Quiet days are always short-lived.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, or if it's deliberate. Cailliaud and Sith's celebration banquet was held on the same day.

This is sad for the nobles of the neutral camp, and no matter which side of the party they attend, they will offend the other side.

As a last resort, everyone can only selectively pretend to be sick, and no one can get a gift when they play.

Hudson also fell ill, although he had said that he would attend, but it was just a polite remark, and how could he take it seriously.

ran to see competitors pretending to be forced, blocking himself for no reason, and his brain was not broken.

What's more, people are just polite when they send invitations, and they don't necessarily want Hudson to come to the show.

There is no point in doing things. If it is not a great feud between life and death, why disturb other people's celebration banquets?

Aristocracy is to have grace.

It doesn't matter if you stab each other in secret, you don't have to turn your face on the surface.

Otherwise, if you stir up my banquet today, and I disturb your ceremony, won't all the banquets become a farce?

Having prepared two gifts and sending them to each other, Hudson turned his attention to the construction of his castle.

There are no new tricks, except for some minor modifications, and the overall design of the castle follows the local architectural style, some of which are similar to Gothic.

If you look at the location of the castle, you can see that it stands on Salam Peak, the highest peak in the southeastern province, and it is obvious that defense is the first priority.

The only difference is Hudson's plan, which is much larger than the average castle, with the main building covering an area of 1 hectare.

Counting the surrounding outbuildings, it is a castle. The area enclosed by the city wall is 3.8 square kilometers.

If all the works are completed, it will be a war fortress capable of holding tens of thousands of people, and it will be a battle with the fortress of Ethel.

If it had been before that, a baron had to build a war fortress, which would have caused an uproar.

However, if you change to a fiefdom viscount, it will be much more normal. Almost all fiefdom viscounts will build their own cities.

Including the city of Dadir, where the Viscount of Sith is located, it is the result of the previous noble lords running it themselves.

The kingdom will only allocate funds to build cities in the north to defend against the invasion of orcs, and other regions will not be taken care of at all.

Anyway, the Terran countries will not invade the Alpha Kingdom. This is a tacit understanding between the countries of the continent.

Limited by financial and manpower, generally speaking, the construction of castles by nobles is protracted.

Three years and five years is the norm, and ten or eight years is not surprising. It is also possible to plan grandly and continue to build for generations.

Hudson worked on it for a year, and the Lord's House was not completed, and it was within the normal level of everyone's cognition.

With the addition of Bear Stearns, the speed has become faster.

A boulder weighing several tons, dozens of tons, for ordinary people to transport, it is more difficult than a snail to advance.

But if you put it on Bear Stearns, it's almost like playing.

Boulders weighing several tons or tens of tons are toys in the hands of bear cubs. One moment play a game of ball tossing, and the next moment you spin in circles on your head.

One is not enjoyable, and several boulders can be connected together to play together.

Bear Stearns' acrobatic performance is also a unique scenery in the mountain territory.

Baron Redman was terrified, lest the Earth Bear would be playing and smashing people with boulders.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long. The number of boulders is limited, and in less than a day, the efficient Bear Stearns completed the delivery of the boulders.

The stones are all prepared in advance, and you have to think about it very carefully.

But the bear didn't say anything, and the others naturally didn't talk much. Neither Hudson nor Bear Stearns could have said anything about the deal.

A decent person + a decent bear = tacit secrecy.

For the sake of everyone's glorious image, everything that involves interests must be kept confidential.

No one made trouble, and the celebration banquets on both sides were successful, but there were fewer guests participating.

In Hudson's view, a celebration was like a wedding. Except for the parties involved, everyone only pays attention to it superficially.

Even the parties don't necessarily pay attention, such as Hudson himself.

Dragged down by the construction of the castle, his celebration banquet has not yet had time to start, and the season of spring grain storage has already arrived first.

After last year's locust plague, the harvest of spring grain this season is particularly important for the two counties of Layt and Wyton.

Countless territories are waiting to be fed, just waiting for the food to go to the pot.

As far as Hudson knew, some of the Northland nobles' territories even fed their hunger with barley in advance.

After all, the variety of grain is too simple, all within the scope of the locust's diet, and it is pale in the face of the locust plague.

