<h4>Chapter 549 - Hundred Thousand ves</h4>


    After Zhao talked with Jesse about their cooperation, they ate a meal together then Zhao Hai returned to Wild Dragon Castle to rest. The next day, he went to Dark Soldier Fort and talked to Randolph about the partnership. Naturally, Randolph also agreed, since the Radiant Church has been suppressed, the Calci Family was also preparing to go all out.


    After taking care of everything back at Dark Soldier Fort, Zhao Hai returned to his castle. Laura and the others didn’t follow Zhao Hai, they were inside the Space and handling the matters of the Markey Family and the Buda n.


    Zhao Hai had always been disinterested in dealing with those things, and his wives had enough strength to handle them, therefore Zhao Hai simply ced those things to be taken care of by them.


    The second day after he returned from Dark Soldier Fort, Zhao Hai rode his carriage and headed towards the Imperial Pce. He needed to see the Emperor in order to fetch Lizzy and at the same time, discuss the matter of cooperation.


    The Imperial n also had their own businesses. If Zhao Hai was able to cooperate with them, he could achieve a lot of things in exchange for a low amount of effort. Zhao Hai now had a high ce inside the Rosen Emperor’s heart so when the pce guard saw that Zhao Hai hade, he didn’t dare to neglect him. He immediately arranged a room for Zhao Hai to rest in before he went to report to the King.


    The Emperor didn’t make Zhao Hai wait for too long, he immediately invited Zhao Hai to his study room. When Zhao Hai sat down, the Emperor looked at him and said, “The Radiant Church had been dealt with this time thanks to you. But the Radiant Church has been repelled for a few days now, howe you’ve onlye this time?”


    Zhao Hai quickly responded, “I went back to the Purcell Duchy and established awork of shops there. This time, I came to pick up Lizzy. Another thing was to discuss a partnership with father-inw.”


    The Emperor looked at Zhao Hai and said, “You mean a partnership with those products that you have?”


    Zhao Hai nodded and said, “I currently have a lot of those in hand. In the past, because of the Radiant Church’s suppression, nobody would buy these things. But now, I can definitely turn this into money.”


    The Emperor nodded and said, “Right, it’s no use if those aren’t made into profits. You don’t need to discuss with me about this matter. You go to Charlie and discuss the particrs with him.”


    Zhao Hai stared, then his two eyes lit up as he lowered his head to nod. At this time, Lizzy also arrived at the study. Lizzy and the Emperor exchanged some few words for a while before Lizzy left.


    When they were at the carriage heading to Wild Dragon Fort, Zhao Hai turned to Lizzy and said, “It looks like father-inw is already nning to hand the throne over to Third Brother.”


    Lizzy stared, she didn’t hear about Zhao Hai and the Emperor’s exchange. Therefore, when she heard Zhao Hai, she became confused so she asked, “Why? Did father tell you that?”


    Zhao Hai smiled and said, “He didn’t explicitly tell me. But when I told him that I would like to cooperate with the Imperial n, father-inw passed the responsibility over to Third Brother. If father-inw didn’t n to hand the throne over to third brother, then why would he let him handle this business?”


    Lizzy’s eyes were shining as she replied, “If father really said so, then that can prove that he indeed wanted to give the throne over to Third Brother. Hehe. It seems like Third Brother needed to thank Brother Hai.”


    Zhao Hai smiled faintly and said, “I really don’t need him to thank me. As long as he sits on the throne, our Buda n can certainly obtain a lot of benefits. How about we go to Third Brother tomorrow and discuss this matter of cooperation with him. But let’s not tell him about the matters rted to the throne. Then the day after tomorrow, we’ll go to the ve Market to see Lin and ask him if he has our ves already prepared.”


    Lizzy smiled and said, “We don’t really need to state it clearly, if Third Brother hears that we’ll have a partnership with him, he should already know what is going on. But Big Brother Hai, isn’t it too soon for us to get the ves? The ck Wastnd still isn’t prepared.”


    Zhao Hai shook his head and said, “It’s not too soon, nting season wille along with spring. Before that time arrives, we should already have the ves prepared to cultivate thends. If we miss this season, then it would be toote for nting.


