Heart of Empire Chapter 45: Population

What Dane told Tommy about those female slaves was indeed his true thoughts. He is far from being a good person, and of course it is impossible to do such stupid things as buying a bunch of slaves and giving them the status of free citizens. The most fundamental reason is that after these female slaves become free citizens, they are more valuable to Dane and his island of Comilla, which is in its infancy.

Perhaps others cannot understand his thoughts for the time being, but he firmly believes that his choice is not wrong. In the future, he will slowly introduce more people to Komira Island. In the early days, when Comilla was still a barren land, it was almost impossible to attract ordinary immigrants. Increasing the population through the slave trade is basically the only and best option.

Population is the first element in building Comilla Island. With no population, and relying on one or two hundred mercenaries, Comilla will always be just a mercenary base, and it is impossible for Dane to become a paradise that can bring him income and power as Dane wished.

However, his population policy has a flaw: that is, he needs to invest a lot of money to buy slaves. But now he doesn't have much money in his hand.

After spending a thousand gold coins to buy more than 200 slaves and the slave ship named Diego, and counting the two times that the Long Sail traveled from the mainland before, I bought back more than 200 slaves. With the money spent on less supplies, the gold coins in Dane's hand now only have about two thousand left.

Two thousand gold coins, according to the transaction price, he can still buy two ships of slaves if he dies. What's more, he still wants to build Aurianadu, an elf territory centered on the tree of life. Now that rare resources such as wood, ore, crystal, mercury, gemstones, and sulfur are almost all exhausted, money will never be enough of.

At first, Dane was very anxious about this, but now, he seems to have found a way to solve it. The key, of course, was the six carts of black crystals he snatched back from his adventure in the underground world the previous week.

According to the valuation given by Fal'o, if all these corrupted black crystals can be purified, the total value of six cars and more than 20 boxes of black crystals may be more than 5,000 gold coins!

Such a high price almost made Dane's eyes turn red after hearing the news! This robbery is still a job with a very bright future. If he can find a cheap way to purify the black crystal, he will go to the underground world to fight the autumn wind from time to time, and rob one or two faceless caravans at random. But there is no need to worry about food and clothing!

Therefore, the most important thing in front of him at the moment is to quickly build the Elf Temple that is likely to provide him with a way to purify the black crystal, according to Fal'o. Regardless of his mother's faith or not, gold coins are the real faith!

With this thought in mind, Dane hurried back to Oriento almost non-stop.

Today's Auriana has undergone completely different changes from when the tree of life was just born. Although there are only three buildings built through "Heart of Dynasty", and the scale of the territory is far from being formed, but under the continuous recruitment of the Divine Guide Tree Tower for nearly a month, Auri The population of elves in Naidu has reached forty or fifty people.

A large number of trees, under the leadership of Fal'o and the joint efforts of dozens of elves, have already formed on the transformed land around Orienado. This grove with an area of ​​more than 50 hectares is almost the only piece of green on the black and yellow Comilla desert island.

Under the huge vitality brought by the tree of life, these more than 50 hectares of dense forests have grown from scratch in just one month. Miracle.

Entering the woodland, Dane walked for a while, and saw Fal'o not far away leading his clansmen and still trying to expand the forest area.

Fal'o also saw him, and greeted him from a distance, and walked over.

"The woodland is developing well." Dane was quite sure of Fal'o's work.

Fal'o said: "Thanks to the blessing of Aurianadu, after the tree is planted, it only needs to be spawned by simple druid spells, plus the gift of the tree of life, it is often not needed It can take root and sprout in a day or two, and it can maintain a rapid growth period of one or two weeks. After the growth period is over, an old tree that is more than ten years old will appear."

This is undoubtedly a miracle. A ten-year-old tree can be completed in ten days. Isn’t this a miracle? But Dane was not surprised at all, nor was he shocked. The shock that Aurui Nai gave Dane was no longer once or twice. What's more, he saw this tree of life with his own eyes, how did it grow from a seed It broke through the ground and became a real towering tree within a few breaths. After witnessing such a scene, Dane felt that no matter what surprises the tree of life brought him, he would never be shocked again: Is there anything more shocking than the tree of life itself?

"However ~IndoMTL.com~ still has some problems." Falao said, "The land transformation of Auriana has a certain range. The stronger the vitality, the more exhausted it will be. I estimate that our forest will stop after expanding two to three hundred meters."

"What's the solution?" Dane asked.

"Moonwell," Fal'o replied.

"Let's talk about it later." Dane pouted and ended the topic.

In this regard, Faro felt quite helpless. He said: "The development of Auriana must be supported by a sufficient amount of moon wells, otherwise our forest will not be able to continue to expand, and we will not be able to use many elves' unique industries..."

"I know, I know..." Dane interrupted him, "Don't you think I don't want to build enough moon wells? But, you also have to understand that all constructions require resources, but for Right now, our resources will never be enough. I have to put my limited resources where it matters most.”

"But...the moon well is very important!" Fal'o still persuaded.

"I understand." Dane said, "I want you to promise that after this difficult time passes, I will build the moon well you need as soon as possible."

"Okay, then don't forget your promise."

"Yeah... I promise." That's all Dane could say.

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