Warlord: King of All Clans

Their complaints were spoken quietly, but Leo outside the window heard them.

Leo reached over Olivia and was about to grab Seti, wanting to scare her and restore his dignity as the little lord of the river bay.

Seti was so scared that he hugged his beloved abacus and hid under Olivia's skirt with an uncontrolled expression.

As the new big sister of the puppy-headed people after the little mouse left, Freya naturally wanted to protect her sisters. She immediately bit Leo's arm with a "Ahhh!"

She is good at changing her size at any time. In order to make it easier for Olivia to keep warm, she turned into the size of an ordinary groundhog, a standard red rabbit.

Leo was wearing legion chain mail, and his arms were covered with dense double-layer steel rings.

Freya's front teeth were immediately embedded in the steel ring of Leo's chainmail, and he fished her out of the carriage.

Like a seasoned angler, Leo expertly took Freya down, grabbed her front and back legs with both hands, and swung her by the back of her neck.

Fu brand scarf, warm!

Freya was also very happy. She was tied around Leo's neck and acted as a scarf. She used her tail to hit Leo's face and asked for help from the mother and daughter in the carriage with a smile: "Help! Help! I'm going to be eaten!"

Seti showed her puppy head and looked at the interaction between Leo and Freya with great envy.

I won’t hide again next time!

Amid the farewell calls of the wild folks, the team continued to move towards the Gravel Fort.

Rio's distribution of money to the people was not a spur-of-the-moment decision or a random waste of money and grain.

Although he focused on controlling the military strength of the River Reach and didn't pay much attention to internal affairs, he was lying in the same bed with Olivia after all.

Even if you listen to pillow talk once a day, you can have a clear understanding of the financial situation of Riverbend.

Besides, Olivia's account book is placed on the desk in her bedroom. The accounting method was improved by Leo. You can see it clearly with just a glance.

Before going to sleep, Olivia would happily tell Leo how much supplies and money she had received that day.

Or you can talk about the problems you encountered during the day and ask Leo to help you with advice and provide solutions.

Therefore, Leo knew as much as Olivia about the overall situation of the three major camps in River Bay.

Not to mention other material reserves, after last month's account settlement, the entire Hewan County had a surplus of two hundred gold coins!

Not to mention ordinary village knights, even ordinary small towns may not have so much income.

After all, Hewan County has not been based on traditional agriculture until now, and there are not many people who make a living by farming.

Whether it is the hunting teams of the wild people obtaining meat and furs, the workers in the logging camp obtaining wood, the blacksmiths in the forge workshop producing iron products, or the cassava flour processing plant making sugar and brewing wine, all of them are collective labor.

Among the three towns in Hewan, at least two are light industrial towns.

And 90% of Hewan’s properties belong to the lord’s mansion.

Until now, more than 60% of the people still rely on working for the lord for a living.

The production efficiency and profits generated by this collectivization are far beyond the reach of individual agriculture and animal husbandry, which rely on producing a few bags of wheat and cheese.

So Uliyan became very inflated in the face of huge wealth.

Before Leo's wedding, he privately made a great vow to his two descendants, threatening that not a single citizen would be frozen to death this winter.

In the cold north, this is indeed an ambition, or a beautiful dream.

It's inevitable that people will freeze to death in this winter. Even an angel wouldn't dare to brag like this.

This means that the Lord's Mansion needs to take care of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of 5,000 people at the same time this winter, and provide them with necessary survival supplies such as food, clothes, firewood, etc.

We also need to renovate some of the unqualified huts to provide them with a warm home before the mountains are closed due to heavy snow.

They even had to establish grass-roots organizations, intensify patrols, and conduct door-to-door inspections to prevent the elderly and weak who dared not ask the lord for help from secretly freezing to death or starving to death.

This was obviously a task of epic difficulty, but Leo and Olivia accepted it with pleasure and had no objection.

So we have been planning this matter these past few days, counting supplies and arranging manpower. This is also the reason why Olivia followed us to Gravel Castle.

The cultural level of the management of the River Bay Territory is generally low, and their moral standards are not expected to be very high. Almost all of them need the assistance and supervision of the little dog-headed people to be able to do their jobs.

However, the little dog-headed people trained by Olivia are all simple-minded portable plug-ins who only know how to write and calculate.

He has neither enough brains nor enough prestige to take charge of human society.

Leo and Olivia could only do it themselves, and try their best to pass the money, food and supplies in their hands through layers of filters called greed and land them in the hands of the lower-level people.

They don't ask for a perfect mission, but as long as one less person dies this winter, they'll gain one more loyal fan in the spring, and the cohesion of the river bay will be further enhanced.

Giving out money and clothes is just the first step, there are still many follow-up processes.

When the orc army was blocked north of Varanger, the number of refugees heading south became scarce.

Especially after Tariq, the great lord of Isenpor, expelled the refugees, the later refugees heard the rumors and were even more afraid to go south.

Some refugee groups even chose to escape into the Wolf-Driving Plains, or cross the grasslands east of the World Tree Avenue to settle in another earldom.

As a result, the number of refugees who could come to Hewan Territory became even smaller, with an average of less than ten people recruited per day.

It is still unknown when the next demographic dividend will come, so Leo can only cherish the present.

Walking on the gravel road, the team occasionally saw some crowded wooden houses, which were the hunting lodges of the wild people.

Those wild folk who are weakened due to old age or disability and are unable to join the wild folk hunting team for long-distance hunting will not sit at home and wait in vain.

They still hunt hares, sables, roe deer, birds and other small prey in the back garden of Hewan Territory.

Just one hare or roe deer caught every day is enough for a day's food.

If you are lucky enough to hunt a sable or an elk, you will not have to worry about your livelihood for several days.

The back garden of the river bend can no longer be considered a wilderness, it can only be said to be a hunting ground or forest farm of the frontier territory, and the risk factor is not high.

Therefore, many hunters will build hunting lodges on both sides of the gravel road so that they don’t have to go back to the river bend every day.

Over time, these hunting lodges gradually increased in number, and even the hunters' families moved in, forming a small natural village.

The Hewan Peninsula is more than fifteen kilometers away from Gravel Fort. It is no problem to cram three or five of these small natural villages with a dozen or dozens of people.

In addition to the wild folks, there were also many traces of ogre hunters in the woods on both sides of the gravel road.

They are a new generation of kobolds, many of whom are not yet adults. They are heretics who are unwilling to stay in the mines and mine.

They are equipped with small crossbows, nets and other hunting tools. They hunt small animals in relatively safe areas, obtaining meat while also exercising their scout skills.

By the time they came of age, they had caught up with their fathers and became excellent kobold scouts in the River Reach.

When they see a caravan passing by, these half-grown dog-headed men will emerge from hidden corners, stand on the gravel road, and watch the team go away while wagging their tails.

Some smart dogs will even throw the mice, bats and bugs they catch into the carriage of their human mistress to express their gratitude.

After more than an hour's journey, the team finally arrived at Gravel Castle.