Calm days are always short.

I don’t know if it was because of a coincidence or intentional reason. The celebration banquet between Kayo and Sith was held on the same day.

This is a worry that a group of nobles from the neutral camp will offend the other side no matter which party they attend.

As a last resort, everyone can only choose to pretend to be sick and play with the gifts until they are out of the way.

Hudson fell ill together. Although he had said he could participate before, he was just a polite word, so how could he take it seriously?

He went to see his competitors pretending to behave and caused trouble for himself for no reason, but his mind was not bad.

Besides, they just want to be polite when sending invitations, and they may not really want Hudson to come and support them.

There is no point in making trouble. If you don’t have a big grudge against life and death, why bother to disturb other people’s celebration banquets?

Nobles must have a demeanor.

It doesn't matter if you stab each other secretly, there is no need to turn against each other on the surface.

Otherwise, if you stir up my banquet today and I mess up your ceremony, wouldn’t all banquets become farce?

After preparing two gifts and sending them to him, Hudson took his attention back to the construction of his castle.

There is no new tricks. In addition to the details being modified, the overall castle design still follows the local architectural style, with some Gothic styles.

You can see from the location of the castle that it stands on Salam Peak, the highest peak in the southeastern province, obviously putting defense first.

The only difference is that Hudson's plan is much larger than ordinary castles, with the main building covering an area of ​​1 hectare.

Including the surrounding ancillary buildings, it is a city. The area surrounded by the city wall is 3.8 square kilometers.

If all the projects are completed, it will be a war fortress that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, and it will be comparable to the Ethel Fortress.

If it were before this, a baron wanted to build a war fortress, it would definitely cause an uproar.

But it would be much more normal to replace it with a fiefdom viscount. Almost all fiefdom viscounts will build their own cities.

Including the city of Dadir where Viscount Sith is located, they are all the result of the management of the former noble lords themselves.

The kingdom will only allocate funds to the northern border to build cities to resist orc invasions, and there is no need to care about other areas.

Anyway, the human state will not invade the Alpha Kingdom. This is a tacit understanding between the countries on the mainland.

Due to financial and human resources, generally speaking, the construction of castles by nobles is protracted and protracted.

Three or five years is the norm, and ten or eight years is not surprising. It is also possible to have a grand plan and continue to build several generations of people.

Hudson has been in charge for a year, but the Lord's Mansion has not been completed, and it is within the normal level that everyone knows.

All of this became faster with Bear Stearn's joining.

A huge rock weighing several tons or dozens of tons is more difficult for ordinary people to transport than a snail.

But if you put it on Bear Stearn, it's almost like playing.

The huge rock weighing several tons and dozens of tons is a toy in the hands of the bear. Sometimes he plays the ball throwing game and sometimes he pushes it on his head and circles.

One piece is not enough, you can also play with a few huge rocks in a string.

Bear Stearn acrobatics are also a unique landscape of mountain terrain.

Baron Redman was frightened when he saw it, fearing that the Earth Bear would be having fun, so he directly smashed people with a huge rock.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long. The number of boulders was limited. In less than a day, the efficient Bear Stearn completed the delivery of boulders.

The stones are all prepared in advance, which makes people feel terrifying to think about them carefully.

But the bear didn't say anything, so naturally others wouldn't talk too much. Whether Hudson or Bear Stearns could not talk about transactions, it was impossible for them to talk about them outside.

A decent person + a decent bear = tacit understanding and confidentiality.

For everyone's glorious image, everything involving interests must be kept confidential.

No one made trouble, and the celebration banquets on both sides were very successful, but there were fewer guests.

In Hudson's opinion, the celebration banquet is similar to a wedding. Except for the parties involved, everyone only pays attention to it on the surface.

Even the parties involved may not pay attention to it, such as Hudson himself.

Suffered by the construction of the castle, his celebration banquet had not yet begun, and the season for spring grain to be stored in the warehouse had already arrived first.

After experiencing the locust plague last year, the harvest of spring food this season is particularly important for Lait and Wyden counties.

Countless territories are hungry, waiting for the food to be put into the pot.

As far as Hudson knows, some northern nobles even used green wheat to satisfy their hunger in advance.

After all, the food varieties are too single, all within the range of locust recipes, and they only appear pale and powerless in the face of locust plague.

Hudson is ready to play diversified agriculture and to curb the flood of locusts and must be raised.

