From Wild Mage to Wizard King

After reaching an agreement with the representative knight sent by Locke and sending him away, Roland also refocused his energy on territory construction and military construction.

As Roland's control over the territory continued to increase, the art of making meals began to be widely used in the other two cities.

Because the range of collecting materials and absorbing life force has expanded several times, the output of the art of making meals has increased. Even if the output of the art of making meals alone is enough to fill the stomachs of all the people under Roland's command, coupled with the output of the cultivated land on Roland's newly conquered land, Roland's grain output is even higher.

In the environment where the entire Donnar was almost starving, but the severity varied, Roland's grain output even overflowed, and a large number of workers were mobilized to build warehouses to store the extra grain.

For these accumulated grains, Roland kept some for taxes, strategic reserves and military rations, and sold the rest to various caravans at high prices through trade routes, taking advantage of the high grain prices to make huge profits.

With sufficient food production, Roland used food as bait to mobilize all the labor in the territory, driving them to renovate the entire territory from top to bottom.

Almost all towns were renovated and expanded, public roads connecting every city, town, and village were built, various water conservancy projects were built, wasteland was reclaimed, and mining was carried out.

Under Roland's administrative orders, almost every corner of his territory was filled with laborers who were sweating and working hard.

Because the burden was too heavy, the labor in Roland's territory was even insufficient.

However, the gap of insufficient labor was quickly filled.

In the current Donnar, everything is lacking, but there is no shortage of refugees fleeing.

After Roland reached an agreement with his neighbors and passing caravans, refugees from all directions poured into Roland's territory one after another.

According to the agreement, Roland would exchange food or gold and silver for every refugee they sent.

Of course, in order to prevent them from deliberately creating refugees, or driving them away and exploiting them, Roland's food prices vary according to the state of the refugees upon arrival. Regardless of race, gender, or age, they only look at their physical and mental state. If they are good, they will get more, and if they are bad, they will get less.

Although this restriction certainly cannot avoid all the dark sides, it is better to reduce the darkness a little bit. No matter what, it is better than nothing.

Under Roland's policy, the various forces in the rear who were dizzy and dazzled by the refugee problem were also overjoyed.

Not to mention that Roland gave them food, even if he gave them nothing, they would be happy to give all the refugees to Roland.

Therefore, the continuous influx of refugees also gave Roland sufficient labor to achieve the two main goals of construction and development and conscription and expansion of the army.

After all, this group of refugees are basically from Donnar, and they speak the same language. Moreover, they have tasted the taste of hunger. As long as Roland feeds them, they can do any work and dare to do it.

Wide public roads were distributed and connected to all cities and towns. Desolate and abandoned ruins were cleared, new buildings rose from the ground, and the desolate land was reclaimed piece by piece.

With enough food and drink and physical strength, the hard work of hundreds of thousands of workers naturally led Roland's territory to develop rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, just like before, the development of the territory was not Roland's focus. In addition to being responsible for the overall planning and supervision, Roland directly left the rest to the administrative bureaucrats.

These simple matters should be left to the administrative bureaucrats. Roland had a lot of things to deal with, and he had to focus on the military.

The development of the territory was ultimately developed by the sufficient food brought by the meal making technique. Strictly speaking, all the food consumed for development came from the territory itself, and the funds for development were also supported by printed food coupons.

As for the gold and silver wealth Roland obtained through conquest, plunder and selling food to foreign countries, Roland invested all of it in military construction.

Since the refugees were basically created by the Green Tide, most of them had a deep hatred for the Green Tide. When they heard that Roland was going to recruit soldiers to fight the Greenskins on the front line, the recruitment office was directly crowded with them.

Therefore, Roland successfully completed the large-scale expansion of the army.

Based on the 10,000 soldiers originally trained, Roland recruited another 40,000 soldiers in one go, preparing to train them for two months first, select 10,000 to join the main force, and the rest will all serve as auxiliary soldiers. At that time, Roland will directly lead 50,000 troops to the front line.

If Roland had not planned to take the elite route, Roland could actually recruit more.

As for the troops, there were too many refugees from all directions, and the 50,000 quotas were even divided up in a short time.

In addition to the 50,000 troops to be taken to the Green Tide front line, Roland also recruited more than 10,000 people who received simple training and were responsible for guarding the territory.

With the current food output brought by the territory's meal-making technique, Roland could sustain it even if he expanded his army by another 50,000 or 60,000. However, doing so would be too aggressive.

Although Roland's current population is less than one million, 50,000 full-time soldiers and 10,000 semi-full-time soldiers are already unprecedentedly aggressive.

However, even if this military force is placed on the front line of the Green Tide, it is still an important military force, and Roland did not relax at all.

Facing the Green Tide, which was still in its rising and prosperous period while Kan Aozu was still alive, these soldiers could not shake the Green Tide at all. Once the Green Tide attacked with all its strength under Kan Aozu's command, it was estimated that one punch would crush the 50,000-strong army.

Therefore, Roland was not complacent and conducted devilish training for all soldiers.

On February 15, 1444 of the Silver Calendar, the Locke Rebellion Army received news that the application for the Knight's representative was successfully approved, and Roland got a certain degree of freedom on the front line.

After receiving the news, Roland also completed the training and selection of new recruits, and all 20,000 combat soldiers and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers were selected.

Based on the temporary military system of ten households, hundred households, thousand households, and legions, the 50,000 soldiers were divided into eight legions, each legion had six thousand households, and several ten households and hundred households were set up according to actual conditions.

The number of people in each legion was roughly around 6,000, and the first legion with the largest number of people was only slightly more, with 6,300 people.

After the military reform, Roland trained the eight legions hard for another month.

It was not until March 20th, when everything was ready, that Roland set out from Old Qi City with the eight legions and a large amount of logistical supplies, heading eastward in a mighty manner.