The surveying and mapping officer lived in Invercargill Forest for nearly more than a month, and finally handed over a map stamped with the seal of the Territorial Administration to Suldak, which meant that the Wilkes City Territorial Administration was the
Acknowledging that this land matches the map, all the lands circled on the map belong to Viscount Surdak.
The remaining 60% of the land in Invercargill Forest will be classified as public territory. These territorial plans will be awarded to magicians with noble titles in the next few years, and will also be sold to nobles who are willing to pay to purchase the territory.
them.
In the Green Empire, it is not easy to become a noble.
First, the title can be inherited hereditary, but if the heir has no military merit, the title will automatically be downgraded every time he inherits the title.
Second, participate in the magic awakening ceremony and awaken as a magician through the ceremony. Each magician will be canonized by the empire and will also receive a territory. Although it may be barren, remote, or a
It is a land that a magician will never set foot on, but this wealth will accompany the magician throughout his life.
Third, knights are promoted out of the norm, which requires outstanding knights who have made great contributions to the Green Empire and have outstanding leadership.
In fact, the biggest reason why Surdak was canonized was because he mastered the Holy Light Technique. Currently, Paladins are indeed more important than Magicians.
In addition, there are also some special circumstances for canonizing nobles, but that depends on the mood of His Majesty Charles.
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The territory that Surdak owns is at least ten times larger than what he can control with his current title. According to the laws of the Green Empire, these territories will be sold or turned over within a time limit.
It's just that this law has been forgotten by almost all nobles, and the Houses of Representatives in each province also have a memorandum of understanding on this law.
Of course, this is done to encourage young nobles to be willing to go to other planes to open up territory for the empire.
Otherwise, many small nobles will open up unknown areas and have to sell large areas of territory they own. This kind of thing is not in line with the current interests of the nobles.
In the empire, the lives of nobles become very miserable every year. They have noble rights in the city, but live a civilian life.
Of course, there are also some outstanding nobles who are rising, becoming new stars in the city, and making their mark in the upper class.
The land that Surdak owns in the White Forest Plane is much larger than the territory of Halanza City, but after all, this is the frontier of a plane with a vast land and sparsely populated areas.
The only thing worth any money in the eyes of the nobles was a copper mine.
The monsters in Invercargill Forest are raging, and the tide of beasts in the Dark Worm Valley once every ten years will reduce Invercargill Forest to ruins. Except for those trees that can escape, all the rest can breathe.
They all die and run away.
In this way, those noble lords who have the strength to occupy this place do not want to trap all their troops here just for the sake of this land.
Those powerless noble lords, not to mention their inability to occupy this place, would not be able to hold it even if they occupied it. They would spend huge sums of money to occupy it, but in the end they would only achieve nothing.
There are only some speculative nobles who want to take advantage of the lull in the beast tide that occurs every ten years to seek some benefits in this mountain forest.
So many nobles look down upon this land...
‘What! It won’t be long before the beast tide comes, and this place will be in ruins!’ Some nobles in Wilkes City always said this.
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The indigenous tribes are not used to going to Dodan town to trade.
Because there are too many imperial immigrants there, the noisy market is always filled with too many merchants with small calculations.
The natives are not very good at arithmetic, so they don't like small calculations. It doesn't matter if they are taken advantage of in one transaction, but two or three times will make people feel bored. This is the trading area for merchants and adventure groups.
The large amounts of food stored in the copper mines were originally prepared for indigenous miners.
The remuneration paid to them by Suldak is not settled in silver coins. The main reason is that the indigenous people do not want to go to the market in Dodan Town for consumption. They usually do not use silver coins. The indigenous people prefer to receive wheat flour, so the wages at the mine are paid in
All are wheat flour.
Later, an adventure group came to the mine to provide supplies. They took out fresh meat and traded food with the people in the mine.
The indigenous people saw that they could still do this.
Some indigenous people would carry special products from the forest and run to the mines to trade.
The reason why they are willing to come here is also very practical. It is because the miners in the mine are all indigenous people, which not only makes them feel friendly, but also feels safer here.
The transactions here support barter, but the standard for measuring value is wheat flour.
As long as the food is taken out and placed in front of the indigenous people, piled up like a hill, the visual impact can kill everything in an instant.
In fact, if you pay gold coins, you will get so much food, but the natives don't know how to do it.
Based on the principle of ‘you’ll know when you see it’, the indigenous people trade a lot of grain here.
The mining camp has become a trading market.
The aboriginal mine manager at the mine reported to Suldak: Everything the aborigines who came to the mine to trade saw were good, the pots and pans, and even the sacks containing grain had become aborigines.
