MC's career as foreign lord

Zhou Ren turned back only after watching those people leave his territory.

Originally, he wanted to go to town to buy some food and metal, but the arrival of this group of mercenaries gave him some extra time instead.

He casually stuffed a few pieces of raw meat into the furnace, and at the same time, Zhou Ren took out all the remaining items, made a small wooden box with some of the wood left over from yesterday, and stuffed all the remaining items into it.

He naturally had a use for the leather, not for making leather armor. Rather than the defense of leather armor, he might as well gather some iron ingots in a couple of days to make iron armor. Such a big town couldn't possibly be without one of the basic components of a city—a blacksmith shop, right?

Instead, he planned to stay and make books, preparing an enchanting table.

Although he was still short of diamonds and obsidian, one must always have dreams, right?

Zhou Ren shouldered his axe, not rushing to smelt the metal. Right now, he needed enough wood and stone. This was his focus for the immediate future.

In reality, he only did a little work yesterday. Besides clearing a flat area for a house, the rest of the place was still mostly ruins. This was not a good thing.

As a late-stage obsessive-compulsive disorder patient, Zhou Ren couldn't allow the world in front of him to be without order, so he began to chop down the remaining trees.

When he leveled the ground and cleared the wreckage yesterday, he obtained a lot of stones. This morning, he could upgrade his equipment, throwing all the wooden axe and wooden pickaxe he hadn't used up yesterday into the furnace as fuel. He had already raised the stone axe.

The crafting method for the stone axe was actually no different from the wooden axe, except for replacing the wooden planks at the top of the crafting grid with cobblestone. Zhou Ren also made a stone shovel and a stone hoe, which were to be used for farming.

Actually, this was also a legacy of clearing the abandoned camp yesterday. After knocking down a lot of grass and flowers, he harvested some seeds. If he guessed correctly, these should be wheat seeds.

After spending about two hours cutting down all the small trees, Zhou Ren's view of the large wasteland finally opened up.

Large swathes of wasteland were officially revealed in front of him. Even though there was a large forest behind Zhou Ren that hadn't been cut down, he still couldn't restrain his hands.

The Chinese nation's instinct for farming was rooted in their blood. Zhou Ren subconsciously wanted to turn all the wasteland here into farmland and pastures so that his food could be self-sufficient!

So, he gave up some things and directly took out all the meager coal and put it into the furnace to bake the newly gathered metal blocks.

"I hope these metals are iron, copper would also be good!" Zhou Ren thought. Although he was still not very clear as to why he still hadn't found clues to additional mods, he already had some understanding of the trends of some mods.

At this time, he hoped he had the Tinker's Construct mod. Although Tinker's Construct wasn't particularly friendly in the early stages, the smeltery was really useful!

If Zhou Ren had his own smeltery, those iron armor and iron swords could also be bought together. In that case, he might be able to directly melt them back into iron blocks without having to think about other methods.

Maybe the mod needs some special unlocking method? He thought, taking out several metal ingots from the furnace.

Zhou Ren looked at it for a long time, but still couldn't tell what metal it was. However, when he arranged the three metal ingots into an inverted "品" shape on the workbench, he felt that he was right.

A silver-white metal bucket appeared in his hand. Although the unknown metal wasn't iron, it could be transformed into an iron bucket after conversion. It was really amazing.

He glanced around, and after finding nothing special, he walked directly to the river. Looking at those unknown fish swimming around, Zhou Ren suddenly wanted to make a fishing rod!

"It's a pity, there are no spiders here for me to kill. I wonder if building a large mine would make things better?" Zhou Ren thought, arriving at the center of a wasteland.

He wasn't in a hurry to put the water down, but used a shovel to flatten the grass, turning it into a flat dirt road. In the center of this road, he opened up another road in a different direction.

These two roads intersected each other, just forming a cross, turning this wasteland into four flat pieces of land.

Then, Zhou Ren dug out four pieces of dirt in the center of this cross and threw a bucket of water into it.

