Ryan found that he was still not relaxed.
Except for the first three days after returning to Frozen Earth Territory, he was extremely busy every day after that.
Thundercloud County The arrangement of the land, the compensation exchange with the defeated nobles, Frozen Earth Territory's pioneering plan, the preliminary plan for economic development, Grand Mage Macken's progress in cultivating war horses in the wilderness, and the blessing and training of the army.
A bunch of things started to come to Ryan, especially when each of these things required a lot of manpower. The number of people reported by the housekeeper Bilder was a huge headache for Ryan.
Manpower, planning and action in any direction requires manpower.
But unfortunately, Ryan just doesn't have that many suitable people at his disposal.
He has worked hard to let Viscountess Whitman and housekeeper Bilder cultivate knowledge and management talents, but there are still a lot of gaps.
This also inevitably caused the progress of his own knight training to stagnate, but which of these things is not important?
Even the transactions of the Lantern Merchant Guild, the selection and purchase of magic materials and crops, and the food trade of Gargoyle Count from Danube Province have not been taken into account, and they have been delayed again and again by Ryan.
At this time, Ryan didn't know whether to be happy that his territory had become so powerful, or to feel helpless that his steps had suddenly become too big.
"No wonder, the development of a noble family cannot be solved in one generation. It often takes several generations or even more than a dozen generations to accumulate a strong foundation."
Why? Of course, it's because with only one generation, there are really too few people who can be trusted and used.
For nobles, brothers and sisters are natural retainers. They attach themselves to the noble brother and enjoy the rights of the nobles. They are the most loyal supporters.
There will be a bunch of brothers and sisters in one generation, and in two or three generations, there will be dozens of core followers. Their families and downward relationships will be like a pyramid guarding the authority of the nobles.
It's very troublesome like Ryan. He was separated from a family. He is alone for the time being, and there are very few available manpower around him.
Everything will weigh on him. Even now that he has handed over Frozen Earth Territory's government affairs to Eteria to manage, he is still extremely busy every day.
But something like Winter Count Family is relatively easy.
Count Winter has a huge family around him, especially when it has not yet blossomed. There are many family members, and competition is often needed to get to the top. These people can help Count Winter share most of the pressure without worrying about their loyalty.
So much so that the earl can become Sanctuary Knight.
If the situation is the same as Ryan, there is a question mark as to whether Count Winter can become Sky Knight.
Count Soron is an example. The count's family is not prosperous.
Being able to become Sky Knight is purely because of Count Soron's talent and large amount of resources.
"Perhaps, I should write to the Clayton Family and try to recruit some Clayton Family members to Frozen Earth Territory."
Ryan thought of this, and then started to write a letter.
As far as he knew, Clayton Family's background among the great nobles of the empire was not very deep, but because of their special bloodline, they were all very capable of giving birth. This resulted in the fact that even members of the Earl family still had many people who had great ambitions but could not fulfill their ambitions.
Especially those who were before Ryan's father's generation. At that time, Clayton Family was not yet powerful and had insufficient wealth and industry. Naturally, many more people would come out.
Even Ryan's generation still has an unpredictable future. For example, for his brothers and sisters, the women are fine, and the countess will find a way to help them marry into a good family, but for men, currently only Ryan and an older brother have Noble Title.
"As long as they see that Frozen Earth Territory can bring them a better future, they will still come even if they are in the territory of Northlands."
Thinking of this, the speed of Ryan's pen gradually increased.
Of course, Bilder still has to be responsible for continuing to cultivate suitable young people. These people will become capable ministers and generals in his territory.
Frozen Earth Territory With a population of more than 20,000, the number of talents currently trained is less than 100. How is this enough?
The pressure on talents takes a certain amount of time. Until then, Ryan can only deal with Frozen Earth Territory's more and more affairs with a grimace.
During the passage of time, Lantern Merchant Guild and Blade Rose Merchant Guild also obtained the weapons jointly forged by all the nobles of Zero Crossing Prefecture as promised. They will be transported to the hands of the nobles of South. Perhaps most of them will be transported directly to Thousand Lakes Province where the war is breaking out.
"'Snow Dragon's Roar' will definitely let those guys from South hear the roar from Northlands!"
This was Irina's solemn declaration after he excitedly obtained ten "Snow Dragon's Roar" Knight's Greatsword forged by Brock himself.
Then she signed a weapons transaction contract with Frozen Earth Territory again to prevent anyone else from finding the birthplace of products like Frozen Earth Territory after she left.
As a reward, a team belonging to the Blade Rose Merchant Guild will appear again in Frozen Earth Territory in the summer, bringing a large number of goods that Ryan needs and has purchased.
The transaction of up to 250,000 Gold Coin is worth Blade Rose Merchant Guild's trip just for Frozen Earth Territory.
The moment the contract was established, Ryan became a poor man again. Counting some of the magic materials in the direction of the war horse and the construction materials of Mage Tower that he had purchased before, it was now difficult for Ryan to come up with even 10,000 Gold Coin.
This forced him to re-examine his economic plan.
The war did bring Ryan a lot of wealth, but this wealth could not be obtained in an instant. For example, the compensation from the Thundercloud County nobles would take at least three to five years to completely fall into his hands.
Another example is Silver Stream County's compensation, which is to open the door to absolute free trade, and it will take time to settle.
Sometimes Ryan himself wonders whether the rights of the nobles are too great. The lord has all absolute power over the territory. Otherwise, how could Ryan bother to talk about free trade.
We are all nobles of the same empire, all nobles of Northwind Province, but there is still such thing as business tax, which is unreasonable no matter how you look at it.
However, he couldn't help but think of another question. This was true even for the nobles within the empire, and wouldn't it be even more so between countries?
"If you put it this way, wouldn't my previous transaction with that viscount Andara Kingdom be smuggling?"
Ryan's eyes blinked, it seemed... that Mihai did come here secretly, and Bilder also transported the weapons secretly.