The long winter days have finally passed under the construction in full swing, and the snow and ice have gradually begun to melt, and there is already some water in the potholes on the ground.

The weather began to warm up, and the settlers finally began to cultivate the land, and in addition to this, they also cut down a lot of wood in the forest to build their own houses.

Anyway, there are still a lot of forests in the kingdom of Lorik, and in this era, humans will die and not completely conquer nature, and the forest is a burden for a territory, if the forest can be replaced with arable land, I believe that most of the lords will agree.

Moreover, even if William wanted to protect the forest, it was not realistic, and if the forest was allowed to multiply, they would encroach on the living space of humans.

When the forest begins to shrink in large areas, it is not too late to protect it.

Building houses was not a particularly difficult task, so the settlers spent most of their time cultivating their land, and William lent them some ploughing cattle so that they could cultivate more land before the spring ploughing.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the snow was so heavy this year and the ground was basically frozen soil, they would have been cultivating farmland this winter, and it was a little late to start doing it now.

After months of domestication, the orcs have been engaged in the work one after another, although occasionally some wild and untamable orcs will resist, but under the overseer's braids and the army's spears, all the rebels are cremated.

Although the intelligence of the orcs is very low, they can still know that those bright spears are the things that can kill them, and the orcs who do not obey the discipline are quickly killed, and the rest are obedient orcs.

Male and female, all of these orcs were involved in the construction, whether it was the priority construction of the stone roads and cities, taverns, casinos, chicken yards, and some other very useful facilities, or the construction of small forts every ten kilometers that were delayed, all of which were the figures of the orcs who worked all day.

William still cherishes the hard-won labor of orcs, and now there are only more than 100,000 orc slaves in the whole country of the Lorik Kingdom, so William does not want to incur too much loss unless it is absolutely necessary.

In fact, William would also like to have more slaves under his command, but this is unrealistic, and with his desire for population, even if he gains it, it will turn them into his own inhabitants.

The current kingdom of Lorik has not even completed the cultivation of arable land, so how can he be willing to let those people participate in infrastructure construction that does not produce food?

After all, in such an era, food is the root of everything, and without food, no matter how complete the infrastructure is, it cannot be eaten, and turmoil will follow.

If there is enough farming population, then William will let these people join the ranks of construction.

In addition, the Loerd people have almost become the same people, and there has been no problem of non-our race for a long time, so it is very unrealistic to plunder a large number of alien races as slaves.

Winter was over, and the shrinking of commerce due to the cold soon eased, and a large number of merchants returned to the new fertile land of commerce in the kingdom of Lorik.

Not only did they bring a large amount of silver coins, but also a huge amount of resources and commercial throughput, in addition, the local merchants of the Kingdom of Lorik also went abroad, they not only established a huge commercial territory in the Kingdom of Lorik, conquered huge commercial taxes, but also did business in other regions to increase William's income.

After all, the commercial law of the Kingdom of Lorik is extremely perfect, not only to extract the commercial tax from the large commercial activities, but also to extract one-fifth of the turnover of the merchants as the commercial tax after the end of the year.

There was no such thing as a wealthy merchant who was richer than the treasury, and as a result, the commercial tax was now the main financial pillar of the Kingdom of Lorik.

Looking at the increasingly prosperous country, William's heart was also a little calm, and at the same time he sent a letter to Charlemagne, asking if he would follow him to the Rodland Empire to attend Emperor Grayne's birthday banquet.

There is a reason why William asked this, he knew that the girl his son was concerned about was the princess of the Rhodesan Empire, and if he went this time, there would definitely be a chance to meet, so he wrote to Charlemagne.

Sure enough, Charlemagne was very excited after receiving William's letter, and immediately wrote back to tell William that he would also follow.

After replying to the letter, he immediately handed over the three Roland to discuss who would stay here.

After some discussion, it was decided that Homan would stay, and the other two would follow Charlemagne to the Rodland Empire.

On that day, Charlemagne prepared everything and set out with ten Iron Cross knights on the journey to Denlenburg.

To go to the Rodland Empire, there are a lot of things to prepare, William has to bring a lot of entourage, and most of the nobles in the country need to follow.

And his courtiers will also go with him, especially Foreign Secretary Carnon, who is on the list of envoys.

William alone had to take with him a dozen courtiers and two hundred knights of the Inner Palace, as well as a brigade of royal infantry, plus the vassals and their entourage.

Moreover, William also planned to bring all his children, including those "illegitimate children".

In addition, Arthur should also be present at this birthday banquet, and the current Camelot Kingdom has almost stabilized, and he vaguely mentioned in his letter to William that he hopes to marry Windsor as soon as possible, and William also has this consideration in bringing Windsor over this time.

In addition, his sons are also about to grow up, not to mention the eldest son, who has reached the age of seventeen, even the youngest son, Frederick, is already eight years old.

So it's very good for them to see such a scene.

Soon, everything was almost ready, and after nearly a month of wild running, Charlemagne also arrived in Denlenburg in time.

William looked at his eldest son, and couldn't help but feel helpless for his infatuation, but his heart was also more motivated, even if it was for his son's marriage, it was worth fighting hard.

On January 3, 1235 in the Holy Calendar, all the entourage was ready, and except for some very busy courtiers, basically all the important courtiers under William's command were in the accompanying queue.

Archbishop Bairinsin, the regional bishop of the Kingdom of Lorik, stood beside William and Wella, greeted them, and when everything was ready, the team set out on their journey.

This team was very large, in addition to the 2,000 troops, there were more than 3,000 people, in addition to some William's vassals and courtiers, they also brought their families with them, and some religious personnel, in short, it was a very large team.

The knights of the Inner House at the front, wearing William's gold-edged iron cross, grinned in the spring breeze that had not yet fully warmed.

William and Wella sat in the carriage with their eyes closed, and even walking on a smooth stone road was a very tiring thing in this day and age.