    Lizzy nodded and didn’t say anything more. She was not very knowledgeable regarding the matters of farming. It was much different than managing stores, of which she understood much of. There was really no way for a Princess to touch the topics rted to farming, therefore, Lizzy didn’t have much to say.


    The next day, Lizzy and Zhao Hai went to see Charlie. Charlie was still very low-key in doing his business, but ever since he cooperated with Zhao Hai, his ie had already increased by a lot. It can be said that there aren’t any other Prince that canpare to his ie. It was precisely because of this that Charlie had ced great importance on Zhao Hai.


    When Zhao Hai came to him to discuss the matter of cooperation, Charlie couldn’t help but get excited. He already knew about Zhao Hai’s intention of cooperating with the Crook Family, Calci Family, and the Imperial n. Charlie understood the implications of this partnership, so it couldn’t be helped that he became ted. He even wanted to invite Zhao Hai for a drink. However, Zhao Hai had to decline. He still needed to visit the Shelley Hotel in the afternoon and talk about his partnership with the Shelley Family.


    Thest time Zhao Hai went to Marriott was to ask the Shelley Family for help. Spreading the news about the Iksa Family’s demise was perfectly executed by the Hotel. Therefore, Zhao Hai wanted to further improve his cooperation with the Shelley Family.


    In addition to the Haven products, fire fish and seafood, he also cooperated with the Shelley Hotel by providing Milk Wine. But this time, Zhao Hai was nning to have them sell Rice Wine and Beer as well.


    Currently, the ck Wastnd can now make Rice Wine as well as Beer. However, ways of mass producing these items were still under development.


    The Ark Continent was still very backwards in their winemaking. If one wanted to mass produce these two products for the continent, one doesn’t only need 1,800 people to work on it, those people needed to be skilled as well.


    However, Zhao Hai was nning to offer these two wines as samplers first, like what he did with the Milk Wine in the past. He’ll put them in the Shelley Hotel for a trial run and when the people of the continent bes used to the two liquors, then the factories would be built. Then the mass production would begin.


    The cooperation with the Shelley Family came very smoothly. At this point, the Shelley Family almost has a blind faith in Zhao Hai. They think that as long as they cooperate with Zhao Hai, they can make a lot of money. This preconception was backed with their one year of experience. From the very first day that they partnered with Zhao Hai, they had been making more and more money.


    This result satisfied Zhao Hai. After him and the Shelley Family had reached an agreement, he immediately returned to Wild Dragon Fort. Then he prepared for his trip to the ve Market the next day.


    After going to the ve Market and bringing those ves to the ck Wastnd, Zhao Hai would then head to the Beastman Prairie. It was already a month after the Beastmen had retreated, going to the Praire should be alright now.


    The next day, Zhao Hai and Lizzy headed to the ve Market and went to see Lin. Lin told Zhao Hai that the ves were ready for quite some time. But because of the war that was going on, they decided to refrain sending them to Golden Ind. If Zhao Hai wanted, he can take those ves right now.


    Zhao Hai immediately paid the price of those ves, and then had them transported to Golden Ind at the shortest time possible. Then, Zhao Hai left with Lizzy. After returning to Wild Dragon Fort, Zhao Hai immediately rode a Blood Hawk and then flew towards Golden Ind.


    The third day after Zhao Hai arrived at the ind, dozens of huge ve transport ships arrived. Zhao Hai had them dock at the naval base and had the ves kept there.


    Golden Ind naval base was very big. In addition to the fact that most of the Undead in the base were out patrolling around the ind, it wouldn’t be a problem having 100 thousand people there.


    What made Zhao Hai happy was that Lin actually had those 100 thousand ves be families. All in all, there were about 20 thousand households that were sent over. Thispletely fulfilled Zhao Hai’s requests.


    Zhao Hai immediately took advantage of the dark evening to send the ves over to the ck Wastnd. It was now spring and the weather outside wasn’t that cold. Although there weren’t enough houses in the Wastnd, they can just construct it themselves, and the materials were already prepared by Zhao Hai.


