Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 21 Mara Town

With only a crude map in his hand and only one or two memories in his mind, Owen gritted his teeth and set off with the convoy.

The only advantage of the northern border is that the road does not need to be repaired at all, because the terrain is flat, and you can just find the right direction, but it is relatively easy to get lost. Once you lose your way, you will not even know where you are when you walk, because There's no point of reference in this damn place.

If Owen hadn't exchanged a special item from the system, he wouldn't have dared to go out, because he wasn't even sure he could find his way back.

Fortunately, this kind of compass-like prop works well. It can be divided into yin and yang, and can be separated.

Along the way, Owen tried desperately to perfect the map with only simple lines in his hand, but found that he overestimated his ability.

Although he has been overestimating his own abilities, this time the blow was even greater because there was no way to start.

At first glance, it is full of grass, let alone recognizable terrain such as rivers and hills, and there are not even large trees and stones. What can be used as a mark on a piece of white paper?

In desperation, Owen had no choice but to give up this idea first, but he felt that if the territory grew in the future, a straight road must be built.

I encountered some wild beasts and robbers on the road, but in the face of forty professional soldiers, ten of them were cuirassiers, no one dared to do anything. Even when passing through noble territories, the local lords would send gifts to express their goodwill , I'm afraid that this group of people will turn around and wipe them out.

This is not a joke. The nobles of the Northland lack background. There are not many like the Hydera family who can occupy an abandoned castle. Most of the Northland lords live in stockades built by civil engineering. It looks like a pigsty when it rains. Coupled with the habit of urinating and defecating everywhere, it is really yellow soup and feces, and the fragrance is floating ten miles away.

As for the soldiers, there are at most 20 people. They are not professional soldiers, and they can't beat Owen's elite soldiers at all.

So when it comes to fighting, one hit is accurate, and there is no place to run.

There's no way, in this hellish place like the Northland, there's not even a place to escape if you lose your territory. Otherwise, Owen won't see the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce once a year, and there will only be a group of hungry and crazy robbers.

Fortunately, Owen is really not interested in them, because there is no oil and water at all. Even if they are landed, the land will need to invest more manpower and material resources to get a return, and the cost recovery cycle is about half a generation, so there is no special output. Under such circumstances, laying down more territories is just a burden.

However, with the emergence of noble territories, Owen gradually found the knack of reading the map, and only then did he have a bottom line in his heart, knowing that he had not gone the wrong way.

Although this map looks simple, it is very precious on the border of the Northland. If it weren't for the Hydera family with the help of the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce, it would be impossible to have it.

It can be seen from the map that the closer to the border of the empire, the greater the number of lords.

According to the density of the map, one day's journey can pass through the territories of two or three northern nobles. This is unimaginable in the area where Owen's territory is located, because the nearest neighbors need to walk for two days.

This is mainly because the northern border nobles are like a handful of seeds scattered by the empire, and the distance becomes wider as they go outward, because only a few ambitious northern border nobles will choose to go deep into the north to occupy more land, most of the northern border The border nobles are still rational, and they choose to gather on the border of the empire.

Backed by the empire's frontier troops, and convenient for the empire's merchants to come here, the speed of development naturally surpassed that of the lords who penetrated into the north.

However, due to the close distance between them and the competition for interests, many contradictions and frictions will inevitably arise. All kinds of open and secret battles will involve a lot of energy, and it is difficult to tell whether it is good or bad.

But this is exactly what the empire wants to see. The northern border nobles who are scattered in the sand are just a dish, but when they get together, their size can be regarded as a threat, so they often fan the flames inside.

This has little effect on Owen, because his territory is too far away from the border of the empire. Even if he does not stop, it will take several days, and the surroundings are all wasteland. The nobles in the empire will not beat him if their brains are kicked by a donkey. idea.

The destination of Owen's trip is not a few big towns near the border of the empire, where most of the wealth in the entire Northland is gathered, and it is the place where the imperial nobles harvest the wealth on the border of the Northland, but he is just to buy some serfs, there is no need to go anywhere .

Besides, based on the many novels he has read, if he, as the protagonist, dares to approach this kind of place, he will definitely offend a descendant of a certain imperial nobleman for various reasons, and then be targeted and hunted down, although the other party will definitely He lost to the protagonist's halo, and was killed by him pretending to be a slap in the face, but he was full, and instead of planting a good field, he ran to find excitement. Is it because all the work in the territory is done, or Maya is not fun anymore?
Therefore, Owen's destination is Mara Town, which is located in the middle of the border of the Northland. This is one of the transit points connecting the north and the south, and it is only three to five days away from his territory.

The northern border is fan-shaped, and similar transfer stations are like fan bones, allowing goods from the north and the south to circulate.

Because there is more than one similar transfer station, the importance is there, but it is not that great. As a result, the competition for interests is not so fierce. Naturally, it will not attract big sharks, and the risk is much less. At least with Owen's current strength, All they got was goodwill. Whether it was the guards in Mara Town who liked to eat Naka, or the robber spies who came here to look for prey, they all learned to smile after seeing Owen's team.

Owen was not surprised by this, and looked at the place in front of him that had only appeared twice in his memory.

Mara Town is not small, but its resident population is only about 300, because most of them are herdsmen, so the area is naturally much larger.

The location of Mara Town is considered to be unique. Not only is it one of the transit points connecting the north and the south, but the aquatic plants here are not bad, suitable for grazing. Therefore, Viscount Mara is one of the few lords who can form a large-scale cavalry.

The problem is that there is a difference between cavalry and cavalry. When Owen entered the town, he saw cavalry in Mara Town. Most of them were herdsmen who had changed jobs. It's fine to deal with low-level bandits or half-baked soldiers of other lords, but if they face Owen's cuirassiers, even if the number is doubled, they will lose.

After all, a scimitar less than three feet long is matched against a lance more than two meters long, a simple leather armor is matched against a high-quality breastplate, and freedom is matched against well-trained people.

Training, equipment, morale, coordination, these are all too poor, and without enough numbers, it is impossible to bridge the gap between the two sides.

Moreover, Owen's other troops were not vegetarian either. Spearmen, swordsmen, and infantry were in formation. A small number of cavalry really didn't dare to charge, at least the light cavalry in Mara Town didn't dare.

(End of this chapter)