Warlord: King of All Clans

Chapter 375 United Knight Leader

Amidst the snow, a flying horse flew across the northern outskirts of Isenpol.

Leo was riding on the back of Pegasus, and the biting cold wind made it difficult for him to open his eyes. He regretted not wearing the Pegasus knight's goggles.

The Pegasus under his feet made uneasy cries from time to time, seeming a little impatient.

Freya was riding on the Pegasus's neck, with her paws on her chest and her back to Leo, sulking with him.

Only when the Pegasus became agitated would he hug the horse's neck to comfort it, so that Leo's survey work could proceed smoothly.

Early in the morning, Leo lied to Freya, saying that the little Pegasus missed his mother and asked her to find Pegasus' mother to come to Riverbend to visit.

As a result, Pegasus' mother came and was taken to work by Leo.

Pegasus mother was unwilling, so Leo threatened Freya, asking her to find a way to communicate with Pegasus mother, otherwise he would eat all the magic honey that Freya had stored with Olivia.

So even though Freya was very angry, she still took Leo on a Pegasus ride around the north of Isenbol for a few laps.

This Pegasus obviously doesn't like getting too close to human cities, especially in the middle of winter. After just one afternoon, it was already very impatient.

Looking at the angry Freya and the uneasy Pegasus, Leo had to end the aerial reconnaissance early.

The Pegasus is now familiar with Hewan and travels frequently between the two places, but after all, it is still wild and difficult to tame, and the conditions for free riding are not yet available.

During this period, the wild girl was more like a nanny of Pegasus than a Pegasus knight.

Only Freya can command Pegasus to fly freely.

Leo held Freya in his arms as a warm baby and comforted her, "Freya, don't be angry. It's not a big deal. I just tricked you into going out for a ride. It's not the first time or the second time that I've tricked you."

When Freya thought about it, it seemed to be true, and her anger subsided by half.

Leo added: "When we get back, I'll go with you to secretly eat Olivia's share of honey!"

The other half of Freya's anger suddenly disappeared, and she felt that Leo was still a good friend.

Under Leo's operation, nearly 600 square kilometers of land from the northern suburbs across the Isenbol River to both sides of the World Tree Avenue more than ten miles north of Linhai Town were integrated into one piece to become the United Knights Territory.

The Knight Territory jointly operated by Riverbend is located northwest of Isenpol and east of the Great Swamp, covering an area of ​​600 square kilometers.

Except for the five new knight territories demarcated around Linhai Town, the earliest of these lands have been developed for hundreds of years, and the latest for fifty years.

They are mostly plains with only a few small hills scattered throughout.

Such a huge piece of flat land, after so many years of development, should be endless fertile fields.

But because of the feudal fiefdom system, this area was actually divided into pieces.

The area of ​​each knight's territory is no less than 20 square kilometers, which is equivalent to 5,000 acres of land according to the acre system of this world.

Of every five thousand acres of land, less than one-third is arable land. The rest are the lord's hunting grounds, pastures, and border wastelands that were deliberately left behind to avoid border disputes with neighbors.

The cultivated land that has been developed here is not the endless farmland in modern agriculture, but small plots scattered here and there, along streams and rivers.

If a knight's territory is good and the farmland is concentrated, a town with a population of thousands will be formed.

If the land is poor and the farmland is scattered, a natural settlement group will be formed with the lord's large village as the center and five or six small villages radiating around it.

The villagers in the knight's territory, if they are well-off, will have oxen or draft horses to pull the plow for farming, and they also know how to collect fertilizer or leave land for crop rotation.

Those who were poor didn’t even have iron farm tools, so the whole family had to carry small wooden shovels and dig for food in the fields.

They don’t know how to rotate crops, how to loosen the soil and conserve moisture, or how to make their own fertilizer. After planting a piece of seeds, they are completely dependent on luck.

Production technology has not been upgraded, infrastructure has not been improved, and although it is high-quality arable land, the yield per acre has always been below 1,000 pounds.

The villagers' living conditions have not changed at all in a hundred years, so that most farmers, although they work all day and grow grains, still have to rely on bean paste and wild berries to survive.

After all, the purpose of the Knight Lord's existence is to control the grassroots, collect taxes, train soldiers, and provide military force on behalf of the ruling class.

Instead of focusing on people's livelihood and guiding production.

The latter is the job of the village chief, but in the North even the knights are likely to be illiterate, and the village chief is just a slightly smarter lower-class civilian.

They have neither enough ability nor enough power to lead their people to prosperity.

Once a piece of land is granted as a knight's fiefdom, it becomes the private property of the knight lord. The wasteland can be left uncultivated, but the subjects have no right to cultivate it; they must purchase it or obtain approval.

The subjects could only survive by guarding their own shares of land, while those refugees from outside could only become hired farmhands or serfs of the lord in order to obtain their own shares of land.

Alternatively, they could survive secretly in the secluded wasteland near the Knight's Territory, but this would mean they would have to endure the fate of being expelled or hunted down after being discovered.

Leo sat on Pegasus, overlooking the situation of these knights, and couldn't help but frowning deeply.

He had previously seen the situation in this area through his insight into the atrium, but now, after a closer look, he found that the work was more difficult than he had expected.

There are no water conservancy facilities in these knights' territories, and public infrastructure is almost non-existent.

The roads in some knight territories were severely damaged, and even in winter, the engineering team's carriages could not drive in, so they had to wait until spring to conduct on-site inspections.

For large-scale canals and reservoirs, construction cannot be started simply by drawing a circle on the map; it must be planned based on the actual terrain.

The engineering team at Hewan could not enter, and no matter how skilled the craftsmen were, they could not easily guarantee that water could be successfully delivered to the farmland.

After the construction of the four towns in Hewan and the construction of a large number of water conservancy facilities and roads, Hewan's infrastructure team has long formed a mature system.

Not to mention supporting already developed villages, even if one creates a small town out of nothing that can accommodate a thousand people, it won’t take much time.

But the prerequisite is to have money, food and the power to develop.

This is why Leo is unwilling to divide the knights. Once these knight territories are divided, the engineering team of Hewan will never be able to get involved in the construction within the knight territories, let alone build roads and water conservancy facilities across several knight territories.

Even if this generation of knights are intimidated by Leo's prestige and obey his arrangements, the next generation will not be so easy to deal with.

Just because it benefits others doesn't mean they will obey you.

Once a large-scale project is underway, it is bound to cause the destruction of houses, damage to arable land, and even the relocation of entire villages.

All of these require the lord's power to intervene and suppress.

Six hundred square kilometers of land, if properly developed, is enough to support one hundred thousand people. But now, the number of residents and wild people here combined is less than twenty thousand.

A few years ago, the 100,000 rural population under the jurisdiction of Isenpol was mainly distributed on the plains on both sides of the downstream, and the population in the northwest and southwest combined was less than 30,000.

Now a large number of refugees are pouring in, and the population in the northwest where Hewan is located has exceeded 30,000. Some of them have been converted into residents of Hewan, but there are still many refugees who are helpless.

It’s not that Hewan doesn’t want it, it’s that he really can’t eat it.

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