Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

There is a pact of representation, so Ughdash must not interfere with my domain.

But, according to Pinto, isn’t it projecting an influence in some way?

‘I’ll have to go back and check it out right now.’

I had to start a pilgrimage to the territory that had been postponed due to the declaration of war by Count Doreen.

“Me… lord?”

I turned my head at the hesitation-filled voice.

They were apprentices who roamed the castle and handed over gold coins and proposals.

Not only blacksmiths, but also other workshops such as tanning workshops were visited, so there were quite a few.

All were timid, but determined in their eyes.

‘These are the highest incomes for this visit.’

One of the things my manor needed most was a professional technician.

Blacksmiths, tanners, masons and other carpenters had nothing.

If the apprentices of each workshop migrated, it would be easier to breathe.

‘Even if it’s not an artisan, but an apprentice, one person’s share is enough.’

An apprentice, in other words, a disciple.

However, there was no technically insurmountable difference between him and his master, the father-in-law.

Isn’t it said that even a dog in Seodang recites Poongwol in three years?

The apprentices were those who entered the craftsmanship at the age of 10 or so.

The appearances of the apprentices in front of me are more than twenty, even if you look at them a little.

Around this time, he is an apprentice with experience, and at the earliest it is the age to become an independent craftsman.

The fact that they chose to emigrate, lured by a gold coin and coated in sugar, showed how badly they were treated.

‘I heard that the inland situation is bad, but is it enough to be treated like this?’

Apart from the mixed feelings, this was an opportunity.

Even those with skills left their hometowns to become pioneers.

Is there any hesitation for a person who lives a life less than that?

‘I can be a little more active.’

With a benevolent smile on the outside, I reached out to my apprentices.

The apprentices took turns touching their foreheads to the backs of their hands and bowing.

“Welcome. That your choice was right will soon be proved. I will not forsake those who are able and those who make an effort.”

god of technology

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‘I will send the specified items as soon as the quantity is gathered.’

‘Leave the transportation to your family and act as unnoticed as possible.’

‘yes.’

I left Turan with Gerhard and returned to Olymus.

Since he traveled on horseback, the change was noticeable even within a few days after leaving Olymus.

A meadow had been established across the river south of Olymouth.

The pasture was fenced and dozens of horses roamed in it.

“Lord.”

Kistler greeted them and welcomed them.

Unlike the first time I saw him, his expression was much brighter.

“Did nothing happen?”

“It shouldn’t be.”

Kistler looked behind me with a wry smile.

Several wagons were following behind me.

The apprentices rode in the lead wagon, and the rest were wagons.

Caravans were loaded with items necessary for the frontier, such as iron farming tools, livestock, and materials.

When the family members unloaded the goods, the villagers stopped working and gathered.

“Allocate farm implements to each type of household.”

The young people looked at me in surprise.

“Younglord. We can’t pay for this…”

“There is no need for payment.”

Young Ji-min received the farming tools from his family and held them tight.

It was the same attitude towards a ghost as when Kistler held alfalfa.

They know very well how helpful farming tools with iron heads are.

Farming tools with wooden or stone blades could not fully contain the power of a person.

It was not possible to dig deeply and the process of harvesting grain had to be repeated several times.

Iron tools, on the other hand, were able to level the ground an inch deeper and cut the grain in one go.

The resulting increase in yield and decrease in product were what farmers could not help but hope for.

‘But it’s expensive. It’s a price that is burdensome even in the inland where iron is widely used.’

It was also common for estates to pay a special tax on the condition of lending iron farming tools.

“Consider this a gift from me.”

I wasn’t interested in that penny.

The problem was that the subsidy was burdensome, so poor farming tools were used and development slowed down.

“thank you. Lord…”

Young Ji-min, carrying an armful of farm implements, crawled to his knees.

“done. It must be said that it is not a farm tool.”

Seeing the other villagers crawling along, I tried to stop by raising my hand.

But those who bowed their heads did not stand up.

In an embarrassing situation, Calliope conveyed her thoughts to leave it as it is.

‘okay. thrive Don’t be trampled on by someone of a different race.’

I could give them anything like farming tools.

Rewards would come periodically from Turan.

Even if the reward was cut off, there was also a gold mine in the Gray Mountains.

If you start developing gold mines and minting coins, you will never run out of money.

What was lacking was human.

If the population could be increased, it was not a waste to use farm tools or gold.

“Stand up if you have experience raising livestock.”

Quite a few young people got up.

Well, even before becoming a pioneer, he must have been farming in his hometown.

Even farmers raised cattle, such as chickens and ducks, if the situation was not too bad.

I looked around Young Ji-min and said to Kistler.

“Choose an experienced person from among them and let them grow them.”

He pointed to the livestock unloaded from the wagon.

Livestock were several pairs: chickens, ducks goats, pigs and sheep.

Since the number of mats was small, each household had to entrust one type.

“In the same way, I will not accept payment for livestock. Instead, this is not given to you right now. I will give it to the household in charge according to the number of offspring this year.”

