bookandnovel Chapter 107 Population Surge
Chapter 107 Population Surge
Chapter 107 Population Surge
Spring March 31st.
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It was afternoon.
The Chiffon Legion finally appeared at the edge of the wasteland, followed by five hundred serfs.
The maids lined up outside the camp to welcome Richard's return, their faces filled with undisguised joy. As the procession approached, they all curtsied in greeting.
"Welcome back safely, sir."
Richard's gaze swept over the maids before him, a warm feeling rising in his heart.
Although I wish I could spend time with each of them right away, unfortunately there's no time.
Once midnight tonight, the season will switch to summer, and he wants to resolve some matters today.
In the game.
Once the seasons change, crops still being cultivated and growing in the fields will quickly wither if they cannot be planted out for the next season.
This will definitely happen in real life. Although there's no way to stop it, the anxiety generated while playing games still carries over.
Time is tight.
The task is arduous.
There is no room for delay.
He didn't even have time to return to the lord's manor. After his miraculous recovery, he immediately beckoned Lina over and prepared to assign her the next tasks.
"Lina."
"We recruited nearly 600 soldiers for this trip to Benlang. Thirty rooms in the fifty stone houses outside the city walls were set aside for them to stay temporarily. Twenty people shared a room, and they made do with sleeping on the floor for now."
"Later, you will arrange for someone to distribute several sheets of coarse linen and high-quality fabric to each person to use as mattresses and bedding."
Lina immediately nodded in agreement.
But when she saw a large group of serfs following at the very back of the main army of soldiers, a hint of doubt flashed in her eyes.
"master."
"Did you also purchase serfs?"
"But buying so many at once might not be enough space at the base. How about we have them stay in the mine for now?"
After managing the population for a while, she discovered that the more people there were, the more problems arose.
The number of serfs was roughly equal to the number of soldiers, which meant that Chiffon's total number of people would exceed a thousand, and her first thought was about accommodation.
Previously, there were more than 120 serfs and more than 30 snow rabbits in the territory, all of whom slept under the inner wall of the encampment.
Later, temporary warehouses and watchtowers were built at the base, as well as a wooden gazebo restaurant that Irving had built out of boredom over the past few days.
If a few hundred more serfs were brought in, it would be extremely crowded and might even affect daily activities.
In her opinion, arranging for them to live in the mine was the best option, as it would prevent them from getting infected with diseases from the rain at night.
Richard looked at the large group still at the rear of the group in the black pine forest and laughed, "The mine is too cold and damp. It's fine for storing things, but living there for a long time can easily cause health problems. We can't let them go there."
"Don't worry, I also bought two hundred tents. I'll have all the serfs move to the area under the city walls to live in first."
The returning group wasn't all there yet; Lina hadn't seen the caravan following at the very back.
With so many more soldiers added, the serfs will definitely need to be bought as well, to speed up Qi Feng's various construction projects.
He planned to carry out the city wall and infrastructure construction in the inner city simultaneously, making the purchase of a batch of equipment an inevitable choice.
The person was bought during the frost.
With Lucy as his lover, he naturally wouldn't mistreat them, choosing only young serfs between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.
The original plan was to purchase two thousand serfs, but summer planting is about to begin, and frost will require large-scale farmland renovation, which will also require a large number of serfs.
Therefore, only 500 young people can be squeezed out to sell, but that is enough to support the current construction needs.
When purchasing serfs, logistical arrangements were also taken into consideration. These two hundred tents were originally military supplies conscripted during the frost, which were not available to ordinary people.
As a result, the mistress once again waved her hand and directly allocated a batch from the armory.
The making of tents is not complicated; all you need is enough fabric and leather for a craftsman to sew together.
Besides tents, they also purchased a lot of miscellaneous supplies, all of which were things that Chiffon couldn't produce on its own for the time being.
Military-grade stew pots, thin sheet metal, long iron nails, sulfur, cinnabar, and more than twenty other items.
Holding over six thousand gold coins, I feel uneasy if I don't spend a single one; buying things can be addictive.
However, all these odds and ends only cost a little over twenty gold coins, not even enough to cover the rest, leaving people wanting more.
Current remaining funds:
—6311 gold, 12 silver, and 55 copper!
That's interesting...
While others spend so much money clearing land that it drains their savings, he keeps accumulating more and more...
Lina followed Richard's finger and saw a caravan following behind the serfs. Her worries vanished instantly.
Richard looked at Karl, who was assembling the team, and continued to instruct Lina: "This time, we also brought back the families of the guards. In addition to their wives and children, there are also some brothers and sisters, a total of more than sixty people."
"Distribute the remaining twenty stone houses among them, tell them that we will make other arrangements for them in a few days."
"At that time, any unmarried adult will be assigned to a separate household and given a stone house."
"Remember to register them all as Qifeng citizens, and as I told you before, give each household a basic supplies package and a citizen supplies package."
Basic supplies package.
These were the supplies that were originally intended to be exchanged for serfs with forty work points, including sewing kits, small iron stew pots, riding boots, and other daily necessities.
Citizens' supplies package.
It contains five kilograms of finely ground wheat flour, fifty kilograms of smoked meat, cheese, baking powder, high-grade fabric, wool, and so on.
These are all genuinely good items; the two supply packages together are enough for a family to live comfortably for a month.
Lina nodded.
Write them down one by one.
Richard paused, then added, "Some of these family members are literate. You can select some of them and hire them to form the government department."
"Let them assist you in managing various affairs of Chiffon Territory, such as population registration, distribution of supplies, and work point statistics."
"Their monthly salary was set at thirty silver coins, and from now on, the lord's mansion will pay other Chiffon citizens the same amount."
Previously, Lina had managed all the trivial matters of the chiffon collar on her own. Although she was very capable, she was often too busy to even have time to rest.
Now that she has a literate person to help her, her burden can be greatly reduced, allowing her to save some energy to be affectionate with her husband.
of course.
The government affairs departments must eventually be handed over to the right people. Lina is just the steward of the lord's manor. As the population of the territory increases, more professional and qualified personnel are needed to manage it.
but.
Such intellectuals are not easy to find; they not only need to be literate, but also need to possess a certain level of insight and management skills.
Such people are highly sought-after in any territory, so they probably wouldn't be willing to settle in a pioneering territory.
Richard stroked Lina's head, deep in thought. How could he recruit some strategist-type talents?