Tauren Overlord

"Master, it doesn't hurt at all."

Lu Heng didn't care about that and just displayed his artistic skills:

"cure!"

Many times, girls are very shy.

Maybe they are already in pain, are in pain, or are about to be in pain, but they just don't say it out loud, especially because it is difficult for them to find the right boy to talk to.

Regarding this situation, Lu Heng assumed that they would all be in pain, so he wanted to cure the remaining maids one by one before going on the expedition.

As the healing light quietly dissipated, Lu Heng heard a knock on the door.

After getting Lu Heng's consent, Rosa opened the door, looked at Lu Heng and Chloe under him, and then shyly closed the door again.

Lu Heng quickly explained:

"Don't close the door, we have finished our work..."

Ah, why does it feel like the more I explain, the worse it gets?

Rosa opened the door again, holding a small notebook, and said softly with some embarrassment:

"Master, I have visited many old farmers these days and summarized some immature ideas. Would you like to take a look?"

Lu Heng calculated the time and said slowly:

"You should rest these days, why are you running around?"

In fact, he estimated that after using the healing magic, Rosa would not feel much pain.

This is a powerful magic that can repair a hole pierced by a spear in the body. It should be no problem to cure a girl's periodic pain.

The reason he wanted to give Rosa a few days off was because he really wanted to give Rosa a few days off.

This is at least something that my boss in my hometown would not do casually, and it allows me to get my fill of working overtime.

But Rosa didn't have Lu Heng's life experience after all. She handed the little notebook to Lu Heng and said shyly:

"But Master, I don't feel any pain at all anymore."

Lu Heng flipped open Rosa's little notebook and glanced through it. He found that Rosa mainly summarized the three problems faced by old farmers:

The first issue is the life and death of the old farmer.

Even the most simple-minded old farmer in Taimenia felt that being driven to the barren "new frontier" to make a living was obviously not as good as staying in his hometown full of fertile fields to farm.

His Majesty the Divine Emperor asked them to move to this desolate mountain range. Isn’t this too inconsiderate of the poor old farmers?

What's more, this place is not just a matter of desolation, it is also the land of "beast men".

People are living well here, and you suddenly destroy their home. What if the "beast man" is unhappy?

Of course, they would kill those Taimenians who had occupied their homes.

To fight against the "Beastmen", a large army must be organized.

So why is the old farmer of Taimenia always called the old farmer? What about the young farmer?

Many of the young peasants became soldiers of the Empire and died.

Even after they died, the empire did not give any pension. How could the old farmers who had lost their families survive?

Lu Heng's view on this issue is more direct than that of many old farmers.

The Emperor of God sent these old farmers here just to kill them.

Therefore, the Empire would send old farmers from Taimenia to the East, and at the same time dispatch people from the Empire headquarters as pioneers to continuously erode the land that originally belonged to the Taimenia people.

Although the number of people in Taimenia is still larger than that of the Empire headquarters, over time, Taimenia will sooner or later be ethnically assimilated by the Empire.

In the war between the Empire and the Luna Academy, if the old farmer Taimenia had not died in the Beast Suppression Province, it could have become a barrier for the core areas of the Eastern Border of the Empire.

If the old farmer Taimenia died, that would of course be better, because the Empire could send more old farmers to fill the line, or in other words, to die.

If too many Tymenians died, let them hate the "beastmen" who killed them.

This has further accelerated the empire's localization process of Taimenia.

61. Will you marry me?

The empire had never expected them to live well, but this was only one of the three major problems that the old farmers had to face.

Another problem is that it is difficult for old farmers to survive because even if they really want to farm well, they don’t have much land to farm.

The land that the serf owners asked them to cultivate was mostly concentrated around the manor. This was certainly not because the land was fertile, but because it was easier to manage.

However, crops cannot be planted by simply finding a piece of land.

Only cultivated fields can be used to grow things that can actually be sold on the market, such as psychic potatoes and Taimenia white wheat.

Is it easy to reclaim wasteland?

In fact, it is very difficult and requires a lot of processes such as weeding and composting.

Just weeding is a lot of work, as they are either thorny or extremely tough, and some have very deep roots. If you don't weed them out completely, the grassland will be green again in a dozen days.

This is not a matter of one or two days, nor can it be reclaimed in one or two months. It is a long-term labor measured in years.

Given the poor conditions in this desolate and mountainous area, it would take even 10 years to develop a large amount of fertile land here.

It may take a generation, or even two generations...

The land is so bad, and the old farmers have no sense of belonging to this land, so it is common for them to run away.

In Taimenia, where there are many lords, the old farmers cannot run away, because even if they run away, the best they can do is to become subjects of another lord.

This does not rule out the possibility that the lord will physically ascend to heaven while running.

However, in this barren land covered with mountains and forests, lords are very sparsely populated.

Even many old farmers don’t know that there is already an imperial lord here, so they run here.

The old farmers in Qunshanling are relatively honest.

Didn’t many refugees from other territories flee to a place of exile?

According to the latest intelligence Lu Heng received from Sintija, the number of refugees in the Land of Exile has increased again.

