Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire

The roar and vibration from the foot of the mountain were difficult to block even from the dragon's nest. When Noah stuck his head out of the dragon's nest and looked at the source of the vibration, he saw an extremely shocking scene.

Hundreds of earth elements, driven by a female magician, transformed the terrain. They pushed down the giant trees that several people could hug together, and uprooted the shrubs with huge root systems. The hills were pushed down and the depressions were filled.

Turning fossils into mud and mud into stone, these two spells are instinctive for earth elemental life. They are repeatedly used. The barren land is leveled into a solid ground bit by bit, and the trapezoidal city foundation gradually shows its outline.

Such a spectacular scene amazed Noah. Although there are more magnificent wonders in his inherited memory, it is not as good as seeing it with his own eyes.

They dug ditches, built roads, laid stone slabs, and even built solid walls with rocks. As the project progressed, a spectacular palace complex was gradually taking shape at the foot of the mountain.

Noah, who was watching this scene with great interest, suddenly found something wrong, because he saw sculptures, fountains, and gardens.

All these facilities are concentrated in the part of the city closest to the dragon's nest, which is the narrowest area of ​​the trapezoidal foundation. More than 90% of the earth elemental life forms are concentrated in this area.

Obviously, this is prepared by the builders for themselves, otherwise they would not spend so much effort. As for the larger outer city area, only a small number of earth elements are doing the final repairs on the completed underground facilities.

"Little Dragon, are you awake?"

Noah, who was leaning on the entrance of the dragon's cave and watching this big project fascinated, soon attracted the attention of the sky mage.

When the mage with a veil on his face stepped on the magic rings and fell from the air, the elves who originally wanted to get close to the golden dragon were also scared and got into the flowers. In the eyes of these elves, this female mage with elemental brilliance all over her body was too scary.

"I was woken up by you."

Noah complained.

"Then bear with me for a little while, it will be over soon."

"It will be over soon? The houses in other areas of the new city..."

"Naturally, the immigrants and slaves who want to live here will be responsible for building them."

Selena replied.

"That's too slow, how can it compare with the construction speed of these earth elements."

"Don't you smell it?"

"What?"

Noah took a few steps back, looking at the female mage standing in the air with vigilance.

"The smell of burning wealth!"

The lady of the lord sighed,

"Do you know how much I paid to summon these earth elements you see now? In order to make them serve me, do you know what kind of agreement I reached with them?"

"Hey, did you hire these earth elements to do things for you?"

"Otherwise, forced slavery? I don't want to incur the wrath of an earth element monarch."

"You are really rich!"

The golden dragon praised sincerely.

"Now that I'm poor, do you want some help? A lot of the palaces that have been built are reserved for you."

Behind the veil, the narrow and charming eyes stared at the young dragon.

"No money, not a single copper coin."

Noah flatly refused.

"Miser!"

"Thank you for the compliment."

For dragons, stinginess is by no means a derogatory term.

"I'm in a bad mood now. Let me hug you and touch your tail."

"I'm sleepy again, I'm going to catch up on my sleep."

The Augustus family paid a huge amount of wealth as a price, summoned a legion of earth elements, and built a city foundation and core area on the Trulia Plain in just one day.

This greatly shortened the construction period of the new city. The migrants who migrated and the slaves who were constantly replenished could build their future homes in the planned residential areas.

This is a long-lasting project. The planning and construction of the new city is not comparable to the original sewage-filled Uther City.

Judging from the design drawings alone, the new city will eventually be built into a city that can accommodate a million people, which is enough to serve as the core city of the dukedom.

Although the population of the Augustus family territory is less than one-third of the planned population of the new city, this is now, not the future.

The development prospects of the Augustus family territory are obvious to all, and must be bright. Many merchants in the kingdom can foresee this scene.

There is no other special reason, just that there is a man who is about to be promoted to a legend. The prosperity of the territory also began because of this, and commercial activities have become more frequent.

"Alas, after all, I just participated in the design."

Noah looked at a small bud newly formed on the golden tree. It was a light golden bud, and the nutrient source of the bud was a hazy city phantom.

"But I can only participate in the design."

The feedback from the golden tree made the golden dragon more excited. Although it was unknown when the two small buds on it would bear fruit, the more the better. After all, the dark fruit that made him feel the most painful could temper his spirit and will, not to mention other fruits.

"Allow slaves to obtain the status of free men through labor."

This was a suggestion Noah made when winter turned to spring, because at this time, due to frequent commercial and trade activities, the number of slaves in Augustus' territory reached an astonishing 30,000, and they were all high-quality young and strong people.

"Only those with constant property can have constant determination. Slaves do not have their own property, and all the output they get from their labor does not belong to them.

In this case, only by using violence can some output be obtained. I think this is not very good and wastes a lot of labor.

If labor can be exchanged for freedom, then I think most slaves do not need supervisors, let alone whips, and they will work spontaneously."

"Let slaves obtain the status of free men through labor. Such a thing has never been a precedent in the history of the kingdom."

"We can set a precedent."

It is not difficult to persuade the adoptive parents, and it can even be called easy, because the lord and his wife are quite open-minded, or it doesn't matter. Because they don't need to demonstrate their authority by oppressing and exploiting slaves.

When Noah explained the benefits of allowing slaves to exchange for freedom, a lord's decree was quickly implemented.

The specific content is naturally not the few short sentences Noah said, but has become much more complicated. It clearly stipulates how much labor slaves need to pay before they can obtain the status of free men.

Not only that, there is also a strict censorship system in Noah's eyes, and freedom cannot be obtained by working hard for a few months.

But even so, the construction speed of the new city is still increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.