44 Planning For Future (2)
"Master, your meaning is?" although Han Xi is the most capable individual in the first group his ten human followers, he still lacks in the term of leadership. On top of that, Han Xi is more of a defensive person and not aggressive at all.
But, that wasn't an issue to Mu Qing Lang, who have both the experience and understanding of two different worlds. Guan Yi might be capable of replacing him in term of leadership, his courageous and loyal attitude is what makes him become Mu Qing Lang's second option.
A defensive individual hence became his first option.
"I wanted to move our settlement to a proper location before we qualify for the next title. Additionally, there will be a few changes that will happen once we moved to a new place."
"One of them will be the status of the people. And for the second, it will be the currency used to establish ourselves." Mu Qing Lang describes his ideal to Han Xi, but unfortunately, it only serves to cloud his mind even more.
"Everyone will understand this in the future. I named this method [Currency] for its usage to help in determining the value of people and products. You can imagine that the currency is something you paid to obtain what you want and what you give."
Mu Qing Lang explained to Han Xi about the usage of the currency Mu Qing Lang tried to apply to their daily life. Although vague, it sounds much better compared to what they are getting now.
"Please forgive Han Xi for his slowness. I will do my best to fulfill my master's wish to change our world and make them better. Can Han Xi know what he can do?" he's puzzled, but agreed to Mu Qing Lang's request anyway.
"I will need you to build the foundation for me. It should cover more than one hundred times more land than what we have now with a proper walking path. The path should be layered with gravels, which is the rocks we had them crushed further into smaller sizes."
"This will be your duty for now. As for the buildings, I will come and instruct everyone on what to do." Mu Qing Lang said by using a few ways along with the sand to describe his intention.
Grasses should be removed from the land entirely before they relied on the orc's strength to proof the surface. Once the ground is ready for buildings, Mu Qing Lang will be there to instruct them one by one.
Of course, Mu Qing Lang did not make his decision for fun. His attempt to relocate the Mu's Settlement to this new location is made to ensure his settlement can grow unrestricted while suppressed by the outsiders.
And to bring this further, Mu Qing Lang gave eight shoots belonged to the Yunxia Bamboo to Han Xi. This batch of eight Yunxia Bamboos will be the upcoming resources to build the establishment in the eastern side of the Chang Emperor Prairie.
"Han Xi will try his best to accomplish this task!" Han Xi kneeled before Mu Qing Lang and accepted this task. At the same time, Mu Qing Lang arranged a total of fifty orcs ad ten humans to follow Han Xi to start to claim the land east of their settlement.
"Master! Before Han Xi left, can I know what are we going to call it?" his curiosity was a great question. It left Mu Qing Lang brainstorm for the name, and after a few minutes, he made his decision.
"Let's call the new place we're going to build as..."
"Eastern Changzhou!"
Mu Qing Lang decided on the name after he mixed the east and the previous owner of this prairie together. In the future, he might consider building up Northern, Southern, and Western Changzhou if he successfully controlled the entire piece of Chang Emperor Prairie.
An hour later, Han Xi led his group of people and left to start preparing the land that soon belonged to the Eastern Changzhou. Before that, Mo Yi offered to follow the group, where his Flame and Earth Conversion can be a great help to Han Xi and his team.
As for Mu Qing Lang, he uses his bare fingers to dug a hole on the ground and planted the seed for the Root-Cress Plant inside with a Pure Growth Crystal. Since Xiao Qing is helping him in handling the Chang Empress Poppy, Mu Qing Lang assigned him to handle another additional job.
His pay?
Mu Qing Lang gave Xiao Qing ten bottles of Recovery Ointment as his hint of gratitude. Of course, the ten Pure Growth Crystal itself cost Mu Qing Lang 2,000 rhizomes to make, and he'll have to make five more two days later for the second batch of poppies.
Skipping his lunch, Mu Qing Lang went to the Northern Entrance to have a walk. To make sure their master stay safe, Guan Yi, Yulin, Qing Yi, and the Ashen Wolf King tried to follow their master. But at the end, everyone except the Ashen Wolf King is rejected.
