Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

What Su Li called the castle hall was actually the first floor of this low stone house.

His castle was still very simple, with only simple wooden walls surrounding an area, and a few simple houses built of stone inside.

But the people in the castle were full of hope, everyone was enthusiastic, and wanted to overcome obstacles in this wilderness and build a beautiful home together.

So although the room was simple, every place was full of vitality. In the blacksmith shop, the furnace was burning brightly, the dwarves were sweating profusely, and the heavy hammer was swung again and again, knocking out a clanging sound.

In the stable, diligent servants were repairing the horses' hooves and washing away the dust and mud from the war horses.

In the milking room, diligent maids were squeezing bucket after bucket of pure white milk and goat milk, and the beautiful priestesses of the Church of Dawn were teaching them how to make cheese products.

Although this land is located in a remote area, it is not without trade routes. The dwarves in the mountains periodically organize caravans to leave the mountains, using their metal products and other products to exchange for venison, beef, cheese and other foods that they cannot produce in their fortresses from the empire.

There was no hot tea in the castle. Su Li brought Laun back to the castle, and Laun asked a maid to bring two cups of warm milk, and said with a smile: "Lord, you have worked hard on your journey, drink a cup of hot milk to relieve your fatigue. This is the fresh milk that our territory has just produced in the past few days, please taste it and see how it tastes?"

Su Li was really a little thirsty, and he raised his head and drank a large glass of milk in the wooden cup in one gulp. After drinking, his eyes lit up: "Hmm~ it's actually quite sweet, did you put sugar in it?"

"No, it's a beehive we found in the Greenleaf Forest, with natural wildflower honey brewed by bees. We collected about 10 pounds back," Laun explained.

"Greenleaf Hills is really a treasure land rich in products," Su Li smiled. The future plan here is undoubtedly the manor area of the territory, with beautiful scenery and many prey, it is simply a natural royal manor.

The two chatted for a while, and then turned their energy back to business.

Laun first reported on the tool production problem that Su Li was concerned about: "The territory now has more than 800 tools, and the blacksmith shop is still producing them. I plan to build a larger blacksmith shop and let Barros Dragonhammer take a few apprentices to move over there to forge more sophisticated weapons, equipment and heavy armor. The blacksmith shop in the castle will be responsible for melting iron ore, forging iron ingots and simple production tools by Harry and a few dwarf miners."

"If all goes well, even if we add two or three hundred more slaves, we can settle them down smoothly and provide them with enough farming tools for agricultural development. Now the serfs in the territory are mainly taking care of the cultivated fertile land, which means that the six heavy plows we produced have not been able to play their role yet."

Su Li asked with concern: "How many acres of fertile land do we have now?"

This question should have been answered by the Minister of Agriculture, Fandar, but Laun had some understanding of the overall government affairs, so he answered first, saying: "After detailed statistics, including the farmland of Wolfgang Farm, we have a total of 2,300 acres of fertile land for crops in our territory. In addition, we have also used oxen to reclaim 200 acres of new land in our spare time these days."

Speaking of this, Laun was in high spirits: "Lord, the 'Land Reclamation Law' you promulgated is simply a brilliant idea. Before this, no one had ever thought that those lazy and shameless lowly serfs would have such diligence, hard work and active dedication. They actually took the initiative to reclaim farmland early and late in the morning during their rest time after finishing their farm work."

"When several serfs applied to Fandar for oxen and heavy plows, Fandar once suspected that they were cattle thieves and wanted to take the oxen and escape from the territory under the cover of darkness."

Su Li couldn't help but smile. No one in this world knows how terrible this system is better than him. After all, he had been killed by this kind of pressure once. Then let's all work hard together, either work hard to become a king and get rid of this cow and horse status, or lie down completely and be rolled into a speck of dust.

Then Su Li said: "The 'Land Reclamation Law' can only solve the problem of scale, what about efficiency? How is the construction progress of the water conservancy project?"

"This aspect is progressing rapidly. Due to your great victory over the Beastmen in the Mut Mountain Valley, we have obtained a large number of iron tools. Barros has built a large number of professional excavation tools for the ogres. 20 ogres have now excavated a total of 20 imperial miles of ditches, and the reservoir has also been expanded to more than 80 meters. According to Fandar's guarantee, two lightscale fish will definitely be able to survive and breed in it. We have jointly sent a letter to the military commander Knight Erstein, requesting him to arrange a team of guards to be stationed here day and night to prevent fish thieves from stealing our precious lightscale fish."

