Solid stone pass, inside the lord's residence.

In the narrow passages and corridors, the Swadia infantry, dressed in chain mail, had completely occupied the area, armed with military spears of the standard, and lined up to form patrols or sentry teams in the residence.

In just half a month, the Jianshi Pass has completely become Kant's territory.

The first local land site.

Although it is impossible to construct buildings or recruit troops, it is of great strategic importance.

This solid stone pass is equivalent to Kant's tiger prison, holding the moat, advancing and retreating, as long as this area is not lost, it is equivalent to Kant is still in the initiative against the lion principality.

Combined with the current strong cavalry troops, he is fully capable of conducting tactical offensives.

The plains of the Northern County Territory are like open-minded beauties at all.

Even the South County Collar and the East County Collar are about the same.

The flat plains stretch as far as the eye can see, and there are occasional farmlands along lakes or streams and rivers, including the radiant knightly domains, or villages, that which surround the castles.

The political system of the Lion Principality led to the people's livelihood also being dependent on the military.

The village is the area around the castle or city.

Villages, in turn, were knights' domains, the backbone of defending castles or cities.

Sometimes, there were no knights in the knights' domain, only the village chief, the treasurer, and the magistrate were there to help the knights manage the village, and pay the taxes that should be paid every month for the daily expenses of the knights.

This has led to a lack of military presence in the villages.

On weekdays, there are only about 30 armed militia members stationed under the command of a sheriff.

But the duty is not to exterminate the robbers around him, but to maintain the rule of the knight lord, and by the way, when the treasurer begins to collect taxes, to clean up the rebels who dare to resist the taxes, or to hunt down the fugitive slaves who are scattered.

As for the arrival of a bandit group, they took out part of their finances and prayed that the well water would not interfere with the river water.

Of course, the robbers also understood the strength behind the village.

There is a tacit understanding.

The robber took a fixed amount of silver and food, and then left.

Or ask the villagers if there is a caravan passing by, and then use the village to hide and rob those fat and oily caravans, if you encounter a caravan owned by the rival nobles of the nobles behind the bandit gang, you can make a fortune.

The caravan of the hostile nobles can be killed without mercy.

All the silver coins that have been stolen shall be their own.

There are also those goods, there will also be someone to deal with them.

Even these villagers, because of the information, can give them a few silver coins as a reward.

Therefore, the entire Lion Principality, including the villages at the grassroots level, is in a strange state of stocking, which is also a disadvantage of the feudal era, it is completely a feudal system, and no one except their own lord has to be loyal.

After all, the lord of my lord is not my lord, and the vassal of my vassal is not my vassal.

That's what it means.

For outside the territory, no one cares.

In addition, in recent years, the royal authority of the Lion Duchy has been suppressed, and the authority of the Lion Grand Duke Cameron has been compressed to the Southern County Territory, and the security of the entire country has fallen into this complex environment.

This is also the reason why there are so many bandit gangs in the territory of the Duchy of Lion.

Complex environments naturally lead to chaos.

Correspondingly, Rolf's infiltration of the Lion Principality is tantamount to a fish in water.

It's like a fish in water.

There is no obstacle in the process of infiltration.

From the Solid Stone Pass to Fort Roger, the highest in the Northern Commandery, then down the Lion Mountain Range on the south side to Masburg, where Viscount Kevin is located, and then back north along the Death Mountain in the Eastern Commandery.

This is the triangle and the route with the most caravans for the salt trade.

But Rolf still went back and forth smoothly.

According to his words.

It's like marching with troops!

On the way, several bandit gangs that wanted to find out their details were defeated, and the famous name was basically spread, not to mention that other bandit groups did not continue to fight them, even the troops of the nobles did not forcibly intercept them.

Rolf was not yet led by a heavy cavalry force dominated by Mamluk and Salander riders.

Only 500 desert bandits.

Comes and goes like the wind.

With extremely high discipline and the tenacity cultivated in the desert, the hostile bandit gangs they fought were completely confused, and even in the process of night raids again and again, the hostile bandit gangs could only helplessly send people to make peace.

