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After a long journey of more than half a month, Zhou Ming, who was flying a royal eagle flag, returned to the Grand Collar after nearly four years of absence.

Seeing that his son had graduated from the Royal Capital Knight Academy with the best grades, Baron Connor held a big celebration banquet, feasting guests and friends, whether it was the old rivals around him or the in-laws who had a history of marriage, all of them were invited, and good wine, good food and meat were served like water, and the feast lasted for seven days and seven nights, and even the low-level lords of the Grand Collar were stained with a little light, and each household was divided into a bag of white flour.

At the banquet, naturally some familiar figures were indispensable, such as Baron Garcia, thinking of his eldest son, who had been in the Royal Capital Knight Academy for two years, but had not even received the knightly medal of apprenticeship, and then saw the son of his old rival so good...... It seems that Baron Garcia, who lost an extremely critical battle, sent his strongest knight in martial arts to suppress Zhou Ming's arrogance, but he was defeated after only more than ten battles, and Baron Garcia was like a defeated rooster, drank two sips of stuffy wine, and left the banquet silently.

Baron Sean, who had long been married to Earl Connor, also brought his grown daughter Fanny, who was eighteen years old, like a flower that had not yet fully bloomed, with a little charm in her youth, and a different kind of charm in her expectant posture.

"Edward, let's have a wedding with Fanny in a few days, you're not too young, it's time to start a family, have a few children early, and let me be my grandfather!"

Baron Sean, who had a red face, pushed his daughter into Zhou Ming's arms, half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Men in this world generally take 20 years old as the limit of adulthood, and most of them will get married around the age of 20, of course, there are some who marry earlier, but they are generally over 18 years old.

Zhou Ming is still a few months away from turning 18, and Baron Sean is so anxious to marry his daughter to him, because he is afraid that this baby son-in-law is too good, he will not hurry up and quickly occupy the position, if it is snatched away by the nobles with better family conditions, then his family will lose a lot.

After all, strong marriages are an important reason why many families continue for thousands of years without decay.

"Father-in-law, as long as you agree, I can marry Fanny into the door today, and I will give you a little grandson in the evening!" Zhou Ming, who drank a little wine and came up arrogantly, hugged his fiancée, who was about to drip out of the water with a blushing face in his arms, and said a meat ~ word that the audience laughed at.

"Okay! Okay! Anyway, so many people are here, let's do the wedding now, and send it to the cave room immediately!" Baron Sean smiled, feeling that this son-in-law is getting more and more interested in himself, Fanny is his most beloved daughter, she can marry such an excellent son-in-law, the stone in his heart, can be put down.

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

"Hahaha~"

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In the next two months, in addition to going to Baron Nathan to receive the letter of appointment and dowry, and going to St. Marne's Abbey to invite Brother Robert to come over as the officiant of his wedding, most of the time, Zhou Ming either sat in the castle's study and flipped through the books, or rode a horse, took a few servants, and went hunting in the forests around the castle, most of his thoughts were still on future development planning.

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

However, the complex problems in reality are often not solved with a pat on the head, but must be combined with the actual situation.

For example, in farming, with hundreds of years of farming experience, Zhou Ming can come up with hundreds of plans to promote agricultural income, and invent more exquisite, practical, and efficient agricultural tools, which can achieve a grain yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu in the era of ancient agricultural civilization......

But does it work?

If the farmers do not have the farming habits of using new farm tools, do not have the desire to learn new planting methods~ desire, and do not have the pursuit of a higher life in addition to food and clothing, even if Zhou Ming's initial vision is good, there will still be a considerable gap in the specific implementation process.

For example, a few days ago, Zhou Ming looked at the grain production statistics recorded by the housekeeper Bunod in the account book, and found that in the past twelve years, excluding the great famine in the middle two years, the average annual grain harvest of adult farmers in the Gran Collar has increased from less than 50 Taren at the beginning, to 110 Taren in five years, and in the last five years, it has basically not increased again, and has been hovering in the range of 105~115 according to weather changes.

