On Richard's territory, the construction of the city began.
There were more than 1,500 people at the construction site now.
There were more than 300 people working on raising the city wall.
There were more than 700 people repairing the castle.
There were more than a hundred people digging the road.
There were still more than 400 people repairing houses.
The new city was actually centered around Richard's castle.
The castle was Richard's personal residence.
Outside the castle gate was a wide street.
The street was lined with greenery on both sides, and then the street led to a large square.
There was a circle of houses around the square.
Among these houses, the City Hall and the library were on both sides of the street.
The City Hall was used to deal with various matters in the city.
The library was used to increase the literacy rate.
The other buildings were built by Richard for trading purposes.
Richard had not built any churches.
The other areas were where the residents lived.
The warehouses were built next to the castle, and the barracks were also built next to the castle.
With the castle's thick walls separating them, there was no need to worry about the noise.
In addition, the school was built behind the library. With the library blocking the way, it would be quieter.
With sufficient manpower and materials, the construction speed was relatively fast.
In a short period of ten days, a large number of buildings were built.
For the past ten days, Richard had been streaming live for more than an hour every day.
Watching Richard's territory slowly grow from nothing into a complete city, everyone in the livestream room watched with great interest.
One day, Richard had his phone's automatic camera follow Tauren Tieling for the entire day, allowing him to perform for a day, which made Tauren Tieling quite popular.
Tauren Tie Ling probably wouldn't have thought that in another world, he was already considered a small internet celebrity.
There were even memes of it on the Internet.
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"Master, there are some people wandering outside the territory.”
On this day, the cat-eared girl Miya said to Richard after patrolling around his territory.
"Horse bandits?"
Richard thought.
"Master, I heard some rumors when I was in the orc country," said the cat-eared girl, Miya.”
Richard looked at her.
" It's said that when there's not enough food, some of your human nobles will send people disguised as horse thieves to rob everywhere," Mia said.”
"Nobles?"
Richard was not surprised.
"My lord, bad news. More than half of the people came today.”
At this moment, a clerk ran over, panting.
"What happened?" Richard asked.
The clerk said," There are rumors everywhere now. The locust plague in the Orc Kingdom is about to arrive, so many people have gone back to snatch food!”
"Did the news of the locust plague spread so quickly? Let's go and take a look."
When Richard arrived at the construction site with the two cat-eared girls, he found that there were indeed hundreds of people missing.
Most of the people who were still working were originally from Richard's territory.
Although there were more than 2,000 people in his territory, excluding the elderly and children, there were only 700 to 800 people who could work.
"My Lord, the locust plague is coming. They are all worried that once the locust plague arrives, there will be no harvest and they won't be able to survive the winter.”
Another clerk walked up and reflected the wishes of many residents.
"Those grains are not ripe yet, and there won't be much harvest even if we harvest them. As long as you work, the lord will take care of your food and drink, what are you afraid of?”
Ellie spoke.
" Yes," the clerk said." But they're worried that once the locust plague comes, the lord's food will not be enough. After all, winter is so long."”
As he spoke, many residents of the territory had already surrounded him.
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"Call them over."
Richard said.
"Yes, my lord."
The clerk went down.
Soon, everyone was called over.
Richard looked at them." My food is not endless.”
At this point, he paused for a moment and swept his gaze across everyone with a faint dignity.
Then, he continued," However, as long as you continue to work for me, my food will allow you to survive this winter. I guarantee that as long as you are my people, no one will starve to death this winter!”
"I believe in my lord!"
After Richard finished speaking, Ellie shouted.
"I also believe in the Lord!"
Another person raised his hand. This person was someone who could read and earn an extra copper coin a day!
With someone taking the lead, the other residents thought about the drastic changes in the territory after Richard became a lord, as well as his noble status and all the strange things he had brought out. They instantly had confidence in Richard!
" There isn't any ripe food," Richard said." There won't be much even if we rob them. The most important thing now is to build the city. That way, when the bandits come, we can rely on the city to fight them!”
"Yes, my lord!"
Ellie and the others took the lead.
Seeing this, the residents of the other territories also agreed.
And so, the residents of Richard's territory settled down.
Richard's prestige in the territory played a big role. Otherwise, if it were anyone else, they wouldn't have been able to stabilize the situation!
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In fact, the current grain harvest was at least half of the total, but for Richard, the most important thing was to repair the city, not the grain, so he could only give up on the unripe grain.
This was something that could not be helped.
Otherwise, it would take at least a dozen days for each family to collect all the food, and Richard would have no one to use.
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Richard sent a few secretaries to the next territory to see if they could persuade the people to come back.
The next day, a few secretaries came back to report. Those people were a little worried. In addition, the nobles in the territory where those people were from issued a decree. If anyone did not snatch the grain, they would be chased out. The grain they had planted before would not belong to them anymore.
Under the pressure of the nobles, no one was willing to come back except for a few people.
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In this world, all the land belonged to the nobles.
Basically, all nobles would contract a portion of their land to their own people to cultivate, and then they would collect high taxes.
In other words, if those people didn't snatch the grain, the nobles would suffer a great loss. That was why they had forbidden those people from going out.
In addition, the people of this world had experienced a locust plague more than once. No one had been spared from it. After all, those people were not from Richard's territory, so they did not have as much confidence in Richard as the residents. In their panic, they would definitely want to grab whatever food they could get their hands on.
The power of the locust plague was already beginning to show.
"We are a little short of manpower."
Richard looked at the construction site where the number of people had suddenly decreased and thought of a way.
"King, Dorothy is here!"
At this moment, Mia sensed something and said.
The fox-eared lady came again?
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