Arcane Universe

At noon, Owen returned to the camp with the second-line mercenaries of the Sword of Salma.

After lunch, Feng Chou took Owen to visit the mercenary group in the camp again one by one, bought thousands of Meritorious Silver Coins at a higher price, and transferred his meritorious Silver Coin. There are 20,000 pieces together.

Holding 20,000 Silver Coins in hand, Feng Chou visited the Chief-In-Charge of the Benedic family in the small town. He was also a Baron.

The Burton Baron is the younger brother of the current patriarch Benedict of the Benedict family, and one of the board members of the Benedict company.

After bribing this shrewd businessman who was nothing like a nobleman with a small bag of magic gems worth tens of thousands of crowns, Feng Chou was granted the privilege of preferential selection of territory.

Feng Chou chose a land located on the lower reaches of the Benedictine River, more than 100 kilometers away from the small town of Remnant Tower, and applied for it as the territory to be developed.

Feng Chou’s choice made Burton Baron a little confused, because the location Feng Chou chose was not any location marked by the development committee on the map suitable for development into a territory.

When the Benedictine River flows to the western edge of the Benedictine Plain, when it approaches the broken mountain area to the west, the plains on both sides have become less flat. On the originally open plain, it has become messy There are some lonely peaks and small fragmented mountain ranges.

The development site selected by Feng Chou is such a lonely mountain.

This sturdy and lonely stone mountain is located just in the direction of the Benedictine River. Its appearance forced the Benedictine River to slightly change its flowing direction and formed around this mountain. A semicircular river bend.

In the eyes of Baron, this mountain does not have the value of developing into a territory at all.

He frowns said: “Sir, forgive me to speak bluntly, I don’t see the value of this place being developed into a territory.”

Feng Chou said with a slight smile: “But in my eyes, it is a very good territory. I have carefully observed this place on the way to the ruined tower town. It is a very good natural port on the west side of the mountain, which is the downstream direction. , The south of the mountain is inland, the terrain is flat and the vegetation is particularly dense, which shows that the land there is fertile.”

“On the east side of the river bend, which is the upstream direction, the remaining veins of the mountain are erected. Several kilometers of natural dams protect the territory from flooding.”

Burton Baron asked the key question: “What about irrigation?”

Feng Chou said:” Just now I said that in the upper reaches of the territory, the remnants of the mountain peaks along the river bank, forming a natural dyke. I can build a stone ditch on the outside of this dyke, install several sets of water wheels, and use the power of the water wheels to drive the pumps. Pump the river water to the top of the dike, and then build a trench along the inner side of the dike to lead the water to the gentle southern slope of the mountain.”

Burton Baron wondered: “The pump? The waterwheel can’t handle it. The water rises to such a high place.”

Feng Chou shook his head and said: “No, no, no, of course it’s not an ordinary waterwheel. You can use a screw pump to rotate the screw pump with the power of the water wheel. , Continuously pumping water into the ditch at the top of the mountain beam, and then using the height drop to send the water to the foot of the mountain.”

The screw pump is the famous Archimedes pump, which is the oldest on Earth , But the efficiency is not low at all.

Feng Chou went on to say, “I can build a reservoir at the foot of the gentle slope on the south side of the mountain. When watering is not needed, I pump and store water, and release water when watering is needed. In this way, It only takes ten pumps to meet the basic needs of the territory.”

Burton Baron shrugged and said, “Sounds great, but I can’t promise you right away. You know, this place is not a pioneer. The development site of the territory designated by the committee. I need to apply to the committee to add this place to the designated development site before I can sell it to you.”

Feng Chou knew that this savvy businessman was suspecting that he was It wasn’t that valuable things were found in that place, such as mineral deposits. He said that he was probably planning to send someone there to explore it secretly.

Feng Chou pretended to be disappointed and asked: “How long does it take?”

Burton Baron said: “About a week.”

Feng Chou After thinking about it, I pointed out another location on the map. It was the intersection of a small river and the Benedictine River. It was also located at the lower reaches of the Benedictine River, just ten kilometers upstream of the river bend he had just designated. .

