85_85536 The problem of cows is much easier to deal with than with sheep. Although dairy products are also valuable, they have not risen to the level of national policy like textile raw materials. At present, the best breeds of dairy cows are in the Kingdom of Frisia, and the Blue Hat Merchant Group still has connections in the Kingdom of Frisia. The merchant John seems to think that it is not good for William to be upset by his previous rejection of William. So with the guarantee of patting the chest, you can get the best black and white cow to bring to William.

This did ease William's temper a lot. After that, when they separated, they didn't let the merchant John go. Instead, it was sent out very politely.

That's it, good breeds of cattle and sheep or something, we need to find them for the time being, and what William has to do now is to straighten out the various pastures. Cut down all those who were corrupt and derelict in their duties, and then raid their homes. Then they put in some of the civilian personnel they had just trained. In order to ensure the better operation of the ranch.

Agriculture, animal husbandry, these two things will stop for the time being. After that, there's the issue of salt.

Compared with B vitamins and other things, salt and minerals are the real necessities of human beings. Its importance is no worse than that of food. In fact, on the frontier of the human world, the Slavic cities were treated with the gift of bread and salt to the conquerors as a sign of docility and welcome to the conquerors.

Buying and selling salt can indeed make a lot of money. The problem is that William can't make this money.

At present, there are only three popular ways to obtain salts in the world. One is to boil salt from the sea. The cost was quite a lot - an iron pot was needed to boil salt, and iron was also an important trade commodity. At the same time, salts are very corrosive. The iron pot doesn't last long. Therefore, the cost of boiling salt has remained high.

After that, there are the salt mines. Some of the blessed places have natural salt mines that can be mined. However, there are really not many places where this kind of nature favors and attracts envy.

For the time being, William's land has neither salt mines nor seafronts...... In fact, even if it is near the sea. The Polotsk Sea in the north and the Black Sea in the south are so low that salt prices remain high in the countries around the Polotsk Sea. The blue seas further south are the main producers of salt, and the problem is that William can't reach those territories for a while.

That's it, in a short time, William's domain will be an importer of table salt. Even William had a hunch that salt imports were likely to occupy the first place in his domain's spending.

After that, selling military supplies is also a good way to make money.

Copper, iron, saltpeter, sulphur and then high-quality coal. These are the things that every monarch wants, and they are necessary for the development of industry.

The problem is that in the territory controlled by William, there are very few copper, iron and coal, saltpeter and sulfur. Only the Baudelaire region has a small copper mine in half-dead production. William also did not have a professional geological talent to explore mineral deposits. Therefore, it is not advisable to sell these resources for money......

Ocean trade, yes, ocean trade is also a very lucrative way. Peppers, new varieties of vegetables, cocoa, and cane sugar from the New World, rice and spices from Indy and the more distant Spice Islands in the Far East, silk, tea, and porcelain from the fantastical Land of the Dragon...... This qiē can make money. And it's profiteering. On top of that, the gold and silver mined from the New World was enough to turn a country into an upstart.

The problem is that William's territory is not coastal. Moreover, William did not even have a river flotilla......

The entire Grand Duchy of Mazovia was landlocked.

To the south of it is Tartaria, and the mouth of the Black Sea is in Tartaria. To the north of the Kingdom of Wende was the United Province of Polotsk and the Grand Duchy of Livonia, which controlled almost all of the Kingdom's access to the sea.

Unlike the weak Mazovia, the Grand Duchy of Livonia was not badly strong. In the previous battles for hegemony in the Polotsk Sea, it won and lost with the kingdom of Rytjod, the kingdom of the dwarves, and the United Province of Polotsk.

At the moment, the Grand Duke of Livonia is the one most likely to become the new King of Wende.

So, William began to think about another path...... If we talk about industry and manufacturing, then the most popular and profitable one is naturally the textile industry. Basic necessities of life. The first place in the ranking of the underwear of the four things. At the current level of productivity, the textile industry is indeed promising. Even the market of the human world is far from saturated.

The problem is that although the threshold for the textile industry is low, it is not something that the poor can afford to play. And all the big countries attach great importance to the textile industry. The textile industry is regarded as one of the largest and most important industries in the country. It feels similar to how everyone looks at the steel industry after the completion of the industrial revolution in modern times. William's desire to grab food is similar to pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth...... Those mainland powers who regard the textile industry as their lifeblood have to be killed as if they were crazy.

