The streets of Ironwood City are very spacious, the stone-paved pavement looks clean and tidy, many of the houses on both sides are still newly built, and the whole city is planned very rigorously, which can be seen that the designer has a strong obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Richard rode along the wide avenues of Ironwood City, looking at the small city he had built with his own hands.

After a few years of Richard's operation, the city attracted tens of thousands of settlers, and although the population was far from that of some modern county-level cities, it was still prosperous in this otherworldly continent where the productivity was only slightly stronger than that of the Middle Ages.

The New Year has passed, but spring has not yet arrived, the weather has not warmed, the sky will be late, and there are only a few pedestrians on the streets.

The cold nights in the Northland are the longest and most difficult to endure, and if ordinary people spend the night outside the house, they will be frozen into ice sculptures the next day.

Richard couldn't help but speed up his way home, although he was a quasi-knight and had excellent physical fitness, he didn't want to experience the cold of this northern night.

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The fort towers over a high ground in the middle of the castle, and its stone walls are five feet high.

The castle is properly distributed with arrow towers to ensure that the arrows fired by the defenders can attack all attacking enemies without any dead ends.

Unlike the brand-new buildings in Ironwood Castle, although the Ironwood Fort is often repaired, there are always some sword marks and small holes broken by arrows on the walls that are difficult to repair, and there is a feeling of vicissitudes.

Built by Hunter's grandfather for three generations, Ironwood Fort has been built since the time of Richard's late grandfather, and has gradually gained a foothold in constant conflict with snow thieves, wildlings, and half-elf tribes.

It was not until Richard's generation that Ironwood City was built under the impetus of Richard.

……

"Risaki"

"The team members who participated in the bear hunt today, except for Peel, can each receive a silver narr."

Everyone was happy when they heard this, except for Pierre, a silver nar was enough for a family of three to live decently for a month, and it was equivalent to a month's salary, and the soldiers who participated in this bear hunt were considered to have made a small fortune.

"Disband!"

As Richard gave the order, the soldiers walked back to the barracks in high spirits, and the soldiers patrolling and standing guard around them cast envious glances at them.

Although Master Richard stipulated that all soldiers should participate in the bear hunt in rotation, not every time there was a harvest, and sometimes there was no trace of the bear at all, so he had to return empty-handed.

Of course, Richard will not suffer a loss, the forest giant bear is full of treasures, bear skin can be made into expensive clothing and is sought after by the upper class nobles of the royal capital, bear bones can be used in medicine to assist in body polishing, bear paws are a rare delicacy, and after a little processing, it is worth at least 3 kinnars when sold to the Chamber of Commerce.

(100 silver nar = 1 gold nar, 100 copper = 1 silver nar)

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After touring the barracks and brushing up on the presence of the soldiers, Richard turned and walked to the main house in the castle's backyard, where his parents and several uncles and aunts lived.

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It has been the seventeenth year since Richard came to this world, and the memory of his previous life has been a little blurred, and he has now fully accepted his new identity, the young lord of Ironwood City, the eldest young master of Viscount Hunt's family - Richard Hunt.

In his previous life, as a liberal arts student, he couldn't even remember the formula of gunpowder, and he couldn't climb science and technology in this other world where productivity was backward.

At most, based on vague memories, the craftsmen were instructed to make pulleys and use them on bed crossbows, so the "bear hunting crossbow", a military heavy weapon in Ironwood City, was freshly baked.

However, in terms of management system, Richard made a comprehensive reform of the management system of the entire Hunter family.

Perhaps it is not so much a reform of the management system as it is an establishment, because in the eyes of Richard, a graduate student in economics and management, the previous management of the Hunt family was simply the same, and his father and several uncles were only responsible for collecting taxes, drinking and fighting, which was completely an extensive blind management combining empiricism and personal preferences.

After Richard obtained the right to administer the territory, he cleared the arable land of the entire territory, divided the land into upper, middle and lower grades according to the degree of fertility, and strictly formulated the tax law for the territory.

After the execution of several village tax collectors, the authority of the new law was quickly established, and the tax revenues of the Hunter Territory were nearly doubled without raising taxes.

Taking advantage of the heat of the new tax law, Richard immediately enacted the decree of the Hunter family's domain, a law that is extremely rough from the modern point of view, but at this time the Hunter Territory was meticulous and amazed everyone.

