It was not easy for Donaldson to fight for a baron from Viscount Terrance at the beginning, among which Viscount Terrance loosened his mouth on the one hand, perhaps for others, it was much easier for the viscount to loosen his mouth than to buy gold coins in the barony, but for the Ronald family, who was known as a rich man, gold coins were secondary, and the key was the viscount's looseness. If it weren't for www.biquge.info the civil strife in the Viscount County this time, Terrance would have asked Baron Donaldson, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been so easy.

But even if the viscount relented and sent enough gold to the Earl's Court, it only received the title of a baron, as well as some basic noble privileges. The others are almost none, without corresponding territories, without corresponding populations and resources. After all, even in the entire Anthony Kingdom, the Warrens County is on the edge of the wilderness, and the resources are not abundant. Even if Wang Xiaode wants to buy enough slaves, it will take time to buy them from other places.

If Wang Xiaode wants to expand the territory area, in addition to changing the address of the territory to other places, the only way to continue to develop wasteland to the west is to continue to develop wasteland. However, as the territory continues to advance westward, the barrenness of the wasteland will become more and more serious, and even Wang Xiaode learned from some sources that there will be an endless desert to the west of the wasteland, and no one has been able to cross the desert to know what the opposite place is.

However, for the current Ronald Territory, the existing wasteland can still meet the needs of territorial expansion, and in addition to the barrenness of the land, the most troublesome thing is some sand beasts. In the past, the Ronald Territory was not very advanced to the west, but there were some weak sand beasts that would occasionally appear, and some strong young people could resist it. But if you continue to go west, you have to consider the problem of the Sand Beast that will appear from time to time in the future.

And recently Old Jack has been worried about this matter, since Old Jack obtained the Harris Knight Territory a few months ago, Old Jack has basically spent most of his thoughts on the construction of the Harris Knight Lord, as a self-made knight lord, Old Jack has to spend more thought than Wang Xiaode spent more thought at that time.

In addition to the salary of himself and his son in the barony, the other construction resources of Old Jack are almost all supplied by the barony, and if it were not for the original promise to obey the in-depth management of the barony, I am afraid that these resources will not be obtained. In fact, Old Jack later knew that the Barony's management of his Harris Knights was not so strict, mainly farming projects, cultural customs, and some basic laws, and these were basically stipulated there, and there was not much supervision power in fact.

Even the barons of the army under their command will not care, although it is only a small army of 40 people, and there are restrictions on weapons and equipment. But it is already very important for a knight leader, usually there are only 2,300 knights in the knight leader, and the army is actually only about 2,30 people, and there are not many knight lords who have the ability to support an established knight leader army, and there is no need for it. It is still very easy for more than 20 regularly trained strong men to deal with more than 200 thin ordinary people, and a knight leader can still support a professional, basically the heir of his own family.

And he used to be a soldier, and his physical fitness is not bad, even if he is old, ordinary young people are not opponents, so he can completely cover a knight leader, and it would be good if he put more effort into his grandson in the future, as for his son, he has his own work and resources.

But these are all things in the future, since I took over this territory, I also purchased a batch of supplies, bought a full 50 slaves, and recruited 5 veterans to manage the knight's territory, but in the face of some small sand beasts that pop up in the territory from time to time, it is more of a headache, these sand beasts often attack the territory at night, steal food, and attack slaves. The main characteristic of these sand beasts is that the ground crawling speed is extremely fast, under the sudden attack, the average person will be hit, they may not be strong in frontal combat with adults, but the sneak attack is very powerful, almost every month in the territory there are one or two sand beast night attack accidents, and each time there will be slave casualties. Of the original 50 slaves, there are now only 44 slaves left.

Old Jack didn't have the endless wealth of Wang Xiaode, but he regarded these 50 slaves as sows and stallions that kept giving birth to cubs. Although he may not see the prosperity of his own territory in his lifetime, the rent of this territory is a full hundred years, and it will still be passed on to his son or grandson in the future. And as long as the Ronald family is still thriving, their own family may be able to own this territory forever.

Therefore, Old Jack is very concerned about the body of slaves, and every day he expects these slaves to give birth to more small slaves, so when he bought slaves, Old Jack gave priority to female slaves. Of the 50 slaves, 35 were women and only 15 were men. This is also the reason why even though the Sand Beast is not very powerful, there are still slaves who are injured or killed. Because there are too many female slaves and too few male slaves. And old Jack didn't dare to untie the slaves' shackles and chains right now.

If you let them go now, maybe you will rebel immediately, and you don't have the help that Wang Xiaode had at that time. He only has 5 veterans under his own money, and the rest are slaves. There was not much resistance at all. Every time these sand beasts attack a slave or a granary, they will flee immediately, and the veterans can't keep up with their speed at all, and these sand beasts seem to have a little bit of simple wisdom, and they don't fall into the trap stupidly.

In desperation, on this day, old Jack could only take him to the barony full of worries to consult with his son. You must know that your son is in charge of the baron's caravan, and there are still many professionals under him who have to obey his management. Old Jack was going to let his son send a professional to his village. In Old Jack's eyes, a sand beast that even an ordinary soldier or a man in the prime of life can deal with must be a piece of cake in the eyes of a professional.

But when Old Jack came to the Barony, he first ran into Zhu Jiancheng, only to see Zhu Jiancheng smile and say, "Old Jack, but I haven't seen you for a few days, is the territory still going well?" ”

Zhu Jiancheng, as the actual person in charge of the barony, is of course clear about Old Jack's affairs, and Zhu Jiancheng knows more about the reason why Old Jack was rewarded, mainly because Wang Xiaode created an environment for himself to be in charge.