I'm not a lord

Chapter 135 A degree is also a resource

After reaching a cooperation intention with the envoy of the High Cliff Tribe, Lin En set out on his return journey that day.

A few days later, the blizzard will completely submerge the 55-kilometer salt transportation line.

Accompanying him were a hundred newly recruited barbarian archers.

So far, the lowland tribes have provided him with two hundred soldiers, accounting for a quarter of the tribe's adult male labor force, and all of them are the best under the age of twenty-five.

In Lin En's opinion, in this cold winter, the soil and ore were frozen like iron and could not be dug at all.

Instead of letting these young men stay in the salt mines and waste food, it is better to let them shine in the military camps and on the battlefield.

When spring comes next year, the newly joined High Cliff Tribe will be responsible for mining, while the Lowland Tribe will migrate south as a whole.

After returning to the White Bear Territory, Lin En threw these young men from the wilds into the northern military camp and took the opportunity to inspect the barracks.

At the end of December in White Bear Territory, the daytime temperature is about minus five or six degrees Celsius, and at night it will drop sharply to below minus fifteen degrees Celsius.

As long as they take proper measures to keep warm, soldiers can still receive high-intensity training in the barracks.

Lynn had already ordered the blacksmith shop to build a large number of braziers, and also made various animal skins obtained from hunting into furry hats and gloves to ensure that the soldiers would not freeze their ears or fingers off during training.

It is obviously impossible to practice archery in such cold weather. The bowstring will become brittle due to the cold and may break if too much force is used. Even if it does not break, it will affect the service life of the bowstring.

Lin En simply let the barbarian archers and infantry train military formations together.

As the number of troops under his command grows, the archers will definitely form a mixed formation with the infantry in the future, which is a good opportunity for him to adapt in advance.

After inspecting the northern military camp, Lin En went to school again.

No matter how busy he was, whenever he returned to the White Bear Territory Castle, he would always make time to go to school.

The army, education, and farming are all equally important.

These young students who are growing stronger every day are the key to whether Lynn can rapidly expand his influence in the future.

If all goes well next spring, he will add four more baronies to his domain, and the population under his rule will double or triple.

These students will gradually take over the daily management of White Bear Territory and Shoal Territory.

Lin En will transfer all the skilled managers who are vacant to the newly occupied territories in the south.

In the White Bear Territory and the Shoal Territory, the number of free people was almost the same as that of serfs.

By the time some new policies are introduced next year, or a few major projects are started, these two territories can basically be transformed into free people.

At that time, it will not be the stewards who will manage them, but the tax collectors who will collect taxes from them.

In order to ensure that these tax collectors could collect taxes from the barbarians who started farming, Lin En would personally teach the students the barbarians' language every time he went to school.

On the whitewashed wall, he used charcoal to write words common to the barbarians, such as "collect," "labor," and "adult."

In the language of the barbarians, there are no words like taxes, corvee, and baron, but there are always more solutions than problems, so Lin En can use similar words instead.

Anyway, as long as you can collect tax revenue, you are a good tax collector.

Moreover, in the future, the White Bear Territory will form a situation where the two tribes will live together. As long as the barbarians live there longer, they will always be able to learn some common language on the mainland.

So Lin En would not teach the complicated language of the barbarians.

After he wrote down the vocabulary, he stood on the podium and taught the students how to pronounce it correctly.

"It's pronounced 'collect' three times." "Collect! Collect! Collect!"

The recitation in the audience was quite uniform. This was not the first time for these students to learn the language of the barbarians.

Lynn is quite patient with these students.

If you can’t teach it once, teach it twice.

These students all came from the families of village heads and had a solid foundation. They were not ordinary serfs who could not read or write.

Lin En stayed in the classroom for an hour and taught a whole lesson in the language of the barbarians.

After he finished the class, Timo, the sixth child, walked into the classroom with a thick stack of exercise books and distributed them to the students.

Today is Saturday, the last teaching day of the week. Students need to complete the exercises over the weekend and submit them next Monday.

After the students left the school with their exercises, Lynn and Lao Liu also left the school and strolled along the riverbank on the west side of the castle.

"Sixth Brother, how are you doing lately?"

"The students have been making rapid progress lately. By February of next year, about six or seven of them will have completed their studies as tax collectors. These students are all promising young people. They know that studying can change their destiny, so they study very hard."

Lao Liu thought Lin En was asking about the school’s teaching situation.

Although he no longer participated in the military affairs of the territory, he did not relax his observation of the territory's recent situation.

He had naturally heard that the joint delegation would visit the Shoal Territory in mid-February.

According to his understanding of his elder brother, his elder brother should be sharpening his knife to attack the delegation.

Once we conquer the four baronies, these students will come in handy.

Lin En asked, "I want to ask, how are you feeling at school lately? Are you tired? Or bored? I still remember that you begged me to join you because you thought being a bandit was cool. You certainly couldn't have imagined at the time that you would return to school in the future, and as the principal."

"Brother, I'm not tired, nor do I feel bored. I just realized that I'm quite suitable to be a teacher. Seeing students happy because of their progress, I can also feel the same amount of happiness.

At first, I did think being a bandit was cool, but more importantly, my family couldn't afford to let me continue my studies, so I begged you to join us."

Lao Liu showed a shy smile on his face. He was actually still a boy under 20 years old, but he had already become the principal of White Bear Territory, and was in charge of more than 20 students.

Although Lao Liu is young, his life has been quite bumpy.

He was a top student at a monastery with a promising future and was qualified to go to university in Amber Port, but because his family fell into poverty, he became a horse bandit.

After several months of teaching experience, his attribute values ​​have also increased.

In Lin En's sight, Lao Liu's internal affairs have risen to E+ level, and the overall score has reached two stars.

The characteristics of [Education] are indeed correct. Lao Liu is born to be a good teacher.

"Pick two students who are suitable to be teachers. I will definitely expand the school next year and may have to recruit hundreds of students."

Lin En planned to use the admission quota to win over the newly occupied land managers and village heads.

Judging from the experience of White Bear Territory and Shallow Shoal Territory, the thing that people in this class fear most is falling down the social ladder.

Providing their descendants with free education opportunities and guaranteeing that their descendants will continue to serve as officials is enough to make them feel at ease to look after the serfs for Lin En.

"Understood, brother!"

(End of this chapter)