With Qiankun Pagoda's brainwashing, these people were quickly converted from captives into laborers and fighters.
After ten years of development, Hunter Island had a population of thirty thousand, four cities with a population of ten thousand, dozens of towns with a population of three to five thousand, and over a hundred villages.
Along the lake and river, nearly twenty million acres of farmland had been developed.
The city with a population of thirty thousand was the capital of the territory. It used to be called Kantovanna, but now it was renamed Amborite City. Hunter Island was also named the Duchy of Amborite by Feng Chou.
Feng Chou removed his disguise as the prophet Kalimurk and replaced it with his original identity as the son of the God of Sea and Storm, Hektos, as the Grand Duke of Amborite.
Of the four cities with a population of ten thousand, two were located on the shores of Hunter's Lake. They were Medora on the east bank and Lector on the west bank.
Both cities were agricultural cities. Radiation controlled a large number of agricultural towns and farms.
As for the other two cities, one was located on the plains to the northeast of Hunter's Lake. It was called Valence. There was a medium-sized open-pit black stone mine there. Feng Chou built a coal and steel complex there, as well as some other metal smelting factories.
The other city was located in the southern foot of the northern mountains. It was called Calata. In the mountains to the north of Calata, there was a high-quality iron mine with black iron ore. After the iron ore was mined, it would be carefully selected in Calata. The resulting powder would then be transported by steam train to Valence for smelting.
In the mountains north of Calata, there were more than a dozen small mining towns. The copper, silver, iron, and other ores mined there would be transported to Calata by narrow-gauge steam trains, where they would be processed and finally transported to Valence.
Valence smelted the powder into various metals. Some local steam-powered machinery factories would process these metals into various machines and tools, such as daily hardware, trains, small steam-powered machines, and steel rails.
The black iron, arcanite, mithril, and other precious metals that were associated with the iron, copper, and silver ores would be prioritized by the smelting factories.
These crude precious metals would be sent to the alchemy factory in Amborite City for further processing.
Other than precious metals, some steel and copper materials would also be sent to Amborite City. The city had the largest shipyard on Hunter Island, which was capable of manufacturing all kinds of small and medium-sized steamboats. These steamboats were able to fully utilize the advantages of Hunter Lake.
It could be said that Feng Chou had recreated the technology of the 19th century steam age on Earth on this island.
The steam civilization of Earth and the steam civilization of the goblins were completely different. The steam civilization of the goblins was still a magical civilization. The creation of steam engines and machinery required the support of low to mid-level alchemy.
On the other hand, the steam civilization on Earth was a civilization of ordinary people.
Recreating the technology of the steam age might be difficult for other transmigrators, but it was very simple for Feng Chou. He only needed to let Qiankun Pagoda create a batch of steam age machines according to the technology of the 19th century. He then used Qiankun Pagoda to train a group of workers and technicians who were proficient in industrial technology to use these machines. With the addition of a group of managers, the steam age civilization on Earth was revived in this world.
Other than the steam technology, after ten years of accumulation, Feng Chou's alchemy talents had also gradually accumulated. This was especially true for the various geniuses that he had gathered from Qiankun Pagoda. Now, they had all grown up, and there were many alchemy talents among them.
Feng Chou also discovered and mined several high-grade alchemy material mines on other nearby islands, including three mithril mines, two fine gold mines, six different types of gem mines, and even a rare thorium mine. The quality of these mines was quite high. If they were placed in the Northern Continent, they would probably cause a frenzy. But here, they belonged to Feng Chou alone.
Feng Chou also let the green dragon Elsera conquer some of the green dragon descendants scattered on the islands and threw them to some islands where precious magic wood grew. He let them take care of the wood and do regular harvesting without damaging the growth of the wood.
It was not that there were no low-grade minerals on this island, nor was it that Feng Chou did not want to mine them. It was just that low-grade minerals were often in large quantities, and Feng Chou did not have a suitable transportation method. He could not use Qiankun Pagoda as a transportation tool.
After ten years of development, the steam and alchemy technology on Hunter Island had formed such a model. The steam technology had replaced the low-end alchemy technology, freeing the precious alchemists from some low-end labor. Meanwhile, the alchemy technology could solve some of the insurmountable problems of the steam technology. The steam technology satisfied the needs of the ordinary people and improved their living conditions, while the alchemy technology satisfied the needs of the Extraordinary.
In the past ten years, Feng Chou had completely shifted his focus to Hunter Island. He had continuously transferred the high-quality people on Pedro Island to Hunter Island.
Even the green dragon Elsera and her green dragon descendants were transferred to Hunter Island.
Feng Chou also stopped the Mage Tower project that the demonic wizard Anrik and the goblin engineer Morsock had just started. The project was transferred to Hunter Island, and the Master-level Mage Tower project was upgraded to a Legendary-level Mage Tower by Feng Chou.
Now, this giant Mage Tower that was more than three hundred meters tall stood in the middle of Hunter Lake.
This Legendary-level Mage Tower took eight years to complete with Feng Chou's participation. Feng Chou also perfected his mastery of the profession of Engineering Lord through building this Mage Tower.
To build a Legendary-level Mage Tower required the cooperation of an Elemental Lord and an Engineering Lord. Naturally, Feng Chou did not have an Engineering Lord or an Elemental Lord under his command. In order to build a Legendary-level Mage Tower, he had to do both.
As a matter of fact, before Feng Chou built the Mage Tower, he had already spent more than thirty years in Qiankun Pagoda. It took him ten years to advance into an Elemental Lord and grasp 'Eternal Blaze', which was the most complicated, dangerous and terrifying level-10 spell.
After that, he simply turned back and spent more than ten years studying all the Master-level spells in a series.
After he became an archmage of all classes, when he turned back to study the spells of the Legendary-level class' Engineering Lord ', he immediately felt that the ten years of work had not been in vain. It was definitely a case of' sharpening the axe '.
It took him almost ten years to study 'Elemental Lord', which was considered the simplest Legendary-level class, but it took him less than ten years to study 'Engineering Lord', which was considered the most complicated and extensive Legendary-level class.