Phoenix Grand Lord

After returning to the lord's tent, Rowe retouched and adjusted the plan from last night, and then summoned Bachelor Duldy and Knight Charize who were already waiting outside the tent.

Rowe can completely trust Charlize Knight.

As for Bachelor Durdy, through the matter of taking stock of food, Luo Wei was basically able to trust him.

Bachelor Duldy is an old slippery man in the workplace, not very loyal, not very active in his work, and loves to flatter and flatter, but Rowe believes that Duldy is not a spy deliberately set up by his stepmother.

Knight Charlize is unique in terms of loyalty, and it is impossible to require everyone in the manor to be as loyal as Charlize.

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What's more, as a lord, even if you just run a small manor territory, you need subordinates with different talents.

The leadership of a lord is to harness different talents and give full play to their expertise to make the best use of them.

Even if it was an assassin who came to assassinate him, he would have to squeeze something out of him.

As the commander-in-chief of a professional game who can lead an army of thousands of people to coordinate and massacre a city, Luo Wei still has this kind of leadership.

Luo Wei handed the plan manuscript to Duerdi, "Bachelor, when I am not in the territory, you will be responsible for supervising the Merrill Valley Manor. Please supervise the construction and construction according to this plan."

Duerdi took the plan and was shocked:

"Master, oh no, sir! You are so amazing! You can actually draw! Please forgive me for being too stupid before and didn't realize your many strengths!

"It's just...are you really sure you want to buy food in person? Why don't you let me go? I'm quite experienced in calculating accounts and haggling."

Luo Wei smiled, "I don't deny your ability to settle accounts and bargain, but I need you to do more important things. Building my manor territory is the most important thing at the moment."

Duerdi covered his heart excitedly, "Oh! Please don't worry, my master! I will definitely complete the task quickly and well. In addition, I suggest that you bring more people to buy food so that you can take care of me on the way. , it won’t be hard.”

Luo Wei shrugged his shoulders, "No need, I just need Charizi alone. Let's go and get back quickly."

Chariz was stunned for a moment, then nodded solemnly, "Okay...Master."

When she called "Master", Charizi's tone was slightly awkward.

Luo Wei is very useful.

Duldy agreed: "With the protection of Knight Charize, there is nothing to worry about."

"Well, maester, you can get back to work."

Luo Wei said to Charizi again: "Go and prepare two horses and accompany me to inspect the boundaries of the manor in an hour."

"good."

Maester Durdy and Knight Charlize bowed and left.

After there was no one else in the tent, Luo Wei took out the damaged rune stone from the magic bag on his waist and tried to infuse it with the power of the Phoenix.

The rune stone heated up rapidly, and the dim white rune traces on it flickered faintly like the light of fireflies.

There is a door!

Luo Wei concentrated his thoughts and poured in all his strength.

However, even though most of the Phoenix Power's energy was consumed, the rune stone never fully lit up. As soon as the force was released, the rune went silent.

It seems that the Phoenix Force is still not strong enough.

I'm afraid that even if I use up all the phoenix power in my body, I won't be able to light up this rune stone today.

Luo Wei made a rough estimate. At least the movement range of the bird's-eye view must be increased to more than 20 meters before the Phoenix Power can be considered a small level increase. Perhaps only at that level can it be possible to light up the rune stones.

As for what will happen after lighting up the rune stones, Luo Wei is not sure yet and can only explore step by step.

But no matter what, this can be considered a small improvement.

Luo Wei put the rune stone back into the magic hanging bag and took out the bottle of magic antidote prepared by assassin Yabo.

The magic toxin residue in his body has been almost transformed, and taking the magic antidote potion now is not a waste.

Luo Wei took a sip, and his tongue was immediately numb with pain, and his entire handsome face became distorted in pain.

If he hadn't known that good medicine tastes bitter, Luo Wei would definitely think that this was poison.

However, after taking a sip of the bitter medicine, Luo Wei's body recovered completely. The remaining magical toxins were instantly eliminated, and the ashes sequence immediately began to transform into new Phoenix power.

Yes, before leaving, the Yabo assassin in the cage had to get another bottle to drink on the road.

It's best to put some sugar, milk or something.

It's a pity that there is no tea in this world of Regan, and there is no beer yet...

After resting for another hour, Luo Wei put on his animal skin cloak and walked out of the lord's tent.

Charizi has prepared a black horse for Luo Wei, and Charizi herself is fully armed and riding on a white horse.

In addition to the level 1 enchanted knight sword at her waist, Charizi also wore an iron shield painted with the emblem of the purple forest and a light armored helmet on her head, making her appear fully armed.

Luo Wei smiled: "Chariz, we are just patrolling, not going to fight."