Hudson was ready to diversify his farming, and poultry to curb the locust infestation had to be raised.

Although there is no market for chickens and ducks in these years, and large-scale breeding cannot be sold, this does not affect their own eating.

Aquaculture, can also be arranged. The ditches and rivers dug in the swamps are natural breeding farms.

Anyway, in these years, there is no pollution from chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and all of them are original.

The yield does not have to be extravagant, no matter how much you harvest, you can make money. Increasing the supply of meat is also a powerful measure to solve the shortage of grain production capacity in the territory.

Especially for the military, adequate nutrition is the key to strengthening the army.

If you can't fill your stomach, what combat power do you expect?

The messy plans are all in the preparation stage, and the most important thing at the moment is the spring grain harvest.

Hudson had already shifted his position, and the preparations for the celebration were lost to Baron Redman, but fortunately there were a number of people who had come to the door to help, otherwise they might not have been able to cope with it.

It was mainly the mountain leaders who were poor and white, nominally holding a celebration banquet, but in fact the main job was to supervise the construction of the castle.

The main structure is okay, but the key is the interior decoration.

Carvers, painters, designers...... All kinds of art jobs are invited from the provincial capital with a lot of money.

If you don't have a little bit of artistic cells, you can't keep up with the rhythm of these people's thinking. If these guys are allowed to improvise, the possibility of fright is definitely greater than surprise.

Looking at the truckloads of grain harvested, Hudson didn't feel anything, but the others were really startled.

Who unleashed the rumor that the mountain region had low grain production?

The yield per mu of the mountain territory is almost the same as that of the plains outside. You must know that this is a newly reclaimed wasteland, and it is in the stage of land cultivation.

Fortunately, Hudson had the foresight to grow oil crops in these areas, not the mainstream rye.

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The question is that the soil quality is suitable.

It is not specialized in soil research, and it is difficult to distinguish at a glance what crops are suitable for planting soil quality. It just so happens that in the continent of Aslant, there is no profession that specializes in soil quality.

Surprise is surprise, envy and jealousy are not necessary. Everyone's territory is plain, and almost all the food grown is highly productive.

The joy of the harvest did not last long, and Hudson was surprised to find that the food deficit in his own domain had increased rather than decreased.

The newly reclaimed land area is indeed quite large, with 110,000 mu of newly added mountainous land and 68,000 mu of new paddy fields, which is another year of exceeding the task.

However, the rate of land growth has not kept pace with the rate of population growth.

Without any entertainment facilities, it starts to create people when it gets dark. The serfs who relaxed the restrictions were even more motivated in the cause of creating people than Hudson expected.

Although the statement of one child a year is a bit exaggerated, it is actually not much worse. Men and women of school age are full of firepower.

It was the Hudson who was too merciful to cause trouble, stipulating that pregnant women were not allowed to engage in heavy physical labor, and also distributing milk and goat's milk to infants and young children, so that everyone had no worries.

The natural population growth rate is more than 6 percent.

Of course, this set of data is not scientific, and the statistical period of capture is too short, and the infant mortality rate cannot be accurately included in it.

In these years, children are easy to feed, and adding a group of newborns will not add much cost to childcare.

The real cause of the food problem is the orc slaves purchased at a low price.

The skyrocketing number of slaves not only broke the demographic structure of the territory, but also increased the food shortage.

The number of serfs is only more than 28,000, and the orc slaves are about to break through the 60,000 mark. This unhealthy population structure is definitely a threat to the long-term development of the territory.

The only good news is that the total food deficit is increasing, but the food self-sufficiency rate is rising.

At the current rate of land reclamation, there is still great hope for achieving basic self-sufficiency in grain in two years.

If this news spreads, it will definitely cause a big stir.

The basic self-sufficiency of food means that the bottomless pit of mountain land reclamation has taken a turn for the better.

It is certain that you will continue to lose money, but the deficit will start to decrease from the current tens of thousands of gold coins per year year to year, and finally turn from negative to positive.

According to outside estimates, the timing of this turning point should be more than ten years later, not in the last two or three years.

