After all, as a regular army soldier, if William gave out silver coins as a reward every time, then when the silver coins were spent, the soldiers would soon forget about the reward.

But land is different, as real estate, it is immovable for a long time, and it is also a very good way to stabilize the territory by making soldiers the middle class and homesteaders in the territory.

Of course, this policy still needs to be considered, and the specific arrangements and the amount of land to be granted will still need to be studied.

After the treaty was signed, the two sides returned to their own territory, and William remained here for a few days with great pride, during which time he slaughtered cattle and sheep to reward the army.

Of course, another aspect of rewarding the army was also very important, William had the soldiers scatter and plunder, and while plundering, he captured all the Chekel population, and the men were temporarily kept in custody.

The women, on the other hand, were given to the soldiers as a reward after being examined by the military doctors to make sure they were not sick.

In the era of Cold Weapon Wars, this practice was supposed to be common and normal, and the winner enjoyed everything the loser had, including wealth, food, and women.

All this is extremely normal in the eyes of everyone, and Noven, who has always been upright, did not show any disgust, but gladly accepted the female captive assigned to him.

William is now different from the beginning, he is very indifferent to this situation, and he can even enjoy this right as much as the soldiers.

It's not like he's just here, and he can't bear to see this every time he sees it.

After three days of drunken revelry, the soldiers finally ended their celebrations and set out on their way home with the prisoners of war and their small booty.

William led the army on the way home, but unlike his previous leisurely journey, the road had become muddy due to a spring rainstorm the previous day.

The horses' hooves began to slip, and the soldiers walked on the mud with sticky feet, and the march was slowed down and the soldiers were exhausted.

Although William had marched on rainy days before, such heavy rains had completely formed a swamp-like landscape on the ground, far worse than the previous road conditions.

Since the war was over, William thoughtfully told the soldiers to relax and march, and they began to complain without military discipline.

"Damn mud, my feet are completely glued!" One of the soldiers cursed loudly, pulling his feet with the mud.

What he didn't expect was that with such a pull, his feet did come out, but the shoes he was wearing were left in the mud.

His predicament drew laughter from the soldiers around him, but it also illustrated the difficulty of the road.

William, of course, saw this situation very clearly, although he had done this before, but it was not serious.

So William had to find a way to change.

Building roads is a very good way to do this, and William has thought about building roads before.

This method can not only make the road condition better, but also have a lot of additional functions, which can not only make the walking speed faster, but also reduce the cost of the business, and attract more businessmen to invest and operate on the road.

What's more, building roads can greatly increase the speed of the march, and the horses and soldiers can quickly reach their destination by walking on neat stone or rammed earth roads.

This will allow William to have greater control over the territory, stronger ability to fight the enemy, and faster mobilization of materials and personnel, and be able to travel from one side of the territory to the other in just a day or two.

Thinking of this, William couldn't help but pay attention, this time he got so many prisoners of war, as well as more than 4,000 people from the remaining tribes in that grassland, all of whom could be used as laborers to build roads.

Of course, William's biggest gain this time was not the loot of his possessions, but the Cheker slaves and inhabitants with whom William could form a light cavalry force.

Although the Chekers are not incapable of being light cavalry, it has to be said that the Chekers, who have often ridden horses since childhood, are more suitable for light cavalry.

After all, the light cavalry was responsible for a variety of tasks than the heavy cavalry and knights, not only to expand the gap after the knights charged through the enemy's formation, but also to outflank, pursue, and probe the enemy.

Even sending letters, many times they have to complete it, and they are completely multi-functional arms, so their training cycle is not shorter than that of heavy cavalry, and it is absolutely impossible to form without four or five years of training.

In this way, William returned to the territory with his troops.

William walked through the streets of Denlenburg, and in order to let the residents who came to greet him see the heroic posture of the soldiers, he specially put the soldiers and knights in battle armor.

Wearing the armor, they are really different from before, the dark armor sets off their majesty, and their spirit is abnormal.

Looking at the soldiers in armor covered with scarred swords, the residents cheered, they were all warriors who had returned from battle, and even received a flying kiss from some young young maiden.

Walking in order, they passed the inhabitants, and at the end were the soldiers who were disabled or seriously injured and could not continue to serve.

Although they are disabled, they still have the ferocity coming down from the battlefield in their eyes, which is iron and blood, fire and sword, and the momentum tempered in the sea of corpses and blood, which will never disappear because of the mutilation of the body.

And when people saw them, they also looked at them with admiration, they were also warriors who fought for the territory and for the earl, and even they paid such a heavy price for it.

Fortunately, the Earl arranged for them to work as coaches in the future, and gave them pensions and cultivated land, and I heard that this time they were returned to slaves, otherwise I really don't know how they would survive with disabilities.

The pension and the slaves who chose to pay the slave pension were distributed, and the bounty or arable land was distributed to the meritorious warriors, and the whole territory fell into a state of jubilation.

The more than 10,000 Chekers who were plundered before are now more than 7,000 left, and many unmarried soldiers have a personal maid, and the families of the dead soldiers basically choose young and middle-aged Chekel slaves as new laborers.

As for the rest, William hadn't done it right away, anyway, now he was mainly planning to finish the road construction work first.

It's spring, and if we can make it to the deadline, we can finish it before winter.

With this in mind, William began to plan in his study, whether it was a rammed earth structure or a masonry structure, as for the artifacts of paving in the previous life, cement and asphalt......

I'm sorry, as an otaku who is not diligent and has never worked hard, he really doesn't know how to make cement, he only knows how to use lime, but he doesn't know anything else.