Although the city of Solong has suffered an unprecedented trauma, the Savoyard people have come out of the shadow of grief. Because, with the help of the magnanimous streamers, the Fidian people who disregarded their past suspicions, and the kind half-bloods, who once stood helplessly in the ruins, were able to eliminate their prejudices and hostility against each other. What's more, Tussalon, the king of Savoy whom they revered, had painted in their souls a vision of life, peace and prosperity. Therefore, these Savoyard people, who were regarded as barbaric, vulgar and uncivilized, but in fact simple and straightforward, by the Lepelian people of the Eastern Continent, have since abandoned their unrestrained will to fight, regarded the creation of a peaceful and prosperous kingdom as the highest honor, and first of all spiritually marched towards a new future.

At this time, people in the Western Continent were immersed in the busyness of building a peaceful future, and they were unaware of the murderous opportunities that were about to be made on the Eastern Continent on the other side of the ocean. Except, of course, for some people who have a strong sense of crisis. Because, this kind of person will be very conscious of thinking about the future for himself whenever and wherever he wants, and he is almost always planning for a rainy day in life, and Chahu is the best of this kind of people.

The greedy and fearful of death did not like war, and he was very happy to see the Sava people living in peace with the Streamers and Fitans, but this did not mean that his own ideas were noble. In fact, he was just worried that he would be affected by the war, which would lead to the loss of his life. If he had a choice, he would certainly prefer to be in a relatively safer environment, so that he can feel at ease. For Chahu, being able to live well is more important than anything else, and none of the integrity or honor is as important as being fed, clothed, and not bullied.

In the days when the Savoyard people stood at the starting point of peace, there were always signs of restlessness that constantly harassed Chahu, who had an unusually keen sense of crisis. Recently, he has frequently encountered in his dreams that Noro Kingele, a noble cousin far away in the Eastern Continent, has grabbed him by the neck and threatened him to slander the Savoyard king, fueling the war between the Savoyard and the aliens, causing them to kill each other until they are both defeated. Especially last night, he dreamed that the arrogant and indifferent Noro led the allies of the Western Continent to his house, dug up and filled all his escape tunnels, and threatened to throw him and his mother back into the slave pen in the Eastern Continent. Chahu was so frightened that he didn't want to go back to the old days anyway, and his imagination was already tormented.

After waking up from the nightmare, Chahu could no longer sleep, and rushed to see King Sava early in the morning, and said worriedly: "Your Majesty, it is naturally good that we can live in peace with the Fiji people, but those Lepeilian people in the eastern continent are full of tricks, and they must be guarded against, and they may take advantage of the weakness while we rebuild Suolong City." I remember that when the sandstorm came that day, a group of Lepeilian people happened to be out of the city, and I am afraid that the news of Suolong's disaster had already spread all over the Eastern Continent. ”

Tusalon did not fail to think about the problem mentioned by Chahu, after all, the Lepelian people have coveted the Western Continent for a long time, and they must not want to let go of this rare opportunity, but he really does not have the spare time and energy to ponder for this recently. In fact, for the Savoyards, fighting has long become a habit, and they can fight bravely whenever the war breaks out. The problem is that in the past 1,000 years, in addition to the experience of being raided by fierce beasts, in the last 40 years, they have taken the initiative to find trouble with the streamers, and the two sides have always fought openly, so they have plenty of time to prepare for each battle. But this time it was different, the Lepelian people in the Eastern Continent would not wait for them to be ready, so Tusalon had to start seriously considering the possibility of an "enemy surprise attack". The most important thing is that he has made up his mind to create a vibrant Western Continent, a peaceful and prosperous Savoy Kingdom, so he can't let those cunning Lepelians in the Eastern Continent land and destroy it.

However, as far as the current situation of the Western Continent is concerned, they can be described as a worrying situation. The best way to stop the landing of the Eastern Continent is to intercept them on the sea. However, due to the sandstorm, most of the ships in the harbor were damaged and had already drifted to the sea with the wind. A lot of timber was needed to rebuild the ship, but the perimeter of the city was already bare. There was not much wood stored in the dry kilns of Solong City, and with the destruction of sandstorms, there was even less wood suitable for shipbuilding. It's obviously too late to go to the north in the Essetti Mountains to fetch wood and build ships, but if you go to the Silvenian forest in the south to cut wood, you may soon cause the next sandstorm, because it is the only large forest left in the south. Moreover, raw wood with a high water content is not suitable for shipbuilding at all. If we don't take into account the preparation time of the army in the Eastern Continent, it will only take about 100 days to cross the sea by the fastest warship at present, and it will only take about 100 days to reach the Western Continent. And whether the armies of the eastern continent will attack after the timber of the western continent has dried naturally and the ships have been built, or will they attack immediately?

