Warlord: King of All Clans

As for Leo, he didn't care much about Arina's departure.

Trade with the Western Territory is only a small part of his job; local development is the top priority.

In addition to overseeing the construction of the Baiyi track, Leo will also be involved in the acceptance inspection of the United Knights.

The United Knights' Territory covers almost all the corner flag territories in the northwest of Isenpor. It originally covered an area of ​​more than 600 square kilometers. After a year of development, the surrounding wilderness was gradually incorporated into it, and now it covers nearly 1,000 square kilometers.

This territory borders the River Bay Territory to the north and is separated from it by a large swamp of several hundred square kilometers to the south.

The Wood Knight Territory next to the Great Swamp has now been transformed and a swamp town has been built, which temporarily accommodates only three thousand people.

This is another town-level administrative district after Linhai Town.

From River Bay Town, you can take a boat to River Mouth Town, then go upstream from a tributary below River Mouth Town, through the dredged river channel and the canal opened by Ostara, and reach Swamp Town directly.

After a year of development, the United Knights have successfully resettled more than 20,000 refugees. Together with more than 10,000 local residents, the registration of all citizens has now been completed, and the registered population exceeds 40,000.

Compared to the sparsely populated River Reach Territory, the United Knights Territory has a more densely populated population.

But this is also normal. The territory of Hewan Territory was still a wilderness three years ago. It was either a primeval forest or a wilderness.

Even if a large amount of arable land is developed now, other agricultural output will be very limited in the short term, except for the easy-to-survive antler cassava.

Apart from cassava and flax crops, wheat and potato production in the River Bend has always been low.

Although the potatoes brought from the south had a higher yield than wheat, the potatoes that were bred were actually green!

No one in the house dared to eat the green mashed potatoes made by the ogre cook, only Freya and Obie dared to try it.

Obi, who had changed into green skin, made Leo realize that if these potatoes wanted to spread in the North, they needed further breeding.

Fortunately, Master Morse specializes in biopharmaceutics and has extensive experience in researching plant toxins. He is currently studying the detoxification of potato cultivation.

The Hewan Territory, which covers an area of ​​thousands of square kilometers, has a population of only more than 20,000 people. Half of their food comes from deer horn cassava, and the other half comes from a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry. They can barely achieve self-sufficiency in food.

On the other hand, most of the land in the United Knights' Territory had been developed hundreds of years ago. There were more than a dozen traditional corner flag territories scattered around, and there were tens of thousands of acres of cultivated fields in them.

In the past hundred years, only a few of these corner flag territories were briefly deserted due to attacks by foreign races. Most of the time, farmers cultivated them.

This year alone, the River Bay Lordship has resettled more than 20,000 refugees here and successfully opened up 40,000 acres of new arable land.

In addition, there are countless public infrastructure such as canals, roads, reservoirs, mills, etc., which, combined, can double the production capacity here.

In the town hall of Swamp Town, Leo sat on the lord's throne, and all the leaders of the United Knights were present.

Nain, the dog-headed man in charge of civil administration, came forward. "Woof woof woof! Sir, the United Knights have 18 large villages and 46 small villages, with a total population of 42,400 people. All of them have been registered as citizens, including 26,000 young and strong people..."

The young and strong here only refer to young and strong men between the ages of fifteen to forty-five, who are obliged to respond to the call-up for military service. But in fact, in agricultural production, the remaining elderly, the weak, women and children also have good productivity.

After Nain finished speaking, the Wind Knight Wood, who was in charge of public security, also came out and said, "My lord, the 26,000 young men under the United Knights have basically all completed the basic militia training, and 10,000 of them have been incorporated into local militia groups. According to your request, 2,000 of them will be selected next year to join the River Bend regular army."

The militia training of the United Knights is actually mainly to participate in collective land reclamation and public infrastructure, with only a small amount of military training to improve their discipline. In fact, it is equivalent to a half-worker and half-farmer garrison soldier.

Only the 10,000 qualified young and strong ones will be incorporated into the militia, receive further military training, and receive some additional money and food rewards.

Next year, the 2,000 most powerful men will be incorporated into the regular army to receive military pay, and the 500 most capable men will be incorporated into the management of the lord's mansion to receive salaries. These 40,000 men will become the solid foundation of the River Bay Territory.

After the two of them finished their reports, the person in charge of water conservancy projects, the person in charge of the agricultural department, the person in charge of road construction, and the person in charge of investment promotion came forward one by one to report.

As for the ogre team in charge of mineral exploration, they returned home half a year ago. There are no minerals worth mining here at all.

These leaders who were able to be sent by the River Bay Lord's Mansion to the United Knights' Territory for development were originally talents carefully selected by Leo and Olivia.

Leo listened patiently and then praised: "Everyone has done a good job. After the Lord's Mansion completes the review this month, your positions will all be upgraded by one level, and your salaries will be increased by 20%. Those who do not have the title of knight will be knighted next month."

"And everyone will receive a dividend from the output of the United Knights over the next three years."

"The United Knights Territory is the result of your hard work, and this is what you deserve."

When he said this, the leaders below all cried out in excitement, even the Wind Knight and the Rose Knight were very excited.

The United Knights Territory was developed under their supervision, and everyone knows exactly how much the output is expected to be in the future.

Before they could finish their excitement, Leo announced: "Starting next year, the southwest and southeast areas of Isenbol, that is, the south bank of the Anzeno River, will be incorporated into the River Bay United Knights Territory."

"So you can now recruit personnel, expand your team, and prepare to meet the new round of challenges."

“Continue to replicate the success you have achieved here in South Shore.”

Everyone answered in unison: "Yes, my lord!"

Leo solemnly warned, "The local forces in the two regions are more deeply rooted and more difficult to transform. I hope everyone will keep a calm mind and treat it seriously, and avoid too much bloodshed."

The leaders of the pioneering team were secretly alert and quickly lowered their heads, "Yes, lord."

During the development of the United Knights Territory, the leaders of each territory had to endure resistance from the indigenous people. It was wishful thinking to resolve all of them peacefully, and in many cases they had to resort to force.

After everyone dispersed, the kobold Nain carefully shrank to Leo's feet, his eyes full of hope, "Master, can I be a knight too?"

Leo stroked his dog's head fiercely, "Of course."

Nairn barked excitedly, "Woof woof woof! I'm a kobold knight!"

According to the current level of Riverbend management, Nairn’s performance is not outstanding, and can even be said to be mediocre.

After all, he is a kobold, and his intelligence barely reaches the level of a normal human, which is considered very smart in his own tribe.

But compared with the human race, he can only be regarded as an ordinary person who has just escaped from the illiteracy stage.

However, he was diligent and serious enough, and worked conscientiously throughout the year. With the help of several human deputies, he managed the civil affairs of a united knighthood in perfect order.

In other words, Nain used his lower-than-average talent and put in twice the effort of an average person to achieve this result.

Leo cannot favor one over the other and must at least give him the title of knight.