Roland fulfilled his promise on a sunny afternoon.
He canonized Tigu Paine as a viscount, and his territory was divided south of the Chishui River, across the river from the town. Today there is still a dense forest, which belongs to the area to be developed. In order to make him give up the autonomy in the territory, Roland promised to give priority to the development of Tigu's territory in the future, and to establish a certain share of the property on the land to the viscount and his descendants. Of course, Roland used his mouth cannon skills to describe it as a good thing that he didn't need to manage the industry, and he could share the money while lying down.
Tigu readily agreed—he didn't like it at all, and in his opinion, there was nothing more interesting than fighting on horseback. But now that he has a daughter, he focuses his energy on hunting. In addition, the industry in Tigu's original territory had long since decayed, so he simply asked the prince to send someone to help him sell the land east of the fortress and move the whole family to live in Border Town. Roland naturally agreed.
The other was Brian, whom Roland granted him knighthood and asked him whether he would choose land or serve in the military.
If you choose land, you will no longer be able to join the First Army of Border Town. If you join the army, you must be promoted by military exploits like other people, and get rewarded land. Brian chose the latter without hesitation.
In this way, Roland also has a general map of land use planning.
With the Chishui River as the boundary, and the land sandwiched by the Desolate Mountains is a residential area, the narrow part is about three kilometers, and the wide part is seven or eight kilometers. In the future, the community can be built, or it can be used as reward land to reward promoted officers.
On the other side of the Chishui River is the future industrial area and agricultural area. The land can be extended to the south, but it is still a patch of woods, and there are rolling hills in the distance. When the population meets the demand, Roland must start to reclaim this woodland.
The Hidden Forest to the west of Border Town is also an important development point. There are all kinds of treasures in the forest, such as wood, edible mushrooms, wild animals, and medicinal materials. In addition to its use in construction and industry, wood is also useful as a fuel. The area of this forest is astonishingly large. Roland has let Lightning probe it. After flying 30 kilometers, there is no end in sight. Even if he uses it all as firewood, it can burn for a long time.
Finally, there is the clearing between the Hidden Forest and the Extremis Mountains—a forbidden area that no one has ever set foot in, the Savage Land. Judging from the direction of the boundary line between the mountains and the forest, the area between them is extremely vast, almost larger than the Kingdom of Greycastle. Faced with such an unowned land, Roland felt an itch in his heart. But he also knew that he couldn't take care of this place for the time being. At present, what Border Town needs most is population.
Back in the castle office, he recruited the painter Soraya.
"How's your work with assisting City Hall going recently?"
"I've never painted so many paintings in one day," she said, looking much better than when she first saw her. "I've basically finished painting today. But when I paint, there is only a window the size of my head, which feels a bit strange. ."
"In order not to scare the townspeople with your magic pen," the prince smiled, "although they know there are witches, such close contact is easy to cause accidents, so just take some hidden measures so that they don't know that you are Witch. It will slowly get better in the future."
Soraya's photographic abilities give Roland a whole new level of civic registration. The city hall vacated a room for the project as an archive to store information about the townspeople. Similar to the household registration book, each piece of paper has their name, age, residence, blood relationship and other information written on it. This information Barov briefly counted once in winter, and this time the record has expanded a lot. The biggest change is that all characters have color photos attached to their accounts.
According to Roland's request, the city hall set up a small room in the hall that can be entered and exited by a single person. The outside was wrapped with sackcloth, and only a square window was left in front of it, so that Soraya could see the other party's appearance. In this way, when the witch paints the portrait in the house, the other party will not see the magic pen.
As for how to get the residents of the territory to actively come to declare the information, Roland gave a very simple method. All those who come can get a subsidy of ten copper eagles - this money is allocated by the city hall.
"I called you here today because I wanted you to draw something else." Roland spread the cut paper in front of Soraya.
The latter noticed that the pieces of paper were exactly the same size, only half the size of a palm, and rectangular.
"What do you want me to draw?"
"Some entertainment props." Roland said.
This idea has long existed in his mind. The witches have basically nothing to do except practice every day. This kind of life seems a bit boring. The same is true for the prince, especially before the snow melts, his range of activities is basically only in the castle. Therefore, it is imperative to come up with some entertainment activities and find a few witches to accompany you to relax.
The easiest is naturally poker. However, soft ordinary paper is not suitable for standing in the hand, and shuffling is also a hassle. Now with Soraya, he can naturally consider making some more advanced things.
"Entertainment?" She tilted her head and thought, as if she didn't understand what kind of entertainment painting on square paper was, "Okay, you have the final say."
"First, on this piece of paper, draw a soldier with a heavy crossbow."
"Imagine?"
"That's right, his armor, body, age, including the environment he is in, are all up to your imagination. As long as he holds a heavy crossbow."
"Uh... I'll try," Soraya closed her eyes, pondered for a while, and a colorful magic pen appeared in her hand.
Soon, a crossbow soldier who looked like a middle-aged man jumped on the paper.
"Very good," Roland praised, "Let me think about what to draw next, um... Draw a small circle in the upper left corner and the middle of the paper," he recalled the appearance of those cards in his mind, " The first circle has a gold edge on a white background, and the second circle has a gold edge on an orange background.”
After these drawings were completed, Roland asked her to add numbers to the first circle and the bow and arrow symbols to the second circle.
The magic of Soraya's ability is that she can paint regardless of the material, so there is no difference between blank paper and patterned paper for her, and the pattern drawn later can perfectly cover the former, just like a layer covering.
So, an exquisite crossbowman card appeared in front of Roland.
"Is that all right?" she asked.
"This is just a unit card. There are many similar cards to be drawn. Finally, a deck of cards can be made up. I will teach you how to play."
Seeing Soraya closing her eyes and painting, Roland had a hunch in his heart that maybe such a conversation would soon fill his castle—
What are you going to do? Let's start with a plate of Gwent!