Throne of the North

There is no money and no food, what should I do?

It is impossible to starve to death, so I can only borrow from my neighbors.

Strictly speaking, there are no neighbors in the frozen land. After all, there is an endless winter in the north, and you have to go through mountains and swamps to the south to see the nobles of the North Wind Province.

But now they are the only ones who are close to the frozen land.

"Let Deren and Arnoel come to see me."

Soon, the knight guard captain Deren and the carpenter Arnoel appeared in front of Ryan, and he looked at Deren first.

"I will give you twenty people. You take them and other apprentice knights to hunt around, and try to get enough meat before it gets cold."

After saying that, Ryan looked at Anor, "I know you have a unique talent in planting, and my requirements are not high. Try to plant some crops that can mature in a short time. I don't ask for anything, as long as I can eat and be full."

"Follow your will." The two left with obvious excitement, because this meant that they had initially gained rights in this barony.

Finally, Ryan's eyes fell on Brand.

"Brand, you go to organize all the knights and attendants now, and go with me to the North Wind Province, we will visit our neighbors."

Brand's speed was very fast. When Ryan walked from Rhino Horn Mountain to the foot of the mountain, he was already waiting with thirty people.

Looking at the scattered knights and attendants, Ryan frowned, then turned around and stood on a big rock and roared.

Lane, who has the strength of a knight, has a loud and majestic voice.

"Look at what you look like, do you look like an army? I think you are just a bunch of mud-legged people!"

"Now! Immediately! Right now! Line up five people in a row, six people in a column!"

Accompanied by the countdown of ten numbers, Ryan drew out the iron sword on Rosen's waist and came to the side of his army.

"I just want to see one person in a row in front of me!"

Ryan raised his long sword and pointed it at a young man with half of his head exposed when he walked to the third row.

"Ryan, Severen..." Ryan pointed out six names in a row.

"Do you want me to think that you have a lot of people?!"

After saying that, Ryan pointed at the remaining 24 people, "If you can beat them, each of you will get a gold coin."

"If you can't win, when we come back, all of you will go and move stones for me!"

For an apprentice knight or a knight's squire to do slave work, it is not a physical punishment, but a trampling on dignity. Suddenly, all six people blushed.

There are no slaves in the frozen land territory now. It is absolutely unbearable to lose face in front of civilians at that time.

There was no surprise. Six against twenty-four. The six had no chance of winning and were soon beaten down.

"Five, four..." Ryan's voice was like a devil resounding in everyone's ears. At this moment, no one dared to hesitate.

Looking at the team that had been re-arranged, Ryan did not go down to check, but nodded with satisfaction.

In the army, nothing is better than the words "obey orders and prohibitions".

"If one person makes a mistake, the whole team will be punished. Remember that you will go to the battlefield in the future. If you can't even cooperate well with this, you will all die!"

"I don't want you to die on the battlefield, not to mention that you are my personal guards. When the time comes, you will die in front of me."

Ryan's voice was indifferent, but it made Old Beard's eyes hotter than ever before.

As a noble lord, enjoying himself and exploiting civilian slaves all day long is an ordinary noble.

A noble who knows how to use people and does things from beginning to end is a talent among the nobles and an excellent noble who can keep a family's reputation.

A noble who can do this and understand military affairs is an extremely rare noble, a top noble who can leave his name in history.

At this moment, he seemed to see the rise of the frozen land territory and the Ryan family becoming the shining star of the empire.

Looking at the knight attendants who finally looked like a bit, Ryan nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's go!"

The decision was made not long ago, and the action was even more hasty, but Ryan didn't worry too much.

The reason is simple, because this is the North Wind Province. The North Wind, which has been part of the empire for decades, has always been in an extremely chaotic situation.

How chaotic is it? The laws of the empire strictly prohibit nobles from attacking each other's territories. In the entire empire, only the North Wind Province has had no less than ten open battles between noble armies.

Although every time there is a sign of great power, it will be suppressed by other nobles, but this also proves that the people of the North Wind Province are tough.

This is on the surface, and it is even more rampant in private.

But the amazing thing is that with such simple folk customs, no nobles have died in the area for decades. Even the baronies that were beaten to pieces, where a baron was beaten to a lonely family, were easily released and are still staying in their own territory to exploit serfs.

In addition to the competition among the nobles for interests, there are also the original indigenous nobles of the North Wind Province, that is, the many nobles in the land that was once called the North Wind Duke.

After Meyers occupied the North Wind Province, the original owner of this land, the North Wind Duke and his family, were taken to the imperial capital, and they would never leave the imperial capital for the rest of their lives.

Some of the remaining small nobles who followed the Duke of Beifeng defected to the empire early, some became wandering nobles, seeking seats and territories in some southern kingdoms, some died in the war, and the last part became rebels and became thieves in order to regain their own territories.

Ryan suspected that the assassin who assassinated him was the last part of the remnants of Beifeng.

It is even very likely that someone in the empire communicated with them to kill him at the cost of helping them restore their noble status.

Otherwise, assassinating an imperial noble, or a baron personally appointed by the royal family, would be a slap in the face of countless nobles in the empire.

It is impossible to have such a big risk without huge benefits.

Poverty and coldness are the perceptions of the southern provinces of the empire about the Beifeng Province, and only the nobles in the Beifeng Province really understand that it is just cold and chaotic here.

The nobles will not be poor. They will try their best to exploit their people and slaves. In addition, there are many minerals in the Beifeng Province, but because it is too chaotic, the efficiency of development is extremely low.

For the sake of those minerals, many nobles exploited slaves to death to mine. If there were not enough slaves, they would send free people to mine.

It is for this reason that there are so many escaped slaves in the swamps and forests near the frozen land.

It can even be said that only a small number of slaves escaped. After all, the vast majority of slaves never dared to have any thoughts of escaping, even if the lords and nobles asked them to mine with only a few hours of rest a day and only gave them a little food.