(After sleeping all day today, I feel that my energy has recovered a lot.)
Outer Islands, Mordor City.
The strong city wall had been reinforced once. Because of the increasing population, the gate of Mordor City had to be rebuilt. At the same time, two side gates were opened next to the main gate. Today, Mordor City was also a big city with a population of more than 50,000, but the population calculation was different from other cities. There were less than 30,000 citizens recorded in Mordor City. About 20,000 of them were half-elves, and about 10,000 were human citizens. The human citizens were mainly pirates, merchants, and the army.
At this time.
At the gate of Mordor City, a large number of people had gathered. Even if there was a security team to maintain order, the scene was still a bit chaotic. Now Mordor City had its own order, and people had gradually adapted and assimilated into the daily life here. There was naturally something important that could attract so many people because in addition to the residents of Mordor City, there were also merchants from Port Mordor who were attracted here.
There were notices posted on the city wall.
Someone was responsible for explaining. Because there were not many people who could read, most of the merchants could understand. Many merchants' eyes were already shining.
The first notice was about the census.
Mordor City would conduct its first census. All people with citizenship would be registered. Those who had enough contributions to Mordor City would get the title of honorary citizen, enjoy the various welfare and educational resources of Mordor City, and be eligible to run for the official class of Mordor City. The census covered a wide range, including half-elves, humans, indigenous slaves, and so on. The civilian class would also be included in the statistics this time, which would be beneficial to the future management of Mordor City.
The second notice was about colonial reclamation.
As mentioned before, under the arrangement of Søren, Mordor City was clearing out the nearby indigenous people. Now Søren had achieved certain results and occupied a lot of land near Mordor City.
Søren had a lot of things to do now.
Although Mordor City had its own operating system, the strength to support further colonial reclamation was still not enough. Whether it was population or resources, it was difficult for Mordor City to organize a large-scale expansion in a short time. Moreover, Søren's focus was still the city of Mordor itself. Instead of blindly expanding his territory, it was better to climb the technology tree in his own nest and perfect a series of measures such as agricultural development and irrigation. According to Søren's idea, Mordor's agriculture must be a big farm, which was more than a hundred years ahead of this world.
However.
The land that had been conquered could not be wasted. Instead of letting grass grow there, it was better to use it for colonization and reclamation.
The decree issued by Mordor City was to rent these lands to others at a ridiculously low price. They would get the resources and protection of Mordor City. They could rent an acre of land for only one silver Derahl. If these lands were farmed for ten years, then these people could get the permanent right to use them. After the time limit, they could get the deed from the City Hall. All the tools for colonial reclamation could be purchased and rented from Mordor City. The cost was completely at cost price, and Mordor City even paid for the transportation.
Any colonist could get the protection of Mordor City. After all, the outer islands were still a bit dangerous.
It could be said that in this colonization plan, except for the population that Mordor City would not provide any convenience, everything else could be obtained from Mordor City.
Even if you didn't have money!
As long as you had enough contributions to Mordor City, you could immediately rent land, tools, and resources from Mordor City. You could even owe money or borrow at very low interest.
Of course.
This kind of discount was only for those who had contributed enough to Mordor City, such as those soldiers who had military achievements.
Land reclamation was tax-exempt for a year.
In the next three years, only half of the tax was needed. After the calculation of merchants, if a person had more than 100 contribution points in Mordor City, then he only needed 10 Kindler to sit on about 100 acres of land.
10 Kindler could exchange for a small landlord.
Although this may require them to develop from scratch, Mordor City could provide them with tools and resources, dispatch troops to protect their safety. All they needed was the initial investment, and then they could manage their land well for ten years.
The merchants smelled a huge business opportunity.
For these merchants who could go overseas, one or two hundred Kindler was nothing at all. They only needed to invest about 100 Kindler to get more than 1000 acres of land. After ten years, these lands would completely belong to them. Even if they counted the various investments for reclamation and the various resources that they needed to pay in the first two years, they could still realize this huge profit.
However.
This policy was only open to the citizens of Mordor City. Those who did not have the citizenship of Mordor City could not enjoy all this.
However, there were countermeasures. The merchants tried to get the citizenship of Mordor City. Some merchant guilds on the south coast even directly donated money to Mordor City in exchange for contribution points, and then jointly took over more than 1000 hectares of land in one breath. Other small merchants had no choice but to find a way to get a piece of the pie. They signed a contract with the citizens of Mordor City. They used their funds to invest and share the profits with the contractors. They strived to get enough benefits in this big event in Mordor City.
The whole Mordor City was boiling.
The news even spread to the south coast in a very short time. Even the Temple of Wealth was moved. They secretly mobilized the chamber of commerce under their control and took down more than 10000 hectares of land in the Mordor City's colonization plan.
…
City Lord's Mansion.
Søren sat at his desk and looked at the map in front of him. Next to him was a thick stack of documents with many seals. Small-scale land applications could be handed over to the City Hall, but the number exceeded a certain size. In order to prevent other forces from taking root too deeply near Mordor City, Søren needed to approve it personally.
Only common interests could tie others to Søren's chariot.
In front of Søren, the center of the map was Mordor City. There were three red dots near Mordor City. This was the first batch of land to be reclaimed and colonized. It was more than 300 square kilometers in area. It was planned to develop into three medium-sized towns around Mordor City. The second phase of the plan would be further expanded. Eventually, twelve towns would be built around Mordor City like stars.
The whole plan.
Mordor City was losing money. Just the first batch of investment, Mordor City lost nearly 3,000 Kindler. If it weren't for the merchants on the south coast desperately trying to squeeze in and bringing more than 20,000 Kindler to Søren, he would need to invest more resources now.
This was a money-losing plan.
In addition to Mordor City itself, all the participants were beneficiaries. As long as they could get the land, they could exchange it for huge profits in the future at a very small price.
With Søren's god-level computing ability, after the final statistics were completed, he came to a general conclusion.
If this phase of the reclamation and colonization plan was completed.
Mordor City would lose about 150,000 Kindler, and during this time, the only source of income for Mordor City was the relatively meager tax.
But!
This money-losing plan would also bring a huge benefit, that was, it would attract a large number of people to come here. After the merchants got the land, they would naturally find ways to operate it. Such a large land must be managed by trusted people. Mordor City had no labor to supply them, so they had to spend money to hire labor from other places or buy slaves to work.
Now the land was wasteland.
A wasteland needed a lot of labor and tools to grow from nothing. Mordor City would provide the tools for reclamation, but other things still needed to be prepared by people themselves.
Everything needed investment, and the most important investment was the population.
Søren's credibility was well-known all over the world. Although some merchants realized that Mordor City had been losing money, they finally couldn't resist the temptation and chose to believe in Søren's promise.
The whole plan was to lose money in exchange for development. Søren directly used money in exchange for the second large-scale expansion of Mordor City.
But this time.
He distributed the benefits to the ordinary people, and the citizens of Mordor City could get a share of it. The interests of Mordor City itself and the surrounding rich land were still firmly in his own hands.
This was an opportunity.
It was also a signal to the outside world. Mordor City, which was close to saturation, attracted the attention of countless people in an instant.
Mordor City was equivalent to an independent small kingdom.
And the population here was Søren's population. For a god, the number of people would never be too much.
…
It was also on this day.
After Søren arranged all the plans, a row of data unexpectedly appeared in front of him:
"Comprehension of Law! … "
"Transformation of Godhood! You've obtained some information about the domain of [Rule]! … "
"Ability upgrade! … "
"You've automatically comprehended a new domain – [Rule]! … "
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