After passing through the town, the main road split into two. One road led to the southern slope of the mountain, while the other led to the plains in the south. There, a small agricultural town that could accommodate thousands of people was being built.
Only a third of the planned farmland in the territory had been developed, and only a third of the man-made river that crossed the territory had been excavated.
At the foot of the southern slope, more than twenty thousand mu of pastures had been developed. Along the foot of the southern slope, there were dozens of sheep pens and shepherd's wooden huts. The road from the small town to the castle first connected the sheep pens and huts at the foot of the mountain, and then zigzagged up to the castle gate halfway up the mountain.
On the gentle slope between the sheep pens and the castle, some workers were busy planting olive trees.
Feng Chou settled the down-and-out gentlemen, failed businessmen, and graduates of the business and law schools in the small port town, while the families from the slums were arranged to live in the small agricultural town.
After that, he brought the young apprentices to live in the new castle.
The new castle was ready, and under Chapman's arrangements, everyone quickly settled down.
After settling down in the castle, Feng Chou immediately sent Chapman back to Casablanca.
Chapman's mission back to Casablanca this time was still to recruit people, but this time, he did not bring in Feng Chou's personal goods. He was purely recruiting people for the future territory.
After the new Amborite was fully developed, there would be seventy thousand mu of farmland. Even if all of them were to use the new efficient farming tools and strong Shire horses, they would still need at least five hundred farmers to farm everything.
Fortunately, due to the appearance of the new farming tools, many manors near Casablanca had begun to lay off farmers, causing a large number of unemployed farmers to flood into the city.
Therefore, as long as the benefits were sufficient, it was not too difficult to recruit farmers in Casablanca.
Other than farmers, Feng Chou also needed oil extractors, skilled shepherds, woolen spinners, winemakers, millers, and various types of people to fill up the town and the docks.
These workers were not difficult to recruit in Casablanca.
After Chapman left, Feng Chou began to build the administrative structure of the territory.
He appointed the mayor of the port town, the judge of the court, the director of the port authority, and the police chief of the town from the newly recruited group of down-and-out gentlemen. He also appointed the managers of the woolen mill, the oil press, and the brewery from the failed businessmen. They also selected their own subordinates from the law school and business school graduates to form their own department structure.
Among these destitute gentlemen, there were former judges who resigned in anger because they could not stand the judicial corruption. There were also company managers who were excluded because of their integrity. There were also upright lawyers and policemen who served as officials of this small territory.
After the town's future management structure was formed, Feng Chou assigned specific tasks to each organization, allowing the entire organization to start operating.
For example, he asked the mayor to cooperate with Chapman to bring in shepherds and fine-wool sheep to build a small shepherd village with a corral as the center. He also assigned a number of apprentices to each skilled shepherd to strive to make the established ranch generate profits as soon as possible. The new mayor, Ballmer, who used to be a manager of a large-scale company, was very familiar with this work.
Feng Chou asked the director of the port authority to organize people to register the goods purchased by Chapman, collect taxes symbolically, and establish a tax registration system.
This was also very easy for Bolman, a former mid-level employee of Casablanca Port Bosco.
Feng Chou asked the managers of the woolen mill, the oil press, and the brewery to cooperate with Chapman to bring in skilled workers and at the same time carry out the early stages of the factory construction.
This was also not difficult for the bankrupt businessmen who were originally in this industry.
Under the supervision of Qiankun Pagoda, this group of officials was ordered around by Feng Chou. Any negligence could not escape Feng Chou's eyes.
Soon, the Lord's nickname "Strict Enforcer" spread among the officials.
After getting rid of the specific tasks, and the supervision was replaced by Qiankun Pagoda, Feng Chou still spent most of his time on the warrior training and the education of the genius apprentices.
Time passed little by little, and half a year passed quickly.
In this year, Feng Chou finally digested the potential brought by the secondary golden dragon bloodline ceremony, and his warrior level was close to 15.
In this year of training, Feng Chou also greatly improved his agility attribute with the help of the Rogue training program and the Mongoose Potion. He also trained a lot of new abilities and skills.
Feng Chou (Master)
Constitution: 177
Strength: 175
Agility: 96
Intelligence: 35
Perception: 31 (External) 67 (Internal)
Mental Power: 138 (Azure Heart)
Physical Assessment: Healthy
Mental Assessment: Full
Special Skills: Advanced Hydgar's Strength, Secondary Hydgar's Flames
Skills: Heavy Strike, Stab, Shield Bash, Charge, Cleave, Multiple Strike
Abilities: Advanced Two-handed Sword Mastery, One-handed Sword Mastery, Light Shield Mastery, Medium Armor Mastery, Combat Reflex, Quick Reflex, Evasion, Intuitive Evasion, Reflex Evasion, Defensive Attack
Bloodline Talents: Dim Vision, Dragon's Strength, Dragon's Breath, Dragon's Prestige, + 5 Dragon Scales
Talent Spells: … …
In the past year, Feng Chou would also take an hour or two to exercise his mental power in addition to his warrior training every day. The secondary golden dragon bloodline not only increased Feng Chou's warrior potential, but it also increased his mental potential. Taking an hour or two every day to digest his potential was very effective.
With the improvement of the warrior level, Feng Chou ordered Qiankun Pagoda to design a more powerful semi-automatic rifle for himself.
The body and barrel of this semi-automatic rifle were made of Arcane Steel.
Arcane Steel was a kind of high-grade alloy made of arcane copper mixed with a certain proportion of fine gold, shadow, and other high-grade magical metals. This alloy had excellent enchantment properties and was far stronger than black steel.
A high-strength barrel could withstand the explosion of high-energy alchemy gunpowder and shoot more powerful bullets.
The power of this Arcane Steel High-Energy Automatic Rifle was almost equivalent to the power of a five-pound cannon. If measured by the power of spells, it was close to the power of a level-5 spell.
Feng Chou had added many magical effects to the Arcana Steel Automatic Rifle. These enchantments would give the bullets fired from the automatic rifle the High Elves' Hymn and + 5 Enchantment Weapon effect the moment they left the chamber.
Qiankun Pagoda also developed a new high-energy gunpowder for this rifle.
The combination of these abilities allowed the bullets fired from this rifle to have a terrifying power close to that of a level-6 single-target spell. The enchanted High Elves' Hymn on the barrel greatly reduced the reduction of the kinetic energy of the bullets due to wind resistance, allowing the bullets fired from this rifle to maintain the power of a level-6 spell up to 800 meters away.
With this spear, Feng Chou would be able to save a large portion of his long-range spell slots.