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Chapter 115 Thriving Walker County

After Jingguan made of human heads shocked the residents of Walker County, and then asked Debra to deal with the "rat" that secretly stirred people's emotions, Xu Yue controlled the beast under her seat and walked forward a few steps, and looked at the residents who had calmed down and said something.

"From today, the food price in Walkershire will be the same as the food price outside, and anyone can purchase it without limit. From now on, there will be no restrictions on the food in Walkershire. This is my promise to you, Xu Yue, the Marquis of the Kingdom of Shia. If you are willing to accept my rule and become my subordinate, you can return to the town. Those who do not want to accept it can leave Walkershire with their own belongings. But if someone does not want to surrender to me and still wants to make trouble in secret, then the underground forces in Walkershire will be the fate of these people."

After saying that, Xu Yue pointed to the people who had piled up in mountains and said.

Looking at the Rentou Mountain, which is six or seven meters high, all the residents of Walker County were frightened and were very happy about what Xu Yue said about the unlimited supply of food. Walker County has a unique geographical location. As a trading hub connecting the three countries at the same time, the magic material production site of Yege Forest, both the residents here and the underground forces here can make a fortune.

According to this point of view, the people in Walkershire should be very rich. But in fact, this is not the case. Because Walkershire's own weakness is that they do not produce food, or the food they produce is not enough for a small gang to consume. Therefore, if foreign forces want to interfere in the interests of Walkershire, they always use crops and other things as bargaining chips. In addition, some forces simply plan to make profits based on this. Therefore, the food prices in Walkershire have always been ridiculously high.

Take the local underground forces in Walker County as an example. The price of buying grain from the outside is five to six times that of other places. When the local underground forces sell these grains to residents, the price will increase by about one-fold. In this way, the price of local residents who buy grain is more than ten times that of residents in other areas.

As for why local residents insist on living in such a place controlled by underground forces at such a high grain price, the income obtained by local residents is still better than that of residents in other places. Moreover, most of the residents who come here either commit crimes in other places have to hide here, or their ancestors are criminals exiled here, and they have lived here for generations, and it is difficult for them to leave here and go to strange places to make a living. It is not just the people on the other side of the earth who have the feeling of this.

Now Xu Yue promises to reduce the price of food to the same as the outside world. If he can really do it, it will be equivalent to increasing the income of Walkershire residents by about six or seven times. In this way, it will no longer be an out of reach for the residents of Walkershire to become rich.

For civilians, being able to eat and wear well and have a certain amount of savings is always the most important thing in life. As for whom the people ruled Walker County, they didn't have much opinion. If Xu Yue, the marquis of the Kingdom of Shia, could bring them a better life than those underground forces before, then supporting such a ruler would not be an unacceptable choice for them.

With Xu Yue's promise, the residents of Walker County began to disperse. The guards began to take over the management of the entire Walker County. With Debra, a former senior who was very familiar with major forces, the mice and secretaries who were ambushed by various underground forces in the town were found. Moreover, after knowing that their gang was destroyed, most of these secretaries did not want to fight against the security team anymore, and only a few hard-working officials wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble. However, for these people, Xu Yue directly offered a reward of catching one person and rewarding one hundred kilograms of food in the town.

Although he had promised that the future food would be the same as the outside world, he had not officially started selling it yet. Moreover, the local residents of Walker County were extremely paranoid about food because of their previous experience. So in just one day, those deep-buried dark men were arrested by the residents of the North. If it were the past, these residents were afraid that they would be retaliated by local underground forces. But now almost all the people from those underground forces are dead, and no one cares about the threats from those underground forces.

Walker County was almost completely cleaned up. Whether it was the people who remained here in the underground forces or the nails sent by foreign forces, they were cleaned up, but it was obviously unrealistic to make such people clear out among the hundreds of thousands of people. On the day the guards entered Walker County, the forces of all sizes who were invaded by Xu Yue's actions had already known the bold words Xu Yue made.

After hearing this news, the leaders of all forces sneered. In places like Walker County, if these forces do not nod, it would be a pity for other forces to transport food to Walker County. While these forces ordered the complete blockade of the food supply in Walker County, they were waiting to see Xu Yue's jokes. Now many people are waiting to see Xu Yue, the marquis, who have to bow their heads to them after they can't get out the food.

