While building the estuary town, Rio has been looking for another development location to accommodate the excess population. After several discussions with Uliyan, he decided to go to the gravel hills and open up a cassava planting base! Of course, the cleared land near the River Bay Peninsula can also be used to grow antler cassava. However, that was a land that the people of Hewan Territory had reclaimed with great difficulty, and if any crops were to be grown, they should be grown for the villagers of Hewan Territory. We cannot favor some over others and let the newly recruited refugees take advantage of them. For safety reasons, the two also thought about finding a location near the River Bay Peninsula. However, given the backward production methods and barren land in the North, the per capita land area required is very large. A knightly territory that can provide sufficient taxes and support knights and armed retainers requires not only sufficient arable land for rotation and crop planting, but also a certain amount of pasture for grazing livestock. In territories with insufficient arable land, there must be enough forests for gathering food and harvesting timber, as well as sufficiently vast forests as hunting grounds for hunting wild animals. Especially the border development territories, which are so large that they are enviable.
Most new frontiers were not located too far into the wilderness, but usually built upon the site of an old frontier. Therefore, it can only be developed in three or two other directions, and the developed area often appears as an irregular semicircle or quarter circle. A mature pioneer knight territory, with a developed area within a radius of three kilometers and large tracts of arable land and pastures. The area with a radius of three to five kilometers is a semi-developed area and a forest farm for collecting berries or firewood. In addition, there is a hunting ground of almost the same size, which is a territory that has been explored but not yet developed. The area of the pioneering knight territories near Isenbol is no less than 50 square kilometers, and the pioneering territories in the foothills are even hundreds of square kilometers. In the southern border, many baronies are not this big. However, the actual situation in most of the pioneering knight territories is similar to that of the Solovie Knight Territory. The truly developed area is only less than ten square kilometers in the core part, and most of the rest is still barren mountains and wilderness. No matter how hard the newly developed territories like Hewan Territory try, they cannot compare with others that have been developed for dozens or hundreds of years. The actual developed area is less than ten square kilometers. The arable land reclaimed this year cannot even support the 500 people on the peninsula. But Hewan will not stop its pace of development. If the newly arrived refugees are settled too close to the people, it will easily lead to conflicts over land with the subjects. After leaving enough space for the people of the River Bend to develop, Leo continued to look outside and only found the two most suitable locations: the abandoned ogre tower and the boarman's lair in the gravel hills. So the ancients and the aliens were not fools. The Feng Shui treasure land that Leo took a fancy to had actually been coveted by them a long time ago. Even the original gnoll coalition, when they arrived at the wild boar's lair in the Gravel Hills, stayed there and didn't want to leave. What was once a quilboar lair has now become a hunting camp in the river bend. The boar people have dug many caves here, and Hewan has also built a small mountain village here. The foundation has been laid, making it very suitable for development. The vegetation here is sparse and the view is wide. There are undulating hills all around, and some mountains extending from the atrium. Although there is a lack of flat land and it is covered with gravel, making it unsuitable for large-scale farming, it is very suitable for animal husbandry and the survival of antler cassava.
Compared with the flat pine plains in the south and north, the terrain of the gravel hills is complex and intricate, and the hunting camps are in a dangerous position, easy to defend but difficult to attack. Leo led his troops to clear out the alien race twice, but he always stopped outside the wild boar men's lair, only wanting to lure them into the wild to fight. I just don't want to use the soldiers' lives to fill the natural stone walls and streams outside the boarmen's nest. He led a team of 1,500 people through the River Bay Peninsula, and then followed the path that had been opened up before, heading towards the gravel hills. The team consisted of one hundred Riverbend soldiers, four hundred Riverbend craftsmen and skilled laborers, and one thousand newly recruited refugees. After Uliyan inspected the construction of Hekou Town several times, he was completely reassured in Leo. This time, the support was even greater. A large amount of ironware, food, and animal power were handed over to Leo, almost emptying the assets of Hewan. After all, the Gravel Fort that is about to be built - the name Uliyan casually gave when marking it on the map, will be the bridgehead for the River Bend Territory facing the wilderness. If possible, it will be built into a fortified city. Uliyan was not worried about the waste of manpower and material resources, he was only worried that Leo was too stingy and the camp wall he built was not thick enough. Having been stationed in the Aeolus Fortress, whose walls are over 50 meters high, for five years, Ulian has seen the world. He looked down upon any city in Count Fruilov's territory. Can a three, five, ten or eight meter long earthen wall be called a city wall? That's called a small slope! Leo said that the pressure was very great. I went there to farm, not to build a city! Ivan, who was left behind in Hekou Town, was under even greater pressure. The young Ivan watched Leo's large army leave, feeling that it was very sudden, unprepared and overwhelmed. I am a small follower of a future knight's squire, and now I have become the leader of 1,500 people? Only when Leo's team was completely out of sight did he turn around and look at the little dog-headed man beside him. The little dog-headed man felt even more aggrieved, and twitched his ears, "Woof woof woof!" The dog-headed man Rambo Rabbit was also retained by Leo because of his outstanding performance. He was responsible for assisting Ivan and managing the cassava flour processing plant. Director of the cassava flour processing plant, mayor of the river mouth town, leader of the garrison, squire of the future knight's squire, famous militiaman of the river bay, Ivan! Deputy director of cassava flour processing plant·Finance·Accountant·Advisor to the mayor of Hekou Town·Clerk·Reserve member of the River Bay Militia·Kobold beautiful boy·Rambo·Rabbit·Dog! Very reasonable! Leo had no choice. There were too few people in Hewan who could be fully trusted and entrusted with important tasks. In the processing of antler cassava, silver needs to be placed during the soaking process. To this end, Leo collected three thousand silver coins, melted them into ten silver plates, and gave them to Ivan for safekeeping. In the soaking pool of the production workshop, two or three thin silver plates are placed every time the deer antler cassava is soaked. These silver plates are of considerable value and can be easily stolen if one is not careful. Don't underestimate human greed. Even the foreman in a workshop would be tempted when he sees the silver, and maybe one day he would exchange it for a piece of iron plate.
When it comes to food safety, it is not as important as money! Corrupt officials will not repent until their heads are chopped off. In addition, Leo also left Ivan fifty River Bend soldiers and one hundred River Bend laborers, as well as several outstanding refugee leaders such as Basalov, to help him gain a foothold. Of course, Leo would not just sit there and do nothing. He and Ulyan would come every month to inspect the production and living conditions and deal with the problems that Ivan could not solve.