The light snow has cleared, and the soft sunshine shines through the sparse woods and onto the ground with a little ice and snow, causing waves of cold mist to rise in the forest.

More than forty strong men, armed with iron axes and hacksaws, were walking through the cold fog. Their thick and tight snowshoe leather boots stepped on the muddy ground, causing patches of snow to splash.

Molin, who was over fifty and had gray hair, took a breath of hot air into her hands and rubbed her frozen fingers vigorously. The air in snowy days was always particularly cold and humid.

However, the village leader appointed by Victor was full of joy and expectation. He knew that the cold and wet water season was about to pass, and the earth season when all things revived was quietly approaching. These branches still hung with ice and snow There are even sprouts sprouting.

Today, Maureen and his team members were tasked with clearing part of the grove, because Lord Victor was planning a village in a clearing close to the forest. The area around the village must be kept within three arrows. of open areas.

"Let's start cutting from here! You guys, put in some effort today and finish the work early. When we get back, I'll use my work points to treat everyone to hot pot!" After Mo Lin visually measured the distance, he started to greet everyone to work.

"okay!"

"Team leader, keep your word! I want venison pot!"

"Venison? I'm not afraid of killing your beast! This time Captain Nelson leads the team to Black Castle Town and you won't have a share."

"Ha ha..."

When they heard that the team leader wanted to treat guests to hot pot, these villagers all became excited. This is a delicacy invented by the lord. It is delicious and warming, but you can only taste it in the small canteen and spend work points.

Victor opened a small canteen as a last resort. Just a few days ago, when Lilia reported the territory affairs to him, he was surprised to learn that in more than a month, the camp had distributed more than 100,000 work points. .

Victor had promised that one work point would be exchanged for one copper sol, so Victor needed to pay the subjects more than 100,000 copper sol. According to the currency exchange ratio of the Rand Empire, 36 copper sol would be exchanged for 1 silver sol. 36 silver sols are exchanged for 1 gold sol, and more than 100,000 copper sols are equivalent to nearly 100 gold sols.

Of course Victor could afford the one hundred gold soles, but the problem was that this was only work points paid out in more than a month. If it continued to increase at this rate, he would be out of luck.

After carefully reviewing the work point records with Lilia's help, Victor had to admit that he overestimated his management level and underestimated the crazy desire of his subjects for work points.

The achievements of the camp are obvious to all. In the past fifty days, two layers of eight-meter-high iron oak fences have been erected in the camp, eight arrow towers have been built, barracks, warehouses, mills, and reservoirs have been built. There is a blacksmith shop, a canteen, a wine cellar, and Victor's office and experimental workshop. In addition, the enthusiastic residents have also reclaimed nearly 2,000 acres of land and raised nearly two hundred ground lizards. More than 100 ground lizard eggs were harvested. Recently, stimulated by the rewards from Victor's team, the community group began to try to breed wild boars, yellow sheep, short-tailed deer, and even caught three swift birds! And the results of all this They are all based on the work point system of the production team.

In the human world, all the work the lords do for the lords is in vain. If the lords are lazy and slack in their work, the lord will teach them a lesson with a whip. However, Victor scorns such a rough management method, and the work-point system he implements is in terms of efficiency. Look, it can be said to be very successful. But the problem is that Victor did not carefully measure the amount of work points allocated and his actual ability to pay, which led to such an embarrassing situation.

As a lord, Victor now no longer has to rush to exchange work points with his subjects. What he needs most now is gold sols, because he has already started producing alchemy humans.

Victor has about 29,000 gold soles left of the 50,000 gold soles he received from the York family. According to the plan, he plans to produce 15 alchemical auxiliaries, 15 alchemical militiamen, and 10 alchemical crows, which will require a total of 26,000 gold soles.

So he had less than 3,000 gold soles left on hand, which was already very limited for a lord.

Making money has become his most urgent desire, but before that, Victor must solve the credit crisis caused by the work points problem.

Work points are exchanged for copper soles. Victor can delay for a while, but not for too long, because when he was on earth, what he hated most was being owed wages by his boss.

Therefore, a small canteen was opened in the camp.

