Throne of the North

Ryan found that he was still not at ease.

Except for the first three days after returning to the frozen land, he was extremely busy every day.

The arrangement of the land in Thunder Cloud County, the exchange of compensation with the defeated nobles, the pioneering plan of the frozen land, the preliminary plan of economic development, the progress of the breeding of war horses by the great wizard McKen on the wilderness, the blessing and training of the army.

A lot of things began to press on Ryan, especially when each of these things required a large number of manpower, the number of people reported by the butler Beard was a headache for Ryan.

Manpower, no matter which direction of planning and action, manpower is needed.

But Ryan just didn't have so many suitable people under his command.

He had tried very hard to let Viscountess Wittman and Butler Beard cultivate talents in knowledge and management, but there were still a lot of gaps.

This inevitably led to the stagnation of his own knight training progress, but which of these things was not important?

Even the transactions with the Lantern Chamber of Commerce, the selection and purchase of magic materials and crops, and the grain trade with the Gargoyle Count in Danube Province have not been counted, and Ryan has been delaying it again and again.

At this time, Ryan didn't know whether he should be happy that his territory has become so powerful, or whether he should be helpless that his steps were too big at once.

"No wonder, the development of a noble family cannot be solved by one generation. It often takes several generations or even more than ten generations to accumulate a strong foundation."

Why? Of course, it is because if there is only one generation, there are really too few people who can be trusted and used.

For the nobles, brothers and sisters are natural retainers. They are attached to the noble elder brother, enjoy the rights of the nobles, and are the most loyal supporters.

There are a bunch of brothers and sisters in one generation, and in two or three generations, there will be dozens of core followers. Their families and downward relationships will all guard the power of the nobles like a pyramid.

It is very troublesome for someone like Ryan. He was separated from the family. For the time being, he is the only one, and there are very few available people around him.

All things will be on his shoulders. Even though he has handed over the political affairs of the frozen land to Etria, he is still very busy every day.

But for the family of Count Winter, it is relatively easy.

Count Winter has a large family around him. Especially when he has not yet branched out, there are many family members, and they often need to compete to get to the top. These people can help Count Winter share most of the pressure without worrying about their loyalty.

So much so that the earl can become a holy knight.

If it is the same as Ryan's situation, it is questionable whether Count Winter can become a sky knight.

Count Sauron is an example. The number of people in this earl's family is not prosperous.

The reason why he can become a sky knight is purely because of Count Sauron's talent and a lot of resources.

"Perhaps, I should write to the Clayton family and find a way to recruit some members of the Clayton family to the frozen land."

Ryan thought so, and then started writing a letter.

As far as he knows, the Clayton family does not have a deep foundation among the great nobles of the empire, but because of their special bloodline, they are very fertile, which leads to the fact that even among the members of the earl family, there are still many people whose ambitions cannot be fulfilled.

Especially before the generation of Ryan's father, the Clayton family was not strong at that time, and the wealth and industry were not rich enough, so naturally there would be many more people.

Even Ryan's generation still has an unpredictable future. For example, his brothers and sisters, the girls are okay, the countess will find a way to help them marry a good family, but for men, at present, only Ryan and his brother have the title.

"As long as they see that the frozen land can bring them a bright future, they will still come even if it is in the northern territory."

Thinking of this, Ryan's writing speed gradually increased.

Of course, he still has to tell Beard to continue to train suitable young people, who will become capable ministers and generals in his territory.

The frozen land has a population of more than 20,000, and the talents trained so far are less than 100. How can this be enough?

The pressure of talent will take time anyway. Before that, Ryan could only deal with more and more affairs in the frozen land with a bitter face.

In the time that passed, the Lantern Chamber of Commerce and the Blade Rose Chamber of Commerce also got the weapons forged by all the nobles of Lingdu County as promised. They will be delivered to the nobles in the south, and perhaps most of them will be directly delivered to the Thousand Lakes Province where the war is breaking out.

"'Snow Dragon Song' will definitely let those guys in the south hear the roar from the north!"

This is Irina's solemn declaration when she got ten 'Snow Dragon Song' knight long swords forged by Brock himself.

Then she signed a contract for arms trading with the frozen land again, so that no one else would find the frozen land as a product origin after she left.

As a reward, a team belonging to the Blade Rose Chamber of Commerce will appear in the frozen land again in the summer, bringing a large number of goods that Ryan needs and has already purchased.

The transaction of up to 250,000 gold coins is worth the Blade Rose Chamber of Commerce to come to the frozen land specifically.

The moment the contract was established, Ryan became a poor man again. Taking into account some magic materials for war horses and construction materials for the wizard tower that he had purchased before, Ryan now has difficulty taking out even 10,000 gold coins.

This forced him to re-examine his economic plan.

The war did bring Ryan a lot of wealth, but these wealth could not be obtained in an instant. For example, the compensation from the nobles of Leiyun County would take at least three to five years to fall into his hands.

For example, the compensation from Yinchuan County was to open the door to absolute free trade, which required time to settle.

Sometimes Ryan himself would wonder if the nobles had too much power. The lord had absolute power over the territory. Otherwise, how could Ryan go to such lengths to talk about free trade.

We are all nobles of the same empire, nobles of the North Wind Province, but there are still things like commercial taxes, which is unreasonable no matter how you look at it.

However, he couldn't help but think of another question. Even the nobles in the empire were like this. Wouldn't it be even more so between countries?

"In that case, wasn't my previous transaction with the Viscount of the Andara Kingdom smuggling?"

Ryan blinked his eyes, as if... Mihaly did come secretly at the beginning, and Beard also secretly transported the weapons over.