The light snow is clear, and the soft sunlight shines through the sparse woods, sprinkling the ground with a little snow and ice, causing a cold mist to rise between the woodlands.

More than forty sturdy men, armed with iron axes and hacksaws, were walking through the cold fog, and their thick, tight snow rabbit leather boots were stepping on the muddy ground, splashing flakes of snow.

Mo Lin, who is more than half a hundred years old and has gray hair, took a breath of hot air into the palm of his hand, rubbing his somewhat frozen fingers vigorously, the air on snowy days is always very clammy and cold.

However, the village leader appointed by Victor was full of joy and expectation, and he knew that the season of cold and wet water was about to pass, and the season of earth was quietly approaching. Shoots have even sprouted on these branches that are still hanging with snow and ice.

Today, Maureen and his group are tasked with clearing part of the grove as Lord Victor prepares to plan a village in a clearing next to the woodland. And around the village, it is necessary to keep an open area of the land of three arrows.

"Let's start cutting from here! Big guy put some effort today, finish it early, and go back and I'll invite everyone to eat hot pot!" Mo Lin visually measured the distance and began to beckon everyone to work.

"Okay!"

"Team leader, what you say! I want a venison pot!"

"Venison, don't be afraid to kill your animal! Captain Nelson is not going to Blackcastle this time. ”

"Haha... ”

Hearing that the team leader was going to treat them to eat hot pot, these villagers became excited, this is a delicacy invented by the lord, which is delicious and warm-warming, but it can only be tasted by going to the small canteen and spending work.

Victor's opening of a small canteen was a last resort, and just a few days ago, when Lilia reported to him about the affairs of the territory, he was surprised to learn that in more than a month, the camp had sent more than 100,000 jobs.

Victor promised that one work point could be exchanged for one copper sol, so Victor needed to pay more than 100,000 copper soles to the people. According to the currency exchange ratio of the Rand Empire, 36 copper soles are exchanged for 1 silver sol, and 36 silver soles are exchanged for 1 gold sol, and more than 100,000 copper soles are equivalent to nearly 100 gold soles.

Of course, Sol Victor can afford to pay a hundred gold, but the problem is that this is only a little more than a month's work, and if it continues to grow at this rate in the future, he will have to play off.

After carefully reviewing the work records with the help of Lilia, Victor has to admit that he overestimated his own management level and underestimated the insane thirst for work of the people.

Over the past 50 days, two eight-metre-high iron oak fences have been erected, eight arrow towers have been erected, barracks, warehouses, mills, cisterns, blacksmiths, canteens, wine cellars, and Victor's office and laboratory workshop have been erected. In addition, the enthusiastic leaders have also reclaimed nearly 2,000 acres of land, raised nearly 200 ground lizards, and harvested more than 100 ground lizard eggs every day.

In the human world, the lords work for the lord for nothing, if the lord is lazy, the lord will use a whip to teach them, but Victor scoffs at such a rough management method, and the division of work system he implemented can be said to be very successful in terms of efficiency. But the problem is that Victor did not carefully weigh the amount of work allocated and his actual ability to pay, which caused such an embarrassing situation.

As a lord, Victor now doesn't have to rush to exchange work with his lords, and what he lacks most now is Kinsor, because he has already begun to produce alchemy humans.

The 50,000 gold soles that Victor got from the York family already had about 29,000 left, and according to the plan, he planned to produce, 15 alchemy auxiliaries, 15 alchemy militia, and 10 alchemy crows, a total of 26,000 gold soles, so he had less than 3,000 gold soles left on hand, which was already very limited for a lord.

Making money became his most urgent desire, and before that, Victor had to solve the credit crisis caused by the problem of work sharing.

Victor can delay it, but not for too long, because when he was on Earth, the most hated thing was to be owed wages by his boss.

So, the small canteen opened in the camp.

In the past, the three meals a day of the people in the camp were provided free of charge by the houses, and the food needs of these hundreds of people were still very large, but fortunately, Victor's territory was vast, rich in animal and plant resources, and he could basically achieve self-sufficiency by gathering and hunting. It's just that the taste of the food made by the guy is very monotonous, and there are only two kinds of stewed and grilled.

The small canteen set up in the camp provides a variety of cooking methods to make food, such as stir-fried, steamed, teppanyaki, stewed and luscious purple cane wine. However, these need to be exchanged for the work of the people.

Victor wanted to use this method to reclaim his credits.

