William had gathered fewer soldiers than his opponent, so he chose to use some small tactics, and he himself led nearly a hundred soldiers as bait, and the knights in the rear as a strategy.

"Pig Pamir, come out, you shit-like thing dare to plunder my village, I'm going to tear your ** to shreds!" William said with a foul mouth.

After a shouting and scolding, the other party was directly unable to hold his breath, and led more than 200 robbers to rush out, just when William and the others were about to be unable to resist, the rear knights finally launched an overwhelming charge.

Although there are only a dozen people, there is an aura of thousands of troops.

In the face of the knights' charge, the robbers finally remembered the horror of this war monster, and scattered one after another, and as for the Pamir, he was killed in the first blow of the knights.

After cleaning up the battlefield, it's time for the big thing - the penny!

William found the place where the Pamirs hid the money, and then distributed the silver coins to the knights, and more than a thousand silver coins were scattered.

gave part of the income to the earl, and after calculation, William himself only had 1,200 silver coins left, and William wanted to vomit blood in distress, but there was no way.

"Isn't there still 1,200 silver coins, I've never seen so much money, it's time to be content!" William comforted himself with such a reason, but the depression in his heart did not dissipate.

William asked the baron's armed infantry to bring eight hundred silver coins to Baron Comos, and then each knight divided one hundred silver coins, and asked them to take William's serfs back by the way, and William, Norven, and Urimu led their light infantry to Viscount Winston's castle.

William divided two hundred silver coins between the two men, and escorted two thousand silver coins, of which eight hundred were to be given to Viscount Winston.

William couldn't help but think in his heart: "It's really good to be these high-ranking nobles, you don't have to do anything, you have to pay for yourself." ”

The location of the bandit camp was in Winston's territory, not far from Viscount Winston's castle, so William and his party walked for a few hours before they saw Winstonburg.

Winston Fort is a small but rich history, a symbol of the Winston family's rule and allegiance to the Earl, which has been restored and built by the Winston family over the years.

The square city wall adds up to more than 200 meters, and the high city wall is about five meters high, which is not comparable with the castles such as Constantinople and Swan Castle that William had seen in his previous life.

Although Viscount Winston has his own castle, he generally does not live here, after all, the castle is designed for war, and it is very small, so the comfort is not good, let alone such a small castle, so such middle and low-ranking nobles generally live in manors near the castle.

William and the three let the light infantry stand by in place, and led a few people to carry a large box containing silver coins, walked to the gate of the manor, and said to the soldiers guarding it: "Please inform me, William, a knight under Baron Comos. Wallace comes to visit Viscount Winston.

When the two guards heard that it was a knight, they didn't dare to slack off, and immediately said, "Your Excellency, please wait a moment, I will report to the Viscount." ”

After a while, the guard came out and said, "Viscount, please come in, please come with me." As he spoke, he walked ahead and led the way for William and the three of them.

At the door of the hall, the guard said to William, "I can only take you here, you can go in by yourself." ”

William nodded, ordered the light infantry to put down the box and wait at the door, and walked towards the hall with Norwin and Hulimu, and the two guards at the door did not stop them.

William knocked on the door and was allowed to enter.

Walking into the hall, I saw a middle-aged and elderly man with gray hair sitting at the innermost desk, looking at something, and saw William come in, and said: "Baron Comos, I know, Viscount Raul's vassal, what are you doing here as his knight?" ”

William saw that Viscount Winston didn't seem to be very easy to speak, so he had to carefully adjust his words.

Said: "That's right, Lord Viscount, my mining was plundered by a gang of robbers, my serfs were robbed, but the lair of this gang of robbers is in your territory, I think twice, or decided to exterminate this gang of robbers, I must shelter my own people, but rashly entering your territory is an offense to you, I am sorry, in order to show my sincerity, I specially handed over half of the ill-gotten gains from the robbers, I hope to get your forgiveness." ”

Viscount Winston was noncommittal, knocked on the table, and asked, "So, it was Baron Comos who did it?" With you, a knight, I'm afraid you don't have the strength to destroy that gang of robbers! ”

"No, no, no! Don't get me wrong, Lord Viscount, this matter has nothing to do with the Baron, I mobilized my own colleagues, and together with me, led the light infantry to exterminate the bandits. William quickly explained.

"Ah, I see! I see," replied Viscount Winston, and said nothing.

William had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Lord Viscount, we have brought eight hundred silver coins as our apology, and I hope that your Excellency will accept it." ”

William felt that he would accept it, the financial income of a viscounty in a year would not exceed 1,500 silver coins, that is, 150 gold coins, and these 800 silver coins were his income for more than half a year, and he had no reason not to accept it.

