Chapter 64: Building the Kuxu Canyon

After bringing the Withered Bearded Gnolls under his rule, Garin planned to use the Withered Bearded Canyon as a military base and carry out large-scale construction here.

In Garin's imagination, the main residents in the canyon are the ogres. Since he has already brought the Withered Beard Tribe under his rule, if he wants to better rule the ogres, he has to place them under his nose. Garin is not at ease letting them live in a complicated mine.

According to statistics, the number of Drybeard Gnolls was close to nine thousand before, and now, excluding the young and strong ones who died in battle, there are still more than eight thousand three hundred.

It is not an easy task to build residences for more than 8,000 ogres outside the mine. There will need to be more than 600 base farms alone. The construction cost is one thing, but the main thing is that the canyon cannot accommodate so many farms.

In the end, it was Flintag who suggested that the ogres liked to live in caves, so they could dig caves on the walls on both sides of the canyon to live in.

This was Flinttag showing his loyalty. Ever since he and his leaders were cast under a spell by Gandalf, he had been actively cooperating with the Prince's rule, striving to become the Prince's number one lackey.

It's a good thing to have a goal, but it depends on whether Varokar agrees.

Garin accepted his suggestion and asked him to lead the gnolls to carve caves on the mountain wall for living.

However, Jialin also has requirements, that is, the excavation must be uniform and standardized, and no random excavation is allowed.

In order to make the ogres meet this requirement, Garin specially drew a picture of the architectural style he had seen in Ironforge in his previous life. The houses were leaning against the mountain, rugged and majestic.

Leaving Aragorn to guard the Deadbeard Canyon, Amor led Omar and Fadil's team back to the camp where Varokal was.

After Amor and the others left, Garin ordered the ogres to start digging a residence. Flintag was in charge of the overall command, and his leaders served as supervisors.

Originally there were nine Gnoll leaders, but after they surrendered, it was discovered that five more leaders were seriously injured in the battle and were rescued by the priests of the base.

Now there are a total of fourteen chiefs acting as supervisors, and the entire Withered Beard Tribe has been mobilized. Except for the dog-headed cubs, all adults, including female dog-headed people, have been involved in the excavation of the cave dwellings.

After the ogres started work, Garin also prepared to start deploying base buildings in the canyon.

Gandalf directly teleported two hundred farmers, and then construction of the canyon named Deadbeard Fortress began.

The first is the entrance to the mine. There must be a town hall here. After the ore is collected, it will be directly transformed into the town hall.

After the construction of the town hall was completed, Garin directly recharged all the ore in the treasure cave of the Withered Bearded Gnolls, leaving only the batch of gold coins minted during the Arathor Empire era.

Watching the town hall transforming piles of gold ore, the room was filled with golden energy, and the farmers were still carrying ore into the room. Garin's heart was intoxicated.

It turns out that war plunder is a good way to make money.

It's a pity that as a prince of the human kingdom, he has to consider the diplomatic evaluation of the Kingdom of Stromgarde and his personal reputation.

Reputation is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it is very useful. Look at Cao Cao and Liu Bei. One is called Cao Thief, and people may get angry at him if they are close to him. But the other one is respectfully called Emperor's Uncle by the people, and some may even give him a basket of eggs. Would you be angry?

He had few targets to choose from for war, as he was surrounded by human kingdoms and dwarven kingdoms, all of which were forces friendly with Stromgarde and could not be touched.

The only ones left are the trolls. Garin is also very envious, but any troll tribe that can exist around the human kingdom is not easy to bully. Now Garin is not strong enough, so he can only wait.

He was lucky this time because Garin found the fat sheep, the Drybearded Gnoll, and he made a fortune by fleecing the wool.

The town hall absorbed the load all day, and the farmers carried the load all day.

In the end, there were more than 500,000 units of gold in the resource column of the Heart of Origin, which was equivalent to more than 250,000 gold coins of the Kingdom of Stromgarde.

Just the raw gold stones from these mines made Garin rich.

According to Flintag, the Drybeard Kobolds have existed for many years, and hundreds of years ago their ancestors helped the giants seal an evil Earth Princess.

The ancestors of the Kuxu tribe were also rich!

Well, he was indeed rich, and quite wealthy.

Then they were wiped out by Jialin, who not only got all the treasures, but also the entire clan belonged to Jialin.

To reward Flintag, Garin took him into the town hall and told him that this building would be his residence in the future.

Flintag saw with his own eyes that this building was completed in half a day by dozens of human farmers who hammered it with hammers. His jaw dropped to the ground in amazement and he exclaimed that it was a miracle.

Happiness came too suddenly. Flintag was so excited that he even wanted to run around the canyon like a happy husky. After he had the qualifications to live in the miracle, Flintag became more determined to follow Garin.

Garin then deployed three hundred farms inside the canyon, built in two neat rows along the mountain wall.

The output of three hundred farms is enough to feed more than eight thousand gnolls with some left over. Perhaps in the near future, the Withered Beard Tribe will usher in the first wave of population growth.

Since Garin wants to build a military base, buildings for training troops are indispensable.

Thanks to the ancestral heritage of the Kushu tribe, Jialin could finally squander gold with confidence.

First of all, we need to build two barracks. The Red Flame's flaming torrent depends entirely on the two basic arms of infantry and musketeers, so the two barracks must be managed.

Then there were two workshops, mainly used to produce aircraft. The first workshop was built in Minas Tirith, and that workshop was converted into a place dedicated to the production of mortars and artillery shells.

The interior of the canyon is more than two thousand meters long, and several helipads have been built to park aircraft. These don't cost much, as farmers just need to level the land inside the canyon.

It’s not that Garin doesn’t want to build more buildings and train more soldiers, it’s mainly because the resources can’t keep up.

If you want to train more soldiers, you need food, the number of farms must keep up, and a farmer must be stationed on each farm.

There are now more than a thousand new farms built in Helm's Deep and Deadbeard Gorge. Together with the farms in Minas Tirith and the Land of Origin, 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 to generate resources for troops.

Fortunately, the grain in Helm's Deep can be converted into commodities and generate profits soon.

Of course, like before, Count Dabire and his men attracted investment, the kingdom’s project funds, and the ancestral property of the Drybearded Dog-headed Man, all of these are useful.

This money is used to cover the expenses of each rapid opening of a branch mine, so that the branch mine can be built quickly, put into use quickly, and produce resources.

This time, the ancestral inheritance of the Drybearded Dog-Headed Man was very rich, so he had to keep most of it and look for a new place to build an extension.

Also, gold units can be recharged, but wood is a bit more troublesome.

Although there is a huge gap between the current reserves of wood and gold, the Heart of Origin's demand for wood is far less than the gold energy.

Often, the gold consumption for training a unit is more than two or three times that of wood.

And Garin was also worried. Although the Alterac Mountains were now lush with green trees, and all of them were giant trees over a hundred years old, they could not withstand the continuous logging at his three or four gathering points. It would be funny if soil erosion caused a landslide one day.

The plan of planting trees needs to be put on the agenda.

If you have the chance, go to Kalimdor and recruit a group of druids to do afforestation.