After incorporating the kobolds into his rule, Galen planned to use the kobold territory as a military base, undertaking large-scale construction here.
In Galen's vision, the main residents of the canyon would be the kobolds. Now that he had brought the kobolds tribe under his rule, he needed to settle them under his watchful eye to better govern them. He wasn't comfortable letting them live in the complex mines.
According to statistics, the previous number of Kobold Wasteland kobolds was close to sixteen thousand, but now, excluding the young and strong who died in battle, there were still more than eight thousand three hundred.
Building residences for more than eight thousand kobolds outside the mine was not an easy task. The base farms alone would require more than six hundred, and the construction cost was one thing, but the main problem was that the canyon simply couldn't accommodate so many farms.
In the end, it was Nibnob who suggested that kobolds liked to live in caves and could dig their own caves in the mountain walls on both sides of the canyon to live in.
This was Nibnob showing his loyalty. Ever since he and his subordinates had Gandalf's spell cast on them, he had been actively cooperating with His Highness the Prince's rule, striving to be the number one lackey under the Prince's command.
Having a goal is a good thing, but it depends on whether Varrokal agrees.
Galen adopted his suggestion and had him lead the kobolds in digging caves in the mountain walls for living.
However, Galen also had requirements, which were that they must be neat and uniform, with unified standards, and not be dug randomly.
To ensure that the kobolds met this requirement, Galen specially drew a building style he had seen in Ironforge in his previous life: houses relying on the mountain, rough and grand.
Leaving Aragorn to garrison the Kobold Wasteland, Amor led Omar and Fader's teams back to Varrokal's camp.
After Amor and the others left, Galen had the kobolds start working on digging the residences, with Nibnob in charge of overall command and his subordinates acting as supervisors.
Originally, there were nine kobold chiefs, but after surrendering, it was discovered that there were still five chiefs who had been seriously injured in battle and were rescued by the base priests.
Now there were a total of fourteen chiefs acting as supervisors, and the entire Kobold Wasteland tribe was mobilized. Except for the small kobold cubs, all adults, including female kobolds, were Investment in the cave residence excavation project.
After the kobolds started work, Galen also prepared to begin deploying base buildings in the canyon.
Gandalf directly teleported two hundred farmers, and then the canyon, which was named Kobold Wasteland Fortress, began construction.
First was the mine entrance, where a town hall had to be built. After the ore was mined, it would directly enter the town hall for conversion.
After the town hall was built, Galen directly recharged all the ore from the Kobold Wasteland kobolds' treasure cave, leaving only the batch of gold coins cast during the Arathor Empire era.
Watching the town hall convert piles of gold mine ore, the room was filled with golden energy, and the farmers were still constantly transporting ore into the room, Galen's heart was intoxicated.
Sure enough, war and plunder are good ways to get rich.
It's a pity that as a prince of a human kingdom, he has to consider the diplomatic reputation of the Stromgarde kingdom and his personal reputation.
Reputation is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it is very useful. He doesn't have many war targets to choose from. The surrounding human kingdoms and dwarf kingdoms are all forces that have good relations with Stromgarde and cannot be touched.
The only ones left are trolls, and Galen is also very greedy, but none of the troll tribes that can exist around the human kingdoms are easy to bully. Galen's strength is not enough now, so he can only wait.
It was just good luck this time that Galen found the kobolds, a fat sheep. He sheared their wool this time and made a fortune.
The town hall absorbed energy for a whole day, and the farmers transported ore for a whole day.
In the end, more than 500,000 units of gold were added to the Origin Heart's resource bar, which was equivalent to more than 250,000 gold coins in the Stromgarde kingdom.
The raw ore of these gold mines alone made Galen a fortune.
According to Nibnob, the Kobold Wasteland kobolds have existed for many years. Hundreds of years ago, their ancestors helped the giants seal an evil earth princess.
The ancestors of the kobold tribe were also rich!
Then Galen wiped them out, not only getting all their treasures, but even the entire tribe belonged to Galen.
To reward Nibnob, Galen took him into the town hall and told him that this building would be his mansion in the future.
Nibnob personally saw this building being completed in half a day by dozens of human farmers hammering it, and he was so surprised that his jaw was about to drop. He exclaimed, "By the candle, it's simply a miracle."
Happiness came too suddenly, and Nibnob was so excited that he wanted to run around the canyon twice, like a husky running wild. After he had the qualification to live in the miracle, Nibnob became even more determined to follow Galen.
Subsequently, Galen deployed three hundred farms inside the canyon, neatly arranged in two rows, built along the mountain walls.
The output of three hundred farms is enough to feed more than eight thousand kobolds, and perhaps soon, the Kobold Wasteland tribe will usher in the first wave of population growth.
Since Galen wanted to build a military base, buildings for training troops were indispensable.
Thanks to the ancestral property of the Kobold Wasteland tribe, Galen could finally spend gold boldly.
First of all, he had to build double barracks. Scarlet's Flame Torrent relied entirely on the footmen and riflemen, these two basic troop types, so double barracks were a must.
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Then there were two workshops, mainly used to produce airships. The first workshop was built in Minas Tirith, and that workshop was changed to specialize in producing mortars and shells.
Inside the canyon, which was more than two thousand meters long, several landing pads were built to park airships. These didn't cost much, and the farmers just leveled the land inside the canyon.
It wasn't that Galen didn't want to build more buildings and train more soldiers, but the resources couldn't keep up.
To train more soldiers, you need food, so the number of farms must keep up, and each farm must also have a farmer stationed there.
Now, the newly built farms in Hammerfall and Kobold Wasteland have exceeded one thousand, and together with the farms in Minas Tirith and the Origin Land, there are a total of more than three thousand farms producing food.
These are huge expenses, accounting for half of the amount of gold collected by farmers every day, and the remaining half is used for resources to mass produce troops.
But fortunately, the grain in Hammerfall will soon be converted into commodities and generate profits.
Of course, things like Earl Dabyre's investment promotion and the kingdom's construction funds, as well as the ancestral property of the Kobold Wasteland kobolds, are all useful.
This money is used for the cost of quickly opening branch mines each time, so that the branch mines can be built quickly, put into use quickly, and produce resources.
This time, the ancestral property of the Kobold Wasteland kobolds was very rich, and he had to keep most of it to find new places for branch construction.
Also, gold units can be recharged, but wood is a more troublesome matter.
Although the current reserves of wood and gold are very different, the Origin Heart's demand for wood is far less than that of gold energy.
Often, the consumption of gold is two or three times that of wood to train one unit.
Moreover, Galen was also worried that although the Alterac Mountains are now lush with trees, and they are all giant trees over a hundred years old, they could not withstand the continuous logging of his three or four collection points. It would be funny if landslides were caused by soil erosion one day.
The tree planting plan must be put on the agenda.
I have the opportunity to go to Kalimdor and abduct a group of druids to do afforestation.