Master Overlord - Chapter 371

In front of the desk, Arthur, dressed in a white linen shirt and black breeches, was having lunch with Gustav.

Last night’s party was very late. The guards of the castle sang and talked and laughed. He was drunk. He didn’t wake up until noon. Gustav came to the castle to eat and drink according to his instructions and reported his work.

He didn’t think it was a waste of time to return to the study for discussion after going to the restaurant. He simply asked the servant to bring the food directly into the study and chat with Gustav while eating.

According to statistics, a total of 50489 slaves were sent to the river this time, a total of 16491 households.

Of these slaves, 4000 were sent by Sir Hobbes directly to York town in the west of the territory. It also needs a lot of people there.

Among the remaining population, 3500 households were transferred, and seven new villages were established in the west of the three villages of Shangli, Zhongli and Xiali.

Then 400 households were selected and four villages were set up along the two roads leading to zuogeya in the South and Cumbria in the southwest.

In Arthur’s vision, the new eleven villages, including seven in the west, will take on the important task of food production in the territory together with three villages such as Shangli in the future.

According to the calculation, after one year, the annual wheat production of these ten villages alone should be enough for everyone in the territory to eat for one year.

In addition to the responsibility of producing food, the other four small villages with 100 households will also play a role in providing a foothold for merchants and tourists along the way in the future.

As for villages, in addition to Shanghe Town, York town will also build three new villages on the basis of the original two villages.

The three villages, one of which is larger, will be located in the east of the town and built along the avenue leading to Shanghe town.

The other two 100 families will be located in the south of the town, leading to the avenue led by Cumbria.

In this way, the whole Shanghe collar will have two towns and 20 villages.

Among them, Shanghe town governs 15 villages and York town governs 5 villages.

Finally, the remaining 6951 households, with a total of 19873 people, were sent to serve in various places according to the needs around the town, such as mines, nitrate factories, forging factories, breweries, farms, construction bureaus, etc.

Among them, the Construction Bureau took in the most slaves.

In Gustav’s report, although there were various problems, no major riots occurred.

This is mainly due to the slaves taking the family as the unit and the large amount of resettlement work they did in the early stage.

Imagine what would happen if tens of thousands of young slaves entered Shanghe collar instead of slaves based on families?

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At the end of lunch, Arthur had a basic understanding of the placement of slaves.

“Those cattle and horses should be sent to the villages in the West as soon as possible, and strive to complete reclamation and wheat planting in the next two months. Within this year, the seven villages should harvest at least one season of wheat, and try to replant some vegetables or other crops if time permits.”

Population is a resource, but that’s when you can fill your stomach.

“Don’t worry, my friend, I can’t take food lightly!” Gustav promised. “Moreover, with the news you sent back, I have ordered people to make Quyuan plows and columbine carts. As soon as they are completed, I will send them in batches to ensure that there will be no delay.”

Hearing the speech, Arthur nodded.

This batch of livestock was not included in the original plan. Therefore, Arthur sent a letter to Gustav after the Barrett family agreed to pay the ransom, asking him to order people to speed up the production of a batch of new farm tools.

It’s a little late, but it’s not an accident, but a good thing.

“What about the town garrison?” Arthur continued. “How many people have been recruited now?”

Gustav took a sip of water, moistened his throat and replied, “according to your request, 1000 people have been recruited, all of whom are strong young men carefully selected from serfs. In addition, all villages have sent people to form security teams ranging from 10 people, and now they need to build schools.”

“The school is not in a hurry in advance. A number of people are still stranded in Cumbria. It is estimated that they will not be able to come back until two or three months. Now stabilize the situation in the town first. After Cumbria’s personnel return, they are starting to establish schools and expand the army.”

The schools in the village and the stationed bachelor teachers are of great significance.

In addition to teaching children to read, these people also shoulder the important task of propaganda and indoctrination – because of the lack of education, the civilians or serfs in the world have almost no feelings of family and country. Even the loyalty of knights is only to a certain person or family.

What Arthur wanted was to completely abolish enfeoffment and establish a centralized ruling system.

Therefore, the village should become the smallest administrative unit on the river, not just a group of farmers living together.

In his idea, once something happens that needs to mobilize the whole territory, such as war, Lingfeng Castle gives an order, within one day, xinniao will spread the news all over the territory, and all people will be mobilized immediately.

However, due to the war with the Barrett family, there are some understaffed people at present. Not only are they inferior to any bachelor’s degree, but even the students in school are busy all over the town. Therefore, the affairs of the school can only be delayed for two or three months.

It was an accident.

The large-scale expansion of the garrison, in addition to the needs of the increasing population and the security of the cities and towns, is more important to prepare for the expansion of the first army.

War is necessary. Defeating the Barrett family can only bring peace for a few years at most.

Once the situation in the kingdom is completely chaotic or stabilized, the next conflict will be the competition of systems.

At that time, the river leader and Cumbria will face at least a few times as many enemies as the Barrett family.

According to the original plan, after the expansion, the number of soldiers in the first army will reach at least 1000.

In other words, according to the current number of more than 300 people in the first army, at least 700 recruits will be recruited from these slaves.

The first army, as the most important force in addition to the ghost faced eagle, knows almost all the secret and important things of the Shanghe collar, such as ghost faced eagle, gunpowder, Warcraft bow, Warcraft meat, experimental factory and so on.

Therefore, Arthur should first conduct a personnel quality and background review for this army expansion.

These personnel who have been recruited into the urban garrison will be constantly tested and observed in the next two months. Finally, those who are qualified will be left, and the best will be sent to the first army.

Those who fail will not only be themselves, but also their parents and family members will be re investigated and interrogated. Once they find that they are the ears and eyes of other forces, they will wait to be slaves for a lifetime!

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