There is no way, no matter how optimistic people are, they can't imagine that the scene of the Earth Bear on the construction site is too anti-"bear" type.

It's a pity that there is only one bear in the earth, and Hudson doesn't dare to squeeze the potential of Bear Stearns, so he can only work in a flicker, otherwise this efficiency can be further increased.

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"This year's spring ploughing has greatly increased the land area, and your tasks are very heavy.

In particular, the newly opened paddy fields are going to bring in foreign rice this year, so you should keep an eye on it.

Orc slaves are not suitable for delicate work, and spring ploughing is still entirely the responsibility of the lords. It's still the old rule, with armor as a unit, and tasks are assigned according to the number of laborers.

The reward I promised to the people will now be honored.

Last year, the land reclamation plan was 100,000 mu, but 110,897 mu of wasteland was actually reclaimed, exceeding the quota by 10,897 mu.

According to the settlement of one-third of the excess reward, then 3,632.3 acres of land will be used as public land, which will be distributed by the people who have participated in the land reclamation.

Record it, and from the next season, the income of this part of the land will be withdrawn and distributed to each of the lords who participated in the reclamation according to their contributions. ”

Hudson said arrogantly.

The income of thousands of acres of land, he really doesn't care about it now. As long as everyone is willing to work hard, Lord Hudson will not be stingy with rewards.

It is a pity that these stimulus can only be used against serfs. A larger number of slaves were still forced to do it.

The language barrier made Mr. Hudson, who was good at drawing big cakes, feel powerless for the first time.

Otherwise, it must be the best to eat meat, the worst to eat soil, and the bad to eat feed.

"Yes, sir!"

Everyone replied in unison.

It can be seen that everyone is in a good mood. Following a generous lord is obviously more promising than following a stingy lord.

Serfs can be rewarded and punished clearly, not to mention their management.

Credibility is crucial for entrepreneurs. Especially when facing one's own people, any breach of contract may make the team disheartened.

It's easy to lose credibility, but it's hard to get it back.

After a pause, Hudson continued:

"I've prepared your share, and Tom will bring it to everyone's lodgings later."

Although many of Hudson's entrepreneurial team belong to the kind of master whose origin is unknown and whose loyalty needs to be tested, the reward should not be less.

These can only be given by Hudson himself, and no one can help.

In the Yaslant continent, there is no New Year's Day, and there is no way to talk about the year-end bonus, and there is no clear standard for even the salary.

There is no way, it is their honor to be able to serve the noble lord these years.

What kind of treatment are you talking about?

Even these people may have been nobles in their ancestors, but in their generation, the title is long gone, so it is nothing.

The only people who can inherit the title are the fiefdom nobles.

The other honorary nobles are all tenured.

The son of an honorary nobleman can also claim to be a noble child, after all, his father is a real nobleman, and when it comes to grandchildren, it is nothing.

If the middle generation does not work hard, the younger generation may become civilians.

The guys who are now following Hudson are all civilians. Announcing the decline of the aristocracy is just a means to raise one's own value.

They are all here for wealth, and their net worth will definitely not be rich. No other reward can be given, and Hudson will not be stingy with money.

Money incentives have proven to be effective. Nothing was obtained, and everyone's mood improved more than a notch.

There may be an element of acting, but life is like a play, who is not an actor?

"Master, last year's plan is complete, this year's territorial development plan, you see?"

Luke asked with concern.

After all, he was born as a businessman, and he has developed the ability to observe words and feelings. At a glance, he saw Hudson's intention to buy people's hearts, and immediately cooperated with practical actions.

"The coal that restricts the production of the mine has been solved, and the production capacity of the mine will be doubled this year. The relevant business network should be tried to spread to neighboring provinces.

Iron replacing bronze is the trend of the times, and this is our opportunity. Taking advantage of the fact that others are still focusing on arms orders, they will go to grab the daily necessities market first.

When necessary, the price of out-of-province exports can be reduced, and the cost of increased freight can also be offset.

The land reclamation plan, because the adult labor force has increased somewhat, the mountain development has been increased to 105,000 acres.

The plan for the reclamation of marshland is tentatively set at 250,000 mu, and it is estimated that 50,000 slaves will be invested.

Aquaculture ......"