Chapter 2 Richard the Traveler and Hunter's House in Ironwood City
The streets in Ironwood City are very spacious, and the pavement paved with stone slabs looks clean and tidy. Many of the houses on both sides are newly built. The entire city is planned very rigorously, and it can be seen that the designer has a lot of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Richard rode a horse and walked on the spacious avenue of Ironwood City, looking at the small city he built with his own hands with a critical eye.
Under Richard's several years of management, Ironwood City has attracted tens of thousands of people to settle there. Although the population is far from that of some modern county-level cities, it can still be called a foreign continent with productivity that is only slightly stronger than that of the Middle Ages.
Worthy of prosperity.
The New Year has passed, but spring has not yet arrived, the weather has not gotten warmer, it is getting late, and there are only a few pedestrians on the streets.
The cold nights in the North are the most long and unbearable. If an ordinary person spends the night outside, they will be frozen into ice sculptures the next day.
Richard couldn't help but speed up his journey home. Although he was a quasi-knight and had excellent physical fitness, he didn't want to experience the cold night in the North.
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Ironwood Castle stands on a high ground in Ironwood City, and its stone walls are five feet high.
There are arrow towers reasonably distributed on the castle to ensure that the arrows fired by the defenders can hit all attacking enemies without blind spots.
Different from the brand-new buildings in Ironwood City, although Ironwood Castle is often repaired, there are always some sword marks and small holes made by arrows on the walls that are difficult to repair, giving it a feeling of having experienced vicissitudes of life.
Ironwood Castle has been run by three generations of the Hunter family. Construction began with Richard's deceased grandfather, and it gradually gained a firm foothold amid constant friction and conflicts with snow pirates, wild people and half-elf tribes.
It was not until Richard's generation that Ironwood City was built based on Ironwood Castle under Richard's promotion.
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"stand at attention"
"Every member of the team participating in the bear hunt today, except Pierre, can receive a silver nard."
Everyone except Pierre looked happy when they heard this. One silver nard was enough for a family of three to live decently for a month, and it was also equivalent to their salary for a month. The soldiers who participated in this bear hunt were considered to have made a small fortune.
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"Disband!"
Following Richard's order, the soldiers walked back to the barracks happily, and the soldiers patrolling and standing guard around them all cast envious looks at them.
Although Master Richard stipulates that all soldiers take part in bear hunting in rotation, not every time there is a harvest, and sometimes there is no trace of the bear at all and they have to return empty-handed.
Of course, Richard will not suffer a loss. The forest giant bear is full of treasures. The bear skin can be made into expensive clothing and is sought after by the upper class nobles in the royal capital. The bear bones can be used as medicine to help polish the body. The bear paws are a rare delicacy.
After being processed and sold to the Chamber of Commerce, it is worth at least 3 kinnars.
After inspecting the military camp and making his presence felt in front of the soldiers, Richard turned and walked towards the main house in the backyard of the castle, where his parents and several uncles and aunts lived.
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It is already the seventeenth year since Richard came to this world. The memory of his previous life is somewhat blurry. He has now fully accepted his new identity, the Young Lord of Ironwood City and the eldest son of Viscount Hunter's family - Li Cha.
Cha Hunter.
As a liberal arts student in my previous life, I couldn't even remember the recipe for gunpowder, and I couldn't advance in science and technology in this alien world with backward productivity.
At most, he guided the craftsmen to make a pulley based on vague memories and used it on the bed crossbow, so Ironwood City's heavy military weapon "Bear Hunting Crossbow" was newly released.
However, in terms of management system, Richard made a comprehensive reform of the entire Hunter family's management system.
Perhaps it is not so much about reforming the management system as it is about establishing it, because from the perspective of Richard, a graduate student in economics and management, the previous management of the Hunter family was simply different. Dad and a few uncles only collected taxes, drank wine and fought wars. It was completely empiricism.
Extensive blind management combined with personal preferences.
After Richard obtained the management rights of the territory, he cleared the entire farmland of the territory, divided the land into upper, middle and lower grades according to the degree of fertility, and strictly formulated the tax laws of the territory.
After executing the tax collectors of several villages, the authority of the new law was quickly established, nearly doubling the tax revenue of the Hunter Territory without increasing taxes.
Riding on the popularity of the new tax law, Richard immediately enacted a law for the Hunter family territory. This law seemed very rough in modern times, but at this time, the Hunter territory was so detailed that everyone was amazed.
