The pioneer team is generally composed of civilians, because the main task is to go to the no-man's land to pioneer, so there will be no soldiers to accompany them, let alone knights.

But this refers to the development team in the ordinary sense, and there is a special kind of development team that is mainly composed of soldiers, that is, the team that builds military facilities such as sentry posts and fortresses.

"Is it the construction of a new sentry?"

This is not incomprehensible, originally there was a northern guard north of Iron Tree Fort, and now this plain further north of the northern guard is included in the territory of the Tiran Kingdom, so it is normal to establish a new guard in the border area that has been clearly explored.

"It doesn't look like it." Ardis recalled all the details, and no matter how he looked at it, it didn't feel like a new sentry was being built.

"Then there's only one possibility." David didn't think it would be like this, but after ruling out a few possibilities, there was no other answer: "The Iron Tree Fort has divided this plain area, and that area has been given to a certain nobleman. ”

What Ardis saw might be the nobleman who took the peasant farmers he hired to develop and build his fiefdom, so that the other party might not just build a village, but directly establish a town: "Have you counted how many people there are?" ”

"No less than thirty." Ardis recalled, he just watched from a distance for a while, not sure that he saw all the people: "If it was really sealed out, maybe this is just the first batch, and someone will come later." ”

"Probably not this year, unless they want to brave the wind and snow." After Davy finished speaking, he realized that these people probably didn't understand what winter was like in the Northern Plains, and began to think about whether he should remind the other party a little.

He has no hostility towards these latecomers, and he doesn't feel that the other party has violated his territory, he knows very well how many catties and taels he has, he is a small village head, and he can't manage so far away.

Of course, he wouldn't be happy if the other party built the town at a distance that was visible to the naked eye from the village of Rinwinter, and such a close distance meant that the two sides would soon have a conflict over the land, and it also meant that David's village had no room for development at all.

"Could it be...... That's what the nobles were going to do? ”

Although the Kingdom of Tiran issued a Pioneer Order, encouraging civilians to reclaim wasteland to help the kingdom expand its territory, he really couldn't think of an example of a commoner who became a great lord with the Pioneer Order.

In the past, he took it for granted that it was the limited knowledge and ability of those 'village chiefs', and that after the village developed to a certain extent, it exceeded their ability, and there was no way to further upgrade.

Now it seems that things are far more than simple - the common people do lack the ability and vision to go further, but it is likely that the kingdom has also used some means to limit it.

"I used to think that such a big land as the Northern Plains could be smoothly developed into a big town with the golden finger, but now it seems that I am quite naïve."

He smiled self-deprecatingly, David didn't feel any dissatisfaction, and if he sat in that position, he would do even better.

And at present, it seems that things are not so bad, as long as he develops step by step, he can still develop Winter Village.

"I'll go over and see for myself tomorrow."

He was going to meet this new neighbor in person, and he didn't know it before, but now that he knows, he must at least find out the identity and general personality of the other party.

Considering the proximity of the two villages, it may be possible to do some trade, and it would be nice to have a market in the future between the two villages.

After thinking about it for a while, David was going to lie down and rest after completing all the exercises according to the usual practice, and get up at dawn tomorrow and set off to see the new neighbor in the northeast.

Unexpectedly, before he had dinner, an acquaintance came to visit him in Winter Village.

"Captain Gregory, welcome to Winter Village." Suddenly he came to visit him by the captain of the northern outpost, Grigory, the same person with whom he had bought fifty kilograms of potatoes.

"I haven't seen you in a while, Chief David." Grigory greeted David very warmly, and at the same time looked curiously at Winter Village, and saw that a large number of fields had been cultivated around the village, and most of them were full of potatoes that were about to ripen: "It seems that Winter Village has ushered in a bumper harvest, these are potatoes!" ”

"yes, this winter won't be as hard as it was before." When David noticed that Grigory had come to the village, he kept looking in the direction of the farmland, and it seemed that Grigory was coming for potatoes this time: "Captain Gregory, do you want to buy more potatoes this time?" ”

"That's right." Grigory happily admitted: "This time the amount to buy is huge. ”

"Oh?" David looked at Gregory, turned his head and looked at the soldiers who came with Gregory, as well as several carriages, and several of them were completely empty: "It seems that Captain Gregory is very well prepared, I don't know how much to buy this time?" ”

"I'll buy as much as you want." Gregory's meaning is very clear, I will take as many potatoes as you can't eat in Winter Village! That is to say, the whole village except for the part he left to eat, he wants to buy the rest.

