Perhaps the soul of the Han Chinese is inherently infused with a love for agriculture, so wherever they go, they develop farming techniques there.

The Western Regions have seen this, and naturally, so has the Southern region.

The Southeastern Asian people who migrated to this land previously did not engage in farming, deriving their livelihood mainly from hunting and gathering.

But ever since the first Han Chinese from Huaxia settled here, an agricultural civilization began to emerge.

Then, when other villages couldn’t find good food in the mountains, they started thinking about stealing the ready harvests of others, and conflicts began to arise.

Their sneaky tactics were truly numerous, almost impossible to guard against.

Fortunately, this time we had help from the immortals, capturing a warrior of considerable rank within the enemy tribe in one sweep.

With this person’s head, their village could trade for quite a few benefits.

After Lin Wanwan finished swaying people, she began using carrots to win hearts.

She leisurely sat on a bamboo chair at the village chief’s house, listening to the chief and several young villagers introduce the situation here to her. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

The composition of this village’s population is somewhat unusual compared to normal villages, with a very small proportion of elderly and a generally young demographic.

It seems that during the chaotic times at the end of the Sui dynasty, those who escaped were all young and strong. Now, over ten to twenty years later, that group of young adults has taken root here and started families.

Therefore, there are children and teenagers, but very few old people.

The village chief is one of the few old men in the village, but not too old, at most around fifty, the age of knowing one’s destiny.

This fits perfectly with Lin Wanwan’s recruitment requirements.

If a village were filled with elderly left behind, what would be the use of summoning them? To open a nursing home for them?

From her understanding, Lin Wanwan learned that this place had six major forces, and besides the Han Chinese, the population included people from India and the Wolong Xiu among others.

In terms of infrastructure, the Han Chinese are the strongest; when it comes to running MLM schemes and playing with religion, the Indians excel.

Therefore, villages composed of these two groups on this land are relatively prosperous, often attracting envy and plunder from others.

The person Lin Wanwan caught today belonged to a tribe of fugitives from Wolong Xiu, notorious for its ferocity.

Among these six forces, the two villages composed of Wolong Xiu people have formed an alliance.

With enough tough hands, dark hearts, and ruthless manners, they have taken over the island’s largest deep-water port dock.

Thus, strictly speaking, the Wolong Xiu people can be considered the actual rulers here.

After a preliminary understanding of the local distribution of armed forces, Lin Wanwan thought that with Baye Feng leading the team and insiders as guides, they could sweep across the entire island, including sixty-three surrounding islands that currently may still be uninhabited.

"Alright, I get the general situation," Lin Wanwan stood up, "Now that you have become my people, you shouldn’t live in these shabby thatch and mud houses anymore."

Lin Wanwan took a bag filled with pearls and glass beads from her mountain backpack and casually tossed it to the girl named Lu Zhengya standing in the corner.

"Take these jewels, go with some people to the dock here to buy bricks and tiles, start renovating houses and building fortresses tomorrow. From now on, you’ll be my representative here, working with your village chief to help me govern this land."

Lu Zhengya, not expecting such a sudden good fortune to fall upon her, caught the bag of treasures excitedly and bowed deeply to Lin Wanwan.

When she straightened up and looked at the others, her eyes already bore the confidence of holding power.

Lu Zhengya’s father died from a poisoned arrow during a village conflict, and her mother was abducted by ambushing Wolong Xiu people during one of her outings to gather mulberries. It is said she has since given birth to four mixed-race siblings in the Wolong Xiu village.

After her mother left them, she lived with her little brother.

Initially, they relied on begging for meals around the village until she was nine years old and began sustaining them by gathering mushrooms in the mountains and catching fish and pearls in the sea.

Life was tough, who could have thought she’d suddenly become the chosen earthly representative of an immortal?

She gripped the precious bag tightly, resolved to complete the tasks assigned by the fairy sister excellently and not betray her trust.

Who would dare to oppose a representative appointed by an immortal?

No one, not even one.

As in later times, this island’s self-sufficiency capabilities were quite poor, with most supplies dependent on imports.

Fortunately, as a port island guarding the Malacca Strait, the docks here had a high daily throughput.

Thus, around the dock, a spontaneous international trade center had formed, where there was no awkward situation of having money but nowhere to spend it.

Lin Wanwan, having just set foot on this land, looked around at the primeval forest-like environment, thinking the place was still living in a wild world, but it turned out she had underestimated it.

After understanding the situation, Lin Wanwan temporarily requisitioned the village chief’s house.

The village chief’s house, different from the surrounding mud huts, was the only brick-and-wood structure in the village, with wooden floors, which met Lin Wanwan’s current "immortal" identity’s sanitary requirements.

Moreover, staying here allowed her to also observe the physical condition of the three children.

Lu Zhengya led several village strongmen, armed with hoes and bows, and went boldly to the dock for a grand purchase.

Others who needed to work in the fields continued to do so, those who needed to weave nets kept weaving, and those who needed to feed the silkworms went feeding them.

Lin Wanwan wasn’t idling in the house either; she opened the Space-Time Gate again and returned to the modern era.

She rang the doorbell a second time, summoning the round-the-clock suite butler.

"Hello, Miss Lin, what can I do for you?" The butler, dressed in a black professional skirt suit, greeted with a warm smile.

"I need to rent a warehouse, filled with Thai fragrant rice and pork, beef, and mutton. Also, I need some vegetables, any variety will do. Moreover, prepare vegetable seeds and poultry chicks for me."

"Alright, I will take care of it for you. When do you need it?" The butler responded without hesitation, showing zero curiosity.

"Tonight," Lin Wanwan said, "If it’s not possible tonight, then tomorrow."

"As you command, it will be arranged for tonight." For the suite butler who had seen all sorts of peculiar requests from upper-suite guests, Lin Wanwan’s request, while odd, wasn’t odd enough to draw undue attention.

"That’s good, thank you, there’s nothing else."

"It’s our hotel’s honor to serve you." Offering a courteous farewell, the butler bowed and exited.

Lin Wanwan expressed her satisfaction with the top-floor suite’s butler service; as expected, the hefty room rate wasn’t entirely without merit.

She also longed for such a butler, someone to handle all the errands for her in modern times.

Perhaps she could cultivate her recently hired special assistant in this direction.