Chapter 111 Xiangshui River Black Market
The ceremony reached its climax when Russell announced that the windmill would be free for one month, and that the price would be the same as the town's mill in the future, and that no additional flour grinding fees would be charged.
The serfs thanked him profusely and praised the lord.
At this moment, Russell was standing in front of the second-floor window of the windmill, smiling and quietly watching the cheering crowd below.
There were many feelings in his heart.
For these serfs who had been digging for food in the land for years, and even had to hand over a huge part of the output from the land, just one month of free flour grinding could make them cry with joy, which shows that happiness in life is not difficult.
The difficulty is to maintain this happiness, because people always have more dissatisfaction after satisfaction.
At this moment, the serfs are happy, but as time goes by, when everyone has become accustomed to this windmill, perhaps they will no longer feel the happiness of the moment.
Of course, that is a matter for the future.
At least at this moment, Russell got a lot of sense of accomplishment and satisfaction from the serfs' faces filled with happy smiles.
"No matter what, since I am the lord, I must develop the territory well and let the people live a good life." Russell turned and went downstairs, and the officials followed him. The inauguration ceremony of the windmill mill ended just like that.
The serfs also dispersed one after another.
Some serfs who did not have time to grind flour excitedly went home to carry wheat and began to enjoy the free flour grinding service.
Russell and his party had already gone to the magic potion village, not to inspect the growth of the magic potion field. In fact, magic potion is just a special crop that does not require more extra attention and can be left to the serf technicians to take care of.
He came here to build a bear bee farm.
The beekeeper, bearded Kenny, has taken office and brought his wife with him. The couple takes care of the bear bee farm together.
"My lord, the group of bear bees you got is a colony that is about to split the nest, and there are already two new queens in it. I will temporarily separate the new queen, but I will further divide the bees to breed queens and add a queen to each beehive..."
The bear bee farm has no fixed address.
Instead, it consists of several carriages and a large number of beehives. The bearded Kenny couple lives in the carriages, ready to pull the beehives around at any time to facilitate the bumblebees to collect pollen nearby.
However, Russell still plans to allocate a house to the Kenny couple.
Of course, he has to wait until the new house in Magic Potion Village is built.
"Do a good job, Kenny."
"I will definitely do a good job, sir." The bearded Kenny is in high spirits at this moment. Although the Black Snake Manor is a bit remote, he can be independent here. As long as he raises the bumblebees well, he doesn't have to worry about welfare.
After inspecting the bumblebee farm, Russell and his party rode to Lentil Village and galloped all the way to the junction of Lentil 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 standing in front of the pig farm site with a whip for releasing pigs, looking at his future workplace.
He has been appointed as a pig herder by Russell, responsible for raising black pigs.
Beside him, the golden black sow was leading a group of golden black piglets, leisurely nibbling the grass on the ground. The black piglets that Russell had high hopes for were also mixed in the golden black pigs, waiting to grow up.
After adulthood, it has to start breeding, giving birth to offspring, and selecting good breeds until the black pig breed is stable.
"Brown, I'm herding pigs." Russell smiled.
Mr. Brown immediately bowed: "Master, I'm herding pigs, and I came to see how the pig farm is doing."
He was honest and didn't say much, and his ability was far inferior to his wife, Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown's talent in cooking was even better than Mrs. Moore's, and she had developed many kinds of pasta.
Of course.
There was no technical content in raising pigs. Mr. Brown only needed to be diligent. For other selected pig breeds, Russell would arrange for the town's serf technicians to come to support.
After asking about the progress of the black pig farm and looking at the growth status of the black piglets, Russell left.
The officials also dispersed.
Since the officials began to take over the territory, Russell had very little to do, and even patrolling the territory was not necessary.
This gave him plenty of time to practice fighting spirit.
Russell, who couldn't sit still, took Eric, Kevin and Red Eye to the cave village before it got dark.
"Red Eye, gather your old subordinates here and see how many of them survived." Russell said.
Red Eye immediately rushed into the cave and made a low chirping sound.
After a while, several fat rats came out and trembled to the Red Eye Rat King. Compared with the grand scene of the rat disaster, it was a bit shabby at this moment. Counting some small rats, there were less than a hundred in total.
"Chiji, chiji..." Rats of all sizes chirped.
Seeing this, the hair on the mouth of the Red Eye Rat King stood up and called out quickly: "Chiji!"
Instantly.
All the rats stopped in place, motionless, without making any sound.
Red Eyes then turned to look at Russell with satisfaction, his mouth curled up, showing off his majesty. In the mouse world, he is the undisputed king.
With one command, all mice dared not disobey.
"You have to arrange the sentinel mouse squad and the treasure hunting mouse squad." Russell patted the head of the Red Eyes Rat King and said.
The Red Eyes Rat King nodded and chirped at his subordinates, who were less than a hundred in number.
Then there was a loud "chi chi" sound, and the rats immediately scattered, chirping and coming out from wherever they came and going back from wherever they came.
"Rats, there are too many losses." Eric said in a muffled voice when he saw this.
"Don't worry, don't worry about the number of rats. It will only take a few months for there to be enough rats to fill the gap after the rat plague." Russell knew that the reproduction speed of rats was invincible.
Rats can reproduce all year round. It only takes three or four weeks from pregnancy to delivery, and they can give birth to six to eight litters a year.
And each litter can produce six to ten pups, and even fifteen or sixteen pups are normal.
In other words, as long as there is enough food, two rats can produce hundreds of little rats a year, which is terrifying.
Just as Russell was about to leave the Cave Village, the defense officer Ranger Halls rushed over: "My lord, please stay."
The manor court was held once a week, and there was usually nothing to do, so as a defense officer, Halls spent more time farming in the Cave Village. Now that the Cave Village has suffered a rat plague, he has no fields to farm, so he just applied to transfer to the Market Village.
"Is there something wrong, Holmes?" Russell stopped. "I think Charles has approved your application to transfer to the market village."
"Not for this matter, sir." Holmes said with a smile, "It's another matter that needs to be reported to you."
As he said that, he glanced at Eric.
It seems 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 underground transactions between several caves such as Xiangshui River Cave, Blind Cave, Savage Cave, and Red Bat Cave. Lone Wolf Lisbon often traded with the outside world."
Russell nodded and motioned Holmes to continue.
"Sir, don't underestimate the transactions between these caves. There are more than 3,000 free people in the caves. They eat, practice, treat diseases, get married... If you take over these transactions, you will definitely make a lot of money."
Halls also expressed his idea: "Perhaps you can open a black market in the Xiangshui River Caves to facilitate the free people in the caves to come and trade in supplies. You can even contact the caves outside the Youguang Valley territory to receive more free people."