"Master, is there something in your mind?" the Ashen Wolf King asked.
"I do, but I'm not sure if I could go along with it." Mu Qing Lang answered the question with both hands interlocked behind him. From behind, he looked like an emperor burdened with responsibilities.
"Please let this Ashen Wolf knows. I will not allow my master to bear the burden while all of us contributes to nothing." the Ashen Wolf King put aside his title of a king before Mu Qing Lang as he speaks, trying to give more of what his tribe can offer.
"I'm afraid." the word Mu Qing Lang used to describes his difficulty is simple but effective to expresses his distress.
"Master!" the Ashen Wolf King lost his calmness after hearing the sensitive word.
"We might have won against the Namu Settlement, but that doesn't mean we're on equal ground. In a war, there is more than one scenario that made us ask..."
"What if..."
"Do you know what am I worrying?" Mu Qing Lang asked the Ashen Wolf King once more.
"Yes! Master's worry lies on the three settlements. We might have won the fight, but we have not yet taken the land. Unless we made ourselves known in this land, we're nothing in their eyes." the Ashen Wolf King quickly catch his idea about his worries and other matters.
"Correct. Han Xi had gone to the East to help me to claim the land there. I'm thinking if your tribe can help me too." Mu Qing Lang told the Ashen Wolf King what happened about an hour earlier, and also the task he gave to them.
"Master, what can the Ashen Wolf Tribe do to keep our settlement safe?" the Ashen Wolf King asked.
"Search every nook and corner of this land. Extend our reach to the entire Eastern Mountain Sea area. We will accept all that willing to fight for us, and educate those that unwilling."
"At the end of the day, only the Eastern Changzhou and our ruling system remain. Anything else is not required." Mu Qing Lang said.
"This Ashen Wolf understand! I will immediately send the quick runners to explore the land around us! We will bring as many people as we could, and we will make sure that we know those against us." the Ashen Wolf King understands his meaning perfectly.
"Great. Then I'll depend on you." Mu Qing Lang patted the head of the Ashen Wolf King.
"AOU!!!" order is given to the entire tribe, and within seconds, half of the able Ashen Wolves scattered to every corner to bring home any intelligence worthy of their master's attention.
Even the Ashen Wolf King had left to complete the task Mu Qing Lang gave to him.
"Namu Settlement, Yelu Settlement, Wuhan Settlement, and Jinjiang Village... I wonder what will happen the next time we met." Mu Qing Lang stared at the Northeastern direction, where three out of four opponents of his built their base.
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Meanwhile, in the Yelu Settlement.
"You'll honor your promises, even if we're going to force our hand against you and your tribe!" Yelu-En pointed at a burly male and a thin middle-aged man standing before him.
The middle-aged man is the one provoking Tiezu-Yu during the war against the orcs. As for the burly male, he just came to this settlement in the morning to deliver the instruction of their village chief.
"Chief Yelu, please calm down. Did our Jinjiang Village said we're not going to? We hope Chief Yelu can understand our difficulties. The Jinjiang Village are facing enemies at four different directions compared to your peaceful tribe."
"If it's not because we're going to war with the Haiwu Village, the militias are already on their way here to assist you in the conquest to control the Wuhan and Namu Settlement!" the burly male explained the reason behind their delays in delivering their militias.
Not only that, the reason for Yelu-En's anger is not just due to their delays, but because the Jinjiang Village is summoning all their militias in this settlement to return and support their western battlefield!
During the fight against the Tiezu-Orcs Village, over a thousand of their residents sacrificed to take over it, where it was now barely operating due to the lack of orcs proficient in animal breeding, lack of food supplies, and diseases from the pile of corpses.
"Chief Yelu, the Jinjiang Village will fully support your settlement in their upcoming conquest once we're done with our war against the west. Please understand..." the burly male continued. Of course, hidden behind his calm speech is his angered nature towards Yelu-En.
"I will not allow your people to leave. You'll help me to destroy the weakest Namu Settlement and control them, or else, I'll tell everyone to take your militias as captives!" Yelu-En challenged the two cultivators before him.
"YELU-EN! Don't you dare to think we're easy to bully!"
