Throne of the North.

Chapter 518 New Plans and the Evolution of Livestock
"So, the Holy See doesn't plan to send anyone to the Sera Kingdom for the time being?"

Ryan was a little surprised. If the elves said they would not come, they would not come. They should not be scared, right? If the elves were so scary, they would not hide in the woods.

But the elves are powerful.

What Ryan couldn't understand was why the elves would attack a clergyman of the Dawn Church, especially a bishop. After all, the status of a bishop was no less important than that of nobles such as barons and viscounts.

Ryan and King Serra had originally been trying to get the new Bishops Eric to accept the differences in this land, such as the shift in wealth and war power.

Now, all the troubles are gone. I'm afraid that His Holiness the Pope still doesn't know what has become of the faith in the Kingdom of Serra.

He was too far away.

"Elves..."

On his way back to the North Wind Province, Ryan ran into the team from the Imperial Capital.

Emperor Flor sent an envoy to enter the woods to reach some kind of consensus with the Elf Royal Court. If nothing unexpected happens, he wanted to invite the elves to declare war on the Holy See together.

The emperor acted very quickly. He probably sent out the delegation as soon as he heard the noise in the woods.

Ryan did not contact the delegation. He just left Lingdu City and returned to the Frozen Territory after hearing that there was a great noble in the team.

He was somewhat confused by the political mysteries of the empire and did not want to go into it unprepared.

For example, Ryan didn't understand why Emperor Flor, or rather the imperial policy and the royal family, allowed the three electors to divide the emperor's power.

Ryan was not referring to the tasks accepted by the electors, but the three electors and the three grand dukes who did not have such a close relationship with the emperor.

The royal family and the four grand ducal families are the most impeccable foundation of the empire. It can be said that the empire was divided into five parts because of them.

When the three electors accepted the challenge, it was inevitable that the three grand dukes had begun to shift their attention from the emperor to the electors.

This transfer will lead to a decrease in the cohesion of the empire, which will be directly reflected on the battlefield in the south and the Holy See. If the emperor and the four archdukes cannot work together, how can they defeat the Dawn Holy See?

But they did it, Emperor Flor...

"He must want to centralize power, right?"

As the lord of the Frozen Territory, Ryan currently has a lot of say and his influence exceeds what all the nobles can see on the surface.

He once divided the haze around him and above his head into five large nets.

The problems with the nobles and orcs in the Northern Province have now been resolved.

The Kingdom of Sera and the Kingdom of Andara were no longer any troubles that could stop him.

The emperor elects cannot influence him for the time being. The beliefs in the lands he can influence are already clear. Dawn or light are both means of ruling.

That leaves Meyers' troubles.

And the huge network between the empire and the church, theocracy and royal power, which no noble can escape.

He crossed out the three things on the paper little by little and looked at the remaining two things. It seemed that the big network of theocracy and royal power was the most troublesome, but in fact he could not affect anything.

This net is too big, Ryan can only follow the trend.

Because it was so grand, it was not a problem for a noble like him.

There are also benefits to going with the flow.

On the other hand, Meyers is the most critical and fatal to Ryan.

With the existence of the Marquis of the North Wind, Meyers was destined to have a nail in this land. Besides, there were those marriages, and Ryan could not stop every noble.

Meyers hasn't caused any trouble recently, and Ryan has no way to take any hostile actions against Meyers. After all, there is no Meyers left in the North Wind Province, and the first identity of the Marquis of North Wind is still a member of the royal family.

Ryan felt helpless because he had the power but nowhere to use it. He gently drew a question mark behind the remaining two big networks of theocracy, royal power, Meyers and North Wind Province, and put the paper away.

He needs to make a new plan. These troubles are troubles, and the troubles inside the Frozen Territory are also troubles.

Ryan has gradually begun to migrate people from Nidhogg.

“The swamps to the south need to be developed, and the vastness of this swamp is amazing.”

"There is also the Great Wall Project in the north. The orcs will grow in number in three to five years and will pose a threat within ten years. After ten years, the orcs will be able to attack human territory on a large scale again."

