177: Chapter 177 Immigration

April 12, 15421, Godfall Calendar.

On this day, the newly established Lionheart Kingdom on the Doreen Peninsula began a war of annihilation against the Orc Royal Court.

Due to various prior preparations, the Lionheart Kingdom's side advanced like a hot knife through butter, facing almost no resistance.

Because most of the orcs were now concentrated at the docks in the north of the Doreen Peninsula, nearly twenty million orcs were gathered near the docks, covering the mountains and plains as far as the eye could see.

This was a terrifying fighting force, but under the deterrence of Dragon Joao and five Sky Knights above the docks, it appeared meaningless.

Most of the powerful experts Arthur sent on the northern expedition were occupied with taking over the Barren Plains.

Only Joao and the other five were left to come to the northern docks to supervise the migration work and coordinate with the navy.

But that was enough!

Meanwhile, the Lionheart Kingdom's navy, following the original plan, began transporting these orcs to the continent.

The Lionheart Kingdom now had a total of ten warships, each being a capital ship nearly three hundred meters long, so they could transport one million orcs at a time.

Making two round trips a day, it would take about ten days to finish transporting the orcs.

During the transport, the Lionheart Kingdom's navy was also searching and seizing the wealth and food carried by the orcs.

The orcs had long known about this; after all, humans couldn't possibly let them take all their wealth away.

Of course, most orcs were unwilling, but under the deterrence of Joao and the others above, no riots occurred in the end.

Just like that, the Lionheart Kingdom's occupation of the Barren Plains proceeded in an orderly manner, while Arthur waited quietly in the royal capital for the war to end.

Ten days passed quickly, and the expulsion of the orcs reached its conclusion; the figure of an orc was almost nowhere to be seen on the entire Doreen Peninsula.

The reason it was "almost" was because some orcs were hiding too deep, and the Lionheart Kingdom's army might not have found them all.

However, at most there were only a few hundred people, posing no threat at all.

During these ten days, Arthur hadn't been idle either; after all, that huge area of the Barren Plains was almost as big as the Lionheart Kingdom itself, so he needed a population to occupy it!

Just having the army stationed there wouldn't work!

And for the public to live there, they would need cities and farmland!

Humans wouldn't be used to living in those burrows and stone houses where the orcs lived!

And all of this required the help of Earth Elementalist!

Considering the vastness of the Barren Plains, not only did they need to build cities and roads, but they also had to cultivate fields.

The workload was too great, and relying solely on the one hundred Magister Arthur had previously summoned, he didn't know how long he would have to wait.

Thus, Arthur spent another two hundred million gold coins to purchase two hundred Earth Element Master from the Portable Shop, sending them to the Barren Plains to carry out the development work.

Meanwhile, he began recruiting citizens within the kingdom who were willing to relocate to the Barren Plains.

Under normal circumstances, surely no one would be willing to go, because the desolation of the Barren Plains was known to all.

The south was rich in produce, and even if there was a crop failure, they could still survive through hunting and other activities.

The north was different; it was very difficult to survive even by planting crops.

Arthur had anticipated this situation, so he quickly issued corresponding policies:

1. Anyone willing to move to the north would be gifted ten mu of cultivated land per person, including children.

2. Anyone willing to move to the north to settle would be tax-exempt for three years.

3. Anyone willing to move to the north to settle would be gifted six months of food, giving them enough time to grow crops.

4. Anyone moving to the north to settle would receive two magical beasts called Fertile Earth Worm per person; these beasts had no attack power, but one Fertile Earth Worm could make one mu of farmland extremely fertile in a month.

(The Fertile Earth Worm was a magical beast Arthur had obtained from a random summon previously.)

With these four policies, each one had huge appeal!

This caused many citizens living in average conditions to immediately start calling their relatives and friends after seeing the announcement, preparing to head to the Barren Plains to settle together.

For example, in Mondo Province, the province where Arthur's family originally lived.

A commoner named Malo became ecstatic after seeing the notice issued by the kingdom.

Because he felt that moving to settle in the Barren Plains would be his way out.

Malo was a commoner, or rather, a poor farmer; by the time it reached his generation, the family originally had three mu of land.

But as Malo gradually grew up, it was time to take a wife.

Malo's father sold another mu of land for him to marry a good wife, and now their family only had two mu of land.

Even though the Continent of Gods had decent crop yields due to elements.

Normally, one mu of land could yield four hundred kilograms of wheat, and two mu of land was only eight hundred kilograms.

And Malo's family, including his parents and a newborn child, had five people in total.

Eight hundred kilograms of food was simply not enough for a year's living, not to mention having to pay taxes!

So Malo often had to go to the city to find odd jobs to do just to barely make ends meet.

However, even so, when Malo first heard about the kingdom's recruitment of people to settle in the Barren Plains, he had no interest at all.

Because living in Mondo Province, the Barren Plains were right next to him.

He knew how desolate the Barren Plains were; the area near Mondo Province was okay, but the further north one went, the more barren it became.

Until nearing the Desert of Death, it was completely devoid of life!

So at first, Malo was unwilling to go to the Barren Plains, but now that the kingdom's announcement was out.

Malo exclaimed, "This is too good to be true!"

Like the first item of the announcement, anyone willing to move to the Barren Plains to settle would be rewarded with ten mu of land per person.

This meant that their family of five, as long as they were willing to move to the Barren Plains, could get fifty mu of land for free, which was not a small amount.

Of course, if it were just fifty mu of land in the Barren Plains, it wouldn't be particularly attractive, after all, its yield was low, it lacked water, and it was hard to plant.

If you added the fourth item, the magical beast, Fertile Earth Worm, then it would be different.

Fifty mu of barren land turning into fertile soil would greatly increase its value.

The third item giving them six months of food each also solved their worries.

But the most important thing was the second item, being able to be tax-exempt for three years; that was a large sum of money.

Malo had to pay fifty percent tax on the eight hundred kilograms of food he earned from working hard on two mu of land in Mondo Province every year.

Now, just by moving to the Barren Plains, he would be tax-exempt for three years, which was tempting just to think about.

So, summarizing it all, Malo decided to take his family and sign up to head north to settle in the Barren Plains.

There were many people in the Lionheart Kingdom who were living in difficulty just like Malo.

Therefore, ever since Arthur's announcement came out, there was no need to worry about the population migrating north!

However, the specific migration action still had to wait a month, at least to let those Earth Element Master preliminarily develop the Barren Plains.

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April 23, 15421, Godfall Calendar.

This day, ten days had passed since the Lionheart Kingdom launched the war of annihilation.