Black Iron Crown

The most common practice of these soldiers is the counterweight long spear stabbing. For these soldiers, the long spear in their hands is the biggest reliance.

While strength is also very important, Reiner didn't take the same approach as weightlifting or afterlife fitness.

Such continuous strength training can increase strength, but it is more about shape shaping than practicality.

In addition to the muscles, the strength is determined by the control of the nerves to the muscles. Repeated exercises obviously cannot increase the nerve control, just like those boxers. Although they will also perform such training, it is more aimed at systematic exercise.

The same is true for this group of soldiers. Their stabbing again and again is to increase their proficiency while training their strength, and judging from past combat situations, this kind of training is indeed very effective.

This barracks is just one of the three barracks around the city of Mecaron, all of which are trained by infantry and managed by Earl Ryland.

In the past three years, the number of Sergeants Moreland has reached a full 800, which is why Leiner has the confidence not to carry out any military expansion operations.

Leiner felt that with these 800 sergeants and the rest of the soldiers here, as long as tens of thousands of troops did not attack the northern border, there would be no danger.

In addition to this barracks, there are two other camps, where archers and crossbowmen are stationed respectively.

And the other is the rebuilt cavalry camp, which is now the station of the Scarlet Griffon Knights.

Now the number of Scarlet Griffin Knights has reached a full ninety, and the number of Scarlet Griffon followers has reached an astonishing three hundred and sixty.

In this way, they trained every day in the barracks. As for the other knights, they naturally kept their wives and children in their fiefs.

There are a total of 150 fief knights under Leiner's command. Thanks to the development of the northern border, their life is getting better and better. The knights who used to need to go to the fields to do some farm work are now starting to spend extravagance.

This group of people's life is getting better and better now, but they didn't throw away the weapons they depended on for survival. On the contrary, they are more effective in fighting because they don't need to do other jobs.

As for the archers, they don't need Leiner to worry about them. These arms, which play an important role in the war and seldom need hand-to-hand combat, only need daily shooting training, which is enough.

The number of Winter crossbowmen was maintained by Leiner to the number of one hundred. In addition, there were five hundred archers drawn from the legal hunters in the territory.

Their weapons are all recurve bows that Leiner exchanged from the system in batches. Although the range and power are not as good as the pulley fury of the Winter crossbowman, they are already outstanding among the bows of the time.

What's more, the design speed of bows and arrows is not comparable to that of crossbows. Bows and arrows can travel intensively but suppress firepower, but crossbows cannot.

In the past few years of spare time, the characters that Reiner has emerged from the system have also found a home for themselves.

They choose their partners from the noble ladies or widows in the north. The older lords, such as Earl Leyland, is now in his forties. No lord is willing to marry his young daughter to a bad old man. , even if he is a powerful earl.

He married a widow whose husband was ten years younger than him and became his countess.

As for the others, they all found a wife among the aristocratic groups in the northern border.

It is worth mentioning that both Lumbare and Wende are also engaged.

Lumbare's fiancée was the sister of the Earl of Cholard, and Wend's fiancée was the niece of the Earl of Preston.

From now on, these lords have another layer of in-laws on top of their kinship with Murand in the north.

This time the marriage was proposed by the Earls of Jollal and Princeton, and the purpose was naturally to consolidate their own status. Although at the beginning, Leiner considered that the two parties belonged to the same family, which might lead to marriage of close relatives, but then he thought about the blood relationship between the two parties. I don't know how many generations have passed since I relied on it, so I followed suit and agreed to this marriage.

As for the opinions of Lumbare and Wende, it doesn't matter at all. Children of noble families never have any freedom to speak of in marriage.

As the saying goes, an older brother is like a father, and as the elder brother of the two, Reiner still has this right, not to mention that even Lumbare's father, Earl Codd, has no opinion on this marriage contract.

He was very satisfied that his son was able to marry the younger sister of an earl. Including him, there were only eight earls in the entire Northern Grand Duchy. Among the remaining seven earls, both Earl Leyland and Earl Valas had no children.

The remaining five earls also have no daughters of the right age. It is the best choice to marry the daughter of an old earl and the younger sister of the current earl.

Could he still marry a grand duke or a king's daughter? This is not a legend, Earl Corder is a real person.

Earl Jorral watched the training of the soldiers in this barracks for a while, and then compared it with the soldiers under his command. Earl Jorral felt that what Reiner said was indeed reasonable.

The soldiers in front of them almost put their lives out for training, and Earl Valas could clearly see that they were holding up the huge log as thick as two people hugging each other again and again.

The blue veins on their necks were pumping, and it was conceivable how much effort they had put into training.

Seeing such a scene, combined with those lazy soldiers under his command who spent their days drinking and gambling besides eating, Earl Jollal quietly made up his mind.

The sales of the produced vinegar have been very good recently, and the market in the northern border has been cultivated. Many people have enough spare money in their families to buy what they want.

In addition, vinegar is not an expensive thing, so many people quickly fell in love with this taste when they first tasted the sour taste other than fruit.

In just one year, vinegar has become an essential condiment in families throughout the northern border.

No matter what they are cooking, many people are willing to add a little vinegar to add some other flavors. The salty taste of salt is still too simple.

As a result, from the second month after the vinegar was sold, the sales volume increased by nine times, reaching 20 barrels.

You know, each of these vinegar buckets contains a ton of vinegar, and the price of every two kilograms of vinegar has reached a copper, and the turnover for this month is a full hundred gold coins.

And in the third month, the sales volume tripled compared to the previous month, reaching as many as 61 barrels.

Before that, residents within 20 to 30 kilometers around Mecaron City were buying vinegar. When keen merchants discovered that the vinegar was profitable, they immediately bought it in large quantities and sold it to other places in the northern border. .

By the sixth month, the sales volume had reached a stable level of about 120 barrels per month, which was almost the market capacity of the entire Northern Grand Duchy. Can get more than 600 gold coins in income.

So far, the income of vinegar has officially approached the profit created by woolen cloth, surpassing that of white sugar, becoming the second most profitable business in Reiner's hands.

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