Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 62
The main reason why Owen insisted on doing this was that he once again had an impromptu idea, trying to build a series of underground buildings in the Buffalo Territory, the Magic Horn Tree Forest, and the Territory Castle, and then connect them.

With the castle dungeon as the core, it connects the magic horn tree forest that produces food and fuel and the buffalo collar that produces iron ore. In this way, several important places can be connected secretly, and all the power can be quietly concentrated , and can guarantee multiple escape routes, not to mention the benefits of resource transportation and sneak attack.

Although there are many benefits, the only problem is that the amount of work is enough to build a city, but Owen would rather bury it underground, which shows that he still lacks a sufficient sense of security.

I don't know if it's because of staying underground for a long time. For Owen, the earth is a quilt that he sleeps alone at night. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, at least it can bring him some sense of security.

Besides, even if he had the ability to build a city, he wouldn't build it, because he didn't intend to be targeted.

It’s okay to develop rapidly within the range that others can understand or accept. Unexplainable rapid development makes me very suspicious. The words “I have a secret” are projected into the sky with a projector lamp. Don’t choose such an exciting method if you want to die.

The idea of ​​building an underground complex is good, and Owen has the ability to realize it, but I don't know if the time left for him is enough.

Let the scouts check it carefully, and if they didn't find traces left by outsiders in the buffalo collar, Owen knew he still had time.

It is a hidden danger for the descendants of the Buffalo Baron to escape, but it is only a hidden danger. Even if the other party attracts barbarians, he is not afraid. He is just trying to see if he can open the upper limit of the progress value again.

Owen's confidence did not come in vain, but a conclusion reached after he had enough understanding under Maya's explanation.

The barbarians in the north are not easy to mess with, and they were even the confidant of the empire at first, but with the development of the empire, the barbarians in the north are still standing still or even regressing, and they have changed from a confidant to a side problem.

With the help of the first Northland Exploitation Group, the Northland barbarians were forced to move northwards in order to survive and pass on several times. This shows how weak the Northland barbarians have become.

It is a consensus that the north land becomes more desolate as it goes north, but whenever there is a slight possibility, the barbarians in the north land will not choose to move across the north, because it is easy to go, but difficult to come back.

The problem is that they have no choice. Even if they still have the ability to annihilate the Northern Exploration Group, so what? Since the empire can form the first one, there will be a second and a third. It is not impossible to even form ten in one go .

The empire has plenty of people, and it can consume them.

Therefore, the wise men of the northern barbarians see very clearly that the only hope for the northern barbarians lies in the north, which is the reason for the great migration of the northern barbarians.

It's a pity that although they have found a way out, in the extreme north, the barbarians will face more difficulties. It is considered good if they can maintain the status quo, and don't expect to grow stronger.

Of course, no matter how weak the northern barbarians were, they couldn't be dealt with by Owen, a small Viscounty, even if he cheated.

The problem is that the northern barbarians are not good at planting, they mainly focus on herding and hunting, so it is impossible to gather in large numbers.

After all, wild beasts in the Northland are not crops, and grass needs time to grow. Simply put, a piece of land can support only a limited number of people. If you want to get more prey, you have to travel farther, so barbarians cannot gather in large numbers. , can only continue to migrate in the form of nomadic tribes.

It turned out to be fine. I don’t know how many years the barbarians in the North have been fighting and compromising with each other. Although there is hatred between tribes, they all have their own living spaces and nomadic routes. .

But after moving to the north, all order disappeared, and everything returned to the original. Whoever has the biggest fist will be full. heaven.

Without cooperation, Owen is really not afraid of a barbarian tribe alone.

The population of the barbarian tribes is not too large, most of them are maintained at around three to five hundred people, and even the most common are small tribes with more than a hundred people.

This is mainly because the barbarians are all big-bellied men. The ancient nomads in the previous life did not eat meat every meal. They mainly lived on dairy products and grains exchanged from farming peoples.

The problem is that the barbarians' stomachs cannot be filled with dairy products at all. As for exchanging food with farming peoples, it is impossible to be a frontier army of the empire.

Therefore, barbarian tribes mainly rely on hunting and grazing to obtain food. The food obtained by hunting is unstable, grazing is limited to grassland, and it is easy to attract wolves. It is difficult to increase the number, so unless it is absolutely necessary, they will not slaughter more livestock. , so it is common to be hungry and full.

It is because they are so edible that barbarian tribes cannot support a large population. Unless it involves the survival of the barbarians in the whole north, most of the tribes will not communicate with each other. At most, they will exchange unmarried couples in public areas in two to three years. Men and women, keep the tribe fresh.

The Buffalo Baron is only half of the barbarian blood, and his descendants are only a quarter. Even if he establishes a relationship with the barbarian tribe by selling iron tools, it is not enough for the other party to help them take revenge with all their strength.

The barbarians are just savages, not stupid. How could they risk the destruction of the tribe to help avenge them? You must know that the most fundamental thing for any tribe is to continue, not to be happy and enmity. A tribe that really thinks so does not survive today.

Knowing this, Owen didn't take the opponent seriously, and this was also the reason why he didn't go all out to build the city.

Although they knew that there was little hope of crossing the North Boundary River again, the barbarians in the Northland still knew how fatal it would be for them to build a city in the North Boundary River.

Once a city is built here, it can completely cut off their hope of returning, and it can also become a bridgehead for the empire to make another northern expedition. Therefore, the northern barbarians will never sit back and watch Owen build a city on the northern boundary river. A town is the limit they can tolerate.

It's still early to say this, the city wall alone can make Owen feel bald, let alone a perfect city.

As the mining of Bison's iron mine is on the right track, every month, ten carts of iron ore of excellent quality are transported to the territory. After being smelted with magic horn tree blocks, they become refined iron, and then they are hammered into various pieces by blacksmiths with big waists. For this reason, Owen had to increase the number of blacksmith shops in the territory.

Even if Maya can handle most of the territorial affairs instead of Owen, it doesn't mean that he doesn't have to do anything. At least he needs to know how far the territory has developed and what to do next, especially the direction of development. Maya can't do it for him. He calls the shots.

In the busy schedule, only Dale and the expander can soothe Owen's wounded heart.

It has to be said that Dale is better than him in this aspect, especially when she mastered the transformation, the animal ears, tail, furry, and the use of the cartilage spell really opened his eyes. In his previous life, he was definitely an ancestor-level character in the book world.

(End of this chapter)