After the first batch of rabbit people learned how to ride bicycles, Richard distributed the remaining bicycles, letting the initial group teach the others how to use them.
Under the guidance of the first batch of rabbit people, all the rabbits quickly learned how to ride bicycles.
With the bicycles, the rabbit people began using them daily to travel to the land being cultivated and sown, officially starting their work.
Daisy, the bunny girl, proved quite adept at her job. Under her direction, the land being cleared by the workers was always neatly leveled.
The area Richard chose for cultivation was also inspected by Daisy. It wasn’t particularly fertile but wasn’t barren either. Its location was relatively centralized and easy to manage.
With tens of thousands of workers, the land was being cultivated rapidly. Every day saw a significant amount of land cleared.
Each plot of land was connected by roads, and there were also irrigation channels beside the roads to solve the problem of water for irrigation.
The land, situated by the Kava River, was very convenient for this purpose. Moreover, with the dam regulating the Kava River’s water flow, flooding was no longer a concern.
Some rabbit people joined the planting efforts, familiarizing themselves with the characteristics of potatoes. After planting the potatoes, maintaining them would be the rabbit people’s job.
The rabbit town by the Kava River was also progressing quickly. It was built as a quasi-military fortress, with outer walls, watchtowers, and arrow towers, and inner buildings made of blue bricks. The town also had a complete sewage and drainage system.
Though this world doesn’t have many chemical products and wastewater isn’t as severe as in another world, Richard still made sure that household wastewater didn’t flow directly into the Kava River. In the current Florencia City, wastewater is treated in sedimentation tanks before being discharged, with dozens of people assigned daily to handle this.
From this day on, rabbit people riding bicycles through the fields became a distinctive sight in this world.
Daisy, the bunny girl, mostly stayed in Richard’s castle, but she usually returned very late, almost never seen during the day.
Daisy was very responsible. Despite having only over two thousand rabbit people, with only about a thousand officially joining the work after excluding the elderly and young, the efficiency of land clearing and planting improved significantly after the rabbit people joined.
With Daisy overseeing the process, Richard was completely at ease with the potato cultivation.
Other projects were also progressing quickly. The road spanning east to west was under construction, and Richard was preparing to find a factory online to custom-make tracks. Once these tracks were available, Richard could lay them in the mountain area where the red iron ore was located.
As for the rail cars, they were quite simple to procure. As long as he found a factory willing to take on the job, they would be happy to customize them for Richard.
The issue with powering the rail cars was a concern. Richard preferred using electricity, but power transmission was a big problem. Laying tracks wasn’t difficult since they were custom-made, but fully electrifying the rail cars posed a significant challenge for this world.
Using batteries like electric cars was impractical due to the heavy weight of the ore, which would require an immense amount of power. What kind of battery could withstand such demand?
Of course, with the tracks and roads still under construction, Richard had ample time to figure out how to resolve this issue.
In the western part of Florencia City, a new small town had been activated. This town had originally existed as part of Fred’s former territory. Fred’s castle was here, but it had been completely destroyed by fire.
Richard sent people to repair the town, settled dwarves and many blacksmiths there, and built numerous defensive measures around the town, stationing a hundred-man garrison.
This town would become Richard’s blacksmithing town, housing all the blacksmiths under his command. Dwarf Ouba, along with many blacksmiths and apprentices, had already begun working there.
He was learning new knowledge from Earth while practicing it. The blacksmithing town was now producing a significant amount of goods daily, including farming tools, iron products, and arrowheads for crossbows.
Daily, ore was transported by wagons to be processed by Dwarf Ouba. The new knowledge from another world had broadened his horizons, making him incredibly motivated.
Other blacksmiths also made significant progress. Richard did not limit them to making weapons. The primary task was to learn smelting techniques from another world and build more professional furnaces for iron smelting.
To prevent blacksmiths from running away after learning, each blacksmith under Richard’s command had to sign a special contract, binding them to stay. They were also subject to background checks and required to have family within Richard’s territory to discourage desertion.
The security at the iron smelting town was strict. Outsiders were not allowed, and the blacksmiths had restrictions on leaving the town.
Richard offered generous compensation and, coupled with his prestige, made it difficult for others to poach his blacksmiths.
In the eastern plains, the construction of Florencia Pass was progressing rapidly. Richard periodically supplied materials, allowing workers to focus solely on construction. At the current rate, the pass should be completed before winter officially arrives.
The swamp filled with natural gas had yet to be developed; currently, it was still in the road construction phase. However, Richard had already bought some specialized pipes from the online marketplace and had started laying them down.
Overall, the progress of various projects in Richard’s territory was quite rapid.
The entire territory was bustling with activity.
Of course, such large-scale construction was quite costly.
Whether it was the gold coins of this world or the money from another world, the expenses were significant.
Fortunately, the daily income was not low. Just from selling food, Richard was earning a substantial amount of gold coins every day, not to mention the various exquisite items sold in the shops of Florencia City.
The commercial street in Florencia City had now become lively and bustling.
Many small goods that Richard bought from the online marketplace, such as hair clips, small combs, hair ties, and some small accessories, were very popular among women.
