Lord: Starting from the Pit-Dwelling Courtyard

Chapter 166 Real Estate Speculation Fever

The success of Xingfu Community came faster than expected, with both the tap water supply and the comfortable, well-ventilated environment being very satisfactory.

Word of mouth spread quickly.

Everyone who bought the house praised how wonderful it was.

Three days after Ron left Gorubike Fortress, the reputation of Happy Neighborhood had spread throughout the East End.

The target was naturally the first phase of the Happiness Community buildings.

After the price increase in Duolong, the residents of the first phase expressed their relief.

This saved 100 gold coins. In fact, someone has already offered 14 gold coins per square meter to the first phase residents of Happiness Community.

Unfortunately, no one responded.

The immense popularity of the first phase of Xingfu Community has fueled anticipation for the second phase. After acquiring the apartments in the second building, Duolong didn't stop there; instead, he began acquiring apartments from other residents in the surrounding area.

With the trade-in program and subsidies, many residents were tempted. However, when some residents tried to take advantage of the situation to raise prices, Duolong took a very strong stance and refused them outright. Instead, he bypassed the entire area and started a new plot of land. Under pressure from other residents, the residents who originally wanted to raise prices were forced to sell at the original price.

Regardless of how popular the new buildings were, Duolong did not spend a single extra penny on the acquisition price.

However, considering that Ron would not be able to return for some time, Doron only acquired two plots of land and stopped acquiring more. Instead, he had Gavin assign some people to demolish the old housing area. Many of the materials used in these old houses could be reused, which would save a lot of material costs.

No sooner had Ron arrived in the main city than Old Hall had a carriage prepared for him.

"Young Master, let's go!"

Mrs. Moriel brought water to Ron and the others, and after they drank it all, they jumped into the carriage and headed towards Harvest Town.

Matic looked at Ron, who was rushing around in a hurry, covered in dust, and hadn't rested at all, and for a moment, he was speechless.

This lord, could he have been a beast of burden in his past life?

Matic's body trembled slightly when he saw the arrow tower of Harvest Town.

Totti asked incredulously, "This is Harvest Town? With walls this low, why not move the main city here?"

If their territory had such walls, how could they have been breached by goblins?

Leonardo da Vinci explained with a smile, "This place is essentially our rear area, but it happens to be located very far forward, so we had no choice but to build high walls around it."

Ron, on the other hand, leaned against the pillows, closing his eyes to rest.

Once he left Gorubak Castle, Ron transformed into that stern and aloof lord.

Leonardo da Vinci couldn't help but laugh out loud at the thought of the lord's appearance in Gorubakburg.

The city gates slowly opened, and a large number of heavily armored guards walked out. The heavy guards had now changed from scale armor to lamellar armor, with wider and longer plates that overlapped front and back, providing a denser defense than scale armor, but the joints were not as flexible.

Hilden explained this to Ron himself.

"Lamellar armor is used for defending the city, while scale armor is used for charging; each has its own use."

Thun took off his helmet and patted his chest in salute.

"My lord!"

Upon seeing Thun, Totti reacted instinctively, immediately drawing his sword: "Goblin!"

Thune flew into a rage and roared, "I'm a Greenman, Thune Ashwood!"

Upon hearing this, Matic gave Ron a strange look.

Ron patted Thun on the shoulder. "You've had a tough time these past few days."

Hilden, along with the Harvest Town knights and knight apprentices, bowed to Ron.

Tang En squeezed through at the very end.

"My lord! I'm sorry, I'm just an ordinary person and I can't get in."

Ron couldn't help but chuckle, and patted Ton on the shoulder: "Tell me what happened!"

"My lord, thanks to our efforts in planning and cultivating the land, Harvest Town has planted 1,002 mu of ground rock potatoes. The 350 mu harvested this time is the original planting area. With your magic fertilizer increasing production, the ground rock potato yield has successfully increased by 20%."

Matic listened with a look of utter shock.

Upon entering Fengshou Town, he saw the ground sweet potatoes on both sides of the cliff and immediately understood what the main grain crop grown in Fengshou Town was, because his territory, which was also backed by a cliff, only had less than 100 acres planted, while this place had thousands of acres planted.

What does this mean?

The yield of the ground-rock potato, which is over 3,000 jin per mu, has increased by 20%, and the output may reach 4,000 jin.

These 350 mu of cliff fields produce 1.4 million jin of ground sweet potatoes. The problem is that ground sweet potatoes are harvested twice a year.

When the next season's thousand acres of wild potatoes ripen, they will bring more than four million catties of wild potatoes to the territory. Although there is still a large food shortage for the territory, it will be enough to ensure the survival of the people in the territory.

Ron was still somewhat dissatisfied with this, mainly because the population of the territory was expanding too fast. Now the population was about to exceed 12,000 people. Each person ate two catties of grain a day, which would require nearly nine million catties of grain a year.

Fengshou Town can only meet half of the demand, which is far from enough.

Ron asked, "Have all the exploitable cliff faces been developed?"

Tang En nodded: "We have already planted all the trees on the tower you built, but after careful consideration, I have found a way to quickly increase the planting area."

Ron also became interested: "Tell me about it."

"My lord, please proceed to the town hall."

Ron nodded and said to old Hall, "You and Hilden take the men to prepare for the harvest celebration. I'll go to the town hall first."

Old Hall immediately turned and left with Hilden.

Inside the town hall, a rough map of Fengshou Town was laid out.

Needless to say, the terrain of Hulu Valley is unique, but there are also many strange shapes drawn on the outer perimeter.

The first one is the simplest: direct civil engineering work to continue expanding the area of ​​the cliff.

This project is quite large; Ron alone cannot add much area in a single day.

"My lord, this is a new plan I've come up with. I wonder if it's feasible?" Tang En picked up a wooden stick and began...

Explanation: "It's too difficult for the lord to dig down an entire cliff face, but what if we just dig a passage a few meters wide? We can plant ground potatoes on both sides, doubling the planting area, and then build a harvesting passage in the middle like a tower. This will both reinforce the cliff and make it easier to harvest ground potatoes."

Ron nodded after listening and estimated the workload of the civil engineering work. Overall, it would be much easier than digging down an entire cliff face, but the workload would still be huge.

If there are many building mages in the territory, they can be sent here to work and train. It's not worthwhile to let Ron do it all by himself.

After all, civil engineering work does not increase mana.

He actually didn't want to do it at all.

To be precise, no formal building mage wants to waste magic on civil engineering work.

Seeing Ron's silence, Tang immediately understood that Ron was unwilling to do civil engineering work to dig into the cliff face, so they had to find another way.

"My lord, I have another plan, and after this period of research, I have determined the habits of the Earth Rock Potato."