Global Lords: Starting with Female Hero Fusion

With the Wooden Treasure Chest in hand, the new territory was considered cleared.

The system also sent a notification:

[You have annihilated the Ogre camp. Your territory can be expanded by 100 square meters. Please select a territory.]

[1. Peach Blossom Village]

[2. Penglai Village]

’So I can choose.’

Zhao Chi chose Penglai Village.

[Congratulations, the territory of Penglai Village has been expanded by 100 square meters.]

Just like before, it was an increase of 100 square meters.

The change wasn’t visible to the naked eye.

Once he had some breathing room in a few days, Zhao Chi planned to go on the offensive and clear other Magical Beast camps.

That would be a true war, and the territorial expansion would be much greater.

But that was a matter for later, to be dealt with later.

What he could do now was carefully survey the specific resources everywhere.

For instance, the locations of the iron ore, coal deposits, and stone quarries.

He only needed to find their locations; there was no need to survey their quantities.

This was because the territories of Junior Lords had default quantity ranges.

A normal iron ore deposit contained around 3,000 units, a coal deposit around 2,000 units, and a stone quarry around 10,000 units.

Each unit of iron ore was about one basketful and could be smelted into one Iron Ingot.

Normally, creating One-Handed Weapons required about one to two Iron Ingots.

Two-Handed Weapons needed only two to five.

However, Shields and Armor required much more.

All in all, a Shield plus a full set of iron Armor required about 30 Iron Ingots.

Of course, Light Armor needed less, and Heavy Armor needed more.

In other words, the iron ore in an ordinary territory could outfit about 100 Soldiers with a full set of Armor and a Weapon.

But this was only in theory.

After all, Buildings also needed iron.

All sorts of tools needed iron as well.

That was why most commoner Lords primarily used Leather Armor in the early stages, making an Iron Shield at most.

But Zhao Chi’s territory had an additional 80% resource Bonus, so he was a bit better off.

Later on, after expanding his territory, newly appearing resources would also have an 80% increase.

This territorial Bonus was permanent.

The default amount of coal was 2,000 units, so Zhao Chi’s territory should have 3,600 units.

Zhao Chi had no immediate use for coal.

After all, it was summer, so there was no need for heating.

Wood was sufficient for cooking and smelting.

But when he started producing steel later, he would need coal.

Coal burned hotter than charcoal and wood, roughly twice as hot as charcoal.

It was a necessary fuel for making steel.

One unit of coal plus one unit of Iron Ingot could be smelted into one unit of Steel Ingot.

’This counts as a strategic resource. I’ll stockpile it for now.’

The default amount of stone was 10,000 units, so Zhao Chi’s territory had 18,000 units.

Stone was an important building material.

It could drastically increase a Building’s Durability.

Moreover, stone buildings were fireproof and couldn’t be ignited by Fire Spiritual Skills.

Normally, 10,000 units of stone were enough to complete a Village Level stone wall.

In Zhao Chi’s case, he could also make his defense towers out of stone.

However, stone construction was very time-consuming, and quarrying and transportation were not easy.

It also required stonemasons to polish and shape the material.

Therefore, stone buildings weren’t something a Junior Lord needed to worry about.

After killing Zhao Ji, Zhao Chi had actually been very tempted to just occupy his territory.

After all, Zhao Ji’s territory was full of stone buildings and had a complete stone wall.

’Truly befitting of a noble.’

As for the fish and shrimp resources in the lake, there was no uniform standard; it was highly random.

But in the early stages, relying on the lake to secure a food source was definitely not a problem.

The only thing was, unlike animals, they couldn’t provide Fur.

Zhao Chi had allocated 57 points to trees, which meant 5,700 trees.

This didn’t get an additional bonus; if he allocated 5,700 trees, he got 5,700 trees.

Once all the trees in both territories were cut down, he would have to buy more.

Planting them was also an option, but it was too slow.

Alternatively, he could invade other territories, chop down their trees, and transport them back.

However, wood wasn’t that expensive.

Later, if Zhao Chi wasn’t short on money, buying it would be fine.

Now that he had a sub-territory, the biggest benefit wasn’t the increased land area.

It was the settlers.

After all, the two territories were independent of each other.

So the settlers that refreshed daily were also calculated independently.

In other words, 20 naked women would now appear every day.

An Ordinary Lord got five.

As long as Zhao Chi was alive, even if he did nothing, he would gain three times more people than other commoner Lords every day.

And their quality was also higher by more than just a little bit.

Having a new, unregistered, free territory was a secret.

One that he couldn’t tell anyone.

Furthermore, it was strictly forbidden to go directly from this new territory to the Great World.

Because the territories of the resistance army were this type of unregistered land.

Or they were territories that had been modified after registration.

The nobles spent their days investigating exactly this kind of territory.

It wouldn’t matter if Zhao Chi left the new territory once or twice.

