Chapter 150

"Whoosh" the fierce sharp arrow shot through the ant man's head. It turned askew for several times and finally fell to the ground and died.

"Good!" Nelson cheered a few times, but was embarrassed to find that no one answered him, so he had to shut his mouth.

Victor folded his short silver bows, patted Nelson on the shoulder with a smile and said, "we won."

"Sir, we won!" Nelson grinned.

The blood of ant people dyed the green earth. Hundreds of ant people were dead in the valley. The strong war mastiff shuttled back and forth and piled the ant people's bodies in one place. A rocket ignited the corpse pile, the flames roared up, and the heat wave with the stench forced Victor to retreat. This is the last group of ant people in the territory. Victor can only burn them on the spot, because no ant people will devour their bodies.

Telling the militia responsible for cleaning the battlefield to control the spread of the fire, Victor left the valley with a large army. Outside, Victor took a deep breath of fresh air and sighed, "it's over at last."

After seven months, Victor took the lead in clearing the ant colony in the territory. In the future, Victor only needs to intercept and kill the retreating ant man leader.

In this ant disaster, the villages under Victor were damaged to varying degrees. More than 100 people died or disappeared. More than 1 million mu of purple sugarcane forest was destroyed. Only less than 300000 mu of purple sugarcane forest was preserved in the west of the territory. At the same time, Victor also lost more than 3000 square kilometers of territory, which can be described as heavy losses.

However, Victor's harvest was equally great. Due to the ant disaster, all the troubles in the territory were swept away, the crisis of the refugee tide was eliminated, and Pinghu and Mi silver mine fell into Victor's hands. Moreover, the soul fire ceiling and capital reserve of the alchemy tower are increasing every day. Now he has 467 soul monkey militia, 71 Funiu militia, 236 auxiliary soldiers, 61 war mastiffs and 113 alchemy crows,

Victor also successfully controlled the mountain area in the west, and built a fortress and a complete set of production system there. As long as the resources in the mountain area are not exhausted, Victor can continuously obtain all kinds of weapons, grain, medicinal materials, meat, fuel, fast bird and so on.

In political diplomacy, Victor became the hereditary Viscount of the Kingdom and had the foundation to attract knights. He has formed a close alliance with the York family. If he is attacked by the ant man again, he will continue to weaken the ant colony and expand himself with the help of the York family's military strength. The use of Mithril to establish secret trade relations with its Eastern neighbors is helpful to deal with the possible blockade and isolation of the kingdom. It can also use the territory of count chebman to realize the strategic concept of caravan eastward.

It can be said that the future development prospect is a vast sea and sky. Victor just feels refreshed and energetic.

"Quack" an alchemical crow flew from the East and circled in the air. Victor's eyes brightened and smiled at Nelson: "someone from the East should come. It should be the materials and gold coins promised by the chebman family. Take someone to have a look, and then pull the materials to Pinghu village."

Nelson answered and led more than thirty alchemy militia to the East. Victor returned to Pinghu village with the rest of the alchemical militia.

On the way, the originally endless purple sugarcane forest is now a ruined and desolate scene. Broken and rotten purple sugarcane can be seen everywhere. The ground is also pitted. Ant people dug out the roots of purple sugarcane. It will take at least 30 years to restore the purple sugarcane forest.

"Renault, you have also loaded the collection and planting skills. The purple sugarcane forest has been damaged. Is there any way to grow crops such as barley and wheat?" Victor frowned and asked the alchemy militia for advice. The purple sugarcane forest was destroyed by ant people, leaving millions of mu of land. Victor would not sit idly by and watch these fertile land full of weeds and thorns.

"My Lord, there is no way." Renault's answer is as simple as ever.

Victor was speechless. The land that could grow purple sugarcane could not grow crops. However, this is the truth.

Purple sugarcane is the food of forest people and horses. It has a characteristic that its root system is very long. The rhizome of purple sugarcane is close to 1 meter, and the rhizome is up to 5 meters. Only the annual rain can meet the needs of purple sugarcane growth. Human crops and vegetables can't survive without adequate irrigation. Therefore, human farmland is distributed near rivers and lakes.

Heishui river runs through the man horse hills, with a length of 87 kilometers in Victor collar, forming one large, two small and three lakes, which is the main water source of Victor collar. Heishui river is relatively shallow, and the deepest place is less than 1 meter, so it has no shipping value, but irrigated farmland is enough. Due to the limitation of hilly terrain, Victor can reclaim up to 500000 mu of farmland along the Heishui river bank.

500000 mu of cultivated land sounds a lot, but the output is poor. The agricultural technology in this world is very backward. In order to maintain soil fertility, farmers implement a simple grass field rotation system, that is, half of the cultivated land is planted with grass and half of the cultivated land is planted with crops. The grain output per mu of cultivated land is almost 280 kg, including 140 kg of seeds, and the real grain output is 140 kg. 250000 mu of cultivated land can harvest 17500 tons of grain every year.