Although there is no market for chickens and ducks these days and cannot be sold on a large scale, this does not affect your own eating.

Aquaculture can also be arranged on the ditches and rivers dug out in the swamp, which are natural breeding farms.

Anyway, there is no pollution of chemical fertilizers and pesticides these days, and it is all original.

There is no need to ask for output, no matter how much you get, you will make a profit. Increasing the supply of meat is also a powerful measure to solve the insufficient grain production capacity of the territory.

Especially for the army, adequate nutritional protection is the key to strengthening the army.

I can’t even fill my stomach, what combat power I still expect?

The messy plans are all in the preparation stage, and the most important thing is the harvest of spring grain at the moment.

Hudson had already moved his position, and the preparations for the celebration banquet were thrown to Baron Redman. Fortunately, there were a group of tribe members who came to his door to help, otherwise they might not be able to deal with it.

The main thing is that the mountain leaders are poor and poor, in name, they hold celebration banquets, but in fact their main job is to supervise the construction of the castle.

The main structure is easy to say, but the key is interior decoration.

Carving masters, painters, designers... all kinds of art jobs are invited from the provincial capital with a lot of money.

Without some artistic cells, you can't keep up with the thinking rhythm of these people. If these guys are allowed to improvise, the possibility of being frightened is definitely greater than surprise.

Looking at the truckloads of food harvested, Hudson didn't feel anything, but the others were really shocked.

Who released the rumor that mountain grain production is low?

The yield per mu of mountain land is almost the same as the plains outside. You should know that this is the newly reclaimed wasteland and is in the stage of raising land.

Fortunately, Hudson was foresighted and planted in these areas were oil crops, not mainstream rye.

The question is that the soil is suitable.

It is not specialized in soil research, so it is difficult to tell at a glance what crops are suitable for soil cultivation. It just so happens that there is no occupation that specializes in soil research in the Aslant continent.

No matter how surprised you are, you don’t have to be envious and jealous. Everyone’s territory is plains, and almost all the grains are grown in high yields.

The joy of a bumper harvest did not last long, and Hudson was surprised to find that the food gap in his own territory increased instead of reducing.

The newly reclaimed land area is indeed quite large, with 110,000 mu of mountain land and 68,000 mu of paddy fields added, which is another year for over-completed tasks.

However, the rate of land growth has not kept up with the rate of population growth.

Without any entertainment facilities, people began to be created when it was dark. The serfs who relaxed restrictions were more enthusiastic in the cause of creating people than Hudson expected.

Although the saying of one child a year is a little exaggerated, it is actually not much different. Both men and women of the right age are full of energy.

It was all Mr. Hudson who was too kind to cause trouble, and stipulated that pregnant women were not allowed to engage in heavy physical labor, and even distributed milk and goat milk to infants and young children, so that everyone had no worries.

The natural population growth rate exceeds six percent.

Of course, this set of data is not scientific, and the capture statistics cycle is too short, so the premature death rate of infants and young children cannot be accurately included.

These days, children are easy to support, and adding a group of newborns will not add much parenting costs.

What really caused the food problem was the orc slaves purchased at a low price.

The skyrocketing number of slaves not only broke the territory's population structure, but also increased the food shortage.

The number of serfs is only more than 28,000, and orc slaves are almost breaking through the 60,000 mark. This unhealthy population structure is definitely a threat to the long-term development of the territory.

The only thing that is thankful is that the total amount of food shortage is increasing, but the food self-sufficiency rate is constantly increasing.

According to the current speed of land reclamation, it is still very promising to achieve basic self-sufficiency in two years.

If this news spreads, it will definitely cause a big stir.

The fact that food has basically been self-sufficient means that the bottomless pit of the mountain has taken the opportunity to open up land.

It is certain to continue to lose money, but the deficit will decrease from tens of thousands of gold coins every year, year by year, and finally turn from negative to positive.

According to external estimates, the time point of this turning point should be more than ten years later, not in the last two or three years.

There is no way, no matter how optimistic people are, they cannot imagine that the scene of the Earth Bear on the construction site is too anti-bear.

Unfortunately, there is only one bear on Earth, and Hudson dared not to squeeze out the potential of Bear Stearns, so he could only fool the work, otherwise the efficiency could be further increased.

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"The land area for spring plowing has increased significantly this year, and your tasks are very heavy.

Especially for newly opened paddy fields, foreign rice will be introduced this year, so you should all focus more on it.
To be continued...