Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

Later on, the purpose of establishing colonies gradually changed. It became a matter of obtaining high-value goods, obtaining trade nodes, obtaining trends of thought, etc. It seemed like a mess.

Is the Holy Empire overpopulated? It seems so, but it also seems not. In Lind's memory, there are still large tracts of undeveloped primeval forests in the Holy Empire. Although forest development is very difficult for various reasons, the need to develop overseas colonies in order to transfer the excessive population should not be strong.

The remaining possibility...

After thinking for a while, Lind still couldn't figure out why the Regent was so eager to rebuild the colony of Ivozhen Island. After all, there was really no clue. Even if it was Sherlock Holmes' reasoning, it was necessary to collect clues first.

This private meeting between the two lasted for a long time, and they forgot to have lunch. Finally, Alisa came over and reminded them through the door curtain that it was time for lunch, and this secret meeting ended.

"What did you and my mom talk about in there? Why did you talk for so long?" After Linde came out, Elisa asked Linde with a curious and vigilant look.

"Some national affairs." Linde said with a smile.

Alisa blinked in confusion.

"You just said someone was looking for me?" Lind asked Alyssa.

"Yes, a group of sheep and a group of rabbits are looking for you." Elisa laughed strangely. "See for yourself."

As he spoke, Lind looked in the direction that Alyssa pointed, and then saw two groups of familiar beastmen.

Chapter 269 Please Let Me Be Your Son of God

Looking in the direction that Elisa pointed, Lind saw two groups of people, or to be more specific, two groups of beastmen, in the open space of the camp.

Before Linde came over, the two groups of beastmen had been staring at the main tent, waiting for the Son of God to come out, and finally he did.

When Lind looked over, two groups of new beastmen stood up and looked at Lind with excitement and uneasiness, just like fans who were about to meet their idol.

"Are they here to see me?" Lind looked at the two groups of new beastmen and asked Alyssa.

"Yes." Elisa nodded. "They all came to seek refuge with you. Since you were discussing national affairs with my mother in the tent, I could only ask them to wait for you outside."

When talking about national affairs, Alisa deliberately raised her voice to emphasize it, and she felt resentful for being excluded.

"They came to seek refuge." Linde nodded. "Did you accept them?"

"How can I accept them? They all come to seek refuge with you, the Son of God." Alyssa rolled her eyes.

"Is there a difference?" Linde looked at Alyssa and blinked. "We are together now. Is there a difference between coming to me and coming to you?"

"...Anyway, I'll let them in according to your previous request. It's up to you whether to accept them or not." As if stimulated by something, Elisa turned around and walked towards the tent in angrily to find her mother.

Lind walked towards the two groups of new beastmen. Lind knew both of them. One was the Goat Tribe of Sheep Beastmen, with whom he had dealt many times, and the other was the Killer Rabbit Tribe of Rabbit Beastmen, with whom he had fought side by side at Dongshankou.

Both tribes had dealt with Lind before. They were originally waiting there to kill time. When Lind came over, all the new beastmen from the two tribes stood up and looked at Lind with excitement and trepidation.

As they got closer, Lind raised his hand and waved cordially to the two groups of new beastmen, "Hello."

"Your Highness, the Son of God~" The first to respond was the chieftain of the Demonic Sheep Tribe, Benio. This sheep lady with a beauty mole on the corner of her mouth looked mature and intellectual, but was actually a bit silly. She waved back at Linde in a very calm manner.

Benio has dealt with Linde many times and has carried Linde up and down several times, so he is very familiar with him. Compared with other new beastmen, Benio is obviously more relaxed.

"We meet again so soon." Linde asked with a smile as he walked up to Benio. "May I ask what you want to see me about?"

Although Elisa had already told Linde why they were there, Linde still wanted to ask formally.

"This." Mr. Benio calmed down, stood up straight, and prepared to kneel down to Linde very solemnly.

As soon as her legs were bent, Benio's body was pulled back and she did not kneel down.

"Your Highness, the Son of God?" Benio raised his head and looked at Linde in surprise.

"No matter what you are here for, you are not allowed to kneel." Linde looked into Benio's eyes and said word by word.

