William's questioning immediately hit Qiao Sen's soft underbelly and made Qiao Sen very angry in his heart.

But now that people are under the roof, they have to bow their heads, and although they hate William to death in their hearts, they dare not show it. can only pretend to be weak, hoping that William will let him go.

If William felt his malice, sensed the threat, and did not give himself the treatment that a nobleman deserved, and did not want money to die, it would be really bad.

Because he was an illegitimate child, Qiao Sen was very good at disguise, and immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and said in a squeaky voice: "I am the illegitimate son of the old Baron Langton. ”

"Baron Langton is a vassal of Duke Guise?"

In the Grant Kingdom, there are more than 300 nobles above the hereditary baron.

The name and badge of each hereditary nobleman in the kingdom were memorized by William, and after becoming a nobleman, William put a lot of effort into it.

As soon as Qiao Sen signed up, William had already figured out the origin.

Richard pointed to McGee's corpse and said, "This man has knightly blood, do you know his origin?" ”

"Mackay, like me, is the illegitimate son of the Baron, and he comes from the Joseph family. I have aristocratic blood in my body, I want preferential treatment, and I am willing to pay the ransom. ”

William smiled and said, "Attack and murder hereditary baron, I will hand you over to the noble council to see if it will disgrace the Langton family?" ”

"Baron Haaland, that would do you or me any good, except for the loss of the Langton family's reputation.

The first rule of aristocratic survival is the supremacy of interests. You have nothing to lose, I will write to my father and pay the appropriate ransom, and this matter will end here, and you and I will not have a feud. ”

"How much are you willing to pay for ransom?"

"How about 1,000 gold coins?"

William shook his head and said, "Just a thousand gold coins, you can't let me go, at least 3,000 gold coins." ”

"It's too much, I can't afford to pay such a high ransom."

"Then change the payment method. Top up with a slave worth 3,000 gold. Others can do the same, as long as they pay the ransom, they can be freed, and if they can't pay the proper ransom, they can only be slaves to the Harland family. ”

Richard smiled and ordered the slaves in the camp to tie up the captives.

These slave traders were defeated, leaving behind a lot of weapons and equipment.

Richard had his men count them, and found thirteen pieces of iron armor, more than a hundred pieces of leather armor, more than twenty crossbows, more than thirty bows and arrows, and more than three hundred spears and heavy swords, enough to equip two squadron soldiers.

In addition, these slave traders also carried more than 80 war horses, all of which were worth more than 2,000 gold coins.

Of course, half of these spoils will be given to the Soros family.

After taking care of a lot of chores overnight, Richard returned to his tent in the middle of the night.

He opened the properties panel. Although he has been busy treating sick slaves for more than a month, Richard still has not stopped cultivating.

The breathing method and meditation method are practiced every day, and various skills are also taken into account as much time as possible.

In the past 40 days, the experience of various skills has increased somewhat.

After this battle at night, he accumulated 9,500 points of experience, which was enough for Richard to improve his skills.

The Highland Meditation had the highest priority, and Richard added 3,000 experience points to upgrade the Highland Meditation to the fourth level.

In an instant, Richard felt a powerful spiritual power in his mind, and the spiritual power on the attribute panel increased by 3 points. Richard managed to rise to the rank of One-Ring Sorcerer, even though he had not yet learned the One-Ring spell.

Richard closed the stats panel, thinking that with the orc invasion over, it would be difficult to gain killing experience.

Richard's soul is a modern person with normal three views, although his personality has changed a lot, after all, he is not brutal enough to hunt innocents and gain killing experience.

Entering the Eagle Mountain Range to hunt demonic beasts is not only very dangerous, but also requires a long time to track and find demonic beasts.

Richard is not a Warcraft hunter, and he does not understand the habits of Warcraft, so it is difficult to gain killing experience by hunting Warcraft.

Besides, he is also responsible for the management of the territory, so he doesn't have so much spare time.

Unexpectedly, the slave trader sent to the door and became Richard's experience baby, which accelerated his advancement.

Without the raid of the slave traders, it would have taken more than a year for Richard to be promoted to a full-fledged magician.

After the attack, Richard decided to arm the slaves, sent the captured weapons down, and armed two squadrons of slave troops.

Among the slaves were some captured soldiers of the Delong Kingdom.

Richard used these people as his backbone and selected strong slaves as a base. Cooperate with the disabled officers under William's command and form a group while marching.

By the time they returned to Fort Black River, the framework of the two slave squadrons had been erected.

By the middle of March, the snow had melted in the mountains, and the slaves who had arrived earlier had begun to work.

They set up simple shacks, and some of the slaves cleared the farmland, while others gathered stones to build the castle.

The construction of the castle will probably take a long time.

It takes about five to ten years to build a complete baronial castle, costs a lot of gold, and the biggest expense is the purchase of bricks to build the castle.

The blockade of technology in this world is very serious, and many low-level nobles in the Grant Kingdom do not even have a brick kiln in their territory.

In order to save money, repairing brick kilns has become the most urgent task in the territory.

While Richard was busy working for his domain, the families of the slave traders received letters from their loved ones and began to pay the ransom.

Baron Rand's slave convoy arrived the fastest, arriving at Fort Black River in early April, bringing in more than 500 slaves.

Three other slave traders, professional captives, also paid ransoms, bringing with them more than three hundred slaves.

This trip to the royal capital, counting the ransom paid by the captives, unexpectedly got about 3,000 slaves.

Together with the first purchase of more than 1,000 slaves, the Haaland family has just obtained a fief, and more than 4,000 lords are already working.

For a short period of time, the territory has not yet been produced.

In order to feed these 4,000 slaves, the Haaland family had to increase their debt. A large amount of grain was purchased from Fort Black River and Fort Leyte, which was used to feed the serfs.

As the number of slaves increased, Richard could only increase his efforts to open up the wasteland.

By June, more than 3,000 slaves had been involved in the reclamation operation, which had cleared about 400 hectares of farmland.

In order to speed up the land reclamation, Richard also used the powerful iron wildebeest as a draft animal.

The horsepower of the iron horn is very large, far exceeding that of the ploughing ox.

Ten hectares of land can be cultivated every day with iron wildebeest.

It's just that the iron wildebeest has a bad temper, and it can only be controlled by letting professionals participate in labor.