Suhlen was very satisfied after looking at the stats of the item. This weapon was completely made for him. Suhlen's Thunder Territory had been combined with the power of thunder. He was even more powerful now. Now, he had to face the troll tribe.
What surprised Suhlen was that Zeon had returned with the caravan. The snow from two days ago did not cover the entire northern wasteland. At least, Zeon and the caravan did not encounter it. As for why they were late, it was because there were too many people in the caravan. They had spent too much time arranging everything for the caravan.
This time, the caravan had spent 15,000 Kinnar and brought back more than 2000 slaves. Other than the normal slaves, Zeon had also bought more than 300 artisan slaves with various skills.
These artisan slaves were bought with the help of the caravan that was working with the Northern Fortress. Otherwise, they would not have been able to buy them at all. A large number of refugees had also followed them here. After a few months of advertising, the Northern Fortress had become quite famous. Many refugees who could not survive were willing to follow the caravan to the Northern Fortress.
Since there were too many people in the caravan this time, Zeon had also spent a lot of Kinnar to hire more than 200 mercenaries. He did not ask them to be good fighters. He just wanted them to help manage the refugees. In the end, the entire caravan had reached 4000 people.
Although the caravan brought back a lot of people, Su Lun had made preparations in advance, so there was not much chaos in the settlement work. All the slaves had been divided into groups, and each group was headed by a mercenary. Under the leadership of the group leader, the slaves were taken to the designated residence to rest.
The refugees were divided according to their family. If they did not have a family, they would be divided into groups and assigned to their respective places.
All of a sudden, there were four thousand more people. The North Town Fort, which was spacious, immediately became crowded. The population of the North Town Fort tripled. However, Suhlen would not complain about having too many people. The Northern Fortress would need at least 10,000 people to develop into a Northern Fortress City. Right now, it was only a large town at most.
Because of the huge increase in population, many things had to be re-calculated. For example, they had to divide more canteens. The 6,000 people were divided into six canteens according to where they lived. At the same time, they also needed to prepare the necessary facilities. Due to the increase in the number of people, Suhlen began to expand the security team. This time, he planned to expand the security team to 150 people.
Fortunately, the infrastructure of the town was not bad. Although it was a little crowded, at least everyone had a house to live in, and there was no need to sleep on the streets.
Although they had brought a lot of people back this time, they still had to follow the hygiene rules of the North Town Fort. According to the medical standards of this world, the effectiveness of curing all kinds of infectious diseases was pitifully low. The North Town Fort didn't have any medicine either. If there was an infectious disease, it would be a miracle if half of the slaves and free people could survive.
Everyone was led to the public bathroom to wash up. At the same time, everyone was asked to soak themselves in lime water for disinfection. The clothes that they had changed out of were also collected and burned. Then, everyone would be given a new set of clothes.
Although there were a lot of demands, everyone accepted them honestly. When they entered the North Town Castle, the two ferocious heads hanging on the wall told everyone that the owner of this castle was not a good-tempered person. Some ignorant people wanted to cause trouble, but they were directly taken out by the security team to teach them a lesson.
After cleaning up, someone would lead them to the canteen in groups for a meal. The whole process was busy, but orderly.
The arrival of so many slaves and refugees had brought a lot of labor to the North Town Fort. Normally, labor would decrease in the winter. However, with so many people having nothing to do and having to provide food and warmth every day, it was definitely the biggest waste for Suhlen, the capitalist who took advantage of every opportunity.
Therefore, Suhlen started the construction plan again. Of course, he had to take the weather into consideration. The increase in the number of people also led to more work in the territory. He also started to think about forming a system of officials to manage the town.
However, he had yet to find a suitable person to be the mayor of the town. As for the ordinary officials, they were easy to deal with. The North Town Fort had always used a point system. The people who were responsible for recording points every day were actually qualified officials.
After a few months, they had already familiarized themselves with the territory. Moreover, those who were greedy and had evil intentions had already been cleared out.
As long as the system was improved, the officials only needed to do things according to the system. As for corruption and abuse of power, there was no need to worry about these problems at all. Suhlen's territory was not a country with millions of people. It was only a small town with a few thousand people. It would not be easy to do something behind Suhlen's back. Plus, with Kris there, they would not have the chance to do so.
The sudden increase in the population caused some chaos in the North Town Castle, but it was quickly dealt with. The weather had completely cleared up after that. Even the snow outside had melted. The scouts kept sending news about the trolls. Suhlen also began to prepare for the upcoming war.
Because of the trolls' powerful regenerative ability, it was very difficult to kill them with normal physical attacks. Basically, all the adventurers knew that after a battle with the trolls, they had to burn all the limbs of the trolls. This was because with enough time, even a small piece of flesh could be regenerated into a complete troll.
Of course, there was a limit to this regenerative ability. It would consume a lot of energy, and the regenerated trolls needed to be replenished as soon as possible. Moreover, only the largest piece of the troll's body could be regenerated in this way. The rest of the body would be burned to ashes after the troll's rebirth.
It was also because of this almost immortal regenerative ability that the trolls were fearless on the battlefield.
As for the situation where a troll was cut into countless pieces and then split into countless other trolls, this situation would not happen. The trolls' reproduction was also through viviparous reproduction, not fission reproduction. Suhlen was preparing to fight the trolls, so he needed to prepare a lot of things to ignite the fire.
There were many pine trees outside the territory. This kind of plant was rich in oil and only needed a little fire to ignite it. Many native tribes used it to make torches. Suhlen had people cut down a lot of pine trees and took out a lot of animal oil at the same time. There was no kerosene in the North Town Castle. Kerosene was mainly produced in the Desert Kingdom, so he had to use animal oil as a substitute.
There was not enough animal oil, so Suhlen had people distill the rum a few times to get high purity alcohol. This was all used to ignite the fire to deal with the incoming trolls. It could be said that for the sake of this war, Su Lun had already lost a lot of materials.
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