On a sunny afternoon, Roland fulfilled his promise.
He conferred the title of Viscount to Sir Pine. His territory was divided to the south of the Redwater River, across the river from Border Town. Today, it was still a dense forest, belonging to the undeveloped area. In order to make him give up the autonomy of his territory, Roland promised to give priority to the development of Sir Pine's territory. He also promised to give some shares to the Viscount and his descendants. Of course, Roland used his verbal skills to describe it as a good thing that he didn't need to manage his own property, and could just lie down and share the money.
Sir Pine readily agreed – he didn't like these things, in his opinion, there was nothing more interesting than fighting on horseback. But now that he had a daughter, he put all his energy into hunting. In addition, Sir Pine's original territory had long been in decline, so he simply asked the prince to send someone to help him sell the land east of Longsong Stronghold and move his whole family to Border Town. Roland naturally agreed.
The other person was Brian, Roland granted him the status of a Knight, and asked him whether he wanted to choose the land or to serve in the army.
If he chose the land, he couldn't join the First Army in Border Town. If he joined the army, he would have to rely on his military achievements to be promoted and get rewarded land. Brian didn't hesitate to choose the latter.
In this way, Roland had a general layout of the land use plan.
The land between the Redwater River and the Impassable Mountain Range was the residential area. The narrowest part was about three kilometers, and the widest part was about seven or eight kilometers. In the future, it could be used to build a community, or it could be used as a reward for promoted officers.
On the other side of the Redwater River was the future industrial and agricultural area. The land could be extended to the south, but at present it was still a forest, and in the distance there were undulating hills. When the population met the demand, Roland would inevitably start to reclaim the forest.
The Concealing Forest to the west of Border Town was also an important development point. There were all kinds of treasures in the forest, such as wood, edible fungi, wild animals, and medicinal herbs. In addition to being used for construction and industry, wood could also be used as fuel. The area of this forest was astonishingly large. Roland had asked Lightning to explore it, and even after flying for thirty kilometers, they still couldn't see the end of it. Even if they used all of it as firewood, it would still burn for a long time.
Finally, there was the open space between the Concealing Forest and the Impassable Mountain Range – it was also a forbidden area that no one had ever set foot in, the Savage Land. Based on the direction of the mountain range and the forest, the land in between was extremely vast, almost larger than the Kingdom of Graycastle. Faced with such an unclaimed land, Roland's heart itched. But he also knew that he couldn't care about this place for the time being. At present, what Border Town needed the most was population.
Returning to his office in the castle, he summoned the artist Soroya.
"How's the work with City hall going?"
"I've never painted so many pictures in one day." She looked much more energetic than when they first met. "I've basically finished painting by today. But when I paint, I only leave a window the size of a head, which feels a little strange. "
"In order to avoid scaring the townspeople with your Magic Pen," the Prince smiled. "Although they know that witches exist, such close contact is still easy to cause accidents, so we simply take some hidden means, so that they don't know that you're a witch. In the future, it will slowly get better. "
Soroya's photographic ability brought a new upgrade to Roland's Citizen Registration Plan. For this plan, City hall vacated a room as an archive, which was used to store the information of the townspeople. Similar to the household register, each piece of paper had their name, age, residence, blood relationship, and other information. Barov had made a simple count of this information during the winter, and this time, the records had been expanded by a lot. The biggest change was that all the people's household registers were attached with "color photos."
According to Roland's request, City hall had set up a small room in the hall for a single person to enter and exit. The room was wrapped in linen, leaving only a square window in front of it, so that Soroya could see the other person's appearance. This way, when the witch painted the portrait inside the room, the other person wouldn't see the magical pen.
As for how to make the residents of the territory actively come to report their information, Roland's method was very simple. Every person who came would receive a subsidy of ten copper royals – this money would be allocated by City hall.
"Today, I called you here because I want you to draw something else." Roland spread out the cut paper in front of Soroya.
The latter noticed that the size of the paper was exactly the same, only half the size of a palm, in a rectangular shape.
"What do you want me to draw?"
"Some props for entertainment," Roland said.
This idea had already existed in his mind for a long time. Besides practicing every day, the witches basically had nothing to do, so this kind of life seemed a bit boring. It was the same for the Prince, especially when he was waiting for the snow to melt, his range of activities was basically limited to the castle. Therefore, it was imperative to find some entertainment activities and find a few witches to accompany him to relax his mood.
The easiest one was naturally playing cards. However, the soft ordinary paper was not suitable to be used in the hands, and shuffling the cards was also troublesome. Now that he had Soroya, he could naturally consider making some more advanced things.
"Entertainment?" She tilted her head and thought, it seemed that she didn't understand what kind of entertainment drawing on a square piece of paper was. "Well, you have the final say."
"First, you draw a soldier holding a heavy crossbow on this piece of paper."
"Imagine?"
"Yes, his armor, body, age, as well as the environment, all of it is up to you to imagine. As long as he is holding a heavy crossbow. "
"Uh … I'll try," Soroya closed her eyes and thought for a moment, then a colorful magic pen appeared in her hand.
Soon, a middle-aged man who looked like a crossbowman jumped on the paper.
"Very good," Roland praised, "Let me think about what to draw next, hmm … in the upper left corner and the middle of the paper, draw a small circle," he recalled the appearance of the cards in his mind, "The first circle should be white with gold edges, and the second circle should be orange with gold edges."
After these drawings were finished, Roland asked her to add a number to the first circle, and add a bow and arrow symbol to the second circle.
The magical thing about Soroya's ability was that she could draw regardless of the material, so there was no difference between a blank piece of paper and a piece of paper with a pattern. The pattern drawn on the latter could perfectly cover the former, just like a layer of cover.
Thus, a delicate "crossbowman card" appeared in front of Roland.
"Is this good?" She asked.
"This is just a unit card, there are still many similar cards to draw, and in the end, we can make a deck of cards, then I'll teach you how to play."
Looking at the way Soroya drew with her eyes closed, Roland had a premonition that perhaps this kind of dialogue would soon fill his castle —
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