Black Iron Crown

Chapter 521: Soldiers to the West

More than a month has passed since the siege of the squire, the commerce of the imperial capital gradually began to recover, the merchants who had left for a long time returned to the imperial capital with their goods, and the depressed streets gradually became prosperous again.

The weather in October is very cool. Even the imperial capital in the central part of China has already asked for the extremely hot summer to enter the refreshing and cool autumn.

At the same time, the wheat that had grown in the fields for a whole year turned golden, and some vegetable fields had already been harvested.

One by one serfs moved slowly between the fields to harvest grain. They looked listless and very inefficient.

These serfs were all self-cultivating farmers near the imperial capital. After the old emperor came here and established the imperial capital, he took back many of the nearby land to the state or distributed it to his soldiers.

Many squires and indigenous people, such as self-employed farmers, lost their land and became serfs.

However, Emperor Caffet was not short-sighted. He knew that the productivity of self-cultivation was much stronger than that of serfs.

Working for oneself and working for the lord master are completely different mentalities and efficiency.

So after taking part of the land and giving it to his own people, he retained some squires and self-employed farmers to pay taxes to the royal family.

The location of the imperial capital is almost entirely the most fertile and fertile land in the entire empire.

The area of ​​cultivated land directly controlled by the royal family even reached 5 million mu, which required hundreds of thousands of serfs to cultivate, and this was also the reason why the royal family was so powerful, not to mention that squires and self-employed farmers also had to pay taxes to the royal family.

There is little difference between the Northern Territory and the Imperial Capital. The crops are also ripe in October, and each of the residents is holding iron sickles and harvesting in the fields.

Although they are sweating and exhausted, their hearts are full of joy. This year is another harvest year.

The wheat seeds that His Majesty popularized at the time were more cold-resistant than the previous wheat, and the harvest was better. Thinking of this place, the residents were even more grateful to Rainer.

After a tiring day, these residents will take the harvested grain home in the evening with an ox cart or a horse-drawn cart. The grain will be beaten off with a fierce flail and then dried for storage.

The rest of the process is to send it to the mill in the village to grind it into flour and then process it into bread before it can be eaten. Even the wheat can be boiled and eaten directly.

The area of ​​arable land in the northern border that has been planted with grain has reached 1.5 million mu, which means that everyone has to bear nearly 100 acres of work. If it is not for the help of iron farm tools and livestock, this is absolutely not It's possible.

But this year's harvest work should be much simpler, because Reiner has brought back a full 50,000 people from the south, and they have invested in the harvest in exchange for some rewards to spend this coming cold winter.

Count Redmara took a group of upstarts and the few remaining upstarts under their command, as well as some remaining soldiers in the imperial capital, and set on the road of the Western Expedition behind the army of the Kingdom of Bukderen.

In the imperial capital, two hundred heavy cavalry and one thousand veterans temporarily recruited were left to guard.

Anyway, they didn't have the right place to defend right now. There were defenders in every pass and castle, and it was enough for the Imperial Capital to leave 1,200 people to maintain order.

The royal lords in the north have just withdrawn their troops and are unlikely to send troops again.

The lords of the south have been crippled by Rainer and are even less likely to send troops. This is also the reason why the emperor dared to use troops against the Kingdom of Bazaran unscrupulously.

Except for King Sartri, who was marching on horseback at first, he sat on his luxurious carriage drawn by four horses. There were four others in the Teska Palace. The beautiful maid came out to wait on her.

In addition to him, the counts of the Kingdom of Bukerdern are similar. Although their carriages are not as comfortable as King Sartre's, they are 10,000 times stronger than horseback riding. This kind of life inevitably makes the upstarts enviable.

But unfortunately, although the empire has gradually corrupted in recent years, the nature of the military aristocracy has not been lost. After the march, sitting in the carriage will be laughed at.

Count Redmara frowned when he heard the laughter from time to time in the carriage behind and the man's wretched laughter.

"Just like this, you can fight a war?" Count Redmara had a big question mark in his heart.

At this time, King Irmaru had breached more than 20 castles, that is, more than 20 baronial earls.

Whether it is the property of the civilians in the village or the wealth accumulated by the lord in the castle, it has fallen into the hands of everyone in the Bazaran Kingdom.

King Irmaru alone has accumulated wealth worth more than a thousand gold coins, and the rest of the vassals have also shared a lot, and each person has at least a few hundred gold coins in the account.

For the Kingdom of Bazaran, this is already a huge income.

Although the materials of the Bazaran Kingdom are not scarce, after all, the population is small and the commerce is not well developed, and the income level is better than that of the barons in the north. Hundreds of gold coins are their income for decades.

King Irmaru looked at the mountain of gold coins in his tent, his smile couldn't stop at all. Even if he was a king, the amount of gold coins he could accumulate in a year would be no more than three or four hundred gold coins.

After all, he still has to support a lot of courtiers and troops, the horseman warhorse, although the income is more, but the cost is also greater.

With this money, he can live a more luxurious life, and it is not impossible to even form an army again.

"Let's pass on the order and move on tomorrow, there is more wealth ahead for us to pick!"

After more than a month or two months of marching, the army from the imperial capital finally reached the territory of the first western lord.

"Thank you Father, you are finally here!"

When the lord saw the red-bottomed golden lion flag hunting in the wind, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

The threat of the Kingdom of Bazaran is like a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. I don’t know when they were hit by the enemy below their castle~lightnovelpub.net~ Although the lord of the west has betrayed the imperial capital , But after all, most of them can only be regarded as A Dou who can't afford it.

In terms of financial resources, it is incomparable with the southern lords, and in terms of fighting power, it is only slightly stronger than the southerners. When the rebellion was in the first place, after the southern lords were suppressed, they immediately begged to surrender.

It can be seen that this group of people actually have no fighting power, and it is almost like a wall of grass, no wonder they are so weak when facing the Kingdom of Bazaran.

Soon, news spread that the army of the imperial capital had arrived. The army did not stop, and took the lord and his army to the place where the army of the Bazaran Kingdom was located.

The news cannot be kept secret, and the Bazaran Kingdom is also very concerned about what is happening inside the enemy army, and it is easy to detect the news that the imperial capital army has arrived.

"Hey, this decadent empire is so weak, do you dare to send troops to fight us?"

The lords of the Bazaran Kingdom didn't take the army sent by the empire into their eyes at all, and said mockingly.