The current military strength of Zhenbei Fort has changed greatly, from only seventy-one barbarian warriors at the beginning to one hundred and eighty-six military forces, including the security team and recruits.

Thirty vigilantes, forty recruits, forty reinforcements and five scouts who had just completed their initial training, plus the Barbarian Guard, were the military forces that Suren now possessed.

The population of Zhenbei Fort has now exceeded 2,000 people, of course, more than seventy percent of them are serfs from Sulun, and even those homeless people rely on working for Suren to survive.

Because of trade, Zhenbei Fort will have several caravans come to trade every month, and now the sugar of Zhenbei Fort is very popular in the northern provinces, and it is also because of the white sugar that high-end rum has successfully opened the market among the nobles, and it has been almost four months since Su Lun came to Zhenbei Fort, and this small city deep into the northern wilderness has also gained some popularity among the nobles.

As long as nothing else, Su Lun, the pioneer lord, will become a real realm noble, and there will be many nobles who will come to scold him, after all, a rising realm nobleman can divide a large number of low-level nobles.

Su Lun didn't think about accepting the service of those nobles at all, those nobles' minds must be in vain, he didn't plan to give those nobles a fiefdom, and now he was busy harvesting food.

More than three months have passed since the first farmland was reclaimed, and the first batch of potatoes planted has matured in about 100 days, and the remaining potatoes will mature in the next half a month.

As long as there is a bumper potato harvest this year, with the yield of potatoes, even if potatoes are no longer planted in the next few years, there will be no famine in Suren's territory.

Of course, starting next year, Suren will also reduce the number of potatoes planted and plant some wheat and other grains instead. After all, he doesn't plan to eat potatoes all the time, isn't it delicious to eat fried noodles, xiao long bao, and scallion pancakes? He plans to try all kinds of delicacies from his previous life slowly.

The first batch of land reclaimed in Zhenbeibao belongs to the best paddy fields, and the land is also fertile. Although there is no fertilizer, the yield of potatoes is still very good.

Arriving at the first potato fields, Suren randomly selected a few fields and asked the serfs to start harvesting the grain.

"Sir, the land you have divided has already been staffed. An attendant came to Suren and said.

Su Lun took a look, and the serfs on those plots of land were ready before he nodded, "Let's start." ”

"Start!" shouted a loud soldier beside him, and with an order, the serfs began to harvest potatoes in the specially selected fields.

The soft soil was turned over, and the vines were pulled out of the soil by grabbing the vines, and bunches of potatoes were pulled out of the soil. Shake off the soil, and the potatoes that are at least the size of a fist are connected into a string, which looks very gratifying, and the weight of a bunch of potatoes is several pounds.

The potatoes are torn off the vines, the fruit is thrown into the bamboo basket next to it, and the potatoes in each piece of land are weighed together, in order to estimate the yield per mu of the field to the greatest extent, although there is still an error, but there is not much difference. From these, we can roughly estimate the yield of potatoes this year.

An acre of land is not big, these serfs are fast, they all want to leave a good impression in front of Su Lun, as long as Su Lun is happy to reward them with a few points, they can get free body faster, and then have their own land, these people are very satisfied.

Soon the nearby acre of potatoes was harvested, and Su Lun asked people to go and weigh them, and the baskets of potatoes were sifted out of the soil and weighed, and the potatoes produced by each piece of land were weighed and labeled one by one.

Potatoes are a crop that is widely cultivated in the world, and the vast majority of ordinary food is potatoes. Who made it easy to grow and yielding? Only a small amount of land would be used to grow crops such as rice and wheat, which were usually used to pay taxes. Moreover, rice and wheat are basically enjoyed as daily food by nobles or big merchants.

The taxes in this world are not low, because the taxes in various places are demarcated by the lords, and the benevolent ones are fine, but those who are greedy will collect all kinds of taxes, go to the rivers to catch fish to collect taxes, go to the mountains to chop firewood to collect taxes, and pay poll taxes every year, in short, collect all kinds of taxes from the aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation.

Every year, the land of the nobles must be cultivated before they can be planted, and three days a week must be set aside to work for the lord, and if it were not for potatoes, half of the commoners of this world would starve to death.

About half an hour later, the potato yield of these plots of land was counted, and the largest plot of land produced 303 kilograms of potatoes, and the smallest plot of land produced 254 kilograms of potatoes.

The yield of more than 200 kilograms is not too high, because it is new land, the yield in the first year is slightly lower, and when there is farmhouse fertilizer next year, the yield will be higher, even if it is the current output, the output of these lands is enough to feed tens of thousands of people, and potatoes are crops, which can be planted three times a year, so for a long time, he does not have to worry about food problems.

After the grain is solved, Su Lun can increase the intensity of population introduction, Zhenbeibao can reclaim at least 300,000 mu of fertile land, which can feed 50,000 or 60,000 people, and now only about 10,000 mu has been reclaimed, and he does not plan to leave those lands empty.

The geographical location of Zhenbei Fort is still a bit remote, but if it weren't for being so remote, this land wouldn't have been his turn to open up, and it would have been occupied by others a long time ago, so there was nothing to complain about. Suren wanted a population, so he could only rely on caravans to bring some homeless people at a time, or go to Carthusian City to buy slaves himself.

However, both methods cost a lot of money, and the results are slow, unless Su Lun is sure that he will get a recruitment order every once in a while, otherwise this is the best way.

For those drow elves, Suren also wants to subdue, drow elves also belong to a powerful race, and compared to the obvious shortcomings of barbarians, drow elves have almost no shortcomings, of course, if they are not dark girls of faith, Suren does not dare to accept these drow elves.

In addition to the Drow Elves who believe in the Dark Maiden, nine out of ten of the other Drow Elves are mentally ill in Suren's opinion, and every day is all kinds of intrigues and murders, so it is better to practice riding more time with this time.

So far, Suren still hasn't taken the initiative to contact those drow elves, after experiencing escape, it is finally easy to settle down, these drow elves are actually very sensitive, insecure, and have lived in that kind of deceitful environment for a long time, making it difficult for them to trust others, Suren The best way now is to show them some kindness, but not too close.

In fact, Su Lun has already regarded this group of drow elves as meat in his mouth, those drow elves who live in the dark world all year round, they will not be able to adapt to the environment of the Northland Wasteland, how cold the Northland Wasteland is in winter, and they can't imagine it if they haven't experienced it.