Their number has grown from a few hundred to nearly 1000, and they are about to overtake the Lord's Mansion.

However, is this really the only place of exile in the entire Beast Suppression Province of the Empire?

I'm afraid they have already spread everywhere, and this exile place in the Mountains is probably just one of the smaller ones.

If the empire suffers a few more defeats, the scale of this exile area will only expand further.

However, according to Rosa's description, it might not be a bad thing for the empire to lose a few more places of exile.

Because the interests of the empire and the interests of a small place like the Mountain Territory are not always consistent.

If Qunshan Territory only relies on the current 1000 people, then its future is completely bleak.

In the short term, it is completely impossible to go south and try to eliminate the forces of the Tauren Overlord.

The only way for Qunshanling to survive is to develop itself as quickly as possible.

To grow and develop, absorbing refugees from the Land of Exile or similar areas is currently the only viable path.

So how do we attract these refugees?

Lu Heng's original plan was to give money to the old farmers, but on second thought, this idea was problematic.

It’s not because he has no money. Even if the lord’s wife had spent all her money, he still had his good uncle Pierre’s treasury to support him.

However, once these currencies are issued, will the mountains have enough supplies for them to consume?

No.

Do we have to go to another territory?

Then the other lords would shout, "Great! Those who are coming are new serfs."

Serfs, unlike adventurers, really don't have enough violence to maintain their personal freedom.

Adventurers are different.

Whether it's a top adventurer like Ruby, or a seemingly weak girl like Di Yao, they all have all kinds of tricks that can kill people.

As for relying on merchants, the timeliness is too low, and it will introduce more conflicts of interest and cause more unnecessary variables...

So Rosa's plan is to directly distribute the rotten land, which can not only provide relief to the old farmers, but also attract refugees.

Under normal circumstances, it is useless to allocate bad land to old farmers, because bad land can only be used to grow real fantasy crops such as Taimenia rye.

This kind of crop has a big problem in marketing. Except for the old farmers themselves, the serf owners themselves don't like to eat it.

But Rosa also keenly discovered that things had taken an unexpected turn.

The strange trade in Tymenian rye has emerged in the southern part of the Mountain Territory, necessitating the expansion of cultivation.

Rosa speculated that this might be because there was a refugee camp similar to the Exile Land in the south, which led to the demand for cheap food there.

Under normal circumstances, food made from Timenia rye is so unpalatable that it tastes like chewing on a rock.

Only an old farmer or a creature with a more miserable life would rather chew on stones in order to survive.

And the Taimenia rye bread is the kind of stone that can keep you alive if you eat it.

What Rosa didn't know was that this unexpected turn of events was artificially created by Lu Heng.

After the supply and demand conditions changed, the wasteland is still a wasteland, but in terms of economic benefits, it has become a field in a sense.

This economic logic can also be applied to the Land of Exile.

Even a truly magical crop like Timenia rye, which can be harvested six times a year, takes two months to plant before it can be harvested.

Have the refugees in the Land of Exile stored enough food for this period of time?

I'm afraid it is not enough. Even if they originally had enough, those bandits and bullies on the road have many ways to make it impossible for them to have enough.

This means that even if they were in a world where Tymenia Rye existed, they could still starve to death.

Under such conditions, they would spend everything they could to exchange with Lu Heng.

Even if they have no property, at least they can become subjects.

As long as there are people, there is hope for development.

However, when it comes to people and hope, this involves the third problem that the old farmer has to face - Lu Heng had previously told Rosa that he wanted to cancel the right of first night and the redemption certificate.

However, Lu Heng has been busy thinking about how to deal with the adventurers he has caught, and has not yet formulated any specific policies to implement.

If this problem can be solved successfully, it will also attract more refugees from the Land of Exile to join the Mountain Territory.

During her days off, Rosa visited many old farmers in Taimenia and, based on their opinions, drafted two levels of lord decrees:

Merciful decree: The redemption injunction was established as a clear tax on newlyweds, and the lord no longer enjoyed the right of first night of his subjects.

An extremely merciful decree: directly canceling the lord's right of first night and the night redemption certificate.

Regarding the previous decree, Rosa took into consideration the current tax system of the Mountain Territory and divided the wedding tax into three levels to target the citizens with different family backgrounds.

Generally speaking, the wealthier the subjects are, the higher the marriage tax will be.

This can also be understood in reverse, that is, being the most lenient to the poorest old farmers.

Rosa wrote very briefly about the latter legislative proposal.

Perhaps she also felt that this approach was a bit too extreme and could not be implemented at all.

Therefore, the extremely merciful decree is only used as a reference to promote the implementation of the previous decree.

However, Lu Heng chose the latter decree without hesitation.

He doesn't need to oppress his subjects like this. He's already busy enough with Enis and Barbaris alone. Why would he need to have so many more subjects?

What's more, the looks of many female leaders are... just so-so. Not every girl is born a beauty.

After all, why do traditional imperial aristocrats have such a strong desire for the right of virginity?

Is it because of lust, or is there some weird habit of treating other people's wives as your own?

Or should we try to discover as many talents as possible who can be high-end maids and train them well so that they can be of greater use in the future?