The winter in the northern border came very early, and the weather in other areas gradually became colder.

　　 However, Fort Creek is located in the south, and winter has not reached here yet.

　　Sir Frank still wears his helmet. Even if he is not good at it, this helmet has never left his body. Many people in the rent are discussing whether Sir Frank has leprosy in private.

　　 At this time, he was leading the war horse, wearing leather armor, and walking on the country road. Behind him was two attendants, who were playmates who grew up with him, and now they are also followers.

　　 There are endless wheat fields on both sides of the road. The amount of arable land has doubled compared with last year. From the dense golden fields, it can be seen that this year is definitely a good year.

　　After he left the Basen fortress with the army, he persuaded Earl Creek to carry out large-scale reclamation and farming in the territory.

　　 Their rebellion turned a large area of ​​the royal family into scorched earth, where many residents were plundered by him to Fort Creek as slaves.

　　The commerce of Fort Creek is already developed and has a very good economic income. When there was no rebellion, the arable land here was used to grow flax and sisal, or various cash crops such as sugar beet.

　　 will not grow wheat, soybeans, a food crop of low economic value, because it does not yield high returns.

　　 Sir Frank is a visionary. He knows that after the war really begins, no matter what kind of economy is used, the only hard currency is food to fill the stomach.

　　 So when he was still under the fortress of Basen, he wrote to persuade his father and many elder brothers to cultivate and grow food crops on a large scale in his own territory.

　　 And at this time, the winter was approaching, and Frank did not see the possibility of breaking through the fortress of Basen within a short period of time, so he simply said hello and took the army back to Fort Creek.

　　 Anyway, other lords coveted the royal family's territory and wealth, and can't wait to overthrow the royal family. They are still besieging the fortress in Basen, and they are not afraid that his departure will lead others to get supplies from the fortress.

　　 There is no fear, he simply withdrew the army back, and there was no improvement in the three months of siege.

　　Moreover, the defender of the fortress is still the victorious Grand Duke Mabra. He feels that there is absolutely any hope of replenishing the fortress in the winter when the battle is more difficult.

　　 When he returned to Fort Creek, he immediately began to deal with his trophies on the front line.

　　 After burning and looting on the royal territory for a few months, Sir Frank put all his main targets on the iron products.

　　 After the lords who hadn't had time to escape from all over the place were wiped out, the remaining armor, swords, spears, and even iron such as iron pot kitchen knives were all collected by him all the way back.

　　 The southern territories do not produce steel, only a very small number of small-scale iron ore mines make some inferior steel, and most of the steel that you want to use must be imported from the north.

　　 The steel trade allowed the Redka Kingdom, which had dozens of iron ore mines in the north, to accumulate huge wealth, and at the same time turned its soldiers into heavily armed armored warriors.

　　 One side is armed to the teeth, and the other side can barely gather iron weapons and part of the armor. It is conceivable that this is an unequal war.

　　 It is not unreasonable that the Kingdom of Redka unified the entire Pan-Redka nation through the northern and southern territories of the North.

　　 The economy and military power are so strong, these southern earl dukes or barons who were originally earth emperors can only honestly become conquered.

　　Sir Frank has read books about the unification of the Redka Empire. After understanding these, he decided to follow the old path of the Redka Kingdom.

　　 Although there is no iron ore, at least there must be substitutes. Therefore, the Crick Army, who does not love gold and steel, appeared on the front line.

　　 The steel they looted from the front line is enough to arm a team of three thousand people according to the standard of a full-body chain armor.

　　 Across this path, a neat shout can be heard vaguely.

　　 That is the barracks in Fort Creek.

　　After several battles with Fort Crick’s army, Sir Frank finally successfully transformed this group of people into qualified fighters.

　　 Although the discipline is still not very strong, but in this era of warfare, it is not entirely dependent on discipline.

　　 The lords are more concerned about whether the defeat is strong and whether they can fight well, rather than just having a tightly formed army.

　　Rinner is the only one who has such a request...

　　 slowly walked to the vicinity of the barracks, and saw these soldiers fighting each other in groups, their mouths shouted insults, and filthy language was endless, but in this era, this is often a symbol of a powerful army.

　　The soldiers that Frante brought to the north to fight only returned more than 500 people. At the beginning, there were more than 1,200 people connected to the regular army and serfs, and the army of the vassals was nearly 3,000 people.

　　 All of the more than 1,200 people were lost on the northern battlefield, but it was not without gain. At least the remaining 500 people have become very effective veterans, and they have all been incorporated into the regular army sequence.

　　 The financial composition of the lords in the north and south is different from the composition of the army.

　　 The economy of the northern lords can only be said to be ordinary, and their income mainly comes from farming and a small amount of business. Therefore, lords of the rank of earls can generally support four to five hundred people.

　　 The southern lords are financially rich, and their income mainly comes from frequent trade. In addition, the prices of food and meat are relatively civilian, so the regular army that raises 500 people can even be said to be easy.

　　 But if they were to equip their armies with iron armors like the lords of the north, then they would be completely unable to do it. Even if they were rich in business, they would go bankrupt as long as they dared to arm fifty or sixty people!

　　 The price of steel in the north began to fall because of Reiner's assistance ~lightnovelpub.net~A copper can be bought for one kilogram, of course, civilians and merchants cannot buy it.

　　 In the south, a kilogram of steel is generally about three silver coins, which is thirty times the high price. That's it, there is still no market.

　　Fartan felt more and more that he was very wise in looting steel crazily on the front line. Hearing the clinking iron not far from the barracks, his heart felt relieved.

　　 Those lords in the north wore armors and caused too much damage to their soldiers. If the enemy did not have so many armors and sophisticated equipment, their soldiers would definitely not be killed or injured!

Naturally there will not be only five hundred people in the barracks. This is a large barracks that can accommodate two thousand people. After returning to the territory, he and his father begged for orders, hoping to reduce his father’s expenses on eating, drinking and banqueting and saving all the money. Spend on the soldiers.

　　 The southern territories are rich, so the lords also desire extravagance.

　　 The expenses of eating, drinking, and banquet at the earl’s house alone cost more than 1,500 gold coins a year, which is half of the entire earl’s financial income.

　　 The remaining 1,500 gold coins have to be paid for army salaries, the salaries of officials, the food for the soldiers, and the repairs of the town’s castles. That’s it, every year there is a surplus of 500 gold coins to be stored in the warehouse.

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