Chapter 85: Rapid Development

  Year 129, April 3rd.

  Bay Vilge.

  The st old wooden house was pletely dismantled.

  Over the few days, a row of sturdy, two-story wooden houses would rise in its pce.

  Looking out at the square and orderly housing clusters, there was an undeniable sense of beauty and structure.

  Outside the houses, over a thousand kobolds were busy at work.

  They were preemptively digging draiches and sewers, preparing for the stru of more houses and neighborhoods.

  The ges within the vilge were astonishing.

  The sights beyond the vilge were even more remarkable.

  Even for those who had withe series of transformations firsthand.

  Jifan still found the se in front of him somewhat unbelievable.

  The once vast reeds outside the vilge had been turned into water-filled fields.

  Farmers were seen driving oxen to turhe submerged soil, pulling out the remaining roots and stems of the old pnts.

  The square fields stretched out as far as the eye could see, giving Jifan a sense of excitement and anticipation.

  "Soon, I’ll have my own plot of nd here, but I don’t know the first thing about farming..."

  Scratg his head, Tom ughed heartily. Even he could grasp the importance of this newly cultivated nd.

  "Don’t worry, soldiers’ fields will have dedicated workers farming them, and we’ll get 80% of the harvest."

  Jifan, who had a keen memazed at the slowly rising bck smoke in the distance.

  The busy farmers were already starting to clear new nd.

  "Break time’s over, keep moving!"

  Captain Sean’s loud order brought Jifan and Tom bato liheir posture revealing the discipliraining they had undergone.

  the rhythmic footsteps of the soldiers behind him, Captain Sean couldn’t help but feel deeply impressed.

  In just over ten days of training, they had achieved such remarkable results, filling Sean with boundless admiration for the lord.

  "Su incredible trainihod, and the lord reveals it without hesitation. Why is that?"

  Hearing Sean's words, Matthew casually smiled and said:

  "Why? Because no one else replicate it!"

  And why couldn’t anyone else replicate it?

  "It’s because, my lord, you’ve provided the soldiers with so much!"

  Ralph, who was busy calg expenses, couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement as he looked at the strong soldiers gathered at the barracks, tinuing to tally up the figures:

  "My lord, we currently have 320 soldiers, and the sele will be in a week."

  "Last month’s sary expenditure was 80 gold s, with an additional 70 gold s spent on supplies, totaling 150 gold s."

  Matthew g the burly barbarian soldiers, their muscur physiques and loud, fierce roars, a satisfied smile creeping onto his face:

  "It only costs the bounty of three trolls to train soldiers, and it’s more than worth it."

  "As long as we have these soldiers, we freely pn our development and enforce it with powerful measures!"

  Ralph nodded, having e to appreciate the bes of this strategy.

  These loyal, elite, and easy-to-train soldiers became the best representation of the lord’s authority.

  With their presence, even the hundreds of adventurers had bee obedient.

  However, Ralph still held a small grudge against these unruly barbarian soldiers.

  Sensing Ralph’s thoughts, Matthew poio the still-eistructor Arnold and said:

  "With suffit food, good treatment, the expectations of their families, and strict training, I’m sure these barbarian soldiers will shape up."

  "Even the kobolds listen obediently now. I’m fident they’ll e to uand the reality of things!"

  The lord’s resolute and unyielding words left Ralph feeling pleased and reassured.

  The lord was kind and generous, yet he also possessed the determination to trol everything!

  Flipping to the at book, Ralph tinued his report:

  "Last month, 42 new factories were established, employing a total of 1,679 workers."

  "These factories produce all the daily ies for Bay Vilge, with total expenses of 140 gold s and revenue of 60 gold s, and an additional stockpile worth 540 gold s."

  The factories, set up at great expeo recruit talent, had begun to form the foundation of a light industrial manufacturing base.

  leased Matthew the most was that the oners were gradually adapting to their new roles as workers without even realizing it.

  "We currently have 32 ion teams, totaling 3,250 people."

  "Last month, we recimed 4,500 acres of nd. If the number of workers tio increase month, we estimate we could recim 14,000 acres!"

  Looking at the ft fields, Ralph nodded with satisfa, pleased with the achievements of the ion teams.

  Nearby, old vilge chief Field was dumbfounded, muttering to himself:

  "We recimed 4,500 acres st month? And 14,000 month? Is that even possible?"

  Field vividly remembered that before the lord arrived, Bay Vilge had only 12,000 acres of farmnd in total.

  This had been the result of decades of tinuous development, and now, ihan two months, the cultivated nd area was about to double?

  Overwhelmed by joy, Field found himself uo tain his emotions. Gazing out over the vast, uncimed nd, a sense of grandeur and ambition surged through him:

  "Perhaps, one day, all the nd we see will be our fertile fields!"

  Although Ralph didn’t fully uand Field’s deep emotional e to the nd, he reized the importance of farmnd to the territory.

  Farmnd that produced food was the most basid essential wealth of aory.

  The more farmnd developed, the higher the territory’s ine, and the more popution it could sustain!

  Speaking of popution, Ralph became even more excited.

  "The total popution of Bay Vilge has now reached 7,782 people."

  "There are also 2,700 kobolds, with the first batch of kobold eggs about to hatch, adding another 100 kobolds, which will mature in 10 months."

  "We also have 576 registered adventurers and 678 captured trolls."

  "I month alohe popution of the territory has grown by about 5,000, and we expect to see a weekly increase of about 2,000 people going forward."

  Staring at the newly built wooden houses standing i rows, the old vilge chief revealed a look of expectation as he added to Ralph’s report:

  "The first batch of new residents will take about three months to officially settle in Bay Vilge, but their desire to do so is very strong…"

  The reason was simple—the lord had offered them so much!

  Whether it was temporary housing, the nd they would receive upoling, or the opportunity to learn a craft and pursue development.

  For the vast majority of oners, this was an irresistible lure.

  Ralph and Field exged a knowing gnce, feeling a sense of harmony in their cooperation, and with it, greater fiden the territory’s rapid development.

  "Last month’s total expenditure was 46,500 gold s, with total ine of 49,500 gold s, leaving a surplus of 3,000 gold s."

  "That’s higher than the ine of an average barony and rivals the overall revenue of a city."

  Reviewing st month’s progress, especially the success of the ‘potions,’ Matthew felt very satisfied.

  "As expected, this is a highly divided world, where the value of magical items far exceeds that of ordinary goods…"

  "Magic truly is the primary productive force!"

  FAL