    After the ves arrived at the ck Wastnd, Zhao Hai then had people give them some living necessities. He told the ves that these living materials are their private property, so they must cherish it.


    Many of these ves were generational ves, very simr to the original ves of Iron Mountain Fort. Some of them might even be inferior than those ves. So when they held their first pieces of property, all of them couldn’t help but get very excited.


    The next day, Zhao Hai organized some ves who had bemoners and divided them into viges. In fact, these viges were already nned by Zhao Hai. The only thing that was needed to be done was built it.


    The building materials were already prepared, and at the same time, Zhao Hai also released some Undead to help them build. He already mapped the location of each vige and the overallyout of the structure. Therefore, building them shouldn’t be very troublesome.


    Zhao Hai wanted to build a vige for every one thousand household. And no matter how many members ta household had, thends would be divided ordingly to their structure. An old man would have 5 mu ofnd, mature men and women would both have 10 mu ofnd, and each child would merit 5 mu ofnd. Every family would be provided by either a bull or a scaled horse. Farm supplies and daily necessities were going to be provided as well.


    As for the water supply of the viges, Zhao Hai had already prepared them long ago. The channels for water to flow through were made using Earth magic. What kind of nt to cultivate and where to cultivate it was already nned. There werends made to specifically grow Bamboo Rice and there were also somends to be used to grow wheat.


    The remainingnds were left for the Beastmen ves. Zhao Hai nned to have the Beastmen ves herd here first and then train them to farm bit by bit.


    Thends of these ves weren’t given by Zhao Hai. The ves would cultivate thisnd and by the end of the year, Zhao Hai would collect 40% of their harvest as tax. The remaining 60% would be left to the hands of the ves.


    Although this tax was very high, it was already a heavenly provision for the ves. They didn’t expect that when they arrive at this ce, they would be givennd, their own property. One must know that this condition was only enjoyed by specialmoners back in the continent.


    But what made these ves most excited was the fact that they have the opportunity to turn into amoner in this ce. They saw people who had simr ve imprints like them working in the fort and was eating meat everyday. At the same time, their children were given the opportunity to learn how to read as well as to y. This made the new ves quite envious of them.


    Zhao Hai didn’t immediately enact his n of universal education. He must regard this matter as a reward. He wanted to reward those who do good. And those good ves would not only bemoners, their children would be able to go to school as well. It was even possible for them to be Nobles.


    Those ves thought that it was too good to be true. But when they saw the ves who became civilians, they couldn’t help but believe in Zhao Hai’s words and be motivated.


    Zhao Hai also distributed some seeds to them as well as some rations and farming tools. He only managed to do all of these in seven days because of the his Undead. Otherwise, it would be impossible for this matter to bepleted in a short period of time.


    After all of the things were distributed, Zhao Hai also told them that they could practice other crafts after their work. As long as they learn well, they can be civilians immediately. And if they have some special talents, they can just go to the fort and have it tested. If it was satisfactory, they would be turned into civilians as well.


    It took half a month before all of these things had been taken care of. This speed was also because Green and the others already did a lot of work ahead of time. Each step in the process were carefully nned by them, otherwise it wouldn’t have been this smooth.


    Also, if Zhao Hai did this withmoners, it wouldn’t have beenpleted this wlessly. ves were already trained and were very obedient. Whatever you wanted them to do, they would do it without much fuss. So it only took half a month for these 100 thousand ves to be settled. At this time, the ves have already begun to cultivate thend.


    Sustaining 100 thousand lives requires a lot of things. This made Zhao Hai’s Space unable to be idle. Zhao Hai was even afraid of bing poor in managing these people. However, he thought that as long as he provided these people with food and firewood right now, they would be self-sufficiente this fall harvest.


    The ck Wastnd had been improved to be fertilends. As long as these ves word hard in cultivating thend, their future days would surely be good. The 40% tax that Zhao Hai enacted was fixed. If one got 100 jin of grain, Zhao Hai would take 40 jin. If you have 200 jin, then 80 jin would be taken away. The remaining 120 jin would be up to the ves to use. After the ves knew about this setup, they immediately became happy. And adding on to the fact that it was possible for them to bemoners, they immediately became hard working people.