Chapter 460: Land Clearing

While the Ling brothers were having their meal, Yao Zhi was inside the shared manor.

During this period, she always reported her situation, location, and schedule to her husband whenever she met him in the shared manor. So despite her absence, her husband was not worried about her safety.

After she took a long bath and put on her fluffy pajamas, Yao Zhi sat on her bed and opened the system panel.

As she looked at the new resources added to her auto-mining and gathering feature panel, she felt that all of the effort and time she spent in the mountains was worth it.

Besides the underground salt deposit and iron mine, she also found a sulfur mine and hot springs on the 3rd mountain.

Unlike the other mountains, this mountain was an active volcano. Despite its activity, the volcano was stable and hadn’t erupted for hundreds of years.

The sulfur mine was found at the peak of the volcano, located at the lake and crater. According to the system’s information, there was no fixed amount of sulfur deposit since it continued forming due to the volcano’s activity.

Since inhaling the acidic air was harmful to health, Yao Zhi didn’t dare go too close. After she marked the sulfur mine, she and her group left the area.

During their trip to another mountain, they found several hot springs. Compared to the sulfur mine, the scent of rotten eggs in the hot springs was far lighter.

There was 1 lake and a total of 19 ponds of various sizes. The smallest one was only 7 meters in diameter, and the largest one was more than 150 meters in diameter. The temperatures of the hot spring ponds also varied.

They spent an hour soaking in the hot springs before they continued their trip.

On the 4th and 5th mountains, Yao Zhi didn’t find any mines or underground deposits.

Instead, she found that the mountains had plenty of wild medicinal plants and herbs. There were also vegetables, mushrooms, tuber crops, and grain crops commonly found in the mountains.

Since she marked the entire mountain range, she paid a total of 250,000 merit points for each mountain, costing her a total of 500,000 merit points.

The price was crazily high compared to marking a single area. But the marking made it easier for her to gather medicinal herbs and plants in the future.

Besides that, the mountains also had bamboo groves, rare and common trees, mountain rivers, mountain lakes, and underground mountain springs.

Not to mention anything else, just those rare trees and medicinal plants were already enough to balance out the merit points she used to mark the mountains.

Yao Zhi thought for a moment and asked, "System, can you help me mark the entire mountain for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd mountains too?"

The next moment, she heard the system’s mechanical voice.

"Host, since you already marked part of the mountains, you only need to pay a total of 675,000 merit points to mark all of the mountains."

Yao Zhi checked her merit points and saw that she still had a total of 921,412 merit points.

"System, give me a discount."

Hearing this, the system hesitated for a while before it said, "Then, 650,000 merit points."

"Make it 600,000 merit points."

"Host, you are cutting too much!" the system protested.

"I don’t need so many trees. If you disagree, then forget it."

The moment the system heard this, it quickly said, "Deal."

Knowing that her system was a money-grubber, Yao Zhi snorted and scolded it, "I’m so unlucky to meet a system that loves to fleece its Host’s pockets like you!"

Ignoring her words, the system quickly deducted her merit points and marked the Five Dragon Mountains.

After the automatic mining and gathering mark was set up, 2 new tabs were added to the feature panel.

One of the tabs was the resource list. Now, she could see what types of resources were in the mountains from the list.

Another tab was the settings panel. She could set the amount and types of resources to be mined or gathered daily from this settings panel.

Yao Zhi didn’t know how many resources were needed and set everything to the minimum amount allowed by the system. When she was done, she closed the system panel and ate something before going to sleep.

Meanwhile, Fu Chen’an and his subordinates were busy supervising the workers.

Before they could start laying the foundation to build the wall, they needed to clear the land first.

In the past half a month, they have hired a total of 117,580 workers. According to their agreement, each worker received 20 wen and 1 jin of grain daily.

The grain and money were given by his wife when they met in the shared manor, so there was no problem paying the wages every day.

At this moment, the workers were pulling out dried weeds by the roots and removing stones from the land. They didn’t throw away the stones and instead put them aside for later use.

As for the weed roots, they mixed them with rotten leaves, dried leaves, and branches. Afterward, they burned them and processed them into fertilizer.

When the workers saw this, one of them asked curiously, "Sir, why are you burning them? We can feed them to the oxen."

The soldiers had already heard about the fertilizer and didn’t mind sharing the information.

"These will be used as fertilizer to improve the soil quality later. What’s more, the feed prepared for the animals will follow Young Master Lei’s arrangements. We won’t use these weeds and leaves as feed."

Hearing this, the worker nodded and praised, "Young Master Lei is really knowledgeable."

After a moment of pause, he sighed. "If only we were also able to learn how to improve the soil quality, no one would be hungry anymore."

The soldier didn’t reply because he had no authority to share the method.

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