On a sunny afternoon, Roland fulfilled his promise.

He made Tigu Pyne a viscount, and his territory was divided south of the Chishui River, across the river from the town. Today, it is still a dense forest and is an undeveloped area. In order to get him to give up the autonomy within the domain, Roland promised to give priority to the development of Tigus's domain in the future, and to give a certain share of the estate established on the land to the viscount and his descendants. Of course, Roland's use of his mouth cannon skills describes it as a good thing to not have to manage the industry, but also to lie down and share the money.

Tigou readily agreed—he was not fond of these things, and in his opinion there was nothing more interesting than fighting on horseback. But now that he has a daughter, he has focused on hunting. Coupled with the fact that the property in Tigus's original territory had long since decayed, he simply asked the prince to send someone to help him sell the land east of the fortress and move his family to the border town. Roland naturally agreed.

The other was Brian, who Roland granted him knighthood and asked him if he would choose land or serve in the army.

If you choose land, you can no longer join the First Army of the Frontier Town. If you join the army, you must be like everyone else, and you must be promoted by merit and get rewarded land. Brian didn't hesitate to choose the latter.

In this way, Roland also has a rough picture of land use planning.

Bounded by the Chishui River and sandwiched by the Desperate Mountains, it is a residential area, about three kilometers in the narrow part and seven or eight kilometers in the wide area. In the future, it can not only be used to build a community, but also as a reward for land and reward for promoted officers.

On the other side of the Chishui River is the future industrial and agricultural area, and the land can be extended to the south, but it is still a forest with rolling hills in the distance. When the population met the demand, Roland had to start reclaiming the woodland.

The Hidden Forest to the west of the border town is also an important development site. The forest is home to a variety of treasures, such as wood, edible mushrooms, wild animals, and medicinal herbs. In addition to being used in construction and industry, wood can also be used as a fuel. The area of this forest is amazingly large, Roland has let the lightning probe, and there is no end in sight when he flies out of thirty kilometers, even if he uses it as firewood, it can be burned for a long time.

Finally, there is the clearing between the Hidden Forest and the Desperate Mountains - and the untouched no-go zone, the Savage Land. Judging from the boundaries of the mountains and forests, the area between the middle packs is extremely vast, almost much larger than the Greycastle Kingdom. Faced with such a borderless land, Roland's heart itched. But he also knew that he couldn't take care of this place for the time being. At present, what border towns need most is population.

Back at the castle office, he summoned the painter Zoroya.

"How's it going to be to assist City Hall lately?"

"I've never painted so much in a day," she says, looking much better than she was when she first saw her, "and I'm pretty much done by today." However, when I painted, I only had a window the size of a head, which felt a little strange. ”

"Lest your magic spell scare the townspeople," the prince smiled, "they know that there are witches, but such close encounters can easily cause accidents, so they just try to hide them so that they don't know that you are a witch." It will slowly get better in the future. ”

Zoroa's photographic abilities bring a whole new level of improvement to Roland's citizenship registration program. The town hall vacated a room for the project to serve as an archive for the townspeople's information. Similar to a hukou book, each piece of paper contains information such as their name, age, residence, blood relationship, and so on. This information Barov had briefly counted once in the winter, and this time the record was expanded a lot. The biggest change is that all people have a "color photo" attached to their accounts.

At Roland's request, the town hall set up a small room in the hall for single people to enter and exit, wrapped in linen, leaving only a square window in front of it for Zoroa to see the other party's appearance. In this way, when the witch paints a portrait in the house, the other party will not see the magic brush.

As for how to get the inhabitants of the territory to come and report the information, Roland's method is simple: everyone who comes will receive a subsidy of ten bronze eagles - the money is allocated by the town hall.

"I called you here today to ask you to draw something else. Roland spread the cut paper in front of Zoroa.

The latter noticed that the pieces of paper were exactly the same size, half the size of a palm, rectangular.

"What do you want me to draw?"

"Some props for entertainment. Roland said.

This idea had long been in his mind, and the witches had basically nothing to do except practice every day, and such a life seemed a bit boring. The same is true for the prince, especially before the snow melts, and his range of activities is almost exclusively within the castle. Therefore, it is imperative to come up with some entertainment and find a few witches to relax with you.

The simplest, of course, is playing cards. However, soft ordinary paper is not suitable for standing in the hand, and shuffling the cards is also a trouble. Now that he had Zoroa, he could naturally consider making something more advanced.

"Entertainment?" she tilted her head in thought, as if she didn't understand what kind of entertainment it was to draw on a square piece of paper, "Well, you have the final say." ”

"First of all, on this piece of paper, you draw a soldier with a heavy crossbow. ”

"Imagine?"

"That's right, his armor, his size, his age, including his environment, it's all up to you. As long as it's armed with a heavy crossbow. ”

"Uh...... I'll try," Zoroya closed her eyes and pondered for a moment, a colorful magic pen appearing in her hand.

Soon, a middle-aged man-like crossbowman leaped onto the paper.

"Very well," Roland complimented, "let me think about what to draw next, eh...... Draw a small circle in the upper left corner and in the middle of the paper," he recalls in his head, "the first circle is gold on a white background, and the second circle is gold on an orange background. ”

When these drawings were finished, Roland asked her to add numbers to the first circle and a bow and arrow symbol to the second circle.

The magic of Zoroya's ability is that she can paint regardless of the material, so there is no difference between blank paper and patterned paper for her, and the pattern in the back painting can perfectly cover the former, as if it were covered by a layer.

As a result, a delicate "crossbowman card" appeared in front of Roland.

"Is that good?" she asked.

"It's just a unit card, and there are a lot of similar cards to draw, and finally you can make a deck, and I'll teach you how to play it. ”

Looking at the way Zoroya closed her eyes and painted, a hunch rose in Roland's heart that maybe such a conversation would soon fill his castle -

"What are you going to do? Let's start with a game of GWENT!" (To be continued.) )