Empires Start with Lords

But even if he can only rely on the system to blast troops, Ross doesn't need to fear any marquis now!

With these 500 holy knights alone, 5,000 members of the Royal Knights can be beaten.

Of course, the Aklan royal family is not without priestly knights, but as far as we know, the eldest prince does not yet have the authority to mobilize the real strength of the royal family.

At least until he takes the throne.

What Ross has to do is to try his best to become stronger during this time, not only his strength, but more importantly, to become a powerful lord who will not lose to any duke.

The Aklan royal family is equivalent to a potential enemy, because sooner or later the eldest prince will come to trouble Ross.

If the eldest prince is a boss, then East Ayr Province is a novice village.

It is said that there are two dukes in East Ayr, one called Webb and the other Ruthgol.

What Ross has to do is to surpass them, at least stabilize his position in East Ayr Province before he can gradually spread his influence. Just like Marquis Raisel, all the surrounding territory is his deterrent.

However, there are not only two dukes in East Ayr province, but also six marquis and more than thirty earls.

Forget about the earl, Ross's territory is no different from that of an ordinary marquis, and an ordinary earl would not dare to attack Ross rashly.

Unless the brain is broken.

Otherwise, no earl would want to set up an enemy with powerful cavalry and long-range firearms, and Ross didn't want to take the initiative to cause trouble. Ross still understands the reason for building a big one.

Looking at the various shops lining the roadside, Ross knew that this was the only ruling city in East Ayr Province, and it was also the city of Saidu, the territory of Duke Webb.

When they arrived at Sedu, a team of knights came running and glanced at the royal pattern on the flag of Ross. De Ross was a member of the royal family and said in a respectful tone, "Sir Count, your army can only be stationed outside."

Ross nodded and brought fifteen holy knights in person, and all the rest were stationed here.

Entering the magnificent city gate, Ross saw that the city wall was built with a material similar to cement, but the effect was far from being as good as cement.

After the start of his irrigation technology, Ross will also start to build cement. After all, just buying a city wall will cost tens of thousands of gold coins. Ross still tries to save some money.

Coming to the threshold of a white palace decoration, Ross glanced around at the uncrowded city corridors and the well-organized shops.

Ross felt that the lord here must be a wise monarch, at least not a faint-hearted monarch like Marquis Raisel and William.

"Hello, I want to apply for a territory token."

After coming to the executive hall, Ross glanced at the lady in the wooden window and handed over a map and identification with a smile.

Of course, Rose's identity certificate is the earl's badge of the royal family's method, not the prince's badge.

"The space here is very empty, and..."

Inside the wooden window was a professionally dressed woman who handled a series of businesses. Seeing that Rose was still a little handsome and had a gentle attitude, she kindly reminded: "This is not a good place. I've never seen a lord claim this piece of land."

Indeed, there are basins on the east and west sides of the place marked by Ross, and the central 500-hectare area flows out of a mountainous area. Generally, no lord will want such a piece of land that is easy to attack and hard to defend.

Unless it is known in advance that there is a scarce resource here - black land.

Rose showed a kind smile: "Dear miss, thank you very much for your kind reminder, but I'm pretty sure what I want is this land."

The blond hair inside, the lady who looked less than twenty-five years old as a whole shook her head, with waterfall-like wavy natural curly hair that fell to fit her face with the delicate outline of her oval face.

"But this place is not a good place. There are many strange things happening every year. I heard that this place used to be a small town that survived by mining stones. It moved out decades ago and is empty."

The blonde girl whispered in Ross's ear.

Ross was a little puzzled and asked, "So, there are still unfinished ore there..."

"Well, I heard that there is a [full moon night] every winter in this place, and every time a large number of alien beasts will start to attack the residents here, it is for this reason that there is still no owner. land."

"We all call it privately, [The Cursed Territory]."

"The night of the full moon?"

Ross asked curiously.

"right!"

The blond girl thought her reminder had worked, and nodded contentedly.

"Oh, there are still a few months until winter, so let me occupy this land first."

Ross said.

As soon as these words came out, the blond woman was stunned, looking at Ross with a normal expression, and said after a while: "You are really a brave earl, so I wish you good luck, you We will submit the application to other institutions in Saidu, and we will let you know as soon as it is approved.”

Afterwards, a total of 800 gold coins were spent on Ross's payment, and 4,000 gold coins were also reserved for various follow-up taxes~www.readwn.com~ Ross said hello and said goodbye.

It seems that although Ross spends a lot of gold coins, he can become the owner of this territory without the approval of the royal family, which is not bad.

Of course Ross knew that getting a normal-sized territory would cost more than 5,000 gold coins. Taking a Cursed Territory as the size of a normal territory would cost at least 10,000 gold coins.

It seems that they are in a hurry to sell this territory.

Rose showed a slight smile, but what these guys didn't know was that in such a small territory, it was all black land.

It is estimated that if they have surveyed the land, I am afraid that the black land alone is worth millions of gold coins.

Ross did the math, he was earning blood.

After returning to Greenwoods, Ross began to gather workers.

His territory has a total of 80,000 people, but only 50,000 of them belong to him, and 30,000 are merchants and slaves who come to live in different cities, or come and go.

However, the larger the population, the more attractive the city of Ross is. The current population of 80,000 has a workforce of 80,000.

Ross made a rough calculation. There are about 16,000 people engaged in agricultural production in the territory, most of them are slaves, and only about 6,000 people are farmers.

Some of these slaves were bought by Ross, and most of them were migrated from other cities.

The treatment that Ross gave to the slaves was not low, at least to ensure their survival.

And there are about 6,000 people working in more than a dozen factories run by Ross.

This labor force, Ross intends to subdivide, let some people start building the first steam engine of the Industrial Revolution.