Roning took a cursory tour of the manor.

Compared with the Hillwood Castle, this place is obviously more luxurious. Among other things, there are many magic crystal lamps here, which are rare items in the Hillwood Castle.

But the humidity here is a bit heavy and there are many insects, so the castle servants need to take care of it regularly, otherwise the furniture, clothes, books, etc. will easily become moldy.

After a rough look, Ronin accompanied Galil in the castle's fortress to conduct a brief interrogation of Leisen's family and accompanying knights.

When Fenris saw that it was Rhonin sitting on the main seat, he was finally convinced that Baron Leisen, whom they were following, was really finished.

"It was you, Joffrey, who betrayed Lord Reisen?" Fenris, who was bound by chains, asked with gritted teeth.

Joffrey stood beside Ronin. If it weren't for Ronin's special regard for him, he would probably have died in the prison of Wushan Castle.

He had no good feelings towards Fenris. When Lei Sen arranged him in the Black Collar Tribe, the two had a dispute.

"Leisen paid the price for his stupidity. It has nothing to do with me."

Joffrey said, "Fenris, you and I have known each other for a while. I advise you to tell Lord Rhonin and Sir Galil of Wushan Fort about the relationship between Reson and the Order of Skull and Bones without reservation. In this way, you may be spared some torture."

Fenris had a gloomy face and did not continue to pester Joffrey. Instead, he wondered if he could surrender, would he be accepted by Ronin like Joffrey? With this thought, his tone softened, but he really didn't know what the relationship between Leisen and the Skeleton Society was.

"I don't know, but Feridon may know."

Fenris said: "Last December, Feridon left Thayne and returned after a long time."

Galil looked at Ronin, "This Knight of Feridon."

"My people will bring him here."

Luo Ning said, "If it's earlier, maybe we'll know tomorrow."

Feridon was also captured? Fenris was shocked. Lord Leisen had only gone to Wushan Castle to celebrate the New Year. What happened in such a short time? Ronin did not stay in the fortress for long. He was not interested in the interrogation, nor did he intend to recruit a professional knight like Fenris who was difficult to control.

On the contrary, other weaker knights, and even the ordinary guards and archers who made up Lord Sean's knight squad, attracted his interest more.

The cavalry, archers, and infantry of Shanlin Town are still in training. If these people from Lord Sean can be perfectly absorbed, the defense of the territory will be much easier to handle.

He now controls six places: Swamp Town, Forest Town, Green Bamboo Village, Purple Fruit Village, Gray Soil Village and Black Collar Tribe.

Needless to say, Swamp Town is the most populous place in Wubei Territory, and needs people to guard and maintain it; Mountain Forest Town is Ronin's base camp, with a large amount of farmland, iron and wood workshops, etc., which also need people to manage;

Ziguo Village is a sericulture base, and Huitu Village is a ceramic base, so they cannot be abandoned; as for the Black Collar Tribe, he learned from Joffrey that the Black Collar Tribe has very fertile land and high yields of crops. More than 4,000 acres of land have been reclaimed, and last year they sent more than 70,000 kilograms of grain to Sen Territory.

It can be seen from this that the black-collar tribe also has huge development value.

After counting, it seems that only Qingzhu Village is not of much value. Luo Ning can consider relocating the more than 300 people in the Qingzhu tribe first.

"Are you the steward of Swampburg?"

Ronin randomly found a room and asked Joffrey to bring Lei Sen's butler over.

"Yes, sir."

This is a middle-aged man with short brown hair. He should be in good spirits normally, but after being detained for a few days, he now looks very haggard.

"Saelin is happy to serve you, my lord!"

Just like when Ronin first moved into Hillwood Castle, he did not need Leisen's servants to serve him, but he could get information about the castle from this group of people.

Serin is clearly a qualified steward and has a clear grasp of the financial situation of Swamp Town.

Take the breeding of black buffalo as an example, he knows exactly the number of cattle on the ranch.

Among the adult black buffaloes, there were 82 bulls, 566 cows, and the rest were 164 calves.

Roning made a rough estimate and found that if each cow was sold at an average price of 20 gold coins, he could earn more than 16,000 gold coins by selling all the cows in a package.

Of course, the price of 20 gold coins should be too low.

Black buffalo are large in size and are good at plowing the land. A black buffalo of slightly better quality is comparable to an ordinary war horse, and it is no problem to sell it for 30 gold coins.

However, compared to the horse industry in Muma City, Leisen’s buffalo business is much smaller, with less than a thousand cows in total.

Luo Ning plans to distribute some of these cattle to Shanlin Town and Heitu Village to speed up land reclamation and increase grain harvests.

In addition, Luo Ning also learned from Sailin that Lei Sen also runs aquatic business such as fish and shrimp. Although it cannot be compared with the aquatic business in Hushang Town, it can still bring in a certain amount of income every year.

In the entire Swamp Town, thousands of gold coins fall into Lei Sen’s pocket every year.

The only regret is that there are not many good farmlands here. In order to maintain the population consumption of the territory, Baron Leisen needs to buy food from outside.

That was why the other party set their sights on the Black Collar Tribe in the north. The 70,000 kilograms of grain transported from the Black Collar Tribe last year saved him a lot of money.

In addition to this information, Roning also learned from the other party the approximate population of Swamp Town - more than 9,800 people.

After Wilson came and completed the census, the number of registered people in the Ronin territory was likely to exceed tens of thousands.

Based on the experience of completing the [Good Fortune] achievement before, Luo Ning guessed whether he could complete two [Prosperous Population] achievements in succession this time.

After all, the second level of this achievement only requires the registered population to reach 5,000, and the third level is likely to be set at 10,000.

However, Roning has not yet figured out how to complete the achievement of [Siege the City and Conquer the Territory].

Logically speaking, he should have completed the task by now as he has occupied the Territory of Sen, but the status of the achievement remains unchanged.

Luo Ning guessed that this might be related to the word "city".

Swamp Town is still just a town, not a city.

Whether a territory can be called a "city" is mainly determined by its population size.

"If Swamp Town has a population of tens of thousands, can it be considered a city?"

Roning planned to wait until the census of Swamp Town was completed before considering whether to leave some of the thousands of slaves purchased from the Viper Slave Exchange in Swamp Town to make up the population of tens of thousands.

Completing as many achievement tasks as possible and obtaining attribute points and energy essence are very important to him at present. (End of this chapter)