Chapter 719: Chapter 469: Arrangements After Frosty Winter, A New Day

This aligns with Zong Shen’s previous farmer training program, actually achieving the same goal without planning it together.

Improving the quality of the territory’s population is equivalent to indirectly enhancing the territory’s strength.

In the same territory, whoever has more excellent individuals among their subjects will have a more obvious advantage.

Because whether it is a warrior or a farmer, they all have potential for growth after being recruited.

They won’t remain the same as they were at recruitment.

This endows the subjects with cultivation value and significance.

High-quality subjects are undoubtedly more efficient than low-quality subjects in all aspects.

This is undeniable and also enhances the territory’s soft power in another way.

Even Zong Shen himself should make time to read more.

Now, with the High-level Library, the threshold for reading has greatly lowered.

Related bonuses and efficiency have significantly improved.

A book that used to take 50 hours to read in full now takes only 25 hours in the library; a book that took 120 hours now only requires 60 hours.

For Zong Shen, to whom time is money, this kind of bonus effect makes reading cost-effective. He decided to wake up early every day to read, striving for three to four hours of reading each day.

This way, it will take only five to six days to read a Tier-2 book.

By developing a reading habit day after day, he can accumulate wisdom and charm attributes.

Charm can enhance his command, wisdom can strengthen his magic damage and mana, and also provide him with extra skill points. As for time, it can only be squeezed out of sleeping hours.

In addition, he plans to delegate more miscellaneous tasks to Marie and Hoy.

Time can always be found if you make the effort.

As his constitution improves, his need and dependency on sleep will gradually decrease.

Having made up his mind, Zong Shen felt great and placed the library blueprints along with other complete building blueprints together, planning to hand them all over to Marie after the end of Frosty Winter to start a new round of infrastructure expansion immediately.

It’s a good way to consume those resources that are almost filling up the storage boxes in the territory.

In the meantime, he will have the Dwarf Uncle stop forging weapons and start manufacturing those metal building materials.

In the absence of a professional workshop, the Blacksmith Shop can also serve as a building materials workshop.

Though the efficiency is slightly lower, from a long-term perspective, the current setup with two blacksmith apprentices and one high-level blacksmith is far from enough for the territory; he must plan ahead and prepare early,

recruiting some basic talents like basic and intermediate blacksmiths for the territory.

To prevent a sudden productivity gap after rapid development in the territory.

Zong Shen silently mapped out a plan in his mind.

The current talent cultivation plan for the territory has been launched, with both the Blacksmith Shop and Tailor Shop recruiting apprentices, and talents in agriculture and animal husbandry being cultivated and reserved with Erya and Xiaoping as the base.

The technical books in Zong Shen’s possession have also been issued for learning and cultivation.

Moreover, buildings like the Bakery and Brewery, which come with assigned responsibilities, also require professional talents to oversee.

For the reserve and cultivation of these grassroots talents, the territory currently has only two paths.

The first is a previous request Zong Shen made to Master Mars to help recruit refugees and gather talents.

The second is self-cultivation by the territory.

These two paths alone are far from meeting the territory’s demand for talents.

The former’s effect is unstable, whereas the latter takes too long.

Zong Shen must find a way to further expand the population to absorb talents into the territory.

"Step by step..."

He whispered with his head down.

In fact, his future schedule was already packed full.

He already had the most reasonable plan for the upcoming itinerary.

After Frosty Winter, the first stop would be to have a look at the Griffin’s Nest.

Once he tames the Overlord-level Griffin, it equates to taming the entire Griffin’s Nest.

These congregating fierce bird magical beasts all have a tendency to follow a leader.

Of course, it’s possible that some might slip away during the taming process.

Zong Shen is not concerned about such small potential issues.

After taming the griffins, Zong Shen effectively controls a group of airborne raptors.

They can greatly enhance transit efficiency.

This trip to Boss Bang is not only for exploration but also to arrange the setup of the Hundred Kilometer-level Teleportation Array, simplifying future trips to Bang City.

After taming the griffins, it will be time to prepare for the reception of the refugees sent by Baron Bezos.

Three to four hundred refugees is no small number; Zong Shen must be present to integrate them into his command.

Additionally, he will be assisting Master Mars in starting the construction of a large pasture.

Finally, it’s time for a trip to Boss Bang, as agreed, to explore the ruins of the Lion Knight Order’s camp with Baron Bezos.

Further plans include many things Zong Shen must do.

For instance, he intends to go to Dinan Village to utilize assassination with the Illusory Mask to support a puppet.

Secretly occupying Dinan Village, gradually turning it into a colony of the territory in a piecemeal manner, reduces the command value cost, lowers the territory’s burden, and most importantly, does not provoke hostility from Bang City.

The development and population annexation of the territory is similar to how ordinary people eat.

Not eating or eating too little will cause hunger, but eating too much at once will cause indigestion.