Charlize said in a tone that left no room for doubt: "Master, get behind me."

"……OK."

So, under the protection of Charize, Rowe rode on horseback to patrol along the boundaries of the Merrill Valley Manor territory.

Compared with other manors, Merrill Valley can only be regarded as a small manor, with a total area of ​​only 5 kilo hectares.

The word "Kil" is the name of the third generation Emperor Soladin. Emperor Kiel unified the measurement, so in the entire Regan world, all measurement units are named Kiel.

If converted, 1 Kiel number is approximately equal to 1.2 Earth numbers.

5 Kiel hectares is equivalent to 6 hectares on Earth, which is 60,000 square meters, or 0.06 square kilometers.

To put it more intuitively, it is as large as 8 standard football fields.

Compared with the lord manors of more than ten or twenty Kiel hectares, the Merlin Valley Manor is indeed too small.

Not only is the area small, but the terrain is narrow and rugged. It is clamped by two hills and barren mountains in the east and west, making it difficult to expand. The south is facing the turbulent and turbulent Broken Star River, and the north is backed by the creepy Warcraft Black Moon Forest.

This narrow and long terrain is not suitable for the development of the planting economy, but from a military perspective, this is a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The narrow terrain will prevent the enemy from launching a charge, and the hills and barren mountains on both sides are like two huge front teeth towers.

As long as two rows of arrow towers are built on the barren mountains, a strong combat advantage can be formed.

If a more advanced magic defense tower can be built, it can even compete with the reorganized Knights.

According to the memory that Rowe has integrated, this piece of land was obtained by an ancestor of the Valentine family during the pioneering and enclosure war hundreds of years ago.

The ancestor had great ambitions and wanted to build Merlin Valley into a strategic fortress, and then break through the vast Black Moon Forest and directly attack the "Aitken Kingdom" on the other side of the Black Moon Forest, which was in a hostile state with the Soladin Empire, so as to open up a foundation for the descendants of the family.

However, before the construction of Merlin Valley began, the ancestor had to terminate the plan because he had gambled away the budget at the gambling table.

For hundreds of years afterwards, no descendant of the Valentine family wanted this manor territory that had no development value.

Not only does it take a lot of money and manpower to open up the wasteland, but it is also possible to face the harassment of ferocious monsters in the Black Moon Forest, and to enter and exit the manor, you must pass through the territories of other lords and pay tolls.

But the real headache is the tax.

Once you become a manor lord, you must pay at least 10 gold coins of inheritance tax to the head of the family every year.

Not only that, as a manor lord with territory and people, you must pay a head tax to Emperor Soladin, a tithe tax to the High Heaven Church, and a peace tax to the feudal lords.

If you trade in the territory, you must also pay various trader taxes...

When you are a lord, you can do whatever you want, but the premise of doing whatever you want is: pay taxes on time.

Only by paying taxes on time and letting the feudal lords, the pope, and the emperor get benefits, can the small lords survive in the order of the jungle.

——This is also part of the world's jungle law.

Territories like Meilin Valley Manor, which have a negative cost-effectiveness, will be crushed by a round of official taxes.

It is precisely because of this that Meilin Valley Manor has been abandoned for hundreds of years until Luo Wei was forced to take over this virgin land.

The reason why Luo Wei patrolled the border before leaving the territory to buy food was to find out the situation around the territory as soon as possible and find the general direction for developing the territory's economy.

Farming and reclamation must be done, but the land in Meilin Valley is barren and there are not many plots suitable for planting.

In addition, it is now deep winter, so it is definitely too late to rely on farming and reclamation to gain a foothold. It is necessary to take the initiative to explore all the resources that can be used and developed in the surrounding area.

For example, hunting resources, livestock resources, fish resources, herbal resources, mineral resources, wood resources, and even low-level magic beast resources.

Hunting magic beasts has high profits, but the risk cost is also high.

In the case that Luo Wei only has a level 2 beginner Xia Lizi in his hand, Luo Wei does not consider hunting magic beasts as a career.

Of course, if he was lucky enough to encounter a lone level 1 monster, Luo Wei would not miss the opportunity.

Fortunately, he had the skill of "Feather Insight", which made the work of searching for resources very secretive, simple and intuitive.

Luo Wei would stop at every place, silently activate Feather Insight, and then record the situation of this place in his mind.

When riding to the Broken Star River on the south bank of the manor, before Luo Wei opened his mouth to stop, Xia Lizi took the initiative to pull the reins.

"The other side is the Marigold Baron Territory we are going to tomorrow."

Xia Lizi's cold and pretty face showed a moving expression for the first time, "That is the former territory of Madam's Flor family."

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