Wolf King

The thick rubber-soled cotton shoes stepped on the snow and made a "creak, creak" sound.

Wood, who silently followed the clansman Hal, squeezed the corner of his clothes with his hands again.

Although Wood has not cooperated with custody and discipline since he was captured for a year, and he has not worked hard, he has also participated in daily labor for work meals, and the Snow Werewolf still settled his wages for him.After Wood surrendered, people from the Welfare Department came to the door, referring to the number of coins he owned, and forcibly "sold" a set of winter uniforms for him...

Now Wood is wearing such a suit: high-top cotton shoes with thick rubber soles suitable for walking in winter, a set of warm white cotton underwear, a set of sweater sweater trousers, a pair of canvas trousers, a thick quilted coat, and a pair of A sheepskin hat that can protect most of the head and ears.

Hmm... This set of outfits will definitely look familiar to people on Earth - the green army coat and Lei Feng hat are so special!

Rustic and rustic, the warmth retention of such a suit is really good. Although it is only white cotton underwear inside, not the sun cloth that is more warm and waterproof, it is completely enough for the white bear, which is quite cold-resistant.

"This is the most affordable outfit in Huoyan City. Even a goblin can buy it all after working for four months... If it is the polar region, it would be nice to be able to afford a hat and a coat. At least this kind will not be covered by snow. There are no water-soaked shoes in the Polar Region." Wood sighed softly in his heart.

Although it is really hard for him to understand, the fact is that the prairie people who also live in the bitter cold are living a much more decent life than the white bears in front of him!

Wood, who is penniless after buying this outfit, ate the "minimum welfare meals for people without income" provided by the cat farm, which is lower than the meals enjoyed by cubs under the age of 14 of all ethnic groups. A notch free meal.

What kind of meal is this?Non-staple food vegetable chowder soup, that is, bean sprouts, sweet potato leaves, small greens, Chinese cabbage and radish slices boiled in bone soup. The staple food is lard miscellaneous grain porridge, soybeans, soybeans, wheat and broken rice. Add lard to the porridge. Sometimes there is too much oil residue. When it is finished, the chef in the cafeteria will also pour it in, and add minced vermicelli and the like.

And a plate of pickles...

In this way, if the food is in the polar region, even if Wood is a general, it is impossible to eat it every day, but here in Huoyan City, it is provided as the minimum guarantee for the unemployed!

Yue Xiong is rich and powerful, but the young Yue Xiong joined the army as an auxiliary soldier to accompany the army on an expedition, and the food he ate could not even compare to the minimum guarantee of dishwater...

Wood couldn't help but imagine that the Polar Regions also provide similar benefits to the tribesmen who have no guarantee of life for the time being. However, he thought about it and couldn't figure out where the money would come from...

"General, here we are."

Hal led Wood to a big house, turned around respectfully and said.

Wood nodded, took two steps forward and stood up, hesitated and said: "Don't call me a general anymore."

Hal immediately straightened his waist, and said solemnly: "General, you will always be the general of the Ice Bear Clan, and this will never change!"

Wood shook his head, gave up arguing with this stubborn young man, and waved his hand to signal him to go in first.

Hal knocked on the door, and after the sound of "Please come in" from inside the room, he stretched out his hand and opened the heavy wooden door, and lifted the fur curtain inside the door, and the warm air rushed towards his face.

Wood followed Hal into the house, looked up, and found that this room was very different from the dormitory they lived in: there was no kang or stove, the room was covered with patchwork carpets, and dozens of people sat cross-legged in a semicircle. Opposite them on the carpet was Arthur the snow leopard sitting behind a small coffee table.

"Take off your shoes and put them on the shoe rack by the door, sit here and warm your feet." Snow Leopard Arthur greeted the two white bears who had just entered the door with a smile.

It was obviously not the first time for Hal to come here. He took off a shoe and stepped on the carpet. He also arranged the shoes on the shoe rack to make room for the two of them to put their shoes.

Stepping on the carpet made of animal skins and blankets, Wood understood what Snow Leopard Arthur meant by "warming feet" - it's not that this house doesn't have a kang, but the kang is hidden under the floor!

There were about [-] cats, one tiger, ten moon bears, and five black bears in the room. Wood followed Hal and walked between them, and the dozen moon bears moved their buttocks to make way for them. Tell them to sit down.

After the two white bears sat down, Chief Arthur said with a smile: "Okay, everyone is here, and now we all come to discuss the work of our No. [-] farm after the spring." She first looked at Tiger Clan Ted Zhong Zhang said, "Ted, your Tiger Clan has fewer people now, so you won't be busy cultivating wasteland. For the time being, just focus on making vermicelli. Let's take the Bear Clan to do it together and help them troubleshoot problems. Is there any problem?"

