By June, the Great Fish River's waterway had become incredibly busy throughout May. Fleet after fleet arrived. Baron Wembley not only sent his own fleets to deliver supplies and serfs, but also hired large numbers of fleets from other nobles and merchant guilds. Even the river water began to turn muddy.
Whenever Victor saw Captain Jack, he felt that he looked exhausted. Captain Jack complained that if he had not called in his old brothers, he would have collapsed from exhaustion long ago. Lord Wembley was truly good at putting people to work. The most difficult part of the route was sailing east from Northwind City into the sea, then heading north by sea to enter the Great Fish River and travel upstream to Two Rivers Territory. Wembley simply arranged for a transfer point to be established in Northwind City. His own fleet carried two crews; on the return voyage, it directly dropped off the experienced crew and continued north with the hired fleets to deliver goods. That was how they accomplished the feat of having eight batches of fleets reach Two Rivers Territory in a single month.
With the serfs who had joined in April and May, the territory had now reclaimed 1,600 hectares of land. All of it was prime irrigated land along both banks of the Great Fish River. While reclaiming the land, they had also built intake and drainage canals for the farmland already brought under cultivation, mainly in consideration of backflow when the Great Fish River became abundant in summer. A total of 150 kilometers of canals had been built. Fortunately, with construction equipment produced by the First Machinery Factory and vast amounts of animal power, all the canal construction had been completed in just over two months.
Meanwhile, the original engineering teams used cement,