Chapter 677: All the best

Successfully branching Alice's army from the Ofer region, and annexing the remnants of Farouk's army without moving a single sword or shot, Chen Jian was of course in a good mood.

In fact, there are too many things that make him feel good during this time, and in Chen Jian's own words, this is called all the best.

For example, in Baildes, due to the transfer of a large number of undead creatures, the threat of undead creatures is no longer a big mention for the Ntagrean army, and an army of Ntagrei from Negan has successfully established itself in the area, and a large but sturdy but solid mix of civil and wood is under construction, and until the stone castle is restored and put back into use, this camp directly connected to the underground will become the base camp of the Entagre army on the ground of Baildus.

If the situation allows, Chen Jian even plans to gradually establish several permanent military fortresses in various key locations of Bailds, in order to better deter the eastern border of the Erathia Empire, and consolidate his sovereignty in the Bairders region, unlike the major forces' ignorance of Bairdes, knowing where the huge mineral deposits are located underground, Chen Jian wants to completely control this huge but barren land in his own hands, and the problem of barren land is not a problem at all in his opinion.

"We can't engage in agriculture, we can engage in industry and commerce here."

At a meeting, Mr. Chen said this to a group of followers who questioned his decision.

In Chen Jian's eyes, Baierdes is simply a natural large industrial area, rich in minerals, not afraid of pollution, but also adjacent to the big 6 traffic to rush to Hammondal, and there is a long coastline and several deep-water ports, whether the local products are taken 6 roads or sea, can be very convenient to send to any corner of the big 6, and the products of the big 6 can also be transported here with the same convenience, a little operation, it is not difficult to establish several lively cities based on industry and commerce.

In addition to Baildes, everything went well, Chen Jian's plan in the Ofer region also went unexpectedly smoothly, and now the Alice army has become the mercenary army of the Entagri Empire, and the remnants of Farouk are wiped out and annexed by Chen Jian, and only two isolated armies belonging to the Erathia Empire and the Elven Kingdom are left in the Ofer region, Chen Jian believes that as long as he does it himself, these two armies will definitely not escape the fate of annihilation, but he does not wait for him to do it, The Erathia Empire and the Elven Kingdom, who were also aware of this, recalled these two armies in unison, and they didn't want their precious forces to be lost in the hands of the Entagre army, so soon after the collapse of the Farouk army, the two armies left Orphe and began to move towards the Hammondale region, apparently preparing to cooperate with their respective domestic armies to exterminate the undead creatures that were in the way of Hammondal.

However, what made Jian Chen feel funny was that although he did not send men and horses to pursue these two armies and let them go, these two armies somehow fought first on their own in the Hammondale area, and it seemed that between the Erathia Empire and the Elven Kingdom, they were already completely angry.

The departure of these two armies marks that the current Ofer has become a veritable borderless land, and as long as Chen Jian is willing, he can immediately send a large army to take over everything in the local area, and take the Ofer region into his own hands without much effort.

Of course, Jian Chen would not let go of such a great opportunity, and used the magic imprint left in the local area before to open a one-way magic portal, and an army of the Entagri Empire drove into the Orver region with great vigour, officially announcing the land of Over, and it was also included in the territory of the Entagri Empire.

Then, as was going on in Bairdes, Chen Jian asked people to build a lot of construction on several strategic points of Over, and now he has countless resources in his hands, and the soldiers are strong and strong, and Chen Jian has no idea of spitting out the fat that has been in hand, just like he originally planned, he is stationed in the Overer area, echoing Bairdes from afar, forming a horn momentum, completing his encirclement of Hammondale, the otherworldly hometown that he longs for in the northeast and southeast.

In Chen Jian's planning, the Ofer is built as an agricultural region, and Chen Jian hopes that the grain production capacity here will greatly alleviate the pressure of grain transportation brought about by the large number of garrisons in the Baildes and Ofer regions of the Entagre Empire, and the one-way portal is an important strategic means, and it is impossible to waste too much on the matter of grain transportation, otherwise the water magic master Tren will have to be exhausted to death by Chen Jian.

On top of this matter, the halfling patriarch Dominic slapped his chest in front of Jian Chen: "Your Majesty, don't worry, we halflings have lived in Orfu for so many years, and we know better than anything what the soil is like."

