there is a famous saying in the distant East, 'Don't avoid relatives when recommending internally.' I won't avoid it. The talent I recommend is a cousin of mine, Edmond Oak. I know his talents very well. He is a knowledgeable Druid elite, especially good at communicating with animals."

"At the elite level, he tamed a powerful giant eagle as a mount. Just last month, he learned of my exact news and set off from the forest to visit me in our territory."

"In our territory, he has communicated with Fire Velvet Rabbits, Lightscale Fish, and Livestock Owners, and produced very significant results. Fire Velvet Rabbits and Lightscale Fish have accelerated their growth under his comfort."

Su Li clapped his hands and laughed, saying: "Good! Good! Good! This is true 'Don't avoid relatives when recommending internally,' instead of recommending some cats and dogs, relatives who don't understand government affairs at all, to extremely important positions."

"I believe this Edmond Oak can serve as our territory's Pasture Director."

The Pasture Director has a more common name within the empire, called Stable Director.

After all, most lords' pastures are not as complex as Su Li's. Managing the lord's stables and war horses is the most important responsibility of this position.

Although the name Stable Director sounds a bit lowly, the position is very important. In large noble territories, such as earldoms, duchies, principalities, and even royal territories, they may be called Earl Marshal to be responsible for managing horses and protecting the monarch.

This is equivalent to the important position of Taipu in the East, managing a territory's horse administration.

The main force in this world is knights and cavalry, so the position of Pasture Director is particularly important, concerning the guarantee of a strong combat force for an army.

Su Li is naturally very concerned about appointing such an important position, and asked in detail: "Tell me about this Edmond Oak. Is he also a member of the Dawn Church? What are his abilities and divine arts?"

Fandal shook his head and said: "Unfortunately, although my cousin is a druid, he does not believe in Leia. Instead, he believes in a traditional elf, the goddess Isha, who is the elf goddess of fertility, nature, life, and healing."

Su Li frowned and asked: "Why does it feel like her teachings are very similar to those of the Leia Church?"

Fandal nodded and said: "Yes. But Leia is an ancient god, who existed at the beginning of the world. And Isha is our elf's fertility god. We elves believe that she is the god of nature and the mother of elves. Her status is very similar to that of the halfling's Hyacinth. Halflings also have their gods in charge of fertility and love."

"Usually, the relationship between their three churches is harmonious, and they will not interfere with each other and complement each other in cities, villages, and forests."

Su Li clicked his tongue. The gods of order in this world are really not very good.

As far as he knows, there are hundreds of gods on the side of order.

But the whole world is being suppressed by four evil gods.

This fully proves that most of the gods on the side of order are pig teammates and like to hold each other back.

But this matter is too grand, and the affairs of the gods are not something that a small pioneer lord can interfere with.

He can only focus on reality, and then asked: "What is Edmond Oak's divine art? Is Isha as generous as Leia?"

Fandal immediately raised his voice and said as a matter of course: "Of course not! Leia is the most generous god in the world."

Afterwards, he may have realized that he was a little excited, which would make it seem that the relationship between their three churches was not as harmonious as he said, and they were also competing with each other.

So he lowered his voice, quickly adjusted his mentality, and said: "However, Edmond, as an elite druid, has also obtained a powerful divine art - Vitality Growth."

"This divine art can guide the power of Giron to bring strong vitality to the growth of animals. After casting the complete spell, the druid focuses on the animals or fish within their arm's reach. The blessed animal will grow very quickly, with one day of growth now achievable in one minute."

"Of course, this divine art can also be used on plants for cultivating precious plants. For example, a crop that takes a season to grow can mature in about 15 minutes, and a tree can grow to the extent of a year in one hour. However, if the caster concentrates for too long, the plant may exceed its natural lifespan and die."

"Also, plants can only grow in soils that can usually support them; oak trees cannot grow in the desert, and wheat cannot grow on bare rocks."

Su Li's eyes lit up. This divine art is good. It can accelerate animals and plants.

Doesn't that mean vanilla orchids can reproduce quickly?

But it may have already reproduced, otherwise their Dawn Church would not have been able to expand one acre of vanilla orchids to more than three acres so quickly.

However, the more important effect of this divine art is undoubtedly to accelerate the growth of the griffins.

Although Deathclaw is particularly large in size with the blessing of four dragon blood stones, half a year of growth is not fully developed after all.

So Su Li only occasionally rides it to travel, but never rides it to the battlefield.

If Edmond can accelerate Deathclaw's growth, such as accelerating it for an hour to make Deathclaw grow to the extent of one and a half years old, then Deathclaw will be mature enough!

