Chapter 174 Brown Sugar and Water Supply (Updated)

It has been more than half a year since he arrived in this world, and the two dungeon missions have ended. He has had a period of rest, and can operate his territory with peace of mind, preparing to attack the fourth era.

Ji Lin sat on the chair in the office, flipping through the recent developments in the territory during this period, and dropped a small piece of brown sugar into his mouth.

He finally tasted the first processed food that appeared in the original world in his own territory.

brown sugar.

The processing of brown sugar is simple, and the citizens can learn it with the simplest education, and use the tools of the sugar cane sugar factory to make a large amount of good quality brown sugar.

First, provide Fang Ai and Li Yan with the news that they can produce brown sugar. If necessary, they can sign a business contract with themselves to maintain long-term trade. Then 10% of the brown sugar in stock is sold on the market to provide additional gold income for the territory.

These brown sugar cubes are unattractive in appearance, but they taste quite good, but eating them directly is a bit too sweet for Ji Lin.

The local people obviously don't have these worries. Due to the limitations of their time, they were all old farmers who couldn't eat a little bit of meat for a week before arriving here. Naturally, they were very happy to have sweets. What Ji Lin never expected was that the first tradable currency in his territory would be these small brown sugar cubes that everyone could get after working every day.

Brown sugar cubes can be stored for a long time, and everyone recognizes its value. It can also be used as property or even a consumable item.

At first, the residents didn't think about what they could do with these brown sugar cubes. They couldn't even commission carpenters to make some useful wooden furniture after get off work.

All current resources in the territory belong to the city hall, carpenters and blacksmiths, and the citizens do not have any permission to use resources.

Some people save the brown sugar cubes as property, while others use the candy cubes to buy woven straw hats and other small wooden pieces from others. Although the large pieces of wood cannot be used, Ji Lin will not stop them if the carpenters want to take away the leftover scraps from the finished items, and the same goes for the rice straw.

They use the given wood to complete the given work, so there is no problem in taking the extra wood home to make handicrafts.

Some of the ingenious locals have begun to weave various ornaments out of rice leaves and rice straws and trade them for brown sugar.

When Wu Bai submitted this report to Ji Lin, Ji Lin showed a dumbfounded expression.

The territory's internal economy suddenly took shape.

Life really does find a way.

Looking at it this way, it's not a bad thing.

There are still many problems before Ji Lin. He must consider concentrating enough resources in the city hall so as to better promote the construction of the territory. Once the tax system is implemented, financial problems for the city hall will follow.

Paying wages to the residents can also mobilize their enthusiasm for production and allow them to have their own savings.

So tired.

Ji Lin collapsed on the chair.

Fortunately, the starting point of these citizens is low enough, they have enough to eat every day, and their happiness level is directly increased.

His eyes fell on the territory increase next to the territory. The temporary gain of new life enthusiasm was refreshed again and again because he continued to improve the lives of the people in the territory. Until now, the system did not mark the duration behind him.

‘New passion for life: +25% productivity. ’

Diversify food, improve living conditions, build new roads, and provide education for the people.

The territory has changed from a small village with nothing at the beginning to a large town with a large agricultural area and a stable production of salt and sugar.

He was slightly proud of his achievements, which were the result of his best efforts.

Ji Lin would occasionally take a sneak peek at the development status of other lords. At this time, most people were still thinking about the food supply and housing issues in the territory.

Even his friend Fang Ai, the dragon and elf lord, is worried about these two issues. The food supply of her territory relies entirely on the continuous casting of spells by several young dragons with magical talents day and night. The elves live a life of taking care of the ever-expanding herd of camels, driving them to nearby places with rich water and grass.

And housing, any housing, wouldn't it be nice to be a caveman?

For this reason, all her furniture was custom-purchased from Ji Lin, and she could no longer spare any extra manpower to build furniture. Li Yan didn't need it. The tree people used their affinity for plants to drive spells to easily build a tree house including furniture for him.

Ji Lin got up and decided to visit the newly moved bishop first. After all, he had tricked him into coming here.

As soon as he got up, he encountered a heavy mountain coming to find him.

"Lord, this is my newly revised plan for digging ditches in the territory."

Zhongshan knocked on the door and came in, holding a draft that had been revised several times. He walked up to him and wanted to show it to him.

Owning two lakes and owning one lake, there is even an additional sugar factory that needs water, the blacksmith shop also needs water, plus a fire station that may be needed to put out fires in the future.

Naturally, the previous solution of only providing water to residents cannot be used.

Ji Lin reached out and took the extremely finely drawn topographic structure map. Many modifications were noted on the topographic map so that Ji Lin could see his thoughts at a glance. He said to his deputy as he watched.

"I'm planning to visit the new Bishop Tallis. Let's chat while we walk."

Under the sunshine, Ji Lin began to look at the new blueprint drawn by Chongshan, a technocrat, for himself.

Ji Lin spread the two lakes apart so that they could cover as many residential areas as possible. He also planned to dig a waterway in the middle to balance the water volume of the two medium-sized lakes.

The new canal plan will widen the canal instead of pursuing depth. The increased width will also facilitate digging by the people. A three-meter-wide, one-meter-deep, five-kilometer-long canal connecting the two lakes was presented to Ji Lin.

It was also planned to cover the excavated waterway with long strips of stones to make a stone canal. To prevent the water from carrying soft soil, the deep soil has no grass roots to fix the soil, and it is easy to be swept away by the flowing water, so that the water becomes turbid and accumulates in the waterway. This will affect the subsequent water supply.

So it is better to solve this problem at the beginning.

Ji Lin sighed as he walked. It is really good to have a capable assistant. He is not proficient in these engineering-related knowledge.

Ji Lin looked at this new water supply plan several times and thought it was excellent.

The only drawback is that this new plan will consume several thousand units of his stone.

The territory does not produce stone, which means that all his salt, iron and sugar trade volume during this period will be spent.

It will be spent on the infrastructure projects in the territory.

Ji Lin's eyes twitched and he nodded.

No matter how hard it is, infrastructure cannot be a problem.