In the beginning, the people would rather drool outside the small canteen and nibble on the free food provided by the dormitory than go into the small canteen to consume. After Victor's inquiry, it turned out that the leaders didn't really care about the exchange of labor for copper sol, what they really cared about was the exchange of labor for fiefdom.

Victor had to reassure the people that he would get one acre of land for 1,000 cents, and the portions would continue to be used. Only then did the people begin to consume in the small cafeteria.

The experience of the small canteen made the people extremely satisfied, not only did they have delicious food to enjoy, but also gave them a sense of superiority. Because, the freedmen who joined later did not have a share of labor to consume.

When dining represents identity and status, the business of the small canteen has become more and more popular.

And the success of the small canteen made Victor realize that it didn't matter if his work could be exchanged for copper sol or not, and his credit problem had been solved.

It's just that what Victor didn't expect was that the small canteen he founded would become the most upscale place for consumption and communication in the human world a few decades later. Of course, that's an afterthought.

Mo Lin watched his subordinates work in full swing, and his heart was also hot.

He spat in the palm of his hand, picked up his heavy iron axe, and slashed a low tree with great force.

The hard work and the upheaval of life made Mo Lin's body a little rickety, but he felt that his whole body was full of strength.

It won't be long before Morin becomes the first village chief under the lord.

Victor's territory is vast, almost 12,000 square kilometers. To control such a large territory, a camp alone was not enough, so building villages and roads became a natural choice for Victor.

With the addition of a number of freedmen, the current population of Victor's hill camp is approaching five hundred. Although the camp is fully capable of accommodating these people, as the weather warms up, Victor believes that more freedmen will migrate here. In order to absorb more of his lords, Victor decided to start his first village.

The main reason, of course, was to deal with the Chebmans' ambitions for the territory. The Chebmans, disguised as freedmen, had de facto control over the eastern part of their territory. Victor fears that they will continue to build freedfolk strongholds around the hill camp in this way, at which point Victor will be trapped in the area and lose de facto control of the territory.

Therefore, in order to prevent this from happening, Victor must preemptively establish villages and strongholds in strategic locations around the hill camp.

Victor chooses Morin to be the head of the first village. In this regard, although the other village leaders were extremely envious, they did not have any objections. Because, Maureen is the best carpenter in the camp. Every wooden building in the hill camp was designed and built by Morin, including the exquisite wooden houses that stand on the upper camp.

All the lords thought that it was Morin's good craftsmanship that allowed him to win the favor of the lord, but Morin knew that he was valued by the lord because he was responsible enough.

At the beginning, a total of six people were appointed by Victor as the leader of the villagers, and now two of the village leaders have lost their positions, and that is because these two people began to use their power to bully their members, and then they were reported by the deputy leader. As for who reported it, no one except the lord could say clearly, because the deputy leader was held by ordinary villagers in turn.

Now, no villager leader dares to blatantly bully his lords, who knows if this guy will make a small report to the lord after he becomes the deputy leader in the future.

Of course, there are also some bad-hearted guys who began to use the status of the deputy team leader to falsely accuse their team leader in an attempt to replace their positions, but unfortunately, they were all recognized by the lord. The men were also kicked out of the work system after being severely whipped. This kind of severe punishment makes all those with bad intentions honest.

The lords don't know how Victor saw through these lies, but they all think that the lord is too wise to tolerate any deception.

In fact, Victor never believed in the content of the deputy leader's report, he just recorded the content of the report, and then compared it before and after.

With a hard slash, Morin finally cut off the bowl-thick low tree, straightened up, wiped the sweat from his head, and looked around at the progress of the other villagers.

Now the number of people in this village group has grown from more than 20 to 40, and that is because the new freedmen have also been assigned. It's just that these later members are far less motivated to work than the old team members, after all, they have no work to take, in order to motivate these people, Victor allows the team leader to recommend a new member with excellent performance to join the work sharing system every month. Unfortunately, so far, none of the village leaders have recommended Victor, and Morin is no exception.

What are you kidding, just because these lowly and lazy free people still want to be on an equal footing with us, in the next life!

For this situation, Victor has no good way for the time being, human nature is like this.

Of course, there are also a very small number of free people who work hard and are willing to work. For example, Maureen has one such new member under his command.

This is a tall, burly man in the prime of life, he is covered with knotted muscles, as if he has inexhaustible strength. The dwarf tree with the thickness of the bowl mouth, ordinary villagers need to cut it more than a dozen times to cut it, and this guy only needs to chop it twice, and then look at his relaxed and freehand appearance, everyone believes that in fact, he can cut a dwarf tree with just an axe.