Ted said succinctly, "No problem."

Chief Arthur smiled and looked at the representatives of the black bears and the two white bears: "The income of the vermicelli factory is high and stable, but there are more than 2000 people in your tribe who cannot use magic. It is difficult to guarantee the income of the group with only one factory. My personal suggestion is that you two families should try to cultivate one or two farms to test the waters. If you join the farmers association under the Huoyan City Agriculture Department, technical support, seeds, and agricultural machinery will not be a problem, and you can get them through agricultural loans. The Department of Agriculture also takes care of the unified purchase and collection of agricultural products. What do you think?"

In line with the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other clans, the attached bear heads still have a certain degree of autonomy (to what extent the right to interpret is in the hands of Huoyan City, cough cough!), because Aubrey, the highest official of the black bear clan, is a die-hard Now they are still squatting in the guard and counting the hairs on their feet, so Chief Arthur suggested that the Black Bear Clan elect ethnic representatives from labor activists. This labor activist...of course he followed Huoyan City!

The five black bear representatives with the highest status were only elite fighters, and had never been a non-commissioned officer. They responded particularly positively to Huoyan City's fair and equitable distribution according to work principle, and immediately nodded their approval.

Hal, who was about to move, was about to speak, when he suddenly thought of something, he closed his mouth and looked at Wood.

Wood sighed softly inwardly. He was only one of the three cat clan farms, and he was not in Huoyan City. What he did was so comprehensive and considered by most people.He, who has been a general all his life, couldn't help thinking that life under their hands would be good after hearing the snow leopard Arthur's introduction, let alone other people?

Naturally, Wood would not refuse. More than 400 members of the White Bear family had to live, and he, who had lowered his head, would not make everyone unhappy in such a place.

Chief Arthur nodded with a smile, and finally looked at the representatives of Moon Bear: "Except those who are engaged in engineering, those who are lent to various departments, and those who want to enter the vermicelli foundry, there are still about [-] people who have not been arranged. Huo Yan The suggestion from the city is that the Moon Bear Clan should set up the Moon Bear Farm following the example of our Cat Clan. The construction plan and scale should be on par with our No. [-] Farm, and it should be under our No. [-] Farm. Loans for building materials, loans for seeds and agricultural machinery Our No. [-] Farm will help you solve the problem, and our No. [-] Farm will help you apply for agricultural technicians. You, Yue Xiong, should decide on the internal affairs of Yuexiong Farm. You can apply to our No. [-] Farm for guidance if you can’t solve the problems. The benefits of the farm will increase. Already, I will be honored and accept the praise from Huoyan City, what do you guys think, would you like to let me be honored by you?"

Moon Bear Admiral Andrew, General Bazel and others were all squatting in the guard office waiting to be replaced by the Far East. The representatives were all selected from the soldiers. Hearing the ridicule of Chief Arthur, a group of Moon Bears were all happy. He smiled and expressed his obedience to the arrangement of Chief Arthur.

Wood, who was sitting quietly on the side, peeked at Patriarch Arthur, and then... Just after listening to the snow leopard say a few paragraphs, he realized that compared with this snow leopard, those elders in Moon Bear City with their noses turned upside down All have to be thrown!

Chief Arthur looked at the cat clan at last, and joked: "There is nothing to arrange for our cat clan. The newly opened land last year was not mature. During the autumn harvest, everyone complained and scolded me in private. Slave owner with a whip, well, then we have no choice but to not open up wasteland and generate income this year!"

More than [-] representatives of the cat tribe couldn't help laughing. The bear heads were embarrassed to laugh at the cat tribe, and they all endured it very hard-the cat tribe is very narrow-minded!It doesn't matter if their own people ridicule their own people, outsiders just join in the fun casually, because they are afraid that these big cats won't let you wear small shoes!

The work arrangement after the beginning of spring was easily settled. Chief Arthur picked up the documents on the small coffee table and said with a smile: "Regardless of the bear clan and cat clan, they are all tied to the No. [-] farm now. The No. [-] farm is ready." Hello everyone, No. [-] farm is not good, none of us here can have face when going out. Since everyone is the owner of the farm, we have to explain to you where the public funds of our farm will go in the coming year. "

"Everyone knows that Huoyan City collects [-]% of the output from our farms and foundries here. Huoyan City didn't take all of these taxes away, leaving half of it for our No. [-] farm for operation. funds."