Seeing the goods in their eyes, several waves of natives plundered the place like a primitive tribe.
After hearing the mine manager's report, Surdak immediately had some daily necessities transported from Dodan Town, including iron pots, ceramics, salt, spices, hatchets, lumber axes and fine steel arrow clusters.
However, how to trade has become a big problem. The natives are unwilling to accept the imperial coins. Unexpectedly, the mine manager is actually very capable.
In order to avoid repeatedly explaining the prices to these mountain natives, he placed large and small wooden boxes in front of these commodities.
The value of all commodities is measured in wheat flour.
For example, the wooden box in front of the iron pot is relatively large. To fill such a box, it would take about sixty pounds of wheat flour, which would be two silver coins if converted into silver coins.
Buying an iron pot with two silver coins has little concept in the minds of the natives.
But if they exchange a box of wheat flour for an iron pot, they know how much they will pay. These indigenous people more or less have some magic materials in their hands. If they exchange them for food, the indigenous mine managers will also actively inquire from the adventure group.
The price and the purchase price given are very fair.
So the natives of Invercargill Forest suddenly discovered that the past life of hungry and full meals had quietly gone away. There was always half a bag of wheat flour hidden in the dry hole at home, and they would brand it when they wanted to go hunting.
Order wheat cakes and drink some porridge while lying at home pretending to be dead. This is much better than drying dried meat.
It was under this situation that a group of indigenous people walked into the copper mine.
When they first came to the mine carrying Warcraft materials, they didn't understand why Lord Surdak hired so many tribesmen to dig stones here. They felt that these young people were simply wasting their youth if they didn't go hunting. Couldn't they grow old?
Are you going to hunt honestly?
But when they returned to the tribe with food bags on their backs, they went out hunting several times and found that there were not many wild beasts left in the forest after the beast tide. Now a large number of adventure groups have arrived from Duodan Town, hunting for a living.
The days are becoming more and more difficult.
Now I can still take out some of the Warcraft materials I saved in the past and go to the mine in exchange for some food.
But this is not a long-term solution, and these savings will eventually be exhausted.
The more times the natives come to the mine, some of them will casually chat with the tribesmen who dig stones here.
When they find out about the remuneration for work here, they will immediately feel:
'What, digging rocks for one day in exchange for food is enough for me to eat for twenty days. This is just robbing food. Why go hunting when you have such a good thing?'
The natives who learned about the wages in the mines always thought so...
As a result, this group of indigenous people formed a large reserve force.
They began to look forward to one day becoming miners digging stones here.
It was under such circumstances that the copper mine in Surdak expanded to 2,000 miners in just one month.
He suddenly discovered that the tin can he made in Duodan Town was simply too small.
Then so much copper ore is mined from the veins every day, ground into ore powder one after another, soaked in iron cans and slowly deposited into copper sand...
Just after September, the copper mines began to produce copper sand one after another.
Although the amount of copper sand produced every day is not even enough to pay the salaries of the natives, this copper mine is starting to generate profits after all.
Surdak has already started preparing to build a larger pool near the mine near the mountain stream, so that all the ore powder can be loaded into the pool.
The first batch of copper sand was produced during construction and mining at the same time.
Dodan Town now has three blacksmith workshops, and there is only one that is good at making copperware. Surdak does not even need to sell the copper sand to the business group, as the copperware shops here can directly eat it.
The first batch of ten tons of copper sand sold for forty gold coins.
Ten tons of copper sand sounds like a large amount.
In fact, only twenty small bags were packed into linen bags containing grain, packed into two large wooden boxes, and transported to Dodan Town.
Surdak then exchanged wheat flour and some daily necessities from Dodan Town and transported them back to the mining camp. The wheat flour was enough to fill the shelves of eighteen thunder rhinos.
When they arrived at the mining camp, the indigenous miners stood on the ridge, watching the loaded Thunder Rhinoceros stop in front of the warehouse to unload, and then went to the stream to drink water and eat beans, and let out deafening cheers on the mountain ridge.
No matter what, the hard work they put in these days finally paid off.
In September, Suldak spent nearly 600 gold coins on paying salaries to these indigenous miners, but his income was only 40 gold coins.
The only visible wealth is the mountains of copper ore piled up in the mines.
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The magicians in Wilkes City have always been paying attention to the upstart Suldak of the Luther Legion in the northern district. When they heard that the first batch of copper sand in Viscount Suldak's copper mine only had ten tons,
A cocktail party was actually held in Wilkes City for this purpose.
It is said that the organizer of the reception just spent forty gold coins to hold the event.
