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  The original plain is now divided into several pieces by the roads, and there are big and small different styles of tents all by the roadsides. The wood and the stones are shipped from the distance by the alien artisans, they are piled as high as hills on the construction sites.

  "There should be one hundred thousand people here?" looking at the busy all races of artisans, uncle Meza speaks to me, "where they come from?"

  I shake my head, I am not quite sure to this question.

  "Don't we know that when we go there to take a look?" I say.

  We group of people ride the horses down the hill in a hurry, they follow me to rush to a huge red tent in the distance. On the way we see that the artisans include all races, I count secretly on my mind, there are nearly ten kinds unexpectedly.

  "Who is there? Off the horses!" in front of the tent, a dwarf guard shouts out loudly at us.

  "It's the viceroy Kone Cada!" uncle Meza says with a loud voice on the horseback, "please bring us to see your leader."

  "Please go in!" the dwarf guard takes a look at my eyes and hair, he cracks his mouth with a smile, "the leaders are discussing in the tent."

  I get off the horse, no time to take off the dusty cloak, and walk into the tent from the unveiling tent door.

  To be out of my expectation, there are only three people in the tent to discuss something around a table.

  "Who is it? Come in without a report?" the back at me Mogardi talks without turning his head, in his mind, the rules are always need to be abided.

  "Boss!" Wen looks up and sees me, he rubs his hands and walks to me bypassing the table with a grinning cheek, "you come back?!"

  "Boss!" Waldi says loudly, "you just come back now! We wait for you for a long time!"

  "How come there are so many people out there?" I grab the cup on the table and put to my mouth, "where these many races come from?"

  "Spectacular, huh? Boss, some are our people!" Wen says, "there are wing-men eight thousand, dwarves twelve thousand, sand-men twenty five thousand, and there are more than one thousand elves and dozens of blood-sucking vampire race people."

  "And the humans and the artisans of the other races come from the Dark Moon ." looking at me horsing down the water, Mogardi says, "the total is forty thousand or so."

  "The other races?"

  "Yes, they are the refugees fled to the Dark Moon a few years ago."

  I nod my head and ask, "just you three are here? Where are the other guys?"

  "They are all here, Moah and Wensly they bring your drawings to the construction sites."

  "Really?" I say, "how is the preparation going? Do your race people all support me?"

  "It doesn't need to say, boss, your city is not our city too?" Wen smiles and says, "my father is so thrilled when he heard that you're the viceroy of here, he begins to gather the helpers right away and ask me to bring them to here. Our people are listening to your command!"

  "There are no problem for the stones and the wood! Wensly calculated it all, our transportation capacity can match up the progress of the projects." Waldi speaks to me, "the only problem is your drawing, everyone of us is scared by your drawing of the city."

  "Am I back here?" hear this good news, I'm very happy, "tonight I will give you the detailed explanation of the drawings and assign the jobs, now just bring us something to eat!"

  ............

  The night is as dark as ink outside of the tent, the atmosphere is hot in the tent. Not only are we there, even the vampire race people who act as the engineering commanders are all there as well.

  "According to your drawings, we should start to build the roads and the drainage system first," Wensly speaks gently, the lights in the tent reflect on her face, white touched with red.

  "It's like this," I say to everyone, "because the drainage system is under the ground, the roads are the foundation of the whole project, thus these two things need to be arranged in the first place."

  "But isn't viceroy your city a bit too big?" a vampire people says, "although the scale of the city wall is a little smaller than the Saint Capital's, but with the outside sporadic towns and village, it's much bigger than the Saint Capital."

  "It's like this," I nod my head, I appreciate the insight of this engineering commander very much, I point at the map and say, "you see, we don't have any other cities around for hundreds of miles, if we just build a city, and that will be worthy the name as a sole city. In fact, my idea is like this, we start with the Darkness city as the center construction, as long as the wall and the other necessary facilities are built up, then the construction of the city inside and outside will be synchronous, among them we put the focus on the small towns outside of the city."

  "But why must we do it like this?" Hairt asks puzzledly.

  "We only have three years time and five hundred thousand gold coins funds, this is far from enough." I look at everyone and say, "and now we have almost one hundred thousand human power, it's too many. I don't want to talk about the management problem first, it's difficult for us to solve the problem to let them eat satisfied. So we must choose in the nearly one hundred thousand people, let the qualified artisans to stay, and arrange the rest in the small towns and villages which are established around the Darkness city. They can develop the business and the agricultures, this will be a great support for the whole construction of the Darkness city!"

