Chapter 31 Calm before the storm(1/2)
Inside the study of the castle.
"Please come in." Brian put down the magic book in his hand and responded to the request outside the door.
He looked up and saw the bloated Glar walking in easily through the door.
When he saw this merchant, he immediately realized that 15 days had passed since the day when the Purple Dragon Knight and the War Mage were stationed at Rock Bunker.
In other words, he has occupied Mokou Town for nearly 20 days.
Because after he wrote down his plan for the town, he handed it over to Glar, who was fully responsible for the reconstruction of the town.
The other party will report to him every 5 days on the development and governance of the town, as well as some problems that he encounters that he is difficult to solve.
During this period, he stayed in the study to read books and practice his new super magic expertise.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to go out and try his experience, but mainly because he is worried about what to do if the Shadow Guard Assassin in the Yinhun City doesn’t play according to the common sense and attacks him.
After all, he directly offended a future legendary assassin, and he still likes to hold grudges.
So, before the Wizard Tower is established, he'd better keep a low profile.
"Sir." Glar leaned over and saluted slightly. At Brian's gesture, he sat in an oak armchair that was enough to accommodate two people, and began to report on his work seriously.
"According to your instructions, I have arranged people to build five simple small villages in some areas east of Mokou Town that are conducive to farming and planting, and arranged more than 1,500 liberated slaves to work there."
After saying that, he took out a simple map and put it on the table in front of Brian. "This is the approximate location of the newly established five small villages. Due to limited time, these small villages can only be mainly tents, and then fences are surrounded to prevent the invasion of wild animals or small groups of goblins and kobolds."
Brian nodded slightly and glanced at the map on the desktop.
He unexpectedly discovered that Glar even had the names of five small villages.
The three small villages located in several oak forests near the Stormhorn Mountains are the ancient Oak Village, the Golden Tree Village and the Hedge Village. On a flat land on the Avenue to Tivanton to the east, the village was established called the Travel Village.
The last village is located in a mining area near the Mokou Mountains, called Shenshi Village.
He glanced roughly and saw that the location of these five villages was very reasonable.
If it continues to develop, it can gradually develop into a small town that can accommodate thousands of people.
It was his idea to build villages around the territory, which was still very impactful for the indigenous resident Glar.
This place is not as good as the real world. In this high-demon world, the civilians in the wilderness are not only guarding against wild beasts and evil humanoid creatures from the outside world, but also being robbed by robbers and bandits.
So most civilians like to live in towns or castles with high walls and deep walls to obtain shelter.
Like him, not only did he not choose to concentrate all his population in the town, but he also did the opposite and scattered them around the territory. This undoubtedly forced many civilians to death without the power of their hands.
Brian could naturally think of this kind of problem that even ordinary people could consider.
However, he had his own plans.
In the early stages of reclaiming the land, he sent people from the Purple Dragon Legion as escorts to clear the surrounding monsters and evil humanoid settlements for them.
After all, all the slaves were liberated by him into lower classes. Although they gained personal freedom and property freedom, as slaves, they had almost no wealth in themselves.
Therefore, the purpose of establishing a village is to allocate land to them.
Mokou Town has a large territory, and the most unfinished wasteland is the most uncultivated.
Of course, even if these lands are abandoned, they are all property of Mokou Town, so it is naturally impossible to give these lower-class civilians free of charge.
He also distributed farming utensils and daily necessities to them in the form of renting, allowing them to open up the land by themselves.
Brian knew in his heart that too many gifts could easily have a negative effect, and what he gave these people was to rely on hard work to fight for future opportunities.
Only by allowing them to experience the land they have cultivated and built houses and villages they have built can they truly have a sense of belonging to the territory.
The land allocated to them by Mokou Town only collects about 30% of the tenant money, which means that 70% of the income from farming in a year can be used as their personal property.
Next, they can rely on themselves to earn wealth accumulation.
After all, under the slavery system, they had almost no freedom of life or property rights, and their labor was driven more by the whip.
Now that they have property rights, the income obtained from farming will be their private property, which can greatly stimulate their enthusiasm.
At present, the most difficult defensive problem for Brian has been solved by him.
Of course, the solution to the problem is not to let more than 500 Zilong Guards protect these small villages with slim land.
But among more than 2,000 slaves, he made many humanoid creatures and some of the strong gladiators in the arena volunteer to join the garrison and form militias to protect the villages through the policy of converting land into private property and upgrading it to citizens of Mokou Town.
Although most of these slaves are not strong in strength, there is no problem in resisting goblin kobolds after being distributed to weapons.
Next, he just needs to let the army responsible for patrolling outside the town to regularly clear out the wild monsters from several villages, which is enough to allow these small villages to withstand the test of time and develop safely.
"Are you having any problems?" Brian looked at Glar and asked.
He found that this fat assistant not only lost a lot of weight, but also showed a healthy wheat color.
