Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Linde did not plan to stay in the valley for too long, but the top priority now was to restore production in the valley and Doug's territory, so Linde still needed to stay for a while.

In history, some uprisings had clearly won, but were unable to maintain their advantage in the end. The main reason was that they were unable to resume production, stabilize the people's hearts, and restore order.

The North Wind began to sound its whistle and operate again, but what was brought in now was not soldiers and weapons, but craftsmen and production equipment from the western part of the North.

In addition, many merchants boarded the North Wind for the first time, felt the power of the train, and brought their goods to the river valley area.

These businessmen were specially invited by Linde. Although the population in the valley is declining now and there is really not much business to do, and Linde is not a professional in this area and does not know how to use a tangible big hand to manipulate the economy and help a region develop rapidly, Linde can directly manipulate those businessmen.

It is very simple to attract these merchants, and there are many ways to do so. Lower taxes, allow them to lease civil railways in the future, and add some support policies. These merchants in the north will immediately rush to do business around the river valley.

In fact, even if Linde did not have any policy support and forced some businessmen to come to the valley, there would still be a lot of people who wanted to come.

Not to mention that Lind has always been adhering to the idea of ​​making money together and bringing everyone to get rich together, just because Lind has just defeated the prestige of the demons, these businessmen will come over even if they pay money. This is not an ordinary investment for the sake of making money, but a political investment.

However, Lind would not really let these merchants make no money at all, as that would not last long, so Lind first took Lena to distribute military pay to the soldiers. After all, although some soldiers had returned to the gray-collar workers first, the war in the valley had just ended and there were many affairs to attend to, so some people still had to stay. These soldiers who received the military pay but could not go back immediately were the best consumers.

Sitting in the center of the square, Linde and Lena were checking the list with the boxes of military pay next to them. They were personally distributing the military pay to the soldiers lined up in the square.

"I recognize you."

Lind divided the bag of silver coins in his hand and handed it to the soldier in front of him. He put it in the soldier's palm and said, "Your mother in Black Iron City is very worried about you. The North Wind also has a letter delivery service. Remember to report to your family that you are safe."

At the same time, Lind took out two more packages of silver leaf coins and two medals and handed them to the soldiers in front of him.

"This is the pension for your two brothers, as well as the Medal of Honor. I'm sorry that the certificates haven't been made yet. Send these to your mother first. Remember to tell your mother that her sons are all great and are the pride of our gray-collar soldiers."

The soldier accepted the two pensions and the medal of honor in silence, with no expression on his face, but after receiving them and leaving, he couldn't help but began to wipe away his tears.

Although they won, it was a very tragic victory. Since the Gray-Collar declared war, the number of casualties has not even a fraction of that in this war, although this is also because the casualties of the Gray-Collars were quite small before.

Looking at the soldiers leaving, Lind also sighed. War is indeed quite cruel, but will those soldiers suffer from the so-called post-war stress trauma syndrome?

There should be some, but most soldiers will only regret why they didn't kill two more monsters and save two more teammates.

Although it was tiring to distribute the salaries to each soldier, fortunately, Lind and Lena were not the only ones there. There were other officials helping in the square. In fact, Lind could just stand aside and watch, or even not come at all. In this initial stage, basically no one dared to touch the soldiers' salaries, even if Lind did not care about the salaries at all.

But Lind still chose to do so. In addition to Lena's request, Lind also wanted to set an example for those who came after him, just like the emperors of a certain dynasty had to go to the parade ground in person to review the troops and horses. Although this rule had been in name only since a certain god of war, Lind could not not do it just because this rule might be abolished by unfilial descendants in the future.

In order to enrich the population of the river valley and surrounding areas, Lind also helped to bring in the families of the soldiers stationed here and provided additional allowances to these families.

This led some soldiers who had a difficult life to voluntarily choose to garrison in the river valley and surrounding areas, but their number was not large.

Regarding this aspect, we can only say that we have to take it slow. The more critical thing is to deal with the Golden Ear Plains well and make them the granary of the North again. In this way, even if Lind does not pay subsidies, there will be a steady stream of people to enrich the nearby population.

As for the Golden Ear Plains, after distributing the military pay, Lind found Tia eating snacks in the tent.

At this moment, Tia was lying on the sofa that was moved out from the noble's house, flipping through a book, eating dried fruits, and scratching her thighs from time to time. She looked like she was on vacation to relax, and was very comfortable.

This was indeed the case. Not long after returning to the Goger Empire, Tia's bad habits developed in the Gray and White Collar made Iviria very angry. While spanking Tia's butt, she wrote a letter to blame Linde for being too indulgent to Tia, so that Tia had to retake the etiquette class when she returned.

Originally, Avila didn't want to let Tia come back, but after hearing the information provided by Tia and the druid elders, she reluctantly let Tia go back to continue helping Lind. After all, the monsters of the demon clan are no small matter, and there must be trustworthy people to keep abreast of the situation.

This is indeed a good opportunity for Tia to gain experience.

"When will the Golden Spike Plain be able to return to its previous state?"

"It's hard."

Tia closed the book and said, "It is very difficult to restore the land after the war to its original state. With the help of our druids, it may be able to catch up with the planting day. But I believe you have also noticed that the blood of those monsters will pollute the land."

"The treatment methods are in the original scriptures of the God of Nature, but to be honest, we elves are more concerned about what these monsters are. After all, the original scriptures only introduce the pollution situation and treatment methods, and there is no direct description of those monsters."

"We elves will naturally help you restore the land of the Golden Spike Plains, but in return, we also need information about the monsters of the Demon Tribe and the Demon God of the Demon Tribe."

Tia's tone was very taken-for-granted, as if she had not considered that Lind would refuse. This was indeed the case. In any case, Lind and the elves were already de facto allies.

Linde also had some guesses about those monsters. After all, he found some pieces of meat in the demon camp that had not been used or transported away. The arrogant demons seemed to have never thought that they would lose. They didn't even have a retreat plan, and these pieces of meat were not even destroyed.

"We are already investigating those monsters. We will of course share the information with you. But I want to ask you one thing. Some of the information comes from a somewhat extreme religion. Can you accept such extreme pagans?"

Tia seemed to understand what Lind meant, and pinched her nose and said, "If it's just an exchange of information."

Lind nodded and said that he would arrange for the elf and the lantern dream to meet when he returned to the gray-collar worker.

At the same time, letters from other forces were also sent to Lind one after another.

The war on stage is over, but the war behind the scenes has just begun.