Chapter 356 We are farming

The fields on the outskirts of the city are relatively barren, and all the fertile land has been enclosed within the city walls during the repeated expansion of the Beast City.

"Weice, your father's idea is a good one, but look at other places where the grass has sprouted in patches, but here it is still sparse with only a few clumps. Can we really grow good crops relying on the mud and sand deposited by rainwater?" Along the way, the orcs, who were originally full of enthusiasm and wanted to do a great job, gradually felt a little disappointed.

Wei Ce glanced at the tabby cat orc beside him, nodded and said, "As long as we farm strictly according to the requirements, even if the crops we grow are not as fertile as the land in the city, they are definitely much better than those grown by orcs in the suburbs."

This is true. The silt is full of good things. It can fertilize the soil. After mixing with these lands, the fertility will definitely be better than the fields outside the city.

What they need to think about now is how to make the extra grain they harvest worth their efforts.

Don't work so hard only to get a pittance and embarrass themselves in front of the orcs in the suburbs.

The land in the suburbs was too barren. The beastmen in the suburbs were full of confidence at first. They learned the planting techniques from the city and reclaimed the land outside the city to plant crops. However, after working hard for several months, the yield of the land was pitifully small, not as good as the natural growth in the wild. Therefore, they would rather go to the city to work, or go hunting and gathering nearby, rather than continue farming.

At least 70% to 80% of the flat land in the suburbs is unowned. Weize and his team are now investigating the area and ownership of these lands.

Suddenly, a group of orcs came quickly with tools in their hands, and started digging in the open space.

"Hey, what are you guys doing?" a beast soldier captain asked loudly with a frown.

One of the older females smiled and said, "Sir, you can see that we are farming. The weather has just warmed up, so we have to hurry up and plow the land and sow seeds, hoping for a good harvest in the summer!"

Everyone was stunned by this. Since they had come here, they naturally asked everyone to find out which lands were occupied and which were vacant.

This land was obviously deserted, so how did orcs suddenly claim it? "You must have made a mistake. This is unowned land," an orc said unhappily.

"How could that be, adults? Go to our village and ask around to see if this piece of land belongs to our family," the female knocked on the hoe in her hand and said calmly, "We have many males and cubs in our family, all of them are strong and good at work. If I hadn't been in poor health in the past two years, they would have neglected the management of the land and it would not have been abandoned like this.

Are you going to take advantage of your numbers and the fact that you are a big family or tribe in the city to occupy our land?"

Wei Ce and Wei Si Shuo Lian looked at each other and realized that this land must have been cultivated before, but because its production was pitifully small, it was abandoned.

Now, this group of orcs saw them wandering around in this area, smelled profit, and ran over to declare sovereignty first.

Wei Sishuo Lian smiled and said, "I wonder where your land is from, auntie?"

The female thought that the group of people had been tricked by her, so she started running with her eyes darting around: "From here all the way to that rocky ground, on both sides is the crooked tree, and on the other side is the river."

This is a full thirty acres of land! Not only are farmlands in the city in high demand, but farmlands in the suburbs were also in high demand. It was considered very good if each family could own two or three acres of land. Thirty acres of land, huh, did she think it was a place to raise cattle and horses? Wei Ce said coldly, "You'd better think about your answer. If we learn from others that you lied about the size of your farmland, huh, what kind of punishment do you think you will face?"

Wei Sishuo Lian raised his hand: "I guess that people in the city will not ask their males to work. After all, who would dare to employ an orc who lies, takes advantage, and confuses right and wrong?"

Yi Mei's pangolin beast husband, the eleventh-level Yue Heng, was also in the exploration team. He sneered, "Only her family can get such a good deal. The other beastmen will feel unbalanced and may exclude them."

"Yes, you orcs in the suburbs live outside the city, but we, the beast soldiers, are patrolling and investigating outside the city. If it weren't for us, there would definitely be a lot of high-level beasts active in this area. It would be impossible for you to forget the difficulty of survival and have the intention to plot against us..." said the other orcs angrily.

"Don't think I don't know. You just abandoned this land because you disliked the low yield from farming. This is ownerless land! Aren't you here just to take advantage of it? Bah, don't you open your eyes and see for yourself, are we someone you can afford to offend?"

The female's face turned red and blue. She was still unwilling to give in. "Yes, you are right. This land does not belong entirely to me, but it belongs to our relatives and friends."

She was not wrong. When everyone migrated here together and settled in the suburbs, they all had high hopes for cultivating the land in this area.

She defended their land and fought for some benefits for them, that's right!

Wei Sishuo Lian smiled: "Oh? Then can you tell me who they are? We can also clear this piece of land and plant it somewhere else, and when we hire people to do the work, we can avoid you.

After all, you have your own land, so you don’t need to hire us.”

What? The female only heard that the noble families in the city were fighting for the land, but they didn't know the specific reason.

Since everyone is fighting for it, it must be a good thing. In any case, it won’t be wrong for them to take it first.

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But what did she hear? Were these orcs so stupid that they actually wanted to use the land here for farming? "If you don't want to farm, then don't farm," the female said without even thinking. The land doesn't produce much, and if you pay half of the tax, how much will be left? Only a fool would farm land that can't even feed a cub.

"Then you should register with our contract beast soldiers to tell which piece of land belongs to whom, and we will avoid your land during the spring plowing this year," Wei Ce did not indulge her and gave up the land directly.

The orcs behind him had no objection. After all, the silt they had accumulated was only enough to cover half of the area in the city. There were a lot of wastelands in the suburbs, and they could only transform 30% of the unowned land. There was really no need to fight for 30 acres of land.

The female was a little dumbfounded. Are these people really going to give up their family's fields? It's a bit abnormal. This is far from the image of the overbearing and tyrannical orcs in the city.

"What are you still standing there for? Let's go, let's quickly determine the ownership of the land so that we can arrange the next job as soon as possible," the contract beast soldier urged.

Wei Sishuo Lian warned: "Brother, remember who is responsible for which piece of land. Remember it clearly. We will have to find someone to verify the authenticity of the news later..."

(End of this chapter)