In the past, the residents in the camp had three meals a day provided by the kitchen for free, but the food needs of these hundreds of people were still very large. Fortunately, Victor's territory was vast and rich in animal and plant resources, and he relied on gathering and hunting.

, you can basically be self-sufficient. However, the food produced in the kitchen tastes very monotonous, with only two types: stewed and roasted.

The small canteen opened in the camp provides delicacies made with various cooking methods, such as stir-fried, steamed, iron plate, stewed and sweet purple cane wine. However, the residents need to pay work points in exchange for these.

Victor wanted to use this method to recover work points.

At the beginning, the citizens would rather drool outside the canteen and eat the free food provided by the kitchen than go into the canteen to consume. After Victor’s questioning, it became clear that the citizens were not actually eating.

They don't care about the exchange of work points for copper soles, what they really care about is the exchange of work points for fiefs.

Victor had to reassure the people that they would get one acre of land after one thousand work points, and the work points could continue to be used. Only then did the people start spending money in the canteen.

The experience of the small canteen made the citizens extremely satisfied. Not only did they have delicious food to enjoy, it also gave them a sense of superiority. This was because the free citizens who joined later did not have work points to spend money.

When dining represented identity and status, the business of the small canteen became more and more popular.

The success of the small canteen made Victor realize that it no longer mattered whether the work points could be exchanged for copper soles. His credit problem had been solved.

What Victor didn't expect was that a few decades later, the small canteen he founded would become the most high-end place for consumption and communication in the human world. Of course, this is a story later.

Mo Lin saw her men doing it in full swing, and her heart was filled with excitement.

He spit in the palm of his hand, picked up the heavy iron ax, and chopped down a short tree with all his strength.

The hard work and wandering life made Maureen's body a little stooped, but he felt full of strength all over his body.

It won't be long before Mo Lin becomes the first village chief under the lord.

Victor's territory is vast, almost 12,000 square kilometers. To control such a large territory, just one camp is not enough, so establishing villages and roads has become Victor's inevitable choice.

With the addition of some freedmen, the current population in Victor's hill camp is close to five hundred people. Although the camp can fully accommodate these people, as the weather warms, Victor believes there will be more

Freedmen migrated here. In order to absorb more people, Victor decided to build the first village first.

Of course, the main reason is to deal with the Chebman family's ambitions for this territory. The Chebman family, by masquerading as freemen, has actually controlled the eastern part of the territory. Victor is worried that they will continue to pass this

The method is to establish a freedmen stronghold around the hill camp. At that time, Victor will be trapped in this area by them, thus losing actual control of the territory.

Therefore, in order to prevent this situation from happening, Victor must first establish villages and strongholds at strategic locations around the hill camps.

Victor chose Molin to be the head of the first village. Although the other village leaders were extremely envious of this, they had no objections. Because Molin was the best carpenter in the camp. Everyone in the hill camp

A wooden building, all designed and built by Maureen, including the exquisite wooden houses that stand on the upper camp.

All the people in the lord believed that it was Molin's good craftsmanship that made him favored by the lord, but Molin knew that he was valued by the lord because he was responsible enough.

At first, a total of six people were appointed by Victor as village group leaders, but now two village group leaders have lost their positions. This is because these two people began to use their power to bully their members, and then they

He was reported by the deputy team leader. As for who reported it, no one except the lord could tell clearly, because the deputy team leader is held by ordinary villagers in turn.

Now, no village leader dares to blatantly bully his subordinates. Who knows if this guy will report himself to the lord after he becomes the deputy leader in the future.

Of course, there were also some evil-minded guys who began to use their status as deputy team leaders to falsely accuse their team leaders in an attempt to replace their positions. Unfortunately, they were all discovered by the lord. These people were severely beaten after

After being whipped, he was also kicked out of the work-point system. This severe punishment made all those with evil intentions become honest.

The people don't know how Victor saw through these lies, but they all think that the lord is extremely wise and cannot tolerate any deception.

In fact, Victor never believed the contents of the deputy team leader's report. He just recorded the contents of the report and compared them before and after. Only those contents that were mutually corroborated would be regarded as facts by Victor.