After all, confirming coordinates wasn’t so easy.

But if he did it more often, he would leave more clues behind.

The probability of being discovered would increase.

Although leaving from this new territory would allow him to bring out large quantities of goods without paying taxes...

...it wasn’t worth putting himself in danger for the sake of money.

Zhao Chi decided to be honest and pay his taxes when they were due.

He would treat this new territory as his trump card.

Or his escape route.

If real danger ever came, he could abandon Peach Blossom Village and have everyone retreat into the new Penglai Village.

Although he would be immediately branded with the Identity of the resistance army, it was better than being dead.

Additionally, because the sub-territory was also a separate territory, independent of the main one, transporting Supplies between the two territories, even for the same Lord, was considered "import/export" and required taxes.

And there was no escaping the taxes; as long as it was registered, non-payment could be tracked.

But Zhao Chi didn’t have to.

Penglai Village was not registered.

So, there were no obstacles in moving between Peach Blossom Village and Penglai Village, or from Penglai Village back to Peach Blossom Village.

’Now *this* is freedom.’

And there was another point.

Penglai Village wasn’t registered, so the officials couldn’t track it.

This way, Zhao Chi could transfer most of his personnel or Supplies to Penglai Village.

He could then reduce his on-paper strength.

After the school-start assessment, Zhao Quan’s subordinate Soldiers had discovered that Zhao Chi’s strength was growing abnormally.

This morning, Master Muchang’s Soldiers also investigated his abnormal strength, which was why he had been singled out.

Attracting too much attention was definitely a dangerous thing.

If he moved most of his strength to Penglai Village, then the next time the nobles investigated him, his power wouldn’t be so conspicuous.

He would be just like an ordinary commoner, with nothing worthy of notice.

’So, the plan is set.’

Peach Blossom Village would be developed into an Ordinary, unremarkable territory.

The crops grown there would also be ordinary crops.

The number of women staying there shouldn’t be too high either.

Meanwhile, Penglai Village would be Zhao Chi’s true territory.

The high-yield, fast-maturing wheat and the high-yield, fast-maturing Experience Fruits would all be grown in Penglai Village.

Most of the women would also enter Penglai Village to live and work.

When expanding his territory in the future, he would also choose to expand Penglai Village.

’This will greatly increase my security.’

Aside from all this, the Arousing Atmosphere also needed to be moved.

After all, if it was installed in Peach Blossom Village, it could be detected through a targeted search.

Moving it to Penglai Village would make it vanish without a trace.

It just required a specific item, which the town’s Exchange didn’t have. He could try his luck at the county’s Exchange.

Moreover, Penglai Village’s lake had an abundance of fish and shrimp.

The Arousing Atmosphere could also increase their reproduction rate.

Although Peach Blossom Village had been allocated quite a few animals... they could be moved.

Yang Lu’s Hunting Team happened to be idle right now; this could be their new job.

Gu Qing could also coordinate with Yang Lu and her team to capture the animals.

There were only about 600 animals left, so it shouldn’t take long to move them all.

Occasionally, more animals would rush out from the Fog Wall, just like refugees, but the probability wasn’t high.

The Carefree Spring also needed to be moved.

Since most of the villagers would be living in Penglai Village later, moving it over here would be more convenient.

This also required an item.

He would go to the county to try his luck for both items at once.

It was just 10 a.m. now, so there was plenty of time.

"My Lord, what are you secretly smiling about?"

Zhao Chi smiled. "We might finally be safe from now on."

After hearing Zhao Chi’s analysis, Gu Qing’s charming eyes widened.

She was also overjoyed.

"So that’s how it is! Then we really are much safer!"

"Right. Let’s go back first. Call in Lin Mei and her Chopping team and have them start cutting down trees today."

"Okay!"

"Gu Qing, did you understand the general direction of our development plan?"

"Yes, My Lord, you explained it very clearly."

"Good. I have to go out for a bit. I’m leaving the affairs of both villages in your charge."

Gu Qing nodded. "You can rest assured with me here."

"Tell Tang Ruan and Qi Yue about this as well, so they both know."

"Mm, I understand."

Zhao Chi fully opened up the permissions.

This way, all of Zhao Chi’s subordinates could freely enter and exit the two territories.

He returned to Peach Blossom Village.

And returned to the Great World.

There were a few more vehicles at the village entrance now.

There were now three horse-drawn carriages and two Spiritual Energy Vehicles.

The carriages were cheaper, but the ride was too bumpy, and they were a bit slow.

The Spiritual Energy Vehicles were expensive, but much better.

Zhao Chi boarded a Spiritual Energy Vehicle, which was also operated by someone from the Liu Family.

"Uncle Liu, how much to go to the county?"

This Uncle Liu turned his head. "Three Silver Coins."

"Alright, let’s go."

"Right!"

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