[Chapter 50 Entering the Warring States Period]

The pioneering team is usually composed of civilians, because the main task is to open up the uninhabited area, so there will be no soldiers accompanying them, let alone knights.

But this refers to the pioneering team in the ordinary sense. There is a special pioneering team that is mainly composed of soldiers, that is, the team that builds sentries, fortresses and other military facilities.

“Are they building a new sentry?”

This is not incomprehensible. There was originally a northern sentry to the north of the Iron Tree Fort. Now the plain further north of the northern sentry has been incorporated into the territory of the Kingdom of Tilan. Then it is normal to build a new sentry in the border area that has been clearly explored.

“It doesn’t look like it.” Addis recalled various details, and he didn’t think that the place looked like a new sentry was being built.

“Then there is only one possibility left.” David didn’t think it would be like this, but after excluding a few possibilities, there was no other answer: “Iron Tree Castle has divided this plain area, and that area was given to a certain noble.” What

Addis saw was probably that the noble brought the farmers he hired to develop and build his own fiefdom. In this case, the other party might not only build a village, but also directly build a town: “Have you counted how many people there are there?”

“No less than thirty people.” Addis recalled. He just observed from a distance for a while and was not sure that he saw all the people: “If it is really divided out, maybe this is just the first batch, and there will be more people coming later.”

“It shouldn’t happen this year, unless they want to travel in the wind and snow.” After David finished speaking, he realized that these people might not understand what winter in the northern plains is like, and began to consider whether he should remind them a little?

He had no hostility towards these latecomers, nor did he feel that they had invaded his territory. He knew his own weight very well. He was just a small village chief and could not manage such a far place.

Of course, if the other party built the town within a visible distance from Winter Village, he would not be happy. Such a close distance means that the two sides will soon have a conflict over land, and it also means that David’s village will have no room for development.

“Is it… that the nobles are planning to do so?”

Although the Kingdom of Tilan has issued a pioneering order to encourage civilians to reclaim wasteland and help the kingdom expand its territory, he can’t think of any example of a civilian becoming a great lord with the help of the pioneering order.

In the past, he took it for granted that the knowledge and ability of those “village chiefs” were limited, and the village exceeded their ability after a certain level of development, and there was no way to upgrade further.

Now it seems that things are far more complicated than that – civilians do lack the ability and vision to go further, but the kingdom is likely to use some means to restrict them.

“Before, I thought that such a large land in the Northern Plains could be smoothly developed into a large town with the help of the golden finger. Now it seems that I am quite naive.”

David smiled self-deprecatingly, and he didn’t feel dissatisfied. If he were in that position, he would do it even better.

And it seems that things are not that bad at the moment. As long as he develops step by step, he can still develop Winter Village.

“I’ll go there in person tomorrow.”

He plans to meet this new neighbor in person. It doesn’t matter if he didn’t know him before, but now that he knows, he should at least find out his identity and general personality.

Considering that the two villages are so close, maybe some trade activities can be carried out. It would be nice to set up a market between the two villages in the future.

After thinking about it, David planned to lie down and rest after completing various training as usual, and get up at dawn tomorrow to go and see the new neighbor in the northeast.

Unexpectedly, before he had dinner, an acquaintance came to visit him in Winter Village.

“Captain Gregory, welcome to Winter Village.” The one who suddenly came to visit him was Gregory, the captain of the northern sentry, the one who bought fifty kilograms of potatoes from him.

“It’s been a while since we last met, Village Chief David.” Gregory greeted David enthusiastically, and at the same time looked around Winter Village curiously. He saw that a large number of fields had been reclaimed around the village, and most of the fields were full of potatoes that were about to mature: “It seems that Winter Village has ushered in a bumper harvest. These are all potatoes!”

“Yes, this winter will not be as difficult as before.” David noticed that after Gregory came to the village, he kept looking in the direction of the farmland. It seemed that Gregory came here for the potatoes: “Captain Gregory, do you want to buy some more potatoes this time?”

“Yes.” Gregory admitted readily: “The quantity to be purchased this time is very large.”

“Oh?” David looked at Gregory, turned his head and looked at the soldiers who came with Gregory, as well as several carriages, some of which were completely empty: “It seems that Captain Gregory is well prepared. I wonder how much he wants to buy this time?”

