Henry nodded. This meant that, based on the current situation, the villages surrounding Westwood Laine Castle still had a great deal of potential.
Furthermore, the land had not yet been fully developed, and large areas remained uncultivated.
Of course, Henry had no intention of doing so. 'This is grassland. Over-cultivating it would be too destructive.'
The Forest Hunting Ground, horse pastures, and ranches also required vast tracts of land and grassland to support them.
Once the population of Westwood Laine reached about fifty thousand, he would relocate the serfs to the borderlands between Westwood Laine and Ximira Castle.
That area was a vast, uninhabited region capable of supporting at least another thirty thousand people.
Henry wasn't like other stingy nobles—the kind who practiced a dog-in-the-manger policy, refusing to let their subjects use the vast empty and fallow lands available.
'Use it! Isn't that what land is for?'
