The vast grassland is surrounded by empty spaces, and when you look up, you can't see the end.

Being in it makes people feel vast, and it seems that even their mood has changed a lot.

"It's this?"

Walking on this grassland, Chen Heng patrols the land.

He looked around, looked at the land in front of him, and thought in his heart.

It has been more than three months since the trial competition ended.

For more than three months, Oliman named him the Earl of Soda as he said before, and the Soda area was granted to Chen Heng as his territory.

The so-called Soda area is a vast area bordering the desert of the Kutu Kingdom, with a very vast area.

This time, Oliman waved his hand and directly sealed the entire Soda area to Chen Heng, Earl Soda.

From the perspective of territory alone, the territory of Chen Heng, the Count, is larger than that of other lords in Kutu.

But in reality, this is just looking good.

In fact, the Soda area borders the desert, most of which are active places in alien races, and it is very difficult to form a strong rule in it.

Moreover, in this vast area, there are not many people who can be truly ruled by Chen Heng and can be used to collect taxes, and the number is pitiful.

According to Chen Heng's estimate, there are probably only tens of thousands of people in the entire Soda area who can be directly ruled by Chen Heng.

The number of tens of thousands of people sounds quite a lot, but it seems very ugly when it is shared in this vast area.

When he came to this territory, Chen Heng did nothing during this period, but he just patrolled the area with the local guides and Kurudo and others.

A great man once said that without investigation, there is no right to speak.

Chen Heng felt that this sentence was right.

The importance of intelligence is self-evident in many ways.

Therefore, after coming to his territory, Chen Heng immediately began an investigation, wanting to know the most basic situation on this land.

After a period of observation, Chen Heng had already figured out what he should do next.

"Although the climate in the north is harsh, if there is no war, the land production will be enough."

Walking aside while looking at Chen Heng, Kurudo said, "Although the production here is not as good as the south, because the place is large, the land owned by each lord will not make people starve to death."

"What is really uncomfortable is the orc thief who comes every once in a while, and some other inexplicable creatures."

Speaking of this, his face looked helpless: "In order to resist these orc thieves, a large number of men were forcibly drawn to fight with these people, so they often miss the time to farm, and sometimes they even wait until they get harvest, and they will be destroyed by these orcs."

He introduced the situation in the North to Chen Heng and also introduced the main enemies he would face in the next period of time.

From his story, Chen Heng gradually understood the basic situation here and had a clear understanding of what he needed to do in the next period of time.

"I probably understand."

Chen Heng nodded and continued to look at Kurudo: "I'll trouble you in the next period of time."

This time, Chen Heng came here, not alone. Kurudo and others came here with him and became one of his followers.

All the foundations that Chen Heng laid in Kutu City this time were brought over by him and devoted themselves to construction.

Next, Chen Heng began the process of building his own territory.

To be honest, it is very difficult to build from scratch from a blank space.

But fortunately, Chen Heng is not poor.

He has many advantages over others.

His wife is the royal princess Venar, which means that he is very close to the royal family and can obtain considerable support from Oliman and the entire Kutu Kingdom.

The lords and nobles around him will look up to him for the sake of the royal family and open the door to convenience.

Secondly, because of his previous cooperation, he had a very good relationship with the lords in the north, and to a certain extent, he was their biggest funder.

After the trade between the north and the south began, although many people saw the huge benefits contained in it and began to try to intervene, they started too late and have not yet found a low-cost and reliable trade route like Chen Heng.

Coupled with the advantages established in the early stage, Chen Heng still has a large share of the North-South trade currently underway.

The result of this trade route is that the Northern Lords' general kindness towards Chen Heng and will not refuse many of his requests.

The large amount of profits obtained from trade also made Chen Heng rich and not in a difficult situation.

In addition, he is also a powerful knight himself.

This is the most important point.

In this era, the role a knight can play is unimaginable to ordinary people.

With Chen Heng's current strength, as long as he leads a guard of hundreds of people, he is enough to hang out in this area. Those scattered alien thieves are nothing to him.

However, despite all the advantages, Chen Heng still had a very difficult life.

The conditions in the northern area were so harsh that it made it difficult for him to get started.

However, he was not discouraged.

Before coming here, he had already understood the situation here and had already made some psychological preparations.

The situations we are facing now are not enough to stump him.

In this way, the Earl of Soda, named Kelin, took root in Soda.

He started his own movements just after he arrived here.

He led Kurudo and others to patrol the four sides, wiped out some thieves and small tribes that had been rampant around for a long time, and demoted them all to slaves.

Then, through his authority as the lord and his powerful force, he forced several small tribes scattered around to move together.

In this way, he gathered the population of the entire Soda area as much as possible, and began to reclaim land and build cities in several key places.

When the population gathered, Chen Heng needed to protect much less places, and the pressure on the military suddenly decreased.

When the city initially developed, some small tribes that were originally walking around, and even wild people, were attracted to them and continued to migrate to the city.
Chapter completed!