Urban Sims

Chapter 54 Future Planning
A day in midsummer in June.

After a long journey of more than half a month, Zhou Ming, flying a royal eagle flag, returned to Granland after an absence of nearly four years.

Seeing his son graduating from the Royal Knights Academy with the best grades, Baron Connor threw a grand celebration banquet, with guests and friends, whether they were old rivals around or in-laws who had a history of marriage, all of them were invited over, good wine The delicious food and meat were served like flowing water, and the banquet lasted for seven days and seven nights. Even the lower-level residents of the Grand Landing got a little bit of light, and each household was given a bag of white flour.

At the banquet, there were naturally some familiar figures, such as Baron Garcia, thinking about his eldest son who had been in the Royal Knights Academy for two years, but now he didn’t even get the apprentice knight medal, and seeing his old opponent His son is so good... It seems that Baron Garcia, who had lost an extremely crucial battle, sent his knight with the strongest martial arts skills to suppress Zhou Ming's arrogance, but in the end, he was defeated after less than ten rounds of fighting, Garcia Like a defeated rooster, the baron took two sips of wine and left the banquet silently.

Baron Sean, who had made a baby kiss with Earl Connor a long time ago, also brought his grown-up daughter Fanny over here. The cardamom age is like a flower bone that has not yet fully bloomed, with a hint of tenderness in its youthfulness. A little bit of charm, looking forward to life, exudes a different kind of charm.

"Edward, hold a wedding with Fanny in a few days, you are not young, it's time to start a family, give birth to a few children earlier, let me be your grandfather!"

The red-faced Baron Sean pushed his daughter into Zhou Ming's arms, half joking and half serious.

Men in this world generally regard the age of 20 as the threshold for adulthood, and most of them get married around the age of 20. Of course, there are also those who marry earlier, but they are generally above the age of 18.

Zhou Ming was only a few months away from turning 18. Baron Xiao En was so anxious to marry his daughter to him because he was afraid that this precious son-in-law would be too good. If the nobleman snatched it away, his family would suffer a great loss.

After all, strong marriages are an important reason why many families have survived for thousands of years without declining.

"Father-in-law, as long as you agree, I can marry Fanny in today, and I will give birth to a little grandson for you tonight!" Zhou Ming, who was full of pride after drinking some wine, hugged the blushing Kuai Di in his arms. The fiancée who came out of the water said a nasty thing that made everyone laugh.

"Okay! Okay! Anyway, there are so many people present, so let's organize the wedding now and send it to the bridal chamber immediately!" Baron Sean laughed, feeling that this son-in-law was more and more interested in him, and Fanny was his favorite. Daughter, she can marry such an excellent son-in-law, and the stone in his heart can be regarded as letting go.

"Ignore you!" In front of everyone, Fanny, whose face was ashamed as a piece of red cloth, lowered her head, twisted her skirt, and trotted away from the banquet hall.

"Hahahaha~"

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In the next two months, apart from going to Baron Nathan to receive the letter of appointment and dowry, and going to St. Marne Abbey to invite Brother Robert to be the host of his wedding, most of the time, Zhou Ming would either sit at his desk in the study of the castle and flip through books. , or ride a horse, bring a few servants, go hunting in the forest around the castle, relax, and most of the mind is still on the future development plan.

Before entering the game, although Zhou Ming gave himself a lot of cheats, established a lot of advantages in the early stage, and stood at a relatively high starting point for development, it stands to reason that he shouldn't have such a headache.

However, various complex problems in reality cannot be solved with a single brainstorm, and must be combined with the actual situation.

For example, farming, with hundreds of years of farming experience, Zhou Ming can come up with hundreds of plans to increase agricultural income, and invent more sophisticated, practical, and efficient agricultural tools, which can achieve breakthroughs in grain yield per mu in the era of ancient agricultural civilization Jack...

But is it useful to do this alone?
If the farmers do not have the farming habit of using new farm tools, do not have the desire to learn new planting methods, and do not have higher life pursuits other than food and clothing, no matter how good Zhou Ming's original idea is, the actual effect achieved in the actual implementation process, There will still be a considerable gap.

For example, a few days ago, Zhou Ming looked at the grain production statistics of Granling recorded by the housekeeper Bunode in the account book, and found that in the past 12 years, excluding the two years of severe famine in the middle, the average annual grain harvest of the adult farmers of Granling, From less than 50 talents at the beginning, after increasing to 110 talents within five years, there was basically no further increase in the next five years. According to weather changes, it has been hovering in the range of 105~115.