"There was no public fund for the disaster we suffered the year before last. Last year, we received a total of 890 gold coins in public funds, and the whole village spent 420 gold coins for the cubs. The budget for building four public bathrooms and supporting facilities in the west of the square 68 gold coins, cub education expenses, 85 gold coins for the new school budget..."

After talking about a bunch of miscellaneous budget expenditures, Chief Arthur said proudly: "Excluding all the expenditures in the budget conference room of the farm management office, we have more than 300 gold coins left at our disposal. What about this money? The idea of ​​our management and budget team is to use all of it for road repairs, to level the 80-kilometer road from our place to Huoyan City from the beginning to the end, pave it with gravel and loess, and then grind it with stones. During the slack season Work started, the road has been repaired, it is convenient for us to travel to and from Huoyan City, and it is also convenient to transport supplies..."

Next, Patriarch Arthur carefully talked about the benefits of the repair of this road to everyone, and encouraged everyone to mobilize people from all ethnic groups to contribute to road construction during the slack period.

It was the first time for Wood to participate in this kind of meeting as a representative of the white bear family, and he was completely confused.

Huoyan City is rich, he knew it when he was imprisoned in Huoyan City's resettlement site last year.

Farm No. [-] is also rich, don't look at the self-proclaimed farm, but in Wood's opinion, whether it is architecture, living conditions, supplies, etc., this place is not much worse than White Bear City in his hometown in the polar region, and even a bit higher than White Bear City—— People walking out of the streets, squares, any small roads, and any rooms are all dressed neatly and their faces are red. This kind of situation cannot be seen in White Bear City, or in other words, in all orc cities Can't see it.

Wood thinks that the only thing that the prairie people can't do is that neither Huoyan City nor Farm No. [-] has decent mansions... and they don't see dignitaries wearing gold and silver.

And what Wood never expected was that Farm No. [-] actually spent so much money!

As one of the twelve generals of the White Bear Clan, Wood couldn't help but apply Snow Leopard Arthur's approach to his hometown of White Bear City.

Then he felt very sad, deeply sad—compared with White Bear City, Farm No. [-], whose annual tax revenue was less than four thousand gold coins, must have failed miserably.But if you compare the control of taxes between the two sides, White Bear City is not even as good as the mud under the feet of No. [-] Farm.

"This amount of money is not enough for the elders and the generals to share." Wood couldn't help but smile wryly, the sorrow in his heart was endless like a river...

In White Bear City, Wood is also eligible to share taxes. He can get two to three hundred gold coins from the Presbyterian Church every year.

For so many years, Wood, who has regarded this gray income as ordinary and generously used it to buy wine, spices and luxury goods brought by merchants, never thought that the money could be used to build his own hometown and help those poor people .

Patriarch Arthur explained the benefits of road construction, and heard the new bear heads nod frequently, expressing no objection. On the Moon Bear representative, a young man who was born as an auxiliary soldier was extremely excited and swore that he would lead the tribe to work hard , Increase the share tax of the farm, so that Patriarch Arthur can stand out among the high-level officials in Huoyan City.

"I'm embarrassed to say that, haha." Chief Arthur couldn't resist the enthusiasm of this bear's head, blushing, "But it's a good thing to have this kind of spirit, don't care what purpose or idea, willing to take steps forward The first step of serious work will surely lead to better results, and better results for ourselves, for the collective, and for all of us.”

"Our production labor has produced something. No matter what job we do or what position we are in, every drop of sweat we shed is in the final analysis poured into the general direction of our home construction. Cultivate an extra acre of soybeans, and the cafeteria , The soy products sold by the Ministry of Welfare can be more abundant, and one catty more vermicelli can be produced, and everyone can have a catty more choice when they want to eat vermicelli. And the better our homeland, the better our life, everyone said Is this the truth?"

Hearing this remark, the hearts of the Bear Heads present were hot, and Hal, who sat obediently next to Wood the whole time, couldn't help shouting "Yes!".

Watching this scene, Wood felt a little sore in his heart, and the corners of his mouth were a little bitter. All kinds of emotions finally turned into a soft sigh.

Yes, homeland, the prairie people value their homeland. In order to build their homeland, they are willing to absorb gray dwarves, centaurs, the notorious snake tribe and goblins, and even humans, as well as the bear tribe that was originally opposed to them.

Their enthusiasm for home building overcomes the greed in the nature of intelligent creatures, and those who have the power to control wealth among them take out the gold coins that could be in their pockets to build homes without heartache.

How can this kind of persistence and enthusiasm not attract and impress those who can choose to go the same way and take the same boat with them?

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