As he fetched another bucket of water and placed it diagonally opposite the previous bucket, the two bodies of water suddenly overlapped and gathered during the interaction, then filled the entire water pit!

"Infinite water is indeed feasible!" Zhou Ren said. The water flow that was originally surging rapidly due to the height difference instantly returned to calm the moment the infinite water formed.

Now, no matter which direction he scoops water from, these four squares of water will exist permanently. This is much more convenient than scooping water from the river.

"This is a well!" Zhou Ren said. He scooped a bucket of water casually. This was his daily water for washing. Anyway, it wouldn't get dirty or disappear. He just needed to make a pool of water next to the house, which was quite convenient.

Next was the planting of fields. Zhou Ren sighed a little, "There aren't many seeds now, let's plant a little first!"

He wasn't planning to plant all four fields now. He only had one person now. If he used all of them to plant wheat, he was afraid he would be overwhelmed.

After all, he had to plant fields, build houses, dig stones, and chop trees!

When he was cutting trees yesterday, he also collected a lot of saplings. These saplings were important wood sources in the future, so they naturally had to be planned well.

It's just that Zhou Ren hadn't found a suitable place to plant trees yet, so he didn't have a good solution for the time being and could only put it aside.

"I'll go to a farther place in a couple of days to take a look. Maybe I can open up a tree farm!" Zhou Ren thought, picking up a steak.

This was the freshly grilled steak, which was also the simplest cooking method in MC. Just grilling it through the furnace could get the most comfortable taste.

The steak was grilled crispy, soft, and chewy, at least much better than the steak sold in that tavern.

Zhou Ren was quite surprised that in this world, there was actually steak that could be grilled with a full flavor without salt. From this point of view, he seemed to not need to worry about the quality of food for a long time.

The steaks grilled in the furnace were actually very interesting. It wasn't simply grilling them until they were cooked, but forcibly condensing these steaks into very square shapes.

Just like the steak in Zhou Ren's hand, it was originally a large chunk of meat, but in his hand, it turned into an unusually large but not particularly thin steak, which could be considered convenient and practical.

Zhou Ren chewed on the chop until he couldn't eat anymore. He had only eaten less than a quarter of the chop in his hand, and he felt a little embarrassed.

Moreover, he discovered that he didn't have a knife, and he couldn't even chop off a portion of the chop and put it in his backpack.

Fortunately, he still had the remaining metal ingots in his hand, only seven or eight left. He quickly took out three and combined them with two wooden sticks to make an iron axe. He chopped off the uneaten part of the chop, which should be enough for dinner.

He held the remaining meat in his hand, thinking that he might be able to feed it to some pets along with the bones.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ren looked at the remaining bones after the chops. It seemed that because it was too difficult to separate the meat from the bones, the strong mercenaries had packed the bones together, which now all belonged to Zhou Ren.

"Since there are bones..." Zhou Ren stopped eating the remaining meat and looked at the pile of bones on the ground with shining eyes.

It was quite interesting that the bones automatically separated after the meat was put into the furnace, but like some waste, there was no reaction at all.

However, when Zhou Ren noticed them and was about to use them, these bones just transformed from waste into normal blocks, floating on the ground, waiting for him to pick them up.

He couldn't help but wonder if his consciousness caused the appearance of these blocks, or if the MC system detected his thoughts and quickly made the change?

Zhou Ren didn't know. His golden finger was just a suddenly appearing MC game panel. As for the rest, he was completely clueless.

There wasn't even a system that could move or type to communicate with him. Everything could only be set up based on common sense and his own guesses. It was really difficult!

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Although Zhou Ren thought so, it didn't hinder his next actions. Naturally, after eating and drinking his fill, it was time to work!

He walked to the pool next to him and washed his hands. Although this pool only had one block of water, it could circulate permanently under the action of a special device. This was also a clever trick Zhou Ren learned in the game, the so-called AFK pool!

