Wizard Lords: Building an Empire starts from the panel

"Grandpa Pedro, please continue."

“According to your previous arrangements, we have started to set up hydraulic workshops along the Musta River, but the Musta River has not completely thawed, and we still cannot see the actual effectiveness of these hydraulic workshops.

However, if these hydraulic workshops can achieve the expected 70% efficiency, we can save a lot of human and animal power every year, which is equivalent to reducing our food pressure in disguise. "

"Grandpa Pedro, how is the situation of the steel workshop over there in the Gray Rock Territory?"

"Thanks to Lord Baron, five more blast furnaces have been successfully erected in the Gray Stone Territory during this period, one of which is seven meters tall.

These five blast furnaces were built along the Musta River at your request. It will take some time for the steel workshop to move to the Musta River.

In addition, since the water-powered mill has not yet been put into use, and most of the human and animal power is allocated to cultivated land for sowing during the spring plowing season, the speed of ore grinding is limited, so the steel production in the limestone collar has not been increased yet. .

However, we will be able to free up enough manpower after the spring plowing here, and the Musta River will completely thaw in a while, and by then the steel production in our territory will be able to increase. "

"Grandpa Pedro, thank you for your hard work!

Let’s wait until the Musta River thaws to see the actual effect of the hydraulic workshop. The hydraulic workshop can be used for wheat hulling, flour grinding, ore grinding, and large-scale hammering of honeycomb iron.

After the spring plowing, I hope you can spare enough manpower and animal power to continue to cultivate farmland, dig water canals, and widen and smooth the roads in the four baronies of Black Mountain, Limestone, Tangquan, and Silver Pine. "

"Okay, Lord Baron, I will allocate manpower reasonably."

"Grandpa Pedro, I will leave you five thousand gold coins. You can spend some money to encourage the people to work more efficiently.

Don't be stingy with money this year. Our territory needs to develop as soon as possible. As long as the framework is set up, development can easily snowball. "

Ever since Li Wei felt that he had secured a viscounty, he had been thinking about territory selection and subsequent development.

First of all, he will definitely not give up on the Montenegrin leader.

Looking up, there is also a so-called distant cousin, Earl Norton, who is helping Green County.

The last time Levi attended the banquet hosted by Earl Norton, the Earl announced in front of all the small and medium-sized nobles in Green County that Levi was the person he was protecting.

Looking down, the Black Mountain Territory has been run by the Monterey family for more than 20 years, and the people in the territory have long been accustomed to the rule of the Monterey family.

Coupled with Li Wei's glorious deeds of defeating the orcs and protecting the country and the people, the loyalty of the citizens to Li Wei and the execution of the decrees issued by the Monterey family are quite impressive.

It can even be said that Master Li Wei already has a mass base in the Montenegro region.

Not to mention the long plowing, hydraulic workshops, and blast furnace iron smelting that Li Wei created, which are mortal but have great strategic value.

The most important thing is that Master Li Wei's extremely cheap spellcaster talent detection method and extraordinary equipment assembly line workshop are all shady things.

Levi could only keep these things tightly in his hometown of Montenegro.

Therefore, Levi's first viscounty planned to be placed in the entire Black Mountain-Musta River area with Monterey Castle as the core and encompassing the three nearby baronies of Silver Pine, Tangquan, and Limestone.

According to the practice of enfeoffment, since there are only four baronies in the Montenegro-Musta River area, if Li Wei is made a viscount, he can also get a suitable unclaimed land nearby as well as a certain amount of population, materials, and financial compensation.

As for the second barony, Li Wei was actually very covetous of Viscount Weilin next door, but unless the other party humiliated the country by losing an army, overthrown the army and killed generals, under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for a viscount to be deprived of his title.

Moreover, Levi was still a little unsure about Earl Norton's attitude.

Through this period of contact with the aristocratic circle and the advice from the cheap brother Hopkin, Levi had some guesses about Earl Norton's attitude towards himself and Viscount Verin.

The Norton family can be said to be the local emperor of Green County, and the several viscount families are the most powerful group under the local emperor of the Norton family.

As the boss of Greene County, Earl Norton will naturally use some means of wooing, suppressing, marrying, and instigating others to ensure the Norton family's transcendent status in Greene County.

Viscount Vering doesn't usually listen to Earl Norton, and Earl Norton can't do anything to him.

After all, legally speaking, Viscount Verin and Earl Norton are loyal to His Majesty the Kingdom, and there is no direct subordinate relationship between Viscount Verin and Earl Norton.

It's just that each border county will have one and only one actual earl. This actual earl will receive part of the administrative power granted by the kingdom, which is very limited.

Viscount Verin was not only disobedient, but also had to pay attention to Earl Norton's personal cultivation talent.

At only twenty-eight years old, Viscount Verin is already a fifth-level intermediate Silver Moon master. He has a very high possibility of breaking through to the Sun Realm, and the age at which he can break through to the Sun Realm may be younger than most people.

If Viscount Weilin could break through to the Sun Realm before the age of thirty-five, and advance his cultivation to the Perfect Sun Realm before the age of forty-five, then he would have twenty years to try to break through to the Holy Realm.

Although the chance is still slim, this possibility exists objectively.

Even though Viscount Verin was trapped in the Sun Realm for his whole life, a long-term disobedient Viscount of the Sun Realm would still give Earl Norton a headache.

Earl Norton was afraid that this stupid young man would take the lead in resisting the Norton family, and then other powerful viscount families would follow suit and carve up some of the cake that originally belonged to the Norton family.

In the kingdom's history of more than a thousand years, there is no shortage of cases where the big nobles were united by the small and medium nobles below.

However, the sudden emergence of Levi, who was adjacent to Viscount Verin, suddenly made Earl Norton interested.

Compared to the Weeling family, which has been passed down for five generations and lasts for hundreds of years, and has great heritage and potential, the Monterey family is a bit lackluster.

When Levi emerged, the Monterey family was far inferior to the Welin family in terms of strength, heritage, and development prospects. The only one who could make a move was Levi, the Monterey Baron who seemed to have some potential.

Distant relatives are all false. What Earl Norton values ​​is Levi's potential and the Monterey family's shallow foundation.

The Monterey family has a shallow foundation, which makes them more dependent on Earl Norton. At the same time, because of the shallow foundation, Earl Norton does not think that the Monterey family can rise within ten or twenty years.

After all, how many people can a baron have and how many troops can it support?

Moreover, the Monterey family didn't have anyone who could stand out, so it was almost impossible to get military honors with such a small amount of capital.

Sorry everyone, I'm stuck.