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Chapter 17 The Dilapidated Castle

With the management help of Old Motou, Ronan's burden was relieved by most in an instant.

This allows him more time to train his soldiers.

With the addition of 60 militiamen under Viscount Claude, while the strength of the team has expanded, there are many discordant factors in the neat army formation that has initially achieved results.

This is an unavoidable problem. What Ronan has to do now is to fully integrate the military discipline of obeying orders into this team.

As long as this can be achieved, new recruits will be quickly driven by the words and deeds of the veterans around them and learn to prohibit them.

There is no need for Ronan to come forward again and repeat the stress training.

In three months, the long journey is coming to an end.

Ronan opened the map and let out a long sigh of relief after estimating the location.

There are less than two days left before arriving at the lord's castle in Coldwind Territory.

Long-distance travel may be full of novelty and fun at the beginning, with unfamiliar scenery, various creatures, and pedestrians from other places.

But after a long time, only the exhaustion of body and mind and the fear brought by memories are left.

In the dreamy river valley full of flowers, the upstream is an abandoned village full of dead people; the mouth-watering wild berries carry terrible toxins that can kill people; there are smiling traveling merchants, but the carriage is full of fresh wax figures of young girls.

Even the knight servants from Triumph City experienced too many times of horror along the way.

And the spontaneous awe and pride of the lord who led them.

Because even though there are so many dangers, they are still brought here intact, and even the deadly poison will recede under the blessing of the lord!
"My lord, do we need to rest in Black Rock City ahead?" Old Motou asked Ronan.

After such a long journey, they finally met the first large town, Black Rock City.

This is the Viscount territory of the Pecks family. It is located less than two days away from Hanfeng. It is also a rare large city in the northern provinces with a scale of more than 5 people.

For Ronan, the meaning of Black Rock City is extraordinary, after all, the other party is blocking his door.

In the future, if the Cold Wind Territory wants to develop, most of the supplies purchased from the kingdom will need to be traded through Black Rock City. It can be said that the lifeblood of survival is completely in the hands of the other party.

But Ronan wasn't too worried.

Baron Exeter escaped to Triumph City through the caravan of Black Rock City, and according to him, the condition there was very bad.

Although the Viscount Pecks chose to sit in the city and let his knights carry out extremely strict control and kill all the people infected with the black death, but the sick people could not stop appearing in the city.

Ronan guessed it had something to do with the steam room.

After all, this place is far away from the center, and it is the site of factory owners, businessmen, and minor nobles who support Archbishop Shengshui. It is impossible to shut down the bathroom.

For the future development of Cold Wind Leader, Ronan must find a way to control the actual control of Black Rock City in his own hands.

But not now, he shook his head at Old Mo.

"No, hurry up and reach your destination tomorrow night, there is no need to stay here."

As the new baron, visits with neighbors are inevitable, but not now, at least his soldiers have to settle down first.

This Viscount Pecks was worrying about the troubles in the city. At this time, this strange nobleman suddenly came to the door with hundreds of fully armed soldiers. What would he think?
Do you feel like you are helping out with kindness?Ronan didn't think so.

The order of the kingdom is now chaotic, and they might fight directly.

Bypassing the black city standing in front of them, Ronan and his party finally arrived at the end of the trip in the evening of the next day, before the sky was about to darken.

The lord's castle of the Cold Wind Territory came into view.

Although he had already made preparations, Ronan couldn't help shaking his head when he saw such a shabby and simple castle in front of him.

There are no thick walls and strong towers, only a thin layer of low walls eroded by the cold wind.The surface of the castle is severely damaged, and its configuration imitates the classic pointed arched doors and windows and slender minaret of Triumph City.But the sculptural decoration, which should be elegant, is crude and funny, and it seems neither fish nor fowl.

It's okay without an inner courtyard, but the most important main hall is too narrow and can only accommodate up to 30 people.

Ronan couldn't help wondering whether Baron Exeter knew that there were no nobles in his family who would come to visit.

How dare you build your own castle into such a ghostly appearance if everything is ruined?
The castle had long since left with Baron Exeter, leaving the building empty and covered with a thin layer of dust.

After wandering around, Ronan didn't pay any more attention. Instead, he asked Old Motou and Ed to lead people to clean up the houses around the castle, and set up some camps for the soldiers to station on the spot.

He sat in front of a map and thought about the future of the territory.

In addition to the castle in front of you, there are five villages in the cold wind territory.

They are distributed in the north not far away, blocking the front of the castle in a semi-enclosed form, and behind it is Black Rock City.

There used to be at least a thousand people living in each village, but Ronan is not sure how many people are still there. He needs to send his men down to check one by one tomorrow morning.

But I'm afraid it's not worth looking forward to.

Even if all the villages are well preserved, more than 5000 farmers can hardly support his [-] soldiers with the barren land led by Hanfeng, not to mention that he will need to expand and build in the future.

When he first set his sights on the Cold Wind Territory, Ronan considered these issues, but in the end he still set his goal here.

Because the area of ​​the cold wind collar is too vast.

The land occupied by the castle and five villages does not even reach one percent of the area here.

As far as food crops are concerned, the land here is worthless, but what about another angle?

Going deeper to the north, there are patches of coniferous forests, coniferous forests and birch forests on the permafrost and ice sheets of the cold wind collar.Among the vegetation in these snow fields, there are groups of reindeer, musk ox, snow hare, winter wolf, grizzly bear and so on.The snow water flowing down from the towering snow-capped mountains connects the Arctic sea and lakes, which are rich in fish such as pike, gray trout, herring, cod, salmon and so on.

Not only that, but with such a large area of ​​permafrost, Ronan couldn't believe that there was no mineral underneath. Among other things, there must be coal mines.

With such abundant resources in front of him, as long as he can develop one part in a million, he can develop his own territory.

It sounds nice, but other people are not stupid.

The advantage of the cold wind collar is that it has a large scope, but the disadvantage is also that it has a large scope. With the manpower of this era, if you want to develop this frozen land, the labor cost will be an astronomical figure, far exceeding the final return.

Fortunately, Ronan still has an identity.

In a sense, he had to thank the Black Death, which funneled wealth toward the city of Triumph and allowed him to gather the materials needed for the research workshop.

He took all the materials he had bought in Triumph City and walked into the castle alone.

(End of this chapter)