Each town had a council, a court, a prosecutor's office, and a town government.
In addition to these four institutions, each town also had an audit office, a lawyer's office, a town tax office, a federal tax office, and a police station.
The audit office was a subordinate institution of the town council. The lawyer's office was an independent institution. The town tax office belonged to the local tax office and was under the jurisdiction of the town government. The federal tax office belonged to the national tax agency and was a branch of the General Administration of Taxation on Hunter Island. The police station had to be led by both the prosecutor's office and the town government.
Feng Chou hoped to build a country where each region and town had a high degree of autonomy.
As a sorcerer, he could not spend most of his energy on managing the country. The advantage of local autonomy was that the functions and responsibilities of the central government were relatively small. In the smallest case, it was limited to collecting taxes from the central government and maintaining an army that could protect the country and maintain unity.
In this way, Feng Chou could easily extricate himself from the management of the country.
On the basis of the town, Feng Chou also built a county-level institution. Currently, the county-level institution was the highest administrative institution on Hunter Island. The institution was located in Kantovana Town.
Members of the council, county magistrates, and town mayors were elected. In theory, anyone could run. Of course, that was only in theory. In fact, all the bureaucrats in the territory were young scholars who had participated in Qiankun Pagoda's training.
Feng Chou also built a system of knights and nobles. After all, this was a world with supernatural powers, and they were very powerful.
Feng Chou built temples in each town. The temples were qualified to test and issue warrior certificates. Anyone who obtained the certificate of a level six warrior and was willing to join the army would be given the title of a lifelong knight after a certain number of years of service. They would also receive a generous lifetime allowance. It was also stipulated in the law that knights had a higher status than ordinary people and enjoyed certain privileges. For example, only knights and nobles could become members of the county assembly.
After perfecting the government institution, Feng Chou began to build towns in several mining areas in the northern mountains and set up mining companies in his name. In the future, he would also set up a machinery company.
Because Feng Chou had almost turned most of the people on the island into farmers, his mining company's business was progressing very slowly because he could not find miners.
Thus, Feng Chou took advantage of the situation and started to expand.
Hunter Island was located in a very special geographical location in this archipelago. This archipelago was a belt of archipelago running from northwest to southeast. The entire belt of archipelago was like a fish. The head of the fish was wider in the northeast, while the tail of the fish was in the southwest. It gradually narrowed and eventually disappeared.
The Hunter Island was in the belly of the fish.
In the middle of this archipelago belt, there was an open sea surrounded by archipelagos. This sea was a basin in the sea. The sea was deep, and there were no islands in the area. It could be considered the "Mediterranean" of this archipelago.
Hunter Island was located to the southwest of the Mediterranean Sea.
In this archipelago belt, the closer one was to the "fish head", which was the northeast end, the larger the island would be. The closer one was to the central axis of the archipelago belt, the larger the island would be.
Although Hunter Island was located in the southeast, it was located on the central axis of the archipelago belt, so it was not small. It was the largest island in the southwest of the Mediterranean Sea.
An island bigger than Hunter Island could only be found on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea after crossing eight thousand kilometers.
In the archipelago belt, not every island had humans. In fact, in the entire archipelago belt, less than one-tenth of the islands had humans living on them.
In general, the larger the island, the higher the chance of survival.
The biggest obstacle that limited the spread of humans in this archipelago was the sea between the islands, which was not very wide.
In the sea between the archipelago, due to various reasons such as the exchange of materials between the sea and the land, the depth, the ocean currents, and so on, the fish resources were abundant. Therefore, there were many intelligent marine species living in this sea, such as the sharkman, naga, sea giants, intelligent squid, snake dragons, and so on.
In this sea, the most abundant species were the sharkman.
The Sharkman should be a large distant relative of the Sahuagin. They had the thick greenish-gray skin of sharks, sharp heads like sharks, big mouths full of sharp teeth, thick and short necks, and blade-like dorsal fins. They looked like sharks, but had a more slender tail. They had strong and slender limbs, and also had fins that could stand up and lie down.
This terrifying intelligent marine creature was almost three meters tall when standing. When they swam in the sea, they were more than five meters long including their tails.
The sharkman not only had a strong body, great strength, and tough skin that was comparable to + 2 magic leather armor. They also had many innate water elemental magic abilities. An adult sharkman's combat power was almost equivalent to a level six dragon descendant. If they were in the water, their combat power would be one level higher.
The sharkman's swimming speed was very fast. With the help of magic, they could be called one of the fastest swimming creatures in the water.
The sharkman was also good at domesticating sharks. They were a nomadic hunting tribe in the sea. They often followed the fish tide and rarely settled in one place.
Unlike ordinary sahuagins, the sharkman was less close to the shore. Only when they were giving birth would they enter some coastal lagoons in groups, or enter the estuaries of some big rivers, and give birth in these shallow waters.
The sharkman pups grew very fast. Basically, they could grow to more than one meter long in three months. Their swimming speed could keep up with the adult sharkman. At this time, the mother sharkman would take the pups back to the tribe.
The Mediterranean Sea northeast of Hunter Island was the base camp of the sharkman.
The second most numerous creature in this sea area was the Naga.
The Naga was a very ancient creature. Their upper body, or to be exact, from the waist up, looked very similar to humans. From the waist down, it was like a relatively thick and short snake.
When the Naga was on land, they would use their snake tail to support their upper body and slither on the ground in a snake-like manner.
The adult Naga's body was more than five meters long. When they came ashore, their upright upper body was only two meters high.
Like dragons, the Naga's strength and body would continue to grow as they grew older.
The Naga's infancy period was as long as 30 years. When they became adults, their biological level would reach level seven and they would have some innate water elemental magic abilities.
The strength and body of the adult Naga would slowly increase as they grew older.
When the Naga grew to 150 years old, their body length would grow to more than seven meters and their height would grow to more than three meters. At this time, they would grow a new pair of arms.
The four-armed Naga's biological level was as high as level 12.
When the Naga reached 300 years old, they would grow a new pair of arms. The six-armed Naga's body length would reach about 12 meters, their height would reach nearly five meters, and their strength would reach level 16!
If a Naga could live to 500 years old, it would grow into a legendary creature. The eight-armed legendary Naga was a giant creature with a body length of more than 20 meters and a height of more than eight meters when standing upright. They could set off huge waves, create small tsunamis, and summon giant water elemental elders.
Fortunately, the natural lifespan of most Nagas was not more than 150 years old.