Chapter 53: Second Northland Exploitation Mission
Chapter 53: The Second Northland Exploitation Mission
Because of trying to make fertilizer, Owen who felt that his nose was almost out of joint had just returned to the territory when he received the bad news brought by Kerens, which made him who had originally eased up a lot with the growth of the territory’s strength once again, and his anxiety increased with each passing day.
This is the second time Collins returned, the first time he brought back all the female serfs in Mara Town, but only thirty to fifty, for the male to female ratio adjustment of the territory can not play a big role, but Owen still gave him a reward and gave him two days of vacation.
However, only made this achievement Kerensi is not dead, he begged Owen to give him another chance.
Out of the fact that the more people in the territory, the better, Owen once again set up a larger fleet.
Kerensi is really hard, a go half a month, hard to bring back three hundred serfs, one hundred of them are women.
Owen was very happy, but also curious about where he got so many serfs, and then realized.
In fact, it is very simple, Mara Town is only one of the northern transit point, not the only one, not only his serfs, in fact, the closer to the border of the empire, the more serfs, the higher the proportion of women, only a round trip is not easy, if you do not carry enough food, the mortality rate of serfs along the way is not low, coupled with other risks, it is very easy to lose all the money.
Kerensi also rely on Owen to give enough food and grass soldiers and horses to dare to go, but all the way the same did not less effort and effort, people are thinning a circle.
But this time to return, Kerens also brought a bad news, the empire is preparing for the second northland pioneering mission.
The first Northland pioneering mission lasted several years, one after another to the Northland people as many as tens of thousands of people, with the barbarians, with the beasts of war, with peers fighting, and finally survived ten people do not exist, can stand firm is less and less.
After a dozen years, the active gold rush, passive dispatched, and a steady stream of stragglers, adding up to almost hundreds of thousands of people, it is these people with their lives and sweat, creating the prosperity of the Empire’s borders today.
But when this piece of land devouring life began to be able to nurture wealth, there are people who can’t stand it and are ready to intervene, in other words, the peach picker has come.
According to Kerensi inquired about the news, this time the pioneering group is no longer mainly criminals and strays of the death of the pioneering group, but to the nobles without inheritance of the second son, down and out of the small nobles, wandering knights, mercenary groups mainly looting group.
“The visitor is not good.” Owen said with a sigh as he sat in his study.
It wasn’t the early days, when one needed to fight for land with the barbarians of the Northlands, and one had to have enough force to survive.
Nowadays, the Northland is much more peaceful, although there are conflicts between neighbors, but no one will really lay hands on him, if not, Owen would not be alive until the action is too big to alarm the neighbors to prepare to take action against him.
This is mainly because the Northland is really too big, too few people, there really isn’t much to conflict with each other.
And if you get caught in an internal conflict in the Northland, you won’t survive at all, so a hoe is more suitable for the current Northland than a sword.
Is it necessary to form a heavily armed pioneering group to come over in this situation?
The fact was obvious, obviously this armed pioneering group came not to help everyone build their homes together, even Owen had been able to guess what the other side would do, and Maya had specifically reminded him of this.
Find a piece of land and occupy it, then create conflicts and start a war with the neighbors, and then of course, the victor owns everything. Knowing that, Owen could not change anything.
Nobles are greedy devourers, and their desire for power and land is endless.
In the beginning, the northern border was just a place for them to throw away their garbage, which was insignificant, but after the garbage was decomposed and turned into nutrients, this piece of fertile land was no longer so dispensable.
Of course, the Northland is not worth it for the big nobles, because they don’t even see it.
The great nobles are already above the ordinary nobles, they have a long history and heritage, the huge territory is more like an independent kingdom, in fact, the duke’s territory is also called a duchy, the marquis territory is called a marquisate, which shows the power and influence of the great nobles.
Together with the feudal nobles who support the big nobles, each big noble has significant influence in the empire, they are the top predator perched on the behemoth of the empire, and there is no lack of interest, so it is not necessary to be busy for the sake of the three melons and two dates, and it is not enough to be ashamed of it.
The problem is that there are too many nobles in the empire, even if the emperor and the great nobles had consciously reduced the division of titles a long time ago, but the accumulation of a long time is still an unbearable number, and for this reason there is also a registered nobles.
The feudalization is a part of their own land, unless the feudal nobles betrayed or completely cut off, otherwise this part of the land can never be recovered, and this is also the great nobles and the emperor’s heart forever pain.
Ennoblement is simpler, only title without land, even if the title can be hereditary, the status can not be compared to the feudal nobles, but also they were the ones who pushed the Northland Exploitation Act in the first place, because their desire for the land has almost become an obsession.
However, some of the feudal nobles supported this decision, firstly, the nobles’ desire for land is endless, and secondly, there is only one descendant who can inherit the title, and the rest can only find another way to make a living, which is not conducive to the family’s development and risk-sharing, so in the long run, the development of the Northland is powerful for them.
But the north of the bitter cold, not to mention, or the north of the barbarians, want to develop, at least to use millions of people level of manpower and resources, even the empire can not carry this outrageous cost, after all, such a huge investment, want to see the benefits at least to wait a few decades later, no one will do so.
So eventually the Northland Exploitation Act became the Northland Exploitation Corps, guiding the power of the private sector to develop the Northland, and so on, and then go out and pick the fruit.
This is a conspiracy, there is no lack of smart people see this, but see to see, in fact, no one can resist the temptation of the land, even if you know that nine deaths, to the Northland is still a steady stream of people, especially when the empire moved out of the Northland nobility knighthood this weapon, but also to the Northland pioneering on the climax, or else the heavy death rate has long been to scare people back.
Now twenty years have passed, although the Northland has not yet reached the maturity of the harvest, some people have been unable to hold back, because when the Northland is really developed it will not be their turn to intervene.
This is also the only point that Owen can be happy, because at this time most of the small and medium-sized nobles in the empire, and even impossible to be the main force of the family, it is more like a casual move, so do not have to worry about being crushed.
Moreover, Owen’s territory is far away from the border of the empire, the Second Northland Exploitation Corps can’t affect him here at least in the short term, but as the territory develops better and better, it will definitely attract some hungry wolves, and then it will be a constant trouble.
(End of chapter)