You were made to farm, and now you're the emperor of an empire?

Chapter 18 Entering the Mountain
Roman changed into hunting attire that allowed him to move around easily, and tied his thick, long hair that had been draped over his shoulders back with a headband. He exuded a free and unrestrained aura like a lion, and his face became more angular.

Roman didn't have Green and Aaron fully armored. Instead, he dressed them in clothes that would allow them to move freely in the mountains, gave them weapons, and had Aaron carry an iron shield.

When the sun rises.

Moore waited in Sgar for Roman's errands—or rather, agricultural guidance—tonight.

Instead, they encountered Roman, who arrived on horseback, carrying a large bow, and dressed in a refined manner.

He heard Roman say, "Summon the guards from Sig Town; I'm taking men into the mountains."

"Huh?" Moore stared blankly at Roman, his mind completely blank. "No... Master, why didn't you tell me beforehand?"

Roman frowned. "Why should I tell you?"

Yes, what do you want me to do?
Could I possibly stop him?
What a plague-ridden ancestor!

Moore was very anxious and had to warn them, "Those people are very dangerous!"

Roman narrowed his eyes: "Oh? So I'm just going to let them run rampant on my territory?"

Mor was on the verge of tears, for at this moment he truly adored this self-willed, domineering lord.

Roman clearly saw a struggling expression on Mohr's face. Before this, no matter how bizarre and absurd Mohr did, he would just silently accept it, as if he had nothing to lose and was content as long as he wasn't banished to the pigsty.

This was the only thing that Moore showed considerable resistance to.

So Roman brought Mohr along as well.

When he announced it, Moore froze, his eyes filled with despair, as if he had resigned himself to his fate.

There were 30 guards in Sig Town, but Roman only called away 20 of them, taking enough supplies with him, and left 10 guards for Sig Town.

Today's production task is to replicate what was done yesterday, and the stewards of Sig Town are competent to supervise it.

Roman first asked them if they had any relevant experience and how familiar they were with the conditions in the deep mountains.

The probability of him and Green Aaron getting into trouble is very low, but that doesn't mean the guards also have superhuman abilities and the probability of injury and death is very high.

According to the inquiry, as long as they are careful, nothing will happen.

Even before Roman came here, the local residents would go into the mountains or forests to collect timber.

This was also Roman's greatest means of aristocratic oppression of all the residents of Sig Town—although Roman was just using it as a pretext.

After training the farmers to obey him instinctively, Roman will grant them logging rights for a period of time.

He really didn't think these people could cause any waste of natural resources.

Farmers have no axes or machetes, only simple wooden tools, and can only fight against nature with their bare hands.

This efficiency is naturally extremely low.

The traces of mining that were just discovered this year were covered up by nature's metabolism the following year.

Once Roman finds a suitable iron ore deposit and forges sharp axes and machetes through metal smelting, he will personally show them what efficiency truly means.

Breaking wood with stones?
NO!

Here, use this (hands over an axe and saw).jpg
Before that, Roman needs to conduct basic surveys to find suitable mineral veins for mining.

……

Most of Roman territory was undeveloped, or what was known as wilderness.

Although the total planting area in Sige Town is likely tens of thousands of acres.

However, this is still a very small part of the entire basin.

This is a very common thing in this era.

Vast and sparsely populated, with harsh natural conditions and rampant wild animals, pioneering was an extremely difficult task. More than a hundred years ago, the conqueror emperor, in his capacity as an uncrowned king, issued a law.

All pioneers became the masters of the land they set out to, and were granted the status and title of pioneer lord.

This vigorous pioneering movement, which lasted for nearly twenty years and was a shining moment for all of human civilization, ended when the conqueror fell seriously ill in the Dark Sea and his massive fleet was also caught in a storm.

Thus, the person died and the government ceased operations.

Without the strong suppression of the conquerors, the nobles and other kingdoms began to scramble and, in a very short time, incorporated the labor that the commoners had worked so hard to cultivate over the past twenty years into their own territories.

Those who volunteered to explore were often people who had nothing; they lacked resources and military strength, and were unable to resist.

The chaos of dividing the spoils finally subsided when the three grand dukes returned from the Underworld with their remaining forces.

But the impact of this event was far-reaching.

For example, countries no longer actively engage in land reclamation, but instead rely on the natural rate of population reproduction to slowly expand human activity space.

Moreover, once the cultivated land is sufficient for everyone to fight each other and consume the population, there is no need to continue expanding outwards.

Sige Town has developed passively, gradually growing from a few hundred people to its current size, and reclaiming tens of thousands of acres of wasteland.

Roman was too lazy to comment on the matter.

He focused some of his attention on the interface of [Life Story].

[Life Story] will regard his territory as "Origin Farm".

However, the map is a vast expanse, and it will take his own actions to gradually illuminate it all.

During this illumination process, various geographical information such as logging areas, quarrying areas, mining areas, hunting areas, swamps, rivers, and wastelands will be marked.

Simply put, wherever Roman goes, he will know where there are mines, similar to having a full view of all resources.

However, this view only applies to specific resources and is not real-time satellite surveillance.

Moreover, Roman tried it.

[The Tale of Life] cannot have any impact on the real world!

Even because the farmland in Sig Town was not cultivated by Roman, the "Story of Life" did not consider those thousands or tens of thousands of acres of land as 'farmland'—only the land cultivated by Roman would be considered 'farmland'.

Of course, this resource exploration function still saved Roman a considerable amount of effort, as he could mark the specific location of any nearby mineral veins, thus saving exploration time.

……

Moore earnestly advised, "Master Roman, the mountains are full of desperate men. You don't need to put yourself in danger. Your safety is the most important thing."

Roman replied, "If there is someone in the mountains who can kill all the guards and the two knights, then let him kill me."

His answer was easy and frank, but that didn't stop Moor from sweating profusely.

The mountain road was difficult to traverse, and weighing nearly 200 pounds, he found this kind of aerobic exercise quite strenuous.

Roman said, "Alright, you can tell me about the people in the mountains now."

Mohr clearly knew something.

Mohr wiped his sweat and had no choice but to play along, saying, "I'm not entirely sure either. Some of them have lived here for a long time. They lived here before my father died and before I was an agricultural officer."

Ferocious monsters, treacherous environment.

And some exceptionally dangerous thieves and wanted criminals.

This is also why Moore refused to come deep into the mountains, because one wrong move could really cost him his life.

(End of this chapter)