Chapter 130: Where Does the Population Come From?
"Young Master Allen, you're here just in time, these damn guys have gnawed the castle gate again, I must teach these beasts a lesson today!" Kerry's housekeeper's hair was tied up, and he glared fiercely at the three flame rats jumping up and down.
Since Kerry's housekeeper returned to Musenburg, he has taken over the affairs of the castle in an all-round way, and has kept the castle in good order, only this flame rat is a thing that makes Kerry's housekeeper very annoyed, not only destroying everywhere, but also running fast, it is difficult for ordinary people to catch, and it is basically impossible to want these servants who have no strength to catch these three flame rats.
"Bud, Patton, get these three guys!" Alan said to the two behind him.
After hearing this, Bard and Barton instantly jumped in the direction of the flame rat, and it didn't take long to catch the three flame rats, how could the flame rats that were not yet adults be the opponents of the two of Bartonbard.
"Squeak, squeak!"
The flame rat choked by Bard Barton's neck let out a cry and bared its sharp front teeth at the two.
"What should I do, Lord Viscount?" asked Barton, shaking the two flame rats in his hand.
"Tie them up first, take them later!" Alan said.
The flame rat has been kept in the castle by Allen, but looking at the current situation, it is necessary to find a new place to raise these guys, Allen's first thought is the sinkhole for breeding water-streaked giant frogs, but this sinkhole is not easy to find, even Alan only knows the sinkhole in the Qinghuang Collar, so he will not have to raise the water-streaked giant frog and the flame rat together!
With the hostile habit of the two monsters, the two monsters are not fighting anymore, and if a few die, Alan will regret his death.
In addition, rats are born to burrow, if the flame rats are kept underground, they are very likely to burrow in the ground and escape, so places like sinkholes, ground holes and the like were excluded from Allen's brain for the first time.
After thinking about it, Alan suddenly thought of a way, the artificial breeding in his previous life inspired Allen, those farmers who breed foxes and rabbits basically use a kind of iron cage to lock up the animals, and each iron cage will raise an animal, and the animal basically spends its entire life in the iron cage.
Alan also felt that this method was not only simple to raise, but also easy to catch, and also prevented the flame rats from hurting people.
Just do it, Alan directly took Battonbad and three flame rats to the logistics bureau, for the low-level monster of the flame rat, the iron cage made of too thin wire is basically useless, so Alan deliberately asked the logistics bureau to make three more than three meters high, the wire on the iron cage has the thickness of a little finger, and there are also some equipment for releasing water and food.
Allen put one male, two females and three flame rats into the three iron cages respectively, and the three flame rats who had just entered the iron cage at the beginning were very unaccustomed to screaming, scurrying around in the cage, and trying to pull the iron cage with their claws, but unfortunately it was difficult to shake the iron cage at all.
After tossing for a while, several flame rats also lay down tiredly, and Alan grabbed a handful of flame wheat fruits from Barton's hand and put them in the cage.
Seeing the Flame Wheat Fruit, the Flame Rat quickly leaned over and ate it without raising his head.
Since the last harvest of the Flame Wheat Fruit, Allen's fruit reserves have increased again, and the Flame Wheat is about to ripen again, and it is impossible for Alan to eat it in a short time, plus the entire territory is also a fire element knight of Allen, so Allen tried to throw the Flame Wheat Fruit to the flame rat who is also a fire elemental attribute.
Sure enough, as a fire elemental demonic beast, the flame wheat was extremely tempting to the flame rats, and at first Alan only sprinkled a small handful, but was eaten by three flame rats.
Since that time, Alan would take out a little Flame Wheat Fruit every day and give it to the three Flame Rats to eat, and the Flame Rats who ate the fruit grew rapidly, day by day, and the fire element on their bodies became stronger day by day.
According to Allen's understanding, the rodents are basically about three to four months from birth to sexual maturity, which means that in about two months, the flame rats will be able to reproduce, much faster than the water-streaked giant frog.
After giving birth to young mice, female mice can reproduce again, basically every two months, and the reproduction speed is extremely fast.
Looking at the three flame rats in the cage, Alan couldn't help but think of the Knights of the Guards, also known as the Flame Knights, that he was about to form.
Once the Flame Rat began to multiply in large areas, it was when the Flame Knights were officially formed.
Now that the war between the Duchy of Linton and the Duchy of Cairn is very likely to break out, Earl Reagan sent bad news to Allen again a few days ago, mentioning that this war is very likely to involve the Duchy of Blue to the east of the Duchy of Cairn, and then the Duchy of Cairn may have to face the attack of the two principalities at the same time.
In order to solve this passive situation, Grand Duke Diff expects that the number of conscriptions for various counties and marquises will increase a lot, which means that each territory is very likely to send a large number of troops to support the front line this time, which is why Alan is a little anxious to establish the Flame Knights as soon as possible.
No matter how rotten the situation is at that time, as long as he is strong, he has the right to choose, and the mainland is not without examples of local lords switching to other countries after the destruction of the country, but in these examples, they are basically powerful territories, as for the weak territories, they have no choice at all, and they are directly annexed.
However, in the case of Mu Sen Ling, it is indeed a bit inadequate, and now the Green Desolation Knights have 1,800 people, which is about to reach the average number of warriors in a normal viscounty, if you still want to establish a Flame Knights comparable to the Blue Desolation Knights, Alan has to find another way.
Without a sufficient population, you cannot get enough fighters, so population is the first problem that Allen has to solve now.
However, Allen's Musen Domain was in an extremely awkward position, huddled around the corner of the Duchy of Kane, confined to death, under the control of Earl Reagan, and basically no hostile territory for him to plunder the population.
So now unless you get him a hostile force, and it is not part of the territory of the Reagan Earldom, let him plunder, it is basically impossible to establish the Flame Knights?
Alas! No! Not part of the Earl of Reagan? A message flashed through Allen's mind, as if he had thought of something!
Without hesitation, Alan quickly ran back to the study, and he remembered that he had placed it in the study.
After rummaging through it for a while, Alan took out a tattered sheepskin from the mezzanine of the bookshelf, which was the same parchment map that had been captured from the gnolls.