Chapter 139: The Caravan Returns
After seeing the data displayed by the item, Suren was very satisfied, this weapon was completely tailor-made for him. The power of thunder and Su Lun's own thunder realm are superimposed, and his strength is even stronger, and he will have to face the troll tribe next.
To Suren's surprise, Jean came back with the caravan, the scope of the heavy snow two days ago was not the entire Northland Wasteland, at least Jean did not encounter it, as for why it was late, it was because the caravan was too large, and they spent too much time in order to arrange the caravan.
This time the caravan cost fifteen thousand kinnars and brought back more than two thousand slaves, and in addition to ordinary slaves, Jean also bought more than three hundred artisan slaves with various skills this time.
So many artisan slaves were bought because of the help of those caravans who cooperated with Zhenbei Fort, otherwise they would not have been able to buy them at all, and there were also a large number of homeless people who followed them here. After several months of publicity, Zhenbei Fort has gained a lot of popularity, and many displaced people who can't survive are willing to follow the caravan to Zhenbei Fort.
Because the caravan was too large this time, Jean deliberately spent a lot of kinnar to hire more than 200 mercenaries. They were not asked how capable they were, just so that they could assist in managing the outcasts, and in the end the size of the entire caravan reached four thousand men.
Although the caravan brought back a lot of people, but because Suren had made preparations in advance, the resettlement work did not have much chaos, all the slaves had been divided into groups, and each group had a mercenary as the leader, and then under the leadership of the team leader, they were taken to the designated residence to rest.
Displaced people are divided into families, and if there are no families, they are divided into groups and then assigned to the places where the displaced people live.
There were four thousand more people at once, and the originally somewhat spacious Zhenbei Fort immediately became crowded, and the population in Zhenbei Fort directly tripled. However, Su Lun will not be too crowded, and the population of Zhenbei Fort will be at least tens of thousands if it wants to develop into Zhenbei City, and now it is only a large town at best.
Because of the population boom, a lot of things need to be recalculated. For example, more canteens were divided, six canteens were divided according to the place of residence for 6,000 people, and related supporting facilities also needed to be prepared, because the number of people increased, Su Lun began to expand the security team, and this time he planned to expand the security team to 150 people.
Fortunately, the town's infrastructure is doing well, although it is a little crowded, but at least everyone has a house to live in, and there will be no phenomenon of sleeping on the streets.
Although the number of people brought back this time is huge, but the health regulations of Zhenbei Fort still have to be done, according to the medical level of this world, the curing effect of various infectious diseases is low, and there are no medicinal materials in Zhenbei Fort, if there is an infectious disease, according to the physical fitness of those slaves and free people, half of them can be carried over is the protection of the gods.
Everyone is taken to the public bath to wash up in teams, while everyone is asked to soak in lime water for disinfection, and the changed clothes are collected and burned, and then everyone is given a new set of clothes.
Although there were many requests, everyone accepted them honestly. Because when entering the north fort of Zhenbei, the two hideous heads hanging on the city wall told everyone that the owner here was not good-tempered. There are some thorns who don't have long eyes and want to make trouble, and they are directly taken out to repair by the security forces who are waiting for them.
After cleaning up the personal hygiene, someone will lead the people to the restaurant to eat in groups, and the whole process is hectic but orderly.
The arrival of so many slaves and homeless people brought abundant labor to Zhenbei Fort, and the labor began to decrease after the winter, but so many people had nothing to do and had to provide food and heating every day, which was definitely the biggest waste for Su Yanguo Plucking Capitalist Lun.
So the construction plan of the territory was started again, of course, this will take into account the weather, and the increase in the number of people has also led to an increase in various affairs in the territory, and Suren has also begun to consider forming a system of officials to use them to manage the town.
It's just that he hasn't found a suitable person to take the position of town mayor yet, as for those ordinary officials and small officials, these are easy to solve, and the point system that Zhenbei Fort has been using, those who are responsible for recording points every day are actually qualified officials.
After these few months, they have become familiar with the things of the territory, and those who are not right-minded and greedy have long been cleared out in these months.
As long as the system is simply improved, these officials only need to do things according to the system, as for corruption, abuse of power, these problems do not have to worry at all, Su Lun's territory is not a country with a population of hundreds of thousands of millions, just a small town with a few thousand people, it is not easy to hide Su Lun from making small moves, and with Chrissy, they don't have this opportunity.
The sudden increase in population caused some chaos in Zhenbei Fort, but it was quickly dealt with, and then the weather cleared completely, even the snow outside melted, and the scouts continued to send news about the trolls, and Suren began to prepare for the coming war.
Because of the troll's powerful regenerative ability, it is difficult to kill them with ordinary physical attacks, and basically all adventurers know that after fighting the troll, all the limbs of the troll need to be incinerate, because as long as there is enough time, even a small piece of meat can spawn a full troll.
Of course, there is a limit to this regenerative ability, regeneration consumes a lot of energy, and the regenerated trolls need to be replenished as soon as possible, and only the largest piece of the remains of each troll will be reborn in this way. The rest of the flesh will be reduced to ashes when the troll is reborn.
It is also because of this near-immortal regenerative ability that makes trolls fearless on the battlefield.
As for the idea that a troll is cut into countless pieces and then split into countless trolls, this is not the case. Troll reproduction is also viviparous, not divisive. Suren prepares to go to war with the trolls, and needs to prepare a large amount of fire-starters.
Outside the territory, there are many pine trees, a vegetable oil that can be lit with a little fire, and many indigenous tribes use it to make torches, and Suren has people cut down a large number of pine trees and extract a lot of animal oil. There was no fire oil here in Zhenbei Fort, and the main production area of fire oil was in the desert kingdom, so he had to use animal fat instead.
The animal fat is insufficient, and Suren sends someone to distill the rum several times to obtain a high-purity alcohol, which will be used as a flaminating material to deal with the upcoming trolls. It can be said that for the sake of this war, Suren lost a lot of materials.