A day in midsummer in June.

After more than half a month of long journey, Zhou Ming, who was carrying a royal eagle flag, returned to the Glen Link, which had been away for nearly four years.

Seeing that his son graduated from the Knights College with the best grades, Baron Connor held a celebration banquet and a big banquet for guests. Whether it was his old rivals around him or his in-laws who had a marriage history, they all invited them to come over, and served them like a flowing water. The banquet was seven days and seven nights, and even the lower-level leaders of Glen Corps benefited a little, and each household was given a bag of white flour.

At the banquet, there were naturally some familiar figures, such as Baron Garcia. He thought about his eldest son who had been in the Royal Knight Academy for two years but had not even received the apprentice Knight Medal. When he saw his old opponent's son so outstanding... Baron Garcia, who seemed to have lost an extremely critical battle, sent his knight with the strongest martial arts skills to suppress Zhou Ming's arrogance, but after only ten rounds of battle, he was defeated. Baron Garcia was like a defeated rooster. After drinking two sips of wine, he left the banquet silently.

Baron Sean, who had made a baby marriage with Earl Connor very early, also brought his grown-up daughter Fanny over here. At the age of eighteen, Cardamom is like a flower bud that has not yet bloomed. It has a little charm in its youth, and exudes a different charm in its eyes.

"Edward, let's hold a wedding with Fanny in a few days. You're not young anymore. It's time to get married. Have a few children early and let me be my grandfather!"

Baron Sean, with a blushing face, pushed his daughter into Zhou Ming's arms, half-joking and half-serious.

Men in this world generally use 20 years old as the boundary for adulthood. Most of them get married around 20 years old. Of course, some get married earlier, but they are usually over 18 years old.

Zhou Ming was still a few months away from 18. Baron Sean was so anxious that he married his daughter to him because he was afraid that this precious son-in-law would be too outstanding. He didn't hurry up and quickly took up the position. If he was snatched away by a noble with better family conditions, his family would suffer great losses.

After all, marriage between strong and powerful is an important reason why many families have lasted for thousands of years without decline.

"My father-in-law, as long as you agree, I can marry Fanny into the house today and give birth to a little grandson for you tonight!" Zhou Ming, who came up with some wine and was proudly hugging his fiancée, whose face was blushing in his arms, said a dirty word that was hilarious.

"Okay! OK! Anyway, so many people are present, I will hold the wedding now and send it to the bridal chamber immediately!" Baron Sean smiled, feeling that this son-in-law is increasingly interested in him. Fanny is his favorite daughter. She can marry such an excellent son-in-law, and the stone in his heart can be put down.

"Ignore you!" In front of everyone, Fanny, who was ashamed of a red cloth, lowered her head and twisted the corner of her skirt, and trotted all the way out of the banquet hall.

“Hahahahaha~”

...

In the next two months, in addition to going to Baron Nathan to receive the offer and betrothal gifts, and going to the Monastery of St. Marne to invite Monastery to come over to be the host of his wedding. Most of the time, Zhou Ming either went to the study of the castle to flip books, or rode a horse and took a few servants to hunt the forest around the castle to relax. Most of his thoughts were still on future development plans.

Before entering the game, although Zhou Ming opened a lot of golden fingers for himself, established a lot of early advantages, and stood at a higher starting point of development, he shouldn't have such a headache.

However, the complex and complex problems in reality are often not solved with just a slap in mind, and they have to be combined with the specific actual situation.

For example, farming, hundreds of years of farming experience, Zhou Ming can come up with hundreds of solutions to promote agricultural income growth and invent more exquisite and practical and efficient agricultural tools that can achieve a grain yield of more than a thousand pounds per mu in the era of ancient agricultural civilization...

But is it useful to do this alone?

If farmers do not have the farming habit of using new farm tools, the desire to learn new planting methods, and there is no higher pursuit of life besides food and clothing, no matter how good Zhou Ming originally planned, there will still be a considerable gap in the results achieved during the specific implementation process.

For example, a few days ago, Zhou Ming looked through the Granling grain output statistics recorded in the account book by the housekeeper Bunod, and found that in the twelve years, excluding the large desert in the middle two years, the average annual grain harvest of Granling adult farmers increased from less than 50 tarons in the first five years to 110 tarons. In the next five years, there was basically no increase in the next five years. According to weather changes, they have been hovering in the range of 105 to 115.

