Harvey led the Drops of Blood out of Mecklenburg Castle, and no one knew what the task was given to them by Arrod. However, there are too many things to do in the ruined county of Mecklenburg, the most important of which is the construction of military facilities, and the absence of a strong army in his hands always makes it difficult for Arold to sleep, but today Orn brought him good news, after a long night of talking with Arold and months of hard work, they built a smelting base on the cliff near the coast, and made an L-shaped smelting furnace from the clay in the clay layer on the riverbank, and the L-shaped end opened in the direction of the perennial Baltic Sea. The upper end of the round furnace is where iron sand and iron ore are poured, and inside the round furnace is charcoal fired from another high cylindrical clay furnace, which is formed at high temperatures, which is the best fuel for smelting iron, and the iron pieces fired through this clay smelting furnace are then made into swords and armor pieces by blacksmiths.

"Lord Arrod, the charcoal you speak of is much better than simply firewood, please see how a sword made of iron made of charcoal is different from a sword made of firewood." Orn lost a lot of weight because of this smelting base, which was fenced off with a wooden fence, guarded by five loyal Swiss mercenaries, and more than twenty miscellaneous servants for Orn to send.

"Oh?" Arold saw Orn take out two iron swords, which were completely different in appearance, both were unpolished and rough swords.

"Smack~~~." Orn raised one of the swords and slammed it into the other, only to hear the crisp sound of metal clashing. One of the swords broke in half.

"Oh, that's a good sword." Arold took the complete sword, his face showed unexpected surprise, Arold only told Orn some basic knowledge of smelting, but he didn't expect Orn to make such a good sword after adding his own forging experience.

"I don't know why, but the iron made of charcoal is completely different from what it used to be." Orn couldn't wipe the sweat on his face, and he was very excited, this kind of forged iron and sword could simply surpass many of the blacksmiths of this era, and with this weapon, Orn's name will be immortalized.

"Orn, now we have good iron. But that's not enough. I'm going to build a wind-powered blacksmith here, which will be a smelting and forging compound smelting base, and you'll be the head of the place. Arold seemed to see his soldiers dressed in iron half-body armor, wielding sharp swords and spears. And the hoplites raised long pistols in their hands. Covered in heavy plate armor. With the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, the Slavs of the Baltic coastal territories were chased with nowhere to run.

"Of course, but that would require a lot of manpower, and the methods of smelting must be kept secret. In order to protect their forging secrets, the Milanese even built a bunker. "Because of the secret of the Milanese forging, Orn and his father were hunted down and exiled by the Milanese, so Orn did not want this advanced smelting method to be easily known by others.

"You're right." Arold looked around, he decided to build a fortress here with the plate construction method, and ordered his most loyal men to guard it, fortunately, this is a cliff near the sea, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is only one road at the entrance, which can prevent the leakage of secrets.

The problem of iron was solved by Orn, a master obsessed with forging, but iron alone is far from enough, there are not enough soldiers with more weapons are just a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, and to make the territory can bear the pressure of population growth, there is no more important than the development of agriculture, most of the agriculture in the Middle Ages is relatively backward, using extensive collective labor, everyone first leveled the land of the village collective, the land is raised into strips, and the crops are planted on the strip-shaped land, this is because the land in Western Europe is barren, It is believed that this is the only way to ensure the efficient use of land.

"In the villages under our effective control, ploughs with iron tips are distributed, ploughing is carried out, the fields are divided into three equal parts, and the cultivation is carried out in turns, and in each village there are public latrines, and manure collectors are set up to scatter the collected manure into the land that is not used for farming." In the hall of the lords of Mecklenburg Castle, Arold soon announced to the village elders that he could effectively control and swore allegiance to him.

Arrod's decrees were issued one after another, so that the village elders looked at each other, people were accustomed to the traditional farming methods, and Arold's decrees made them puzzled, but because of Arold's authoritative elders all nodded in agreement, which made Arold very satisfied, as the soul from the agricultural country of Arold, for thousands of years to bear a large number of people in the Oriental agricultural technology is very familiar, deep ploughing can maximize the output of crops, and manure can improve the fertility of the land, This is a reform for the vigorous development of the productive forces.

"Julian, Melinda walks with me out of the castle." A few weeks after the edict was issued, one day on a whim, Arod mounted his horse and called Julian to go out of the city with the javelinmen to inspect the city, he wanted to see how well his edict was enforced in the territory, and Arold, who had no administrative officer, had to inspect it himself.

