The promise of slow wear for the rest of your life

This morning, before it was completely bright, Knight Commander Semid led his people away from Thorn Manor.

Immediately afterwards, the Surrey knight, the old housekeeper Basil, and the agricultural officer Cudo also led people out of the manor one by one.

This time they went out, except for Surrey, they all brought a lot of property and food.

Anol let them go with great confidence, as if he was not afraid of them absconding with money (food).

Fortunately, none of them failed Arnold's trust.

Knight Commander Semid conscientiously established a defense line on the border, patrolling daily, closely monitoring the movements of the orcs, and regardless of whether he found anything, he would send news to Arnold every ten days or half a month.

As a result, although Arnold is far away in Thorn Manor, he can still know the border situation well.

The Surrey Knights and his party are also loyal people. Since they left Thorn Manor for more than a month, Arnold has been able to receive people hired by them with a lot of money almost every day, as well as a carload of cars that they have painstakingly purchased and carefully hired. building materials.

At the same time, the Surrey Knight also recorded the origin and whereabouts of every sum of money in the small ledger, and sent people to Arnold to check it from time to time, and asked the person who sent the ledger to bring more gold coins turn around.

It is because of this that they can continuously hire more people and buy more building materials for the territory.

It's also thanks to Arnold's inexhaustible small treasury to back it up, otherwise, he really couldn't afford their huge expenses regardless of the price.

Compared with Sarri and his party, the progress of the old steward and his party and Cudo's party was much faster.

The old steward and his party only spent more than half a month, and at the cost of five carts of food, they hired hundreds of goblins back.

Moreover, it is said that the group of goblins has sent a letter to their clansmen living in other regions, and more goblins will join the city construction team in the future.

It only took Kudo and his party more than a month to find the group of titan giants living in a mountain nest somewhere in the third west county.

Then, Kudo and his party used a full fifteen carts of food and hired a full three hundred Titans to participate in the construction of the city.

Although there are only three hundred of these gigantic titans, they are all extremely powerful.

Such tasks as tearing down the old city walls are laborious and time-consuming for humans, goblins, and even dwarves. Only the Titans do it extremely easily, and it can even be described as extremely easy.

Other races may need to spend a lot of effort to push to the corner of the old city wall, but the Titans can knock down half of the old city wall with a few kicks.

Such an extremely efficient work efficiency is simply scary to say.

From this point of view alone, they are well worth the employment price of fifteen carts of grain.

Arnold is also very satisfied with this.

Perhaps it was because Arnold had enough courage to put down the capital, the half-year contract hadn't come yet, and the two things Arnold promised to the master builder Bedorun had been fulfilled.

Moreover, even the preparation work in the early stage is almost perfect.

Seeing that the 10 manpower has been collected, most of the old city has been demolished, and all the building materials have been purchased, the master builder Bedolun led his engineering team to start building the new city without Arnold's reminder.

Ever since, the hired ethnic groups have done what they can.

The Goblins were assigned full-time to dig the underground sewage pipes of the new city, and the Titans were assigned to build the new city wall with huge stones.

Most of the dwarves were reduced to road workers.

Humans and various mixed races only need to be responsible for building houses in the inner city.

Bedoron made good use of the advantages and disadvantages of each race, so that they all exerted their greatest ability to build a new city.

Seeing this situation, Arnold was extremely satisfied.

A total of 10 people started building the new city together, and the speed was terrifying.

The newly built city is changing every day.

The dilapidated and desolate old city in the evening was quickly replaced by a newly built city.

The low and dilapidated umbrella-shaped houses were also replaced by various houses at an extremely fast speed.

The old city wall, which collapsed on three and a half sides, was gradually replaced by a solid and towering new city wall.

Arnold witnessed these changes with his own eyes, and it can be said that the more he watched, the more satisfied he became.

The new city was completely completed in late winter of the following year.

At the same time, the first college located in Thorn Ridge was also completed at this time.

At this time, it stands to reason that Arnold should have paid the employees and let them leave.

But he didn't do that, and immediately signed an employment agreement with them, hiring them to repair the road for Thorn Ridge.

Given that the wages offered by Arnold were generous enough, not only did none of the employees refuse, some even called relatives and friends to accept Arnold's employment.

One hundred thousand employees soon became more than 11.

The roads leading to various places in Thorn New City were also quickly renovated.

After the repairs of the roads leading to various places were completed, Arnold ordered people to pay the last wages for all the hired races, and then ordered people to send most of the outsiders among them out of Thorn Ridge in batches.

It is worth mentioning that at this time, among those employed, there are actually some who want to settle in Thorn New City.

Even some goblins, dwarves, and even giant titans have expressed to Arnold that they want to settle in Jingxin City.

As for this, although Arnold can't be regarded as all-comers, he can be regarded as having extremely low requirements.

