Chapter 532: Build a High Wall and Accumulate Grain
After conquering the Wolf Castle, Rollin, as the leader of the two castles, seemed to be silent.
He seemed to be content with his exploits, and apart from announcing a few minor reforms in his own territory, he did not begin to use troops against the surrounding small fortresses as others had expected.
In the first year, Rollin announced the merger of the Blue Stone Castle and the Wolf Castle, because both fortresses were located on the Iron Horse Plain, and the trees on the plains were dominated by arrow trees, so this new territory was called the 'Arrow Leaf Lord', and Rollin called himself the Arrow Leaf Lord.
Subsequently, Luo Lin began to develop business with the iron ore of Wolf Fort as the core, and opened a commercial market in a small town called 'Wolf Mountain' around Wolf Castle, and 20% of the iron ore produced by the iron ore was exported along with all the special products on the arrow leaf collar in exchange for a large number of scarce resources needed by the territory.
Because of this decree, Wolf Mountain Town is like a sapling that has been fertilized, and it has begun to grow wildly, almost changing every day.
A year later, the town of Wolf Mountain became the city of Wolf Mountain, and the prosperity did not belong to the Blue Stone Fort and the Wild Wolf Castle, but it brought a lot of resources and wealth to Rollin.
At the end of the year, the lord of the Arrow Lord, Rollin, seemed to have lost all ambition, and he even announced a peace proclamation. The proclamation made it clear that for at least ten years, the Arrow Leaf Leader would not wage any war against the surrounding fortresses under any pretext.
As soon as this announcement came out, several of the surrounding castle lords, who saw that the arrow leaf was becoming more and more prosperous, quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
After two years of development, the Arrow Leaf Collar is already different from what it used to be, and in the news brought back by various secret agents, there is a very astonishing statistic, that is, the number of combat airships in the Arrow Leaf Collar is at least more than 20!
This power, as long as it is needed. The Arrow Leaf Collar can sweep all the surrounding forts in one day. But now with this announcement, it has appeared. Although they didn't know what this Verlandor Lord was thinking, the tense minds of the castle lords naturally relaxed a lot.
As soon as this relaxation resulted in less vigilance and fear of the Arrow Leaf Collars, there were fewer restrictions on commercial exchanges between forts, and the policy became more and more relaxed.
Commerce between the forts became more and more prosperous, and trading towns continued to appear in the Arrow Leaf Territory. The volume of trade between the forts skyrocketed.
The town of Akaba in the east of the territory brought scarce magic crystals to Rollin, the town of Lakeside in the south brought high-quality light mirror materials to Rollin, and the town of Blue Lake in the northwest provided a large amount of aquatic products for Arrow Leaf Collar. A wide variety of algae and fish enrich the tables of the inhabitants of Arrow Leaf Collar.
Originally, the Blue Lagoon Fortress adjacent to Blue Lake Town had always been on guard with the Arrow Leaf Collar, the vast Blue Lake was used to train the water army, and any freshwater industry was strictly restricted, and it was only used for self-sufficiency, but after the restrictions were relaxed, the castle owner of the Blue Lagoon Fort found that through the transaction with the Arrow Leaf Leader, he had obtained a lot of wealth, not to mention, after paying some price. He even got some new technology on combat airships!
So he began to encourage residents to develop the aquaculture industry, and now it has been trading for most of the year. His realm turned out to be very rich.
Many of the inhabitants of the territory wore cotton cloth and even velvet clothes that they had never thought of before, and the dishes that were common on their faces disappeared without a trace, and everyone felt the change, so the aquatic products began to develop explosively.
For a while, even if the castle master of the Blue Lagoon Fortress wanted to stop this trend, he didn't want to stop it, because he tasted the sweetness.
The result of trade between the two sides is always a win-win.
The benefit of the Arrow Leaf Collar is that the price of food in the territory continues to fall, and eventually it is maintained at a base point. In the past, a ton of wheat required 50 silver coins, but now a ton of wheat only needs 5 silver coins, a tenfold reduction.
Although some farmers went bankrupt as a result, the price of food in the entire territory decreased, and no one in the Arrow Leaf Territory starved to death.
The bankrupt farmers were only miserable for a while, and they soon found new jobs to support themselves, and the thriving Arrow Leaf Territory provided plenty of job opportunities for the residents, and any inhabitant who worked hard would be able to support himself easily.
Three years, three years after Luo Lin conquered Wolf Castle, there was no battle within a total of more than 300 kilometers between the Arrow Leaf Leader and the surrounding fortresses.
The goddess of peace came unexpectedly and rewarded every inhabitant of the land.
At this moment, compared to the chaotic times outside this land, Luo Lin's arrow leaf collar is as yearning as heaven.
People continue to take refuge in this rich and peaceful land.
At first, these fugitives appeared only by chance and were unnoticed.
But in the fourth year, this kind of escape became a common phenomenon, and in the fifth year, according to statistics, nearly 300,000 people entered the Arrow Leaf Territory through various means to make a living in one year, even exceeding the original number of residents of the Arrow Leaf Territory.
After these fugitives came in, they basically settled down and never went out again, and no one wanted to go back to the miserable situation of the past, without food and clothing.