Viscount Winston groaned for a moment and said, "Well, I accept it, but I hope there will be no next time!" ”

William nodded hurriedly, promising that there would be no next time.

After the three of them withdrew, a cold sweat broke out on William's back, and if Viscount Winston didn't accept it, it would be dangerous today.

Leaving behind 800 silver coins, William and the three men withdrew from the manor with the serfs carrying the boxes, joined the remaining serfs, and walked to the village of Stream with the remaining silver coins.

Passing through the mining estates of Nuwen and Hurim, the three of them were separated, Nuwen and Hurim returned to their own minions with their serfs, and William continued to walk towards Xiliu Village with the remaining thirty or so light infantry.

Walking into the village, the villagers surrounded William, took off their hats, and said, "Thank you, Sir Sir., for saving our family." ”

"Lord Sir, our allegiance to you forever!"

"Thank you so much, Lord Sir."

William smiled and said, "Okay, it's my accusation to shelter you, and it's your accusation to be loyal to me, and it's also your accusation to pay taxes to me!" ”

"Let's continue to harvest wheat, I have bought back twenty cows, and after the harvest, we need to cultivate new farmland, and I need to see at least two thousand acres of farmland next year!" William exclaimed.

The serfs had no other opinion to have these ploughing oxen, which was already very good, and in the old days when the richest in the village were only two or three oxen, and then they were either recruited by other knights or robbers, and in short, William did not have a ploughing ox when he first arrived.

William distributed more than 100 serfs plundered by the war to Xiliu Village, as for the orchard village remained the same, he decided to take Xiliu Village as the main development site first, plus the plundered serfs, the total population of Xiliu Village has reached nearly 400 people, but it is a very large village, although it is so, it cannot be too favoritism.

So William took a hundred silver coins out of the chest, picked a group of trained soldiers, three men, brought full equipment, gave them the money, and let them buy ploughing cattle.

Naturally, there are not so many cultivated cattle in the Comos Manor, and some of them are also owned by the baron, and they will not be sold, but it is not impossible, as long as they stay for a few more days, the small merchants who receive the news will naturally bring the goods they need.

Last time, William had bought most of the cattle on the estate that could be sold, and only a few remained, and it would take days to buy enough of them.

As for whether these three people will run away with the money, since William dares to hand over the money to them, there is a way to control them, their families are here, and the three of them will also supervise each other, even if one of them does not care about the family, then the other two will not be like this, so William is not worried.

Looking at the farmers in full swing of harvesting, William's heart stirred: "One day, my territory will not be limited to this small area!" I'll be king! ”

Although William has great ambitions in his heart, he also understands the truth that food should be eaten one bite at a time, and he is now thinking about the development of the territory.

If the cultivated land can be cultivated to 2,000 acres, then William's income can at least quadruple, and a hundred silver coins are indispensable, and now William is thinking about whether he can increase the yield per mu.

In William's opinion, the yield per mu here is really outrageously low, and the yield of 25 kilograms is simply a world of difference from the yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu in the later Celestial Empire.

This, combined with the fact that the fallow is practiced, means that only half of the arable land can be planted in a year, due to the lack of fertility of the land, and the farmers never seem to use manure, the most primitive fertilizer.

"To increase production, well, manure, and the zigzag plow! How do you do it? Oh, my God! As a time-traveler, I don't even understand anything! William burst into tears.

He had a headache, and he hated it! Why don't you pay attention to these things when you read a book, so that now he knows nothing about anything, and he really hates less when the book is used!

"Damn, what the hell is a Quyuan plow? Never mind! Make the plough crooked! As for manure...... I remember it was going to ferment! With enough fertility there is no need for fallow, as it should be! William crouched on the ground, rubbing his head with a headache.

A group of serfs couldn't understand what William was muttering, and could only think that the big man was different from them.

William called the village elder to ask him about these things, and the village elder said, "My lord, it is not that we have not cultivated all the land to grow wheat, but compared with the current practice, the harvest is not as good as the current method of only half plowing, if we cultivate it all, the land will become more and more barren, and the output will become smaller and smaller, so fallow is the best way we have done so far." ”

"Hmm...... Okay, let's keep the fallow system, and when the fallow is the land is deserted, right? William asked again.

"No, my lord, we will plant alfalfa grass on fallow land, which not only cultivates the land, but is also a good material for feeding horses." The village elder is worthy of being an old peasant, and he knows everything about these things.

William, intending to fully understand the situation of the cultivated land, asked, "Then what do you all write about farming?" ”

"We usually cultivate wheat and beans, and beans are also good fodder for feeding war horses, which was what the Baron used to request, and people can eat it." The village elder said.

"Oh, I see!" William still understands that war horses eat bean feed, and if they want war horses to be strong and powerful, they need to be fed good alfalfa grass and bean feed, especially during wartime.