The increase in population brings both joy and worry. Fifteen hundred people may not sound like a lot, but the amount of food consumed every day is quite a lot. What's more, there are at least a thousand people here, all of whom are young and strong laborers who have been doing heavy work for a long time. When it comes to eating, they pour cartloads of food into their mouths. The reclaimed farmland cannot support so many people, and the resources in the hunting grounds are not endless and will eventually be exhausted. The hunting team can only go further and further, but the risks they face are also increasing. The wolf-chasing creatures include not only brown bears and saber-toothed tigers, but also more powerful supernatural beasts. Even the lowest-level wolf is not something that ordinary hunters can defeat. The small valley where Leo first encountered Bjorn and the boarman's lair on the gravel hills have each formed a small camp, and are now permanently garrisoned by wildling hunters and rivermen. The River Bay Hunting Team was moving further and further away and was no longer able to deliver the prey and the wounded back to the River Bay in time. The emergence of these two small camps can provide food, accommodation and treatment for the constant coming and going of hunting teams, and process meat and furs.
At present, the main food of Hewan still relies on imports through trade, but the situation in Isenpol is not optimistic, and the price of food keeps rising. Fortunately, iron ingots are also hard currency during wars. When food prices rise, iron ingot prices also rise. The main export product of Riverbend at present is the high-quality pig iron ingots from the Gnoll Valley and the Blacksmith Shop. Imperial coins are basically not used for transactions, so there is no need to worry too much about the problem of rising food prices. But the rise in food prices is a small matter; the possible supply shortage is a big deal. Isenpol is located in the upper reaches of the Anzeno River. In recent years, the weather has been good and the city has been able to be self-sufficient. It even has surplus food that can be sold to cities in the north along the World Tree Avenue. The various frictions between the North and South also made it difficult to deliver cheap wheat from the South to Isenpol. Therefore, once the local stored grain in Isenpol was sold out, the landlords who sensed the crisis or the grain merchants who sensed the business opportunity would hold on to the grain and refuse to release it. Then Hewan will face the risk of food supply shortage. Olivia, who is in charge of statistical management, is the most worried. "Through this period of trade, we have stored 5,000 bags of food, enough to feed 1,500 people for three months, but the harvest by then will not be enough to be self-sufficient." In the language of the Orlantean Empire, "bag" is a fixed unit for measuring grain, similar to the "bushel" in the previous world. A bag of wheat weighs approximately fifty to sixty pounds. Five thousand bags of food, at least 250,000 pounds, were enough to feed fifteen hundred people for three months. The granary on the second floor of the lord's house was filled with grain bags, and the barn on the side of the stable was also under construction. In addition, the villagers began to store food in their homes. Although Wuliyang has not yet allocated land to the villagers, the villagers will receive labor remuneration for participating in various construction projects, the most important of which is naturally food. Leo comforted her: "Don't worry, there will be bread, there will be milk, there will be everything." Olivia's statistics are only based on current food consumption, but after the autumn harvest, various heavy labor projects will be reduced and food consumption will gradually decrease. Besides, there are not many villagers in the countryside who eat wheat every day. Cheaper beans, tubers, and various side dishes such as collected and grown wild vegetables, vegetables, and fruits also account for a large proportion. In the River Bay Territory, meat resources are also abundant, and there is enough rock salt for processing and storage, so it is expected that there will not be much less in winter.
In addition, livestock such as cattle and sheep also appeared on the grasslands of the River Bay Peninsula and began to provide dairy products for the River Bay Territory. With this calculation, the consumption of wheat can be reduced by almost half, which is estimated to sustain the survival of the territory for half a year. Although Olivia could be considered the daughter of a landlord, she had also suffered hunger and hardship. So of course the more food the better, and it would be best if we couldn’t finish it all! The little mouse was more like moving the hamster, and she even hoped to pile the food under her bed. Uliyan and Leo were much calmer. The current situation was already very good, almost beyond their expectations. No matter what happens in the future, at least now, Uliyang can say that his goal of leading his people to migrate thousands of miles and live a better life has been achieved. There is food to eat, work to do, no worries about food and clothing, no worries about safety, and two half-baked doctors, Freya and Olivia, provide basic treatment. To the northern villagers who suffered from hunger, cold and war, these were heavenly days. For various reasons, Uliyan did not expose the population and strength of the River Bay Territory to the outside world. Outsiders can only move around in the market on the River Bend Peninsula and cannot cross the river to spy on the heavily guarded wild folk camps and refugee camps. Therefore, when outsiders returned, most of their descriptions of the River Bend Territory were inaccurate. What about hundreds of people, thousands of people, iron mines, recruiting barbarians, and enslaving kobolds. Just some vague information. The Gladstone family, which was blocked by the Knights of Solovy, did not make any further moves for the time being, and no one forced the River Bay Lords to show their military force. It is not so much that Gladstone or other nobles have given up their desire for the river bay, but rather that they have not yet found a way to deal with the Solovy Knights. "The Solovi Knight is here." A few people were chatting outside the lord's house when the guard came forward to report. Uliyan hurried down the wooden steps and went to greet him. A month ago, after listening to Leo's words, Knight Solovie visited River Bend the next day and inspected the various construction projects in River Bend. After the first expedition, Knight Solovy returned and gathered the villagers, saying that he wanted to build a camp wall similar to the one at the river bend camp. When he took out the blueprints, the older village leaders' faces turned green with fright. This is a diagram of the small military camp structure of the Orantes Legion's permanent camp. Not to mention the various defensive equipment such as the village gates, watchtowers, suspension bridges, and even small catapults and crossbows, let’s just talk about the simplest camp walls. It consists of a two-meter-high trapezoidal foundation and a three-meter-high wooden wall. The inner layer of the trapezoidal foundation is a rammed earth wall compacted with a mixture of soil and gravel, and the outer layer is reinforced with a one-foot-thick stone wall. The entire trapezoidal foundation is three meters wide at the bottom and two meters wide at the top. The wooden wall was not the single-sided wooden wall of the Solovyv Knight Territory, but two rows of thick timbers erected on a trapezoidal foundation, with layers of wood stacked in the middle for reinforcement and support, and solid thick wooden boards laid on top. The wall walkway formed between the two rows of wooden walls allows the defending soldiers to move freely within the wooden walls and shoot at the enemy.
This is already the simplest camp wall structure of the Empire’s permanent military camp. One level higher is the stone city wall. The first wall built in the river bend was the single-sided wooden wall of the Knights of Solovyv. After the sawmill was established and refugees and wildfolk moved in, the walls of the refugee and wildfolk camps were built according to the regulations of the walls of small military camps. As the main camp of the River Bay Territory, it certainly cannot fall behind. As the first artifact of wilderness defense, the camp wall was rebuilt as soon as possible. The village chief led by Knight Solovy was a smart man. He knew where the problem lay, so he rushed to the river bend overnight and cried to Ulyaan. This kind of camp wall cannot be built by Knight Solovy and a few hundred peasants alone!