This data, with Zhou Ming in the late game of the last game, the average annual grain harvest of the adult farmers of the Gran Collar generally exceeded 300 Talon, and the harvest ratio of the peak year could reach 500 Talon, and the production potential of the Gran Collar farmers was only tapped out by one-third at most.

In addition to agriculture, the industrial and commercial field of the Grand Territory is even more insufficient, and the amount of goods carried by the traveling merchants is limited after all, and in order to prevent being knocked out by some greedy lords, even the most courageous traveling merchants dare not traffic hundreds of carts and turn into a walking fat sheep in front of robbers from all walks of life.

Therefore, Baron Connor, who does not sell much grain, has the biggest headache in recent years, that is, there is too much grain in the castle granary, and the old grain at the bottom is moldy and rotten, and all kinds of methods have been devised to solve the problem of too much inventory and cannot be consumed.

In the end, Zhou Ming suggested that more livestock farms should be built, more pigs, cattle, sheep and horses should be raised, mixed with steamed wheat grains in the pasture grass to feed, and then some stale grain that could not be swallowed should be distributed to those widows and widows in the territory, and given to the poor households with too many people at home...... After all these measures, the grain stocks finally fell a little, and it also gave the lord some benevolent reputation.

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 enough, but after a period of time, the territory's population, soldiers, food production, and resource output reach the upper limit, and when it cannot grow, if you want to break through the bottleneck and continue to move forward, you can only take the road of external expansion and plundering the surrounding territories.

Zhou Ming has calculated that with a radius of 20 miles and an area of about 300 square kilometers, the maximum population limit is 30,000, and the maximum elite soldier ceiling is 2,000.

"Over the years, thanks to the increase in grain production, the population of the Grand Collar is now about 5,000, and there is still some room for improvement...... But with the development potential of this small piece of land in the Grand Territory alone, it will develop for a maximum of ten years, and after I build an army, I must embark on the road of external expansion, otherwise if the development is too slow, it will be a problem to occupy this world or create a medium kingdom in a hurry of a hundred years in a person's life......"

Some people may ask, why didn't he start to expand from the periphery of the Gran Territory like the previous life, occupy all the lands of those barons and counts, and conquer the entire Volris Kingdom as quickly as possible, and then swallow it in all directions......

Of course Zhou Ming thought of this, but rebellion within the system is more difficult than lifting the table outside the system and cutting down everyone, once Zhou Ming wants to expand externally, he first has to consult his father Baron Connor, Baron Connor's consent is not enough, and the ten knights under him also nod, even if these people agree, to fight those surrounding territories, but they are all nobles who are related to each other, and no one can get down that ruthless hand.

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

The difference in identity and position, the things to worry about are not the same, in the last life, he was born at the bottom and hated all the nobles, and he started to fight with a knife, in this life, he came out of the top and gave orders, and even his sympathy for the people at the bottom was not so sincere.

Not to mention, to pull the army composed of these low-level people, and cut down all the nobles who belong to the same class as themselves.

"This kind of violent and direct expansion path can no longer be followed, without the premise of improving one's own title, it is not too early to consider pulling the flag and rebelling, and now if you want to get more territory, you can only think of some ways on the heads of neighboring countries, and you don't need to worry so much about attacking neighbors......"

What are the neighboring countries that can be used nearby?

The savage kingdom in the north is cold and snowy, and it is difficult to survive.

The Iron Fort Kingdom in the south is strong and cannot be provoked, and it will take ten years to wait for civil strife and robbery while it is hot.

The Ula Plateau in the east, the altitude is too high and the air is thin to be suitable for human survival, and it is more difficult to climb the Ural Snow Mountains to reach the new world on the other side than to climb to the sky.

"It is said that the golden horn and silver edge grass belly, the grand collar is also a corner, but it is a dead end, it is a bit difficult to expand to the periphery, I still have to plan the future development path, otherwise my hands and feet are limited by all kinds of concerns, and the final achievement may not necessarily have the last game of table rebellion, after cutting down all the opponents, re-establish a new system is higher......"

It is time to plan well, which development model should be adopted, and the effect of external expansion is better......