[b]A: Improve Food[/b]

If there was one thing that the Maerinum knew well, it was the toil of hoe and shovel and the crook of the shephard. The old city of Mater had grown from a small collection of farming communities, and they had the blood of their ancestors still with them, and with the plentiful livestock they had taken, increasing their food stocks would be easy.

The first fields were being formed, bags of grains and wheats being unloaded so that their payloads, more precious than gold at this early stage, could be discharged and planted, providing them with the essential foods they needed. Already, he saw, some were spreading the seeds around, although some made bread.

The livestock they had taken was already being lead off, and a child was playing with a number of hens, a rooster scratching the ground near them. Pigs too, they had the whole summer and autumn to fatten them up for the inevitable winter, and the few sheep who had escaped being shorn were now being relieved of their fluffy garments.

The village was filled with the noise of people already. The distinctive metallic clangs of a blacksmiths hammer, the hard smacks as an axe bit down into a tree, the hustle and bustle of people, the screams of a babe. The old city had been full of these little snippits of society, and it was good to see them returning so soon.

Yes, this land was rich. His people would need a strong government to guide them, but the land would not be a barrier. He would need his senate, a way if keeping checks and balances in place for when he could no longer rule, but for now he saw all was good.

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- Farms start getting set up
- Livestock are getting bred and butchered
- Maxim considers starting a senate
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