Lords of Hegemony: Conquer from the Mermaids

Chapter 149 Preparing to Plant Bibo Rice

Putting aside the matter of the Piranha Tribe, Meng Zheng began to focus on the territory upgrade task. After so many days, he finally gathered enough people.

The Canghai tribe will be officially promoted to the village level tomorrow.

At this point, the Canghai tribe will completely break free from previous limitations and constraints and usher in new development opportunities.

Being promoted to a village-level tribe means they will have more resources and greater room for development. Whether it is agriculture, handicrafts or hunting and gathering, they will usher in a qualitative leap.

These days, Meng Zheng has not been idle in the Canghai tribe. Now the territory's Bi Bo rice planting area has been fully planned.

It just so happened that Jiang Tao brought back a large number of blue-flag dolphin fishmen and silver-scale frogmen, who were ready-made laborers that could be used for farming and production.

Due to their racial characteristics, shadow fish people are not suitable for productive labor.

Therefore, Meng Zheng handed over all the Shadow Fish people to Li Gen and trained them into another reconnaissance force of the tribe.

The Shadow Fishmen are best at eavesdropping and lurking. Although their combat power is not strong, their petite size and unique appearance give them a great advantage in gathering intelligence.

The patrol Yakshas are mainly responsible for patrolling waters, maintenance, surveys and other tasks, and are not specialized in intelligence acquisition.

There was no other way before, so he had to let the patrolling Yakshas take on the role. But now, with the Shadow Fishmen army, Meng Zheng has one more card in his hand.

Silver-scaled frogmen and blue-flag dolphin-fishmen are both honest and hardworking races. Although frogmen are sometimes noisy, they are still very hardworking when working.

If the Piranhas hadn't treated them as snacks at every turn, they wouldn't have run away. They really had to run.

"Tell Jiang Tao to take good care of the Silver-Scaled Frogmen and others, and ensure that everyone returns to the tribe safely." Meng Zheng said to the patrolling sea yaksha who delivered the message.

After arranging this matter, Meng Zheng continued to say to You Zheng beside him: "How many people do you need?"

The place where Meng Zheng is now is the field that is planned to be used to grow Bi Bo rice.

In order to allow You Zheng to farm with peace of mind, Meng Zhengke went to great lengths to invite Cangyue and Cangjing to set up a water spirit protection formation here, although it was not as big as the Canghai tribe.

However, a lot of resources were spent to prevent the blue rice from being eaten by underwater creatures.

It is really difficult to farm underwater, and there are many things to consider.

The first is the soil problem. Although Bibo rice does not have high requirements for soil quality, it cannot be planted in places with piles of stones or silt!

In order to clear out a place for farming, Meng Zheng mobilized dozens of Earth Abyss Beasts and joined forces with Rock Spirit Silver Horned Beasts to use earth magic to transform the entire land into land suitable for farming.

In order to increase the concentration of spiritual energy, a lot of spiritual stones were buried in every acre of land.

The cost was enormous, but Meng Zheng knew very well that all this was for the future development of the Canghai tribe.

Only when agriculture is prosperous can the tribe be more stable and the people can live a better life.

Not to mention that the Canghai tribe is about to be upgraded, and the population produced every day will be even greater.

Moreover, the tribe is constantly fighting, and the progress of acquiring population is very fast.

As long as the foundation is solid, the Canghai Tribe will no longer face bottlenecks and can continue to develop unimpeded. Upon hearing Meng Zheng's question, You Qie had a plan in mind. After a brief thought, he replied, "Chief, according to current plans, the area for the cultivation of Bibo rice is vast, and it is initially estimated that at least 500 workers will be needed for cultivation and management.

However, considering the heavy initial sowing and preparation work, I suggest mobilizing 700 people to help first. After the land is prepared, the number of people can be reduced appropriately."

Meng Zheng nodded in agreement, and then ordered the patrolling sea yaksha to convey this order to Jiang Bin and ask him to make overall arrangements.

Leaving the clear rice fields, Meng Zheng came to the spring space. This was a habit Meng Zheng had developed over the past period of time.

Crab Tyrant has been sleeping for a while, and no one knows when he will wake up, but many of the Black Gold Iron Armored Crabs with less serious injuries have recovered.

Every day, many big crabs come out to join the construction and development of the territory.

During this period, the Black Gold Forging Workshop has been put into operation. A large number of Black Gold Iron-Armored Crabs are working hard to forge weapons and equipment, which has greatly upgraded the warriors of the tribe.

The eliminated weapons were not wasted and were sold to other players by Meng Zheng.

During this period, Meng Zheng would contact a new player every three days, gaining intelligence while also obtaining a lot of resources.

The water spirit protection formation in the green rice fields was built with this.

As soon as he entered the spring space, what caught his eye was a golden hill. As Meng Zheng came in, two golden eyeballs suddenly grew on the hill. After seeing Meng Zheng, they shrank back and crashed into the ground to death.

If you go around the hill, you can see several black gold iron-clad crabs constantly helping to transport various meats and feeding them to the hill bit by bit.

This hill is the Golden Armor Overlord. Because all its limbs and claws were destroyed during the monsters' siege, the Golden Armor Overlord was left with only a crab body, unable to move, until he was pulled back by Meng Zheng.

Just put it here as a decoration. Here, it is nourished by the spiritual rain, which can relieve the injuries of the Golden Armor Overlord and maintain its spiritual power from decreasing.

There are also several black gold ironclad crabs to feed every day. Although it is a bit boring because I can't move, my life is still pretty good.

Meng Zheng looked at the golden armored overlord that was shining but unable to move, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It was impossible to restore the golden armored overlord to its original state in a short period of time.

As mentioned before, the most important resources of the Black Gold Iron-Armored Crab clan are various minerals.

As their guardian beast, the Golden Armored Overlord requires even more massive mineral resources. The current Golden Armored Overlord alone is almost seventy meters tall. With such a huge body, the resources required are terrifying.

With the current size of the Canghai Tribe, it is simply impossible to supply it. Even if there is, if all of it is supplied to the Golden Armor Overlord, it will inevitably affect the future development of the Canghai Tribe.

This is a very difficult decision, but the problem now is that we can't take out so many things. We can only let him recuperate here and maintain his strength.

He gently patted the black-gold iron-armored crab beside him, signaling it to continue taking care of the golden-armored overlord, and then slowly walked towards the depths of the spring space.

Here, there are densely packed black and gold iron-clad crabs. Almost all the large crabs that can move are constantly using their claws or toes to hook food and eat it frantically.

After eating for a while, they would take a few bites of the metal ore next to them, and the scene was extremely lively.

In addition to those black-gold iron-clad crabs that are eating crazily, there are also many mermaids and black-gold iron-clad crabs who go back and forth, constantly helping to transport various supplies.

(End of this chapter)