"Here we are."

With Ainan's words, the whole team stopped.

After two months of trekking, did you finally reach your destination today?

Everyone looked at Ainan, waiting for the answer they had hoped for.

Not disappointing, Ainan pointed ahead: "The place we are going is there. ”

"Great!"

Got the answer they wanted, and the team erupted in an earth-shattering cheer. After two months of walking in places like the Swamp of the Wetlands, not only emaciated homeless people, even warriors like Sloan felt unbearable. Fortunately, this was finally over, and they came to the place where Ainan had spoken.

If it weren't for the hope in their hearts, and if it weren't for the deep down belief that Ainan would not deceive them, these people might not have been able to make it this far.

It wasn't just the homeless people who cheered, but dozens of porters in ragged clothes carrying their burdens. They were originally the servants of a baron, but their master provoked Ainan, and they were captured by the other party and used as coolies along the way, and they had to do all the dirty work. When the homeless people traveled lightly, they had to carry hundreds of pounds of things on their backs.

The hard days are finally over.

The coolies breathed a sigh of relief, and they finally survived the way.

When you don't reach the destination, you can still persevere, but when you arrive, your heart is relieved, and the strength is discharged, and you immediately lie on the ground and don't want to move. Ainan didn't force them, it was noon anyway, and it was still very early before dark.

With a wave of his hand, he motioned to the noble slaves who had been captured to serve as coolies: "Put your things down, you can go." ”

I thought that I would be called to death as a coolie, but I didn't expect that Ainan would be merciful and let them go, and the noble servants were overjoyed.

This period of being called as a coolie was unprecedented darkness for them, and none of them had the slightest hesitation to get out of this sea of suffering. The noble servants threw down their burdens and ran back and forth without looking back.

Tas looked at Ainan, and then at the backs of those noble servants leaving, and hesitated to say to Ainan: "These people will definitely expose us when they go back, and then those nobles will send people again." ”

Ainan laughed, "Tass, Tass, you're so simple and cute." ”

The wetland swamp is full of dangers, and if Ainan doesn't have Frost Grief to control a group of swamp crocodiles, let this group of earth overlords make a way for him, let alone lead tens of thousands of people on a long journey, he himself has to be careful with every step forward.

On the surface, it seems that he let go of those noble slaves, but in fact, those people can live for half a day without his sight. It is simply impossible to go back alive to report the news.

Just because Tars can't think of this layer doesn't mean that others can't think of it, and Sloan and Marcus can see it very clearly. Ainan's reluctance to kill those people was because he didn't want to give others the impression of being brutal and murderous, and such an image was not conducive to the tens of thousands of homeless people in his leadership team, and the people at the bottom always had a better impression of the benevolent and tolerant superiors.

Of course, Sloanan privately guessed that the reason why Ainan was reluctant to do it was because he felt that the dog leg who killed these nobles had dirty his hands and insulted his identity—it was too cheap.

Not everyone can let adults do it, and those scum don't deserve it at all.

That's how Sloanan sees it.

There are hundreds of miles of fertile soil in the valley, and there is a lake that can supply enough fresh water, these two alone are already overjoying, and what everyone did not expect is that there is a city in the belly of the mountain.

Although it is an abandoned city that needs to be rebuilt and renovated into a habitable environment, it is a blessing from heaven for the tens of thousands of displaced people who originally belonged to the proletarians.

There is no tile on the top of the head, there is no inch of land under the feet, even the clothes on the body cannot cover the wind, and there is no source for food except begging and digging wild vegetables. If you give such a person a piece of land to plant, a house to live in, and a stutter to eat, and to be fed and clothed, he will be grateful to you and sell his life to you.

Walking in the empty city with torches, Sloane and the others all had shocked expressions on their faces, they never thought that Ainan would find such a place. Not only is there plenty of fertile land, but there is also a city bigger than Fort Riptide.

I thought it would be nice to have a place to stay, but who would have thought that not only could I stay, but the conditions were so good, it was not double or two times more than everyone's expectations, and Ainan's ability was too great.

Don't look at the city has been abandoned for a long time, the whole city is built with the hardest mountain stones, you only need to clean and ventilate it, and if you move quickly, you can clean a room that is enough for the whole team to rest.

The only trouble is that the entrance and exit of the door are too low, and the buildings of the city are too sturdy to complete the renovation of the door in ten and a half days. But this is only a small problem, and for the displaced people, what they have now obtained has made them more satisfied.

Sloane leaned over to Ainan and whispered, "My lord, it's a waste to live in this small number of people in this city, I have a suggestion. ”

"Tell me about it."

"It's a turbulent time within the Empire, and there are a lot of homeless people, who are destabilizing factors for the Empire, but they are a valuable resource for us."

"You're asking me to absorb more homeless people?" Ainan pondered for a moment, "Our people may not be able to fill even one room and one mountain in a family, and it accounts for less than one-tenth of the entire city, so it is indeed a waste to have so many empty rooms." But to go into the empire and absorb the outcasts, can they trust us? Even if they believe in us and want to bring a large number of people here, can we do it with our strength? ”

There are more problems, Ainan did not say, the population is large, the consumption of various resources is more, not to mention others, the consumption of food alone is an astronomical amount.

It is true that there is enough land in the valley for people to cultivate, but it takes time for the cultivated crops to mature from sowing to maturity.

"Your proposal is very good, it can't be realized in a short time, we don't have much food, and it is very difficult to feed the people now."

When it comes to food, Ainan is worried, the rations of tens of thousands of people can't always be solved by hunting, but how can you reclaim the land and grow grain?

Sloanan looked around and saw that everyone else was some distance away, and lowered his voice: "I served in the army, and I know of two grain storage sites near the wetland swamp. Now that the empire is in such chaos, the eyes of the nobles are focused on Riptide Castle, the elite troops have been transferred to the manor and castle of the noble lord to protect their safety, plus the Swamp of the Wetlands has no enemy army on this side of the empire and is defenseless, they must not think that anyone dares to attack. ”

The idea of fighting the army, this guy is fat enough.

Ainan rubbed his chin, with Sloanan, the chance of success of the leading party who is familiar with the inside story is not ordinary, which is very exciting.