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Richard came to the bright hall of Ironwood Castle, the hall was spacious and simplely furnished, and the whole decoration style was clean and neat, or the Hunter family had only been inherited for three generations, and the fief was far away from the prosperous royal capital, but it was not stained with the atmosphere of luxury.

Walking through the hall to the castle garden, there was some noise in the dining room of the garden, and several maids could be faintly seen shuttling through it, presumably the Hunter family gathered to prepare for dinner.

"Cousin Richard!"

Richard followed the sound and turned his head to see a teenager running towards him excitedly.

"Oops, little Tiri." Richard leaned over and took the rushing child into his arms.

Tilly Jr. was the youngest son of Richard's third uncle, and Viscount Hunt Sr., who founded the foundation of Ironwood Castle, had three sons in his lifetime.

At the time of Hunt Sr.'s death, only Richard's father was a knight, and he successfully inherited the title and became the current Viscount Hunter Sauter, while Richard's two uncles stopped at quasi-knights in terms of personal strength. began to do his best to assist the eldest brother Sauter to guard the territory, and the whole family can be said to be sincerely united.

"Cousin Richard, will you take me next time you go bear hunting?"

"Hahaha, when little Tilly grows a little taller and dances with the knight's sword, my cousin will take you there."

The knights' swords here are all heavy two-handed heavy swords, and the lightest is nearly a hundred pounds, which can only be used by at least quasi-knight-level warriors.

Ten-year-old Tiri Jr. struggled to lift the knight's sword, let alone wield it.

Tiri Jr. also heard Richard's prevarication, hugged Richard's arm heavily, pouted, and looked unhappy.

Richard carried little Tilly through the garden and walked straight to the dining room, where all the maids he met stopped to salute him, and Richard nodded slightly.

When I came to the dining room, the table was already full of food, and the dishes were not exquisite but very rich.

A large chunk of meat and a bowl of wine, the breath of the Hunter's nouveau riche jumped into his eyes.

The table was already filled with Hunter's clansmen, Richard's aunts and cousins were chattering in the lower position, and the two uncles were sitting near the main seat. On the main seat sat Richard's parents, and next to it there was an empty seat reserved for Richard.

"Richard is back, and I have gained a lot today."

"Our Richard is getting more and more handsome, I don't know how many little girls we are going to charm."

Richard modestly responded to the ridicule of his relatives and naturally sat down next to his father.

Viscount Sauter nodded to Richard reservedly, but Richard's mother had kindly taken Richard's hand and began to check if her precious son was injured.

"You must pay attention to safety when you lead the soldiers to hunt bears, don't hurt yourself."

"Uh-huh."

Faced with his mother's concern, Richard could only nod his head incessantly.

"Haha, sister-in-law, our Richard's skills can kill a forest giant bear alone, not to mention carrying a bear hunting crossbow and soldiers, what injuries can be suffered."

"Ahem"

Viscount Sauter interrupted the conversation with a cough.

"Now that Richard is back, let's start eating."

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The Hunter family had a happy dinner, and the entire Hunter family is currently called a brother and a brother, a father and a son.

Richard's father, Viscount Sauter, was an official knight and a member of the family.

Although Richard's second and third uncles were not promoted to knights, they were also peak quasi-knights with five times the physical fitness of ordinary people and had rich combat experience, and they would not fall behind in a short period of time against two or three ordinary quasi-knights.

From the time Richard's father inherited the title, he conscientiously assisted him in ensuring the safety of his territory.

Richard is the only seedling of Viscount Sauter, but there are several cousins in the whole family, and this group of brothers and sisters has been crushed by Richard since childhood, and they are even more obedient to Richard.

Not long after the inheritance of the Hunter family, the whole continent was not peaceful, the eastern part of the kingdom was threatened by orcs all the time, the ports of the southern bay were heard from time to time to be sacked by Naga, and even in the depths of the adjacent ironwood forest, there were occasional ogre tribes, and the war was never far away.

The strong sense of crisis makes the whole family twist into a rope, and the relatives of the family have no intrigue, nor do they bring some messy little ninety-nine, as long as it is beneficial to the Hunter family, it will be carried out by the whole family to the end.

When Richard reformed the territorial system, the two uncles were the blades of his reform, and all opponents and petty moves were suppressed by these two uncles with absolute force.