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Richard came to the bright hall of Ironwood Castle. The hall was spacious and simply furnished. The entire decoration style was clean and tidy. Perhaps the Hunter family could not have been passed down for more than three generations, and the fiefdom was far away from the prosperous royal capital. It did not have an air of luxury.
After walking through the hall and arriving at the garden of the castle, there was some noise coming from the restaurant in the garden, and several maids could be vaguely seen walking around. It should be that the Hunter family was gathering together to prepare for dinner.
"Cousin Richard!"
Following the sound, Richard turned his head and saw a teenage boy running towards him excitedly.
"Hey, little Tilly." Richard leaned over and took the running child into his arms.
Little Tilly is the youngest son of Richard's third uncle. Old Viscount Hunter, who founded the Ironwood Castle business, had three sons in his life.
When Old Hunter passed away, only Richard's father was a knight and successfully inherited the title and became the current Viscount Hunter Salter. However, Richard's two uncles were no more than quasi-knights in terms of personal strength.
He began to work hard to assist his elder brother Sauter in guarding the territory, and the whole family could be said to be sincerely united.
"Cousin Richard, can you take me with you next time you go hunting for bears?"
"Hahaha, when little Tilly grows taller and can dance with a knight's sword, my cousin will take you there."
The knight swords here are all heavy two-handed epees, the lightest weighing nearly twenty pounds. They must be at least knight-level warriors to use them.
It was difficult for the ten-year-old Tilly to lift the knight's sword, let alone swing it.
Little Tilly also heard Richard's excuse, hugged Richard's arm heavily, curled his lips, and looked unhappy.
Richard carried little Tilly across the garden and walked straight to the dining room. The maids he met stopped and saluted him, and Richard nodded slightly in response.
When we came to the dining room, the dining table was already filled with food. The dishes were not exquisite but they were very rich.
Big chunks of meat, big bowls of wine, and the aura of the Hunter family's nouveau riche springs to mind.
Both sides of the dining table were already filled with members of the Hunter family. Several of Richard's aunts and cousins were sitting at the lower seats, chattering away. His two uncles were sitting near the main seat. Sitting at the main seat was Li Cha.
There is an empty seat next to Richard's parents.
"Richard is back. Today's harvest is not small."
"We, Richard, are getting more and more handsome. I don't know how many little girls he will charm."
Richard responded modestly to his relatives' teasing and naturally sat down next to his father.
Viscount Sauter nodded reservedly to Richard, but Richard's mother had already held Richard's hand affectionately and began to check whether her precious son was injured.
"When you lead troops to hunt bears, you must pay attention to safety and don't hurt yourself."
"Uh-huh."
Faced with his mother's concern, Richard could only nod his head in agreement.
"Haha, sister-in-law, our Richard's skills can kill a giant forest bear alone, let alone carrying a bear hunting crossbow and soldiers, how can he be injured?"
"cough"
Viscount Sauter interrupted everyone's conversation with a cough.
"Now that Richard is back, let's start having dinner."
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The Hunter family had a happy dinner. Currently, the entire Hunter family can be described as a brother who is respectful to his younger brother, a father who is kind and a son who is filial.
Richard's father, Viscount Sauter, was a formal knight and a talisman in the family.
Although Richard's second uncle and third uncle were not promoted to knights, they were still peak quasi-knights with five times the physical fitness of ordinary people and had rich combat experience. They would not be at a disadvantage against two or three ordinary quasi-knights in a short period of time.
Ever since Richard's father inherited the title, he has worked conscientiously to assist him in ensuring the security of his territory.
Richard is the only child of Viscount Sauter, but there are several cousins in the whole family. These brothers and sisters have been crushed by Richard since childhood, and they have been submissive to Richard.
Not long after the inheritance of the Hunter family, the entire continent was not peaceful. The eastern part of the kingdom was constantly threatened by orcs. From time to time, the ports in the southern gulf were heard to be looted by Nagas. Even in the depths of the adjacent Ironwood Forest, there were occasional cannibals.
Demon tribes appear, and war is never far away.
The strong sense of crisis has made the whole family work together. There is no intrigue among relatives, and there are no messy little ones. As long as something is beneficial to the Hunter family, the entire family will carry it out to the end.
When Richard reformed the territorial system, his two uncles were the sharp blades of his reform. All opponents and those who made small moves were suppressed by these two uncles with absolute force.
