Chapter 30

Sulun's Lord's castle is under construction. On the design drawing, his Lord's castle is very spectacular and dignified. However, considering the actual situation, only some can be built first, and other places can be reserved temporarily. After he has enough time and money, he will continue to build.

It's not that he doesn't want to capture more slaves to work for himself. The key issue is food. Without enough food, it is impossible to feed more people. The first batch of 500 mu farmland has been planted with potatoes. These potatoes will mature before winter. Now sulun is ready to further expand the cultivation of potatoes.

The first batch of cultivated land is very fertile. Even without fertilizer, the yield here will not be low. In addition to leaving some of these lands, sulun plans to distribute them through military reward, external sales, or distribution to meritorious slaves.

As long as these lands are planted with crops, the territory will receive agricultural taxes, and the sale of land can also obtain a sum of money, so that his territory will have a stable source of income. Of course, this is the best case. Now his territory is a place where birds don't shit, and no free people are willing to come.

So this method ended before it started. If you want to increase the population of the territory by attracting free people, it's better to buy slaves.

Sulun's territory is like an inverted bowl. The camp is at the top of the bowl, surrounded by two rivers at the edge of the bowl, and surrounded by plain areas. Sulun also measured the land that can be reclaimed in the territory during his inspection in the territory.

Then, after marking it on the strategic map, we can calculate that more than 200 square kilometers of land can be reclaimed. If all these land are reclaimed, at least 300000 mu of cultivated land can be reclaimed. With so many farmland, it is more than enough to feed 35000 people.

Of course, even if the territory develops, it also needs to eliminate those monsters in the wilderness.

Two days later, Johnson came back with dozens of barbarian women and children. With these dozens of barbarian women and children joining the territory, the manpower in the territory was finally not so tight.

These barbarian women and children were very curious about the territory, but they soon invested in the construction, because according to the reward standard formulated by sulun, the meritorious deeds of these barbarian soldiers can obtain land, and can get rid of slavery and become citizens of the territory. Knowing that they could get rid of slavery and become free people, these barbarians burst out strong passion and invested in the construction of territory one by one.

To Suellen's surprise, there was a caravan besides barbarians among the people who came back with Johnson. The caravan had forty-four carriages, and the whole caravan had more than 150 people.

"Dear Lord, I'm Owen, the steward of Bauhinia chamber of Commerce. It's nice to meet you here." a man was a little fat and his eyes flashed a light from time to time.

"My caravan needs to pass through your territory. We will pay the tax according to the normal level."

"Owen, your caravan is going to the depths of the wilderness?" Su Lun is very interested in Owen. The caravan that dares to enter the wilderness is not weak. With the danger of the wilderness, the caravan with insufficient strength is likely to die here. This caravan dares to do business in the wilderness. It seems that its strength is absolutely strong.

At the same time, it also shows that they will definitely make huge profits this trip. If they don't have high enough profits, how can these unprofitable caravans come here at great risk.

Mr. Lu Xun said well, if there is 10% profit, capital will be used everywhere; With 20% profit, capital can be active; With 50% profit, capital will take risks; For 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws; With more than 300% of the profits, capital dares to commit any crime or even risk hanging.

Su Lun is going to be poor and crazy now. How can he miss any chance to get rich.

Owen was also surprised. He was surprised that the nobleman had established a pioneering stronghold here. As a caravan that often walks in the wilderness, they knew how difficult it was to build a camp here. The Jackal tribes in the wilderness were not so easy to deal with.

Thousands of jackals, more goblins, dog heads and trolls. Even a thousand well-trained elite human soldiers may not win. More often, they lose both. Moreover, a five meter high wall has been built in this territory. How much manpower and material resources will it take to build such a stone wall.

You know, it's more than 200 kilometers away from the nearest Blackstone city. To maintain 1000 human troops, we have to build such a wall. The cost can bankrupt most nobles.

The young nobleman dared to build the city in this place. What's more surprising is that he found a large number of goblin, dog headed man and jackal slave in this territory. It means they have a firm foothold here.

"Yes, Lord, our caravan is ready to enter the depths of the wilderness and trade with some other races."

"Jackal?"

"No, the jackals prefer direct robbery. We deal with the Allende tribe in the north. They are a group of centaurs."

"Centaur?" Su Lun said in surprise.

"Yes."

Next, Suellen wanted to continue to prepare for the inquiry, but Owen didn't say anything about the transaction. But even if Owen didn't say, Suellen probably knew the materials they were trading.

It's nothing more than bows and arrows and horses, as well as some wasteland specialties, fur or magic materials. Centaurs are good at raising horses, and their tribe's Longbow is also famous. The caravan was used to Trade grain and other necessities. At least ten times more profits at a time.

"Well, I agree to let your caravan rest here, but according to the rules, you need to pay 10% tax." Suellen quickly agreed.

"Of course you can pay Kinnard or grain."

"Thank you, your kind Lord. We will prepare the tax soon." Owen nodded when he heard Suellen's words. 10% of the tax is within the normal range. In fact, Owen also considered not paying taxes, but after seeing the scale of the territory, he gave up the idea. It's not surprising that few businessmen who trade in the wilderness are good people. They even often play a guest role as robbers and even rob some territories.

Although sulun's territory looks very simple, the power it represents is not what ordinary people can do. Without strong force guarantee, they can't defeat the monster army at all. Let alone capture so many wilderness aborigines as slaves.