The big man had only been in Maureen's group for a few days, but the strength and efficiency he showed was something that all the members were impressed, because he did the same work as five villagers alone. Therefore, he was ostracized by all the team members, even Morin suppressed him intentionally or unintentionally, arranged some heavy work and dirty work for him to do, but he completed the work assigned to him by Morin without any complaints.

In the face of the cynicism of the other team members, the big man just smiled innocently, never argued with others, and rarely spoke, even if someone deliberately chatted with him, he couldn't hold back a word for a long time. Gradually, everyone understood that this big man was a fool!

This realization made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and then everyone's attitude towards the big man changed one hundred and eighty degrees, after all, this super capable stupid big man made the work of the group members much easier.

With a "click", another dwarf tree was chopped down by the big man, and this was already the seventh tree he had cut down.

Mo Lin nodded secretly when he saw this scene, he has been observing the performance of the big man in the past few days, although he is a little silly, but he is indeed hardworking and down-to-earth, he is a good worker, and the most important thing is that he is very obedient, and he never compromises to complete the tasks ordered by Mo Lin.

Merlin decided to observe the big man for a little longer, and if he continued to be so obedient and hardworking, in a month's time, he would recommend the big man to Master Victor to join the work system. Preferably, in the future the big man can join his village.

"Big man, stop and rest. After the big man had cut down 11 low trees, Morin couldn't help but command.

This big man is good at everything, but he has a little tendon, and if Morin doesn't tell him to rest, it is estimated that he will continue to work until the task is completed.

"Team leader, the big man has strength! If you really care about him, let him eat today!" said an old team member sourly.

The corners of Morin's eyes twitched, the big man also had a problem that he was particularly able to eat, he ate more food alone than three people. Two days ago, when Morin was appointed by Victor as the substitute village head, he invited his team members to eat hot pot in the small cafeteria, and as a result, it cost him more than 500 points, of which more than 100 points of food was killed by the big man alone. At the end of the day, the big man poured the whole bottom of the pot into his stomach because he was not full。。。。。

"Just by the performance of a big man, I will let him eat today, I don't believe that he can't fill his belly!" Morin said through gritted teeth.

They are all people who want to be the village chief, how can they still slam the door like ordinary people?

Although it was still very painful, Mo Lin felt that he had to have the momentum of the village chief, anyway, the work he had accumulated was the highest in the camp, as many as more than 10,000 points!

"Haha! Let's see how big a big man's belly really is today!"

"I bet the big guy will eat up 300 points of the team leader alone!"

While everyone was talking and laughing loudly, the big man stood up with a heavy logging axe in his hand and shouted, "Beware!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a behemoth burst out of a bush and faced the unsuspecting crowd.

This is a wild boar over 800 pounds, with blood-red eyes, fangs in its long mouth, and arrows stuck in its hind legs and hips, telling everyone unmistakably that it is a wounded and mad male boar!

Without hesitation, the manic beast roared and rushed towards the nearest villager.

A male wild boar, once it starts to go berserk, is very scary. Its strength and weight can easily break through a thick tree, its long fangs are strong enough to pierce a person's body, and its skin is thick and thick, making it difficult for ordinary people to kill it at once. The best thing to do in the face of such a guy is to avoid it in advance.

However, the encounter was so sudden, that even though the villager had begun to crawl and crawl to the ground trying to avoid the boar's attack, it was too late.

Just as everyone was panicking and scattering around, the big man moved.

In just a moment, the big man crossed a distance of more than ten meters and smashed the blunt side of the logging axe on the back of the wild boar's arched neck. With a muffled "bang", the unstoppable charge of the male wild boar came to an abrupt end, and its fat body was directly pressed to the ground by a huge and incomparable force, and it couldn't even make a wail, and was killed directly.

The big man's attack like Tarzan's top made everyone stunned.

After a while, the man, who was only a foot away from the boar's fangs, was the first to react, and he screamed strangely, crawling backwards with his hands and feet, and he was frightened by what had just happened.

"Well done! Big man. Maureen stepped forward and patted the big man on the shoulder.

"I must tell Lord Victor about your performance, although you have not been in the camp for a month, I will ask your lord to let you officially join my village group, by the way, what is your name?" Morin admired the bravery of the big man, but he was embarrassed to find that he did not remember the name of the big man.

"Team leader, my name is Renault. The big man said sullenly.