Claire has been in a very good mood in the last few days, and after the arrival of the two mercenary groups, he has finally been relieved of the huge pressure of employing personnel, and he has been able to have temporary management talents to help build the territory.

Now, thanks to the wealth that the Hart family has accumulated over several generations, the development of the territory is finally on the right track.

First of all, there is infrastructure.

The autumn harvest has long been over, and the winter in the eastern part of the kingdom is not cold, and there are so many idle laborers in the territory that naturally people cannot be idle.

In order to help them build a beautiful home, Claire has carried out two major infrastructure projects.

One, naturally, is the magic tower that Bella had promised to build.

The construction of the magic tower does not require much manpower, mainly to test Claire's wallet. Because the difficulty of the project does not lie in "repairing the tower", but in what precious magic materials are purchased.

Even if Claire has money, seeing the materials needed by Bella and the budget list calculated by Little Ivan, Claire's heart hurts a little.

Even in his previous life, he had never spent money like this.

Oh, in my previous life, I seemed to be the one who raised the budget, and I suddenly understood a little bit why the mentor wanted to scold people.

Claire didn't bother with it, isn't it just money, the daughter is scattered and comes back, money, it's not difficult for him to earn.

The second project is to build roads.

Blue Star has a good saying, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

For a territory to develop and be attractive, a well-connected transportation network is indispensable.

The current road in Tilling, with only one road to the north leading to the King's Road, is paved with gravel. As for the other directions, it is a dirt road formed by the legs of people and animals, and it is not strictly a road at all.

If you don't pay attention to the problem of roads, you can't blame the Hart family, it's just a common problem of the nobles of this world.

The territories of the nobles are equivalent to strictly independent "small kingdoms", and there is naturally no basis for communication between them.

Besides, many nobles also felt that there was no need to build roads, what difference did it make if there were no roads, horses couldn't run without roads, people couldn't cross, why waste money.

And as long as you rely on the transportation network built by the kingdom, that is, the King's Road, you can basically respond to the call of the lord and participate in the assembly of the kingdom's war.

The King's Road connects every important city and stronghold.

Finally, it is because it costs money to build roads.

In many cases, even the roads inside the territory are too lazy for most nobles to build, such as the roads in Tilling Town and the surrounding villages, which do not even have a single gravel, and are completely spontaneously made by the lords.

Many lords of this world don't understand the value of the road, and Claire certainly does.

Not to mention that in order to develop the territory, even for the defense of the current territory, Claire needs to build several roads to connect her three baronies into a whole.

Building roads, in a world similar to the Blue Star Middle Ages, was much easier than Claire had expected.

Thanks to the obedience of the leaders, when Claire repaired the road and was paid, the leaders showed great enthusiasm, and there was no disobedience to management.

Of course, it may also be because the overseers who made temporary cameos by those mercenary group members were more ferocious.

In addition to infrastructure, it is the promotion of education.

Because the lord "accidentally" drank too much, he may serve as a clerk from among the literate people to help manage the territory in the future, and even the lords who have not entered the literacy class have burst out with a high enthusiasm for learning.

Many people will even ask people to enter literacy classes to take the initiative to learn, which is more effective than Claire thought.

Claire is not deceiving, he is definitely not ready to continue to rule the territory in the feudal model after that, and needs to centralize power. The corresponding bureaucratic needs are enormous. Then the bureaucrats must be found from the literate people, otherwise they can't read the documents, how can they manage the territory.

The most important thing is undoubtedly the growth of military power.

Claire has never forgotten that the achievements made so far are temporary, not to mention whether the few people who have offended in Trois-Rivières will be bad, just say that the territory she has taken, the original lords are all alive and kicking one by one, and there are still armies.

Once they counterattack the territory, everything he has worked so hard to ensure will become someone else's wedding dress.

Fortunately, with the help of two mercenary groups, Claire has a guarantee in terms of the quality of soldiers and the number of professionals, at least she doesn't have to worry about being served one day without knowing it.

The 300 recruits were recruited, and the results of the training were also quite gratifying.

With so many experienced soldiers in the mercenary group, the recruits can receive relatively good combat training in addition to their daily training, and the day of becoming elite soldiers is not far away.

Seeing that the territory is thriving, Claire is also full of expectations.

Time is very friendly to Claire, and the later the opponent's counterattack drags on, the better it will be for her.

Thinking of this, Claire returned to her room with relief and began to tinker with some technology from her previous life and write some corresponding teaching materials, ready to be taken out when the time was right.

Claire was in a good mood, and Moore, who was also a new baron, was in a particularly bad mood.

Originally breaking through the middle rank, with the army carefully prepared by the family, Moore was full of ambition to take Domey Town, and then saw the opportunity to encroach on the surrounding territories, become a powerful baron, and then compete for the family patriarch, becoming an indispensable powerful faction in Three Rivers City.

It's just that I didn't expect that there was an accident in this first step.

The town of Domme was taken away by Claire in advance.

Although the damned Evan knight claimed that the town of Dome had been conquered by Claire's army, he was only invited by Claire to make a brief repair.

However, only a fool would believe this.

Without the help of Evan's army, with Claire's 100 recruits, would he be able to take the towns of Tilling and Domey? Are you kidding. If this is the case, Claire is indispensable for the title of the kingdom's famous general.

But even if he knew that Evan was lying, Moore could only pinch his nose and admit it. After all, although Evan is not strong, he represents Count Wright.

At the same time, because of the "gentleman's agreement" agreed upon by everyone when he was knighted before, Moore did not dare to take risks, even if he thought that his strength was stronger than Evan's army.

The value of Domey Town is worth Moore's breach of the agreement, and if it is only him and Claire in private, then he can deal with Count Wright with any reason. But to do it in front of Evan would be to slap Count Wright in the face, even if Count Wright was happy to see the barons' private infighting, he would have intervened.

Unsure of how long Evan would be stationed in Domey, Mor chose to give up and choose other territories as targets.

As for his subordinates' suggestion to go to Tiling Town, Moore directly refused. Not to mention whether there is also Evan's army in Tilling Town, even if it is defeated, if the other party is prepared, the loss will not be small, and Claire's personal strength will not be weaker than him.

At this time, there is no point in getting angry with Claire, first get a fief of your own, that's what you really need to do.

Which is more important, Moore can still tell the difference.

Since you, Claire, have made a start, then I will still learn from it.