Chapter 1109: Chapter 311: Dark Magic Corrosion (10,000 Words)_2

Then.

The Zak Clan could completely rely on these three mines to rise rapidly!

Forge and produce Armor, and expand the scale of armored soldiers.

While restoring the glory of Zak, there was even the chance to participate in the war for Imperial Authority and win more and higher honors for the Zak Clan!

Thinking of this.

The desire in Jon Zuck’s eyes grew even stronger.

...

The sun was setting in the west.

Rays of sunlight spilled down, covering the whole of Morgan Town.

The distant mountains and forests.

The farmlands where only stubble was left after the harvest.

The Farmers who were still surrounding a large patch of crops, busy reaping.

The two-story gray-white Manor Castle...

All were covered with a layer of gold.

After harvesting wheat for a whole day and grinding out experience for a whole day, Lynn walked toward the distant Manor Castle in the light of the setting sun.

With a thought, Lynn opened the Heavenly Artifacts panel and glanced over it.

[Collection: Level 3 (576/1000)] (+)

After several consecutive days of harvesting labor, the experience of the Collection Skills had already passed halfway, and Lynn nodded in satisfaction.

Even though Wesley had taken Suli and a group of armored cavalry to Bo Xi Town to wage an external campaign.

As the Lord, he did not stop because of that.

During the day, he joined the Farmers’ team in the fields.

Harvesting together, grinding Skills experience.

At night, he pondered how to carry out Construction of the Garrison in Morgan Town Manor Castle.

Lynn’s initial idea was to recruit Free People through Boer at the talent market in Kakasong City.

While bringing more labor to Morgan Town, he would convert these Free People into garrison soldiers.

As Rose and Wesley led the armored soldiers on external expeditions.

They brought back many Guards and Peasants from Alba Town, directly accelerating the Construction progress of the Manor Castle Guardhouse!

Lynn could completely include the Guards and Peasants into the garrison soldiers needed for the Garrison.

The planned number of soldiers for one Garrison was five thousand six hundred.

Such a number was already not much different from a medium-to-large town fully populated with Free People.

Under the restrictions imposed by Viscount Jon Zack.

Trying to rely on Boer to recruit five thousand six hundred Free People from Kakasong City was almost impossible.

Of course.

Lynn also understood the limitations of converting Guards and Peasants into garrison soldiers.

The Guards were still acceptable.

Their physical and mental qualities were at least passable.

Even if they weren’t, after a period of training and cultivation, they could still become qualified soldiers.

But the Manor Lord’s Peasants...

Long-term consumption of coarse bread and wild vegetables had left them malnourished, and every day they were subjected to overload labor.

Under the Manor Lord’s oppression and exploitation, nearly all the Peasants were in a pathological state.

For fieldwork and farming, the Peasants might still manage.

But for physical training, and later for marching and fighting...

Maybe after running a few laps and swinging their Curved Saber and Longsword a few times, they would already be exhausted.

If he wanted to throw them into war, he would need to invest much more time, energy, and grain before it was even possible.

Even though Lynn now needed to expand the number of soldiers quickly to deal with the looming crisis from Kakasong City and even greater threats.

He could only take it step by step, slowly.

Lynn quickened his pace and returned to the Manor Castle before night completely fell.

He climbed the stairs on the inner side of the Manor Castle gate wall and came to the open-air courtyard on the second floor.

Lynn’s gaze shifted as he looked toward the vast farmlands in the distance.

Teams of Farmers were still in the fields, busy harvesting.

After the Guards and Peasants from Alba Town were brought back.

Lynn had already given instructions to Gavin.

To complete the harvest as quickly as possible.

The Farmers’ daily working hours were set from six o’clock in the morning greeting to just before nightfall.

They had an hour at noon for eating and resting.

During work, they could also take brief breaks to drink water and rehydrate.

Given the current length of daylight in late August.

These Peasants worked about eleven hours a day!

Compared to the Townsmen in Lynn Territory, their working time was indeed a few hours longer.

But the harvest in Morgan Town was urgent and naturally couldn’t be compared.

Up until now.

Morgan Town still had tens of thousands of mu of farmland with crops waiting for the Farmers to harvest!

Once September arrived.

The weather would start to turn unpredictable, and with all kinds of animals in the fields foraging, plus the crops becoming overripe...

The already low-yield crops would become even less productive!

And on top of that, Viscount Jon Zack could attack from Kakasong City at any time...

The crops in the fields had to be harvested sooner rather than later!

Only after harvesting all the crops, processing them, and storing them in the warehouse would he truly feel at ease!

As for the six hundred Free People whom Boer had hired from Kakasong City...

Lynn had already handed them over to Gavin for management.

But from Gavin, he learned.

Because they were paid one-tenth of each day’s harvest.

Those Free People were desperate to harvest as if twenty-four hours a day weren’t enough.

And once the Guards and Peasants from Alba Town joined the harvesting teams, the Free People were full of complaints.

The Free People even felt that these Farmers were cutting down their harvesting time and preventing them from earning more pay...

Although the Free People were only grumbling and complaining to Gavin.

But.

This invisibly proved that the "contracting land to households" model, which linked a Farmer’s income to his labor output and rewarded more work with more gain, was effective.

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