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Chapter 111 Xiangshui River Black Market

The ceremony reached a climax when Russell announced that the windmill would be free for a month and would maintain the same price as the town's mills and would not charge more for grinding flour.

The serfs were grateful and praised their lord.

At this moment, Russell was standing in front of the second-floor window of the Windmill Mill, smiling and quietly looking at the cheering crowd below.

There are many emotions in my heart.

For these serfs who work in the land all year round and even have to turn in a huge part of the land's output, just grinding flour for free for a month can make them cry with joy, which shows that happiness in life is not difficult.

The difficulty is to maintain this happiness, because people always become more dissatisfied after being satisfied.

The serfs are happy at the moment, but as time goes by, when everyone has become accustomed to this windmill, they may no longer feel the happiness at this moment.

Of course, that's for later.

At least at this moment, Russell got a lot of sense of accomplishment and satisfaction from the happy smiling faces of the serfs.

"No matter what, since I am a lord, I will develop the territory well and let the people live a good life." Russell turned and went downstairs, and the officials followed suit. The inauguration ceremony of the windmill mill ended like this.

The serfs also dispersed.

Some serfs who had no time to grind flour happily rushed home to carry wheat and began to enjoy free flour grinding service.

Russell and his party had already gone to the potion farm, not to inspect the growth of the potion fields. In fact, potions were just a special crop that did not require any additional attention and could be left to the care of the serf technicians.

He came here for the construction of the Bear Bee Farm.

The beekeeper, the bearded Kenny, has taken up the post and brought his wife with him, and the couple looks after the bear bee farm together.

"Sir, the swarm of bumblebees you got is a swarm that is about to split into hives. There are already two new kings in it. I have temporarily separated the new kings, but I will further divide the hives to raise queens and give each hive a new queen. Add a queen bee..."

The Bear Bee Farm does not have a fixed address.

Instead, it consists of several carriages and a large number of beehives. The bearded Kenneys live on the carriages and are ready to pull the beehives around at any time, so that the bumblebees can collect pollen nearby.

However, Russell was still prepared to allocate a house to the Kennys.

Of course we have to wait until the new house in Potion Tunnel is built.

"Good job, Kenny."

"I will work hard, sir." The bearded Kenny was full of energy at the moment. Although the Black-rumped Snake Manor is a bit remote, he is in charge here. As long as he raises the bears and bees, he doesn't have to worry about welfare benefits.

After inspecting the Bear Bee Farm, Russell and his party rode to Fengdou Village and rode all the way to the junction of Fengdou Village and Wheat Village.

Here, a group of serfs are building a black pig farm under the leadership of the village chief.

Mr. Brown is holding a pig-herding whip and is standing in front of the pig farm site, looking at his future workplace.

He had been appointed by Russell as a swineherd, responsible for raising jet-black pigs.

Next to him, the golden black sow was leading a group of golden black piglets, leisurely gnawing on the grass on the ground. The jet-black piglets that Russell had high hopes for were also mixed in with the golden black pigs, waiting to mature.

After it reaches adulthood, it must start breeding, breed offspring, and select superior breeds until the sooty black pig breed is stabilized.

"Brown, you are herding pigs." Russell smiled.

Mr. Brown immediately bent down and bowed: "Sir, I am tending pigs. I stopped by to see how the pig farm is doing."

He is an honest man, doesn't talk much, and is far inferior to his wife, Mrs. Brown, in terms of ability. Mrs. Brown is even more talented in cooking than Mrs. Moore and has developed many kinds of pasta.

of course.

There is no technical content in raising pigs. Mr. Brown only needs to be diligent. For other selected pig breeds, Russell will arrange serf technicians from the town to come and support him. After asking about the progress of the jet-black pig farm and looking at the growth status of the jet-black piglets, Russell left.

The officials also dispersed.

Since the officials began to take over the territory, Russell really didn't have to do much, and even patrolling the territory was not necessary anymore.

This gave him enough time to practice his fighting spirit.

Russell, who couldn't sit still, took Eric, Kevin and Hongyan to Dikutun while it was still dark.

"Red Eye, gather your old troops here and see how many of your old troops survive." Russell said.

Red Eyes immediately pointed into the cave and let out a low chirping sound.

After a while, several fat rats came out and tremblingly approached the red-eyed rat king. Compared with the grand scene of swarms of rats during the rat plague, it was really a bit shabby now. Counting some small mice, the total number was less than a hundred.

"Chi-chi, chi-chi..." Rats, big and small, chirped.

When the red-eyed rat king saw this, the fur on his mouth stood up, and he shouted quickly: "Chiji!"

moment.

All the mice stood still, motionless, and made no sound.

Only then did Red Eyes turn his head to look at Russell with satisfaction, his mouth raised, showing his majesty. In the mouse world, he was the well-deserved king.

No rat dares to disobey an order.

"You have to make arrangements for the Sentinel Rat Team and the Treasure Hunting Rat Team." Russell said, patting the Red-Eyed Rat King on the head.

The red-eyed rat king nodded and chirped at his subordinates, who numbered less than a hundred.

Then with a loud "chichichi" sound, the group of rats immediately dispersed with a chirp, burrowing out from nowhere, and then burrowing in again.

"Mouse, we have lost too much." Eric said in a low voice when he saw this.

"Don't worry, you don't have to worry about the number of rats. In just a few months, there will be enough rats to fill the gap after the rat disaster." Russell knew that the reproduction rate of rats was unmatched.

Rats can reproduce all year round. It only takes three or four weeks from pregnancy to birth, and they can give birth to six to eight babies a year.

And each litter can produce six to ten cubs, and even fifteen or six cubs are common.

In other words, as long as there is enough food, two mice can make hundreds of little mice a year, which is terrifying.

Just as Russell was about to leave Cataclysm, the defense officer Ranger Howles rushed over: "Sir, please stay."

The manor court was held once a week, and there was usually nothing going on. Therefore, as a defense officer, Howles spent more time farming in the cave village. Now that Di Ku Tu was hit by a rat plague, he couldn't even farm anymore, so he just applied to be transferred to Market Tuen.

"Are you okay, Howles?" Russell stopped, "It seems that Charles has approved your application to transfer to Market Village."

"It's not about this, sir." Howles said with a smile on his face, "It's about another matter that needs to be reported to you."

As he spoke, he glanced at Eric.

It seemed that he didn’t want more people to know, but considering that Eric was Russell’s confidant, he said directly: “It’s like this. Originally, there were several places such as Xiangshuihe Cave, Blind Man Cave, Savage Cave, and Red Bat Cave. There are underground transactions between the caves, and Lone Wolf Lisbon often trades with the outside world."

Russell nodded and motioned for Halls to continue.

"Sir, don't underestimate the transactions between these caves. The total number of free citizens in the caves exceeds 3,000. They eat, practice, treat diseases, and marry... If you take over these transactions, you will definitely make a huge sum. Advance."

Halls also expressed his idea: "Perhaps you can open a black market in the Xiangshui River Caves to facilitate the free people of the caves to come and transfer supplies. You can even contact the caves outside the Youguang River Valley territory. Accept more freedmen to defect."

(End of this chapter)