Compared with Zhou Ming's average annual grain harvest of adult farmers in Grandland generally exceeding 300 talents at the end of the last game, and the harvest of 500 talents in the peak year, the production potential of the farmers in Grandland. At most only one-third of it was dug out.

In addition to agriculture, the development of industrial and commercial fields in the Grand Land is even less developed. After all, the amount of goods carried by the traveling merchants is limited. In order to prevent being beaten to the bone by some greedy lords, in the meager profit and popular commodities such as food, no matter how courageous they are. Traveling merchants don't dare to traffic in hundreds of carts, turning into a walking fat sheep, passing in front of robbers from all walks of life.

Therefore, the biggest headache for Baron Connor, who has not been able to sell much grain, is that there is too much grain in the castle granary, and the old grain at the bottom layer is moldy and rotten. He has tried various methods, but none of them can solve the problem of excessive inventory. , the problem of not being able to consume.

In the end, it was Zhou Ming's suggestion to build a few more livestock farms, raise more pigs, cattle, sheep and horses, feed them with steamed wheat grains mixed with pasture, and then take out some old grains that were really unpalatable and distribute them to the territory. Those widows and widows were given to poor households with too many people in their families... After various measures, the grain inventory finally dropped a little, and it also gave the lord some kindness.

In addition, the land that plays a fundamental role in the ultimate development potential of a territory is also Zhou Ming's biggest headache.

It’s like playing a strategy game. At the beginning of the farming period, the resources in the territory are sufficient, but after a period of time, the population, soldiers, food production, and resource output of the territory reach the upper limit and cannot grow. If you want to break through The bottleneck, to continue to develop, can only take the road of external expansion and plundering of surrounding territories.

Zhou Ming has calculated that with a radius of 20 miles and an area of ​​about 300 square kilometers, the maximum population limit of Gran Territory is 3, and the maximum elite soldier limit is 2000. If we can take the path of destroying the environment or limiting the birth rate, otherwise, with such a high population density, the rate of plague outbreaks will only increase in a straight line, and Zhou Ming's efforts will only be in vain again and again.

"In recent years, thanks to the increase in food production, the population of Grand Land is now about 5000, and there is still room for improvement... But with the development potential of this small piece of land in Grand Land, at most ten In [-], after I build an army, I have to embark on the road of external expansion. Otherwise, if the development is too slow, in the hasty time of a person's life, at most a hundred years, not to mention occupying this world, even conquering a medium-sized kingdom will be successful. question……"

Some people may ask, why didn't he expand from the surrounding areas of the Gran Territory as in the previous life, occupying all the lands of the barons and earls, conquering the entire Vooris Kingdom at the fastest speed, and then devouring all directions...

Of course Zhou Ming thought about this, but rebellion within the system is more difficult than flipping the table outside the system and cutting down everyone. Once Zhou Ming wants to expand externally, he must first consult his father, Baron Connor, and Baron Connor’s consent is not enough , and the ten knights under him must also nod. Even if these people agree to attack the surrounding territories, they are all nobles with relatives and relatives, and no one can resist that ruthless hand.

Just like his father-in-law, Baron Sean, in this life, can Zhou Ming still ruthlessly plunder her father's territory regardless of his wife's feelings like in his previous life?
Different identities and standpoints have different concerns. In his last life, he was born at the bottom and hated all the nobles, and he used his hands to fight with swords. In this life, he was born at the top, giving orders, and even his sympathy for the people at the bottom was never so great. Sincerely.

Not to mention, to pull the army formed by these low-level characters and cut down all the nobles belonging to their own class.

"This kind of violent and direct expansion can no longer be pursued. Under the premise of not improving your own title, you can't think about raising the flag and rebelling too early. If you want to get more territories now, you can only think of ways on the heads of neighboring countries. , you don’t need to worry so much about attacking neighboring countries..."

What are the neighboring countries that can be used nearby?
In the savage kingdom in the north, it is difficult to survive in a world of ice and snow.

The iron castle kingdom in the south is powerful and cannot be provoked. It will take ten years to wait for civil strife and looting.

The Ural Plateau in the east is too high and the air is thin, which is not suitable for human survival, and it is more difficult to climb the Ural Snow Mountain to reach the opposite New World.

"It is said that the golden horn and the silver edge have a grass belly, and the grand collar can be regarded as a corner, but it is a dead corner. It is a bit difficult to expand to the surrounding area. I still have to plan the future development path carefully, otherwise the hands and feet will be all kinds of things. This kind of worry is limited, and the final achievement may not necessarily be higher than the last round of rebellion, cutting down all opponents, and re-establishing a new system..."

It is time to plan carefully, which development model to adopt, and the effect of external expansion is better...

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