This data, in the later stage of the last game, the average annual grain harvest of adult farmers in Grande generally exceeded 300 tarons, and the peak year could reach 500 tarons. The production potential of Grande farmers was only one-third of the harvest.

In addition to agriculture, the industry and commerce sector of Glentang is even less developed. After all, the cargo capacity of travelers is limited. In order to prevent being sucked by some greedy lords, even the most courageous travelers dare not sell them in hundreds of vehicles and become a walking fat sheep and walk in front of various robbers.

Therefore, Baron Connor, who is not very active in selling grain, has the most headache problem in recent years. The castle granary has too much food, and the old grain in the lowest layer has become moldy and rotten. It is impossible to come up with various solutions to solve the problem of excessive inventory and inability to consume.

Finally, Zhou Ming suggested that more livestock farms be built, more pigs, cattle, sheep and horses be raised, steamed wheat grains are mixed in the forage, and some old grains that cannot be swallowed are taken out, and they are distributed to the orphans and widows in the territory, and to poor households with too many people in their families... After all the measures, the grain inventory has finally dropped a little, which has also given the lord some reputation for kindness.

In addition, land that plays a fundamental role in the ultimate development potential of a piece of territory is also one of Zhou Ming’s most troublesome problems.

It’s like playing a strategy game. At the beginning of the farming period, the resources in the territory were sufficient, but after a while, the population, soldiers, grain production and resource output of the territory reached the upper limit and could not grow. If you want to break through the bottleneck and continue to develop, you can only take the path of external expansion and plundering surrounding territories.

Zhou Ming calculated that the maximum population limit of Glen, with a radius of 20 miles and an area of ​​about 300 square kilometers, is 30,000, and the maximum elite troops is 2,000. Without the premise of external expansion, if you want to continue to develop upward, you can only take the path of destroying the environment or limiting the population birth rate. Otherwise, with such a high population density and a linear increase in the outbreak rate of the plague will only make Zhou Ming's efforts be futile again and again.

"In recent years, thanks to the increase in grain production, the population of Glen is now about 5,000, and there is still a certain amount of room for improvement... But with the development potential of Glen is only the small piece of land, it will be developed for ten years at most. After I build an army, I must embark on the road of external expansion. Otherwise, if the development is too slow, the rapid time of a person's life will be a problem, not to mention occupying this world, even if it is a medium-sized kingdom..."

Someone may ask why he did not expand from the surrounding area of ​​Glen, occupy all the land of the baron and counts, and conquer the entire Kingdom of Voris as quickly as possible, and then swallowed all directions...

Of course, Zhou Ming thought of this, but rebellion within the system is more difficult than turning over the table outside the system and cutting everyone over. Once Zhou Ming wants to expand externally, he must first consult his father Baron Connor's opinion. Baron Connor's agreement is not enough, and his ten knights have to nod. Even if these people agree to fight the surrounding territories, they are all nobles who have been married and can't do that ruthless move.

Just like Baron Sean, the father-in-law of this life, can Zhou Ming still plunder her father's territory in a cold and ruthless way, just like in his previous life, regardless of the feelings of his wife beside him?

Different identities and positions, and the things that concerns are different. In the last life, he was born at the bottom of the class and hated all the nobles. He started to take action and took action. In this life, he was born and issued orders. Even his sympathy for the people at the bottom was not as sincere as before.

Not to mention, we will pull the army composed of these lower-class figures and cut down all the nobles of the same class.

"This kind of violent direct expansion path cannot be taken anymore. Without promoting one's own title, you cannot even think about rebelling too early. If you want to gain more territory, you can only think of some solutions on your neighbors. If you attack your neighbors, you don't need to worry about it..."

Which neighboring countries can be attacked nearby?

The kingdom of savages in the north is difficult to survive in the snow and ice.

The Iron Fort Kingdom in the south has a strong national strength and cannot be provoked. It will take ten years to wait for civil strife and take advantage of the situation to rob.

The Ula Plateau in the east is too high and the air is thin, making it not suitable for human survival. It is harder to climb over the Ural Snow Mountain, which is thousands of feet high, and reach the new world opposite.

"It is said that the golden horns, silver edges, grass belly, and the granite is also a corner, but a blind spot. It is a bit difficult to expand to the surrounding area. I still have to plan my future development path, otherwise my hands and feet will be limited by various concerns. The final achievement may not be possible if the table was turned on in the last game and rebelled. After cutting down all opponents, a new system will be established again..."
Chapter completed!