Compared with the desert bandits, a group of bandits in the Salander Desert, the bandit group of the Lion Principality is still a few points behind.

They are not real bandits.

In other words, there is no bandit who runs when he gets it, and if he doesn't get it, he continues to run, and he won't fight you at all, but will only give you a cold sip like a hyena.

If I succeed, I will earn, and if I don't succeed, I will not lose.

What is done is a non-capital transaction of knives.

It's as crisp as that.

And in this half-month infiltration, Rolf is not simply plundering caravans, this is just a pretense.

The most important thing is that he has finally explored most of the maps of the North County Territory, and as long as the troops go out next, they can advance according to the map provided by Rolf, and cooperate with Kant's memories in this life to clear the whole field.

For example, with the current Jianshi Pass, with Kant announcing his occupation, no one dares to continue to approach.

The desert bandits who have scattered are not good stubble.

In addition, the group of Salander riders are completely elite assault cavalry, and their abilities can be compared to ordinary knights, or as the top knights, and ordinary troops are not opponents.

What's more, those bandit gangs were easily defeated one after another.

The area around the Solid Stone Pass has been splashed by the water operated by Kant.

And this, just as Kant did not hesitate to reduce taxes and take the initiative to support small landlords and small merchants, as well as the local common people's policies, any matter of size will soon reach his ears.

These people spontaneously became supporters of Kant.

Lord's Residence.

Hall.

Kant was sitting in his place reviewing documents.

These documents are reports from the castle of "Drehem" and the city of "Aaron".

Within half a month, the castle sent people to reopen the salt mines in the north, and continued to station troops at the salt mine station, and arranged for new slaves to go over to continue mining coarse salt.

The city of Sanwanya is still under construction.

The top of the hill is filled with buildings as well.

At the foot of the mountain, on both sides of the river, the gentler slopes have been carved out into fields.

The finest wheat grains are turned into fine white flour in the water-powered mills, and together with the bacon made after hunting and the smoked fish obtained after fishing, it becomes the basis for city dwellers to eat freely.

And it was also supplied to the castle "Drehem".

At present, Kant's civilian population has exceeded 20,000.

And that's not even considering the case of soldiers.

The civilian population of the castle was reduced to 3,000.

However, the population of the city of "Aaron" has directly reached 15,000 people, and the dense population has even formed a radiation, just above and below the top of the mountain, which has been slightly reclaimed.

A large number of terraces are under construction, and although they have not yet been put into use, they have many more outlines.

It will be planted and harvested next year.

The irrigation canals have been dug and are waiting for the construction of the towered canals and water trucks for the elevated irrigation, so that the terraced fields can be irrigated from top to bottom.

Kant had arranged a mysterious spring at the top of the mountain.

Therefore, as long as there are high towers and canals similar to those in Rome, irrigation can be satisfied.

Communicating the water element plane and the continuous supply of fresh water is exactly what agriculture urgently needs, and it is still very difficult to reclaim terraced fields and build a complete tower irrigation network with that small river alone.

But even so, with systematic construction and the efforts of civilians, everything is getting better.

The second base is also becoming more and more prosperous.

It's also geographical.

The Sanwaya Mountains are huge mountain ranges that stretch far away.

However, due to the "Aaron" city in the outside vein, it has not yet fully penetrated into the interior of the Sanwaya Mountains, coupled with good road transportation, it can contact the Nalun Desert in time, so it is not afraid of being blocked.

The rocky pass was again in Kant's hands, and the possibility of being blocked in the end was minimized.

Three points and one line.

That's exactly what the Narun Desert is set up now.

From north to south.

It is completely the salt mine station, the "Drehem" castle, the central post station and the solid stone pass, and then the mountain pass post station and the city of "Aaron", which form a complete line of communication.

A steady stream of materials passes through this line, sharing and complementing each other.

Just as Kant originally designed.

Very reasonable.

Kant was also satisfied with this.

Looking at the report above, the document is basically a summary of the current construction.

Since the complete mastery of the Solid Stone Pass, the defense effect of the central post station has been much worse, not that it is not as important as it was at the beginning, but the caravans and spies from the outside world can no longer continue to penetrate deep into the Narun Desert.

