Black Iron Crown

Seeing Sir Horn's embarrassed and astonished expression, Reiner laughed and patted him on the shoulder and said, "But you are my friend, and I would like to give you these white sugars as a gift!"

Reiner stood up and tied the bag, put it in Sir Horn's hands, and said, "Our friendship is far more important than this bit of sugar, isn't it?"

It seems a bit strange for a seventeen-year-old young man to say such words to a bearded middle-aged man, but in the hearts of the two, such a scene does not violate harmony.

Although Reiner is a teenager, the sense of maturity brought by being in a high position is very obvious. A series of victories and a series of orders made his prestige soaring.

No one would, and no one dared to treat him as an immature, unreliable young man who could be deceived at will.

Sir Horn was taken aback, then put the bag on the table and said, "Your generosity makes me feel ashamed, thank you for your generous gift!"

Reiner smiled, and then said: "This is a new product of mine. I hope it can bring joy to other lords. In addition, I also hope that you can bring some white sugar to the lords of the empire. Let's try it!"

Everything Reiner said before was paving the way for this request.

After taking Reiner's things, Sir Horn patted his chest obligingly and said, "Don't worry, Earl Reiner, I will let all the lords taste the beauty of white sugar!"

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On July 1st, 23rd year of the empire, the entire northern border fell into a busy state. Even the area near Mecaron City stopped reclamation and started planting seeds in spring.

Rainer has this very large piece of immature cultivated land in the Fort Murland area, which does not need to be cultivated at all, just sow seeds.

This was the previous task reward, but because it was not during the spring plowing period, no seeds were planted.

The 15,000 mu of arable land was cultivated by the previously rewarded 300 system population. They all had iron and steel farm tools for sowing and did not need the help of plow horses at all.

On average, each person only needs to sow about one mu of land during spring plowing for more than a month. Ordinary residents even need to sow more than three or four mu of land every day. Their speed is already a waste of labor.

At this time, Sir Horn had left the northern border with the batch of steel and armored swords, and walked south in the direction of Twarinburg.

The lords of the interior have already opened fire,

The blacksmiths in the territory worked overtime to forge these steels, creating the most armor in the shortest time.

As a result, the consumption rate of steel is naturally extremely fast, and the 30 tons of steel brought back last time were quickly consumed.

On July 20, the 23rd year of the empire, all the arable land in the northern border was finally sown.

The 1.6 million acres of arable land on Lehner's territory are all planted with soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa.

The area of ​​grain production is about 1.1 million mu, and the newly reclaimed cultivated land does not need to be rested. Based on last year's yield of 250 kilograms per mu, this year will be another bumper harvest year.

In order to celebrate the end of the spring plowing, Reiner decided to hold a grand banquet in the city of Mecaron, inviting all the nobles in the north, and at the same time, a grand knight contest was held.

Holding such a competition is a very good way to stimulate business development, as well as to gather people's hearts and enhance prestige. Lords are very happy to hold such activities when they have financial resources.

Not to mention that it is possible to find more brave and skilled knights in this competition to recruit them to serve under their command.

Reiner still had a lot of merit points left, so he once again spent 800 merit points to summon 20 blood-colored griffin knights and 80 blood-colored griffin followers.

Reiner was already amazed at the Scarlet Griffin Knights' fighting power. After so many battles, only one of them died in battle. What a terrifying fighting power!

They have a layer of chain armor on the inside, a layer of plate and chain composite armor on the outside, and leather armor and armed clothing as the inner lining. The weight of the whole body is more than 50 kilograms!

If it was put on the body of ordinary people, it would almost crush them, but it seemed to be weightless when worn on them, and a tall figure could walk like flying in such armor.

These 30 Scarlet Griffin Knights led 120 retinues swaggeringly into several teams, moving around the streets of Mecaron City.

In addition, the sergeants who stayed in the barracks for training all day also came out in full force, appearing on the bustling street.

The news of holding an athletic conference has spread far and wide, and even wandering knights from some territories south of Twarinburg have come here.

According to the statistics submitted by the city gate officer and the information reported by Logan to Reiner, there were at least three hundred knights gathered in Mecaron City at this time.

They came from the vast northern land of more than one million square kilometers, together with the knights and nobles of the Leiner vassals, the number of people participating in this competition was very rare.

The sudden influx of so many militants into the city of Mecaron must be a factor of instability.

He doesn't think that the knights of this era have the twelve virtues of knights like in knight novels, and they can abide by the law and don't cause trouble.

The significance of the presence of the army on the streets is to suppress this group of military armed personnel so that they dare not act rashly.

After receiving Leiner's invitation letter, his vassals distributed in the southeast immediately brought a group of knights and their families, and headed for Mecaron City in a mighty manner.

Now it is different from the past. In the past, the territories of the two sides were not far away, and it only took a day or two to reach them.

Now Lena's territory is more than 300 kilometers away from them, and the length of the entire northern border is more than 600 kilometers from east to west. It will take more than ten days to reach Mecaron City.

At this time, Mecaron was very lively, and many foreign businessmen sensed business opportunities, and came to Mecaron City with their goods.

The local businessmen were equally intuitive, and they started businesses in the service industry and catering industry one after another. For a while, the business of Mekalong City was extremely prosperous.

However, in contrast to this is the decline in law and order. Even with the Scarlet Griffon Knights leading their followers and teams of sergeants patrolling the streets to maintain the city's law and order is still deteriorating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

There is no way, there are too many people from all religions and schools, and the current city of Mecaron is comparable to what it was before the war started.

In just half a month, nearly tens of thousands of people entered this commercial city.

Among them are thieves, businessmen, chicken girls, knights, retinues, poets, singers, and clowns. In addition, a large number of mercenaries came here to train and find their future employers.

Fighting, fighting with swords, lies and deceit, theft and robbery, lust and gambling, the city of Mecaron completely lost its original purity.