Chapter two hundred and sixty-six, receiving territory
On a hill inland Koya Island, Baron Adeli was introducing with a look of merit: "Sir Adeide, from the river below and to the mountains over there, this large piece of land is your territory. In order to unite the four knights together, I have spent a lot of effort to ask for help everywhere!"
Chen Haoran looked at the vast and vast land in front of him and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "It's so huge? How much area is there?"
Baron Aidelli glanced at him and said disapprovingly: "It's not big, just about 10 to 20 square kilometers. There are only three thousand entourage residents on this land and only three manors. So to compensate you, the mountain over there is also counted in your territory."
But speaking of this, he advised diligently: "Sir Aneid, your territory has met the baron's requirements, but the number of people and taxes are not up to standard. If you can expand the people to 10,000 people and build a town with a monthly tax of 100 gold coins, then you can automatically be promoted to Baron. At that time, your voice on this island of Koya will be completely different!"
"Where can you collect the population? The population on the island is fixed now." Chen Haoran sighed.
"Buy a slave, are you not short of money, right?" Aideli said with inexplicable light flashing.
"Baron Aidelli, do you have a way?" Chen Haoran asked.
"Hehe, of course, the price is not expensive. If you only have a young and strong man, you can get 5 silver coins and 2 silver coins. You can guarantee that you won't be as unreliable as the slave ship you encountered in Koya Port. Bah, 100 slave soldiers dare to sell 5,000 gold coins, which is disrupting the market!" Aideli said angrily.
"Well, your slave originated from Bavaria, right? The spoils under another god of war?" Chen Haoran asked in surprise.
"Hehe, don't ask if you have the source. Anyway, the goods are delivered directly to the pier closest to your territory, regardless of men, women, young and old, and 2 silver coins per person. How about it, do you want it?" Aideli smiled.
"Of course I want it. I will give me ten thousand slaves, and then give me a batch of food that they can eat for a year, enough to settle the wooden houses they live in, enough tools for their labor, enough to change clothes, and other fragments. Anyway, I guarantee that these ten thousand slaves can quickly settle in my territory and can enter the level of self-sufficiency in a year. How much do you think it will cost?" Chen Haoran said.
Aideli, who was originally calculating the price with his fingers on his fingers, was stunned when he heard the last sentence: "Let them be self-sufficient? Are they your slaves? Don't you support them?"
"I naturally raised it at the beginning, but if there is no future, they will be lazy, so they naturally have to give them hope to become free people, so they can naturally prepare the means of production that can make them self-sufficient," Chen Haoran said with a smile.
Aideli's eyes turned, understood, and grinned: "You can do whatever you want, ah, I'll roughly calculate it. At least 20,000 gold coins are required to fulfill your requirements."
"No problem, by the way, I have to help me build several craftsman workshops, such as blacksmiths, arrow fields, etc." Chen Haoran said.
"Hehe, I knew you wanted to take revenge on those guys. No problem, just add five thousand gold coins. I would like to help you build a perfect baron craftsman workshop and also help you attract corresponding craftsmen. Of course, you can't ask these craftsmen to be so powerful." Aideli smiled.
Speaking of this, Aideli suddenly turned his eyes and asked, "Do you want to hire a team of mercenaries for you? The dozens of sailors you brought cannot maintain your territory, especially after the ten thousand slaves were transported, the entire territory must be in a mess. How can you manage it without thousands of people?"
"You have a way to do this?" Chen Haoran was curious.
"Hey, we indigenous nobles can't make money without making money through these messy things. We can't compare with those big merchants." Aideli sighed.
"I'll give you 30,000 gold coins, get everything I said just now, and hire me a team of thousands of people to be responsible for the territorial security." Chen Haoran nodded.
"No problem, then let's go and receive the territory now?" Aideli smiled and waved his hand to signal.
The group rushed to Chen Haoran's territory with a rumbling horse and arrived at the territory. With the introduction of Aideli's neighbor Baron and the original lord, Chen Haoran, the new lord took office.
There are only three small manors on this land of about 20 square kilometers. One manor looks like a thousand acres of land, which generalizes a thousand people, so the three manors naturally divide the three thousand people.
But among these three thousand people, only five hundred young and strong, and the rest are the elderly, weak, sick and disabled.
And it is obvious that the original owner of this place was not as rich as hiring a priest from the Agriculture Temple to help speed up crop production. It was not a main road with people coming and going, and there was no advantage in the territorial area. Therefore, everyone here was very tired, with not much clothes, and all their faces were pale and thin.
Looking at this poor leader, Chen Haoran suddenly realized that no wonder Aideli divided the four knights so easily, and helped him replace the four knights with a kind look like a territory that was almost equivalent to the barons.
It turns out that this place is big, but it does not have much development potential. The fertile knight leader will naturally remain, and take out this huge baron leader.
But Chen Haoran doesn't care. The place is big. As long as it is not a desert, it can always grow grain. And when it is close to a big river, there are still continuous mountains behind it. As long as the population reaches its peak, it can always develop.
Because of the money collected, Aideli's subordinates naturally began to look for new residences in this vast area, planning the division of towns, docks, and new manors. The adjutant and sailor brought by Chen Haoran naturally acted as assistants to follow Aideli's people. Erha sweet vinegar and five rabbits had long been wandering around on this spacious land.
Of course, the two leaders Aideli and Chen Haoran don’t have to bother to worry, they just hang up and chat.
"Sir Arneid, what's going on with you and the Business Alliance? Why are they willing to spend such great efforts to attack you? When you found me, the news of the attack on your manor outside the city had already come from the Port of Coa, which really scared me." Aideli asked at this time.
"I don't know either. They suddenly attacked me before I even started taking sides. It was inexplicable!" Chen Haoran shrugged and said nothing.
Chapter completed!