As the people in his territory gradually became wealthier, more and more people came to purchase these items each day.
The main buyers were still the caravans from the south, which would purchase large quantities at once.
The market in the northeastern region wasn’t particularly large, so these caravans began transporting goods to some inland provinces that hadn’t been affected by rebel uprisings.
The trips naturally took quite some time, but the profits were substantial.
Generally, once these goods were transported, they would quickly be bought up by some nobles.
Of course, food remained the most popular commodity.
Some merchants from inland provinces, having heard the news, even started taking risks to travel to the northeastern province to buy food.
In short, Richard’s current income could be described as rolling in money.
He was making several hundred gold coins, or even more, every day.
The number of gold coins in his possession was also steadily increasing, and it was soon about to exceed twenty thousand.
And this was after accounting for expenses.
Every week, Mia would compile the week’s income and expenditures and report them to Richard.
This little cat girl had successfully transformed from an assassin into Richard’s financial manager.
Meanwhile, Dorothy had taken on more of a protective role for Richard, and occasionally, she would even warm his bed. She was quite busy too~
Mia seemed to have noticed something, and from time to time, Richard would see her teasing Dorothy.
The situation in the kingdom’s interior remained dire, with the uprisings growing increasingly fierce. The rebels had already completely seized control of three provinces, and now a fourth was starting to revolt.
However, the king’s summoned coalition of noble forces had arrived and was preparing to suppress the uprisings.
Richard kept a sporadic eye on the situation and began sending people to inland provinces to recruit workers.
Yes, there was still a significant shortage of people.
The entire northeastern province had a population of just six to seven hundred thousand. For such a large area, tens of thousands of people were indeed too few.
If it were before his transmigration, not to mention the eastern part, even the mountainous regions in the central area of about a hundred thousand square kilometers would typically have a population of at least ten million.
Currently, there were nearly two hundred thousand people working in Richard’s territory.
Such a large number of people would be difficult for an average noble to support if not for Richard’s rapid money-making pace.
Meanwhile, the number of viewers watching the live stream was also increasing.
Although there hadn’t been any intense war scenes recently, watching the large-scale construction and the gradual growth and prosperity of Richard’s territory each day was still very interesting for the viewers.
There were still many viewers asking Richard to extend the stream’s duration every day.
Some viewers were also clamoring for Richard to stage a rebellion.
However, Richard generally ignored such demands, continuing to do his own thing.
His nickname as the “Heartless Streamer King” was spreading wider and wider.
Under the command of the Heartless Streamer King, a few notable demon generals had emerged, such as the minotaur Tieling, who was quite popular.
Another was Charlotte, the daughter of the centaur chieftain. This fierce centaur woman always made a strong impression whenever she appeared.
Moreover, many male viewers were most eager to see the beast girls, though it was already a treat to catch a glimpse of them every few days.
As for the half-elf Lacey, who was constantly on the minds of many viewers, she was hardly ever seen anymore.
With more and more viewers joining and the territory becoming increasingly prosperous, Richard soon accumulated enough prestige points for three draws in the lottery.
Yes, Richard now liked to do triple draws.
Of course, these triple draws didn’t mean drawing three separate items; instead, they combined three draws into one, potentially yielding just one prize, but that prize would be exceptionally good.
This time, luck was on his side with the draw.
He won another enhancement to his physical constitution.
With this enhancement, Richard’s physical condition was now equivalent to four times that of an ordinary person.
With such a physique, he wouldn’t be at a disadvantage even in combat against some strong demi-humans.
Additionally, Richard’s combat skills received an upgrade, advancing to intermediate combat skills, thus enhancing his close combat capabilities.
Although he had Mia and Dorothy for protection, if Richard himself was too weak, it wouldn’t provide much sense of security.
Moreover, this physical enhancement also came with a hidden attribute: an increase in lifespan.
Of course, the increase wasn’t significant, and since Richard was still young, there was no need to worry too much about lifespan at this point.
But, who wouldn’t want to live longer?
Richard was also a transmigrator, after all.
And this time, the lottery had given him something that made him overjoyed.
Because this item was exactly what Richard had been studying recently.
It was related to magic runes.
But it wasn’t a skill, instead, it was a book. A book on magical lore.
However, this book mainly recorded magical runes. It contained numerous methods for inscribing practical magical runes.
For example, the runes Richard inscribed on his bows were detailed in several variations in this book.
There were simple and complex ones; Richard could understand the simple ones now, but the complex ones required a higher mastery of magical arts.
Richard found one particular wind magic rune that could make arrows fly more stably, extend their range, and harness the power of the wind to increase their impact.
When used by ordinary people, such a bow would typically be depleted of its magical power after firing a few arrows.
However, this type of bow would be perfect for elves.
Not all elves were magic users, and even among them, magic users were few. However, elves had a natural affinity for various energies, including magical power.
When elves used such a bow, Richard could inscribe another type of magic rune that would continuously gather magic power, allowing the magic runes on the bow to remain effective indefinitely.
“This couldn’t have come at a better time!” Richard thought.
He eagerly started researching, preparing to create a bow with complete magical runes before the elves arrived!
Such a bow could also be called a magical bow!