Urban Sims

A midsummer day in June.

After a long journey of more than half a month, Zhou Ming, flying a royal eagle flag, returned to Granland after an absence of nearly four years.

Seeing his son graduating from the Royal Knights Academy with the best grades, Baron Connor threw a grand celebration banquet, with guests and friends, whether they were old rivals around or in-laws who had a history of marriage, all of them were invited over, good wine The delicious food and meat were served like flowing water, and the banquet lasted for seven days and seven nights. Even the lower-level residents of the Grand Landing got a little bit of light, and each household was given a bag of white flour.

At the banquet, there were naturally some familiar figures, such as Baron Garcia, thinking about his eldest son who had been in the Royal Knights Academy for two years, but now he didn’t even get the apprentice knight medal, and seeing his old opponent His son is so good... It seems that Baron Garcia, who had lost an extremely crucial battle, sent out his knights with the strongest martial arts skills to suppress Zhou Ming's arrogance, but in the end, he was defeated after less than ten rounds of fighting, Garcia Like a defeated rooster, the baron took two sips of wine and left the banquet silently.

Baron Sean, who had made a baby kiss with Earl Connor a long time ago, also brought his grown-up daughter Fanny here. The eighteen-year-old cardamom is like a flower that has not yet fully bloomed. There is a little charm in the middle, and there is a different kind of charm in the appearance of looking forward to it.

"Edward, let's hold a wedding with Fanny in a few days. You are not young anymore. It's time to start a family. Give birth to a few children earlier and let me be your grandfather!"

The red-faced Baron Sean pushed his daughter into Zhou Ming's arms, half joking and half serious.

Men in this world generally regard the age of 20 as the threshold for adulthood, and most of them get married around the age of 20. Of course, there are also those who marry earlier, but they are generally above the age of 18.

Zhou Ming was only a few months away from turning 18. Baron Xiao En was so anxious to marry his daughter to him because he was afraid that this precious son-in-law would be too good. If the nobleman snatched it away, his family would suffer a great loss.

After all, strong marriages are an important reason why many families have survived for thousands of years without declining.

"Father-in-law, as long as you agree, I can marry Fanny in today, and I will give birth to a little grandson for you tonight!" Zhou Ming, who was full of pride after drinking some wine, hugged the blushing Kuai Di in his arms. The fiancée who came out of the water said a nasty thing that made everyone laugh.

"Okay! Okay! Anyway, there are so many people present, let's organize the wedding now, and send it to the bridal chamber right away!" Baron Sean laughed, feeling that this son-in-law was more and more interested in him, and Fanny was his favorite. Daughter, she can marry such an excellent son-in-law, and the stone in his heart can be regarded as letting go.

"Ignore you!" In front of everyone, Fanny, whose face was as ashamed as a piece of red cloth, lowered her head, twisted the corners of her skirt, and trotted out of the banquet hall.

"Hahahahaha~"

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In the next two months, apart from going to Baron Nathan to receive the letter of appointment and dowry, and going to St. Marne Abbey to invite Brother Robert to be the host of his wedding, most of the time, Zhou Ming would either sit at his desk in the study of the castle and flip through books. , or ride a horse, take a few servants, go hunting in the forest around the castle, relax, and focus most of your thoughts on future development plans.

Before entering the game, although Zhou Ming gave himself a lot of cheats, established a lot of early advantages, and stood at a high starting point for development, it stands to reason that he should not have such headaches.

However, in reality, various complex problems cannot often be solved with a quick slap on the head, and must be combined with the specific actual situation.

For example, with hundreds of years of farming experience, Zhou Ming can come up with hundreds of plans to increase agricultural income and invent more exquisite, practical and efficient agricultural tools, which can achieve a breakthrough in grain output per acre in the era of ancient agricultural civilization. Thousand pounds...

But is it useful to just do this?

If farmers do not have the habit of using new farm tools, have no desire to learn new planting methods, and have no pursuit of a higher life besides food and clothing, no matter how good Zhou Ming’s original idea is, the results achieved during the specific implementation process will not be achieved. There will still be a considerable gap.

For example, a few days ago, Zhou Ming looked through the annual grain output statistics of Glenland recorded in the account books by the housekeeper Bruno, and found that in the past twelve years, excluding the two years of famine in the middle, the average annual grain harvest of adult farmers in Glenland , from less than 50 talents at the beginning, it increased to 110 talents within five years. In the next five years, it basically stopped increasing. According to weather changes, it has been hovering in the range of 105~115.

This data is compared to Zhou Ming's. In the latter part of the last game, the annual average grain harvest of Glenland's adult farmers generally exceeded 300 talents, and the harvest volume in peak years could reach 500 talents. The production potential of Glenland's farmers, At most, only a third of it was excavated.