Farming tools are meaningless even if they face each other, but livestock breed.

Increasing the number of livestock is very important.

It’s not just because they serve meat.

It was also a big reason that livestock manure could be used as fertilizer.

‘The greater the number of livestock, the more natural fertilizers are used.’

Conversely, you can ask:

If you have a lot of livestock, don’t you need a lot of feed?

That’s right, it needs a lot.

But since I was the lord of the Great Plains, I didn’t have to grow fodder crops.

Wide and widespread in the Great Plains was food for livestock.

‘Humans eat the crops from the fields. On the other hand, sheep and horses graze, and pigs are raised in the forest. Humans are not herbivores like anyone said. This way, they can coexist because the food grows in different areas.’

Humans are fields, sheep and horses are grasslands, and pigs are forests.

They were able to coexist because the places where they took food from each other were different.

It would be a problem if the number of humans increased so much that the fields filled up the grasslands and forests.

The introduction of quadruple cropping prior to that time to grow fodder crops is largely offset.

“this···.”

Kistler smiled awkwardly and scratched his neck.

If you lend livestock and increase the number, I will give you a large reward.

At those words, Young Ji-min’s eyes lit up fiercely.

Silently, he looked at Kistler and longed for him to be elected.

Kistler broke out in a cold sweat from the pressure and pointed at a pair of sheep.

“Should I hire a shepherd as well?”

“no. I manage the sheep separately.”

‘Hilde.’

One of the people created before going to Turan.

A wandering poet by profession, she approached the call and looked after the sheep.

“You brought meek children.”

I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to herd sheep.

We focused on personality rather than robustness so that even beginners could take it with us.

Hilde looked around the sheep and held the two puppies between them.

“Oh my, you are cute.”

“I brought it because I thought I needed a sheepdog. Will you be able to grow well?”

“sure. You know my job, right?”

I thought that a wandering poet had nothing like a shepherd except that he was wandering.

Hilde showed confidence that she knew how to herd sheep.

The puppies in her arms struggled to get out of her arms.

“I wonder if you want to go to our lord?”

I was about to reply, “It can’t be,” when I saw a puppy waving its paw at me.

Bright eyes unique to baby animals.

The dog licked my chin as I stumbled into a hug.

“…”

Calliope was watching the scene.

Her expression was unreadable as usual, but her thoughts could be read more clearly than usual.

“Will you hug me?”

Instead of answering, Calliope took a step closer and looked down at the puppy.

Her deep blue eyes met the puppy’s black eyes in midair.

swish

The puppy turned its head and burrowed into my arms.

Feeling the trembling means being scared.

In response, Calliope’s thoughts were stirred.

“Wouldn’t a wolf be better than a dog?”

Calliope’s head turned to Griff’s joke.

Even though I couldn’t see his expression because he had his back to me, I could feel the chill.

Grif smiled and rolled his eyes wide open.

I gave the puppy to Hilde, laughing lightly as I watched the two of them arguing.

‘I’ll have to travel all over the territory without staying in one place.’

‘That was my original job. I don’t have any problem.’

‘okay. If you notice something strange while touring the territory, come back and report it. You must not forget that it is more important to understand your safety and the involvement of the representative system than to feed the sheep.’

‘yes. Do not worry.’

After sending Yeong Ji-min and Hilde away, he checked the rest of the people.

After getting off the carriage, I saw the apprentices standing at a distance.

I gestured to Tyler the carpenter.

“Have you built a workshop?”

“Once the building was raised. In the first place, only the pillars and ceiling need to be raised.”

“Let me check.”

I took my apprentices and went to the studio.

The atelier was what I ordered Tyler to build right before I left for Turan.

As you can see, it was made in just a few days, but it was just a workshop and there was nothing special in reality.

It was all about erecting pillars and ceilings without walls on an empty field.

Because the workshop is a place where noise, stench, and heat always reside.

Transportation was convenient if it was close to the village, but everything else was a problem.

“First is the forge.”

At least, the blacksmith’s shop had its own set of internal facilities.

There was a large flat stone in place of the anvil, and there was also a small furnace and bellows.

“The blacksmith’s facility remained because there used to be a blacksmith named Dylan in the town. The furnace was broken, but other than that it was intact. The stove was also small, so we were able to fix it on our ship.”

I tilted my head as I looked at the tools on the table.

“Are you all right?”

Tongs, hammer, iron skewer… are broken or rusty.

He glanced at Tyler and pointed at Kistler.

Kistler pursed his lips before making an excuse.

“sorry. After using it in the field…”

“Right.”

It’s not something I can’t understand.

He was plowing the field with a wooden stick.

If there is no blacksmith to make and repair iron tools, can they afford to preserve tools?

Even if the use was not suitable, the durability of iron is good, so it must have been used randomly.

‘It doesn’t disappoint.’

The apprentices set aside the broken tools and raised their own tools.

Knowing this, I paid more and prepared tools separately.

“Can I work right away?”

“yes. It’s not about creating something new, it’s about fixing it.”

I nodded.