"This..." Benio's pupils suddenly dilated violently. "Your Majesty the Son of God is unwilling to accept us!?"

"Of course not. I welcome a beautiful elder sister like you to come to me." Lind explained. "But I don't like kneeling, whether it's someone kneeling to me or asking me to kneel to someone else."

Benio blinked in confusion, not quite understanding what Linde meant.

but……

"Son of God, are you willing to accept us?" Benio said in surprise.

"Of course." Linde smiled. "The camp welcomes any new beastmen who are willing to build a camp."

Although I don't quite understand what Linde meant by not letting us kneel, but since the Son of God said he doesn't like it, then I won't kneel. Catering to someone's preferences is the most basic thing, and the Son of God also said that he is willing to accept their surrender.

With Linde's help, Benio stood up. The 1.7-meter-tall Yang Yujie suddenly needed Linde to look up at her.

Perhaps instinctively, he felt that it was disrespectful to let the Son of God look up at him, so Benio subconsciously bent his knees and lowered himself. Linde immediately said, "It's okay. I like big ones."

"Ah?" Benio was stunned.

"Tell me about your tribe first." Linde changed the subject.

"Okay." Benio nodded, then shouted to the people of his tribe: "Fellow citizens of the Demonic Sheep Tribe, come over here. The Son of God wants to see you."

At Benio's command, a group of sheep beastmen with sheep hooves, horns on their heads, and white hair covering their lower bodies gathered over.

"There are a total of thirty-two members in the Demonic Sheep Tribe. Now we are all sheep of yours, Son of God." Benio said to Linde.

"Yeah." Lind nodded in satisfaction. Thirty-two sheep beastmen were a little few for a tribe, but after two battles with the Chaos Beastmen, there were still so many left, which was already quite good, and they were all young and strong.

And leaving aside the ram, the appearance of the ewe... is worthy of being the origin of the classic artistic image of succubus.

After asking about the sheep beastman, Lind turned to the rabbit beastman. Seeing Lind looking at him, Judy, the chief of the killer rabbit tribe, shuddered all over and her ears stood up stiffly, as if she was being stared at by a big bad wolf.

Except for Judy, all members of the Killer Rabbit Tribe had similar reactions, their bodies shaking like sieves. Linde found this very novel, especially since he had seen with his own eyes that their fighting style was even more cultist than that of the Blood God cultists.

"Hello again, everyone from the Killer Rabbit Tribe." Lind greeted the Killer Rabbit Tribe Chief Judy warmly as he walked up to her. "What do you want to see me about?"

"I...I...want..." Judy's whole body was shaking as she uttered word by word. She was so nervous that she couldn't even utter a clear sentence.

The contrast is even greater. It looked so crazy when it was chopping people on the battlefield. Is this the same rabbit?!

In order to appease this little rabbit who looked like a middle school student, Lind bent down, looked at Judy straight in the eye, and said to her in a friendly manner: "Don't be nervous, relax, don't treat me as some high and mighty son of God, just treat me as a friend, and just tell me what you want to say."

"Really...really...?" said the little rabbit timidly.

"Of course it's true." Linde nodded with a smile.

"Then..." After receiving the encouragement, the little rabbit Judy's eyes instantly turned red, and she shouted to Linde in a loud voice: "Please let me become your Son of God!"

Chapter 270 Camp Expansion Plan

In psychology, there is a psychological phenomenon called stress. Simply put, when encountering danger or extreme psychological pressure, a sudden and rapid change in psychological reaction occurs. The specific way of change varies from person to person, but the most common ones are tension and anger.

Feeling his buzzing ears, Lind felt that he knew what Judy's stress response was. And were the two completely different psychological states of the Killer Rabbit Tribe also a stress response?

Regardless of whether it was a stress response or not, Judy's words stunned Linde.

Since he was more or less the manager of the camp, or even the second-in-command, and a second-in-command whom the first-in-command trusted very much, Lind's every move in the camp attracted attention from all sides. Moreover, there happened to be a lack of entertainment facilities in the camp, so in their spare time, people paid attention to Lind in various ways. Then Judy's words immediately attracted the attention of many people.

After shouting, Judy stared at Linde with red eyes, pursed her lips, clenched her fists tightly, and stared at Linde. Linde was almost Spartan in his heart. This little rabbit ruined his reputation!