Mo Lin slashed hard and finally cut off the thick tree. He straightened up, wiped the sweat from his head, and looked around at the work progress of other villagers.

The number of people in this village group has now increased from more than 20 to 40. This is because the newly joined free citizens have also been assigned. However, these later members are far less motivated to work than the old members.

, after all, they have no work points to earn. In order to motivate these people, Victor allows the group leader to recommend a new member with outstanding performance to join the work point system every month. Unfortunately, so far, no village group leader has proposed to Victor

Recommended, and Maureen is no exception.

What a joke, just because these despicable and lazy free people still want to be equal to us, in the next life!

For this situation, Victor has no good solution for the time being, human nature is like that.

Of course, there are also very few free people who are hard-working and hard-working. For example, there is one such new member under Mo Lin.

This is a tall, burly, middle-aged man. His whole body is covered with knotted muscles, and he seems to have endless strength. Ordinary villagers need to cut down a short tree as thick as a bowl, more than a dozen times, but this guy,

It only took two chops, and looking at his relaxed and carefree look, everyone believed that he could actually chop down a short tree with just one axe.

This big man had only joined Mo Lin's group for a few days, but the strength and work efficiency he showed made all the members look at him, because the work he did alone was equivalent to the workload of five villagers. Therefore,

He was ostracized by all the team members, and even Mo Lin suppressed him intentionally or unintentionally, arranging some heavy work and dirty work for him, but he completed the work assigned to him by Mo Lin without any complaints.

In the face of the cynicism of other team members, the big man just smiled naively, never argued with others, and rarely spoke. Even if someone deliberately asked him to chat, he could not hold back a word for a long time. Gradually,

Everyone understood that this big man was a fool!

This realization made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and then everyone's attitude towards the big man changed 180 degrees. After all, this super-competent and silly big man made the work of the team members much easier.

With a "click", another short tree was chopped down by the big man. This was already the seventh tree he had chopped down.

Mo Lin nodded secretly when he saw this scene. He had been observing the performance of the big man in the past few days. Although he was a bit stupid, he was indeed hardworking and down-to-earth and a good worker. The most important thing was that he was very obedient and completed Mo Lin's work.

The tasks assigned by Lin were never compromised.

Molin decided to observe the big man for a while. If he continues to be obedient and hard-working, after a month, he will recommend to Lord Victor that the big man join the work-point system. Best, he can let the big man join his village in the future.

"Big man, stop and take a rest." After the big man chopped down 11 short trees, Maureen couldn't help but ordered.

This big guy is good at everything, but he is a little stubborn. If Molin doesn't tell him to rest, he will probably have to work hard until he completes the task.

"Team leader, the big man has a lot of strength! If you really care about him, let him eat enough today!" An old team member teased sourly.

The corners of Molin's eyes twitched. Another problem with the big man was that he was very good at eating. He ate more food alone than three people. Two days ago, when Molin was appointed by Victor as the substitute village chief

, he invited his team members to eat hot pot in the small canteen. As a result, it cost him more than 500 work points, of which more than 100 work points of food were eaten by the big man alone. At the end of the day, the big man still

He poured the whole pot into his stomach because he wasn't full...

"Based on the big man's performance, I don't believe he can't fill his stomach if I let him eat today!" Molin said through gritted teeth.

He is already a village elder, how can he still be as stingy as ordinary citizens?

Although it still hurts, Mo Lin feels that he needs to have the aura of a village elder. Anyway, he has accumulated the highest work points in the camp, more than 10,000 points! Most of these are due to him designing the camp and houses, which Vic

Lots of rewards.

"Haha! Let's see how big the big man's belly is today!"

"I bet that the big man alone will eat up the team leader's 300 work points!"

While everyone was talking and laughing loudly, the big man stood up with a heavy logging ax in his hand and shouted loudly: "Be careful!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge creature rushed out from a bush and faced the unsuspecting crowd.

This is a wild boar weighing more than 800 pounds. Its blood-red eyes, long tusks in its mouth, and arrows stuck in its hind legs and buttocks clearly tell everyone that it is a wounded and crazy male wild boar!

Without any hesitation, this manic beast roared and charged towards the nearest villager.
To be continued...