Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 81 Su Li's Right to First Night
The territory added several free citizens, which not only increased the vitality of the territory, but also Su Li's restless thoughts.

The Electorate of Surander is located in the east of the empire and is famous for its love of flashy clothing and vanity. Their main exports are: cattle, fashionable clothing, fine porcelain, horses, leather products, wine and beautiful women!
The beauty of Surander is renowned throughout the world, with fair skin, amethyst eyes and signature flowing white hair.

Among these free people, there was a graceful 17-year-old girl named Phyllis. She was 1.7 meters tall, with plump and slender legs that were white, round and glowing even without stockings. Her slender waist was just right. Every time she saw Su Li's fiery gaze, she would shyly lower her head, making the fullness of her snow-white chest more obvious.

This made Su Li couldn't help but wonder, who said that all the beauties in ancient times were country girls?

What's more, even if she is a country girl, even without makeup, at the age of seventeen or eighteen, she is still very young.

What high school or university doesn't have class beauties or campus beauties? They are truly natural beauties, without any embellishment or modification.

As long as the population base is large enough, you can always find a beautiful woman, even one in a hundred or ten thousand. Phyllis is one of them. Her face is like a flower just blooming in spring, fresh and refined, full of vitality and energy.

So even though Su Li knew that there was a huge gap between them and it was inappropriate to choose her as a female court official, he still couldn't help but look at this gentle and shy girl.

A noble lord who chose a farmer's daughter over so many knights would surely be laughed at.

This made Su Li somewhat hesitant. He could play on easy mode, so he certainly didn't want to go hard. Just as he could just lie back and enjoy life and beautiful women, he had little desire to shed blood and seize the throne. Unless... there was a shortcut to the throne. To say he wouldn't accept the throne was a bit far-fetched. What man hasn't fantasized about ruling the world?

Hildurde, on the other hand, was more encouraging, telling him to go for it if he liked her. She reasoned that even the beauties of Surander couldn't all have flowing silver hair. It was likely that she, like herself, had some special bloodline from either her paternal or maternal ancestry. This was a white-haired beauty; what man could resist her?

If you take her low status into consideration, you can first take her in as a maid, or turn her into a nun of the Church of Dawn.

Su Li proposed this plan to the other party, but for some unknown reason, the other party refused to send Phyllis to the castle as a maid, a way out that ordinary people dream of.

This seems very strange. For a daughter from a commoner family, if she can enter the castle as a maid, it means that she can greatly reduce the burden on her family. She can even bring some leftover food and fruits from the castle back home to subsidize her younger brothers and sisters.

Apart from the fact that the girl might be pinned down a few times by the castle owner, there are almost no disadvantages.

But this shortcoming is actually nothing for women in this world, and it's not known or discriminated against by others. Because everything within the territory is the lord's property, and the imperial nobility enjoys the right of first night. In theory, all girls will be favored by the lord, breaking their virginity.

If a young girl lost her virginity before the lord entered her body, it would be a felony equivalent to stealing the property of a noble, and both she and her lover would be hanged by the court.

Although Master Su Li was kind, he had never abolished the right of first night since he entered the pioneer territory. (The main reason was that they were all his serfs before and had no right to marry.)
In theory, all civilian girls below the level of apprentice knights are currently keeping their chastity for Master Su Li.

So Su Li has not been in a hurry recently. He is not particularly short of women anyway. If he wants to vent, Xilude and Avril around him can satisfy him. Moreover, they are knights and their endurance is much higher than Phyllis.

One of the important reasons why Su Li hesitated to choose Phyllis as a court official was that he was worried that she would not have enough physical strength. She was just a fragile vase and would faint after serving him only once or twice a night.

This is also the happy trouble of being a lord. Choosing a suitable female courtier is just to satisfy his needs for pleasure and enjoyment. According to the hierarchy of needs theory, he is at least at the third level. This is a wonderful thing that he could not even imagine when he was a cow or a horse in his previous life.

Of course, this was not the only thing Su Li considered during this period. After becoming a lord, he paid attention to more interesting things.

In addition to the women who satisfy his pleasure and sense of conquest, there is also the power he manages and develops.

He has been lying down during this period, so the daily intelligence system is updated every day, which helps him develop his territory very well.

Daily intelligence revealed the location of three nearby amethyst grape vines, with the largest number at one location being 26. Fandral led his men to transplant all of these vines and plant them beneath the green hills to the north.

In order to take care of the 60 precious purple crystal plants, Su Li specially mobilized three ogre workers and slaves to start building the Bauhinia Manor at the foot of the green leafy hills.

After the manor is built, Su Li will move out of the castle and live mainly in the manor. The nobles do not stay in the castle all day long, and the castle environment is not suitable for living and enjoying. (Except for very large and luxurious houses)
In addition, the ranch in the territory has finally taken shape. The current ranch is located in the northeast of the farmland area. It is a fertile pasture covering an area of ​​more than 30,000 acres. The shepherd tribe grazes and harvests grass at the same time, and has piled up nearly a thousand bundles of grass on the farm. Currently, the stables and hay houses are simply built of wood, and they will be converted into stone and brick buildings when conditions permit in the future.

