The next day, Sean woke up very early.

After breakfast, he instructed Old John: "John, remember to boil some boiling water for me in the future. I don't want to drink when I'm thirsty."

Old John hurriedly advised: "Master, the church people said that drinking water is easy to get infected with plague and more likely to get sick. Why don't I prepare more hot milk for you?"

Sure enough, the church is telling people again.

Sean said firmly: "Don't bother with what the church says. As long as the water boils, you won't get sick, let alone get infected with plague. Of course, the premise is that the water source must be clean."

"Okay, sir!"

Seeing that Sean still insisted on drinking hot water, Old John had no choice but to agree, who said he was Lord Lord?

Under the service of several servants, Sean put on his leather armor and cloak and ordered Old John: "Notify Little Pierce to prepare horses, and then go to the training ground to inform Captain Zebra. I will go to inspect the territory later."

"Okay, lord!"

After receiving Sean's instructions, Old John went to do it immediately.

A moment later, the Zebra brought four apprentice knights to the gate of the castle to wait. The little Pierce, with a sharp-mouthed monkey cheek, also led a black war horse to Sean.

Originally, the lord needed the guard and accompanying the Knights to patrol the territory, because Morris went to the border patrol in the morning and would not come back at noon.

Therefore, Sean asked the zebra captain who was in charge of another patrol team to accompany him to patrol the territory.

With the help of servants, Sean turned over and climbed onto the horse's back. At this time, Little Pierce handed the reins to his hand, and he also turned over and climbed onto the back of another yellow horse.

The lord goes out to inspect the territory and does not need a groom to lead him.

At this time, the groom's main job is to hold the captain's flag and follow the lord's mount.

Each territory has its own flag.

For example, the Black Hawk Territory has a black hawk with a flying wing on the front, and the back is printed with the location of the Black Hawk Territory, and a badge representing the lord's family.

Wherever the flag goes, it is to tell everyone that this is the territory of the Black Hawk Baron.

To patrol your own territory, you just need to resist the Black Hawk flag.

If you leave your territory and go to another place, you need to carry two flags, one black eagle flag, and the other one of Snow Wolf City.

The Black Hawk flag can show your identity and tell everyone who they are and where they come from.

The flag of Snow Wolf City is to tell everyone who is the great lord of his subordinates. If you want to make things difficult for yourself or want to cause trouble, you have to carefully consider whether the Earl of Snow Wolf City behind you can provoke it.

In a word, there are a lot of knowledge and considerations about flags, which involve badges and heraldic studies, which are very complicated anyway.

Sean sat high on the tall and strong pure black war horse, wearing bright armor, full of energy.

Little Pierce was excitedly holding the Black Hawk-collar flag, and she also looked energetic and full of pride.

As the gate of the castle front yard slowly opened, Captain Zebra led four fully armed apprentice knights, ready to go and lined up on both sides of the road, waiting for the lord's orders at any time.

At this moment, Sean raised his whip high and shouted: "Go!"

"Yes, Lord Lord!"

With a command, the sound of horse hooves suddenly rang out.

Captain Zebra led two apprentice knights to lead the way, while the other two apprentice knights waited until the lord left the castle and followed the team to guard the team.

Still as usual.

After Sean's team inspecting the territory went out, he had to first follow the road leading to Snow Wolf City at the entrance of the castle, follow the southwest border of the territory to the Lingyu River, then follow the Lingyu River to the northwest defense line of the territory, and then patrol the northeast defense line along the northwest border line to the northeast defense line.

After inspecting the Northeast Defense Line, you will reach Qingstone Mountain a little further, which is the location of the iron ore and the junction of the Greystone Fort territory.

As soon as Sean's team left the castle, he could see the rising sun as soon as he looked up.

In the past two days, the weather in the northern wasteland has been good, and it is sunny every day. Although the ground is full of frost, as long as the sun gradually rises, they will slowly melt.

In this way, the crops in the wheat fields will grow very quickly.

The team patrols along the southwest border.

At the beginning, you could often see the serfs in the territory busy in the fields. When they saw the lord on patrol, they began to bend down to salute from a long distance.

But soon, after Sean waved his horse whip and trotted all the way, Blackhawk Town, where the castle was located, was left far behind.

At this time, Sean was depressed to find that the further away from Black Hawk Town, the more deserted the territory here became. Looking around, there were undeveloped wilderness everywhere.

Up a higher slope, Sean looked down at the bottom, and saw the entire Blackhawk Town.

He could clearly see that except for the area of ​​land surrounding Blackhawk Town that was developed and planted, the remaining land was all in a barren state.

This result made him not very satisfied, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was normal.

At present, the entire Black Hawk territory has a population of less than 400.

Apart from some elderly, weak, women and children, how much land can you count on the remaining people to cultivate and plant?

According to visual observations, conservative estimates are that the entire Black Hawk Territory, if the mountains, rocks, sands, and places like forests and orchards are left to be reclaimed and planted, only less than 10% of the land can be used. If all the land is developed and utilized, the entire Black Hawk Territory can fully feed tens of thousands of people.

Thinking of this, Sean sighed secretly.

Black Eagle Town is said to be a border town, but its real area is not too small. The reason why it is so poor and cannot develop is mainly because of its lack of geographical location and no strong backing and support.

Next is that there are too few people and there are not many resources for development. Secondly, there is the channels of economic and trade that cannot be connected here.

But they are all on the border, why is the Graystone Fort territory next door developed so strongly?

According to my memory, in addition to the lord's main city, there are more than a dozen villages and manors distributed in the territory of the Graystone Fort.

Whether it is population, agriculture, or various economic developments, they are more than dozens of times higher than the Black Hawk territory.

Compared with the Graystone Fort with a population of thousands, the Black Hawk Territory is really pitiful.

Except for Black Eagle Town, a main camp with a population of hundreds of people, there is no affiliated village manor.

It seems that the construction and development of the Black Hawk Territory has a long way to go, and it requires one's own efforts to do it slowly.
Chapter completed!