Naturally, some people noticed this situation, and Griffin, the head of Bluestone Castle, was most aware of these changes, but compared to Rollin's optimism, he was a little worried.
On this day, he attended a banquet for officials in the zenith district of Wolfcastle in Lorraine, during which he did not worry about reporting to Lorraine what he knew.
"Lord, there have always been conflicts in the territory recently, and it seems to be getting worse."
The steward spoke very cautiously, although the lord of Verando, who sat at the top, had been very gentle in the past few years, and even issued a peace proclamation, but as the steward, he knew the true means of this young lord.
Far from being contemptuous of the years of peace in the realm, Greenfin was in awe.
Five years have passed, and Rollin's body is fifteen years old, and compared to before, his body has become much taller and stronger, and the immature look on his face has completely faded.
Usually when communicating with the territorial officials, his eyes are always slightly squinted, and the lines on his face are very soft, as if with a hint of a smile.
Hearing this, he smiled and said: "I know this matter, there is no big mess, you don't have to worry, you have your own guards to deal with it." ”
As the number of evacuees increases, they encroach on the living space of local residents, and conflicts between the two sides naturally arise, but the contradictions are always under control.
The reason is simple, this land is more than 300 kilometers in circumference, but only less than 700,000 people live, and the population density is very low, far from the point of life and death.
The reason why this situation has arisen now is just that someone is secretly stirring up trouble. Naturally, Nolan would purge these demagogues of the instigators.
He raised his wine glass and smiled at his main pipe: "Today is the harvest festival, let's not talk about business, drink to your heart's content." ”
What else could Griffin do? He vaguely knew that during this time, there would definitely be some accidents.
Together with other officials, he all raised their wine glasses to respond to the castle owner, and for a while, the cups were handed over, and the crowd was full of excitement.
Halfway through the wine, Rollin retreated, and the officials relaxed and enjoyed the harvest festival on a larger and larger scale every year.
After leaving the Zenith, Rollin boarded the Guardian One, a special airship built for him by the Academy of Mechanics. In just five minutes, he was back in his study at Bluestone Castle and began to take care of today's business.
There was a handful of encrypted reports on the desk, and Rollin flipped through them one by one, and when he turned to one of them, he smiled slightly.
The letter is about the two Morpheus brothers in Wolf Castle, who gathered some people and began to fornicate with the former ministers of Wolf Castle with the intention of sedition.
However, it turned out to be an accident for the two brothers, and none of the former ministers who were originally considered to be die-hard loyalists of the family paid attention to them, not only did they not deal with them, but also quietly reported the situation to Rollin's spy department.
No one is stupid, Luo Lin has been running the territory in the past few years, and from the outside, his methods are commonplace, but as long as he is experiencing it, he can feel the huge changes.
Anyone can feel that this territory has been built by Verando like an iron bucket, and just a trace of power exposed by it is enough to make people extinguish all their thoughts.
At this time, rebellion is simply self-defeating.
Looking at this report and thinking about it, Luo Lin wrote instructions: 'After the conspiracy is revealed and the peasant women and children know about it, the first culprit will be executed!' ”
It's not that he's unkind, it's that the Morpheus brothers are unwise and unjust. At this time, the two of them were shot, not to mention the roots, and everyone would applaud.
The 10,000 acres of fertile land that had been given to the Morpheus family many years ago had been reclaimed at this time.
One sentence decided the fate of the two brothers, and Rollin began to look at the next document, but it was from Brighton, and the document was about a Grand Lord of Novis in the east of the Arrow Leaf Domain.
This Novis is the fifth son of King Elwin, and his territory is called the Wind Realm, with a radius of more than 400 kilometers, and he is one of the five lords in the Holy Land.
Recently, this great lord has been in frequent contact with the surrounding lords, and has secretly signed some non-aggression agreements, but he has not contacted the arrow leaf domain, and at the same time, the military forces in his territory are constantly deployed.
Brighton therefore deduced that this Novis was going to use troops against the Arrow Leaf Leader, for the simple reason that most of the refugees in the Wind Territory had fled to the Arrow Leaf Leader, and even if Novis suppressed it with brutal means, it would have no effect, which made Novis very unhappy.
Looking at this document, Rollin sighed softly, knowing that this battle was inevitable, and he had to prepare for it.
He began to write down some orders for the attendants to send to the commanders of the realm one by one, to begin the preliminary preparations for the war, and when he was done, Rollin continued to read the documents.
After flipping through a few copies, he saw a document with the logo of the Blue Castle Mechanical Academy, opened it and looked at it a few times, and Rollin's eyes suddenly lit up.
The document was sent by Fidos, who is now the head of the Blue Castle Academy, and he leads his team of Bachelors in a quest to find the substance that will activate the source of super magic.
Over the years, because of this research, the Blue Castle Academy has gained many unexpected gains, all of which have been applied to the military's equipment, greatly improving the strength of the Arrow Leaf Army.
But compared to the bright moon in the sky, which is the super magic source, these small improvements are just shining stars, and the stars have never been able to compete with the bright moon.
Now, Fidos has finally found this substance that can be used as a source of eternal magic, and has a full set of ways to successfully activate the magic in it.
Years of heavy investment have finally not been in vain, and finally bear fruit! (To be continued......)