“I’ll buy as many as you want to sell.” Gregory’s meaning was very clear. I’ll take all the potatoes that you don’t finish eating in Winter Village! That is to say, he wants to buy all the potatoes that the whole village has left for themselves.

“Did the Northern Sentinel decide to use potatoes as the main military ration?” After buying so many potatoes, could it be that Gregory was going to let his men eat nothing but potatoes?

The more he thought about it, the more strange it seemed. When he was about to ask something else, he found that Gregory was winking at him and whispered, “Village Chief David, can we talk alone?”

“Yes, this way.” David thought about it and took Gregory to his cabin.

Although there were many things in his cabin that were not convenient for people to see, as more and more people came to the village, he had developed the habit of putting away those special things. At least on the surface, there was nothing strange about his cabin.

After Gregory came in, he just glanced at the environment of the wooden house and stopped paying attention to the surroundings. Instead, he stared at David himself: “Village Chief David, there is a great opportunity in front of you now.”

“What do you mean?” David was puzzled. He didn’t like this way of talking very much. He often talked like a guessing game for a long time without getting to the point.

Fortunately, Gregory didn’t continue to be so mysterious. He directly stated the real intention of his trip: he hoped that David would join the family he was now loyal to.

“?”

For a moment, David wondered if he had traveled through time again? What kind of script was this? Was he a general in the wild?

Fortunately, when he was stunned, Gregory was still introducing the family he was now loyal to, and at the same time, David finally understood what was going on.

It turned out that Gregory was no longer the captain of the Northern Sentinel. After receiving the fifty kilograms of potatoes sent by David, he used these potatoes as capital for promotion and joined the Forrest family, the great nobles of Iron Tree Castle.

After personally testing and confirming that potatoes are easy to grow, have a short cycle, and have a good yield, Gregory became a knight loyal to this noble family, and followed the fourth son of the Forrest family, Sean Forrest, to the northern plains to build new villages and towns.

In name, Sean Forrest came to the north in the name of building a new border outpost, but considering that it was too remote and needed to be self-sufficient to a certain extent, it was prepared to build it according to the standards of a border town.

However, even if Sean Forrest successfully built a border town, he could only be regarded as a builder, and at most he would be stationed here to guard the border after the construction was completed. This area and the newly established villages and towns were not Sean Forrest’s territory.

So the Forrest family thought of a roundabout way to let Gregory, who was familiar with David, come to Winter Village and recruit David to become a subordinate of the Forrest family.

If David joins the Forrest family, then Winter Village and the surrounding areas will naturally be counted as the Forrest family’s territory. Considering that David’s Winter Village is the product of the development order, the specific size of this territory has great flexibility, and it is not difficult to directly annex the newly established villages and towns.

In this way, Winter Village and the newly established villages and towns plus the surrounding large areas will reasonably become the Forrest family’s territory.

Gregory certainly couldn’t explain these things so clearly, but through the information revealed in his words, David figured out why the other party wanted to recruit him.

At the same time, Gregory also revealed more information about the surrounding area of Winter Village: it is not only the Forrest family that has set its sights on the large area of ‘unowned land’ on this plain, but many families have also set their sights on this vast land.

However, at present, only Sean Forrest has established a new border village in the northeast of Winter Village, and the team sent by the Lord of Iron Tree Castle, Marquis Morgan, has established the Snowfield Castle in the middle of Winter Village and the original northern outpost, which is located west of the center of the entire northern plain.

“In addition, there are more families who will send teams to this plain after next spring.” According to Gregory, after next spring, the villages on this land will pop up one after another like bamboo shoots after rain. “

…”

Listening to Gregory’s description, David suspected that if he had a system or something, there would be a high probability that a voice reminder would appear at this time: Congratulations on entering the Warring States Period!

Resisting the urge to complain, David continued to listen to Gregory’s words. After listening to him, he suddenly discovered a problem: this guy talked for a long time about the lack of development prospects of Winter Village. After the major families reached out, it would be difficult for Winter Village to recruit people to settle down; the situation in the northern plains after next year will be very chaotic; the Forrester family is very powerful.

But he didn’t mention what benefits David would get if he defected to the Forrester family?

“This guy… is not polite!”

(End of this chapter)