Moreover, the dirty water in the pool would be purified when it passed through that one block of water again, which saved Zhou Ren the effort of repeatedly changing the water.

He took his stone hoe and dug open the center of a certain piece of land in the field, and put a bucket of water on it again, so that a 9*9 farmland would not be short of water.

This is actually one of the characteristics of MC. The area that one block of water can radiate is just four blocks, which means that the other eighty blocks of land, excluding the water, do not need additional water sources.

Next was the monotonous process of plowing. Zhou Ren used the hoe to turn over all the ground in this field. Unlike in the game, plowing still consumed physical strength.

But fortunately, compared to yesterday's panting, Zhou Ren could feel that both his physique and spirit seemed to have made considerable progress, allowing him to swing the stone pickaxe and stone hoe easily.

Zhou Ren had already done this. He raised the hoe high, and when it fell to the ground, he found that the ground had been turned over.

Soon, he discarded the stone hoe that had been completely scrapped and turned into a pile of fragments, and then took out all the wheat seeds in his backpack. Just like transplanting rice seedlings, he scattered them into the wheat field one by one.

The probability of grass appearing seeds here seemed to be very low. Zhou Ren had hit so much grass, but only got less than twenty wheat seeds.

He waited for the water to seep out from that one block of water, and then thoroughly soak the cultivated land through the plowed field.

Although seeds can be sown in un-soaked fields, he just liked plowing like this for some reason, feeling that crops would grow faster if sown this way.

Twenty wheat seeds were planted by Zhou Ren. He casually took out the bones he had just put into his backpack and threw them directly into the personal workbench to synthesize bone meal.

One bone can synthesize three bone meals, and the function of bone meal is to allow crops to successfully skip one or two stages and directly reach maturity.

Of course, Zhou Ren would not be extravagant enough to use bone meal to ripen all the crops, but he needed to synthesize bread first, so he knew if it was delicious or not.

So he quickly took out the bone meal and operated on a wheat that had already sprouted a little. With just two bone meal catalysts, he obtained a complete wheat and two wheat seeds.

He suddenly discovered the unexpected harvest of ripening. After breaking the wheat, he could get more seeds, which was actually what he really lacked.

So he started to repeat the process of ripening, breaking, and planting wheat. More than twenty bone meals brought him the benefit of thirteen wheat, and it had to be said that the income was quite good in this way.

Zhou Ren glanced at the wheat field. As expected, except for the wheat he had ripened, no other wheat had sprouted, which actually meant that the growth time of wheat was different from that in the game.

But thinking about it, it seemed understandable. After all, one day in the game is only 20 minutes. Looking at it this way, the maturity time of wheat is probably around two to three days.

Then just wait. Zhou Ren didn't care. He could spend two days testing the growth rate of these crops.

Thinking of this, he took out a few more saplings. Since the wheat had to be tested, naturally the growth of the trees also had to be tested.

He hadn't planned a tree farm yet, so he might as well plant the trees on the edge of the wheat field first.

Zhou Ren casually planted a few saplings. Testing didn't need to be too neat, anyway, they would be cut down in the future.

Then he took the wood, stones, and wheat and walked back to the hut he had built.

"Sure enough, no matter how you plan it, it still looks like a matchbox!" Zhou Ren complained, but a matchbox is a matchbox. When he adds beams, pillars, and eaves, it shouldn't look like one.

He made a few loaves of bread. The wheat synthesized directly into cooked bread, as if there was no rule to bake it. He tried to take a bite and felt that the taste seemed to be good?

Zhou Ren finally showed a smile on his face. As long as the food problem is solved, there will actually be no big problems.

He looked at the trees around him, full of food and drink! In that case, let's work hard and cut down all the trees around!

With a wave of his hand, ten stone axes immediately appeared in the item bar.

PS: Thanks to [Mo Si Kuang Tu] for the 10,000 reward. The additional update mentioned in the book before is still valid!

Okay, I'm going to code... Manuscript - 1 crying.