After living in Invercargill Forest for more than a month, the surveyor finally handed over a map with the seal of the Territorial Administration to Surdak, which meant that the Wilkes City Territorial Administration recognized the land as matching the map, and that the land circled on the map belonged to Viscount Surdak.

Sixty percent of the remaining land in Invercargill Forest will be allocated to public territory, which is planned to be awarded to magicians with noble titles over the next few years, and will also be sold to nobles who are willing to pay for the territory.

In the Grimm Empire, it is not easy to become a nobleman.

First, the title can be inherited by hereditary, but the heir will automatically be downgraded one notch every time he inherits without military merits.

Second, participate in the Magical Awakening Ritual and awaken into a mage through the ritual, each of whom will be canonized by the Empire and will also receive a piece of dimensional territory. Although it may be barren, or remote, or a land that a magician will never set foot in, this wealth will remain with the magician for the rest of his life.

Third, knights are exceptionally promoted, which requires excellent knights who have made great contributions to the Grimm Empire and have outstanding leadership.

In fact, the biggest reason why Surdak was canonized was because he mastered the art of holy light, and paladins are indeed more important than magicians at present.

In addition, there are some special cases of canonization of nobles, but that depends on the mood of His Majesty Charles.

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Surdak's possession of this territory is at least ten times larger than the territory he currently has in his possession, and it is to be sold or surrendered within a limited time under the laws of the Grimm Empire.

It's just that this law has been forgotten by almost all the nobles, and the houses of the provinces also have a memorandum of understanding for this law.

Of course, this was done to encourage the young nobles to be willing to go to other planes to open up territory for the empire.

Otherwise, many small nobles will open up unknown areas, and the large territories they own will be forced to sell, which is not in the current interests of the nobles.

In the Empire, every year the life of the aristocracy became very depressed, and they had aristocratic rights in the cities, but lived the life of a commoner.

Of course, there are also some good aristocrats who are on the rise, becoming urban stars and making their mark in high society.

Surdak's land on the White Forest Plane is much larger than the territory of Hylanza City, but this is a vast and sparsely populated plane after all.

The only thing worth a little in the eyes of the aristocracy is a copper mine.

The monsters in the Invercargill Forest are rampant, and the once-in-a-decade beast tide in the Dark Worm Valley will reduce the Invercargill Forest to ruins every time, except for those trees that can escape, all the others who can breathe are dead and flee.

In this way, the noble lords who have the strength to occupy this place do not want to trap all their armies here for the sake of this land.

Those noble lords who don't have the strength to not say that they can't occupy this place, even if they occupy this place, they can't hold it, and they spend a huge amount of money to occupy it, and in the end, it will be a bamboo basket for nothing.

Only some speculative aristocrats want to take advantage of the intermittent beast tide of the decade to seek some benefits in this mountain forest.

Therefore, many nobles can not look down on this land......

'What! It won't be long before the beast tide arrives and this place will be in ruins! Some of the nobles in Wilkes always said that.

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The indigenous tribes were not accustomed to going to the town of Dodan to trade.

Because there were too many imperial immigrants there, the noisy market was always filled with too many merchants with small calculations.

The natives are not very good at arithmetic, so they don't like small calculations, it doesn't matter if one transaction is taken advantage of, two or three times will be annoying, and there is a trading area for merchants and adventure groups.

The large amount of grain hoarded in the copper mines was originally intended for indigenous miners.

The remuneration paid by Surdak is not settled in silver coins, mainly because the natives are reluctant to go to the market in Dodan Town to consume, and they usually do not need silver coins, and the natives are more willing to receive wheat flour, so the wages on the mine side are paid with wheat flour.

Later, an adventuring group came to the mine to resupply, and they took out fresh meat to trade grain with the people in the mine.

The indigenous people saw that it was possible to do the same.

Some natives would carry the produce of the forest on their backs and run to the mines to trade.

The reason why they want to come here is also very real, because the miners on the mine are indigenous, which makes them feel not only at home, but also feel safer here.

Bartering is supported here, but the measure of value is wheat flour.

As long as the food is taken out and placed in front of the natives, piled up like a hill, the visual impact can kill everything in an instant.

In fact, if you pay gold coins, you will get so much food, but the natives will not count it.

In line with the principle of 'seeing to know', the indigenous people trade a lot of grain here.

The mine camp has become a trading market.

The aboriginal mine manager of the mine reported to Surdak that the natives who came to the mine to trade saw that everything was good, pots and pans, and even the sacks containing grain had become commodities in the eyes of the natives, and several waves of natives had looted the place like a primitive tribe.

