Chapter 121 Planning (Part 1)
"Grandpa Pedro, please continue."
"According to your previous arrangements, we have started to set up hydraulic workshops along the Musta River, but the Musta River has not completely thawed, so we can't see this yet. The actual effectiveness of hydraulic workshops.
However, if these hydraulic workshops can achieve the expected 70% efficiency, we can save a lot of human and animal power every year, which is equivalent to reducing our food pressure in disguise." "
Grandpa Pedro, that gray How is the situation of the steel workshops in the Rock Territory?"
"Thanks to the Baron, five blast furnaces have been successfully erected in the Gray Stone Territory during this period, one of which is seven meters high.
These five blast furnaces They are all built along the Musta River according to your requirements. It will take some time for the steel workshop to be moved to the Musta River. In
addition, since the water-powered mill has not yet been put into use, and most of the human and animal power is used during the spring plowing period, They have all been assigned to cultivated land for sowing, and the speed of ore grinding is limited, so the steel production in the limestone collar has not been increased yet.
However, we will be able to free up enough manpower after the spring plowing here, and in a while The Musta River will be completely thawed, and by then the steel production in our territory will be able to increase."
"Grandpa Pedro, thank you for your hard work!
Let's wait until the Musta River thaws and see the actual effect of the hydraulic workshop. , the hydraulic workshop can be used for wheat shelling, flour grinding, ore grinding, and large-scale hammering of honeycomb iron.
After spring plowing, I hope you can spare enough manpower and animal power to continue to cultivate cultivated land, dig water canals, widen and level the Black Mountain, Gray The road to the four baronies of Rock, Tangquan and Silver Pine."
"Okay, Lord Baron, I will allocate manpower reasonably."
"Grandpa Pedro, I will leave you five thousand gold coins. You can spend some money to encourage the people. Our work efficiency.
Don't be stingy with money this year. Our territory needs to develop as soon as possible. As long as the framework is set up, it can easily snowball development."
Since Li Wei felt that a viscounty had been firmly obtained, he I have been thinking about territory selection and subsequent development.
First of all, he will definitely not give up on the Montenegrin leader.
Looking up, there is also a so-called distant cousin, Earl Norton, who is helping Green County.
The last time Levi attended the banquet hosted by Earl Norton, the Earl announced in front of all the small and medium-sized nobles in Green County that Levi was the person he was protecting.
Looking down, the Black Mountain Territory has been run by the Monterey family for more than 20 years, and the people in the territory have long been accustomed to the rule of the Monterey family.
Coupled with Li Wei's glorious deeds of defeating the orcs and protecting the country and the people, the loyalty of the citizens to Li Wei and the execution of the decrees issued by the Monterey family are quite impressive.
It can even be said that Master Li Wei already has a mass base in the Montenegro region.
Not to mention the long plowing, hydraulic workshops, and blast furnace iron smelting that Li Wei created, which are mortal but have great strategic value.
The most important thing is that Master Li Wei's extremely cheap spellcaster talent detection method and extraordinary equipment assembly line workshop are all shady things.
Levi could only keep these things tightly in his hometown of Montenegro.
Therefore, Levi's first viscounty planned to be placed in the entire Black Mountain-Musta River area with Monterey Castle as the core and encompassing the three nearby baronies of Silver Pine, Tangquan, and Limestone.
According to the practice of enfeoffment, since there are only four baronies in the Montenegro-Musta River area, if Li Wei is made a viscount, he can also get a suitable unclaimed land nearby as well as a certain amount of population, materials, and financial compensation. As for the second barony, Li Wei was actually very covetous of Viscount Weilin next door, but unless the other party humiliated the country by losing an army, overthrown the army and killed generals, under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for a viscount to be deprived of his title.
Moreover, Levi was still a little unsure about Earl Norton's attitude.
Through this period of contact with the aristocratic circle and the advice from the cheap brother Hopkin, Levi had some guesses about Earl Norton's attitude towards himself and Viscount Verin.
The Norton family can be said to be the local emperor of Green County, and the several viscount families are the most powerful group under the local emperor of the Norton family.
As the boss of Greene County, Earl Norton will naturally use some means of wooing, suppressing, marrying, and instigating others to ensure the Norton family's transcendent status in Greene County.
Viscount Vering doesn't usually listen to Earl Norton, and Earl Norton can't do anything to him.
After all, legally speaking, Viscount Verin and Earl Norton are loyal to His Majesty the Kingdom, and there is no direct subordinate relationship between Viscount Verin and Earl Norton.
It's just that each border county will have one and only one actual earl. This actual earl will receive part of the administrative power granted by the kingdom, which is very limited.
Viscount Verin was not only disobedient, but also had to pay attention to Earl Norton's personal cultivation talent.
At only twenty-eight years old, Viscount Verin is already a fifth-level intermediate Silver Moon master. He has a very high possibility of breaking through to the Sun Realm, and the age at which he can break through to the Sun Realm may be younger than most people.
If Viscount Weilin could break through to the Sun Realm before the age of thirty-five, and advance his cultivation to the Perfect Sun Realm before the age of forty-five, then he would have twenty years to try to break through to the Holy Realm.
Although the chance is still slim, this possibility exists objectively.
Even though Viscount Verin was trapped in the Sun Realm for his whole life, a long-term disobedient Viscount of the Sun Realm would still give Earl Norton a headache.
Earl Norton was afraid that this stupid young man would take the lead in resisting the Norton family, and then other powerful viscount families would follow suit and carve up some of the cake that originally belonged to the Norton family.
In the kingdom's history of more than a thousand years, there is no shortage of cases where the big nobles were united by the small and medium nobles below.
However, the sudden emergence of Levi, who was adjacent to Viscount Verin, suddenly made Earl Norton interested.
Compared to the Weeling family, which has been passed down for five generations and lasts for hundreds of years, and has great heritage and potential, the Monterey family is a bit lackluster.
When Levi emerged, the Monterey family was far inferior to the Welin family in terms of strength, heritage, and development prospects. The only one who could make a move was Levi, the Monterey Baron who seemed to have some potential.
Distant relatives are all false. What Earl Norton values is Levi's potential and the Monterey family's shallow foundation.
The Monterey family has a shallow foundation, which makes them more dependent on Earl Norton. At the same time, because of the shallow foundation, Earl Norton does not think that the Monterey family can rise within ten or twenty years.
After all, how many people can a baron have and how many troops can it support?
Moreover, the Monterey family didn't have anyone who could stand out, so it was almost impossible to get military honors with such a small amount of money.
Sorry everyone, I'm stuck
(end of chapter)