CHAPTER 451: CHAPTER 006: UNEXPECTED CHANGES

With the improvement of the living standards of the Dragon’s Nest Beastmen, the emergence of the servant army was an inevitable result.

The appearance of social strata, no matter where it occurs, is a real phenomenon.

Even before Austin’s previous life’s crossing, wasn’t the Lighthouse Country maintaining a lavish lifestyle for its domestic citizens by exploiting and oppressing other third-world countries through various means?

Tasks such as mining, delving deep into forests to collect magical plants, which are labor-intensive and low-yield, are best assigned to the servant army.

In the process of territorial annexation, the servant army captured Beastman slaves from certain Beastman Tribes, some of whom were sold into the Dragon Nest Tribe as basic labor for large-scale land reclamation and planting.

A large amount of cheap labor, even the Dragon Nest Tribe needed.

With the development of technology, the land reclamation work of the Dragon Nest Tribe began to evolve towards large-scale operations.

For example, goblins manufactured octagonal plows based on blueprints.

Using tamed wild oxen and ground rhinos as power, they could quickly and extensively perform reclamation work.

This undoubtedly greatly promoted productivity in the large-scale land reclamation of the Dragon Nest Tribe, accelerating the speed of land development.

The speed of reclamation might have increased, but once reclamation was completed, labor-intensive tasks such as sowing and weeding still required a lot of labor.

Especially with the emergence of steam engines, it is said that not long ago goblins, using steam engines for power, started developing a steam field machine, which has entered the testing phase.

Once the steam field machine is completed and put into operation, the speed of land reclamation for the Dragon Nest Tribe will increase by tenfold, even a hundredfold.

At that time, the slaves captured by the servant army would undoubtedly become very good labor forces.

For tasks like weeding and sowing, until mechanized operations can be completed, manpower is undoubtedly very important.

The same applies to mines.

Although goblin scientists have also improved the steam engine to produce a large number of machines for mining, a large amount of cheap labor is still indispensable in the process of mining deep into the mine caves.

In today’s Dragon Nest Tribe, even if Austin gives an order, no one would be willing to undertake these tasks voluntarily, but this is ultimately not as good as exploiting and oppressing others.

With the development of the Dragon Nest Tribe, the total population of the tribe has broken the threshold of three hundred thousand and is approaching four hundred thousand and even five hundred thousand.

Now, having absorbed the knowledge system brought back by Austin, the Dragon Nest Beastmen management has made some degree of reform in the tribe’s political management system.

The main body of the entire tribe, although still primarily based on public ownership and military system, has seen some degree of revival in certain civilian economic forces; private transactions have started to unfold within a certain scope and gradually develop.

The dragon’s nest’s food consumption is still supported by the tribe-led large farm reclamation system.

While many Dragon Nest Beastmen live and work attached to the large farms, some handicraft groups or service industry groups have also emerged to serve the rich Dragon Nest Beastmen soldiers.

Especially when the Elf Kingdom was annexed by the Dragon Nest Tribe, a large number of elves were integrated into the Dragon Nest Tribe system.

Those elves are skilled farmers and have also made significant achievements in the arts.

Initially, some elves applied to hold a concert in the main city, and as a result, on that day, almost no one was on the streets of the main city.

Given the scarcity of culture and arts within the Dragon Nest Tribe, the management high-levels, who were educated by Austin, consciously guided the development in this area.

And this is just one aspect of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Clothing design and manufacturing, musical arts, glassmaking, handicrafts, etc., emerging spontaneously from the people, filled the gaps in the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Under such a background, various groups began to diverge, with military power as the mainstay, starting to evolve towards a normal civilized society to a certain extent.

This evolution is undoubtedly extremely vibrant.

It is also transforming towards the nature of the country Austin initially wanted to establish.

Imagine a modern civilization society in another world, personally created by oneself; it’s an exhilarating thought.

For Austin, now that he has entered the Legendary Realm and no longer pursues strength deliberately, this kind of self-fulfillment value is evidently higher.

And now, even in terms of civilization, the Dragon Nest Tribe, not to mention leading the entire Kawa Great Forest, has a rare degree of civilization even in the Central Earth Human World.

After further development, the Dragon Nest Tribe could rule the entire Kawa Great Forest.

With the Dragon Nest Tribe’s scientific, technological, and cultural grand development, maybe at that time, like the previous life’s Lighthouse Country, its "brilliance" will illuminate the entire world.

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In the second year after the war, the Dragon Nest Tribe largely spent its time on railway construction, improvements to the practical application of steam engines, and the formation and expansion of the servant army.

Within the Kawa Great Forest, wars still raged on.

Perhaps confirming that the remnants of the former Beastman Empire had been completely wiped out and the Beast God was annihilated, the gazes of the Divine shifted away, and the top beings on the continent also focused their attention elsewhere.

It is heard that over on the Central Earth, war has started again.

The Northern Alliance of humans, combined with several duchies, has launched an invasion war on Central Earth.

This war, occurring in the heartlands of the Human World, is more attention-grabbing than the Barbaric Zone of the Kawa Great Forest.

Even the Legendary Powerhouses monitoring the movements of Kawa Great Forest from the Border Great Wall have left, reportedly returning north to Central Earth World.

The new large-scale war, Dragon Nest Tribe’s secret agents have not obtained much detailed information about.

But from their descriptions, Austin vaguely felt that a war shadow seemed to be looming over the Human World.

Because that war seemed to involve a competition between the Vatican gods...

Moreover, rumors say something seems to be wrong in Central Earth World.

Rumors about Hell, the Undead, and demonic creatures are spreading incessantly, causing public unrest.

The most direct manifestation is that near the Kawa Great Forest, there’s been a noticeable increase in destitute human nobles, landless farmers, bankrupt merchants, and other immigrant pioneers.

The turmoil occurring in the Central Earth Human World seems to cover a large area.

Nevertheless, regardless of how it turns out, this news is indeed favorable for Austin and the Dragon Nest Tribe.

At least after those who were watching over them turned their gaze away, the Dragon Nest Tribe’s actions could become more significant.

As the third post-war year arrives, the first railway line has finally been completed and opened for traffic.