By the time the travelers had completely settled the Thracian captives, it was the end of February in 781 in the continental calendar.

At this time, it is the beginning of spring ploughing, and several major crops are ready for planting, especially cassava, the main food crop in the Tarakhan area, which must be bred now to be planted on a large scale in April.

Cassava breeding is a technique that the traversers have explored themselves. Naturally, the Western Continent region also has an agricultural tradition of breeding, but the traditional breeding is for rice, and no one has ever thought that cassava can still be bred.

Among the traversers, there are still many people who know something about agriculture. Uncle Volibell has been farming for many years, although he mainly grows vegetables, but he is familiar with all the work in the field, Sean planted melons and fruits at home after he was discharged from the army, and Liu Daoqing and others were born in the countryside...... Combined with everyone's experience, this group of traversers, who can barely be called the "agricultural group", has developed a lot of agricultural improvement schemes, which have been gradually verified and are gradually being promoted.

Surprisingly, it is the northern region of Tarakhan that has done the best job in agricultural technology extension.

Locke used his violence to establish a rural self-help cooperative, and through the relationship between Sword Thirteen and Xingzhao's siblings, he eased relations with the barbarians in the northern forest.

Really, because he and his men often wander around at night, and once they find anyone who is a traitor, they are basically arrested and sent to hard labor.

The most common type of hard labor was to go to the barbarian villages to farm. In the face of a group of barbarians who do not understand the language and have a habit of eating flesh and blood, those thieves want to cry grandpa and beg grandma, but it is useless, because the barbarians who are in charge of supervising them do not understand what they mean at all—the honest man of Sword Thirteen, who is unruly and fools, says that the tradition of those outsiders is that the happier they are, the more sad they are......

In fact, even if these thieves can trick the barbarians who supervise them into releasing them, it may not be a good thing. The "prison sentences" arranged by Locke are all in villages deep in the forest, and a person without any tools really needs a little protagonist template if he wants to escape from the vast forest alive.

Obviously, none of them have anything as high-end as the main character's template, so the security situation in the north is getting better and better.

In fact, there is another factor that hinders the law and order, that is, the lord and his men, but the lords of the northern border of Tara Khan really dare not make trouble—they are all eager to turn into turtles now, and hide at home every day without going out, lest something provoke the rampant Locke Great Demon King, and be hung up and beaten to death.

Locke was a man of his word, and promised not to kill the lord casually, but not casually. His current practice is to hang up the lords who provoked him, and draw them with rattans, and while pumping them with magic healing, until the rattan breaks, it is "one". Depending on the severity of the offense, the most serious punishment was even imposed on "12 roots".

That time lasted more than ten days, and I don't know how many executioners were changed before and after. But all the lords who came to visit voluntarily or compulsorily were all as pale as the earth, trembling in both hands, and when they returned home, they became more and more honest, and did not dare to cause trouble at all, lest they would also be hung up and beaten like this—the unfortunate fellow, with the flesh and skin that had been sucked off his body, piled up on the ground......

Anthony was very disdainful of Locke's method of solving problems purely by violence, saying that "violence cannot solve problems". Locke's answer is that "violence is the foundation of everything, and it must be supported by violence before anything else can be talked about...... Anyway, the two of them often quarrel while talking, and everyone is used to it.

Violence has proven to be effective. For example, in the struggle for important resources, when the conditions are on par, a person who has enough violence obviously has a much advantage over someone who is not violent.

The group of captives assigned to the northern border of Tara Khan was arranged by Locke to various villages, and basically every village had some, and they were completely dispersed. They will work and live together with local farmers.

Locke did not treat this group of people as prisoners, in his opinion, these people were just victims of war, and even if they were guilty, it was those who started the war who committed the crime, and they were also victims, so they were only busy for more than half a month, and at the end of the spring ploughing, he announced that these people had ended their sentences early because of their good behavior, and they were not counted in the file.

Antony, on the other hand, did the same, the Earl of Tarakhan gathered the captives and arranged them to work in mines, lumberyards, etc., and also placed guards to keep watch. Although he was not stingy in terms of food, he was quite wary of these captives, and did not mean to relax in the slightest.

After the spring ploughing, Locke came to visit the castle again.

This time, he brought with him the wishes of the former captives.

"What? they want to bring their own families with them?" Sanyu asked in surprise, "Do they have a problem with their brains?

"The living conditions in Thrace are not good. Locke had talked a lot with them during this time, and naturally understood their thoughts, explaining, "The Thracian side has higher taxes, and agriculture is also backward than ours. The most important thing is that their laws and regulations are relatively strict, and because of the wars over the years, they are also more ruthless against civilian plunder...... The lords have already felt the heavy pressure, and the peasants who have been transferred by them can imagine the days. ”

"But...... Isn't the territory of Thrace expanding a lot?"

"Territorial expansion, it is the lords who benefit, what does it matter to the peasants?" Locke sneered and shook his head, "What's more, they are all poorly mixed among the peasants, and they don't have the courage to join the army, and they don't dare to jump out to resist...... These people are the most oppressed. In contrast, we have a stable life, they can really live and work in peace, and of course they want to bring their families over and enjoy themselves. ”

"Farming can also be called 'happiness'?" asked Sanyu suspiciously.

"Whether you are happy or not depends on who you compare yourself with. Before the crossing, we were naturally unfortunate compared with the big guys who feasted in the sea and sky, but compared with the refugees in the war-torn areas of the Middle East, of course, we were happy. ”

Sanyu thought about it for a while, agreed to Locke's request, and helped him contact his men to go to the Thracian border, find the families of the captives, and try to take them to the north of Tara Khan.

Until then, though, the traversers have one more trouble to deal with.

That's ...... A delegation of emissaries from the royal capital of Trera.