When Surdak heard the mine manager's report, he immediately had some daily necessities brought from the town of Dodan, iron pots, ceramics, salt, spices, wood knives, wood cutting axes, and steel arrows.

However, how to trade has become a big problem, and the natives are reluctant to accept the imperial coins, but they did not expect that the mine manager actually has a way.

In order to avoid repeatedly explaining the prices to the natives of the mountains, he placed large and small wooden boxes in front of these goods.

The value of all commodities is measured in wheat flour.

For example, the wooden box in front of the iron pot is relatively large, and it takes about 60 pounds of wheat flour to fill such a box, which is two silver coins when converted into silver coins.

Two silver coins to buy an iron pot had no idea in the minds of the natives.

But a box of wheat flour for an iron pot, they know how much they will pay, these natives have more or less some magic materials in their hands, if they exchange it for food, the aboriginal mine manager will also actively ask the adventure group about the price, and the purchase price given is very fair.

So the natives of Invercargill Forest suddenly found that the old life of hunger and fullness had quietly gone, and that there was always half a sack of wheat flour hidden in the dry hole of the house, and when they were willing to go out hunting, they would brand some wheat cakes, and when they lay at home and pretend to be dead, they would drink some gruel, which was much better than drying dried meat.

It was in this situation that a group of indigenous people entered the copper mines.

At the beginning, they came to the mine with the materials of the Demonic Beast, and they didn't understand why the Lord of Surdak hired so many people to dig stones here, and felt that these young people were simply wasting their youth if they didn't go hunting, so couldn't they go hunting honestly?

However, when they returned to the tribe with their food bags on their backs, they went out hunting several times only to find that there were not many beasts left in the forest after passing through the beast tide, and now a large number of adventure groups have poured in from Duodan Town, and the life of hunting is becoming more and more difficult.

Now you can take out a little bit of the Warcraft materials you saved before and go to the mine to exchange for some food.

But this is not a long-term solution, and these savings will eventually be empty.

The more often the natives come to the mines, some people will have a casual conversation with the people who dig for rocks here.

When they inquire about the remuneration here, they will immediately think:

'What, digging a stone for a day in exchange for enough food to eat for twenty days, this is simply grabbing food, why go hunting when there is such a good thing?' ’

That's what the natives who learned about the wages of the mines......

As a result, this group of indigenous people formed a large reserve force.

They began to look forward to the day when they would be able to become miners digging for rocks here.

It was in this case that the copper mines in Surdak expanded to 2,000 miners in just one month.

He suddenly realized that the tin cans he had made in the town of Dodan were simply too small.

Then so much copper ore is mined from the veins every day, and it is successively ground into ore powder, soaked in iron cans and slowly deposited into copper sand......

Just after entering September, copper sand began to be produced on the copper mine one after another.

Although the amount of copper sand produced each day was not even enough to pay the salaries of the natives, the copper mine was beginning to generate revenue.

Surdak has already begun preparations to build a larger pond near the mine, near the mountain stream, into which all the ore powder will be filled.

The first copper sand was born in this way of construction and mining.

There are now three blacksmith workshops in the town of Dodan, and only one is good at making copperware, and Surdak doesn't even need to sell these copper sand to the merchants, and the copperware shops here can eat it directly.

The first batch of ten tons of copper sand sold for forty gold coins.

It sounds like ten tons of copper sand, and it seems like a lot of money.

In fact, only twenty small bags were packed in linen bags for grain, packed into two large wooden boxes, and transported to the town of Dodan.

Surdak then exchanged it from the town of Dodan and brought it back to the mine camp with wheat flour and some daily necessities, which filled the shelves of eighteen thunder rhinos.

When they arrived at the mine camp, the indigenous miners stood on the ridge of the hill and watched the thunder rhinos loaded with goods stop in front of the warehouse to unload the goods, and then unify to the stream to drink and eat beans, and there was a deafening cheer on the hill.

Either way, the hard work they've put in these days has finally paid off.

In September, Surdak spent nearly 600 gold coins on the salaries of the indigenous miners, but earned only 40 gold coins.

The only visible wealth is the mountains of copper ore that are piled up on the mines.

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The magicians of Wilkes City have been keeping an eye on Surdak, the upstart of the Luthor Legion in the Northern District, and when they heard that the first batch of copper sand in Viscount Surdak's copper mine was only ten tons, they held a drinking party in Wilkes City for this purpose.

It is said that the organizer of the reception happened to take out forty gold coins to hold the party.

There were even magicians who laughed at Viscount Surdak on the spot at the drinking party, and after being busy for nearly two months, the copper sand finally scooped out of the tin can was only enough for the expenses of a drinking party, which was really ridiculous......