In order to prove that what he said was true, after getting Chen Jian's permission, Dominic temporarily put aside the matter at hand, organized a large number of people among the demihumans, conducted a field investigation of the current Ofer area, and soon provided Chen Jian with a detailed report on what crops are suitable for planting in what area of today's Ofer.

With this report handed in by Dominic with confidence, Chen Jian was relieved, so he began to carry out his Tuntian plan.

The implementation of this Tuntian plan is another thing that makes Chen Jian feel extremely comfortable, because the implementation of this plan is completely smooth beyond his expectations.

This autumn's bumper harvest has allowed the old Negan Lords, who have become the big farmers of the Ntagrean Empire, to really catch their first pot of gold since joining the Ntagri Empire.

Having tasted the real sweetness, it would be absolutely false to say that these guys didn't think about how to expand the farm under their name a little more.

It's just that if you want to get land from Chen Jian again, it's not easy to talk about, there is no merit, and you don't want to think about this kind of good thing.

Therefore, now, there are some of these old lords who are trying to rejoin the Entagri army or try to join the official class of the Entagrui Empire, they are not satisfied with the current situation, they have a certain confidence in their own ability, they hope to obtain some commendable credit through these methods, and then get more rewards from Chen Jian.

There are also some talents among these people, and with motivation, there are some people who have really been reused by Chen Jian and become generals of the army or local officials, which undoubtedly stimulates these old lords and greatly increases their sense of identity with this new empire.

Now it was suddenly rumored that Chen Jian was going to launch a tuntian plan, preparing to let people go to the Oufu area to go to tuntian and open a farm, and these big farmers were immediately boiling.

As a result, without waiting for Chen Jian to announce the specific plan, he just released a little bit of rumor, and deliberately leaked Dominic's report, and the big farmers began to take the initiative in order to compete for the quota of Oufu to start a farm.

They wrote to Chen Jian one after another, expressing their willingness to share the problems of the empire, go to the difficult Oufu region to go to Tuntian, and offered many preferential conditions that made Chen Jian stunned to show their determination and loyalty.

For example, some farmers expressed their willingness to increase the rate of taxes paid to the empire, some farmers expressed their willingness to sell their grain to the emperor at a lower price, and some farmers expressed their willingness to improve the treatment of hired laborers, in order to promote further integration of various ethnic groups and interests.

In short, in order to get the qualifications in Oufu Tuntian, these farmers are eight immortals across the sea, each showing their magical powers, but it makes Chen Jian a little crying and laughing, he never thought that others want to attract investment, always have to offer all kinds of preferential conditions to attract others, but fear that the popularity is not enough, they are good, the situation is completely reversed.

The few problems he had worried about before did not stop the enthusiasm of these farmers who wanted to enter the Ofer region, and these farmers did not seem to be worried at all that their investment in the current situation in the Ofer region was likely to be all wasted in the future, and compared to Chen Jian, it seemed that they were more confident in the combat effectiveness of the Entagri army.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Jian Chen also understood the reason for this strange phenomenon, no way, under the current system, the profit of farm operation is really high, at least compared to the income of those Negan lords in the past, it is much higher and easier, and because of this year's bumper harvest, this income is even more abundant.

That's enough income for farmers to take a certain amount of risk, and who of these former Negan lords isn't ambitious and adventurous? In the past, they were not afraid to lead a large army to the battlefield when they were lords, but now they are afraid of such a little risk as going to Oufu to invest in Tuntian?

Chen Jianxian, looking for these old lords to go to Oufu Tuntian, he really found the right person.

The enthusiasm of the old lords naturally drove the enthusiasm of the new aristocratic class of the Entagri Empire, everyone is running a farm, and the interests can be said to be the same, of course, the new nobles do not want the old lords to enjoy this income alone, and they have also started to act, they are afraid that someone will rob everything, and no matter how bad things are robbed, they will become rare treasures for everyone, not to mention, the right to the tuntian in the Oufu region is a real treasure for the new nobles and the old lords.

The result of all this is that in the end, Chen Jian had to privately revise his original plan, and the original preferential tax rate was changed by him to a higher tax rate than Nigel's soil, and the method of determining the quota was also changed from voluntary registration to a combination of imperial designation and lottery drawing, and the right to Tuntian also had a limit on the number of years, Chen Jian was a little surprised that some of the things he had done to consolidate his dominance had invisibly, but in this world of sword and magic, the germ of agricultural capitalism had been cultivated.