Alisha's Marriage

After the rainy season, the winter wheat harvest arrived in the blink of an eye, and the Norton Family territory was filled with the joy of a bumper harvest. In the twenty years since Lorist had returned to the North, the heavens had always favored him, never sending any major disasters. This left Lorist thoroughly astonished.

However, Director Spel, who had just been promoted to Count, disagreed. He said that the North had never suffered many major disasters. The main factors restricting its development were simply its remoteness and sparse population. According to the Norton Family's historical records, the greatest calamity had been the Demonic Beast Tide that came from the Savage Plains during winter. But Lorist had long since led the family forces to pacify and eradicate the tide. Now, in order to obtain demonic beast hides, the Norton Family had even counterattacked into the Savage Plains and launched extensive hunts against the demonic beast packs.

Aside from that, the remaining problems were nothing more than human disasters. First, the territorial nobles of the North had attacked one another over trivial matters, wasting and depleting their scarce manpower. None of them had been able to settle down and develop their territories in peace. Second, the Mountain barbarians from the Dragon Mountain Range had occasionally descended to plunder. That was exactly what had happened in the Norton Family territory back then. Just as development had begun to show some results, the Mountain Barbarian tribes would descend and loot everything, rendering all their efforts futile.

But now, the entire North had become the Norton Family's territory, with no other territorial nobles remaining. Lorist had also carried out extensive immigration and invested huge sums in unified planning and development across the family territory, eliminating wasteful and disorderly construction. He had also reorganized