"So what are we going to do?"

William asked.

"H......mm," the Count muttered for a while, and then said, "We may have to prepare for a second war, once both sides are no longer restrained, maybe war will break out, and then it will not only be the affairs of the Kingdom of Cikma, but also the Kingdom of Ribhorn and the Kingdom of the White Rose, which will be far more tragic than we imagined!" ”

After hearing this, the nobles fell silent, and their faces were not very good-looking, just after a war, the loss of troops was not small, and the benefits obtained were not digested, and there will be a war next.

The nobles were a little reluctant, and if there was a war, they would all have to participate in it, after all, they were in this camp, and they all knew this.

"Hey, don't do this, I'm just saying that there may be a war, no matter who has to think about such a large-scale war, besides, the logistics required for a war of tens of thousands of people are not a small number, and there will be no war without half a year's preparation!"

The Count looked at the nobles who were a little depressed and began to explain to them.

After listening to the earl's explanation, although the nobles were still worried, they no longer put their expressions on their faces, and began to continue talking, but the content of the conversation was not out of the war.

"So we don't have to prepare for war right away, do we?" William asked the Count.

"Well, almost, after all, we won't be the main battlefield here, the main battlefield should be on the border in the north of the kingdom, if there is really a war, the White Rose Kingdom will also help us!"

"So now we just need to train the soldiers and prepare some of the food we need for the battle!"

"Besides, now the church and the kingdom of Ribone are only putting pressure on the king, and the conflict of interests between them is not very big, and it is the Duke of Bunkerson who really expects the war, so the war may not necessarily be fought!"

After receiving such an answer, the nobles also put aside their worries and began to prepare for a hunt for a while.

Only William felt that there was some danger, of course, this was just a perception, not that he had any inference, anyway, now that he had more than 7,000 people in his territory, and all of them were serfs under his name, it would take two months to prepare for the construction of the city, even if the army was expanded, it was not unbearable.

The attendants found the presence of their prey, a herd of wild deer, numbering about a dozen.

The nobles took hunting spears in their hands, rode on their horses and began to chase the wild deer, and of course, the end of course, the nobles hunted all the wild deer.

With the exception of pregnant doe and immature fawns, all became prey for the nobles.

After the hunt, the nobles finally returned to the main castle of the manor at ten o'clock in the evening, and held another banquet, and in this way, three days passed, the banquet finally ended, and the nobles returned to their territories.

"Goodbye, Baron William!"

Baron Bair was the last nobleman to leave, and he had a pretty good relationship with William, so he stayed at the manor for one more time.

"Goodbye, Baron Bair, be careful on the road, you are always welcome next time!" William said with a smile.

"Yes, then I'm leaving!" Baron Bair waved his hand like William on his horse, and led his knight down the path.

Time flies, more than a month passes, the snow and ice begin to melt, and William's honeymoon is over.

It was already spring, and in the world of official farming, William practiced a two-garden farming method, resting on one side to use the middle finger of alfalfa grass, and on the other side to grow grain, wheat, soybeans and other plants.

After more than a month of repeated revisions and explorations, William finally made a qualified waterwheel, and under the work of the carpenter, the two waterwheels have been formed.

Although the two waterwheels are useless, as long as the waterwheels are popularized in the territory, the grain production and arable land area will be greatly increased.

Although growing grain could not bring William huge economic benefits, for example, the grain harvested last year would be more than 2,000 if converted into silver coins according to the market, less than one-third of vodka, not to mention the income from reselling war horses.

But, after all, the people take food as the sky, and they don't panic when they have food in their hands, if you don't have food in your hands, no matter how many silver coins you have, it's useless, can people still eat silver coins to quench their hunger?

Therefore, under the current circumstances, William really needs to increase the grain production of the territory to an extreme.

The expansion of cultivated land brought by waterwheels and ploughing oxen, the increase in the speed of cultivation, and the reduction of the labor required were just enough for William's expansion of the army to provide enough young and middle-aged population, so that food was quite important for a territory, or a noble lord.

The lords had already cultivated a lot of farmland in the winter, and William had sent a lot of new immigrants to participate in the reclamation, so the area of cultivated land in the territory increased rapidly.

Of course, this cultivated land is not in the Mandes Manor, but in the vicinity of the castle that William has already chosen, and a full 25,000 acres of cultivated land have been cultivated.

The new arrivals were responsible for cultivating the land and then building the castle, because the snow melted so much water in early spring that the first step of building the first layer of the city wall out of formwork and rammed earth was simply not feasible! ”

So they had to cultivate the land first, and when they finished planting, it would be the middle of spring, and then it would be the best time to build the city.

At this time, William's treasury contained more than 40,000 silver coins, which were still the silver coins that William had sold vodka for a month before returning.

Otherwise, it is not certain how much money will be left in the entire manor.

In fact, William's demand for silver coins in the territory is not very large now, except for the salary of soldiers, the salary of trainee knights, and the purchase of iron materials, there is no need for money, and he eats the 3,000 sheep he raised for his subjects, as well as the grain he collects.

Except for the aristocratic robes that he needed to customize a lot at the beginning, there was no cost, at most he bought some jewelry for Wella.

There is also the potion that the Golden Lion Guard needs, and there is not much else for William to spend money.

But even so, William still has a feeling that he is not enough to spend when it comes to money.

This is all because his current pattern is too small, and when he reaches a high level, he will know how fast the money is spent.

Of the new arrivals, another 400 men were drawn for training, 50 cavalry, 50 heavy infantry, and the remaining 300 were to be trained as ordinary infantry.

The lords drove the tamed ploughing oxen, using William's modified heavy plough to loosen the soil at high speed, and then sow the seeds.

Loosening the soil can be done in less than a week, and the new immigrants do not need to loosen the soil, and the cultivated land is relatively loose, so they can just sow seeds.

A month has passed, and all the cultivated land has finally been planted, and some seeds have even begun to sprout.

By this time, the water had almost dried up, and the construction of the city began in earnest under William's orders.