  "You mean, the established small towns can provide us with money and food?" Marf gets his eyes twice the size.

  "Yes!" I say, "we don't have the commercial and agricultural foundation that is enough to sustain such a large-scale city yet, thus we can properly slow down the construction in the Darkness city a bit. I want the healthy development of the whole territory, but not a deformity of big city."

  "Then we can build the Darkness city a bit smaller!" Moah says, "that is not even better?"

  "This is where the paradox is," I say with a wry smile, "in the whole continent, our territory is very big, the disorder of the races is even the first in line. Before, there were not much population, the public security chaos and the development left behind are all caused by not having a good management. But once we let her back on the track, then attracted by the fertile land and rich resources of the Darkness city, the merchants of the empire, or even of all over the continent, the civilians without land will flood in. By that time, a small Darkness city can hold them all?"

  "It's like this, I see." Wensly says, "you want to have it very comprehensive."

  "While it is just the start, thus we must have to do it better." I say, "let me assign the jobs. Wen, how many soldiers do your wing-men bring to here?"

  "Well, for coming to the construction, so there are not many," Wen answers me, "there about three hundred."

  "Bring them out from the construction site, with five members as a scout unit," I say, "spread them out in three hundred miles around the construction site of the Darkness city. No matter which direction must has it, you are responsible for the specific contact way."

  "Yes!"

  "Mogardi, how many soldiers do your sand-men bring to here?"

  "Elite warriors two thousand, general warriors a lot." Mogardi speaks to me, "it's no problem for them to go to the battlefield."

  "Put the elite warriors together, according to a small group of ten people, ten squads a squadron, and then ten squadrons in the form of a team." I think it over, "go equipped them with the horses, station one hundred miles away of the Darkness city, four directions each five squadrons. I appoint you as the commander first, I'll make some adjustments in a couple days."

  "Yes!"

  Waldi! Where are your men?"

  "Boss, you know," Waldi says carelessly, "we dwarves people are all the soldiers!"

  "I don't need that many." I laugh and say, "you pick one thousand people to form a team guards, they are mainly responsible for the order of all the construction sites. You listen up, the good order of the sites is very important for us!"

  "Rest yo
ur heart! Boss!"

  "Wensly, how many spirit magicians come with you?"

  "None," Wensly says embarrassedly, "Don’t you say that it's only the construction?"

  "But now the situation has changed, and we have to do the construction under the unknown what and when threats." I said say, "can auntie there send some people to here?"

  "Yes," Wensly says, "but how many do you need?"

  "Two hundred will be great," I say, "it should be no problem if so!"

  "Alright, I will write to my mother tomorrow."

  "Then," I ask the vampire people who just talked to me, "how many people come with you?"

  "Eighty!" he stands up and says, "they are all the elites in our race!"

  "Oh! I'm sorry." I say, "I forgot to ask what's your name."

  "My name is Kainam," he says, "I'm Wilsa's elder brother."

  "I didn't expect that, how's wilsa?"

  "She is very good, she just often brings the calamity." speaking of his sister, Kainam has a smile on his face, "What should we do?"

  "I want to break apart your people, your people work with a thorough care, and have the talent of creation." I say, "you distribute your people with the system of the construction sites in the Darkness city, everyone is responsible for directing the construction of one system. The rest of the people are responsible for the town construction sites outside of the city, they automatically become the acting mayors after the construction sites are built, until the new mayors arrive."

  "As your wish," Kainam says, "we'll try to do our best."

  "Then what shall we do?" Hairt asks, "how come there are none of our business?"

  "Sure have, how could I forget you." I say, "you and uncle Meza go set up a headquarter to command all the military units in the Darkness city. The officers can be selected from the senior guards, also can be recommended by the leaders of all the races here."

  "Yes!" Hairt replies me with a loud voice, uncle Meza just have a smile.

  "Jack and Marf," I think it carefully, "you and all the race leader begin to build the city hall for the Darkness city."

  "City hall?" Marf opens his mouth widely, "what is that?"

  "It's the agency to manage all the affaires of the Darkness city, you must first manage and coordinate the urban construction now. For the later business, you just wait for me to come back from the Dark Moon city to tell you."

  "You still need to go back to the Dark Moon city?" Marf asks, "what do you go back there for?"

  "You still don't know yet?!" Jack says with a loud voice, "boss goes back there to get married!"

  Looking at Wensly that suddenly become gray face, I am incessant grumbling in the mind, I just want to strangle Jack this mouthful guy by myself.