At the same time, many forces once again took up the idea of ​​Walker County after seeing Xu Yue successfully occupying Walker County. For a while, many forces were ready to move in private. However, due to the strength of the Guards and the two level seven powerful men of Kailuth and Gabriel, no one dared to directly stretch their claws. However, it would be hard to say if they continue to maintain this. After all, the Guards only have 4,000 people, and there are still too few people in managing a town with more than 100,000 people.

A town with more than 100,000 people is no different from a small town. It is not enough to manage such a place just by relying on the house. In the past, under the balance between the five major forces and many small and medium-sized underground forces, there were rules here. However, with the destruction of local underground forces, the previous rules had disappeared, which made some people with ulterior motives among the local residents unable to bear it. In less than three days of the escort accepting the town, various vicious cases of robbery, theft, and rape occurred several times. The escort's attitude towards this was just one, and he would just kill him. There was no trial procedure at all.

This suppressed the turmoil among those who were restless in the secret to a certain extent, but the collapse of the local order is also a fact. It is no problem to suppress it with the high-pressure policy of killing for a while, but if this continues, it is inevitable that something will happen. Xu Yue was not worried about this. Because on the fourth day, Aiwo arrived here with the remaining 6,000 people from the guard team and a large group of people with a number of about 1,000 people.

In Carlo's plan, occupying Walkershire was only the first step of the plan, and this process can even be said to be the easiest step. How to manage and build Walkershire well and build it into a prosperous city is the most difficult. They had already discussed before they set out that after the guards occupied Walkershire, Avo immediately moved to Walkershire with everyone from the Chamber of Commerce. Even most of the industries of the Chamber of Commerce will be transferred to Walkershire. After all, this is the focus of their future development.

During the two years of preparation, the slaves purchased by Avo were not just used to fill the guards, but also the reserve of management talents was also from the purchase of slaves. There were not many management talents among slaves. Avo tried his best to collect about 600 people, and some literate people who could do some simple work, and just raised about a thousand people.

However, this is enough for Walker County, which currently has a population of more than 100,000. As soon as these talents entered Walker County, they immediately began to take over everything in Walker County according to the process they had already memorized. In order to ensure the safety of these people, Carlo specially mobilized 3,000 guard personnel to escort these talents and their reception work.

This process will inevitably touch some of the interests of the locals, but after Xu Yue began to sell food at a large scale at a fair price, those opposition voices were immediately overwhelmed by the cheers of the people.

Fortunately, although the Tarenmia continent has great differences in many species on both sides due to its rich magic elements and different worlds, some crops such as rice and sorghum are still some of them the same as those on the earth. However, because Tarenmia's rich magic elements, the fruits of these crops are larger than those on the earth, but the difference between the two is not outrageous. It only makes people feel that the food on the earth is like the food produced by barren land. The residents of Walkershire have no objection to this, as long as the amount is enough. The large or small grains are not eaten the same, and the taste is not different.

Xu Yue exchanged huge wealth for the gold brought to the earth for two years. At the same time, he secretly hoarded an astonishing amount of food in two years. However, because it was completed in two years and the purchase location was purchased from all over the world, it did not attract the attention of state organs.

This time, he took advantage of the opportunity of the Ivo Chamber of Commerce to free up more than a dozen huge warehouses and took more than three days to transport half of the food stored on the earth. This food was enough to support the consumption of more than 100,000 people in Walker County for more than two years.

With the addition of professional management talents, Walkershire's management quickly got on track. At the same time, after the Ivo's Chamber of Commerce was settled, it began to operate at full speed. In the past two years, with sufficient funds, Avo expanded the Chamber of Commerce's business to four of the seven kingdoms of mankind. Although it is much weaker than those top Chamber of Commerce, both in terms of sales goods and sales channels, it is only worse than these Chamber of Commerce if it is profitable.

This time, Xu Yue almost opened up to provide Aivo with a large number of pure containers, and at the same time, no longer limits the number of containers sold at level 8. In addition, the orders and gold coins of the elves arrived quickly, and for a moment, the number of gold coins that had already been sold out in their hands increased rapidly again.

Under Carlo's arrangement, Xu Yue directly summoned the residents of Walkershire with gold coins to become workers, and even hired a large number of dwarf craftsmen to enter Walkershire for a large amount of money, and carried out large-scale planning and construction of the buildings and streets of Walkershire. In a short while, the entire Walkershire became a giant construction site, and all kinds of projects were seen in progress almost every distance.