"Yes, Lord Count." Julian hurriedly took Arold's banner, ordered his servants to bring some water and food, arranged for the javelinmen to protect Arold's safety, and followed Arold on the muddy county road.

"These roads are so bad that I have to use the pebbles in the river to pave the roads for people to walk on." Arold looked at the mud splashed by the horse's hooves on the horse's back, and said to Julian with dissatisfaction.

"Pebbles?" Melinda asked curiously.

"Yes, it's very simple, but it's best to have tarmac, but it's impossible now." Arold misses the sturdy concrete floor and the wide road, and his territory now has not even a mud-free path.

"You really have a grand plan to build a territory." Julian exclaimed, he felt that Arold had been very obsessed with all kinds of territory construction recently, but in terms of territory construction, Arold really impressed Julian and the others, and they couldn't believe that a young man in his twenties had so many wonderful ideas in his head, that is, the most knowledgeable monks of St. Fonso and St. Jome's Monks combined did not have as many brains as he thought.

As an earl with a county, Arold was no longer the low-ranking nobleman at this time, and behind him was Julian, a personal attendant, and Melinda, the interpreter, Julian held high the black lion heraldic banner representing Arold himself, and in front of Arold there were three javelin cavalry riders who opened the way, and there were several cavalry guards on the left and right sides, and at the back was a group of servants on foot carrying water and food on Arod's back.

"What's going on?" Arold stopped at the edge of the field of one of the villages closest to the castle, and he rode his horse to watch the land that was still cultivated extensively, and the fields that were in the shape of strips, and the peasants who ploughed the fields with heavy wooden plows.

"Ah, noble Earl, we didn't know you were coming." The village elder hurried out of the village, he was so anxious that he didn't even bother to take care of a shoe on his foot, and he said in slurred words as he ran.

"Why isn't it done in accordance with my ploughing decree?" Arrod looked at the panting elder standing in front of him, his brow furrowed, the fact that the territorial decree he had personally issued could not be enforced, which made his heart brew with anger.

"This, noble earl, I, we~~~." The elder bowed his head and his mouth was staggering, he felt the sweat on his forehead, he only thought that the decree was just a whimsical idea of the nobles, and he didn't take it to heart at all, his father farmed like this, his grandfather also farmed like this, he farmed like this, and his sons and grandsons will farm like this in the future, the count's so-called new way of farming seemed to him only whimsical, did the nobles who lived in comfortable castles know how to farm? He was deeply skeptical.

"Shut up, you dare to flout my decrees, this is a blatant defiance of my authority, and Julian has him arrested." It was only at this time that Arold deeply understood that the peasants, as the most peaceful and conservative class in the territory, were so resistant to new things, but he did not have time to slowly let these peasants understand this innovation in agricultural technology, he could only use a more rigorous and extreme way to make these peasants understand.

"Yes." Julian nodded to Arold on his horse, then waved at the javelinmen, who dismounted from their horses and arrested the village elder, but the villagers were in an uproar.

"The heretic Earl is going to take our elders, stop them." Although it was a village that swore allegiance to Arold, different religions and cultures made the villagers extremely distrustful of Arold, and when they saw the captured village elders, they shouted and picked up wooden forks and sticks.

"Earl, go away, the peasants have revolted." Julian hurriedly grabbed the reins of Arrod's crotch and led him out of the village, where the villagers, who were outnumbered and would surely have caught their group if they were besieged.

"Drive it~." Arold led Melinda to retreat from the village on horseback under the escort of the Javelinmen and Julian, but some of the servants on foot were caught and beaten by the villagers, and the village elders were still taken away by the Javeliners on their horses, and Arold and the others entered the castle without danger along the way.

"Open the door, Lord Earl has arrived." Julian shouted to the guards at the gate of the castle, and the iron fence was raised, allowing Arold and the others to enter the castle, and then immediately lowered the iron fence, because they were followed by a hundred villagers of the village, who threw stones at the castle with wooden forks and clubs.

"Don't let them gather here, shoot arrows to disperse them at once." Arod angrily turned his horse's head and ordered the archers in the castle's arrow tower that Arold, who had just established his rule, could not let the rebellion spread, and he chose to deal with it toughly. (To be continued......)