After giving Du Wei the task of recruiting mercenaries, Jiang Feng took a trip to the city hall and inspected the recent municipal work in Boulder City.

Almost the same reaction as Du Wei, Rembert, who was sitting in the mayor's office sipping red wine, was also frightened by Jiang Feng, who suddenly visited, and the red wine was almost not sprinkled on his body.

However, Jiang Feng didn't care what he was doing in the office.

For his subordinates, Jiang Feng's only requirement was to do a good job of the things he had explained, and as for the rest, he didn't plan to say anything more.

"Great, my lord, I didn't know you were back...... Is it possible for you to come back suddenly...... What's the matter? While wiping his sweat, Rembert took the wine bottle and poured Jiang Feng a glass himself, but Jiang Feng stretched out his hand and pushed it away.

"I'm going to have to go to the Wizard's Tower in a moment, so I don't have to. Go and show me the city map of Boulder City, I have something for you to do. ”

"Yes, yes." Lembert hurried back to his desk and took out a roll of parchment from a drawer, a map he had asked the artists of the Artists' Guild to draw for Boulder City this month.

After taking the map, Jiang Feng casually took the quill in Rembert's hand and drew a circle near the steel mill outside Boulder City, enclosing an entire section of the moat along with the dirt path leading to the main road.

Somewhat unsure of what Jiang Feng meant, Rembert hesitated and asked suspiciously, "This is?" ”

"Remember the refugees I asked you to take?" Jiang Feng asked.

Rembert nodded, since the great victory in Sardiniburgh last month, the refugees from the northeastern part of the entire Rick Kingdom have all crossed the Kara Mountains and flocked to the Thorn Waste.

At first, he also reminded Jiang Feng that continuing to accept refugees might cause the city hall's finances to be overwhelmed, but Jiang Feng moved out of the war bond set and borrowed a lot of money from the merchant families in Boulder City, barely surviving it.

Now the number of refugees who have gone to Stone City has exceeded 50,000, which is equivalent to a quarter of the permanent population, and it is a miracle that it has been able to hold on to it until now.

"Now that the conditions are ripe, I plan to make this an industrial area in Boulder City," Jiang Feng looked at Rembert with these words written next to the circle, "Boulder City will focus on the development of light and heavy industries based on textiles and steelmaking, and in the future, the steel and cotton cloth of the entire south coast from the Loren continent on the other side of the sea will be contracted by our factory." To do this, we need a large amount of industrial raw materials, and the production of these raw materials will quickly absorb the current surplus labor force in Boulder City. ”

Rembert hesitated for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "It's okay to say iron ore, I have sent people to draw the villages where the miners live around several mines, and have sent some refugees over to make them fend for themselves...... But cotton can't be grown in the thorny wasteland. ”

"What can't be grown on the thorny wasteland, we can put it on Crocodile Island to plant, the reason why I found you is to talk to you about the planning of the industrial zone, and the other thing is to ask you to count some of the refugees out, and I am ready to immigrate them to Crocodile Island."

Rembert was stunned for a moment and asked, "You...... How many people are needed? ”

"At least five thousand, not more than ten thousand. The requirement is that the more young and middle-aged workers the better, preferably under the age of 30, with a family preferred. ”

Rembert nodded: "I'll do this right away." ”

Most of the people who were able to escape here over the Kara Mountains were not old, weak, sick or disabled, and it was not too difficult to gather more than 5,000 laborers to come out.

He happened to be still worrying, how to settle these refugees, and with the financial subsidies of the city hall, it was not a long-term solution to keep these people for nothing. In particular, there are more idlers, it is easy to breed trouble, and the recent deterioration of law and order in Boulder City is related to those refugees outside the city.

Especially now that the garrison of Boulder City is very weak, and most of the militia are fighting with His Majesty on the front line, he doesn't even dare to overfeed these refugees.

Now Jiang Feng proposed to send these refugees to the colony, which simply helped him solve a big problem.

It's just that he still can't figure out how Jiang Feng plans to send these people to the colony.

That's more than 5,000 people, towing their families and mouths, and counting the supplies they carry, thirty or forty boats may not be enough!

After a moment's hesitation, Rembert still asked the confusion in his heart, which was mainly a kind reminder.

He was worried that Jiang Feng had thought about the problem too simply, after all, mortals don't know witchcraft, and for him it might just be a momentary trip, but for mortals, it might take a month or even months.

"But sir, you...... How are you going to get these people to Crocodile Island? ”

"Soon this world will usher in a magic tide, open the portal for as long as the magic tide lasts, even if you don't need to continuously enter magic stones, you can keep the portal open." Jiang Feng didn't shy away from it, and told Rembert directly.

As for whether he can understand or not, that's none of his business.

……

After leaving the city hall, Jiang Feng rode a fast horse and headed to his wizard tower.

Unlike Du Wei and Rembert, Makalu waited at the foot of the wizard tower early to welcome Jiang Feng's arrival.

After all, he used to be a three-star wizard, and his understanding of spiritual power far surpassed ordinary people. Although the slave cannot sense the location of the master, with the weak spiritual connection of the slave contract, a vague distance can still be sensed.

Although he was also surprised, why Jiang Feng suddenly appeared in Giant Stone City.

Riding under the suspension bridge and handing the reins to the guards next to him, Jiang Feng walked in front of Makalu.

Without any extra pleasantries, he commanded directly.

"Gather the apprentices of the β Academy, and in four hours, I would like to see them all in the halls, I have something important to announce."

"Yes."

Although he was puzzled by Jiang Feng's sudden decision, Makalu didn't ask much, and after bowing his head respectfully, he turned around and walked in the direction of the dormitory tower.

Coming to the laboratory without saying a word, Jiang Feng opened the space ring without saying a word, and threw a bunch of medicinal materials on the experimental table.

Most of these were the magic materials he had collected from his small secret realm, and a small number of them were specialties from the Thorn Wasteland.

The potion he is about to configure is an improved version of the Focus Potion, which reduces the duration of the potion but greatly increases the drinker's sensitivity to the magic element.

Soon, the world will usher in a short magic tide, just like the rising tide of the sea, and the abundance of magic elements in the entire world will be greatly increased. This will be a rare opportunity for those of his apprentices.

Whether it was to improve the strength of his own forces, or to collect experimental data from those apprentices, he had the need to help these apprentices advance.

These improved Focus Potions are for them!

With a little finger in his hand, he lit the alcohol lamp, Jiang Feng skillfully put the crucible on the iron frame, and then sprinkled a few beans with a glass luster inside.

Quietly waiting for the beans in the dry pot to crumble into powder, Jiang Feng was about to make himself a cup of coffee.

But just then, he saw an owl in the window of the laboratory, pecking at the window.

Jiang Feng's pupils shrank slightly, and his eyebrows raised a look of interest.

At the owl's feet, he noticed a letter tied with a rope......