Mountain and Forest Kingdom

A person's power is limited, and Lawrence knew that surrender was not a matter of one person.

When bidding farewell to Baron Sidel, Lawrence explained the situation in the west to Sidel and the knights and nobles.

"The west is a fertile land with cattle and sheep everywhere, and rivers flowing with milk and honey. Not only our Church of the Stars, but also the Valkyries have gone there long ago to occupy the land and continue to plunder the treasures there."

"I have met some Western businessmen who are willing to exchange grain, cattle, gold and silver for our wood and stones, so this part cannot be conquered, but there are more places outside for us to conquer!"

"If you don't want to continue to grow old peacefully, then you will become one of our own after you join the Church of the Stars. I can take you to the West to make a fortune together."

"I need bigger ships, ships that can hold more treasure, but the Vakiri own the big ships, and they are unwilling to share this wealth."

Baron Rodney said quickly: "I know a shipwright who can make ships. I can ask him to come over and help build ships, but there is no sea here."

Lawrence explained: "Yes, we have the sea here. I also have a village of two hundred people in the north. There is a safe beach there, and a large number of slaves build houses and boats for me there."

"If you can bring shipwrights, then we can build bigger warships faster!"

Sidel asked very carefully: "When will you set off?"

"Ten days later." Lawrence looked at these barbarian knights whose plundering instincts were activated, "I will finish harvesting this year's wheat and then maintain the ships. If you are willing to come over, I can wait for you until autumn, which happens to be autumn in the West. The harvest season of God’s grace.”

Sidel said calmly: "I'll go back and think about it."

Lawrence said calmly: "Okay, if you don't come back within a month, my men will set off and won't wait for you anymore."

"Yes, thank you for your kindness, prophet." Sidel had a very good impression of Lawrence, and quickly led someone to take the old earl's body back.

Lawrence also went back to make arrangements for the territory.

"Selavin, arrange for people to cultivate land outside the town."

"Yes, Master."

Seravan quickly arranged for people to do things, and now there were people from three more villages in the territory, all of whom were members of Fleiss and others, totaling more than 200 people.

If you want to gather twenty strong men to go out and plunder, you must have the support of more than a hundred people. The more soldiers you have, the more farmers you need.

Sofia asked: "Master, there are many places in the village and on the mountains that can be cultivated for farmland. Why go outside the village first?"

Lawrence explained: "Opening up the fields will help expand the defense range. Sometimes the villagers who go out to work in the fields find the enemy themselves."

"If we set up a special patrol team, it will delay our production. It is not suitable to do this at the moment. We will wait until there are more people."

Sophia nodded, "I understand."

Lawrence felt that the land on the mountain was no longer suitable for over-development. At least some of the land should be given time to be repaired, so that the development of the land would be more efficient.

There is currently no shortage of food, and large quantities of food can be imported from outside. On the contrary, pasture and feed are very scarce.

It is more cost-effective to free up part of the field, or to use part of the wasteland to grow fodder than to use it entirely to grow wheat.

Lawrence returned to town to plan for future land development.

In order to better defend against threats from the south, the land and wasteland were moved closer to the south.

However, objective laws must still be followed, and these lands need to be developed along rivers.

Land without rivers, or land too far away from rivers, like some plains and wheat-wave-like soil slopes in the south, can only grow barren crops that don't require much water.

Lawrence found that his land was very poor. Not only could it not support a large population, but the transportation was also very inconvenient.

In my impression, big cities such as New York and Tokyo all have the advantage of rivers.

New York is a naturally large port, surrounded by land and with a large basin in the middle. Ships can escape the wind and waves by sailing in. Wall Street is the place with the least wind in this large port, and everyone is willing to park their ships there.

A group of captains and sailors gathered there, and then gradually there were institutions such as second-hand dealers and loan sharks, and the concept of finance gradually emerged.

The port was very important, but Lawrence didn't have that.

Regardless of whether there is a port or not, the climate in Valkyrie is not suitable for development. No one often runs to the ice sea when they have nothing to do.

The more Lawrence tried to plan his territory, the more he realized that his territory was a waste and a garbage place.

This was something he had known for a long time, so Lawrence could only comfort himself and find some good points.

This place will not be remembered, except for the barbarians, most people have no interest in this land.

Even the barbarians don't want this place. This land has been forcing most people to flee here.

But for now, it's dozens of times better here than outside.

Unless you go out and start construction again, life outside may not be better than here.

After thinking this way, he felt much more comfortable, and Lawrence began to lead everyone to harvest wheat.

When Lawrence led the people to cut the wheat with sickles, a fleet of more than a dozen ships passed far away from the place covered with kelp and seaweed.

The warriors from Valkyrie carefully avoided that devil's land.

A large amount of algae as big as a witch's hair was constantly swimming in the sea, like the tentacles of an octopus, adsorbing dead fish into the leaves.

The Cretan Baron of Valkyrie was very afraid of these things, "Stay away!"

The nearby sailors quickly shouted: "Go further into the sea and you will reach the hunting grounds of the big fish!"

Crete saw the white seabird entangled in the algae, and felt even more unlucky and became more and more anxious.

"Damn it! Hurry! Get out of this place!"

Ever since the Valkyrie berserker Tug was killed by the stone giant, the Valkyrie people have been almost afraid of this place.

Especially in recent months, a large number of dead fish have been washed to the shore by the sea water, causing the stench of dead fish to be everywhere near the ice sea. The fish that originally lived near the Wakili people have also fled to other places.

Fortunately, Crete discovered the road to the Western Kingdom. Although this road passed through the dangerous territory of the Crowfeather Wizard, there was no other way for the Valkyrie!

The brave Valkyries would not sit still and wait for death. Inspired by the cold winter and wild nature, this group of brave Valkyries boldly bypassed the wizard's territory and quickly crossed to the Western Kingdom!

"Oh wow!!!"

When this group of brave Valkyries moved away from the wizard's territory behind them and looked at the shore again for rowing, they couldn't help but cheer! !