Lord of Arcane

Chapter 257 Patrol the Territory and Make Paper
The corpse seems to have been baptized with positive energy and has not rotted yet. Xia Duo just glanced at it, but didn't take it seriously. He turned to Layton and asked, "I remember there was a carpenter among the slaves, right?"

"Yes, my lord."

"The first phase of housing in Linshui Village can start construction. Pick a group of people and let him start in the area north of the altar and south of the camp." Xia Duo ordered.

Now the number of people in the territory is close to a hundred. When Xia Duo came back, he noticed that except for the official territories who had some wooden houses similar to Datongpu, the slaves only lived in thatched huts.

Just the kind of conical hut with a few branches and some dry grass hanging on it, it is very simple, and if it rains, it has almost no rainproof ability.

As the saying goes, "Those who have no property have no perseverance", Xia Duo expects these people to work with peace of mind, so the material incentives that should be there are also necessary.

"By the way, let's build a few rows of small wooden houses now, so that people can live there for a long time." Xia Duo added.

Layton looked north, thought for a moment, and said, "My lord, it takes about seven days to build a wooden house. If you ask to build a few more rows, it may take a long time."

Now the wooden houses on the territory are only temporarily built, and a lot of materials brought over from Savile are used. Layton feels that the initial stage of territory development spends a lot of time on housing, which is not worthwhile.

"Master Leiden, the leaders came here with me. They can't even have basic housing. It's decided like this. And not only the current leaders, but also the future leaders must also be allocated housing."

Xia Duo understands the importance of a house too well. It is not just a place to shelter from wind and rain, but also a home that can be reassured.

Although there are future promises hanging in front of them, these leaders are still very motivated, but they can't satisfy their hunger if they are always making cakes.

Some short-term incentives are needed. All Xia Duo can think of is the house. Anyway, the leaders build it themselves. He is just doing distribution work.

"Yes, my lord." In front of Xia Duo, Leiden took out a scroll from his waist, and wrote down Xia Duo's request in a few strokes.

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After inspecting around the altar, Xia Duo found another problem.

On the eastern development line, there are several big fires burning, and from time to time, the leaders or slaves add fuel to them.

Xia Duo didn't care about it before, but now he suddenly realized that these fires were actually burning money!
Several magic weapons used by the traversers to crush the aborigines: papermaking, sugar, glass, and perhaps a "salt" can be added.

Seeing the hay and wood that had been burned in vain, Xia Duo thought of making paper.

Although Netheril also has paper made of plants and trees, it is not widely circulated because it cannot carry spells and the price exceeds the cheapest parchment.

But Xia Duo knew the potential of this kind of paper. Even earth, rocks and metals could carry spells, and there was no reason grass and wood paper could not carry spells.

What's more, Xia Duo is very clear that the key to truly carrying spells lies in the ink, or the material that can connect to the magic net.

He believes that there will be grass and wood paper that can be used to make magic scrolls in the future.

In addition, grass paper does not need to use bio-leather like parchment (high cost), and grass and trees are everywhere. Once the technology matures and the cost drops, it can explode rapidly.

This is the big killer of knowledge popularization.

The popularization of knowledge is not harmful to Xia Duo, only the key technology needs to be blocked.The popularization of knowledge will promote exchanges and make the explosion of ideas and theories.

Xiaduo is really fed up with Netheril's conservative style, and being able to lead a ideological revolution is something he is very willing to do.

As for whether it will make other people stronger, that is actually not in Xia Duo's consideration, unless it is an enemy.His goal has always been himself, as long as he keeps improving, why worry about it!

Think big and start small, maybe now you can try the ancestral [papermaking technique].

But as far as the present is concerned, Xia Duo can't do much. He just keeps the matter of making paper in his heart, and he will try it whenever he has the opportunity.

Now he can only try his best not to look at the few fires that burn "money", but fortunately, what is burned there are only some hay and branches pruned from trees.

The trunk wood is still there!
"Reverend Layton, go get busy, I'll look east."

"Yes."

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Now the positions that soldiers in the territory need to defend are mainly in the east, with the altar in the south, the river in the west, the fence and the [magic alarm] in the north.

However, Xia Duo worried that going too far to the east would affect Misuo. In actual planning, it only needs to be cleaned up to about 100 meters from the river.

After that, the fence can be set up, and the south can be opened up.

"The key is the lack of people!"

After crossing the opening line to the east, Xia Duo continued to move forward and walked nearly a hundred meters before seeing the simple "defense line" arranged by Qiao Qi's team——

A thin line runs through the forest from south to north, using branches less than half a meter high as stakes, and hanging a small bell every 20 or so.

Not seeing anyone from Qiao Qi's team, Xia Duo deliberately stumbled as he walked by, and the small bell closest to him immediately rang.

Immediately after the thin thread was pulled, crisp bells sounded on this thread, and soon Xia Duo heard an angry roar from the east:

"No. 3 node is triggered, Hader, are you lazy! Go back and see for me!"

It's been a while since I left the territory, Xia Duo is a little unfamiliar with this voice, but it's not hard to guess who it is, if nothing else, it's Qiao Qi.

Such a loud voice, and it sounds so loud from a long distance in the forest!

Soon, Xia Duo saw Hader who was trotting all the way from the east with his sword and shield in hand. Suddenly seeing the lord who had disappeared for more than ten days, Hader seemed to be stunned.

"That—Lord Lord!"

At this moment, Qiao Qi's voice came out again, "Had, Hud, call me back!"

It was only then that Harder came to his senses, and shouted towards the southeast: "Captain, it's the lord! The lord is back!"

After shouting, Hader looked at Xia Duo with some embarrassment, hesitating whether to return to the guard position or stay and wait for the captain.

Xia Duo looked at this thin line of bells with great interest. The effect of this warning line should be good for ordinary beasts, but it is a bit far away from the camp.

It would be even better if the people in the camp can hear it, so that the camp can also be alerted in advance.

Soon, Qiao Qi also rushed over, also carrying a sword and shield, trotting all the way to Xia Duo, and said in a serious voice: "My lord! Qiao Qi is here to report!"

Xia Duo nodded, and pointed to the direction he came from, "Go, talk while walking."

"Yes, my lord."

Qiao Qi sent Hader away, walked ahead, led the way for Xia Duo, and reported the latest situation, "My lord, in the past ten days, we have pushed the cordon here, outside the bell line during the day, and inside the bell line at night .”

"Is there a lot of collisions with the cordon?" Xia Duo asked.

"It was a lot at first, but after clearing out the two nearby goblin colonies, it's much less."

"Goblin settlement?"

Xia Duo thought of the goblin settlement that was dealt with when he first arrived here, and there was a goblin bear inside. He quickly asked, "Did you find a goblin bear?"

"Not found, but Captain Gibb judged that there are traces of bear goblins living there."

(End of this chapter)