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After a journey of more than one hundred miles, it took Hudson almost half a month to successfully reach the fiefdom.

The team grew from more than 600 people at the beginning to more than 3,000 people at the end. The increase of more than 2,400 people was the harvest of this trip.

It's a pity that there are fewer young people. Even if you include young people of 14 or 15 and middle-aged men under 40, the number is less than 800.

Most of the rest are old, weak, women and children in relatively good health. The weak ones were either eliminated in the previous famine or fell halfway.

Of course, this definition of "old" is based on the standards of the Aslant continent. Those who are thirty years old are considered middle-aged, and those who are over forty are considered old.

If you really want to live to be 180 years old, you can only live in a noble family. The serfs who lived in harsh living conditions, and those who lived past the age of sixty, were comparable to the scales of a giant dragon.

Human beings are fragile in the face of disasters. Even if Hudson deliberately slowed down, many people still failed to keep up.

Being able to save so many people is already considered a blessing. If Hudson had not intervened and waited for the new lords to arrive, I am afraid that not even half of these people would have survived in the end.

Settling down was very simple, just divide a piece of land and the serfs would build their own houses. Everyone is very conscious. Mr. Hudson doesn't need to worry about such a trivial matter.

After a brief inspection, Hudson planned five settlements nearby, centered on the mine. Basically, it is the original site. If you divide the refugees into one, you are done.

As a price, forty carts of food and grass were reduced. This was the result of deliberate restrictions. If we ate openly, I am afraid the consumption would be even greater.

There is nothing to say, we have to continue sending people back to Dadir City to transport food. Otherwise, the little food in hand can only last for twenty days at most.

With more than three thousand mouths, no matter how much you save, you will still consume at least two to three thousand pounds of food every day.

There is no need to travel, and there is no heavy labor. It is enough for ordinary serfs to be half full. If there was not enough food, they would get wild vegetables, leaves, and grass roots, but the soldiers could not go hungry.

The veterans he had finally accumulated, Hudson did not want to waste them again due to malnutrition.

Besides, as a hero, you must be given certain preferential treatment, right? There is no money for military pay. If you don't even care about food, who will work for Mr. Hudson in the future?

Even though he had harvested a lot of food during the war, Hudson still felt pressure to supply so many mouths.

After a little calculation, he found that the food in his hands, according to the current way of eating, could only last for two or three months at most.

What's more, most of the food is stored in Dadir City, and a family knight is hired to help look after it. Transporting it here is also a troublesome matter.

Due to the limited number of carriages, at least two trips are required. Although the war is over, there are still many mountain kings who have fallen into disgrace. For safety reasons, it is indispensable to send military escorts.

"The order is passed. From now on, the territory will implement a ration ration system, and it must be strictly implemented every day. Gil, you are responsible for the daily food distribution, and I will conduct random inspections from time to time.

specific standards.

Soldier: 1.5 pounds of wild vegetable and rye bread/day, 1 pound of oats and beans/day, 0.5 pound of salt/month, 2 pounds of meat/month, and some wild vegetable or dried vegetable soup. (Note: 1 pound is about 1 catty. The grain will expand when cooked and is not equal to the original grain)

According to the rank of officers, the increase of 15% for each rank is based on the rank of soldiers, and the bread does not need to be added with wild vegetables.

Young people over 16 years old: 0.8 pounds of low-quality rye bread/day, half a pound of oats and beans/day, 0.3 pounds of salt/month, 0.5 pounds of meat/month, and some vegetable soup.

Healthy women, teenagers over ten years old, and middle-aged men will all receive 80% of the ration for young adults; the remaining old, weak, women and children will all receive 70% of the ration for young adults.

The army's food was distributed to the Centurions to make it uniformly, and the serfs' rations were distributed to their families. Thirty soldiers were stationed at each gathering point to maintain order, and anyone who violated order would be demoted to slaves. "

Hudson said seriously.

The standard cannot be lower. In an era when there is no fat or water in the stomach, everyone is a big eater. Everyone eats too much and gets hungry quickly.

Before formulating the standard, Hudson conducted in-depth research. The same rye bread is also divided into three, six or nine grades.

The best is naturally whole wheat bread; the second is rye bread with wild vegetables, usually with 10% to 30% of wild vegetables added, and the taste is barely adequate.

The third is rye bread with wild vegetable leaves added, usually ranging from 30% to 50%. If you are unscrupulous, you can even add sawdust, bark, and sand to it.

Commonly known as inferior bread, the principle is that only one person can survive after eating it. It can be used as a weapon when held in the hand, and it can hurt your feet if dropped on the ground.

Of course, Hudson is not that evil-minded and will definitely not add sawdust, bark, sand, etc., but wild vegetable leaves are indispensable.

They were all forced out by lack of food. Only by implementing this low standard could the food in hand be enough to last three months.

