MC's career as foreign lord

"Your task is to take care of these plants, ensuring they don't wither due to anything else. Use the authority I grant you, and your own clever means!"

Two druids, claiming to be botanists, were assigned by Zhou Ren to the side of the tree farm.

They weren't illegal laborers lured in by fraudulent labor contracts, but high-level professionals from the High Forest, not having advanced to the Heavenly Fate Legend realm, but possessing the legendary strength of High Druid mages.

After seeing so many magical plants and a unique plant life community, they couldn't suppress their spirits any longer and desperately sought out Zhou Ren, wanting to stay.

For this idea, they even used their special connections, going through various high-level elves, finding Princess Shia and Grand Elder O'Halloran.

Then there was the scene just now, encountering two laborers who voluntarily walked in. Zhou Ren, of course, wouldn't be polite.

It's just a shame there's no plant magic right now, or he would have turned these two guys into his plant magic research experts.

But it's fine as it is now, just let them take care of all kinds of trees and those big mushrooms here. Presumably, these nature-loving druids and mushroom people should have a lot in common.

There is also a common fulcrum here, which is the Tree of Life. This huge magic sapling is blooming with the special aura belonging to the elves, shrouding the aura of life, making the two druids unable to even hear his words.

With the druids here to take care of the Tree of Life, he can also relax a little. Before, these mushroom people took care of the Tree of Life haphazardly.

Although the Tree of Life isn't a tree that particularly needs someone to take care of it, whether or not they put their heart into it can be seen at a glance. For the Tree of Life, which has its own consciousness, this is very important.

"Go find two more people from the village to take care of the farm!" Zhou Ren thought, this wouldn't require him to do it personally. The scribe he assigned could do it very easily.

And all he needs to do is issue his orders on the Elven Handbook.

"Oh dear, I still have to go to the dwarves!" Zhou Ren said, although he borrowed some craftsmen, the dwarves were the most numerous. If he didn't make use of them, he himself would be ashamed.

This time, the issue he needs to focus on is the ore berry bushes, the things he thought of when he was making the Tinker's Construct series tools, those inconspicuous, cube-like ore berry bushes.

There are many types of berry bushes: iron, gold, copper, tin, aluminum. These are five common ores, and also the most commonly used minerals. Their growth rate is not fast, but it's barely enough.

But what Zhou Ren focused on was never this, but the essence berry bushes that are rarely noticed during mining, but do exist.

This is a special plant that does not belong to ore. It is also a berry bush, but when you right-click to obtain it, what you harvest is not a mineral, but concentrated essence mineral berries. Its only function is to increase your own experience points.

This is what Zhou Ren wanted. These berry bushes obtained underground will be gathered together and then planted in the underground farm one by one.

And such planting work requires the dwarves to handle it. Soon, he found the current Shield Dwarf chieftain, Moradin.

At this time, the dwarves were continuing to build their houses and homes with a clatter, but they seemed to have less of the frowning faces they had before.

Their food is no longer very scarce now. Some strong dwarven women are fishing by the river, while the remaining dwarves are planting a special plant above their inhabited territory, using some small sheds they built themselves.

"Is this your race's special plant?" Zhou Ren asked curiously. Although he had enough food, he wouldn't distribute it casually. Giving them territory meant they should work hard to obtain food.

"Yes!" Moradin nodded and said, "Our dwarves can plant these underground, the Underground Light Wheat that can grow with just a little light, which can be used to make dwarven bread and dwarven barley wine!"

"I hope your plants grow happily under the blessing of the Tree of Life!" Zhou Ren said. He had already scattered those 20 Trees of Life into the grassland, especially after the first tree had grown, proving that ordinary land can also grow the elven sacred tree.

He didn't discuss the binding issue of the Tree of Life with the elves, but those elves who stayed may not have had such thoughts.

After all, this is a rare opportunity. As long as they bind to a Tree of Life, they will not only gain a lifespan far exceeding their own race, but also have a great chance of truly becoming a Heavenly Fate Legend.

As for the dwarves, they looked at this tree very calmly. They were still doing their own things, knocking and hammering in their mines. The tools made from ordinary metals from the mines could also resist the heat from the cobblestone layer.

In order to prevent heat from being transferred over, they specially made many honeycomb-like small holes to completely dissipate the heat.

These honeycomb small holes can dissipate heat quickly in the summer, and in the winter, as long as some fur is used to cover them, the heat can be re-collected and then spread to their mines.

To some extent, this also belongs to being warm in winter and cool in summer. They are indeed different from individual people. This is a complete tribal civilization with its own development methods. Even if he has transferred many workers to help, it will not cause too much hindrance.

With the help of the Goddess of Wealth, he has a sufficiently huge amount of standard gold coins and an even greater amount of wealth accumulated, so he is not stingy in giving gold coins to those who work for him.

I believe that when those dwarven craftsmen who work for him return to their territory, bringing back gold coins and things bought with gold coins, it will give them an even greater shock, right?

Speaking of this, he thought again that in order to make the gold coins for these races' work useful, he would have to create a trading system, at least these ordinary races need a simple market.

