System: Build My Own Territory

Chapter 890: Chapter 274: Summer Harvest Begins (10,000 Words)

Recruit soldiers at the Manor Castle once again!

While cultivating and reclaiming land, train more archers for him.

It also ensures the safety of Gavin and the farmers.

Achieve multiple goals!

Simply put.

He deployed Wesley to the Manor Castle, using the Manor Castle as a foundation to start the construction of the first Garrison outside the territory!

Watching Gavin and his group gradually depart.

Eventually disappearing into the shadows of the forest.

Only then did he retract his gaze, returning to the castle with Red.

After being served dinner by Kuisi, Janet, and several maids.

Lynn arrived at the Lord’s seat at the back.

As he watched Kuisi and the others tidy up the tableware on the dining table.

His mind was rapidly pondering the development direction of the territory.

As the Lord of this territory, he must not only consider his own safety and standard of living.

But also consider the existing residents of the territory.

In work, apart from the Blacksmith Workshop and Textile Workshop, all other townsmen operate on a nine-to-five work schedule.

Allowing the townsmen who worked a day to have their own personal time.

In family matters, he encourages the townsmen to form families, become couples, and actively have children.

Female residents before and after pregnancy are entitled to rest.

The territory provides eggs and chicken for female residents and infants, supplementing them with more nutrients.

In this way, fundamentally increasing the population of the territory.

In education, minors can enjoy education, while adults are organized in batches for night school literacy campaigns.

Learn to read and write, improving the overall level of knowledge among the townsmen.

As long as the townsmen learn and pass the assessment set by scholars.

Each can receive one acre of privatized land!

As the territory continuously develops, with enough military strength to completely control the land between the two Outpost Fortresses outside the city walls.

Townsmen can go outside the city walls to cultivate and plant.

Beyond meeting their living needs, surplus crops can be taken to the completed market area to sell or trade.

Thus, promoting economic growth in the territory!

In terms of law, he also had Erin draft a Territorial Law to regulate townsmen’s behavior in the territory.

Violations are strictly enforced according to Territorial Law, with no leniency.

Clive and Erin are discussing the construction style of the Territory Court.

Once they finalize the design, it will be submitted to him for review and confirmation.

Then the construction can begin.

In handicrafts, several Blacksmith Workshops are quickly producing.

Compared to production at other workshops.

His main attention is on the improvement of the iron-smelting furnace at the Blacksmith Workshop.

Transform the ordinary iron-smelting furnace into a Double-chamber Reflector Furnace.

During this improvement, it will certainly affect the efficiency of producing Armor Plates at the Blacksmith Workshop.

To achieve higher quality iron blocks with less carbon content steel.

Even if affected, it must be done.

This is not only related to the quality of the Armor and Weapons forged afterward.

It also involves items requiring high-quality steel.

Such as, his long-coveted Matchlock Guns and Cannons.

Such as, key parts of various industrial machines, crankshafts, gears, transmission shafts, and molds, etc.

Such as, railway tracks, steam engine boilers, cylinders, pistons, and flywheels, etc.

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Only high-strength, high-toughness, and high-ductility steel can make these items.

This is why.

After finding saltpeter, he only had the idea of producing Gunpowder and Matchlock Guns.

He did not rush into action.

Because producing Matchlock Guns or Gunpowder is far more complex than imagined.

The mnemonic ’one saltpeter, two sulfur, three charcoal,’ even without making black powder before, is already memorized fluently.

However.

The so-called mnemonic ’one saltpeter, two sulfur, three charcoal’ is not precise.

Such black powder is only suitable for making ordinary fireworks.

It does not qualify as military propellant.

Aside from the modification of the iron-smelting furnace at the Blacksmith Workshops.

He also cares about the telescope that Beo and Xenophon are developing.

He doesn’t expect them to make an astronomical telescope.

As long as high-magnification telescopes are made, capable of seeing dozens of miles away, he would be content.

With such a telescope, scouts taking high ground can gather insights.

Enough to spot enemy march routes or deployment strategies all in the field of view.

The telescope can also avert most enemy ambushes!

Finally.

In military affairs.

Up to this point.

He has a total of four thousand soldiers in the territory!

After Alan sent two hundred medium warhorses from the Badan Empire, he can fully assemble a squad of five hundred heavy cavalry!

Along with eleven hundred light cavalry, two hundred heavy infantry, eight hundred archers, and four hundred Territory Guards.

The remaining one thousand newly recruited soldiers are all light infantry.

Waiting for the Blacksmith Workshop and Textile Workshop to complete the Composite Armor assembly.

Four thousand trained and fully armed soldiers.

To those medium and small-sized Lords.

The quantity and strength of armed soldiers he possesses naturally surpass them.

No other Lords’ territories contain exploitable Open-pit Iron Mines and coal mines.