"Could it be that the northern outpost has decided to use potatoes as the main military ration?" Buying so many potatoes back, could it be that Grigory is ready to let his subordinates eat nothing but potatoes?

The more I thought about it, the more strange it became, and when I was about to ask something more, I noticed that Grigory was winking at him, and whispered, "Village Chief David, can we talk alone?" ”

"Yes, please do it here." David thought for a moment and took Gregory to his cabin.

Although there were many things in his wooden house that were inconvenient for people to see, as the number of people in the village grew, he had developed the habit of putting away those special things, at least on the surface there was nothing strange about his wooden house.

When Gregory came in, he only glanced at the environment of the wooden house and did not pay attention to the surroundings, but stared at David himself: "Village Chief David, there is a great opportunity in front of you. ”

"What do you mean?" Davy's face was puzzled, he didn't like this way of talking very much, and often talked like a guess for a long time without getting to the point.

Fortunately, Gregory did not continue to be so mysterious, and directly stated the real purpose of his trip: he wanted David to devote himself to the family to which he is now allegiated.

“？”

For a moment, David wondered if he had crossed over again? What kind of script is this? Have you become a military commander in the field?

Fortunately, when he was stunned, Gregory was still introducing the family he was now loyal to, and at the same time, David finally figured out what was going on.

It turned out that Gregory was no longer the captain of the northern outpost, and after receiving the fifty kilograms of potatoes sent by David, he used these potatoes as capital to join the Frest family, the nobles of Irontree Castle.

After testing potatoes for themselves, proving that potatoes were easy to grow, had a short cycle, and yielded good yields, Gregory became a knight loyal to the nobles, and followed the fourth son of the Forrester family, Sheen Forster, to the northern plains to establish new villages.

Nominally, Sheehan-Forrester had come north under the guise of building a new border post, but was prepared to build it to the standards of a border town, given that it was too remote and required a certain degree of self-sufficiency.

However, even if Sheehan-Forrester succeeds in establishing a border town, he can only be regarded as a builder, and at most he will be stationed here to guard the border after the construction is completed, and this area and the newly established villages and towns are not Sheehan-Forrester's territory.

So the Forrester family thought of a roundabout way, asking Gregory, who was more familiar with David, to come to Winter Village and recruit David as a subordinate of the Forrester family.

If David joins the Forrester family, then Winter Village and the surrounding area will naturally be counted as the territory of the Forrester family, considering that David's Winter Village is a product of the development order, the specific size of this territory is very flexible, and even directly annexing the newly established villages and towns is not difficult to achieve in operation.

In this way, the village of Winter and the newly established villages and towns, together with the surrounding large area, became the territory of the Forrester family.

Of course, Gregory couldn't have said these things so clearly, but through the information revealed in his words, David figured out why the other party wanted to recruit him.

At the same time, Gregory revealed more information about the area around Winter Village: it was not only the Forrester family who were eyeing the vast 'terra of land' on this plain, but many other families were eyeing this vast land.

However, at present, only Sheehan Forrester has established a new border village and town northeast of Winter Village, and the team sent by Marquis Morgan, the lord of Irontree Castle, has established Snowfield Fort in the middle of Winter Village and the original northern outpost, that is, in the west of the center of the entire Northern Plains.

"In addition, there are more families that will send teams to this plain after next spring." According to Gregory, after next spring, villages will spring up one after another on this land.

“……”

Listening to Gregory's description, David doubted that if he had a system or something, there would be a high probability that a voice reminder would appear: Congratulations on entering the Warring States Period!

Holding back and not complaining, David continued to listen to Gregory's words, and when he heard it, he suddenly found a problem: this guy has been talking for a long time that Winter Village has no development prospects, and after the major families reach out, it is difficult for Winter Village to recruit people to settle down; The situation in the northern plains after next year is very chaotic; The Forrester family is strong.

But he didn't mention that if he defected to the Forrester family, what benefits would David himself get?

"This guy...... Don't pay attention to it! ”