Under normal circumstances, griffins have to be two years old before they can go into battle.

But Deathclaw's size at one and a half years old is obviously larger than most griffins at two years old, which is completely enough to support the heavy responsibility of carrying Su Li to fly.

The key is that if this divine art can take effect on Deathclaw, it means that it can take effect on all demi-griffins.

After all, half of the griffins in the Vengeance Sun Demi-Griffin Knights are just hatched from griffin eggs.

If Edmond can accelerate the growth of these demi-griffins, it will greatly speed up the process of forming the demi-griffin knights.

Su Li does not expect this knight order to take shape immediately, but it is not too much to shorten the time by half and spend one year training these demi-griffin knights to take shape.

After all, these demi-griffins are in the Black Forest Noble Ranch, which is within Edmond's scope of authority.

And Fandal's surprise to Su Li has not ended. He went on to say: "In addition to this divine art, as an elite druid, he also has several extraordinary abilities, such as [Healing Diseases], [Healing Poisoning], [Animal Control], etc."

"And his strongest ability is undoubtedly [Creating Sacred Forest]."

"The Sacred Forest is actually the temple of the Druid priests. This spell allows the Druid priests to create a sacred forest or purify a corrupted forest. Before casting this spell, the area must be surrounded by a refined stone array. The spell can last for a month from the full moon, and the Druid priests can perform various rituals in it afterwards. This spell can also be used to restore the corrupted stone array to its normal state."

"After the Stonehenge is activated by the Sacred Forest ability, all Giron mages who enter it (including elves, Dawn Church, Tal Church, etc.) can obtain increased magic recovery speed and enhanced divine art abilities."

This is suitable for creating a sacred forest in both the Holy Land of the Dawn Goddess Church and the Black Forest Noble Ranch.

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Su Li said: "I can't wait to see this Edmond. Is he in Black Forest Castle? Let him come over."

"He is not in Black Forest Castle, Lord. He lives in a hotel in Black Forest Town. If you want to see him, we can summon him immediately."

Su Li replied decisively: "Let him come to Black Forest Castle. I also want to hear his views on the territory's animal husbandry."

Hearing Su Li's order, High Steward Hilde immediately arranged for 3 Black Forest Guard Knights to bring Edmond from Black Forest Town.

The communication between Black Forest Castle and Black Forest Town is much more convenient now. The dwarves have built a large stone bridge over the river in the middle, directly connecting the two places.

However, this bridge is only a little over 4 meters wide, allowing a maximum of two carriages to cross, and it is not magnificent or tall.

Far from being the pride of the whole city.

Su Li is very dissatisfied with this project. He hopes to build a magnificent cross-river bridge that will become a famous scenic spot in Black Forest City and the pride of the entire territory.

Of course, he also understands that the dwarves have no spare capacity to build such a large project.

If he hadn't obtained a thousand-person scale acceleration experience card, he wouldn't have been able to build even such an emergency bridge.

With the acceleration of this bridge, Edmond was quickly brought to the castle by the knights.

Su Li and a group of ministers then ended their morning tea time and returned to the hall.

This druid was a few years older than Fandal, wearing simple and plain clothes, woven from leaves, elderberry, and animal skins, with dull colors, like a pale green forest.

Unlike Fandal, he wore a wild beast's bone and feathers as decoration on his head, and carried a stone knife and herb bag around his waist, looking more wild.

After hearing that Su Li wanted to hire him as the territory's Pasture Director, Edmond said: "I'm sorry, Lord, I'm just here to visit my brother, and I'm not interested in serving as a minister in your territory."

"Proud elves are used to living in the forest and are not used to getting along with humans."

Su Li calmly waved his hand. It is originally difficult for these races in this world to get along with each other, let alone such a reclusive old druid.

Regarding his refusal, Su Li thought it fully met his expectations of the elf's personality.

However, Su Li had plenty of ways to make him submit, so he calmly said, "No problem. Since you're not interested, then forget it. I'll just have to find other druids to experiment with the spiritual trees and herbs in my territory."

Fandal quickly added, "Brother, you must consider this carefully. The spiritual trees in the territory are even more effective than the Tree of Life. It's not impossible to cultivate a Tree of Life in the future."

"Think about the Lorenlorn Forest! In the future, the lord might expand a forest settlement, filling the forest community with elves."

Sure enough, upon hearing the name Lorenlorn Forest, Aemon's firm attitude immediately wavered.

The Lorenlorn Forest is an elven forest in the middle of the human plains, this northern forest is mainly coniferous and mixed temperate.