"Submission! Submission! Not becoming my person!" Lind shouted immediately, hoping to correct this bad influence. Judy is at most a maiden, the same age as me, and I like older ones!

"Yes! Take refuge!" Although she didn't quite understand the difference, Judy continued to follow Lind's words. "My compatriots and I want to take refuge with you!"

"Okay! I approve!" As if they were competing to see who has the loudest voice, Lind also shouted. "From today on! You and the members of your tribe! Are part of the camp!"

Afraid that this little rabbit with bipolar disorder would say something shocking, Lind agreed to let him join the camp and shut him up to stop him from saying anything that would damage his reputation.

I swear to God, Lin De has always been a firm fan of mature women. His biggest regret before traveling through time was that he didn't have the chance to drive a big truck. After traveling through time, he finally had the chance to make up for it. Of course, it would be even better if she was wearing black stockings.

The little rabbit was probably just too nervous and incoherent, and he definitely didn't really want to be his own. After agreeing to accept the killer rabbit tribe, the rabbit beasts also cheered.

Just like the sheep beastmen, after accepting the rabbit beastmen, Linde also learned about the killer rabbit tribe. There were 40 people in total, and they were all young and strong men in their prime. Compared with other beastmen, the rabbit beastmen were obviously much smaller, the tallest was only about 1.5 meters tall, and most of them were about 1.23 meters tall. Looking around, they looked like a group of elementary school students or junior high school students on a picnic.

Lind was happy to recruit more residents to the camp, the more labor, the better. However, the rabbit beastmen were obviously not as strong as other new beastmen, maybe even not as strong as humans.

So what can these little bunnies do?

As for what these new beastmen are suitable for, we will talk about it tomorrow. Linde asked the two chiefs about the reasons for joining him. The reason was very simple. In the two wars not long ago, the two tribes were seriously injured and the number of people decreased sharply. If they want to survive, they must join other tribes. Since they are joining, of course they have to hold the thickest thigh.

Who is the thickest person on Aiwozhen Island now? Of course, it is you, Lord Shenzi!

Linde was very pleased with the sincere flattery, but it also gave him a warning. If nothing unexpected happened, there would be more new beastmen who would come to join him, the son of the Earth Goddess.

In addition to the new beastmen who came to join him, Linde also planned to preach to the scattered Chaos Beastmen. In the next period of time, if nothing unexpected happened, the population of the camp would experience a surge.

And it must be done before the Holy Empire's colonization team arrives.

After initially dealing with the two new beastmen tribes, it was time for lunch, which was also a good time to entertain the new members of the camp. Due to the scarcity of supplies, many places in this world eat two meals, one in the morning and one in the evening. However, under Linde's insistence, the camp implemented a three-meal system, but the lunch was very simple, often just a piece of black bread.

After instructing Fran and Fenrir, the fox and wolf duo, to help settle their compatriots, Linde took the bread and went to briefly report the situation to Ilfa. After all, Ilfa was the lord of the camp.

"I understand." Illufa sat on a chair and ate the black bread produced in the camp. "Since I have come to seek refuge with you, you can do whatever you want, Baron Linde."

"Yes." Lind nodded. "Also, I have an idea that I want to report to you."

"Do you need me to go out?" Eliza interrupted. After all, they had to talk about national affairs again.

The three of them were now sitting together, eating black bread, and there was no sense of aristocracy at all.

"No need, it's not a secret." Linde said with a frown, is this little girl in her rebellious period? She speaks with a sharp tongue.

"So what do you want to report, Sir Lind?" asked Ilfa.

The three of them ate and chatted like this, it was very formal.

"The trouble with the Chaos Beastmen has been temporarily resolved, but there are still hidden dangers. After all, there are still Chaos Beastmen scattered all over the island." Linde said after swallowing the black bread in his mouth. "In addition, two new Beastmen from the tribe came to the camp today. According to the current situation, there should be more new Beastmen coming to the camp in the future, but the problem is that the camp is so small, and the supplies, especially food, are limited. With so many mouths in a short period of time, the pressure will be great."

"That's indeed a problem." Illufa nodded in agreement. "What do you think, Baron Lind?"