This requirement is that as long as anyone who participates in the construction of the city and roads, no matter what race he is, as long as he can take out five gold coins (equivalent to about [-] silver coins), and buy a set of roads in the new city at an ultra-low price. house, then he can settle down in Thorn Ridge with his family, and settle here for life and even for generations.

And those who have not participated in city construction and road repair must buy a house at the original price if they want to settle in Thorn New City.

If they can't afford the money, they can only choose to pay a certain low transfer fee, settle in Thorn Ridge, and become farmers in a certain village.

You know, one silver coin is equivalent to about a thousand copper coins, which is enough for a family of three to spend two or three years.

And those who participated in the construction of cities and roads, no matter what race they were or what kind of work they did, they could all get a monthly salary ranging from 50 to 100 silver coins.

Calculated in this way, that is to say, even people with the lowest wages can buy a house in the new city with less than a year's work wages and live in it for generations.

Therefore, once the news spread, it attracted countless people to flock to it.

Most of the employees cruelly took out the five gold coins they had just obtained and bought a house in the new city.

Even the people of Thorn Ridge are the same.

Especially the goblins, dwarves, hybrids of various races, and titans who are not popular with most human races, they were flattered when they heard the news.

In the end, almost all of these employees paid out gold coins to buy a house.

For this reason, Anor also specially asked Master Beidolun to renovate a batch of houses for them, which are more suitable for them to live in for a long time, specially for sale to them.

Seeing that he was so considerate of others, everyone immediately felt more refreshed when they took out the money.

This also directly led to the fact that nearly one-tenth of the houses in the Bramble New City were sold just after the completion of the new city, and another part was distributed to the original residents of the city free of charge.

That is to say, almost one-third of the wages that Arnold gave were returned to him in a blink of an eye.

In this way, although Arnold still invested a lot of gold and silver in the construction of the city, at least he recovered a little, and generally speaking, he made a little profit.

Since the repair of the roads leading to various places was completed, Thorn Ridge has entered a period of rapid development.

The benefits of convenient transportation are fully reflected here.

In addition, those ogres who dared to approach those roads and bandits who smelled the smell were all cleaned up by Sarri and others from time to time, and there was absolutely no problem in terms of safety.

The merchants of the past finally dared to set foot in Thorn Ridge to seek business opportunities.

There are also more ways out for the refugees who live in no fixed place.

The population of Thorn Ridge is growing explosively.

Correspondingly, the total number of slaves in Thorn Manor, which was originally only [-], increased to nearly [-] in a very short period of time.

Especially after Arnold pardoned the first batch of slaves who settled in the manor according to the agreement, and gave them the status of the people who officially belonged to Thorn Ridge.

Even many bandits who had nowhere to go to Bramble Ridge to fight the autumn wind rushed to Bramble Manor to sell themselves as slaves.

He hoped that after working hard for three years, he could also be pardoned by the lord like other bandits who became slaves, and thus obtain the status of the leader of Thorn Ridge.

Since someone is rushing to become a free labor force, Arnold will not be so stupid as to refuse, and he will never refuse anyone who comes.

He ignored the crimes committed by those robbers in the past.

As far as he is concerned, as long as they put on the slave rings, there will be no big waves.

If they can really abandon evil and do good, and work honestly, conscientiously, and diligently for him for free for three years, then he doesn't mind giving them the status of the people of Thorn Ridge, and they will be under the protection of Thorn Ridge from then on.

Of course, the premise of all this is that they can really abandon evil and do good, instead of acting on a whim and following the trend.

If they committed unforgivable crimes by killing, arson, and looting houses while they were slaves or after becoming citizens of Thorn Ridge, Arnold would punish them severely according to the law.

At that time, they will no longer have any way to obtain pardon, the light ones will be slaves for life, and the serious ones will die.

Because of this, the magistrate, the old housekeeper and others who were still critical of his behavior of taking bandits and robbers as slaves had nothing to say.

Although, even if they had something to say, they couldn't stop Arnold.

While the population development in the territory was booming, Arnold did not ignore other developments.

For example, the environment.

Since the two elf slaves he bought at a high price successfully bred new varieties of saplings, Anor ordered people to transplant those saplings in batches inside and outside Thorn City to beautify the environment and improve the appearance of the town.

Even on both sides of the newly built roads, Arnold ordered people to take the lead in transplanting a batch of saplings of new varieties mixed with saplings of ancient war trees to form a woodland.

In order to change the inherent impression of the past businessmen on Thorn Ridge, and declare to the outside world that Thorn Ridge is no longer the barren land where no flowers, trees, and crops can be grown. Now this land can also be used on a large scale. The land that grows green plants.

It has to be said that doing so has achieved remarkable results.

Since then, there have been countless merchants who came just for the tree species that can grow normally in the barren and barren land.

Even merchants who were interested in Sunflower Seeds and grain, oil and paper, the special products of Thorn Ridge, flocked to Thorn City.

It was also since then that the status of the two elf slaves who successfully cultivated new varieties of saplings in the territory has also risen along the way.