Because it is located in the southern part of Nordland, they generally have good relations with humans, but the central area is still a sacred place for elves, known as the golden forest capital area, humans who break into it need to bear their own risks.

In the center of Lorenlorn, there are two magnificent coniferous forests covered with moss, which are called gold and silver trees in Elvish. The dense canopy of the gold and silver trees blocks the sunlight, but the metal threads on the bark ensure that the forest is never completely dark. At night, moonlight and torchlight create eerie flashes and illusions on the huge trunks.

The elven prophet Saryel, as the hero of the elves, rules here. He once predicted that the Lorenlorn Forest would die with the disappearance of the last gold and silver forest.

No elf does not want to create such a forest kingdom again.

So, hearing Fandal's persuasion, he had to change his attitude and said, "If you, Lord, are willing to build such a forest community in the territory, I think any elf would be willing to serve you, and I am no exception."

Su Li then smiled and said, "Happy cooperation, isn't it, my minister? Our Southern Province has always been more open and inclusive than the North. Since Nordland can allow the intention to create a Lorenlorn Forest, our Black Forest Territory can certainly allow it."

"If we have the seeds of the Tree of Life, I promise to build a forest community in the southwest of the territory, centered on the Tree of Life, creating an elven territory covering hundreds of miles. We are willing to maintain friendly relations with the elves and exchange what we have."

This plan, in addition to attracting elves, can also help Su Li fill the blank area between the power centers, so as to avoid breeding beastmen, Warpstone, Greenskins, goblin tribes, and the like.

Although forest elves are not very friendly, they can communicate and are considered members of the Order faction. In the history of human wars against Chaos and beastmen, forest elves have also brought cavalry to help.

Therefore, between the power centers, forest elves are definitely better than those Chaos monsters.

Hearing Su Li's promise, Aemon no longer hesitated, and bowed respectfully, saying, "Willing to serve you, and look forward to your spiritual tree bringing more vigorous vitality to our elves."

The dwarf forging master, Beros, slammed the table angrily with his hammer, and muttered loudly, "These long-eared guys are so snobbish, there must be some shady conspiracy. If you ask me, they just want to take over. If they have a forest community, they will kill everyone who enters. We should drive them out of the territory! Humans and dwarves are the most reliable allies."

The wounds brought by the War of the Beard cannot be healed even after thousands of years. Dwarves and elves are not very generous races, and the population of both sides has not been able to recover until now.

It is difficult for these two races to have a peaceful meeting when they sit together.

So Su Li didn't want to waste any more words, just wanted to quickly go through the last content of farming, and asked, "You have been taking care of the territory's pastures and lakes recently, what do you think of this aspect of the territory?"

Aemon originally wanted to retort to the dwarf, but hearing Su Li's question, he could only sort out his thoughts and replied, "Lord, the land in your territory is very fertile and the pastures are vast. The breeding of war horses, cattle, sheep, etc. is very successful, and the livestock owners in your pastures don't need our druids to worry about their enthusiasm for breeding. Druids only need to treat sick livestock and ensure the safety of breeding."

"What I am concerned about are some of the fantastic creatures in your territory. After my counting during this period, the number of fire rabbits in your territory has reached 34. The number of lightscale fish has reached 15."

"This number is obviously very alarming. It is impossible to have so many by natural reproduction alone. I think the current level of psionic energy in the territory obviously cannot guarantee the energy supply for so many fantastic creatures."

Su Li nodded slightly, this is natural.

This number is too extraordinary, if they all grow up smoothly, that is a wealth of 5000 gold crowns.

The value of these two creatures alone exceeds the evil results of all the farmers in the territory, which is obviously abnormal.

Fandal had previously introduced to Su Li that these animals and plants need to move in the wild on a large scale to obtain the sufficient magic power needed for growth.

Obviously, the current small-scale territory cannot supply the growth of so many extraordinary creatures.

So Su Li asked, "What solutions do you have?"

Aemon suggested, "I think we can quickly grow and sell some animals in batches, and then ensure that the remaining animals have sufficient magic for growth. At the same time, we must further expand the pasture area, and even disperse the pastures. Otherwise, 34 fire rabbits squeezed into one pasture will easily die."

Further expand the area of the pasture?

Su Li frowned, turned to look at the military commander Orstein and asked, "My commander, is the army sufficient to guarantee the defense of all parts of the territory?"

The report on farming development has finally ended, and the focus of the meeting has shifted to military development. The knights who had been drowsy suddenly perked up!

This is the most important matter they are responsible for. Knight Orstein was also equally excited and took out the report.