There was even a magician who laughed at Viscount Suldak on the spot at the reception. After working for nearly two months, the copper sand found out from the iron can was only enough for the reception. This is really ridiculous...
However, this time the noble lords of Wilkes collectively lost their voices. They did not take the opportunity to join in the fun, and no one came over to attend the magicians' drinking party to build relationships with them.
In the final analysis, this cocktail party was just a mockery of Suldak by the wizarding community in Wilkes City.
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This summer has passed. At the magic awakening ceremony hosted by the Wilkes Magic Guild, a total of fifty-nine young people awakened from the magic pool and became magic nobles.
These young people who have just turned twelve are about to enter the Wilkes Junior Academy of Magic.
Accordingly, these fifty-nine young magic apprentices will receive baronies uniformly distributed by the province of Bena.
The Bailin plane is vast and sparsely populated, and has very sufficient public territory reserves.
This time, the top management of the Magic Union deliberately arranged to move these young baronies to Invercargill Forest, which made the officials of the Territorial Administration want to give these magicians a few whips for not causing trouble but feeling uncomfortable.
However, according to the work procedures, these fifty-nine baronies still need to be surveyed by surveyors and mapping officers to prevent the territorial area of the reward from being seriously reduced.
Once there is a serious discrepancy between the territorial area and the actual land area, some officials of the Territorial Administration will be punished or, if not worse, removed from office.
Although the surveying and mapping officer of the Territorial Administration was extremely angry, he still had to take these young magic apprentices to see their barony within the specified time limit.
Two-thirds of these young magic apprentices are from noble families, and they basically look down on this border forest.
There are also one-third of the magic apprentices who come from civilian families. These magic apprentices from civilian families have average family backgrounds. They are still very concerned about owning a baron. They even want to move their families to their own territory. When the time comes,
No matter what you do, at least you don't have to pay taxes.
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A series of dark magic caravans passed through the south gate of Duodan Town and drove into this lively border town.
A group of young magic apprentices pushed open the glass window of the carriage, revealing their green and immature faces. These magic apprentices, generally twelve years old, are this year's awakened ones.
They came to Dodan Town to receive the barony assigned to them by the Bena Province. On this trip, these magic apprentices were accompanied by their families.
Most of this group of people came from the area around Wilkes City, and many of them had never even heard of Dodan before.
Looking at the bustling town of Dodan, they showed joy and curiosity, and jumped off the magic caravan one by one, followed by their parents or other guardians.
Under the arrangement of the surveying and mapping officer of the Territory Administration, these magic apprentices stayed in the hotel in Dodan Town. Each person had a separate room. It would not be a big problem to live as a family, but if the family members had special needs, then they would have to
Communicate with the hotel yourself.
"Everyone will rest one night in the town of Dodan. After having breakfast at the hotel tomorrow morning, we will enter the Invercargill Forest through the Dodan Gorge." The surveying and mapping officer said expressionlessly while standing in the lobby of the hotel.
A group of people dispersed in the hotel lobby. While it was still early, many parents prepared to go shopping with their pride.
Nowadays, the most popular items on the shopping streets of the town are bronze wares, followed by some magic materials of ghost-patterned red ants. However, the sales channels for these magic materials have been fixed, and there is no demand here in Duodan Town, so it is very difficult.
Few vendors display red ant materials.
Of course, there are also a wide range of other products.
Duodan Town has now become the largest market within a hundred miles.
These parents took their children to stroll around the town. What surprised them most was how cheap bread was in the town. Bread sticks bought for two copper coins were so big that they could kill someone with one stick.
I came back with a scone bigger than my face!
"Although it is a little remote here, the prices are really good. I guess the salary here must be very low. If we can make money in Wilkes City, it would be comfortable to come here to spend money." A pair of young civilians
The parents pulled their daughter and said with emotion on their faces.
Although their daughter is average-looking, she stood out among more than 70,000 children who participated in the magic awakening ceremony test this year and officially became a magic apprentice.
The father of another magic apprentice who was traveling with them triumphantly said loudly: "What's so difficult about that! In the future, our children will have a barony near Dodan Town. If the land is fertile, I plan to
Move your family to the barony, raise some horses, let them graze freely in the territory, and sell them for money at the end of the year, and you can live a good life comfortably."
"Please keep your voice down. I heard that the territory allocated to us is a forest..." The woman pulled her husband to stop him from whispering.
The father was obviously an optimist and immediately said: "The forest is not bad! You can also open a lumber mill."
A group of people walked out of the bakery and saw rows of neat and brand-new townhouses across the long street.
"Look over there, those houses are so beautiful! I'm sure these were just built..."