The Knight's Journey to the Empire

On March 4877, 3 in the Knight Continent calendar, after a month-long long and arduous journey.

We slept in the open air, walked under the stars and in the biting cold wind.

Finally, Soran brought his team to his hereditary territory - White Bear Territory.

Of course, if Sauron did not take this group of people with him, but only took his confidants to travel alone.

That will definitely come sooner.

But this is obviously impossible.

Soran didn't know anyone in the new territory and had no idea what the situation was like.

If he didn't have a team around him, Sauron wouldn't dare to act recklessly relying only on himself and his confidants.

Poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people, but your own life is the most important thing.

The hereditary territory granted to Soran, the White Bear Territory, is located to the north and west of Ganise County, one of the four eastern counties.

To the north of the territory is a large river called the Marko River.

The Marko River flows roughly from east to west, and it is the dividing line between Ganise County and Fir County.

Fir County is one of the two northern counties, and White Bear Territory is also across the river from Fir County.

The Marko River is a large river in the northern part of the Kingdom of Midburg. It originates directly from the Anatolian Mountains, has many tributaries, abundant flow, a long course, and a wide river surface of five to six hundred meters.

What is important is that the middle and lower reaches of the Marko River flow through plains, with a small overall drop and a relatively slow flow rate, providing excellent shipping conditions.

Unfortunately, the Marko River basin is not a wealthy area in the kingdom. The level of development in the basin is low, the economy is not very developed, and the population is small.

Therefore, the shipping demand on the Marko River is relatively small and its shipping value has yet to be developed.

In the west of White Bear Territory is a small mountain range, which runs roughly from northeast to southwest. The overall altitude of the mountain range is not high, with an average altitude between 300 and 500 meters.

A hereditary nobleman who was directly conferred the title of Viscount by His Majesty the King. His hereditary territory borders the White Bear Territory across the mountains.

The southern and eastern parts of the White Bear Territory are plains, adjacent to which are vassals of the Count of Casti's family.

Among them, in the east, there is a hereditary viscount, and in the south, there is a hereditary baron.

In the entire County of Garnisey, the Earl of Casti family is the largest hereditary noble family.

The territories of the Earl's family and its vassals accounted for more than half of the land in the entire County of Ganise.

It has profound foundation and strong strength.

But it is regrettable that the noble Count Castile family has always been small in number.

Ever since the founding of the Kingdom of Midburg, when the family was canonized by His Majesty the King as a hereditary noble, it has been passed down through a single bloodline.

And at this point, the bloodline of the Count of Casti family was directly cut off.

In the end, the earl's title and family fortune all fell into the hands of a widow.

Of course, the widow was the wife of the previous Earl of Castile, and had legal rights of inheritance.

The overall shape of White Bear Territory is roughly rectangular, about 20 kilometers long from east to west and about 1000 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of ​​about square kilometers (about the same size as the land area of ​​Hong Kong).

The territory's terrain is mainly divided into three parts:

1. The east is a plain, part of the coastal plain, accounting for three-fifths of the total area;

2. The central part is low hills with gentle undulations, accounting for one fifth of the total area;

3. The western part is close to a small mountain range and has a mountainous terrain with large undulations, accounting for one-fifth of the total area.

In fact, the entire territory of White Bear Territory is a transition area from mountainous terrain to plain terrain.

Because the vast land from White Bear Territory to the east to the sea belongs to the Count of Casti family, and it is all wide and flat coastal plains.

Also in the County of Ganise, compared with the territory of the Count Casti family, the White Bear Territory is truly vast and sparsely populated, with a low level of development and poor economic development.

It is indeed a bit difficult for its politics, economy, society, culture, etc. to develop in a positive direction.

Currently, human settlements in the entire territory are mainly distributed in the relatively flat plains in the east.

The settlement consists of one town and seven villages, with a total population of over a thousand, but the exact number is unknown.

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As soon as he set foot on this territory, Soran could intuitively feel its desolation and barrenness.

He even thought that this was probably what a truly sparsely populated country would look like!

This place is relatively close to the north of the kingdom, and the weather is still a bit cold.

The ground and the withered grass were still covered with scattered piles of snow, in piles here and there.

Looking around, the withered yellow grass and wasteland was still white and there was no sign of human habitation.

(In terms of longitude and latitude, you can understand it as those areas in Liaoning Province and Jilin Province)

Flanders Town is the only town in the White Bear Territory and the southernmost human settlement in the territory.

A winding, muddy path, which can only accommodate one horse-drawn carriage, branches off from the muddy official road and connects this small town with the outside world.

No, it should be the connection between the entire territory and the outside world.

Therefore, after Soran and his party entered the White Bear Territory, the first stop they arrived at was this small town.

The town of Flanders is not large and is surrounded by wooden walls. The outer walls are covered with withered vines and some of the wood shows signs of decay.

It's obvious that it has been in disrepair for a long time.

On both sides of the road extending from the town gate and around the town are farmlands that the residents had developed long ago.

It is now the end of winter and the crops have been harvested long ago.

And it is not time to plant the new season's crops yet.

So now these farmlands are filled with some dead wheat roots.

Because the straw above was used to make the roof!

The entire town of Flanders has nearly 150 households and 600 to 700 people, accounting for three-fifths of the population of the entire territory.

The town is poor and backward, with thatched houses, mud houses, and wooden courtyards built in a disorderly manner; the environment is smelly and dirty, with fecal and urine roads, black ditches, and dirty garbage everywhere.

This is true of every rural town in the world, and Flanders Town is no exception.

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