Thinking about it like this, William found that in a short period of time, he had nothing else to do but farm and raise sheep. So he could only sigh, and then give up these roads. It seems that for a long time, there was only one way for him to get rich, and that was farming and herding sheep.

Animal husbandry aside, fortunately, William's farming is still good. It is even said that the most skilled lord in the human world at present is William of Vitra.

After thinking about this, William was a little tired. And so the days passed. The northeastern part of Mazovia is gradually quieting down. William was busy every day, and in a short period of time, he had no intention of continuing to expand outward.

Of course, in armaments, William still spent some energy.

With the help of the Blue Hat Merchant Regiment, Circassian's gun repair shop has opened, with a dozen gunsmiths, plus dozens of apprentices. It was already enough to repair all the guns that William had. If it's not too much trouble, it's okay to ask them to make guns. However, at the moment, William does not want to turn against the blue hat merchant group. So he didn't do it.

In addition, training courses for officers continue to be held. Taking advantage of the fact that there was not much fighting, William decided to train his officers well. If you have enough time, you will naturally improve your teaching skills. William estimated that in another six months to a year, this group of officers would barely be able to make a move.

In addition to these original officers, William recruited many squires and children of small landowners into the army as reserve officers and junior non-commissioned officers.

These people have a relatively high literacy rate. At the same time, he learned riding and martial arts since he was a child, and there are many people who want to rely on military skills to get ahead. The foundation is much better than the people William originally recruited. With this group of people, William's officers don't have to worry for the time being.

In addition, recruiting them into the army would reassure the squires and small landowners of the newly conquered territories. Promote their identification with the Hereford family...... Although the children of the squires who joined the new army were usually second sons and distant relatives who had no right of inheritance.

In addition to these officers, William's new army was also expanding. The magnitude of this expansion was not very large, only a thousand people - after all, the territory of the Hereford family could theoretically support 18,000 new troops, and that was only theoretical. The soldiers of the New Army ate their horses, and the muskets, gunpowder, and guns they used, as well as other messy things, such as lunch boxes, tents, canvas bags, and rolls, all cost money.

The new army of 3,000 was organized into two infantry regiments by William. Because there are enough officers, and there is no hurry to fight. So William subdivided and changed the large establishment to a small one. Each infantry regiment had four infantry battalions, each infantry battalion had three infantry companies, and each infantry company had a hundred soldiers. These include a drummer, a trumpeter, and a flag bearer. Plus the company commander and deputy company commander. In fact, each company had one hundred and five members.

In addition to the infantry, William, with the approval of Count Otto, took his private guards under his control, and then recruited some of the original private guards of Sandomitz and Vitra. Five hundred light cavalry were gathered together to form a light cavalry battalion.

In the border areas, against the centaurs of Tartaria, cavalry, especially elite cavalry, was indispensable. And William happened to have one of the best hussar instructors, that is, Count Otto. William entrusted the training of the hussar battalion to Count Otto. I believe that his father will never let him down.

Finally, there are the artillery units.

In the battle with the combined forces of Sandomiti and Vitra, the role of artillery was irreplaceable. Seeing the benefits, William naturally thought about expanding his artillery unit...... But at the same time, artillery is quite expensive. As soon as those heavy or giant cannons were fired, dozens or even hundreds of Wende gold coins would be wiped out.

Therefore, William's expanded artillery was still only light guns. After expansion, William's artillery was also expanded from a company to a battalion. Armed with fifteen three-pounder guns and five six-pounder guns. In addition to artillery, there was an engineer company dedicated to the construction of artillery positions, as well as an infantry company to garrison artillery positions.

The new army, which has been reorganized and expanded, has two infantry regiments, more than 2,400 musketeers, a cavalry battalion, more than 500 light cavalry, and an artillery battalion, more than 400 artillery, engineers and convoys. In addition, the regiments, battalions and subordinate baggage soldiers, logistics engineers and heralds.

William's new army numbered nearly three and a half thousand men. These 3,500 standing new troops were the capital for William to control his own territory and seek greater interests abroad