Live Stream: I Am A Lord In Another World

Hearing Mia’s words, Richard thought it might be worth a try.

Naturally, the larger the territory, the better.

To expand the territory, one could buy land or be promoted by the king after achieving some military merit, being rewarded with new territory.

Richard wasn’t interested in fighting for the king of this land. He hadn’t even seen the king in person.

As for buying, the price of land in the inland territories was generally high.

Border territories were not usually cheap either.

However, this year happened to coincide with a locust plague and rampant banditry everywhere. Many border nobles might entertain the idea of selling their territories and moving to cities inland.

Moreover, the prices wouldn’t be too high.

Richard called for four scribes.

These four scribes were still quite literate, and two of them had come with the refugees.

“You each take a few people and go to the territories of four barons to convey my intentions to them,” Richard instructed the four of them.

“Yes, my lord,” the four scribes responded.

They each took a five-person squad and set out on horseback.

Originally, these scribes couldn’t ride horses, but at Richard’s request, they spent some time each day learning to ride.

Richard’s territory was already quite large, and if these guys had to walk everywhere, it would waste a lot of time.

“Should I buy some walkie-talkies?” Richard pondered.

As long as something was available on the online store, Richard could buy it.

Phones, computers, and the like… he could buy them.

However, apart from his own phone, the other phones he bought couldn’t be used. This world didn’t have satellites, signal towers, or anything else. How could they be used?

But walkie-talkies and the like could be bought and used without any issues.

The best part is that walkie-talkies are point-to-point, so they don’t need signal towers or anything of the sort.

Two or more walkie-talkies set to the same frequency can communicate.

On Earth, walkie-talkies are actually quite primitive in terms of technology.

Because this gadget was invented nearly 100 years before Richard crossed over.

The price is not expensive either. There are plenty of them on the online store, priced at around a hundred yuan each, claiming to have a communication range of up to 30 kilometers.

However, even with the technology from Richard’s previous world, ordinary walkie-talkies in open areas generally couldn’t reach 30 kilometers; typically, they would only cover about 5 kilometers or so, and more powerful ones might reach a dozen kilometers or more.

But even this distance was quite far!

Moreover, Richard could also buy some repeaters for the walkie-talkies to achieve a greater coverage distance.

The importance of communication was naturally understood by Richard, who came from another world. The inconvenience of communication in this world had caused a lot of trouble.

“I’ll buy some first, have the shop charge them up, then buy some high-capacity batteries to charge them. Once the power station is built, there will be enough power to use.” Richard thought.

Currently, apart from the hundreds of bandits working as laborers, Richard had also dispatched over a thousand workers to build the power station.

After all, without large machinery, manual construction would take some time.

Of course, everything was available on the online store. In fact, small excavators could also be bought, but one, there was no fuel available, and two, even if they were bought, nobody would know how to operate them, so Richard didn’t buy them.

After the four scribes left, Richard used his internet time for the day to buy dozens of walkie-talkies and some large batteries, the kind used in cars.

Richard had the shop charge these batteries up for him.

Naturally, the shop had concerns because transporting fully charged batteries could be dangerous. However, after Richard added a premium and assured them that there would be no issues with transportation, the shop agreed to help.

Then Richard went to the military camp and casually started a live broadcast.

Now the live broadcast room was getting more and more popular. Whenever Richard broadcasted something, there were over two million viewers daily.

Clearly, many people were still waiting for Richard to do something big.

“How is the training of the cavalry going?” Richard asked the legion commander, Jim.

“My lord, there are currently over a hundred people who are preliminarily qualified. After training, they can ride horses for basic combat, but their combat capabilities are still relatively weak.” Jim reported.

Richard said, “Increase the frequency of actual combat exercises. If necessary, seek out small groups of bandits and have them engage.”

“Yes, my lord,” Jim replied.

Training cavalry was much more difficult than training infantry.

On one hand, they had to train riding. On the other hand, they had to train in mounted combat.

Richard now had hundreds of horses, but currently, these horses were only used to transport some scribes or for use by some scouts and messengers. They didn’t require too many horses at the moment.

Every day, these horses eat grass that costs nearly ten thousand, spending so much money to maintain them. If they don’t train a cavalry, it would be better to slaughter these horses for food.

After finishing the live broadcast in the military camp, Richard ended his day’s broadcast and went to check the progress of other projects.

For example, the progress of the satellite town and the greenhouse.

After checking, Richard had just returned to the castle to rest when a scribe came to report.

“How is the situation? Do any lords intend to sell?” Richard asked.

The scribe replied, “My lord, Baron Fred from the northwest is willing to sell, but he wants to come and see the estate first, so I brought him over.”

“Where is he?” Richard asked.

“He’s looking around.”

At this point, the scribe leaned in and whispered to Richard, “My lord, Baron Fred’s estate seems to have been raided by bandits last night. I heard his wife committed suicide to escape harassment from the bandits, but his daughter survived.”

“Are more bandits coming?”

“It seems so. According to Baron Fred, those bandits seem to know that your estate is a bit tricky and are preparing to unite for a big move.”

Richard pondered for a moment and said, “Go call Baron Fred over.”

“Yes, my lord.”

The scribe left.

A few minutes later, a man in his fifties followed the scribe into the reception room, followed by a young girl.

“Baron, this is our lord, Richard,” the scribe introduced.

Baron Fred’s face was marked with many scars, and there were bloodstains on his body. He looked exhausted. Upon hearing the scribe’s words, he looked at Richard and said:

“Lord Baron, I can sell you my estate. I don’t want any money, and I can help you in the future, as long as you promise me one thing.”

“What is it?” Richard asked lightly.

A hint of hatred for the bandits flashed in Baron Fred’s eyes. He said, “They took everything from me, drove my wife to death, as long as you help me catch those guys, capture the leader of the bandits, and let me kill him myself, I will give you the estate and help you with anything. Anyway, I have nowhere else to go.”

As he spoke, tears welled up in Fred’s eyes.

Seeing a baron reduced to such a state by bandits, even the scribe was somewhat moved.

Richard said, “Dealing with some bandits is no problem, but I don’t know what they look like, let alone where they are.”

Fred quickly said, “You don’t have to worry, I escaped by pretending to be dead last night. I overheard the bandit leader saying that several groups of bandits seemed to be uniting and preparing to attack your estate to plunder food. These bandits have noticed the caravans leaving your estate every day, but they haven’t touched those caravans, probably to avoid alerting anyone. If I’m not mistaken, they will launch the attack within a week!”