Warlord: King of All Clans

Leo looked at the topographic map of the Knights of Wood's Territory and echoed Roman's words, "It would be best to move to Isenbol and be a wealthy man. If they don't cause trouble, they can continue to keep their land to collect rent, and they can also be compensated for the part that was expropriated."

Luo Meng smiled and said, "In fact, it's better to make a fuss. The army is already here, and if we don't shed some blood, we'll be laughed at. We can just use them as a warning and save some compensation money."

After a long period of contact, Roman could see that although Leo seemed like a typical Northern rough man, he was actually very rational and attached great importance to rules and regulations.

The lord's army passed through the area without causing any damage except for the farmland occupied for road construction. They even compensated for the farmland occupied for road construction.

In theory, after the knighthood is granted to the knights, the land belongs to the knight lord, and the status of the subjects is at most hired farmhands. They have the right to leave, but not the right to occupy the land.

How could a lord take back the land and compensate the hired farmers?

No matter what the Gram family's previous status was, they are now just subjects of Knight Wood's territory. Giving them the land to cultivate is the lord's generosity. If he doesn't give them the land to cultivate, it would be useless to appeal to the Isenbol Court.

Besides, Leo is now the supreme ruler of Isenbol. Even if it violates the law, he can just change it.

But Leo refused to do that. He was always willing to reason and follow rules with the common people.

Unfortunately, this kind of "old-fashioned" character is not considered an advantage in the North. Half of his father Rigolav's bad reputation in the aristocratic circle lies in this.

Leo could tell what Luo Meng meant by that. He was trying to persuade him to show his martial virtues and kill a chicken to scare the monkeys. So he explained, "How can you just attack people without knowing right or wrong? Wouldn't that make me a bandit? First set up the rules. Then, if someone makes trouble, you can kill them with justification. That's the only way to convince the people."

"Warn first, then punish, and finally eliminate."

Luo Meng couldn't help but shook his head, "Too thin, too thin."

Leo continued to check the topographic map, feeling very depressed. "How come there are no mines in such a large area?"

Luo Meng also looked at the map and used his very poor geographical knowledge to come up with a barely acceptable explanation, "There are basically no mines in the plains, right?"

Leo led the lord's armed forces on patrol, and his eldest son, Rambowan, was also not idle. He led three hundred ogre scouts to spread out around the area, searching for minerals all over the mountains.

A large amount of geographical information is gathered on Leo's map.

Unfortunately, the entire territory of the United Knights, except for the gravel hills, is almost all the alluvial plain of the Anzeno River, and a thick layer of silt has been deposited over countless years.

After training, almost all the kobold scouts have mastered the ability to sniff out minerals, but they can only find open-pit mines. Their sense of smell cannot detect mines buried five or eight meters underground.

At the foot of the Magnificent Barrier Mountains, there are a large number of caves, rifts, and faults, which allow them to search deep underground, so the probability of discovering minerals is extremely high.

However, on the alluvial plain, the lower areas have become swamps and lakes. Even if there are minerals, they are buried under the silt, leaving no room for them to develop.

The dozen or so traditional knight territories that have been developed within the United Knight Territory almost all rely on farming for a living, with only a small amount of orchard and fishery output.

Moreover, the people here lack a strong organization and are unable to improve production efficiency. Half of them don't even have iron farm tools.

The whole family, young and old, worked together, taking care of several acres of land and working hard to barely survive.

The local lord neither repaired roads nor canals, but built a mill and collected an additional tax.

Although it is less than 500 meters away from the river, the farmland is water-scarce and dry land.

They are poor as a matter of course.

After giving up the dream of mines everywhere, Leo turned his attention back to agriculture and asked, "Where's Freya? Why hasn't she come back yet so late?"

Luo Meng poked a spot on the map with his finger and replied, "When I went to check in the evening, I dug here. It looks like they have to work overtime to finish the work."

While the two were chatting in the warm tent, Freya was digging a canal for the Wood Knights near a river more than ten miles away from them.

It had been dark for a long time. Not far from the construction site, a small tent was set up in the open space with a small lantern hanging inside, which barely provided a source of light.

Billy, the hydraulic engineer at Hewan, was squatting in the tent, gazing at the dark construction site outside with his chin propped up, and chatting idly with the dog-headed man beside him to kill time.

Because he mastered basic water conservancy technology, Billy was lucky enough to join the strongest engineering team in Hewan and became an engineer of this engineering team.

However, this engineering team is different from other construction teams of hundreds of people, with a total of only four people.

To be exact, there was only him. The other three were the ogre porter Bobo, the kobold coachman Doberman, and the groundhog Freya.

Unlike other water conservancy engineering teams, their engineering team was not responsible for building the entire canal, but was specifically responsible for excavating tunnels and rocky ground.

Without large-scale mechanical power, the team of laborers were almost helpless against the stone foundation, and the efficiency of forced excavation was far less than going around in a big circle.

But Hewan has Freya, a veteran with twenty years of excavation experience, and stone foundations are easier for her to deal with than mud foundations.

The solid rock felt as soft as snow beneath her claws.

Freya alone could do the job of a hundred men digging the earthen canal.

When digging a stone canal, Freya alone is as good as five hundred men.

When it comes to digging a stone tunnel, Freya alone is worth a thousand men!

It’s just that Freya often lets herself go while digging and likes to dig the canal into any shape she likes, so she needs someone who has some knowledge of water conservancy to supervise her.

But now it was night, dark outside, and drizzling, and Billy and the dog-headed man Doberman hid in the tent and chatted, worrying about the fate of the canal.

Fortunately, the canal is only used for water flow and there are not too many rigid requirements. It can be used in a twisted way, it just wastes digging time.

The canal in Knight Wood's territory has been planned. This is the starting stage of the canal, with more than 300 meters of sandstone ground that Freya needs to solve.

In fact, ogres can also be used to dig canals, but they are not suitable for repetitive labor and will lose their minds while digging.

Although it was already night, Freya was still working overtime because she had to go to Hewan Primary School for classes tomorrow.

No matter how busy you are, you can’t neglect the education of your cubs!

Without me, what will happen to the future of Hewan?

Freya, who mainly teaches how to play in the mud and hide and seek, and also serves as a physical education teacher, attaches great importance to the education of the River Bay cubs.

After all, ten years later, this will be Freya's basic base.

Especially since Queen Fraser will also be attending tomorrow's class as her student.

When they got to the classroom, the mount became the teacher and the king became the little king, which made Freya very proud.

Another hour later, Freya came down from the construction site wearing a melon-shaped hat.

She shook off the mud on her body, asked Billy for the construction map, held the map in her paws and looked at it again and again to make sure her work was done.

"Knight Wood leads the canal section, construction is complete!"