Empires Start with Lords

As for the nobles, there are very few nobles in the cities of Ross, and some are military powers at the level of knight commanders, but they are strictly governed.

Once the nobles killed the commoners, they were all sentenced to death by Ross.

Soon, the team of knights led by Babur returned triumphantly in civilian clothes.

Ross himself went out of the wooden door to meet them.

"Report Lord, all the flyers you requested have been distributed."

Ross patted Babur's head angrily and said, "This is not called handing out flyers."

"How can the list posted by serious knights be called a leaflet? It should be called a holy article to save the people from water and fire. After seeing these lists, many people should come."

Ross raised a bench and sat beside the wooden door entrance, waiting for the flow of people.

An hour passed, but there was no hair at all.

Just when Ross was about to give up, a young child appeared and said in a child's voice, "Hello, is this Ross's territory?"

Ross was stunned for a while, then turned around, and what he saw were rows of unkempt homeless people.

Ross asked, "What territory are you civilians from?"

"Hello, my lord, we are from the territory of Marquis Raisel, the city of Raisel."

The more everyone looked at, the more Ross felt helpless, so he let them into the city as soon as possible.

"My lord, we escaped. The Marquis has a violent temperament. It is impossible to let anyone in the city go out. Instead, the loyal and his nobles will ruthlessly exploit us low-level civilians."

An old man wiped away the wet tears from the corners of his eyes, looking very distressing.

Ross thought for a while and asked, "Are you imprisoned in the city by many soldiers?"

Hearing the old man's description, Ross directly used the term "imprisonment".

The few civilians nodded one after another, without any emotional fluctuations in their eyes.

This is obviously staying in a depressing environment for too long. Ross said: "Since you are here, you are free people. For refugees like you, the tax is exempted for half a year. The house is not given to you for free, but you can live first. Half a year, and then find a job and pay it back slowly, there are still many job opportunities here.”

Ross's territory is not a refugee camp, but he is not afraid of too many refugees.

What Ross lacks right now is labor.

"Really, thank you sir!"

Ross waved his hand and asked several knights to send them away, then sat here thinking about a question.

Since Marquis Raisel treats the commoners so violently, why does the royal family of the kingdom ignore it?

It stands to reason that the earl and above are absolutely high-class nobles, not to mention a marquis.

You must know that there are no more than thirty marquis in the Atlan Kingdom, but there are a hundred earls with the same title as Ross.

Above the marquis is the duke. Ross knows that the duke is different from other titles. Only the retired royal family members are eligible for it. Generally, there are fewer than fifteen.

And the piece of land that the Duke arbitrarily owns is dozens of times larger than what Ross has now.

It can be said that one-third of the kingdom's land belongs to the duke, while the remaining one-third belongs to other nobles, and one-third is left to the kingdom.

So civilians have no right to land.

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Another hour passed, and many civilians rushed over.

And they all heard that Ross does not raise taxes and provides housing.

But Ross also made it clear that this is not a refugee camp. Once he arrives, he must work ten hours a day to complete the work.

Because there are no shops or other recruiting opportunities, Ross has opened several large artificial factories with his own pockets, specializing in the production of arrows and other weapons.

Ten copper coins a day, one hundred copper coins is equal to one silver coin, which means that the monthly salary of ordinary civilians is one or two silver coins.

In Ross's territory, it turned over three silver coins, and there was no need to work overtime, and even provided housing and other consumption, so it was really possible to let the commoners live the stable life they dream of.

A few days later, after the first batch of civilians confirmed that there was no problem, many civilians from other lord cities or small towns came to Ross's territory one after another.

Ross arranged most of the people in Green Forest, and it didn't take long to turn it into the most populous of the three cities, with nearly 10,000 freemen and more than 2,000 slaves.

With such a large population, it is still far from saturated, but Ross is not in a hurry, after all, the fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys.

On the one hand, Ross continued to expand the scope of the city, and on the other hand began to build various facilities.

At noon that day, Babur came to Ross's fortress.

Stone Fortress upgrade.

Ross thought silently in his heart, and with a bang, a much higher-end fortress built with marble and other materials rose from the ground.

Ross asked Babur in the gorgeous hall, "Is there any information?"

Babur said respectfully, "Yes, lord. A few days ago, there was news from the squire knights who were in ambush in the kingdom, saying that the eldest prince was going to start moving some of his troops to the western border. UU read www.uukanshu.com"

Ross blinked. The western territory is very vast, with more than 800,000 hectares, so this eldest prince chose the area near his 2,000-hectare territory?

Babur nodded subconsciously and said, "It's less than 200 kilometers away from us, it seems that there are 30,000 elite troops..."

Poof!

Ross almost spit out the tea.

Thirty thousand elite soldiers?

The rest of the royal family don't know what the eldest prince wants to do, don't they know?

Isn't this an obvious use of royal privileges to deal with him?

With Ross's current military, even if it is just getting better, in the face of so many, he is still unable to resist. After all, the Royal Knights are even more formidable opponents than the orcs.

Ross asked again, "How long will it take them to come?"

Babur panted and said, "It seems that the old king didn't agree, but the old king has loosened due to the eldest prince's hard work."

As soon as these words came out, Ross understood.

This eldest prince will be able to take over Rose's territory in one fell swoop in about half a year.

However, it is fortunate that Ross has half a year of repair time. As long as he rapidly improves his military and economy during this period, he may be able to counter the first prince's conspiracy.

However, half a year sounds like a lot, but it's actually not enough for Ross to harvest crops several times.

At present, due to the rapid increase in population, Ross intends to return to the Eye of Hope and prepare to expand a large field of crops.

Ross calculated that one hectare of crops would be enough for two thousand people, that is to say, unless the weather affected the harvest, he would at least include hectares of farmland.

How easy is it to have so much farmland.

Ross imagined that there is only a small amount of fertile land.