Su Li quickly calculated that in about 10 days, 20 ogres had dug out 20 imperial miles of ditches and expanded the reservoir by more than twice its size. This work efficiency is simply comparable to mechanical equipment. As expected, when the strength is strengthened several times, even if you go to the construction site to move bricks, you can get rich.

Su Li said with a smile: "No wonder the halfling construction team always makes other business rivals full of complaints. If there are hundreds of ogre workers, the progress of our territory's construction projects can make leaps and bounds every day! This efficiency is already comparable to two or three thousand human serfs."

Sure enough, in this other world, we still have to explore the magical abilities of other races.

In an imperial town, if there is a halfling community and hundreds of ogre workers, the development speed will definitely be extraordinary. The only problem may be how to feed these gluttonous believers.

Laun said with a smile: "The halfling patriarch Hatzklin has already discovered this business opportunity. There are still thirty or forty members in their family. He has sent a son with a team of halflings and two ogre bull warriors to form a caravan and borrowed 60 gold coins from us to recruit ogre mercenaries in the empire."

"Speaking of caravans, I have good news to tell you. A human caravan just arrived outside the wooden wall of the residential area in the south of the city yesterday."

"So fast?" Su Li was surprised. No wonder Laun said this was good news. His territory has only been under construction for a month, how could there be merchants visiting? "What kind of caravan are they?"

"It is a team of furniture merchants. They originally planned to go to Blood Pine to cut down precious pine wood. But they encountered a large number of forest bandits and were forced to flee along the Brienne River, only to discover our territory. It is said that the mercenaries guarding them suffered heavy losses, at least 20 mercenaries died in battle, and a large number of people were injured. They hope that we can provide them with some herbs and provide them with some armed protection for their logging in the forest."

Furniture merchants encountered forest bandits?

Listening to Laun's words, Su Li immediately felt it was reasonable. He remembered that under the influence of the dragon's breath, the desire and rage of the centaur Bloodhoof tribe in the forest had become particularly strong, and they began to attack all discovered forces.

If this green dragon is not dealt with, every spring when animals are in heat, the bandits in the forest will come out to plunder the human territories, villages and farms outside.

I just didn't expect that there would be benefits to this matter. The restlessness of this centaur tribe actually drove a caravan of furniture merchants to Heisen Territory.

Su Li only thought for a moment and then made a decision: "Agree to their request, you first negotiate with them, reach an agreement, and then bring the person in charge of the caravan to see me. Forest bandits are something we must solve, we need to capture them and expand our army. Sweep their camps and capture slaves."

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Laun was slightly startled when he heard this, and suggested: "Lord, these people are very dangerous. There are many legendary thieves and wanted criminals among them, and even many are exiled ranger knights. You know, the scope of ranger knights is too broad, from apprentice knights to champion knights may appear. It is not a wise choice to confront them head-on. With your ability, we can fully develop steadily and then grow our strength, and then wipe them out in one fell swoop in the future."

"Before that, our wise choice should be to mind our own business. Until our strength is strong enough to crush them."

Laun is indeed a top student at the Middenheim Griffin Military Academy. His views on dangerous warfare and the theory of winning before fighting are worthy of his military academy background.

If we can farm and crush them, Su Li certainly doesn't want to take military risks. After all, no one can guarantee victory in war.

But the pressure of the green dragon is there, and if Su Li doesn't enter the forest to weaken its dependents, the chance of winning the final battle will be even slimmer.

And to enter the forest, these forest bandits close to the outer edge of the forest are the first targets he needs to solve.

So Su Li said: "My government official, your suggestion is very good. From the perspective of internal affairs, you are right. But I am the lord and must take into account both internal affairs and military affairs. The forest bandits are too much of a threat to us, we must actively defend and take the initiative to attack and weaken their strength. Otherwise, when they gather together and plunder outwards, our castle with only one hundred soldiers and four hundred residents will not be able to withstand their huge scale at all."

Laun was not aware of the terrible fact of the green dragon's existence, so he still insisted on persuading him, saying: "My lord, you don't know how terrible those bandits inside are. The previous lord once coveted the bounty and wanted to lead troops in to sweep them away, so he suffered a big loss. Now those wanted orders are still gathering dust under the shelves of the government hall."

"There are wanted orders?" Su Li's eyes lit up, this is really an unexpected surprise: "Quick, bring them over and let me see."

Laun immediately ordered a servant to take those almost moldy orders from under the shelves, hoping to dispel Su Li's impulsive thoughts.