With the management help of Old Motou, Ronan's burden was instantly reduced by half.

This allowed him to have more time to train his soldiers.

With the addition of 60 militiamen under Viscount Claude, the strength of the team has expanded, but the neat military formation, which has achieved initial results, has also added many discordant factors.

This is an inevitable problem, and what Ronan has to do now is to fully integrate the military discipline that obeys orders into this team.

As long as you can do this, if you have new recruits to join in the future, you can quickly be driven by the words and deeds of the veterans around you, and learn to order and prohibit.

There is no need for Ronan to come forward again and repeat the emphasis training.

Three months have passed, and the long journey is coming to an end.

Ronan opened the map and breathed a sigh of relief after estimating where he was.

There are less than two days left before arriving at the castle of the Lord of the Coldwind Lord.

A long journey may begin with new and interesting experiences, unseen landscapes, diverse creatures, and pedestrians from other places.

But after a long time, only physical and mental exhaustion remains, as well as the fear brought by memories.

A dreamy river valley full of flowers, but the upper reaches are abandoned villages full of dead people; mouth-watering wild berries with terrible toxins that can kill you; A smiling merchant and merchant, but the carriage is full of vivid wax figures of young girls.

Even the knight squires from Triumph City have experienced too many horrors along the way.

and the awe and pride in the lord who led them.

Because despite all the dangers, they were brought here intact, and even the deadly toxins would be dispersed with the blessing of the lord!

"My lord, do we need to rest in Blackstone City ahead?" Old Mo asked Ronan.

After such a long journey, they finally met the first large town, Black Rock City.

This is the viscounty of the Pexes family, located less than two days away from the Cold Wind Territory, and it is also one of the few large cities in the northern provinces with a scale of more than 50,000 people.

For Ronan, the significance of Black Rock City is extraordinary, after all, the other party is in the way of his doorstep.

In the future, if the Cold Wind Leader wants to develop, most of the materials purchased from the kingdom need to be transited through Blackstone City, so it can be said that the lifeblood of survival is completely in the hands of the other party.

Ronan wasn't too worried, though.

Baron Exeter had fled to Triumph City through a caravan from Blackstone, where he said he was in terrible condition.

Although the Viscount of Pex chose to sit in the city and put his knights under extremely strict control, killing all those infected with the Black Death, the city still kept popping up sick people.

Ronan guessed that it had something to do with the steam room.

After all, it was far from the center, the territory of the factory owners, merchants and petty nobles who supported the archbishop of Holy Water, and the baths could not be closed.

For the sake of the future development of the Cold Wind Leader, Ronan must find a way to take the actual control of Blackstone City into his own hands.

But not now, he shook his head at Old Mo.

"No, hurry up and get to your destination tomorrow night, there's no need to stay here."

As the new baron, visits to neighbors are inevitable, but not now, at least to settle his soldiers first.

This Viscount of Pex, who was worried about the troubles in the city, when his strange nobleman suddenly came to the door with hundreds of heavily armed soldiers, what would he think?

Think you're helping out with kindness? Ronan doesn't think so.

Now that the kingdom is in chaos, it is difficult to fight directly.

Bypassing the black city standing in front of them, Ronan and his party finally arrived at the end of the trip in the evening of the next day, before the sky was about to dark.

The castle of the lord of the Coldwind Lords comes into view.

Although he had been prepared for a long time, Ronan couldn't help but shake his head when he saw such a shabby and humble castle in front of him.

There were no thick walls and sturdy towers, only a thin layer of low walls eroded by the cold wind. The surface of the castle is badly damaged, and the configuration imitates the classic pointed arched doors and windows and slender minarets of the Triumphal City. But the carved decoration, which was supposed to be ethereal, was rough and comical, and looked nondescript.

The absence of an inner courtyard is nothing, but the main hall, which is the most important, is too cramped to accommodate a maximum of thirty people.

Ronan couldn't help but wonder if Baron Exeter knew that no nobles in his family would come to visit.

It's all about rotting up before you dare to build your castle like this?

The castle had long since left with Baron Exeter, and the building was empty, covered with a thin layer of dust.

Ronan didn't pay much attention after walking around, but asked Old Mo Tou and Ed to lead people to clean the houses around the castle and set up some tents for the soldiers to station in place.

He sat in front of a map and pondered the future of the realm.

In addition to the castle in front of you, there are five villages in the Coldwind Territory.

It is located in the north not far away, in front of the castle in the form of a semi-encirclement, and behind it is the city of Black Stone.

There were at least a thousand people living in each village, but how many people were still in it, Ronan wasn't sure, and he needed to send his men down tomorrow morning to check them all.

But I'm afraid it's not worth looking forward to.

Even if all the villages were well preserved, the barren land led by the cold wind would not be able to support the hundred soldiers under his command for more than 5,000 peasants, not to mention the need for him to expand and build in the future.

Ronan had considered these issues when he first set his sights on the Chillwind Leader, but in the end, he set his sights on it.

Because the area of the cold wind collar is too vast.

The castle and the five villages occupy land that does not even reach one percent of the area here.

In terms of food crops alone, the land here has no value, but what about the other way around?

Further north, the frozen ice fields of the cold wind collar are lined with pines, cypresses, coniferous forests and birch forests. And among the vegetation of these snowy lands, herds of reindeer, musk oxen, snow hares, winter wolves, grizzly bears, etc. The Arctic Sea and lakes are connected by snow-capped water flowing down from the towering snow-capped mountains, where abundant fish such as pike, grey trout, herring, cod, and salmon cruise.

Not only that, with such a large area of frozen soil, Ronan couldn't believe that there was not a single mineral below, not to mention anything else, there must be a coal mine.

With such abundant resources in front of him, as long as he can develop one millionth, he will be able to develop his own territory.

It sounds wonderful, but the others aren't stupid either.

The advantage of the cold wind collar is that the scope is large, and the disadvantage is also that the range is large, and if you want to develop this frozen land with the manpower of this era, the labor cost will be an astronomical amount, far exceeding the final return.

Fortunately, Ronan still has an identity.

In a sense, he had to thank the Black Death, which brought fortune to Triumph and allowed him to gather the materials he needed to study the Workshop.

He took all the materials he had purchased in Triumph City and walked alone to the castle.