In fact, this is only a theoretical state. Low standards can now be implemented because serfs are not engaged in high-intensity labor and do not consume much energy.

Once production begins to resume, food consumption will increase dramatically. The miners must be fully supervised, otherwise they will not have the energy to work. Women and children who work the fields cannot go hungry either.

"Yes, sir!"

Jill replied calmly.

No one objected. They were all close followers of Mr. Hudson and just followed his orders. Anyway, as long as you don't starve, it doesn't matter what the standard is.

Although Baron Redman promised to send their family members over, that will be a matter of the coming year.

If you don’t settle the territory, build the infrastructure, and send people over in advance, you’re adding to the chaos.

After a pause, Hudson suddenly remembered his animals. Although many heroes were rewarded, banquets were held in Dadil City, and many were slaughtered, many were left behind.

Because the war horses were relatively expensive, except for eight that were kept for his own use, the rest were traded by Hudson.

Including the knights of the family who helped take care of the food and grass in Dadir City, they were hired by Hudson at a high price for a war horse.

On the way to the territory, three sheep were unfortunately injured, and Hudson had to save them.

As of now, the remaining livestock captured are 28 cattle, 167 sheep, and 187 horses.

The horse was able to escape the disaster not only because it could pull the cart, but also because the meat was not tasty.

We can no longer slaughter them. Most of the remaining cattle and sheep are female, and we still have to keep the calves.

In fact, the fact that so many cattle and sheep were left behind was actually due to the cubs. Under the concept of eating less meat but not weaning off milk, the cub successfully rescued its own source of milk from Hudson's butcher's knife.

Voluntarily lowering food standards is not a breach of trust by Hudson.

Since then, the cub's food standard has been reduced from one sheep and thirty pounds of beef per day to the same amount of meat and hudson, and he has lived a hard life relying entirely on miscellaneous grains to fill his stomach.

Fortunately, the Earth Bear is an omnivorous monster. It can live well even if it eats bamboo and leaves, let alone all kinds of grains. If we raise a giant dragon with a bigger appetite, it is estimated that it can bankrupt Hudson just by eating it.

"Tom, you are responsible for organizing the young men to build the animal sheds. You must do it quickly and it must be completed before the rainy season comes.

Let the serfs with experience in raising livestock sign up, take good care of the animals, and increase the rations to 80% of the soldiers' rations. "

Animals are more valuable than people, this is no joke. Needless to say about war horses, the prices of those things have always remained high.

Beef is second only to Warcraft meat in banquets, and its price is also not low. Depending on the variety and weight, it basically ranges from three to seven gold coins.

This is because cattle plowing is not popular in the Alpha Kingdom and prefers horses to plow the land. Otherwise, the price of cattle will go even higher.

The price of a strong adult man in the slave market is only five to six gold coins, which is less than that of a fine cow.

The price for children is only about one-third of that for adult men. The old and the weak are even less valuable, and basically no one cares about them.

The price of a woman is very magical. It mainly depends on her beauty and talent. You can buy a cheap one with two or three gold coins, while an expensive one can even be sold for thousands of gold coins at auction.

Of course, there are exceptions with special status blessings. For example: Elf women basically start with four figures, five figures is the norm, and higher figures are not impossible.

Special races among orcs can often be sold at high prices, but not as exaggeratedly as elves.

The main reason is that things are rare and valuable, and elves are not easy to mess with. They live in the elves forest, so the slaves will have to pay for their lives before they are caught.

In comparison, orcs are still easier to capture. Count Pierce has a dancing girl composed of orcs, fox women, cat women...

The harm is mutual, and the orcs often harass the northern border. Human slave-catching teams often go deep into the orc country and capture some higher-priced special races to serve as slaves.

As a big mine owner, he is destined to deal with slaves. Especially when the labor force is insufficient, slaves are the main force in mining.

Seeing that Hudson did not disband the army, we knew that he was determined to become an unscrupulous mine owner.

"Master, just hand over the livestock to them for management. If an accident happens, the loss will be huge.

How about we first let the soldiers who are responsible for taking care of the animals keep an eye on them, and if they do a good job in taking care of the animals, we can then leave it to them completely. "

Tom suggested slightly uneasily.

In the continent of Aslant, the status gap between nobles and serfs is so huge that it is almost an unbridgeable gap.

According to the usual practice, the nobles always gave the orders and the serfs were responsible for executing them. It was never the serfs' turn to object.

If it weren't for the fact that Hudson often encouraged them to express their opinions, even if they said something wrong, they would not be punished, and Tom would really not dare to speak.

"Um!"

"You really should be more careful, just do as you say."

Hudson said with a smile.

It's rare to have someone under your command who is willing to use his brain and make decent suggestions. Naturally, he should be encouraged at such times.

Even with a certain foundation, I encountered so many difficulties when trying to start a business. If he were to start from scratch, Hudson highly doubted that he would be ruined before he even stepped out of the novice village.

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