Cut through mountains when they blocked the way; shatter ice when it stood before them.
With Great Strength Creates Miracles, Russell not only carved through a section of the Dagger Mountain Range, but also cleared a straight road leading to the Blackfire Land across the shattered Ice Cap of the snowy plains.
The road construction crews only needed to clear away the broken ice, level the road, and lay down a layer of charcoal ash.
It could be said that, with Russell's help, construction time for this temporary road linking Guangguang River Valley and the Blackfire Land had been drastically shortened. By the time the warm season arrived and the ice and snow began melting into water, the road had already been completed.
This Charcoal Ash Avenue was named the Firelight Trade Road.
After the trade road opened, the sixty-five thousand serfs who had been temporarily settled and fed across the various estates of Guangguang River Valley had somewhat adapted to the climate of the Warm Enclave. They would gradually move into the Blackfire Land to reclaim wilderness.
"About ten thousand serfs can be assigned to build the castle, around five thousand to the Black Oil Mine, and another ten thousand can be put to work building the three main roads..."
At Fluorite Castle, his elder brother Roland was calculating how to arrange Russell's serfs. "Of the remaining forty thousand serfs, thirty thousand will reclaim land, while ten thousand will build irrigation works. This should be enough to get us through this year."
The Blackfire Land was still barren wasteland, and the serfs had no savings whatsoever to support themselves.
Simply feeding them with grain distributed by Russell while waiting for farmland to be cleared and crops harvested would clearly be a serious waste of labor.
It would also make