Chapter 44 Orderly Development
North, Pingdingshan,

The night passed, and with the first ray of morning sunlight, Rhodes opened his eyes in the room.

His experience period has expired.

The gate closed, and the Shadow of the North kicked him out again, returning to reality from the Star Spirit Heaven.

"Gray furnace rat, magic flame, material fusion, this is how the forging of white steel works."

Rhodes walked out of the room, stretched his body towards the sunrise on the distant horizon, and relaxed his tense body and mind.

This time, the exploration of the remnant of the North was very fruitful.

Not only did he successfully come into contact with the local humans, but he also learned the secrets of white steel.

Although I haven't fully learned it yet and lack various materials, these are not big problems.

He has grasped the direction of success.

The next step is to learn white steel forging in Shadow of the North and collect materials in reality.

Soon his territory will acquire a batch of knight-level equipment, taking a step closer to the construction of extraordinary troops!
Not only that, three consecutive training sessions in the Northern Shadow have significantly improved Rhodes' spirituality.

"With a significantly stronger control over magic power, this stage can be considered the first intermediate stage of a formal wizard."

Rhodes defined it in his mind based on his own wizard progress.

After becoming a first-level intermediate wizard, the most obvious effect is the improvement of the effectiveness of alchemical witchcraft.

With bone meal, he can create stronger bricks than sandstone bricks - marble bricks and granite bricks.

In the days to come.

A hill near Pingdingshan, which was designated by Rod as a quarry.

The serfs from Hekou Town were gathering there, and a large amount of granite bricks were being mined and manufactured.

Then they were transported to the center of the gentle slope of Pingdingshan Mountain, where the granite bricks were built into an indestructible wall.

Rhodes stood on a naturally formed sentry tower on a high cliff, overlooking the construction of the city wall below.

Groups of mane horses pulled carriages, continuously bringing in bricks and stones.

The serfs ran back and forth, using the pulleys and capstans designed by Rhodes at the foot of the city wall to send bricks and stones to a higher place.

The alchemical binder was applied to the bricks and stones, and the city wall continued to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The total height of the planned city wall is ten meters, eight meters thick and five hundred and twenty meters long.

The nearly eight-meter-thick, tightly-sealed granite wall would have to be bombarded continuously for three days and three nights even with artillery fire!
After completion, it will be able to completely block the gentle slope up the mountain and perfectly keep the invading enemies out of the mountain.

As for counterattacks, the high cliff watchtowers can throw stones over the city walls.

Crossbows can be placed at different angles on top of the walls to set up multiple shooting positions and garrison thousands of soldiers.

Enough to effectively deal with small armies that cross the stone-throwing attack.

According to the current progress, even with cheating, it will still take two months to build the city wall.

Rhodes found that he still had too little labor.

In Hekou Town, digging river bank soil, making clay bricks, and building ranches also require a large number of people.

In addition, two hundred young and middle-aged men were drafted into the reserve army and were busy with training.

Being able to migrate 500 serfs here is already the limit.

The funds have been almost drained out, and the original reconstruction plan of Hekou Town can only be temporarily slowed down.

After inspecting the construction site of the city wall, Rhodes came to the mountain lake on Pingdingshan.

He turned his attention to a small pond that had been dug out as an extra.

There are more than a dozen black catfish living in it.

It was the Hanshui catfish in the Hanshui River, which was notorious for its fishy smell.

But unlike normal coldwater catfish, the gill covers of these dozen or so fish were obviously swollen.

It was like a balloon was stuffed inside.

This is another ability that Rhodes gained after becoming a first-level intermediate wizard.

The transformation of animals is no longer limited to the original evolutionary system, but it is possible to create different magical organs in animals according to needs.

In order to produce clay bricks in large quantities, he found the cold water catfish.

The alchemical magic of [Turn Mud into Stone] was engraved into its gill cover bones, and the large cup-shaped cells that secreted mucus were transformed into a magic cavity. Since then, the cold water catfish has evolved into a first-level artificial magic beast, the glue water catfish.

Just purify the mucus secreted by the glue catfish, add clay to it, press it into shape, and put it in the sun to dry.

You can quickly get excellent finished clay tiles.

It just so happened that in order to dig clay, Hekou Town dug a lot of large pits next to the Hanshui River.

Rhodes planned to use it as a fish pond to raise catfish and build a large-scale production line of clay bricks based on it.

His knights and attendants had already gone to the river mouth town and informed Holmes of his plan to make arrangements.

The future income of the territory has been secured.

After solving this big problem, Rhodes was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

It is not easy to create a magic organ. Even if it is just an egg sac, there are a lot of troubles in the process.

The most troublesome thing is the sequelae of organ rejection.

Many times, when the magic organ is formed, it is the time for the cold water catfish to die.

In order to evolve the glue catfish, the magic field in Pingdingshan has swallowed thousands of deformed and weird cold water catfish corpses.

This kind of broken fish is worthless and is everywhere in the Hanshui River.

If it were any other animal, Rhodes would now be facing the fate of bankruptcy of his territory.

But no matter what, it was a success. The emergence of glue catfish allowed Rhodes' clay bricks to be produced stably.

After becoming a Knight of the Round Table, many nearby pioneer knights often contacted him through letters.

Rhodes did not miss this opportunity and used this channel to vigorously promote his own clay bricks.

Now that he has granite tiles, he kind of looks down on this thing.

Clay bricks are now able to be sold steadily, with the quantity reaching 40,000 pieces per day.

Through the water transportation of the Hanshui River and the land transportation of caravans, they were continuously sent to various places to open up territories.

Compared with transporting from Broken Dragon Fortress, his channel is cheaper, faster, and has absolute geographical and cost advantages.

That is to say, the daily production quantity of Rhodes Territory is limited, otherwise he could directly monopolize the brick and stone business!
Of course, it’s just something I’m thinking about now.

If you really dare to do this, you will offend many people in the Round Table Council.

Without his father's support, he is not qualified to run his own business.

"According to the current situation, in terms of income, clay bricks should be able to earn a stable 120 gold coins per month, and the income from fishing in the Hanshui River is expected to be 35 gold coins."

Rhodes calculated the territory's current income and expenditure.

"As for expenditures, the military food and salary for 30 soldiers is expected to be gold coins per month."

"The estimated monthly cost of food for all residents is 54 gold coins, and the monthly cost of wages for hired workers is 60 gold coins."

These are the big ones, and there are also small ones such as scattered income from logging, hunting, commercial taxes, etc., and expenses such as tool consumption, casualty allowances, etc.

After calculating everything one by one, Rhodes could estimate that the territory could have a net income of 15 gold coins per month.

Very good, there is no embarrassing situation of deficit.

The castle has this month's food in stock, and the savings are just enough to pay off the debt owed to the Chamber of Commerce.

The masonry business didn't last long, but Rod wasn't worried.

As long as you can hold on for the first two months, as the magic fields are harvested and the ranches are completed, the territory's income can immediately double.

Everything in the territory is developing in an orderly manner.

three days later.

Rhodes suddenly received a letter from Knight Charles from the Earl of Mayfield's family.

As a fellow Knight of the Round Table, the other party was also in the direction of the Frostwater River, and his strength was much stronger than Rhodes'.

He is considered one of the pioneering leaders in the Hanshui River Basin, and has won over many Knights of the Round Table and pioneering forces.

After Rhodes opened the letter, he understood what was going on.

The other party is actually preparing to attack the barbarian city!

The purpose of sending the message was to contact the major pioneer knights nearby in order to form a joint army.

(End of this chapter)