Throne of the North

The winter in the North Wind Province lasts four months, while the winter in the Frozen Territory lasts half a month longer.

In the four and a half months, Ryan has actually wasted about half a month. He has a lot of construction to complete in the remaining four months.

The first is the three fields, which must be completed before the arrival of spring, so that there will be time to sow.

The second is to draw a map around the entire Frozen Territory.

Until now, he only knows that his Frozen Territory is in the northernmost corner of the North Wind Province, and he knows nothing else. This is definitely not a good thing.

You must know that winter is coming, which means that danger is coming.

The Empire is located in the northernmost part of the warm southern world. It is powerful and faces the threat of foreign races.

Those orcs will definitely go south when they are hungry in winter.

Although the North Wind Province is not the only one that will be impacted, it is definitely the province that will suffer the least impact. Although the Frozen Territory does not seem to have experienced the attack of orcs, because it is so poor that even the orcs feel that there is no food and oil.

But Ryan is unwilling to leave everything to experience and inertia.

So he wants to know what the general environment around the Frozen Territory is like.

This is the second thing, second only to farming.

The third thing is the frozen land village that is being built now. It is the model of the future Beigal City and a key step in stabilizing the entire frozen land territory.

With houses, you can think about raising chickens, goats, etc. If you are richer, you can also raise a cow.

Even further away from the Rhinoceros Horn Mountain, they will have their own piece of fertile land, and most of the food will belong to them.

With these, the frozen land territory will have unprecedented cohesion, because Ryan is also very clear that his main means of population will come from the other plane, and people who come from afar need to create a sense of belonging to the frozen land territory for them.

After having a sense of belonging and cohesion, Ryan can proceed to the next step and create more needs for them.

Yes, Ryan thought very clearly, and he had written a lot of plans recorded on the birch bark.

If you want the people to not be muddleheaded and mess up, you have to create needs for them, so that they have what they need, better houses, more livestock, even a shop or a workshop, as well as blessings, knight breathing methods and so on.

By creating needs for them, the development of the frozen land can continue to move forward rapidly according to Ryan's needs.

In addition to these three things, the fourth thing is the army.

Ryan never thought that farming was a very stable thing.

You have to know that his first primitive accumulation was contributed by the Knight Water. Without strong military strength, farming would not be stable, not to mention that this is in the North, where there is a lack of food.

It can even be said that military is the most critical thing in the North.

But why did Ryan put this matter in the fourth place?

Because his current territory cannot support more knights and squires.

If Ryan wants qualified soldiers, he must bless them. The spirituality required for blessing is not a big problem in Ryan's view. At most, he can go to the other plane again.

The key is still the first one.

Food.

A slave consumes less than half a pound of food a day, or even less.

A civilian consumes about one pound of food a day, and most of the time, civilians have to go hungry.

Just like when Ryan first came to the frozen land, the villagers here were pale and thin because they were often hungry.

And how much food does a soldier, a soldier with the physique of an apprentice knight, need to eat?

Ryan asked Brand and got the answer, three pounds.

Under normal circumstances, with two or three hours of training every day, each of his soldiers consumes three pounds of food every day.

From time to time, soldiers also need meat supply. Ryan is very generous. Even if there is no storage, he guarantees to eat meat every three days.

He wants his soldiers and his army to maintain their full combat effectiveness, so he must pay these things.

So the consumption of the forty or so soldiers under his command is not a small number every day.

It's not that he doesn't want to bless more servants. After all, a light touch of the finger can make a person have the effect of training for two or three years. This kind of good thing, he wishes his army had thousands of them.

With the 778 spiritual powers in his hand (reduced by 10 points because of the blessing to the Bain family), if he could have an army of 100 apprentice knights, he would dare to let the 30-mile radius around Rhino Horn Mountain belong to him.

But the food does not allow it.

If this is really done, the slaves will have nothing to eat in a few days, and the civilians will starve to death in a month or two.

In short, in the North, food is the foundation of everything.

Even if a dragon comes, you have to eat first.

These are the four most critical things. In addition to these, there are many minor things.

For example, the frozen land territory still needs a lot of clothes to resist the cold, his soldiers need standard iron swords and armor, and war horses.

In the development of the territory, farmers need chickens, ducks, geese, goats, cattle, horses, and salt.

He also wants to build a road that can go directly from the frozen land territory through the mountains and swamps in the south, instead of crossing mountains and ridges every time.

Finally, the Frozen Territory needs its own economic development. You know, even the Barony of Hatton, which is closest to it, is much richer than itself.

For these plans, he couldn't even take care of his own Baron's Fortress.

Ryan is really poor.

In the current planning and development, there is not even one that can be used as an economic crop, which means that even if these important and minor plans are completed, Ryan will still have no money.

After doing all this, he just caught up with some of the gaps in territory with other barons.

"The current North should not support me to continue to explore further, so the destination should still be placed in the other plane."

Looking at his spirituality panel.

[Spirituality: 778]

[Divinity: Deer Spirit Blessing]

"It is still 100 spiritualities to open the space gate for 24 hours, and the destination is still the Exner continent, the plane of faith for deer spirits."

"If you can find one or two villages and bring people here this time, it will be profitable."

Thinking of this, Ryan began to call Brand outside.

"Brand, you take ten soldiers with me."

One hundred spiritualities disappeared, and the space portal opened. Even Brand and others who had experienced it once couldn't help but be surprised.

Ryan did not bring Beard with him this time. The old butler had recently become the busiest person in the Frozen Territory, so Ryan left all matters to him to supervise.