Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 66 Huge Harvest
Anyone with a clear mind would know what to choose from the two paths Su Li gave.

The harsh environment of the badlands has shaped the nomads' tenacious character. They will desperately seize every opportunity and tenaciously survive.

Harry had no intention of committing suicide. After hearing Su Li's words, he struggled to his feet, knelt before Su Li and said, "My dear Lord, I am willing to serve you and use my battle axe to chop down all enemies who oppose you, whether they are bandits, beastmen, goblins or monsters."

Su Li nodded in satisfaction and asked the knight beside him to help untie him. Then he looked him up and down carefully. His long career in forging had made his arms muscular and his knotted veins showed that he had extraordinary arm strength.

He had a fierce look in his eyes, but not much of a beard. He was obviously a young man. He dared to pick up a battle axe and fight against the bighorn beast. He was truly a newborn calf that was not afraid of a tiger.

Then Su Li asked Schwartz to take him away and prepared to arrange him to go to the castle and start training in the stables, blacksmith shop and other places.

From now on, he will be a knight squire directly under the command of the high-ranking squire-general, Hildre, and will be responsible for helping Su Li clean the stables and trim the horse's hooves. In his spare time, he will also help Boros Dragonhammer forge some tools needed by the serfs on the farm.

However, this matter is no longer urgent now.

More than 300 pieces of agricultural tools were found in this farm, most of which were made by Harry before, which are basically enough to meet the current farming needs of the territory.

In addition to these farm tools, the soldiers also found four war horses, twenty cattle and sheep, and three warehouses full of grain. Each storage room could hold at least 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms of food. This was consistent with the practices of the nomads in the badlands: they usually only stored food for a year and a half, and the more adventurous ones even stored it for a year and a month, selling the rest to merchants and keeping it safe.

This allowed Su Li to find more than 110 gold coins in their treasury. Assuming that a farmer earned one gold coin a year, the fact that this farm could save so much money meant that they had been operating here for as long as two or three years.

Su Li gave the gold coins to Avril and asked her to lead two teams of armed servants to send the slaves back to the territory, and then asked Fandral to bring a group of slaves in person to continue running the farm.

Because the greatest wealth in this farm is the farmland they have cultivated.

After asking, Su Li learned that more than 1000 people were managing more than acres of farmland in total, with each person taking care of ten acres of land, and they mainly planted spring wheat. In less than a month, they would have a good harvest.

This will undoubtedly greatly alleviate the food supply pressure in the territory.

With longing in his eyes, Hildre said to Su Li, "My Lord, with this batch of grain, we can buy another batch of slaves. If we add this spoils of war, we will have thousands of gold coins, right? We can buy five more elite knights, or two or three hundred serfs."

Su Li couldn't help but nodded. The oppressive feeling of the green dragon in the forest had been weighing on his heart. He didn't want to retreat. He planned to fight the green dragon head-on, so he had to increase his own strength.

In the border prince's territory, which is not very developed, if he wants to strengthen himself, there is undoubtedly only one best way - to store grain and train soldiers!
There was no vast fertile land here, so it was not suitable for forming a large army. The best option was to train an elite force to enhance combat effectiveness while reducing food pressure. As for training troops, he was not in a hurry to recruit new soldiers, as he did not have many good ways to do so. However, he did have a good way to provide the soldiers with better equipment and armor.

So Su Li said to Knight Orstein and Hilde separately, "Now that we have marched out, we cannot just fight one battle and then return easily. Let the troops gather quickly and split into two groups."

"Hilde, you and the four knights, Emily, Schwartz, and Stern, will form a treasure hunting team. Take our family's flag and head to the highest peak of the Gray Mountains. Plant our flag there! I believe your journey will be very meaningful and rewarding."

"My Lord Commander, you will lead the main force and follow me to the Jinke Mine."

In the past half month, in addition to training troops, the most important thing for Knight Orstein was to complete the task assigned to him by Su Li, which was to explore the Gray Mountains.

This mission is actually quite normal. Since the territory is chosen at the foot of the Hessen Mountains, our army naturally needs to patrol and investigate the surrounding terrain and monster distribution.

According to the geographical situation of the Hessen Territory, if there really is a monster force that can threaten the security of the territory, then their most likely locations are either the Blood Pine Forest or the Gray Mountains in the north.

The fact that there are forest bandits in the Blood Pine Forest is already well known throughout the territory, so the territory army naturally has to investigate the situation in the Gray Mountains.

In the past half month, the patrolling knights and their teams have found the monster's nest hidden in the Jinke Mine. Inside the mine, there is a large tribe of ogres.

According to the knights' exploration results, there may be at least 300 to 500 gnolls inside, and they also have a strong gnoll leader.

The fighting ability of the kobolds is relatively average, about the same as that of the lesser horns, and they are at the lowest level among the beasts. Therefore, the kobolds often fight each other to grab the scraps of food that can barely survive. They also eat the crawling maggots and insects, suck the marrow from the bones, or eat the remains of their own kind who died in the conflict.

Only the half-naked human serfs and bandits would fear the bites of these monsters. A well-trained, armored attendant could easily withstand the siege of two or three dog-headed men. Killing a few dog-headed men in one battle was not considered a military achievement.

Knight Orstein didn't care about dealing with this tribe of ogres. After hearing Su Li's order, he only felt a little doubtful about the existence of these ogres.

"My Lord, monsters like kobolds generally don't form large groups. Their combat effectiveness is weak, and they're likely to be easily devoured by passing powerful monsters in the wild. If a tribe of this size appears, it's likely they've joined forces with a powerful monster and become its followers."

As he spoke, he frowned slightly, looked at Su Li, and asked, "Given the kobolds' admiration for strength and violence, they most often turn to certain dragons. With such a large kobold tribe active in the foothills of the Black Forest, could there be a dragon here?"

(End of this chapter)