"My solution is to combine the two problems and solve them together." Lind raised his hands and put them together. "We can't just ignore the Chaos Beastmen scattered all over Ivozhen Island. If we leave them alone, they will become stronger sooner or later. Instead of fighting them again later, it's better to eliminate them now."

"Of course, I'm not talking about genocide. I'm a gentle person, not that cruel. I plan to use the power of Mother Earth to transform the remaining Chaos Beastmen into new Beastmen, just like before."

"There will definitely be a lot of transformed Chaos Beastmen, and the camp will definitely not be able to bear it. In that case, let's open up the wasteland."

"Now the Chaos Beastmen on the island have been completely dispersed. In other words, the entire northern part of Aiwozhen Island is now empty."

"In that case, let's organize a reclamation team and head to the northern part of Aiwozhen Island to make the entire northern Aiwozhen Island our territory."

"When the time comes, I believe that the Regent will make the right decision." Linde said with a smile.

Chapter 271 Lu Ge's Movement

In this world, almost all regions eat two meals a day, regardless of whether they are commoners or nobles. The reason for this is the scarcity of materials. The efficiency of food production is so low that even if you eat two meals a day, you will still suffer from famine every now and then, not to mention three meals a day.

Eating two meals a day saved food, but malnutrition was common. The nobles who could eat meat were better off, but the common people who might not even get to taste meat once a month were struggling on the edge of being skin and bones.

Therefore, after the first batch of grain was harvested, Linde vigorously implemented a new system, the lunch system, requiring everyone in the camp to eat a small piece of bread at noon. The reason for doing so, in addition to improving the nutritional status of the residents in the territory, is to provide more physical strength for work. Although two meals a day can ensure that people will not starve to death, it definitely cannot provide long-term physical labor.

If you want a horse to run faster and farther, you must first feed it. The same is true for people. The whip cannot really improve the work efficiency of the serfs.

Of course, with the current staple food output of 80 kilograms per mu, the pressure to provide lunch is still great. The camp has a small population now, so it can still be maintained, but as more and more mouths are needed in the camp, the food problem will become more urgent.

Lind didn't want Mr. Malthus to come visit right after he had just defeated the Chaos Beastmen.

As for any solution to the food and population problem, since we can't think of a way to increase the per-acre yield of staple food in a short period of time, we can only choose another classic method.

Reclaim wasteland and expand arable land.

In the main tent, Alisa bit into a piece of black bread and watched Linde talking to her mother. Originally, Alisa and Ilufa had lunch by themselves, but today, because Linde had to report on the situation and it was lunchtime, Ilufa asked Linde to stay and have lunch with her.

The three of them sat together, eating black bread and chatting. Seeing the intimacy between her mother and Linde, Elisa felt a little jealous. "Mom, I am your daughter, why do you act as if Linde is your eldest son?"

Of course, Elisa knew that her mother did this on purpose, and she wanted Lind to be her son-in-law. But as long as her mother didn't pick a name, Elisa would pretend not to know.

"The Regent?" Originally, Alyssa was just quietly serving as a beautiful background, listening to the conversation between her mother and Lind without expressing any opinion. But when the topic came up with the Regent, Alyssa was stunned. "Why did you suddenly mention the Regent?"

"Nothing, just a casual remark." Before Linde could speak, Ilufa spoke first. "Wasn't it the Regent's order that we came here to build a colony?"

It seems that Ilfa has no intention of telling Alyssa that the immigration team will arrive early, but is this appropriate?

Instinctively, Linde felt that it would be better not to hide this matter from Elisa, but on second thought, this was a matter between mother and daughter after all. No matter how much Ilufa trusted him, he was still an outsider, and it would not be appropriate to butt in on other people's business.

"So, are we planning to expand the camp?" Alyssa said, supporting her chin with her hand. "Only relying on those beastmen of yours, Linde?"

"Of course, I believe they have an advantage over humans in land reclamation," Lind said with a smile.

This is the truth. Land reclamation has never been an easy job. If it is not absolutely necessary, almost no one would be willing to take the initiative to reclaim land, especially in the first few years of land reclamation. If you are not careful, you may end up with high investment and zero return.