The promise of slow wear for the rest of your life

Not long after those newly promoted knights left with red eyes, the old butler who received the news hurried over again.

"Master, I heard that you conferred twenty knights in one breath just now?!"

"That's right." Arnold had already thought of what he would say, so before the old steward could speak, he took the initiative to say: "A few days ago, when the fief was conferred on the knight commander, there was no ceremony."

"Certainly conferring titles of knights on servants now, of course, no ceremony can be held. As their master, I must treat them fairly and equally."

"But they were only middle cavalry after all, and they never swore allegiance to the king or the lord."

"I made them swear allegiance to me before bestowing them with the title of knight."

"You even did this in private?!" The old butler suddenly felt his eyes darken, his chest tight and short of breath.

"I believed in their loyalty, so no witnesses were there," Arnold said.

The old housekeeper sighed and said: "Master, you know that without rules, there is no such thing as a circle."

Anor said domineeringly: "I only know that in my territory, I am the rules, and what I say is the radius."

Hearing this, the old butler suddenly became sluggish like a defeated rooster.

After this incident, the old butler deeply felt that he was too old to keep up with the thinking of young people, and he was no longer suitable to be a butler.

At this time, the old butler obviously forgot that the real age of the current owner of the castle is actually dozens of years older than him.

The old butler submitted his resignation to Arnold full of frustration, but Arnold rejected it.

The reason is that there is no one around him who can take over the position of steward.

The old butler had no choice but to continue to serve as the butler and train his successor by the way.

As time passed day by day, midsummer came quietly.

I don't know if it is because there are too few green trees in Thorn Ridge and the rain is not enough, the summer here is extremely hot.

The crops in the farmland of the territory are all irrigated by canals, but they can still grow vigorously.

The saplings on the mountain will not work.

One morning, Anor looked out of the window, and suddenly found that the leaves of the saplings cultivated by the original owner on the several mountains behind the manor were all yellow.

Seeing this situation, Anol immediately went to the housekeeper and asked him to send someone up the mountain to water the saplings.

Arnold's reaction was quick, but it was a pity that he couldn't quench his thirst with a long sentence.

The slaves worked tirelessly to carry water all day long, running up and down the hills, but they still couldn't water all the saplings in time.

Seeing that Anol attached great importance to those saplings, the old housekeeper had to call the leaders of several nearby villages to help.

As a result, the utensils for carrying water will naturally be insufficient.

The old housekeeper asked them to use all the pots and pans.

Just like this, they still carried water for three full days before watering the saplings on those mountains.

Afterwards, Arnold originally wanted to give those leaders some food as a reward.

The old butler said no, and asked him to ask for dozens of animal bones, and asked Mina to cook more than a dozen pots of animal bone soup, and prepared enough coarse grain bread for everyone to enjoy.

The villagers ate and drank enough and left very satisfied.

So did the slaves.

Since then, Basil, the old housekeeper, and Kudo, the agricultural officer, have both cared about the saplings in the back mountain.

As soon as the saplings were found to be short of water, they immediately summoned the slaves to go up the mountain to water them.

The crops in the field are growing gratifyingly. Apart from not being able to see what kind of crops are the plant seedlings grown from the shelled seeds, the agricultural officer Kudo has no other worries.

When those unrecognizable crop seedlings grew flower buds, Kudo looked at them carefully, vaguely feeling that the shape of the flower buds was somewhat familiar, but he still couldn't remember what kind of plant it was.

It was at this time that Arnold asked the slaves to apply the manure fertilized from the earliest collection of garbage and feces to the unknown crop field.

It was only then that everyone understood what Arnold's purpose was for people to collect the stinking feces and garbage.

For those crops that Kudo could not recognize, it took nearly [-] days to grow flower buds to bloom huge flower discs.

At this moment, Kudo looked at the bright yellow petals and his huge flower disc, and finally thought of what kind of plant it was.

The moment he reacted, Cudo felt that the sky was about to collapse.

In the study, Arnold looked at the dejected agricultural officer and asked a little puzzled, "Kuduo, why are you looking for me?"

Cudo sighed deeply, and said, "My lord, I'm afraid you've been fooled!"

Arnold was even more puzzled: "What did you fall for?"

Kudo said sadly: "The shelled seeds you bought back are actually not the seeds of crops at all, but the seeds of sunflowers, a kind of ornamental flower!"

"Besides, those seeds are still mutated and bad species. The flower seedlings grown are tall and big, and they can't be sold as ornamental flowers at all. You have been tricked by black-hearted businessmen!"

According to his description, after learning what kind of seed he was talking about, Arnold's eyes immediately became a little indescribable.

"Kuduo, you are talking about those sunflowers, they were not grown to sell flower seedlings."

Kudo was stunned: "Isn't it selling flower seedlings? Could it be that we planted them and saw them ourselves?" Those are too extravagant!

"Naturally, it's not for planting to see for yourself."

Arnold recited the passage according to the script, the passage he heard when the super-level system and he introduced those crops that did not require high soil quality.

"Sunflower (sunflower) is a treasure all over its body, and its seeds are high in oil. It can be eaten, squeezed for oil, and used as medicine. The petals, spikes, flower discs, leaves, stems, and roots can also be used as medicine."