This thing sounds simple, but it's not complicated to do. After all, Pineleaf Town itself has a sufficiently huge market space, and on the wasteland outside his territory, there are also some traces of transactions left by mercenaries.

Even Old Ford's shop left by Anna still hasn't changed much. The two half-elves are working diligently inside, protecting and sorting out the goods.

Some other shops have also opened one after another, and under the care of the residents who have regained their popularity, they can also easily obtain peace.

As long as the surrounding city walls are built, there's no need to worry about these areas being swept away by strong winds. However, the dwarves and the deep gnomes will need to worry about not being able to move around freely during the windy season.

He told Moradin about this issue, but he didn't expect him to already have a plan and confidently said to Zhou Ren.

"Lord, please rest assured that we have connected the underground passage of our territory with an underground railway in your territory. We will build a large enough platform there for passage, so even during the windy season, we can still come to your territory through the underground passage!"

One of the privileges that these races in his territory have is that they can move around freely in his central territory, except for a few special places that he has set as inaccessible. The rest of the place is still just open space.

Of course, they can come out and play in the windy area. Anyway, with the arrival of the dwarves in the open space, it should be quite lively.

"Then you can apply for a simple platform that can connect to the platform in your race's residence through this underground passage!" Zhou Ren said, giving the other party a simple suggestion.

Since the dwarves are so energetic, they can use the current means to create a more convenient way of passage. Once this underground passage is connected, building two more platforms won't be too much trouble for him and Mosa.

"We will do it!" Moradin said, then asked somewhat meaningfully, "Lord, I wonder what you need us to do?"

Zhou Ren smiled. He hadn't even had time to mention his origins when he felt like he had already given many instructions.

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"I also need some of your people to help me with something. I don't need many. Just give me two dwarves who understand underground planting!" Zhou Ren said.

After all, compared to the farmland on the surface, taking care of the oreberry bushes is just a small matter.

Even though the skeletons have been mining underground non-stop, they haven't actually obtained too many oreberry bushes. These special little things are not very likely to be found even underground, so they have only harvested less than two boxes.

These two boxes of oreberry bushes need the dwarves to plant them little by little in the dark environment, leaving a passage for picking (or directly excavating a grid and planting them in this grid for picking from above).

They also need to be categorized and placed separately, and the harvested essence berries and ore mineral berries should be placed separately in the storage drawers next to them.

After the planting is completed, these dwarves only need to come and harvest them regularly. Being able to obtain a job so easily, they should be eager for it, right?

As he expected, Moradin agreed to this matter without hesitation and immediately assigned two calm elderly dwarves who looked particularly patient.

Their beards were already completely white, looking quite old, but their muscles were knotted, and they were still vigorous when working.

"Don't look at them being old, they are no less capable than young people, and their minds are more focused when they are old, so they should be able to complete your task, Lord!" Moradin explained.

Zhou Ren nodded and informed Jim about this matter. Soon, skeletons emerged from the underground passage and took the two dwarves away.

The relationship between underground creatures and undead creatures really relies on the time when Mosa and Sandru lived underground, which made them realize that not all undead are bad.

So these two dwarves even had the opportunity to touch the bodies of the white bone skeletons and then run all the way underground with them.

"Wait! There is clearly no underground passage there!" Moradin discovered the blind spot. They didn't dig a hole there, so where did these two skeletons come from?

"The skeletons have a faster excavation speed than you, of course, they may have just dug a very small cave!" Zhou Ren said, patted him on the shoulder, and left.

Moradin looked at his departing back with emotion, "This is the great benefactor of our Shield Dwarf clan! Let's build this place first. If the Lord agrees, we can continue to recruit our clansmen from the Underdark!"

The flames of ambition were also ignited in his eyes, "So what if we become an affiliated race? The things we make, the tools we create, will still not lose to those dwarves on the surface, and will be even better!"

This kind of comparison with the clansmen of the underground creatures seems to have been engraved in his heart. His races are working hard, and above their heads, the farmers in each village have been gathered together.

This is a flat land closest to Pine Leaf Town, where some ignorant human and elf farmers are gathered.

Not all elves are nobles. They also have ordinary people who run their own farms and shops here.

Compared to the human empire, the best thing about the elf empire is naturally that their exploitation of the people is not very serious. These long-lived species have more complex hearts and stronger hearts to face the fall of the empire.

Long-lived races at least won't be so short-sighted and won't drink poison to quench their thirst. They will make the people below live a little more comfortably and then collect enough profit from other places.

So although the farmers are a little uneasy, they have all heard of the new lord's name and don't feel too scared.

Henry was still full of excitement, standing in front of all the people. He knew that he was just a lucky scribe, and if someone with stronger abilities appeared in the future, he would be replaced without hesitation.

But as a former son of a noble, he naturally has his own pride. Since he has become a scribe, he must do all the things under his control well, so that he may be able to stay in this position for a longer period of time.

"Everyone, try to stand well. If you can gain the appreciation of the Lord, you may be able to soar into the sky!" Just as he was coaxing the people, a stream of water suddenly rushed out from the ground and brought Zhou Ren's body up.

He looked around and showed a look of interest on his face, "These are the farmers you gathered for me? Henry?"