Although Tarenmiya does not have various construction machinery like Earth Technology, there are also magic and magic equipment specially used for construction in this world. In terms of efficiency, it is even much faster than the construction speed of the earth. After all, the earth still needs to mix cement before pouring it, but Tarenmiya only needs a magic spell to turn mud into stone to turn the walls made of soil into hard rocks, saving the process of waiting for the soil to dry out.

While the construction of the construction in Walker County was underway, the forces of all sizes who were waiting to see Xu Yue's jokes were stunned. They were still estimating that the grain in the marquis Xu Yue could last for at most two or three days to beg them, but they didn't expect that not only did they not look at them at all, but they turned around and took out a large amount of grain for sale. The price was even cheaper than the ones on the market. Moreover, looking at the situation, such a grain supply was not at all stressed for Xu Yue.

After reacting, the forces of all sizes were angry. They frantically mobilized their respective relationships to find out the source of this batch of food, and wanted to find out which force was brave enough to offend the union of so many forces. But the more they checked, the more they were confused. There was no sign of large-scale food transactions near here. If it was a remote transaction, it would have to be transported by vehicles, which would be impossible to hide from them, the forces of all sizes staring at Walker County. As for using advanced storage rings to transport food, they never thought about wanting to transport such a large number of food. Even if they were transported in two or three times, the required high-level storage rings were not a small amount, and no one would go crazy to buy so many high-level storage rings. Even if the funds that require telephone charges were placed in the seven human kingdoms, it would make the top leaders of the kingdom feel distressed. Xu Yue's chamber of commerce could not reach that level.

The forces of all sizes were almost crazy. After the investigations from multiple parties failed, they turned their attention back to Walker County. A large number of spies kept pouring towards Walker County. These guys tried every means to find out the origin of the food. Unfortunately, even members of their own guards did not know how this food came from. They just received the order to guard the food warehouse and came here, the food was already in the warehouse.

Since the strategy of cutting off the food route was useless, those forces simply put aside their previous concerns and their greed for the interests of Walker County made them constantly use various means. They sent people to poison the food and bribe the locals to burn the food. Some forces even regrouped nearly 20,000 people to pretend to be bandits and directly wanted to capture Walker County.

However, these methods returned one by one under Carlo's arrangement. The team that had almost been gathered up to fight was even more defeated by the 6,000 idle members of the Guards under a charge. However, the members of the Guards did not kill a lot, but captured most of the 20,000 people. In this way, Walker County, which was seriously lacking in labor, instantly added a free laborer with a number of about 17,000 people.

With the addition of this batch of hardcover labor, the construction of Walker County was much faster. After the messy streets were re-planned, they became much more neat. Many chaotic buildings on the roadside were pushed down, replaced by some shops that looked very regular and atmospheric.

In order to successfully renovate and build Walker County, Xu Yue bought most of the old buildings. The original owner of the building either moved to a more outlying place in the town or bought the rebuilt building at a relatively preferential price. Of course, disputes are indispensable in this process. The existence of nail houses also exists in Tarenmia.

But thanks to Tarenmiya for the aristocratic system implemented. In the aristocratic system of the Kingdom of Shia, the lord had absolute jurisdiction over his territory. Although he could not regard the lives and property of the people as his own, no one could say anything about those who dared to disobey reasonable orders.

For those who want to take the opportunity to make trouble or make a big fortune, Xu Yue simply confiscated his property and expelled him. This is much more cruel than the developers on the earth. And other people also think that he has no problem doing this as a lord. This immediately made Xu Yue feel that demolition in Tarenmiya is a promising thing.

Although he experienced the experience of forced demolition at Tarenmia, Xu Yue felt no guilt at all. The conditions he gave to those people were already generous enough. Whether they were relocated or bought new renovated buildings, they took a large advantage. At least after Walker County was renovated, the prices of both relocated houses and renovated buildings were much higher than the prices they bought. Basically, none of those troublemakers were chaotic because they were not compensated enough.

The reconstruction project of the entire Walker County lasted for a whole year, because a large number of residents moved to the periphery of the town, and the streets of the town were widened several times. This expanded the entire Walker County town to the periphery. Although the size of the previous Walker County was not small, both the streets and the buildings gave people a very crowded feeling. However, after Xu Yue ordered the expansion of the main street for a few days and reconstructed the buildings on both sides, the entire town had already given people a spacious and tidy feeling.