In response, Brian, the lord of Mokou Town, just smiled and inspired him appropriately.
Seriously speaking, he is not a good lord who likes to do everything himself and lead by example.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! In fact, Brian has never learned how to be a beloved and good lord.
However, although he is not good at doing these things, he at least knows that as a lord or superior, there is actually no need to do everything personally and focus on the overall situation.
He only needs to formulate plans for the future, allocate incentives reasonably, and do fairly and justly to his subordinates.
This is what is called "those who do not plan the overall situation are not enough to plan a domain".
In his current distribution of power, Glaal is responsible for all the construction of towns and all internal affairs, as well as logistics.
This is also impossible, mainly because he really can't find a second suitable candidate to help him share the pressure together.
In fact, Brian could still feel the pain and happiness on his chubby face, who was managing so many things.
Seeing this, after carefully considering it, he suppressed his plan to recruit people again and simply let him manage it alone.
Doing this seems to have made Glar's control over the power, but Brian always believes that when this high-demon world and personal power are all together, in the face of absolute strength, any fancy tricks and means are a bluff.
Obviously, the businessman who looked like a general manager of Mokou Town was completely within his control.
Among other forces, Salou, the leader of the Dragon Skeleton Mercenary Group, was responsible for managing and recruiting soldiers, forming a garrison, and fully maintaining public security within the town, as well as the cooperative defense work of Mokou Town.
Purple Dragon Knight Obert led his Purple Dragon Guards to deal with threats from outside the town and train new recruits with the old swordsman Ballerus.
The casters of the Battle Mage Team are on standby and are ready to deal with emergencies that are not available for support at any time.
The dozen spell casters headed by the Moon Elf Mage Ru Yin, the Silver Scholar Association, are still in the Dark City of Audus in the Dark Area.
In addition to supervising the quality of stone bricks, they also added an additional work to enchant protective runes for each stone brick, which is the most workload.
"Sir, when we were burning the forest and clearing the land, we found five druids living in seclusion here in an oak forest near the Hedge Village." Glar said truthfully, "These druids have come forward to warn us of destroying the natural balance and have also strictly limited our clearing scope."
Upon hearing this, Brian subconsciously glanced at the map. Glar had carefully marked the location of the grove where the druids lived.
As expected, he discovered that these people were indeed druids from the Emerald Garden.
In his impression, they were mainly responsible for the natural balance of rock wastelands.
The Emerald Garden belongs to an organization established by a group of druids and rangers who believe in the god of nature, Sivanas, and their main purpose is to maintain natural balance.
However, these slingers did nothing except chatting and spanking in the woods all day long, and even prevented their players from getting close to the area of this woods.
Because there are a complete variety of herbs growing inside.
There was once a desperate player who threatened to say arrogantly: I was afraid that these guys would not protect nature and would suck here every day. Today, I will burn this woods to cure their slutty habits!
As a result, the habit of slutty fishing was not cured, and he himself became fertilizer for the woods.
"Don't pay attention to them for the time being." Brian said indifferently, "If they try to do it, they will put all the blame on me and let them see me in Mokou Town."
The rock wasteland was reclaimed on a large scale, and the druid came forward to stop it, which was long before he expected.
As the saying goes, the evil people still need to be beaten by the evil people. He believes that when the priests of Mother Earth come here, they will definitely be able to perform a wonderful performance with these druids.
He doesn't have to worry about this himself.
If they did too much, at worst, he would follow the example of the game player in his previous life and cure their problems of slutching.
"I have another good news here, sir."
Glar continued, "After we cleared a group of dogheads in an abandoned underground mining area near Shenshi Village, we found a gold mine."
After listening to Glar's report, Brian's expression fluctuated rarely and looked at the map on the desktop.
All the mining areas near Shenshi Village were obtained from the Eagle Chamber of Commerce that he destroyed, and are by far the largest source of income.
The main purpose is to transport these ores to the gray dwarf cities in exchange for weapons and equipment.
Essential gold, as one of the hardest metals known in the material world, has high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, dissociation resistance, and can also burn magic runes and absorb magic energy.
In addition to being too heavy in quality, difficult to process, and difficult to find these shortcomings, pure gold can be said to be the best magic metal.
Its density is five times that of steel, its toughness is comparable to gold, and it is extremely resistant to high temperatures.
The most important thing is that due to the golden age of the Arcane Empire, many important components of the Floating City can only support the performance of the fine gold, which led to their over-exploitation of fine gold resources. Now they can rarely find fine gold deposits on the surface.
This creates the striking rare and preciousness of pure gold in the material world.
"After detecting the reserves, don't mine or export for the time being. I keep them for other purposes." Brian pondered for a moment and said to the assistant in front of him.
Essence gold is also an important material for building a wizard tower, and it is also the main material for making legendary organism Essence gold golem.
To be continued...