Chapter 2803

Right now there are only 150,000 plots, still short by 600,000 plots.

So…

New farmland can be developed again.

Of course, there's no rush—slowly developing it is fine.

Moreover, this number isn't completely fixed, because Zhao Chi is very likely to keep purchasing large numbers of female slaves, and this figure might still increase.

But afterward, each female slave worker looking after 15 plots of farmland will definitely be no problem.

Subtracting the 50,000 female slave workers managing the farmland, there are still 50,000 female slave workers left.

What they have to do is go to Penglai Town to serve as herders, looking after the Feather Cows.

This is also very important.

It also requires a large workforce.

From initial breeding to now, the total number of Feather Cows raised is close to 110,000 head.

An extremely large number.

Among them, 12,000 adult male Feather Cows have already been slaughtered, producing over 17,000 tons of beef in total; 7,000 tons have already been eaten, and 10,000 tons remain in the stockpile.

Beef freedom has effectively been achieved.

Every Taoyuan Clan woman has a daily supply of 2 kilograms of beef; at this rate, the 10,000 kilograms of beef in stock can last over half a year.

But recently, after getting their collars, the slave workers have been very obedient and diligent in their work, so Zhao Chi also rewarded them with 0.5 kilograms of beef per person per day.

These female slave workers aren't Taoyuan Clan; a daily ration of just 1 kilogram is enough for them.

This beef makes up nearly half of their daily food intake.

Adding in the female slave workers' consumption, the stockpile is enough for 4 months of consumption.

But… this is only the slaughtered portion.

There are still 96,000 Feather Cows being raised.

They've already completely filled up the north side of Penglai Town.

Zhao Chi had also previously configured another 30 square kilometers of territory on the north side of Penglai Town, specifically for raising Feather Cows.

Among these 96,000, the majority are young Feather Cows, totaling around 70,000.

But they'll grow up in batches soon, ready for slaughter and milk production.

Feather Cows are living creatures; as long as they're properly raised, their numbers will grow exponentially.

Zhao Chi's farmland output is already terrifying, but farmland output is basically constant.

But Feather Cows aren't.

As long as the number of female Feather Cows is maintained, new Feather Cows will increase explosively.

Among the remaining 96,000 Feather Cows, there are 54,000 female Feather Cows in total; 20,000 are adults capable of producing milk and breeding, and there are also 34,000 young female Feather Cows.

Each female Feather Cow can produce 10 young Feather Cows; once all these young female Feather Cows grow up, they can give birth to 540,000 new young Feather Cows in one go.

After another 60 days, when the female Feather Cows among these 540,000 young Feather Cows grow up, they can breed again, and by then it'll be in the millions.

So…

The job of the remaining 50,000 female slaves is to go herding, looking after these Feather Cows.

Right now the Feather Cows aren't that explosively numerous yet, so looking after them is definitely easy, but in the future it will definitely get busier and busier.

Let them do it for now.

And these female slave workers can also do other work.

For example, hauling, construction, kitchen help, even cleaning.

There are plenty of jobs.

While chatting with Su Qin, a message from Li Ruanyu suddenly came through.

Li Ruanyu 【Zhao Chi, where are you?】

Her tone was cold.

Zhao Chi was a little surprised.

Didn't the entire Jade Squadron deploy to support friendly forces? Why is Li Ruanyu messaging me alone?

And this tone…

It's definitely not that she's dissatisfied with Zhao Chi—something must have happened.

Zhao Chi quickly replied 【I'm at Chaoge Town with Su Qin】

Soon, a beautiful figure appeared at the town center nearby.

Li Ruanyu looked around, spotted Zhao Chi and the other person, and came over.

Zhao Chi and Su Qin also hurried over.

Li Ruanyu directly pulled out a colored treasure chest and handed it over.

"General Yan Ling gave this, it's for you."

A colored treasure chest??!

Zhao Chi was completely stunned.

Su Qin's eyes went wide: "Wow—"

Li Ruanyu shoved it straight into Zhao Chi's arms: "This is the reward General Yan Ling promised, you didn't forget, right?"

Of course Zhao Chi hadn't forgotten.

During the previous werewolf invasion, the first target was to wipe out the White Tiger Regiment.

Zhao Chi used the Taiyi Wheel Fragment to produce a massive amount of supplies over those 100 days, then distributed them to the entire White Tiger Regiment under Li Ruanyu's name—a huge merit—so General Yan wanted to issue a separate reward to Li Ruanyu.

But General Yan Ling wasn't in Snow Plain City; he was in another city.

Zhao Chi had thought he'd have to wait at least until the war was somewhat settled before he came to personally give Li Ruanyu the reward.

Who would have expected the gift to arrive now?

And what's more…

It's a goddamn colorful treasure chest?

A treasure chest even better than a golden one!

Li Ruanyu said quietly, "Not long ago, we received news about Fuxi Qin fragments. Several messages came from White Grass City headquarters… the situation there is very dire; they lost a major battle, losing over 4,000 lords…"

Zhao Chi and Su Qin looked up in astonishment.

Zhao Chi hurriedly asked, "The allied reinforcements you just mentioned — you meant reinforcing White Grass City?"

Li Ruanyu nodded:

"Yes, but after the final assessment, the reinforcement was cancelled.

"For us to reinforce White Grass City simply isn't realistic. Setting aside the distance, our current situation alone means we can't spare any manpower to support them.

"Right now, everything is interconnected — any slight reduction in our strength will lower our win rate against the werewolves by a fraction.

"Even though White Grass City is headquarters, we can't just abandon this place to save that one."

Zhao Chi and Su Qin could only nod.

No wonder when he saw Li Ruanyu in the Great World just now, he noticed her mood was off — turns out this was the reason.

White Grass City is the location of World-Breaking Army headquarters.

The Azure Dragon Regiment and Vermillion Bird Regiment are both there.

The World-Breaking Army's leader, General Yan Ling, is also there.

Logically speaking, headquarters' combat strength should definitely be stronger than Snowfield City's.

If they lost…

The enemy can only be stronger.

And headquarters lost over 4,000 lords…

That's nearly an entire regiment.

Such a loss can truly be called enormous.

It's the kind that breaks bones and sinew — the degree of a crushing defeat.

Zhao Chi asked, "The enemies at White Grass City are also werewolves, right?"

Li Ruanyu sighed:

"Yes.

"Besides werewolves, there are also nobles.

"The nobles over at White Grass City surrendered and have now become the werewolves' running dogs."