Chapter XXVI Development

Because of the use of 100 steel, the two-handed axe has a sharpness and toughness beyond that of ordinary axes, and Su Lun deliberately asked a barbarian warrior to experiment with a two-handed axe.

As a result, the thick pine stake was easily cut in two, and even the mace used by the jackal was cut off two or three times, and the blade of the two-handed axe was only slightly curled, and only needed to be re-polished.

Hans, who had received the new weapon, excitedly wielded the long-handled battle axe, and the heavy battle axe played all kinds of tricks in his hand like a butterfly wearing flowers, and the whirring sound of breaking through the air was heard all around, and the Florentine two-handed axe, which he had previously regarded as a treasure, was directly discarded by him in the dirt.

"Head, this axe is simply amazing!" Hans swung his axe and rushed excitedly in front of Suren, the sharp blade of which slashed past Suren's side. In an instant, he cut off the wooden stick in his hand that he had used to measure the depth of the current.

"It's fun, isn't it?" Looking at the excited Hans, Su Lun kicked him directly and kicked him into a rolling gourd, "Pick up the axe and cut down the trees for Lao Tzu! Today, each person must cut thirty trees, and if they can't finish cutting, there will be no food!"

A group of barbarians who watched the excitement picked up their axes and ran away.

Driving the barbarians away, Su Lun picked up another piece of armor, this armor was not a full-body armor, but a half-body armor, and below it was a legging, although this armor was not as good as plate armor, but it was more flexible to wear and the cost of full-body armor was half the price.

Although the defense of the whole body plate armor is very high, it is not flexible after putting it on, and it will be greatly limited when turning around, except for equipping heavy cavalry, it is not very practical.

After testing the strength of the half-body armor, Su Lun was quite satisfied with this kind of armor, this half-body armor has a very good defensive effect on swords, and also has a high defense against arrows, etc., and the defense against heavy weapons is slightly weaker.

Using this equipment against the natives in the wilderness who can't even be equipped with weapons is completely useless.

The blacksmith shop is on track, and the construction of the territory is slowly progressing.

Although there are already more than a thousand slaves, the construction of the territory is still progressing slowly, of course, this is in Suren's opinion, in fact, the construction of the territory is already very fast in other people's development.

The main reason is that the territory area of Sulun was a bit large at the beginning, and the territory of other pioneer nobles at the beginning was at most the size of a small town, but Sulun's territory was already a large town, and it could even be said that it was a small city, at least the large town did not have a stone wall with a length of two kilometers and a height of five meters.

Kobolds and goblins, including gnolls, were not the best slaves for building territories, these slaves could only perform heavy manual labor, and with their poor intelligence, they were simply not up to the task of building a good house.

They are more likely to build a shack or dig a burrow directly, there are many trees in the wilderness, if you use logs to build a house directly to build a faster, but the house built of wood is easy to catch fire, once a fire occurs, it is estimated that it will be burned in pieces, and the house built of wood consumes too much wood.

In Suren's thoughts, the wood of the territory is also a kind of sale, and there are still many wilderness trees, and there are many large trees, and the texture is also hard, whether it is used to make furniture or make ships, it is a very good choice.

Especially in the north, because of the cold weather, the trees grow more slowly, and the texture is more compact and strong, which is suitable for building large ships. He was going to sell the timber as the first commodity in his realm.

Because it is located in the north, the climate is cold in winter, and the houses in the territory are made of mud mixed with reed poles. Although the earthen wall looks gray and ugly, it looks like it can be knocked down with a push, but it is very warm, and the wall is more than a foot thick, and it can completely block the cold current from the Northland ice field.

Although the wall is a mixture of mud and reeds, after the soil is mixed with water to make clay, the strength is increased a lot after mixing with the reed poles, and the thickness of the earthen wall is no problem for building houses. With the addition of timber pillars to the earthen walls, such a house may look ugly, but it is the best choice for the current territory.

Kobolds and goblins are not very good at digging foundations to transport dirt, and they do a good job of digging foundations. It didn't take much effort to dig the foundation.

As for the goblins and gnolls, they have more strength, and they can be used to pound and stir clay, and then under the command of humans, they build earthen walls on the foundation. The earthen wall is also very simple, just erect two planks, then fill the clay reed poles between the planks, and finally compact the earthen wall, and one earthen wall is built.

For their new identity, whether it is a big goblin or a jackal, they are much stronger than the goblin kobolds, usually they enslave goblins and kobolds, and now they are not used to being enslaved by humans, but they are not used to it and dare not resist, the battle not long ago, Su Lun's powerful figure and the barbarian's overwhelming power left a deep impression in their hearts.

Although only a few barbarians served as overseers, all the slaves did not dare to resist in any way, and worked honestly under the whip of the leather whip.

There is flat land on both sides of the Hongsha River and Baishui River, many of these lands are full of weeds, these lands are very fertile, after the total annihilation of that group of monster coalition forces, the territory is temporarily no longer threatened, and farmland reclamation is on the agenda.

Agriculture is always the foundation of a territory, and only after having a strong agriculture can the territory feed more people, so that commerce and military can develop better.

Su Lun had inspected the land in the river basin for two days before, and in the area close to his territory, at least 100,000 acres of land could be reclaimed on both sides of the river. And because of its proximity to the river, the land here is completely irrigated.

These 100,000 acres can be said to be the best cultivated land in the entire territory, and the farmland on Sulun's side of the city wall has no advantage compared to these farmlands except for its proximity to the city.

Of course, now Suren has good mechanical skills, and if he builds some big waterwheels and irrigation canals along the river, the farmland here is not bad.

However, the construction of waterwheels and irrigation canals required a lot of money and labor, and it was not realistic to build irrigation canals covering the periphery of the city in the current situation of the Suren territory. The best way to do this is to reclaim the land near the river for farmland.