Ordinary people in this world have great strength and can eat very well. Adult men need about 1.5kg of food every day. The most fatal thing is that an adult eats 0.8 tons of food every year for 16 months and 36 days a month. In other words, 9000 square kilometers of territory can only feed 20000 adult men by farming alone. Including women and children, if there are more than 30000 people, there will be a food shortage.

This is why the leaders of Renma Hill mainly cut down the purple sugarcane forest. They planted alfalfa and drought resistant rye on those lands, supplemented the lack of food by raising cows and goats, and regularly organized the leaders to carry out collection and hunting activities. If Victor takes the same measures, the optimal population size of the territory cannot exceed 40000.

"Renault, can sweet potatoes be planted here?" Victor asked expectantly.

Renault shook his head. "My Lord, sweet potatoes also need water."

Hundreds of thousands of mu of purple sugarcane forest is worth millions of gold sol, but now it can only plant cheap grass, raise cattle and sheep, but at this point, Victor had to sigh, "Er, then plant grass and raise cattle. Beef tendon and cow leather are still very useful."

When Victor arrived at Pinghu village, Nelson was already waiting for him.

"Sir, all the supplies and gold coins sent by the chebman family are here." Nelson greeted him with joy and said, "40 ox carts, 40 healthy cows, 40 cows, 200 sheep, 120000 pounds of wheat seed, 10000 pounds of salt, 40000 gold sol and 1 pound of refined gold."

These materials were offered by Victor to the chebman family to pay 10000 gold sols. The most valuable is the pound of refined gold. Although they are not enough to add up to 10000 gold sols, they are the most urgently needed materials for victor. Count chebman is not stingy this time. If Victor didn't insist, he would rather give 50000 gold sol than use materials to cover it. The Lords near the man and horse hills have been more or less affected. It can be seen that there will be a shortage of food in the future. In this case, money may not be able to buy food.

Victor handed the wooden box containing refined gold to an alchemy militia and motioned him to take it back to the secret base. However, when he saw Nelson staring at the wooden box, he couldn't help laughing and said, "these refined gold are useful to me. Next time I trade with the chebman family, I can consider forging two refined gold battle axes for you."

"Thank you, my Lord." Nelson felt his head in embarrassment.

"You deserve it. If it weren't for you, none of our purple sugarcane would be left." Victor nodded and said, "when these goods are unloaded, you take ten scooters to pick up Lilia. They should start, too."

"Yes, sir." Nelson said excitedly that he had been waiting for this day for a long time.

After a while, Nelson left with more than a dozen militia in high spirits. Victor turned around and ordered: "Jack, take 150 people, clean up the ruins of Pinghu village, drag all the debris to the brick kiln village as fuel, restart the giant brick kiln and produce ordinary green bricks.

Shack, you take 50 militia and 80 auxiliary soldiers to clean up the ruins of the hill camp, build a blacksmith shop there, produce farm tools, refine sucrose, brew purple cane wine and make coffee.

Morey, take 150 people to choose a location at the mouth of Pinghu Lake and build a camp that can accommodate 1000 people. "

Watching the alchemy militia take action, Victor is full of confidence in the future. In order to rebuild the territory, he brought out a full 500 alchemy humans from the mountain fortress. This will be the first large-scale integration of alchemy humans with ordinary people. Victor doesn't need to hide any more.

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Lilia stood in front of Victor's leader in an elegant dress and said coldly: "Lord Victor has eliminated the ant people in the territory. Now it's time for us to return to the territory! I know that some of you are afraid, some don't want to leave Heibao Town, and some want to betray Lord victor! Make your choice, stand behind me if you are willing to go back with me, stay where you are unwilling to go, and Lord Victor won't embarrass you."

The crowd immediately became agitated. First, the members of the War Bear mercenaries stood behind Lilia. Then Maureen came out and bowed respectfully to Lilia and stood behind her. Dean and the other village heads also stood over. The guards and members of the work point system stood out one by one, followed by women and children. Finally, nearly 200 people stayed in place.

Everyone looked at these people coldly. Only Dean looked red and bowed his head. Most of the villagers left were the villagers of Zhuanyao village and his men.

"I'm satisfied that you can stand here." Lilia said faintly to Dean.

"Madam, I'm sorry, I didn't expect these people..." Dean was ashamed and stood with him, only his team members and their families.

"It doesn't matter. It's a good thing. That's what adults say. Fire makes real gold."

Lilia sighed faintly. Most of the villagers in Zhuanyao village are free people who have joined Victor's collar. They have not experienced the offensive and defensive war of the hill camp, joined the work point system, and have no family members. When monsters sweep the territory, they will naturally choose stronger Lords. What's more, the York family has been courting them. Lilia knows this, but she didn't expect Dean Unexpectedly, he also chose to return to the territory. He was the object of the York family.

"Lilia, the York clerk won't lend us dry food, and won't even return our carriage! But Lord Nicole has gone to him." Old John came over with a wooden prosthetic leg and said angrily in Lilia's ear.

"I see."

Old John was surprised by Lilia's indifference. How could this girl become different from before.