One is in the south and the other is in the north. The south is for farming and the north is for security. Both are huge projects.

"The Northern Brave Guild has been showing signs of fatigue recently. The market is weakening. It is probably because of the war in the south. The nobles are all paying attention to the tense situation in the south and naturally they are not thinking about the wealth in the north anymore."

"The nobles just muddle through, never work hard as long as they can get by, and just go with the flow and move forward with the world."

"The Northern Chamber of Commerce...War is the best edge of the Chamber of Commerce. The more intense the war in the south, the greater the market share that the Northern Chamber of Commerce can snatch from the southern chambers of commerce."

"Due to the war, many chambers of commerce in the south are no longer able to conduct trade in the entire southern land, right?"

Ryan thought for a long time, then took out the note again.

Three of the 'five big nets' above had been crossed out, and based on the remaining two, Ryan wrote down two more directions.

Three major projects, two major visions.

These two things, together with the above-mentioned Meyers and the disputes over royal power and divine power, formed a new fourth dimension.

The three major projects are naturally the swamps and the Northern Wall, as well as the resettlement of two million people in Nidhogg. The two visions come from the Northern Brave Guild and the Northern Chamber of Commerce. If Ryan wants to extend his tentacles deeper into the southern land, he cannot avoid these two visions. They will become Ryan's eyes, allowing the barons in the north to watch every move of the southern land.

Ryan sent some people to the South. With the coming of war, many industries began to usher in spring, including the slave market.

The slave-hunting gangs saw war like sharks smelling it, and they always had a good harvest.

Ryan needed craftsmen, no matter what kind of craftsmen Ryan needed. He wanted to build the Northern Wall and build population settlements, so he inevitably needed the help of craftsmen.

Ryan allocated funds to the butler Beard, allowing him to use up to one million gold coins to buy those slave craftsmen. Then, Ryan began to arrange alchemists and magicians to explore the mountains and forests in his territory.

That is, starting from the swamp in the south, to the middle of the boundary where the mountains leave and enter the snowfield in the north.

Ryan wants to build a road starting from Rhino Horn Mountain, connecting to the military fort defense line in the north, and then passing through the thorn jungle, where the spiritual plants are located and connecting to the snowy field at the site of the Great Wall in the north.

Such a road already exists, but what Ryan needs is not just one, but a dense network of roads that connect every mountain and every forest like a spider web.

Between two mountain peaks, there needs to be a road that goes around them, and on a foothill, there needs to be a winding road with as many turns as possible.

The purpose of building these roads is not only to provide accessibility, the most important thing is that villages and houses can be built on both sides of these roads.

Houses were built wherever roads were built, and each house represented a family, to ease the pressure on Nidhogg's two million people.

Ryan couldn't possibly throw all two million people into the North Wind Province.

A road of this scale is bound to be bumpy and many people will die. Ryan made this decision not without thinking about using this road to consume more people.

Once Nidhogg falls into death, Ryan really can't afford to support so many people. The Northern Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Brave Guild will also serve so many people. The more prosperous they are, the more production demand they can bring to the population of the Frozen Territory. In this way... the people of the Frozen Territory will be able to support themselves.

As for places farther away, the dream Great Wall in the North is still at the end of the list. The surplus labor will be sent there to open up. There is no chance this year. The North in winter is so cold that it can kill people. Ryan has the idea of ​​​​consumption, but this is not the means of consumption.

In addition to these, spreading out houses can also improve the living environment. The area around Rhino Horn Mountain can no longer accommodate more people. If more people come, the sanitation problem alone will give Ryan a headache.

Livestock can also be raised freely throughout the mountains and plains.

Yes, livestock. When Ryan didn't pay much attention to the Frozen Territory, the most talked-about topic was not speculation about what Master Ryan was doing, nor which child was chosen to join the patrol guard, but livestock.

Thanks to the existence of the divine essence in the body of the big wild boar, which subtly influenced the little wild boars following behind it, the pork exported from the Frozen Territory has been widely recognized by the nobles because of its delicious taste. The current nobles in the North Wind Province always miss the taste of pork leg meat from time to time.

