After completing his inspection in the industrial zone of the rich and powerful, Zhou Qingfeng rode back to the city the next morning by riding "Jiying". The sky is bright, the fields are quiet, and the city gates have not yet opened.
The outside of the city is very desolate, and most of the area has not been used. Last winter burned a wasteland and burned all the grassland while the vegetation withered, simply increasing the fertility.
However, the reclamation conditions cannot keep up. After a year of growth, the wasteland will continue to be burned this winter.
By the way, there is another way to increase fertility-erect five or six meters high iron rods in the wilderness, and insert a'lightning rod' every 100 meters.
The mad woman, Oruer, is blowing north wind every day, and thundering from time to time. The thunder in Coldwind City doesn't rain this winter. In other places, such dense mines can cause serious civilian deaths.
But Uncle Zhou even used the enemy's anger. The lightning in the sky is introduced into the ground by the'lightning rod', which not only avoids lightning damage, but also increases soil fertility-I hope that the oxygen and nitrogen in the outside world can also be combined in the same way.
Before dawn, teams of farmers came out to work. Eighty percent of Zhou Qingfeng's population will be engaged in agriculture. This winter, the task of reclamation will be 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 and drank some salt water mixed with physical potions, and then they had to watch the hoe and go to work. Thanks to the strict purge and education last year, their queue is fairly tidy.
Seeing the emergence of Rumble, the farmers evaded to the side of the road and saluted their lord. They were used to seeing the lord who wandered around every day, but they didn't feel particularly alarmed.
Outside the city gate, a group of kobolds took advantage of the darkness before dawn to work in the moat under the city wall. They will re-dug the river that has been silting up for many years to clean up the smelly garbage.
When Zhou Qingfeng arrived outside the city, he did not call the city gate, but stood by the moat at will, observing the work of the kobolds.
Kobolds are shorter than dwarves, thin and small. It makes these creatures work hard as if they are abusing them. But the kobolds didn't realize it, they were very enthusiastic about the super hard work of dredging silt.
There are many strange things in the alien world, to avoid weak kobolds with a rare talent in the world-engineering. In order to avoid all kinds of enemies, they can only hide underground, relying on the teaching from generation to generation and accumulating rich architectural experience.
Kobolds can make some tools like cranes and diggers to make their work more convenient. They are also very skilled in building tunnels and laying wooden rails. Coldwind City provides them with sufficient support and brings higher efficiency.
The city has been under construction for many years, and there is a mess in the sewers. After Zhou Qingfeng seized the city, he set up a special urban management agency, but the cleaning of the urban water supply and drainage system has been slow.
In the past, the nobles in the city had a very simple way to clean up the sewers. They just dug trenches for the sewers. If a sewer is blocked, they simply fill it up and dig another one.
It's really simple and rude.
As a result, the city was dug in a mess. Every year it rains and the wind is cold and the city is flooded, and half of the city is soaked in water. The loss of personnel and property is extremely high, but the nobles do not care at all.
The huge figure of Jiying stood silently by the moat, scaring the working kobold to death. They fled around quickly, and most of them panicked and got into the sewage outlets that had not yet been dredged.
After waiting for a long time, Kotou found out that it was his lord, so he sent a leader to climb over and bowed respectfully to say hello, "Honorable Hugo, do you have any instructions?"
Kobolds are too weak, they look ugly, like upright lizards, and talk like dogs. But they are actually the dragonborn, the weakest dragonborn.
They are timid and sensitive, and they are afraid of light. Any beast can pose a deadly threat to them. For your lord, although they are grateful, they are more afraid of the strong.
"I just came to see, you guys did a good job."
Zhou Qingfeng likes this small but self-aware creature. Kobolds are not like goblins. The latter is obviously weak like a scum, but is dreaming of ruling the world.
"How is your life recently?"
Talking about life, the kneeling kobold was so grateful that he wept bitterly. He simply lay on the ground and cried out: "Your Excellency Hugo, you are the first lord willing to treat the weak and small groups fairly.
We were wandering around, being slaughtered and tortured continuously, and we couldn't even find a place where we could search for trash. Only you are willing to take us in, give us food and salary.
In order to facilitate our lives, a night market is also specially opened.
You are really the best lord in the world, let us feel safe for the first time. We have sent someone to contact other people of the same race, and all the kobolds in the Northland are willing to help you. "
As the kobold cried, Zhou Qingfeng saw many scars on his head, back and thighs. There are new and old, it seems that their past lives were really bitter.
The kobold on his knees felt the lord's hand on his back. He lay on the ground and shivered, pressing his eyes tightly, not daring to move, even if he died.
But what can be transmitted from the lord's big hand is the warm current of healing. In a short while, many of the kobold's injuries disappeared.
"Your lord, we don't deserve to be treated." The kobold kneeling on the ground was still shaking and anxious. "You have given us enough."
Zhou Qingfeng didn't feel that way. He didn't want to suffer heavy waterlogging in the city every year. There are kobolds who are proficient in engineering to come to work, which is really impossible to ask for burning incense and worshiping Buddha.
Besides, the skill of engineering can be very useful, but it's more than just cleaning the drain. If there are tens of thousands of kobolds as engineers, many things will be easy.
"Your work is very important and very hard. It deserves enough reward from me. Go and call all the other kobolds. I have enough spell slots today to heal you all."
The order was given, and the kneeling kobold looked incredulously, weakly raising his head to look at the lord who was so merciful that he could not imagine. He did not hesitate to personally treat the lowly race.
Dozens of kobolds at work came up in turn, squatting in front of Zhou Qingfeng to receive the magical techniques of'treatment' and'elimination of diseases'. For him, honest kobolds are too rare and must be cherished.
The kobolds who received the treatment were respectful and grateful.
After the treatment, the sky is bright.
The kobold can't stand the glare and return to the sewage outlet of the sewer. They swore that they would come out to work as soon as dark and clear the messy sewers in the city as soon as possible. Their excited appearance made people worry about whether they would die from overwork.
It will not rain this winter, and there is not much water in the moat.
It was freezing cold, and the kobold did not use fire to loosen the silt, but used an auger to make holes and a metal lever to pry it. Pry open a little at a time, and transport a little away.
"It would be great if there were explosives, and the construction capacity could be greatly increased."
Zhou Qingfeng frowned, "There are many things that can explode in alchemy, but the raw materials are collected from the wild, which is not only very expensive, but also very small in quantity.
We still need to industrialize, industrialize! "
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