Lord Harland

Chapter 40 Ransom
William's question immediately hit Qiao Sen's weakness, making Qiao Sen very angry.

But now that people are under the eaves, they have to bow their heads. Although they hate William to death, they dare not show it.He could only pretend to be weak, hoping that William would let him go.

It would be really bad if William felt his malice, sensed the threat, refused to give him the treatment he deserved as a nobleman, and didn't want money.

Because he was an illegitimate child, Qiao Sen was very good at disguising himself. He immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, and said, "I am the old Baron Langton's illegitimate child."

"Baron Langton is a vassal of the Duke of Guise?"

In the Kingdom of Grant, there are more than 300 nobles above the hereditary baronet level.

William memorized the names and badges of every hereditary noble family in the kingdom. After becoming a nobleman, William put a lot of effort into it.

As soon as Qiao Sen reported his name, William had already figured out the origin.

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

"McGee, like me, is also the illegitimate son of the baron. He comes from the Joseph family. I have noble blood in my body. I hope to receive preferential treatment, and I am willing to pay the ransom."

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

"Baron Harland, apart from losing the Langton family's reputation, it will be of no benefit to you or me.

The first rule of survival of the nobility is to put interests first.You have nothing to lose. I will write to my father and pay a suitable ransom. This matter ends here, and your two families will not become enemies. "

"How much ransom are you willing to pay?"

"How about 1000 gold coins?"

William shook his head and said, "Just a thousand gold coins, I can't let you go, at least 3000 gold coins."

"The amount is too much, and I can't afford such a high ransom."

"Then change to another payment method. Use slaves worth 3000 gold coins to cover the account. Others can do the same. As long as they pay the ransom, they can be free. If they can't pay the appropriate ransom, they can only be slaves to the Harland family gone."

Li Cha smiled slightly and directed the slaves in the camp to tie up the captives.

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

Li Cha asked people to count and found thirteen pieces of iron armor, more than 100 pieces of leather armor, more than 20 crossbows, more than 30 bows and arrows, and more than 300 long spears and heavy swords, enough to equip two squadrons of soldiers.

In addition, these slave traders also carried more than 80 war horses, all of which added up to a value of more than 2000 gold coins.

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

After dealing with a lot of chores overnight, Li Cha didn't return to his tent until midnight.

He opened the properties panel.Although he has been busy treating sick slaves for more than a month, Li Cha still hasn't stopped practicing.

Breathing method and meditation method are practiced every day without any damage, and try to spare time for various skills.

Over the past 40 days, various skills and experience have increased.

After this battle at night, he has accumulated 9500 experience points, which is enough for Li Cha to improve his skills.

The Highland Meditation method has the highest priority, and Richard added 3000 experience points to raise the Highland Meditation method to the fourth level.

In an instant, Li Cha felt a powerful spiritual power coming from his mind, and the mental power on the attribute panel increased by 3 points.Li Cha successfully promoted to a first-ring magician, although he has not yet learned a first-ring spell.

Li Cha closed the attribute panel. He thought that with the end of the orc invasion, it would be difficult to gain killing experience.

Li Cha's soul is a modern person with normal three views. Although his personality has undergone many changes, he is not cruel enough to hunt innocent people and gain killing experience.

Entering the Eagle Mountains to hunt and kill monsters is not only very dangerous, but also takes a long time to track and find them.

Li Cha is not a monster hunter, and he doesn't know the habits of monsters, so it is difficult to gain killing experience by hunting monsters.

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

Unexpectedly, the slave merchant came to his door and became Richard's experience baby, speeding up his advancement.

Without the attack of slave traders, it would probably take more than a year for Li Cha to be promoted to a full-time magician.

After the attack, Li Cha decided to arm the slaves, distributed the seized weapons, and armed two slave squadrons.

Among the slaves were some captured Dron Kingdom soldiers.

Richard used these people as the backbone and selected strong slaves as the basis.Cooperate with the disabled officers under William's command, and organize while marching.

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

It was mid-March, the snow in the mountains had melted, and the slaves who had arrived earlier had begun to work.

They built simple shacks, some slaves cultivated farmland, and some slaves collected stones to build castles.

The project of building the castle may take a long time.

It will take about five to ten years to build a complete baronial castle and consume a lot of gold coins. The biggest expenditure is to buy the bricks for building the castle.

The blockade of technology in this world is very serious. Many low-ranking nobles in the Grant Kingdom don't even have a brick kiln in their territory.

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

While Li Cha was busy working on the territory, the family members of the slave merchants received a letter from their relatives and began to pay the ransom.

The Baron Rand's slave transportation team arrived the fastest, arriving at Black River Fort in early April, and brought more than 500 slaves.

The other three slave traders and professional captives also paid ransoms one after another, bringing more than 300 slaves.

This time I went to the capital, counting the ransom paid by the captives, and accidentally got about 3000 slaves.

Including the first batch of more than 1000 slaves purchased, although the Harland family has just obtained the fiefdom, more than 4000 people are already working.

In a short period of time, the territory has not produced any output.

In order to feed these [-] slaves, the Harland family could only increase their debts.A large amount of grain was purchased from Heihe Fort and Wright Fort to feed the serfs.

With the increase in the number of slaves, Richard can only increase the intensity of land reclamation.

Before June, more than 3000 slaves participated in the reclamation operation, reclaiming about [-] hectares of farmland.

In order to speed up the land reclamation, Li Cha also used the powerful iron wildebeest as draft animals.

Iron horn horses are very powerful, far more powerful than cattle.

With iron wildebeest plowing land, ten hectares of land can be plowed every day.

It's just that the iron horned horse has a bad temper, and only professionals can participate in the labor to control the beast.

(End of this chapter)