Chapter 8: I need those animals fuckin
There's still a little hub bub from the semi spread out crowd around me, but it seems the people who traveled with me have settled the cattle and have made their way over to listen to what I have to say and have formed a small group off to the side.
" alright alright settle down boys and girls…."
The whispers stopped and Everyone quietened down ready for my big reveal of what's going on.
"Let's make this short and sweet because we have a lot of shit to do to bring this place up to semi liveable standards…..my name is Gideon Fenris, new lord of sea dragon point and the lands surrounding, promoted by warden of the north Eddard Stark for my contributions to the rebellion war….."
" alright, first of all I noticed some farm lands to the north, is that where the majority of this villages farms are and do you get any merchant caravans or something like that passing through town?….. Raise your hand if you have an answer and if I point to you, you will answer, I don't need everyone answering at once"
Everyone just looked around confused and kind of nervous before an oldish man put his hand up to answer, he had greyish hair but not from age, more that's would just be his natural hair colour not to mention a sharp nose and strong jawline…..so typical Northman, I point to him.
" yes m'lord, that's where most of our vegetables and grain are bought from, we do get some merchants that travels this way from deepwood motte to buy and sell as well"
"Alright, what's is your name, what is your profession and can you ride a horse?"
"My name is benjen, I'm a woodsman and yes I can ride a horse m'lord"
" here's what I want you to do benjen, I want you to pick someone to take one of the horses that just showed up and ride out to the farmlands to the north to grab a chunk of dirt from those lands and have them bring it to me while you head south and do the same, can you do that for me benjen?"
He and everyone else looked rather confused at the seemly set of random orders I just dished out, but benjen recovered fairy quickly with a "yes m'lord, I'll leave at once" and takes off to grab me some of that soil.
I know the soil around here is pretty good but with my magical space marine taste buds I can pin point exactly what it needs to bring it up to peak performance…and I plan on having a few more people migrate here soon enough and with some of the farming tools I plan on smithing for these people I want to diversify my farmlands so as to not put all my eggs in one basket.
" next on the agenda, a show of hands anyone who has animals such as cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, goats ect?"
A lot of the crowd raised their hands
" good, would all of you be willing to sell me those animals at a fair price?"
Everyone again looked pretty confused….not that I blame them…I'm shifting gears pretty quickly here…. , I point to a person who still had their hand up…But this time a question comes in, but this time from a decent looking woman, brown hair, grey eyes and a pretty enough face,
" m'lord, would it be alright if I asked why you wanted to buy these animals?"
"Of course it's alright…..to be honest the reason I want these animals is because i want access to more meat for you folks and any folks that move here later…not to mention for trade with the neighbouring lords lands….and for more meat I need more animals, and to make more animals I need the animals around here to be fuckin, and for those animals to be fuckin they all need to be together…so I plan on building some big barns just south to house the livestock farms"
People seem shocked at my declaration…probably thinking building something like that would cost a lot or something, but truth be told I was looking over the forests on the way here, and with my valerian steel axes on top of my not really needing sleep or much rest with night vision and super strength I could knock up solid barns solo in like a day or two, by running to the forest and back with logs and working around the clock.
Another point that is I don't want these people living with their animals, I'll clear that up later when we start working on hygiene.
The barns wouldn't be pretty but they would be solid and plenty warm for the livestock…..pretty can come later, right now I need practical…one of my big goals for the time being include getting a couple of big barns and fences set up south of the village and get the animals fucking to make me some more animals for sustainable meat.
And to also Get these farmers armed with decent farming knowledge and some tools to up their yields from, barely surviving on what they grow to having plenty of excess for winter storage and trade for other shit I might need.
Oh I bet they'll call me a mad man for some of the shit I'm going to make them do, but they'll fucking do it anyway if they don't want me loitering outside their homes menacingly of a night time….
I don't have the time or patience to listening to whining cunts who think they know better then me….that's arrogant I know, but I'm literally a god sent miracle, so they can shut their whore mouths and do what I say while I drag them kicking and screaming into a better life.
Not to mention I need way more crops for some of the boozes I plan on distilling… while yes I could buy it from my neighbour, but relying on imports too heavily it never a good idea..
" oh and those of you who own animals for milk purposes and sell them to me, fret not, you can still pick up some milk from the farms free of charge for the next year, only down side is you gotta get it yourself, so yeah…"
I did notice a few of the nervous looks clear slightly, I do know they use milk for a lot of babies as small folk, especially women get pretty shit nutrition which leads to not producing much milk, so they compensate with animal milks.
I look out over the water to see some "boats" floating in the water, they look like a gentle breeze could sink them…. Basically floating scrap.
" alrighty, moving on….another show of hands, do we have any fishermen in this village, I'm assuming we do looking at those floating death traps you people seem to use as boats floating around the shore"
About 15 men and surprisingly a few women raise their hands to my question….just the right amount…
" okie dokie, a hypothetical question for you lads and lasses, if I let you use one of my newly acquired boats that have fallen into my lap as a fishing vessel, provided we rigged up some fishing nets and what not, would you be able to bring in more fish then you would fishing separately from your current boats?"
A few looked confused at the question…. Probably the word hypothetical….it's a rather big and complicated word for small folk I guess….but one of the elder gents who seemed to be roughly 50ish raised his hand to answer the question….so I point at him
" aye m'lord, if we rigged it better for fishing and all of us worked the boat together, I reckon we would double or triple our currents bounty's combined, if not more…."
" fantastic….. would you fellas be up for that? I'd only take 10% of what you catch, the rest is yours to split amongst yourselves….just don't break my boat…."
They all seemed hesitant but agreed after a private small conversation they had huddled off to the side for.
One might be thinking why am I pimping out one of my hard earned ironborn raiding vessels to be a fishing boat and not doing something more productive?
Well the answer is…..these small folk are all looking frail and weary, maybe due to the cold and miserable nature of the north, but I'd bet my bottom dollar that these people are lacking majorly when it comes to food intake, so plan i on stuffing these people with as much food as they can handle because I need productive and healthy workers for my plans to work properly…
These people don't know it yet, but the next year or two are going to be the busiest of years of their lives, and I'm not sparing children…if he can pick up a shovel then those little piles of cheap labour are going to be stuffed full of protein and vegetables and sent to dig or make something.....they will be paid a fair amount of course…. And learn valuable life skills...
I need my lands up and at em with productivity and self creating wealth before I can kick back and relax….but even though my peoples lives with be busy….mine will be even more so….
I'd wager I could get more work done in a month than a hundreds men working around the clock could get done in a year….so yeah busy.
And as much as I just want to relax and recover from all the bullshit that happened in the 40k verse, I want to not live in a shit hole even more so….gotta put my back into it.
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