The Solid Stone Pass had already blocked most of the caravans.

If you continue inward.

Wouldn't that be spies and spies!

When the time comes, all you need to do is strangle this group of evil guys in the Narun Desert.

The desert bandits, along with the Salander riders, plus the elite Mamluks, ordinary spies and spies, or bandits who made a detour into the Naryn Desert in an attempt to make a fortune, all died miserably.

No one can escape the people who came out of the Salander Desert, and their experience in the desert is equal to the full value.

But for now.

The desert bandits are still good at scattering out on the plains to investigate.

Kant put down the papers.

Everything is settled.

His plan still has to go on.

For example, Kant planned to go over and see the chess pieces that were thrown out at the beginning.

Borg, who led the bankrupt family in East County, received a large silver coin from Kant to revive the family, and also used the 10 Salander riders temporarily given to him by Kant to make a fortune on the Resniston River.

Even in the Solid Stone Pass of the Northern Commandery, Kant had heard of this young merchant who had made a name for himself.

However, Borg has yet to send anyone to contact him.

Kant was amused.

"It's better to go and see for yourself."

He had already prepared for this, and the preparations had been completed.

Kant personally led the team, with 10 lion knights as escorts, plus 50 sarrion lion squires, and 500 elite desert bandits led by Rolf, who had been upgraded.

Knowing oneself and knowing that the other side will not be defeated in a hundred battles, not to mention the Resniston River in the East County Territory, there is also a mysterious passage.

A passage that connects the underground river.

If possible.

Kant intended to re-establish a new village there.

And the [Water Bandit's Lair] is also placed there to form a central force to control this river.

Once this commercially developed river is in its hands, Kant's power can begin to spread along the Resniston River at any time, whether it is entering the southern county of the hinterland of the Duchy of Lion, or intervening in the Silverpan Kingdom.

It's all extremely easy!

Money has always been invincible.

And Kant, who mastered the salt trade and the commercial rivers, was short of money?

Kant likes to nibble, not swallow, just now, the lion principality has been infiltrated by Kant's tentacles, just now, the Northern County Territory that has been completely infiltrated successfully, it is estimated that Kant's status is second only to Viscount Wayne.

If you pay attention to military strength and have a heavy cavalry cluster, Kant is not weaker than Viscount Wayne at all!

At the level of the viscount, he already has extraordinary power.

Although in Kant's eyes it was still weak.

But when he didn't completely swallow the whale and could swallow it all without leaving a trace, he was still willing to use the delicacy of cannibalization to slowly take the lion principality into his own hands.

As for the nominally, ostensibly crown, it has no effect on Kant.

The uncrowned king is enough.

Riding and chopping is his roots!

The troops set off quietly, as Rolf had infiltrated, quietly as the wind.

The solid stone pass continues to be taken care of by Fatis, and the troops stationed here suppress it, even if the entire pass is currently full of spies and spies, it will not have the upper hand in the face of absolute force.

The local residents have long been bought by Kant's money offensive, and they can be said to be extremely grateful.

Betrayal is impossible.

Except for the vassal knights who want to go further.

But even the vassal knights, who nominally defected to Kant, did not receive crucial reuse.

Even if he leads his troops out to deal with demonic creatures or low-level gnolls that he encounters on a daily basis, the troops are a mix of Swadia infantry and the original pikemen of the Solid Stone Pass.

Although nominally a vassal knight command, the Swadia infantry, as a mid-level commander, was able to refute it.

This means that there is also the right to command.

Equal to overhead.

If Kant or Fatis completely announced that they would deprive these vassal knights of their command, then these knights would not be able to take any soldiers with them at all, after all, the current Swadia infantry has established a good friendship with the pikemen in those stone passes.

In contrast, the condescending attitude of those knights, and the disregard for the infantry at the bottom, would not have allowed the pikemen to be truly loyal at all.

Whoever gives money will be loyal to whomever they are, and whoever is good to them will be loyal to whomever they are.

The pikemen at the rocky pass are not stupid.

That's where cannibalization comes in.

The light cavalry set off quickly, disappearing into the flat field, targeting the Eastern Commandery, a long-closed land.