In some aspects, Xu Yue directly adopted the earth's planning model. Just looking at the flower beds on both sides of the street and a garbage can set up in each section, it makes people feel like they are slowly looking at the city streets of the earth. Moreover, Xu Yue even spent a lot of money to set up a magic street light on both sides of the main street every once in a distance, which was ignited by a special person every day after dark, which made the residents of Walker County even more excited.

However, the construction of Walkershire is still in the first stage, and only the main street and the buildings on both sides are renovated, while the huge number of residential houses have not moved much. After all, the funds required for the reconstruction of a town with more than 100,000 people are too large. Even if the huge profits earned from the business of pure containers keep coming in like a tide, it still seems to be a drop in the bucket for Walkershire, this big pit is still a drop in the bucket.

However, Xu Yue and Aivo were not worried at all. After a period of buffering, the merchants who left Walker County returned to Walker County again. After seeing the changes in the streets of Lord Walker County, these merchants were surprised and praised the changes here.

For these smuggling merchants, Xu Yue changed the protection fees that these merchants had to pay to local underground forces in the way of collecting taxes. Although the tax rate was still scary compared to the taxes for regular merchants in other places. However, the overall cost for these smuggling merchants was much lower than before. The profits in hand were much higher. After all, they had to pay protection fees to several forces in the past to ensure the safety of the caravan, but now they only need to pay taxes to Xu Yue's family.

The reduction in consumption made Walkershire's already prosperous business even more prosperous. After the environment in Walkershire improved, some formal businessmen and caravans began to be willing to pass by here. Monthly taxes alone could make up for the construction costs of Walkershire.

In Xu Yue and Aivo's plan, the construction of Walkershire will last for eight to ten years. They plan to develop Walkershire into a large city no less than Black Rock City. Even in terms of population size and city defense, it is even a lot higher than Black Rock City. After all, although Walkershire is located between the Three Kingdoms, it is precisely because of this position that it is easy to be attacked by other forces during the war.

Not to mention anything else, the guards paid a huge price just to defend the occupation time of one year. The Fifth Legion, which was completely wiped out by a team of troops, targeted Walker County this year. At the beginning, the Fifth Legion took into account the orders above and did not dare to directly attack Walker County directly. He could only send people to block the border. While prohibiting the caravan from passing Walker County, he also sent a small team to rob and kill those smuggling merchants, in order to cause trouble to Walker County's economy.

However, their actions were stopped soon, and the people who stopped them came from their upper class. After all, there were no backstages of those smuggling merchants and smuggling caravans, and even these smuggling caravans served some of the great nobles of the Grony Kingdom. The Fifth Legion's approach completely angered some of the great figures of the kingdom. If it weren't for the importance of the use of the Fifth Legion, the legion might have been withdrawn and severely dealt with.

However, as the year approached, even some people in the upper class of the Groney Kingdom could not sit still. Seeing that the actual occupation of Walker County by the Kingdom of Shia was about to become a reality. Although this was not a big loss for the Groney Kingdom, it was certain to be embarrassed. After all, this meant that they lost to their old enemy kingdom.

In the last month, Groney even ignored the tacit understanding and directly sent 50,000 people from the Fifth Legion to attack Walker County. However, before the Red Eagle Legion of the Kingdom of Shia wanted to send a team, the guards directly assembled 10,000 people, and a head-on battle with the bandits pretending to be the Fifth Legion not far from Walker County.

The result of the battle completely shocked everyone who was concerned about the battle. Only 3,000 people from the Fifth Legion fled back to the base, while the guard team lost 1,500 people, which made Evo cry so much that he suffered a great loss. The Kingdom of Groni, who suffered a great loss, suffered this mute loss under the mobilization of the army of the Kingdom of Shia, accused Xu Yue of the Marquis of Shia, and the actual occupation of Walker County by the Marquis of Shia. This caused an uproar among the surrounding forces. No one dared to underestimate Xu Yue, the Marquis of Shia, who had been newly minus the Marquis of Shia, and the noble circle of the Kingdom of Shia finally accepted Xu Yue, the new nobleman.

After completing the actual occupation of Walker County, Xu Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief. Now he has finally liberated the center of his life from the construction of Walker County. Now he is standing in a remote corner of Walker County, where a building closely related to him is under construction.

Looking at this building that looked like a pagoda, Xu Yue's eyes were full of excitement. A mage tower of his own finally began to be built. (To be continued...)
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