William decided to get the manure done first, so he mobilized some people, dug a big pit, and explained that he was not allowed to defecate anywhere in the future, and he had to get the feces and urine into this pit, otherwise the tax would increase by 10% at the end of the year.

After this order was issued, none of the villagers dared to violate it, and the one-percent tax was a question of whether they could eat enough, and it was not a matter of trouble, if they had to charge an extra one-percent tax because of this, it would be too worthless.

Later, William took a look at the plough they were using, and found that the plough here was really very backward, even more backward than the Western heavy plough in his previous life.

It was just a very simple arc, and the tip of the plough was still wooden, and such a plough was obviously inefficient, and even if William did not change his structure, even if he wrapped the tip of the plough with a layer of iron, it would greatly increase the efficiency.

As for the zigzag plow, I'm sorry, that thing is too high-end, and William is not a technical nerd, so it is innovative enough to wrap a layer of iron on the plow.

William sent two more men and gave them twenty silver coins, which would certainly be more expensive and would have to be ordered, and the money was estimated to buy twenty iron-clad ploughs.

Ten days later, the five people sent out returned to the village, using ox carts to pull the ordered plows, twenty oxen and twenty plows all returned to the village, although there were very few sickles in the village, but the number of people who could not bear it became more, although the remaining grain was a little tight, but hold on, go to the forest to get some, you can survive this time.

In addition to the previous ploughing cattle, there were already forty ploughing cattle in the village, William left thirty, and the remaining ten ploughing cattle were led to Orchard Village, William's second mining estate, where there were as many as three or four hundred acres of arable land, which could provide William with more than twenty silver coins.

After a few days, the wheat and beans in the field were quickly harvested, and the rest was cleared, and twenty sturdy ploughing oxen were put on iron-clad ploughs, which was a perfect match!

The power of ploughing cattle is really not comparable to human beings, and the efficiency has suddenly increased several times, and the land cultivated every day can reach more than ten acres, and at this rate, at least two thousand acres of land can be reclaimed by the time of spring ploughing!

The orchard village on the other side was also cultivated, although there was no iron-clad plough, but ten ploughing oxen also made them reclaim much faster.

Knights like William who are willing to spend money are also seen, and most of the other knights are living tightly, how can they have spare money to buy so many things, and they are ploughing oxen and iron-clad ploughs.

Even William was able to afford so many things by relying on the seized wealth, and he was still sitting on empty seats, William kept thinking about what could make money quickly and produce on a large scale.

The answer is undoubtedly business, but firstly, there is no unique product, and secondly, there is no trade route, you know, at this time, the caravan has to pay a lot of taxes, so the cost will also increase, and it will never be sold if it is too expensive, so William had to put this idea on hold first.

It cost William a lot of money to buy so many things, and more than 100 silver coins were spent, which was equivalent to the income of William's territory for more than two years.

There are more than a thousand silver coins left, William plans to arm his soldiers, William is now the most powerful knight under Baron Comos, there are eighty or ninety young men who can go to war, and he plans to train twenty-two soldiers who are out of work, that is, professional soldiers, this is almost the limit, if there are more, it will definitely affect production.

In the end, the two villages got together and put together twenty-two soldiers, which are completely out of production!

In addition, he also needed a few servants, the number was initially set at four, William did not start to select immediately, but trained these twenty-two off-duty soldiers when the serfs were reclaiming, this time William was not like the previous three-person battle team, but could really form a formation of soldiers.

In battle, such a soldier may have some advantages in the melee, but no matter how strong his personal ability is, he is just a mantis arm in front of a neat array, and the only end is to be crushed, and it is inevitable that the war tends to be in a neat formation.

William selected the twenty-two soldiers, and according to the promise given to them, reduced the tax by thirty percent, and since it was in the village, he only had lunch.

No one has five copper coins a year, and twenty-two is one hundred and ten copper coins, that is, eleven silver coins, so it can be said that William's start-up capital is very strong.

William mounted his horse, went to the place of Hulimu and Norwen, and consulted with them, and gathered the soldiers together for training, and Baron Comos would not interfere with these things like the Chinese monarch, and besides, these soldiers alone were not enough to shake his rule.

Both Urimu and Norwen agreed with both hands, they both understood the role of the array, so the two gathered a total of twenty soldiers who were out of production, plus William's soldiers, a total of forty-two, and began training.

The most important thing is, of course, array training, but not training like military training in the previous life, and that kind of training is not suitable for the battlefield here.

What they need is to be able to form a formation in the face of the enemy without breaking up, and to be able to step on the drum and shoot vigorously when advancing, which is their responsibility.

In addition to the training of the array, there are also spear stabs, two hundred times a day, stabbing in all directions, and how to cooperate with his comrades, how to get closer to his comrades, these are all methods that William came up with based on the impressions of his previous life.