Therefore, the more Tusaron thought about the question of whether to build a ship, the more difficult it became, and until the second day there was still no perfect solution. But what is certain is that if the army of the Eastern Continent suddenly attacks, the main combat strength of the Western Continent will still be the Sava people. On the battlefield, the Savoyards never had the habit or experience of asking for help from others. In addition, the population of the Fiji tribe was already small, and at this time, Honia in the north was building ships for the streamers, while the half-bloods in the south were a little cowardly and non-aggressive, and they were of little use on the battlefield. Although the future of the Western Continent still requires their participation, the responsibility of protecting the Western Continent still lies on the shoulders of the Savoyard people.

In order to prepare for the war that is likely to break out in the near future, Tusalon must make some preparations in advance. On the basis of previous ideas, and after much deliberation, he officially promulgated a completely new tax system, which was mainly aimed at the half-bloods of the South. In fact, in the two hundred years since the Half-Bloods came to the Western Continent, King Sava has not made any other demands on the Half-Bloods other than accepting their unsolicited tribute and the disaster assistance they have received.

At the same time that the new system was promulgated in Rimbo, King Savoyard also revealed to the Half-Bloods that war was imminent, and they were to suspend all seafaring and commercial activities, and to allow them to cultivate any wasteland at any time for the cultivation of crops. A small portion of the future harvest of these crops will become taxes. However, if someone were willing to dig ditches and plant trees in the wastelands west of Solong now, King Savoy would have waived their taxes for the next ten years.

As soon as this new system was promulgated, the half-bloods of Limbo City cheered. Although they were accustomed to making a living from business and were not very good at farming, the half-bloods were of course more willing to stay in the Western Continent than the gambling ocean-going business activities, the harsh and unruly taxation of the Eastern Continent, and the dignity of being trampled on arbitrarily. For the Savoyards had never enslaved the half-bloods, and now that they were allowed to use their land freely for farming, and that taxes were within a reasonable range that they could easily accept, what could be more desirable than a stable life without fear for their lives?

But speaking of which, the Savoyards were actually more poor at farming, and the half-bloods were already accustomed to a hard life, as if they were naturally good at work. In their early years, they were familiar with nature and seemed to be very easy to get started with farming. Moreover, due to their long years of business, the half-bloods also have many opportunities to bring back seeds of various crops from the Eastern Continent.

Previously, although King Sava had not explicitly stipulated that half-bloods were not allowed to farm, the "lowly inferior people" and "sinners with dirty blood" instilled by the Lepelian people of the Eastern Continent since ancient times were not eligible for land, and so on, such negative ideas have long been deeply imprinted in the minds of half-bloods, imprisoning them for thousands of years, and they have always been so humble to survive in the cracks. It was not easy to escape from the Eastern Continent to the Western Continent, but they still had old habits that were difficult to change, and they were cautious everywhere, always frightened, even if they longed for a stable life and abundant food in their hearts, the docile and cowardly half-blood people did not dare to use the land easily. But the seeds brought back from going to the Eastern Continent to do business all these years are treasured. They are humble but persistent, and even if they don't have land, they stubbornly preserve the seeds of hope, which may be the belief that supports the half-bloods who are displaced to survive in the difficult world.

The new system promulgated by King Savoyard undoubtedly fulfilled the long-held desire of the half-bloods. The seeds that had been secretly hidden in the corners of the house finally had the hope of taking root, germinating, flowering, and bearing fruit. The rest of the matter did not need to be bothered by King Savoy, and the half-bloods, who had always been industrious, soon began to use the wasteland spontaneously to cultivate. Although the south was more fertile and wet, and the central and western regions were drier, the temptation to avoid paying taxes for ten years had offset all difficulties, and the half-bloods were happy to devote some of their energies to improving the dryness of the west.

Since then, the people living on the Western Continent have opened a new chapter in history and sown the seeds of hope on the land of the Western Continent by standing at the intersection of the two catastrophes of "after the sandstorm raging" and "on the eve of the East-West War".