Although the ranch's facilities were simple, the livestock within were enormous. Knight Frederick, with three squads of shock knights, finally encountered the wildebeest herd again in the leafy hills to the north. This time, they were well prepared and captured over 30 wildebeest at once. The herd's king and the remaining wildebeests desperately fled, but only about remained. And this was even before Knight Frederick showed mercy; he didn't want to harm the remaining wildebeests, which would be the future treasure of the territory!
In addition to the herd of wildebeests, the shepherd also found a herd of goats in the mountains under Su Li's guidance, totaling more than 80 goats.

As a new type of soldier, the shepherds performed even better than Su Li had expected. They had a certain level of detection ability, and at range, they could use slings to hurl stones. In close combat, they carried a shepherd's axe, a small, light axe with a long handle, popular in the eastern provinces of the empire. For thousands of years, the mountain dwellers of the Black Mountains and World's Edge Mountains of the empire had carried this axe as a hiking stick, using it as a weapon against beastmen and thieves.

If they encountered a small group of stray beasts, they could hunt down a few of them themselves. If they encountered a large group of thieves or wild beasts, they could also report it in time.

This was a force similar to the Fubing, hiding the soldiers among the people so that they could take care of production while fighting. They took care of a total of 103 war horses, 24 foals, a total of 95 oxen and draft horses, and more than 600 sheep in the territory.

With summer just around the corner, they'd been busy shedding the sheep and goats, while Lawn was also busy building a warehouse. He planned to build a wool workshop in the territory to make wool blankets and cashmere coats for the winter.

This minister who holds the seal is truly talented, and he has taken care of everything that Su Li has considered and not considered.

There are two government affairs that Su Li has been personally involved in recently. One is to guide the fishing and hunting in the territory, and the other is to supervise the dam project in Bjorn Bay.

In fact, the dam project of Bjorn Shoal was divided into two parts and carried out simultaneously. While the dam was being built on the high ground on the east side of the shallow bend, drainage ditches were also being built below. When the water was drained, the land below would be dried up and become fertile and soft land. In summer, serfs would use heavy plows and oxen to plow here. One ox could reclaim at least two or three acres of good farmland a day.

At the turn of spring and summer, the sun is bright but not scorching, the breeze blows, the grass sways, and the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers.

Su Li sat on the lawn west of the shallows, watching the slaves working furiously in the distance. They used shovels and iron hoes to load the mud from the ditches into bamboo baskets. Then, with a single exertion of force, the brute-force ogre lifted the wooden barrels and bamboo baskets filled with mud, weighing several hundred pounds, and placed them on the nearby oxcarts. Thanks to the territory's developed ranches, many oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages were used for various projects and transported various supplies.

Under the personal supervision of the lord, the slaves made rapid progress in digging. From early morning to now, in about three hours, they had already dug out a 200-meter-long main ditch and built four diversion channels. About 20 acres of land would be able to be converted into fertile farmland.

As Su Li was watching, Minister of Agriculture Fandral came quickly from a distance with powerful steps.

The priest of the Goddess of Dawn can now be said to be the most motivated person in the territory. This territory full of vitality perfectly conforms to the teachings of the Goddess of Dawn in every aspect.

Everyone felt that the old druid was getting younger and younger, and his spirit and appearance were more energetic than most young people.

He walked quickly to Su Li and said, "My Lord, I have good news to inform you. The monastery of the Goddess of Dawn has been completed today. Would you like to participate in the monastery's unveiling ceremony?"

Su Li quickly waved his hand and said, "Congratulations to the Dawn Church for taking another important step on the road of spreading the word. I'm not a believer of the Dawn Goddess, so I won't go."

He didn't go not because he was not interested in the teachings of the Goddess of Dawn, but because he was worried that his presence would arouse the indignation of the knights.

An imperial lord not only did not build a monastery for the imperial knights' gods in his territory, but also solemnly participated in the opening ceremony of a distant monastery for gods.

Is this frontier no longer a glorious land for the knights?
When the time came, the knights would ask him to build monasteries and temples for the corresponding churches, and he would not have to do anything else. If he rejected the knights' proposal, it would seriously affect the morale of the army.

Therefore, it is better to complete the Monastery of the Goddess of Dawn in a low-key manner.

Fandral didn't mind. The Goddess of Dawn was so generous. As long as you respect her properly, she will bring hope, but she will never reward greed. Therefore, the Church of Dawn did not build magnificent temples, but there were indeed various monasteries scattered across the land.

For Fandral, as long as the monastery is built and the teachings can be spread, it is enough. When the breeze blows through the wheat fields, it is the happiest moment for the followers of the Church of Dawn, because they believe that it is the goddess walking on the land.

Fandral then pulled a wooden box from a pocket tied outside his robe and said to Su Li, "Inside the monastery, I felt the goddess' approval and grace, so I suddenly had an inspiration and successfully created three [Blood of the Earth] potions. This is a high-level potion that even the most powerful monks cannot create on a normal day."

(End of this chapter)