There is also basic training, running and push-ups, no matter what kind of troops are trained, these two trainings can't run, one trains endurance, and the other trains arm strength.

The soldiers who are out of production are no better than the peasant soldiers, the soldiers of these professions are trained hard, and it is impossible to let them eat the same food as before, and the oat paste is not only poor in taste, but also not high in nutrition, so William has no choice but to ferment some flour preliminarily.

It's not that yeast is used, he doesn't know how to do yeast at all, but he just lets the flour ferment naturally to make softer bread, and he doesn't care about the hard and hard bread before, and some villagers will go to the forest behind to hunt and get some prey, and William will give them an improvement in their food, and then there is the milk produced by the cows.

In short, William tried his best to enhance the physique and nutrition of these forty-two soldiers.

In this way, William trained them from the autumn harvest to the autumn of the following year, and they practiced the array with the three-meter-long barrel of the gun they had made, and they could follow the drum beat of the homemade small drum on one side, and they could forcefully stab the spear in their hand.

They are no longer the thin serfs they used to be, but sturdy soldiers, their physical fitness is now far stronger than those robbers, and even some armed infantry are inferior to them, after all, they are soldiers who have been trained for a whole year with good food and drink, or they are out of production, how can they not be strong.

William saw that the forty-two soldiers were well trained, and it was time to equip them!

William led more than a dozen soldiers to Comos Manor, to the baron's blacksmith where to start ordering armor, weapons, this blacksmith is the baron's subordinate, most of the income has to be handed over to the baron, it is worth mentioning that the last time William handed over more than 800 silver coins to the baron, his attitude towards William was much better, plus William is really strong, as if William is the number one deputy.

What excites William the most is that the baron has no opinion on his frequent eye-to-eye behavior with Wella, it must be because of William's growing strength, and the baron thinks that William is worth wooing, so he acquiesces to it.

William is very happy, at least the baron has no objection, as long as there is no objection, William has a great chance, as long as he doesn't listen to become stronger, one day he can impress the baron!

Then the order was placed in the manor, William asked for forty-two pieces of leather armor with iron plates inlaid on the chest, this one is a little more expensive, seven silver coins, two more expensive than ordinary leather armor, and there is a gun head, as for the gun barrel, the villagers have already made nearly a hundred rods in the slack time, so there is no shortage, William bought eighty-four gun heads, which is exactly twice the number of human heads, after all, it also needs to be spare.

The price of the gun head is much cheaper, although it is a narrow shape specially requested by William, but it is not too expensive, the ordinary gun head is a silver coin, and he needs three for this.

Coupled with the pot helmet, this kind of helmet is like a cauldron, buckled on the head, a bit similar to the kind of helmet of the Song army in the previous life, this kind of helmet has good protection for the bow and arrow that is not strong on the mainland, and the price is not too outrageous, two silver coins.

This set of equipment is a total of four hundred and three silver coins, and a fraction of two copper coins.

The money in his hand suddenly shrank by nearly half, and there were only more than 600 silver coins left, and the armed army was really the most money-burning.

But fortunately, after the farmers' reclamation, the cultivated land area has increased a lot, hitting 2,500 acres, and the output of Xiliu Village this year is about more than 180 silver coins, after removing the tax reduction, after the tax extraction, William can get about 80 silver coins, and the two villages together can get 10 silver coins, well, William regrets the tax cut.

But he can't go back, and if he does, it will be a major blow to his prestige, at least William thinks so!

Although William raised the taxes, all of them were grain, and no silver coins were recorded in the account, but if it was converted into silver coins, his income would be absolutely rich and handsome compared to the thirty or forty or forty silver coins of each knight.

William saw that the villagers seemed to have enough power to cultivate these two thousand five hundred acres of land, so he issued another order to reclaim five hundred acres, and it is worth mentioning that after the manure method mentioned by William, the yield per mu has also increased significantly, although it is not said to be turned over, but at least fifty percent!

Norwen and Urimu wanted to give William the money for the armed soldiers, but William refused, they all needed to change their equipment, and their servants also needed to be armed, maintaining equipment, and feeding horses were all consumed, so William didn't ask for it.

Due to the need to train soldiers, the three of them lived together and all moved to Stream Village.

Because the wars in the place where Baron Comos is located are not particularly frequent, for more than a year, William and the others have no chance to go to the battlefield, only three people compete with each other, and then, training soldiers, from the beginning of the no burden has increased a lot of weight, in short, it is to change the law to enhance their combat effectiveness.

Now William dares to say that in addition to horseback riding and etiquette, these soldiers also have swordsmanship, and their physical fitness is no worse than that of ordinary knights.

The cost of training these soldiers was huge, and William's annual income was only marginally surplus, but if the money saved by Norwin and Urimu was used, they certainly wouldn't keep it private.