After inspecting the industrial zone in Fu Qiang Ling, Zhou Qingfeng rode back to the city early the next morning on "Swift Shadow". The sky was bright, the fields were quiet, and the city gates had not yet been opened.
The area outside the city is very desolate, and most of the area has not been used. Last winter, we burned down a large area of grassland to simply increase fertility while the vegetation was withering.
However, the conditions for reclamation cannot keep up. After a year of growth, we will continue to burn wasteland this winter.
By the way, there is another way to increase fertility - erect iron bars five to six meters high in the wilderness and insert a 'lightning rod' every hundred meters.
Oulure, this crazy woman, blows the north wind every day, and thunder falls from time to time. The thunder in Cold Wind City this winter just doesn't rain. In other places, such dense thunderstorms will cause serious civilian deaths.
But Uncle Zhou even wanted to make use of the enemy's anger. The lightning from the sky was led underground by a 'lightning rod', which not only prevented lightning damage, but also increased soil fertility - I hope the oxygen and nitrogen in other worlds can be combined in the same way.
Before dawn, teams of farmers go out to work. Eighty percent of the population under Zhou Qingfeng's command is engaged in agriculture. This winter's reclamation tasks are very heavy, otherwise there will be no way to meet next year's production needs.
The farmers ate the introduced potatoes early in the morning, drank some salt water mixed with stamina medicine, and then watched the hoe work. Thanks to last year's strict purge and education, their queues were quite orderly.
Seeing the rumbling appearance of the mechanical dragon, the farmers stepped aside to the side of the road and saluted their lords. They were used to seeing their lords roaming around every day, so they didn't feel particularly panicked.
Outside the city gate, a group of kobolds took advantage of the darkness before dawn to work on the moat under the city wall. They wanted to dig out the river channel that had been silted for many years and clean up the smelly garbage.
After Zhou Qingfeng arrived outside the city, he did not call the city gate, but stood casually beside the moat, observing the work of the kobolds.
Kobolds are shorter than dwarves, thinner and smaller. Using these creatures to do heavy work seems to be abusing them. But the kobolds themselves don't know it. They work very hard on the super hard work of dredging.
There are many strange things in the other world, and the weak kobolds have a rare talent in the world - engineering. In order to avoid various enemies, they can only hide underground and rely on generations of teachings to accumulate rich construction experience.
Kobolds can make their own tools such as cranes and excavators to make their work more convenient, and they are also very skilled in building tunnels and laying wooden rails. Cold Wind City provides them with sufficient support, bringing higher efficiency.
The city has been under construction for many years, and there is a lot of mess in the sewers. After Zhou Qingfeng seized the city, he set up a special city management agency, but the cleaning of the city's water supply and drainage system has been slow.
In the past, the nobles in the city had a very simple way of cleaning sewers. They just dug trenches to serve as sewers. If a sewer was blocked, they simply filled it in and dug a new one.
It's really simple and crude.
As a result, the city was dug into a mess. Every year when it rained, Cold Wind City was flooded, and half of the city was submerged in water. The loss of people and property was extremely high, but the nobles didn't care at all.
The huge figure of 'Swift Shadow' stood silently by the moat, frightening the kobolds who were working half to death. They fled in all directions quickly, and most of them hurriedly got into the sewer outlet where the dredging had not yet been completed.
After waiting for a long time, the kobold realized that the person coming was his lord, so he sent a leader to crawl over and bowed respectfully to say hello, "Dear Sir Hugo, do you have any instructions?"
Kobolds are too weak. They look ugly, like upright lizards, and speak like dogs. But they are actually dragonborn, the weakest dragonborn.
They are timid and sensitive, afraid of light. Any wild beast can pose a fatal threat to them. Although they are grateful to the lord, they are more afraid of the strong.
"I just came to see if you did a good job."
Zhou Qingfeng likes this kind of creature that is weak but very self-aware. Kobolds are not like goblins. The latter are obviously as weak as scum, but they are dreaming of ruling the world.
"How are you doing lately?"
Talking about life, the kneeling kobold was so grateful that he burst into tears. He simply lay on the ground and cried: "Sir Hugo, you are the first lord who is willing to treat the weak tribe fairly.
We were wandering around, being constantly slaughtered and abused, and couldn't even find a place to go through the garbage. Only you are willing to take us in and give us food and salary.
In order to facilitate our lives, a night market is also specially opened.
You are truly the best lord in the world, making us feel safe for the first time. We have sent people to contact other people of the same race, and all the kobolds in the North are willing to serve you."
As the kobold cried, Zhou Qingfeng saw many scars on his head, back, and thighs. Some were new and some were old. It seemed that their past life was really hard.
The kneeling kobold felt the lord's hand pressing on his back. He lay on the ground shivering, squeezing his eyes tightly and not daring to move, even if he died.
But what came from the lord's big hand was the warm current of healing. After a while, many of the kobold's injuries disappeared.
"Your Excellency, we don't deserve treatment." The kobold kneeling on the ground was still trembling and frightened. "You have given us enough."
Zhou Qingfeng didn't think so. He didn't want to suffer heavy losses due to flooding in the city every year. Having kobolds proficient in engineering to do the work was something you couldn't get even by burning incense and praying to Buddha.
Besides, the skill of engineering is very useful, not just for cleaning sewers. If there are thousands of kobolds as engineering soldiers, many things will be easy.
"Your work is very important and hard, and you deserve adequate reward from me. Go call all the other kobolds. I have enough spell slots today to treat you all."
After the order was given, the kneeling kobold looked up with disbelief in his eyes and weakly looked up at this unimaginably kind lord. He even did not hesitate to personally treat a lowly race.
Dozens of kobolds who were working came up one after another and lay down in front of Zhou Qingfeng to receive the magic of 'healing' and 'removing diseases'. For him, honest kobolds were too rare and must be cherished.
The kobolds who received treatment were all respectful and grateful.
After the treatment, the sky was already bright.
The kobolds couldn't stand the bright light and returned to the sewer outlet. They swore that they would go out to work as soon as it gets dark and unblock the messy sewers in the city as soon as possible. Their excitement made people worry that they would die from overwork.
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It won't rain this winter, so there won't be much water in the moat.
It was freezing cold, so the kobolds did not use fire to loosen the mud. Instead, they used augers to open holes and used metal levers to pry them open a little at a time and transport a little away.
"It would be great if there were explosives. The construction capacity would be greatly increased."
Zhou Qingfeng frowned, "There are many explosive things in alchemy items, but the raw materials are completely collected from the wild. Not only are they very expensive, but the quantities are also extremely small.
We still need to industrialize, industrialize!”
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