Gradually, the people of the Frozen Territory were no longer afraid of these wild boars, and because they were used to living with the big wild boars, they were not very afraid of the humans around them.

As time went by, some wild boars began to stay in some farmers' homes, that is, those farmers who were guarding the terraced fields and refused to leave.

They used omnivorous food, especially wheat after harvest, and ground the straw into powder to feed the wild boars. The latter did not refuse, and gradually they became domesticated livestock.

At first, the farmers hid the wealth, fearing that the guards of the Frozen Territory would discover that they were hiding the wealth belonging to Master Ryan.

Later, this could no longer be hidden. Those farmers had become farmland owners because they were appreciated by Master Ryan. Many people were watching them, and discussion was inevitable over time.

After being exposed, they were naturally punished. Many families were deprived of the qualification to guard the terraces, and some of the more extreme ones were even demoted to slaves.

However, the domestication of wild boars has also kept up with the progress.

This summer, the process has reached 100%.

It’s still because of Nidhogg.

The countless fertile fields in Nidhogg meant that Ryan no longer had to worry about food for the winter for the first time. It also provided more bran that humans could not eat, making the wild boars grow fatter and more dependent on humans.

So after discussion in Xijiaoshan, the government officials began to issue orders that a family could buy a piglet for domestication for three silver coins.

It will grow plump in about ten months, and can then be sold for fifteen to eighteen silver coins.

It was close to a gold coin, which made many people's eyes light up. They could make a profit of five to ten silver coins from it.

After all, those pigs eat as much as humans.

Ryan also wants to focus on the high-end market. After all, how can the pork eaten by nobles be the same as the pork eaten by ordinary people? Butler Beard directly arranged for people to take care of the small wild boars following the big wild boar.

They are covered by the divine origin, and each one is a top-quality wild boar that can be used as a sacrifice.

As for the price...it will naturally be settled in gold coins. Anyway, the nobles in the North Wind Province have made a lot of money from selling mines recently, so they won't care.

There are currently four types of livestock in the Frozen Territory. One is the deer, which are spotted deer brought back from the other world of the mountains and forests and raised. They have delicate meat and can survive by eating leaves.

The second type is goats, which are also a rare breed brought back from the other world of the mountains and forests. Together with chickens, they are considered the most suitable livestock by the Frozen Territory Lords.

The last one is pig farming which has become popular recently.

As for raising horses and cattle, these are not included. These two things are not something ordinary people can afford.

The animal husbandry industry is developing, and Ryan intends to control the scale because these things cannot form effective competitive products. In the southern land, which noble family does not raise some livestock to sell?

Only large-scale meat production can eliminate concerns about transportation pressure, but the frozen land territory does not have such conditions.

Horse meat in the wild world cannot be harvested on a large scale.

Therefore, they had to give up this option and focus directly on transportation, that is, the ice cellar warehouse that had existed a few years ago. A large amount of meat food for the nobles of the entire North Wind Province was frozen in it, and a large number of carriages came in and out every week.

On the desk, new papers recorded Ryan's detailed plans and needs, without any strict timeline or specific planning descriptions.

Are you kidding? All Master Ryan has to do is give a general direction. The specific matters will be discussed and counted by government officials like Etria, and in the end, all they need to do is give him a result.

Ryan felt that this aspect of his frozen land territory was much more advanced than that of other noble territories in the world.

The advanced system brings about a significant improvement in efficiency, allowing him to avoid having to worry about many trivial matters.

He also does not need to worry about the problem of not being able to take back the decentralized power. Firstly, this is an extraordinary world. Secondly, the class stratification in this world is extremely serious.

Even though the Andara royal family was like that, there were no strange noises coming from within the Andara Kingdom.

The efficiency of the frozen land is what Ryan needs to turn time into strength.

Similarly, the efficiency brought by such an advanced system will also allow Ryan to find what he wants.

For example, coal.

(End of this chapter)