This site is a territory development site designated by the Development Committee.

On the map shown to Feng Chou by Baron Baron, many such locations are marked. Most of these locations are located on the outskirts of the plain, enclosing the core territory of the Benedict family. The family provides a perimeter barrier.

This is also the core meaning of the development method of the “Memorial Currency System”.

The significance of the meritorious currency system does not lie in saving a little development cost. In fact, this cost is not a lot for a wealthy business family like Benedict.

The significance of this development method is that it can build a buffer zone outside of its territory for free, and it can also absorb a group of thugs and cannon fodder named “vassals” who bring their own lunch boxes for free.

Feng Chou pointed to this development site and said, “Well, for the sake of safety, I hope you can keep this land for me. If the application for that land fails, I hope Get this territory.”

Burton Baron said: “No problem, my friend.”

For a while, Feng Chou became idle and could only stay News awaits in the camp.

Owen trained the second-line players for a few days and found Feng Chou. He felt that letting these second-line players idle is also idle, so it is better to take some simple tasks for the time being.

Feng Chou agreed with his suggestion.

the past few days, the idle Natasha took the initiative to enter the state of a teacher, using teaching as an excuse all day to pull Feng Chou to madness, and the hurt Feng Chou almost couldn’t bear it several times. Surprise her by showing her strength.

After getting acquainted, Feng Chou discovered that Natasha was actually a very cheerful and enthusiastic girl, even though the reality was so cruel, it did not make her completely depressed.

Natasha did not hide her keen interest in handsome Baron at all, and Feng Chou couldn’t refuse this enthusiastic, cheerful, and honest girl who sometimes likes pranks.

Of course, the more important reason is that this straightforward girl has a beautiful face and a devil-like body.

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One week later, Burton Baron’s servant found Feng Chou and sent Burton Baron’s invitation.

As soon as we met, Burton Baron asked Feng Chou for credit, telling him how hard he had done and how much he had paid to get the development committee to agree to list the land designated by Feng Chou as exploitable One of the territories.

But Feng Chou knows that this guy is talking nonsense. For more than a week, an exploration team has almost searched the hill and nearby land he designated. Of course, they have nothing. turn up.

As for listing this land as one of the exploitable territories, it is simply not a problem. It is possible to exchange tens of thousands of meritorious Silver Coins with a piece of land that has no development value. No fool would oppose such a good thing. ?

At this time, Feng Chou put forward a new request. He hoped to buy another 50,000 acres of land development rights from the Benedic family at the price of ten kronor in cash per acre.

Feng Chou’s explanation is that he intends to open up another 50,000 acres of pasture on the outskirts of the territory, specifically for raising fine-wool sheep.

This is not a lie, because according to Feng Chou’s memory of Earth’s history, he thinks that perhaps the wool textile industry will have a lot to do in Casablanca in the future.

Feng Chou’s request made Burton Baron suspicious again, but he then thought that the land had been almost turned over by the exploration team. It shouldn’t be any precious minerals, even this person Really found precious mineral deposits in that fast territory, and as the real masters of this land, the Benedic family can easily take them away.

If there were no mineral deposits, it would be a cost-effective thing to exchange 50,000 acres of wasteland with no development value in exchange for 500,000 crowns.

Feng Chou put forward the request of 50,000 acres, originally prepared a small bag of magic gems as a bribe.

Didn’t expect The other party agreed to his request after a little hesitation, which surprised him a bit.

After confirming his intention, Burton Baron called his secretary and drafted a land transaction document.

Finally, Feng Chou used more than 20,000 meritorious Silver Coins and 500,000 crowns in exchange for a land contract containing 70,000 mu of land development rights.

The contract stipulates that the land on the south bank of the Benedictine River within 15 kilometers from the mountain will belong to him. Within this range, he has the right to cultivate 71,300 acres of agricultural land. Ground.

70,000 acres of land is almost a medium-sized Baron.

Feng Chou did everything possible to get such a large territory, not to make money, to develop the territory is not to make money at all, nor to pursue a higher title, which is meaningless to him.

He did everything possible to get such a territory in order to accumulate talents.