Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 2 Poor family background
Owen listed the order, first housing, then food, soldiers, civilians, land, and utensils.

Needless to say about the house, the biggest asset in his hands now is this ancient castle built hundreds of years ago. Because the main body is built with stone barriers, it still stands tall even after hundreds of years of wind and rain. Actually, just don’t think about the decoration. The Hydera family has been passed down for three generations, and it’s just adding some log furniture and installing a gate inside. As for other things, it’s gone.

However, the area is really not small. If the city wall is rebuilt, it can accommodate three to five hundred people inside. To build a castle of this size in the Northland, it will take at least a thousand people for more than ten years. The main reason is that the materials are not easy to get. , It is necessary to go to a distant place to mine stones, and then transport them back bit by bit after polishing. This is the most labor-intensive and time-consuming place.

Right now, there are only a dozen or so people in the entire castle plus him, except for eight soldiers, there are only two servants, and these two servants also work part-time as gardeners, cooks, and grooms.

Originally there was a butler, two maids and several guards, who were the dowry of the predecessor's mother, but after the predecessor's father was killed by the wolf, the predecessor's mother took him away without any regrets, leaving the predecessor alone Replaced by him in loneliness and torment.

In this case, let alone enjoy the decadent noble life, Owen has to do many things by himself.

Fortunately, he is not really a noble young master. He can do laundry, cooking, and cleaning, but he doesn't have the tools at hand, and he is still familiar with it now.

The most difficult thing for Owen to get used to is at night, in such a big castle, just these few people, lying on a wooden bed wrapped in animal skins, wailing ghosts and wolves howling when the wind blows in the middle of the night, woke up several times a night, and dared not go out when they relieved themselves. As for how to solve it, I think for myself.

In fact, the feeling of going out to the bathroom is even more terrifying, because the castle toilet is built like a hole in the bay window. Not to mention the buttocks hanging in the air, you can clearly feel the updraft outside the castle. At the same time, if the people below Looking up, you can clearly see a budding daisy or a black chrysanthemum that is vomiting.

Later, because some people used weapons such as crossbows and extended spears to assassinate, this kind of toilet was also improved, such as building something like a garbage passage at the bottom, leading directly to the moat, but there are still thin warriors who choose to go up against the shit and use daggers The brutal assassination with weapons such as cones, and the victims of ruptured intestines often wailed for several days before dying, which shows how brutal this kind of assassination with prickly poop is.

Although Owen doesn't have to worry about being assassinated, sitting in the air above the dark cave always feels a little hairy, so he would rather dig a hole in the open space to solve the problem.

Although there are various flaws, it is better than nothing. It is still a castle, and the Hydera family may not have the capital to build it for a few more generations.

After seeing the castle, Owen turned and went to the warehouse.

Facing a big lock that weighed seven or eight catties, and a keyhole that could fit a finger into it, Owen finally understood what the iron rod that he had kept close to his body was for.

He took out a key that looked like an iron bar, and inserted it into the tight, dry hole with great difficulty. He twisted it hard, but couldn't move it, so he had no choice but to pull it out first, and found some grease to smear it on. Finally, it took a long time to open the lock.

Pushing open the door, a smell of food mixed with dust suddenly hit his face, making Owen's nose itchy and wanting to sneeze.

Rubbing his nose, Owen saw that the sun outside passed through the swirling dust and evenly scattered in the warehouse, illuminating the bags of grain piled up on the wooden shelves.

Although the climate in the north is dry, moisture-proof is still a problem. In order to prevent the grain from getting damp and mildew, the grain will be piled up on wooden shelves.

Open a few bags, there are either rye or black beans inside, and some dry and flat onions are piled up in the corner. In addition, there are twenty or thirty spears and a pile of leather armor on the side shelf. The only property of the Hydera family.

The land in the Northland is barren, and the yield of fine crops is too low. In order to fill our stomachs, we can only choose to grow rye with a higher yield. In addition, there are black beans, onions and cabbage. Everything is to maintain life and have balanced nutrition. Don't even think about taste or anything, so only these things are stored here.

There is still a lot of rye as a staple food, but Owen knows that this is not enough, because it is just spring, and there is still a long time before the harvest, but the serfs in the territory have no food. In order to ensure that they will not starve to death, they also In order to maintain the physical strength of spring plowing, the food and water consumed every day are average, so there is nothing left throughout the year, otherwise, how could such a dignified viscount be so miserable.

In fact, if it weren't for the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce sending a batch of supplies every year, the Hydera family's life would be worse than it is now.

As for why it was so miserable, Hydera II was able to marry the daughter of the chairman of the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce, naturally because of his noble name.

The hierarchy in this world is so strict that people are desperate. The offspring of farmers are farmers, the offspring of hunters are hunters, the offspring of merchants are merchants, the offspring of knights are knights, and the offspring of nobles are nobles. Your identity depends on the day you were born. It was decided in a moment.

For a long time, there have been countless people who want to break through this invisible barrier and try to rise to the top, but none of them succeed.

The reason is very simple, because the superior can unconditionally deprive the subordinate of everything, from wealth to life, and the process is simple and direct, and there is no need to even cover up his intentions.

Because of this huge power, the upper class will desperately maintain the stability of the class, that is, cut off the channel of advancement, even if this will cause countless resistance from the lower class, and even burn themselves to death.

In fact, if the conflicts within the empire hadn't accumulated to the point of breaking out, and the emperor insisted firmly, there would be no such thing as opening up the northern land, let alone offering a title as a reward.

Even so, the imperial nobles also divided the northern nobles, causing the northern nobles to not be accepted by the imperial nobles at all, or even recognized.

In addition to strength and luck, blood was the biggest reason why the grandfather of his predecessor was able to become a viscount, because his father was the second son of an imperial noble who had no right of inheritance.

This identity is not available in the empire at all, but it can make people's eyes shine on the northern border, so the grandfather of the predecessor can stand out and become a border viscount, not a bad street jazz or baron.

Even if the border nobles have all kinds of shortcomings, they are still nobles anyway, at least in the north. This means that the Hydera family has stepped into another class with one foot. Otherwise, the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce will be full and marry a daughter. They also give away things every year, not just to build a relationship.

As long as there is such a relationship, the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce will be able to obtain a lot of convenience at the northern border, which is enough to make up for the investment in sending supplies for marrying a daughter.

(End of this chapter)