However, this time, the noble lords of Wilkes were collectively silent, they did not take the opportunity to join in the fun, and no one came over to participate in the magicians' drinking party, taking the opportunity to have a relationship with them.

After all, this drinking party was just a taunt of Surdak by the wizarding community of Wilkes City.

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This summer has passed, and at the magic awakening ceremony hosted by the Wilkes Magic Guild, a total of fifty-nine young people awaken the magic pool and become magic nobles.

These young people, who had just turned twelve, were about to enter Wilkes Junior School of Magic.

Correspondingly, these fifty-nine young magical apprentices will receive the Barony of the Province of Bena.

The White Forest Plane is vast and sparsely populated, and it has a very large reserve of public territory.

This time, the high-level leaders of the Magic Guild deliberately arranged for these young baronies to be arranged in Invercargill Forest, and the officials of the Territory Administration were so angry that they wanted to give these magicians who did not cause trouble and felt uncomfortable in their hearts a few whips.

However, according to the service process, these fifty-nine baronies still need a surveyor to do a field survey, so as not to seriously shrink the area of the rewarded territory.

In the event of a serious discrepancy between the size of the territory and the actual land area, some officials of the Territorial Administration will be disciplined or dismissed from their posts.

Although the surveyor of the Territorial Administration was too angry to do anything, he still had to take these young magic apprentices to see their barony within the stipulated time limit.

Two-thirds of these young magic apprentices came from aristocratic families, and they largely looked down on the border forest.

There are also a third of the magic apprentices from civilian families, these magic apprentices from ordinary families are still very concerned about their own barony, and even want to move their families to their own territory, no matter what they do, at least they don't need to pay taxes.

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Darkened magic caravans pass through the south gate of Dodan Town and enter this lively border town.

A group of young magic apprentices, who are generally twelve years old, are the Awakened this year, pushing open the glass window of the carriage to reveal their young and immature faces.

They had also come to Dodan Town to receive the baronies assigned to them by the province of Bena, and this time they had traveled far away, and these magic apprentices were accompanied by their families.

Most of the people were from the area around Wilkes City, and many had not even heard of Dodan Town before.

Looking at the bustling town of Dodan, they exuded joy and curiosity, and one by one they jumped out of the magic caravan, followed by their parents or other guardians.

Under the arrangement of the surveyor of the territorial administration, these magic apprentices were to live in a hotel in Dodan Town, each of them had a separate room, and it would not be too much of a problem for the family to stay, but if the family had special needs, they had to communicate with the hotel on their own.

"Let's rest for the night in the town of Dodan and tomorrow morning after breakfast at the lodge, we will enter the Invercargill Forest through the Dodan Gorge." The surveyor said expressionlessly as he stood in the lobby of the hotel.

A group of people disbanded in the lobby of the hotel, and while it was still early, many parents were ready to go out into the street with their pride.

Nowadays, the most places on the commercial streets of the town are bronze utensils, followed by some magic materials of ghost red ants, but the sales channels of these magic materials have been fixed, and there is no demand for them in Duodan Town, so few traders put out red ant materials.

Of course, there are also a wide variety of other products.

The town of Dodan is now the largest bazaar within a 100-mile radius of the neighborhood.

These parents took their children to walk around the town, and what surprised them the most was how cheap the bread in the town was, the breadsticks bought with two copper plates were so big that they could almost kill people with one stick, and the two copper plates bought a scone bigger than their faces!

"Although it's a little remote here, but the price is really good, it is estimated that the salary here must be very low, if we can make money in Wilkes City, it will be comfortable to come here to spend." A pair of young civilian parents pulled their daughter and said with emotion on their faces.

Although their daughter is mediocre, this year she stood out from more than 70,000 children who took part in the Magic Awakening Ritual test and officially became a magic apprentice.

The father of another magic apprentice who was traveling with them exclaimed triumphantly, "What's so hard about that! In the future, our children will have a barony near the town of Dodan, and if the land is fertile, I plan to move my family to the barony, raise some horses, and let them graze in the land, and sell them at the end of the year, and they will be able to live a good life comfortably. ”

"Be quiet, I heard that the territory allotted to us is a forest......" The woman pulled her husband to prevent him from talking.

The father, apparently an optimist, immediately said, "The forest is not bad, too!" You can also open a lumber yard. ”

The group walked out of the bakery, and across the long street, they saw rows of neat and brand-new townhouses.

"Look over there, those houses are so beautiful! I'm sure these are ...... that have just been built."

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