In addition to agriculture, the industrial and commercial fields of Glenland are even less developed. After all, the amount of goods carried by traveling merchants is limited. In order to prevent some greedy lords from knocking the bones and sucking the marrow out, no matter how courageous they are on low-profit and popular commodities such as grain, Traveling merchants do not dare to traffic in hundreds or thousands of cars, and become a walking fat sheep, passing in front of all kinds of robbers.

Therefore, Baron Connor, who has not been able to sell much grain, has had the most troublesome problem in recent years. There is too much grain in the castle granary, and the old grain at the bottom is moldy and rotten. He has tried various methods, but none of them can solve the problem of overstocking. , the problem of being unable to consume.

In the end, it was Zhou Ming's suggestion to build a few more livestock farms, raise more pigs, cattle, sheep and horses, feed them with steamed wheat grains mixed with the pasture, and then take out some old grains that were really unpalatable, and distribute them to the territory. Those widows and widows were given to poor households with too many people in their families... After various measures, the grain inventory finally dropped a little, and it also gave the lord some kindness.

In addition, the land that plays a fundamental role in the ultimate development potential of a territory is also Zhou Ming's biggest headache.

It’s like playing a strategy game. At the beginning of the farming period, the resources in the territory are sufficient, but after a period of time, the population, soldiers, food production, and resource output of the territory reach the upper limit and cannot grow. If you want to break through bottleneck, if we continue to develop forward, we can only take the path of external expansion and plunder surrounding territories.

Zhou Ming has calculated that with a radius of 20 miles and an area of ​​about 300 square kilometers, the maximum population of Glenland is 30,000, and the maximum number of elite soldiers is 2,000. If external expansion is not the premise, if you want to continue to develop, you only need to They can take the path of destroying the environment or limiting the birth rate. Otherwise, with such a high population density, the linearly increasing plague outbreak rate will only make Zhou Ming's efforts in vain again and again.

"In recent years, thanks to the increase in grain production, the population of Glenland is now about 5,000, and there is still some room for improvement... However, based on the development potential of this small piece of land in Glenland, it can only develop for ten years at most. Years later, after I build an army, I must embark on the road of external expansion. Otherwise, if the development is too slow, in a person's life of up to a hundred years, it will be impossible to conquer the world, even to conquer a medium-sized kingdom. question……"

Some people may want to ask, why didn't he expand from the surrounding areas of Glenland like he did in the previous life, occupying all the lands of the barons and counts, conquering the entire Kingdom of Voorhees as quickly as possible, and then swallowing up all directions...

Of course Zhou Ming has thought of this, but rebellion within the system is more difficult than lifting the table and cutting down everyone outside the system. Once Zhou Ming wants to expand, he must first seek the opinion of his father, Baron Connor. Baron Connor's consent is not enough. , and the ten knights under him also nodded. Even if these people agreed to attack the surrounding territories, they were all nobles with close ties, and no one could resist such cruelty.

Just like his father-in-law, Baron Sean, in this life, can Zhou Ming still plunder her father's territory cold-bloodedly and ruthlessly, regardless of the feelings of his wife around him like he did in his previous life?

Different identities and positions mean different things to worry about. In his last life, he was born at the bottom of the class and hated all nobles. He would strike with a knife in his hand. In this life, he was born in a high position and gave orders. He didn't even have that much sympathy for the people at the bottom. Sincere.

Not to mention, pulling an army composed of these low-level people and cutting down all the nobles who belong to their own class.

"This violent and direct path of expansion can no longer be followed. Without improving one's own title, rebellion cannot be considered prematurely. If we want to gain more territory now, we can only think of ways to attack neighboring countries. , there is no need to worry so much when attacking neighboring countries..."

What are the neighboring countries nearby that we can start with?

The savage kingdom in the north is surrounded by ice and snow, making it difficult to survive.

The Iron Castle Kingdom in the south is a powerful country and cannot be provoked. It will take ten years to wait for civil strife to break out and take advantage of it.

The Ural Plateau in the east is too high in altitude and has thin air, making it unsuitable for human survival. Climbing over the ten thousand-foot-high Ural Snow Mountain to reach the new world on the other side is even more difficult than climbing to the sky.

"It is said that the golden corner and the silver-edged grass belly are the same. Glenland is a corner, but it is a dead end. It is difficult to expand to the surrounding areas. I still have to plan my future development path carefully, otherwise my hands and feet will be blocked by all kinds of things. Such concerns limit the ultimate achievement, which may not be as high as setting up a new system after overthrowing all the opponents in the last round..."

It’s time to plan carefully, which development model should be adopted to achieve better results in external expansion...

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