“If you have a plow made, bring it.”

“I only have one because I don’t have time.”

“that’s enough.”

Tyler took the plow and set it down in front of the apprentices.

The apprentices examined the plow and pointed to the bottom of the plow.

“There is no day.”

The lower part of the plow was the part that came into contact with the soil when the cattle pulled the plow.

The role of the bottom part is to get stuck in the soil and crush the soil to move forward.

Therefore, the lower part had to be durable to withstand hard soil, stones, and plants.

The lower part of the plow Tyler brought was just a tree trunk.

‘Originally, there should be an iron plow blade here.’

That was what the apprentice pointed out.

The fact that there was no blade meant that only the body of the plow was in one piece.

Since the plow was made of wood, the bladeless lower part was also made of wood.

If you plow the field like this, whether the soil is soft or hard, it will crack.

Can you plow a field with a blunt wooden club without breaking it?

‘So that’s why I used a blunt plow that day.’

He remembered the plow he had seen on the first day he arrived in Olymus.

Since there were no livestock, the plow had to be pulled by a person, but at least it had a plow blade.

A plow that was blunt because the blade was sweet, and was written for one reason: it was durable because it was made of iron.

“What you are going to make right away is a plow blade. I’ll just have to make a new one. It’s just processing and attaching the iron plate I brought, so there shouldn’t be any problem.”

“At this level, it seems to be finished with a few hammerings.”

The apprentices tried to attach the iron plate to the lower part without any special processing.

It looked like a plow with a shovel blade on it, so I reached out.

“for a moment.”

“yes?”

“Do not attach the iron plate as it is, but tilt it to the side and attach it.”

“yes···?”

The apprentice tilted his head as if asking what he was talking about.

I tried to explain the reason to them and called Griff.

After reading his thoughts, Grif put charcoal on the stove and started a fire by snapping his fingers.

Calliope pressed the two bellows connected to the furnace and injected air into them.

As the air-filled fire repeatedly grew and decreased, I put the iron plate into the fire.

“Look carefully.”

When the iron plate turned red with heat, he pulled it out with tongs and placed it on the anvil.

kang, kang

I set it at an angle to the side of the anvil and hammered it a few times.

The heated iron plate bent easily, making the bottom pointy and the top slightly curved.

The apprentices opened their mouths as the initial appearance, which was almost rectangular, changed in an instant.

‘I was worried that it wouldn’t work because I didn’t have the skills. I’m fine.’

I smiled at the finished plow blade.

When Deus Ex was a game, every action was influenced by skills.

When hammering in the forge, the body moved in support of the blacksmith skill.

Skill was the way to induce the most ideal movement.

‘Memories are so strange.’

When I had skills, I wasn’t interested in how ideally my body movements were.

What I was interested in was how high-grade items could be created with the effect of the skill.

However, even after the skill was gone, my subconscious remembered the movement at that time.

I know it’s not easy to follow just because I remember it.

Is it because it has gone through countless rounds in a flow of time that is different from reality?

From the moment I grabbed the hammer, my body moved naturally like water flowing.

‘In the first place, I learned horseback riding as a skill, but it was strange that I would naturally ride a horse even after the skill disappeared.’

The skills and levels of the previous round disappeared, but the experience to replace them remained with me.

“Like this. Do not simply drive an iron plate in front, but deform the soil so that it is pushed to the right and piled up when the soil is dug up. And if you can afford it, I would like to add a few more iron plates to increase its function.”

He unfolded the papyrus obtained from Turan and drew a drawing on it.

The plow blade the apprentices tried to make was no different from attaching a shovel blade to a plow.

‘So it’s only at the level of scratching the surface of the soil.’

What was the main reason for plowing?

It turns the top soil layer of the field over and brings the soil underneath it to the surface.

At the same time, weeds and fertilizers are mixed into the soil to create an environment conducive to crop growth.

If you only scrape the surface with a shovel, the soil will not be turned over properly.

Cutting weeds and mixing fertilizer was also sloppy.

‘It’s just a matter of twisting the angle and attaching a few parts.’

The plow I drew was just a few clunky fittings added.

so that the plow digs deep into the soil,

To be able to cut vertically and horizontally,

Push the soil aside to make ridges and furrows,

I just drew the accessories that play each role on one side of the drawing and attached the degree of completion.

“Can you make it?”

The apprentices who saw the drawing swallowed their words.

From the time I was ironing, saliva seemed to drip from my open mouth.

Without even thinking to blink, he slowly raised his head and looked at me.

“Have you ever . . . ever learned a night job from someone before?”

“It must be true that I learned it rather than learned it.”

Because I learned it as a skill.

I didn’t learn from anyone.

Then self-study? To the question asked,

I said yes.

Since it’s a skill, self-study means self-study.

“…”

The apprentices exchanged words while looking at each other.

Tyler sent a thought while the silence fell.

‘Did you really need artisans? You can do it yourself.’

‘If I do the work, who will guide you and act as the lord?’

A distinction must be made between the person who works and the person who directs the work.