Mountain and Forest Kingdom

"Safety is greater than heaven."

Lawrence finally decided to choose the maid from the meritorious household.

"Brielle, are all the women Turaka brought here your family?"

Lawrence carefully recalled from Fleiss, Tukara, Beow's sisters, mother, and others, and finally had two choices.

One is a young Western woman from Turaka, and the other is a girl from Water City.

Brielle said happily: "Yes, master, do you need anything?"

Lawrence said: "Your father and you have done a lot of things for me, and they have done very well. I allow another person in your family to serve as a temporary maid, and we will go back in the spring."

Brielle was a little disappointed to hear that she was just a temporary maid, but she still said happily: "Yes, Master, I recommend my eldest brother's wife. She used to be a maid in the baron's house."

Brielle's father, Tukara, was only a knight, not a noble baron.

Laurence was the son of a baron, but his life was very poor.

There have been several barons killed by him these days, and the few nobles in the Sidel territory who are currently cooperating are also barons.

"Then let her come to work, learn and feel the atmosphere of a noble family in advance, and your family will become a real noble family in the future."

Brielle was very excited, "Yes, Master!"

Lawrence asked Brielle to inform her family of the good news, and also called for people to prepare the Dom sheep to come down the mountain.

Salil asked: "Where are you going again?"

Seeing Salil's unhappy look, Lawrence smiled and said, "I'm going to Dumu Port to take a look, and I'll be back today."

After hearing this, Salil thought seriously and said, "I feel like it's going to rain over there. I'll accompany you."

Lawrence began to calculate the nearest time, "It's almost going to snow. I'll go to Dumu Harbor to collect a waterman maid, and then we'll come back."

Sophia asked curiously: "Why are you looking for a water-man maid?"

Lawrence explained: "Before, the water people took our people to the Hokuriku Kingdom to pick up their families and betrayed the nobles there. Now we have not killed the Marquis of York and let some nobles go. These low-level people will definitely Feel uneasy."

"Recruiting maids is just one of the means of appeasement. I have arranged jobs and houses for them before, which has made them feel at ease."

"But material comfort alone is not enough. Recruiting maids from those water people will make it easier to arouse mutual recognition."

Salil walked directly to the room, "I'm going to change clothes. Let's leave early and come back early."

Sophia also went to change clothes, and Lawrence warned: "It's cold outside today, wear more clothes."

It's already winter outside, and although it hasn't snowed yet, the temperature at this time is much colder than yesterday afternoon due to the cold wind.

Lawrence walked to the door of the cave. The two men standing guard next to him quickly lowered their heads and said, "Prophet."

"Yes." Lawrence took a few steps forward and stood in the open space in front of the cave, looking into the distance.

The wooden houses in the manor are still preserved. Most people in the manor have nothing to do these days. Except for the workers in the lumberyard, some people are preparing for winter.

Outside the kitchen, a group of people are washing potatoes and going through multiple processes to make potato starch.

Making potato flour requires a pool to settle potato impurities and liquid, allowing the heavy objects to fall and the liquid to float on the surface.

Emma was directing a group of people to make a cistern, a technique that the family maid had mastered after developing potato starch and potato vermicelli.

Lawrence looked at the reservoir being built and quickly arranged the next steps for Bull who came over.

"After the potatoes are ready, we arrange for people to build a brick kiln. The general principle is similar to the ice bricks we made last year in Yongye. The difference is that there is no need to freeze, and the soil needs to be dried like a pot."

"There is a clay mine nearby, so take people to dig it. The people who bake bricks are mainly old people farming. In the future, they will no longer have to farm and fight, and they will just do this."

Bull said: "Yes, Master."

There are still a small number of old people in the territory. If these people are not ignored, they will slowly die.

This is a normal elimination. Death is a normal thing in this era, and everyone's acceptance is very high.

Lawrence still felt that there were too few people in the territory, and giving these old people jobs would help them live longer.

There is still a lot of sediment in the nearby rivers, especially the large river in the north that needs to be reconstructed, so that a large amount of sediment can be dug out and used as building materials.

Potato workshops, cellars, lumberyards, wool textile workshops, warehouses, granaries, cowsheds, sheep houses, pig pens, chicken sheds, public kitchens, residential buildings...

Lawrence found that not only the land in the manor was not enough, but also the space in the camp was not enough.

A large number of residential buildings occupy a large amount of land, plus various living buildings and activity spaces. Now the only thing left is to urge the loggers to open up new land quickly.

The carrying capacity of this land has reached its limit, and some space must be diverted.

As they descended, Lawrence looked left and right for suitable places to live.

There are more than three hundred people, which is not even comparable to the number of students in a primary school. But now this is not a primary school, but a very important camp.

Excluding children who cannot work and a very small number of patients, the working population exceeds 300 people!

The ruling class, including Lawrence and Salil, are also important contributors to each task.

Processing wool, picking vegetables, caring for livestock, logging, cooking, building...

Even children as young as three or four years old can pick up eggs in a basket and come back.

Tim used to do this kind of simple and easy work. Picking eggs didn't require strength or speed. He just needed to pick up some eggs and bring them back to the kitchen.

Similar tasks include collecting clothes, cleaning up crow droppings, and sweeping the floor. As you get older, you will have to do more complicated physical tasks.

Lawrence calculated that in addition to burning bricks, processing potatoes, logging, and patrolling, more than fifty people could be freed to build houses.

But most people probably don’t want to move out.

For everyone in the current camp, leaving the gathering area, even to live under the mountain, is a very bad downgrade.

The Pumixiu people can generally accept this arrangement mainly because they have lived in Pumixiu Town before.

When the Cloda people first came here, they thought it didn't matter where they were, so they went down the mountain happily.

Now the situation is complicated.

On the one hand, many children have grown up here since childhood. To Lawrence, it was just over two years, but to these children and young people, it was their entire childhood.

Most of the Durila people have long been accustomed to life here, especially the hundreds of people who came first.

Who to let go? this is a problem.

After much thought, Lawrence finally decided to find a way to build a building with a higher occupancy rate instead of driving everyone out.

The factory can be located a little further away, especially polluting buildings such as chicken farms must be diverted away, otherwise the surrounding area will always be smelly.

Cattle and sheep are also built in areas with more grazing resources. People can crowd together, but animals will die if they are always crowded together.

Three hundred people seemed too many now, and it would not be enough when the castle was built or all the land in the camp was developed.

In the two or three hours it took him to reach the town of Pumexiu from the mountains, Lawrence had made most of his plans for the winter.

Now the total population has reached 2,000 people. When it exceeds 5,000 people, it will be time to consider exploring more territory, such as the rich lands in the west or south.

If there are 10,000 people, then a country can be established.

A country of ten thousand people...Lawrence thought about the founding of a country.

On the one hand, I feel that a small country of 10,000 people is very fragile, but I also feel that if it expands according to its current strength, a small country of 10,000 people will really not be weak.