"The stalks and flower spikes can not only feed livestock, but also can be used as firewood when dried, and even used to make pulp. In short, they are very useful."

Basil was dubious and said, "Is this what the black-hearted businessman told you?"

Arnold nodded.

Almighty "black-hearted businessman" system: "..."

Basil hurriedly asked: "Did he tell you how to use the medicine that can be used as medicine? How to make the part that can be made into livestock feed and the part that can be made into pulp?"

Arnold said: "I said it. I recorded it."

Basil breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words: "That's good. Maybe we can try them all. If we can succeed, then we will be developed!"

Anol nodded with a smile.

So Basil came and left excitedly.

Seeing that the crops in the field were about to be harvested, Arnold started preparations in good time.

Arnold had people go out and buy thousands of sets of all kinds of agricultural tools and tools needed to harvest crops.

Arnold divided the purchased farm tools and tools into two parts, one part was distributed to slaves, and the other part was leased at a low price to the former generous people who lent them farming tools for use.

In addition, Arnold also had people buy a complete set of papermaking tools and oil pressing tools, as well as iron smelting tools and carpentry tools, plus a lot of wood, bricks, iron ore, etc.

After that, he also asked people to build a noodle workshop, an oil press workshop, a paper mill, a smelting workshop, and several material warehouses and granaries in a relatively remote place behind the manor.

At this point, the ten thousand gold coins rewarded by the king were all gone.

Moreover, Arnold also posted tens of thousands of gold coins inside, which were obtained from selling slave rings and magic potions.

Just when the oil mill, the paper mill, and the smelting mill were all ready to be put into use, the crops in the fields were just about to be harvested.

Those grains that Arnold claimed to have bought from the capital were actually purchased from the super-level system with space-time coins.

He also spent a lot of time and space coins for this.

And he bought a total of four types of grain.

Two of them are common coarse grains here - corn and barley.One is the coarse grain soybean that is relatively rare here.

The last one is the sunflower that is only grown here as an ornamental flower and named "sunflower".

Of course, these grains are not quite the same as the grains here.

Otherwise, Arnold doesn't need to spend space-time coins to buy it.

Because these grains are high-quality grains that have undergone numerous improvements, are extremely tenacious, adaptable, and more powerful than ordinary grains.

And their power is now clear at a glance.

They have tenaciously grown on the barren land of Thorn Ridge, and now they have brought a once-in-a-century harvest to the people.

During the period of harvesting, almost all the leaders were overjoyed.

Even the slaves in the manor couldn't help but smile when they saw the baskets of grain they had grown with their own hands, full of a sense of accomplishment in their hearts.

Kudo, the agricultural officer, was even more happy for several days in a row, almost wrinkling his face when he saw anyone.

Kudo thought that the lord of his family sent the sunflower seeds harvested and dried to the oil mill, and they were meant to be sold outside.

But the result was far beyond Cudo's expectations.

Only a few days later, those sunflower seeds that had just been transported in for a few days were transported out again intact.

The only difference before and after is that the sunflower seeds shipped in earlier were only dried in the sun and were still raw, while the sunflower seeds shipped out later were all fried.

Moreover, some of them were packed into iron cans of small size and painted on the surface, which looked exquisite and high-end, and sealed.

Seeing this situation, Kudo couldn't help but feel confused.

At the same time, Basil, the old housekeeper, was also confused.

At the gate of the manor, when the old butler heard that Anol said that he would take people out to clean up the ogres in the territory, he was immediately stunned.

"Although there are many ogres in the territory, only a very small number of them will come to the main city and attack the nearby villages. Why do you take so much effort to bring people to clean them up?"

In order to allow the old housekeeper to stay in the manor with peace of mind and handle chores in the territory on his behalf, Arnold patiently explained:

"Of course it is to prepare for the opening of trade routes in the territory in the future. I plan to lead people to clean up the ogres near the road from Thorn City to Xijin Ridge."

"Only when this road is safe and smooth, can merchants from outside dare to enter Thorn Ridge. Only when merchants from outside dare to come, can Thorn Ridge develop."

The old butler suddenly realized, and then said worriedly: "Then let the knights go. Cleaning up the ogres is too dangerous. As a lord, you must not risk yourself."

"It's because I'm the lord that I should lead by example." Arnold patted the old butler on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry. I'll be fine. Don't forget, I'm a dragon." Where's the knight?"

That dragon who only finds his master to eat barbecue every day, can he really do the job?

The old butler was very suspicious of this.

Arnold saw the old butler's distrust of Orgus, so he comforted him: "Don't worry. Even if it's for eating a few more barbecues in the future, he won't let me die."

After hearing this, the old butler was not only not comforted, but even more worried.

He wanted to prevent his master from taking risks, but he couldn't resist Anol's insistence on going his own way.

In the end, Arnold left the manor with 25 knights and [-] infantry.

The remaining five knights and thirty infantry were also divided into two parts.

Three of the knights, including Sarri and [-] infantrymen, took the roasted sunflower seeds, the slave ring and the magic potion that Arnold had recently made, and embarked on the road of trading.

The other two knights and ten soldiers were required to stay at the manor to look after the castle and several workshops behind the manor.

The old butler watched Anol and his party and Surrey's party leave one after another, until their backs disappeared completely, and then returned to the manor with the worry on his face.

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