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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9 Rapid development

3 months passed in a blink of an eye since jake started managing his land Dunbar as lord during that period of time jake hasn't been idle with his time, On the first-week jake decided to fix the town with his money that he got from the king, he ordered one of the guards

that was with him while he traveled on the carriage to go to a nearby town and buy him materials to fix the riddled holes in the houses, additionally, he also bought lots of crops for him to cultivate even though jake didn't learn in his previous life how to cultivate crops he sometimes read some of them in his stockpile of books.

after the guard brought back the materials needed jake immediately went to work, after 2 days they managed to patch up all the houses on his land with the help of the surrounding villages and with the help of his guards of course, after the matter of patching up the houses were finished jake decided to build a wooden wall around the land to protect them from the elements and of course potential raiders to raid them.

On week 10 the wooden walls around the village were finally erected, additionally jake decided to count how many people were in the village to which his system said was exactly 1,567 was how many people in his village, jake in that day discovered a useful function the system, it's function was to count how many people were in his territory which would be helpful in the future as his village slowly grows, additionally jake also decided to create a patrol consisting of 250 young men, all of the patrols consisted of the equipment of 1 basic set of black leather armor and a poorly created black colored spear all of which was bought by jake from the system, their training was the same with the guards jake had while he was traveling here although at first, they seemed pretty inexperience with the training they were slowly getting used to it.

after that time soon reached the 3rd month period the originally broken down houses riddled with holes we're all gone replaced with a clean ordinary wooden house, the originally empty roads we're now filled with merchants trying to sell their merchandise to his people the village was extremely lively, the wooden walls that were built were continuously strengthened by jake during that long period of time, the once 1,567 population soon soured to become 6, 890 in population additionally the patrol also has expanded and now numbers up to 2,306 men, after all, that was done jake suddenly felt extremely satisfied with what he has done but jake knew that this was only the beginning for more challenges to come.

but then suddenly a messenger opened the door to his office "My lord the king wishes to inform you of an upcoming war with a kingdom right next to our border, the king wishes you to rally all the man you could find and report to his majesty" the messenger said as jake heard the contents of the messenger he couldn't help but chuckle I guest there's no rest for the wicked jake said with a grin.

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