Mountain and Forest Kingdom

After the arrival of spring, traders from all over the world began to gather in Pumixiu Town.

After Lawrence selected some people who were eager to go out for adventure and were unwilling to live a peaceful life as mercenaries to go south, they began to be busy with civil engineering and other matters.

With Andrew out with the Valkyries, Lawrence began planning his plans for the year.

"Spring plowing should be done slowly. The people captured from the Wave Kingdom this year are mainly in Feiyu Port and Dumu Port. We only have 300 people here."

"These three hundred people have been assigned to work such as fishing and drying kelp, and the replacement people from Water City will take care of their children at home."

Lawrence talked about the personnel arrangements in the conference room, and the new member Jade, who was not very clear about these things, looked at the map on the table.

"If we replace 300 people, let them take care of their children at home instead of working? This is too wasteful. They should work."

Jade feels that women should work, from morning to dusk, this is what a slave should do.

Jade was not ignorant. She had been concerned about the affairs here last year, especially after Catherine got married. People in the south were interested in the family tribe formed by the wizards here.

Most of the people here are Lawrence's slaves.

Lawrence explained: "These women who take care of children at home are the women of soldiers. Their main responsibility is to take care of and give birth to more soldiers, not to shoulder the hard work."

“These women’s men have been able to bring back a steady income that feeds the women and children, allows them to live in better houses and wear more new clothes.”

"It's more appropriate for them to have responsibilities within the family than to have them go out to work."

Lawrence believed that if the captured slaves did not work, there would be problems, and his military family members should receive honors after they returned victorious and fought to the death.

In addition to the rewards given at the beginning, this time the work assignment is also a part of the labor.

There is an even more important reason, which is the abolition of slavery.

At this stage, there are only more than 10,000 people in the entire kingdom, including a large number of slaves.

It is not yet appropriate to abolish slavery, because the soldiers and members of the main force are proud of being slaves. The new arrivals do not want to be slaves, but they have no sense of belonging and will only make trouble.

Lawrence's slaves refer to a large number of adherents such as the Pumixiu people, the Durila people, and the water people.

These people only had the status of slaves, and in fact, they had always received various care from Lawrence by virtue of this status.

It doesn't matter how the slaves are treated outside. What's important is that the slaves here will not be mistreated.

This led to people not only not resisting slavery, but also thinking it was important.

Is a slavery system still considered slavery if there is a path for advancement and one can be a steward or a leader?

What Lawrence wanted to abolish was slavery where private ownership of a large slave population occurred!

Allowing housewives to appear would relieve the habit of ordering soldiers and others, allowing them to solve various problems within their own homes.

The newly joined slaves were to work as a labor force rather than being occupied by the rest of the population.

The emergence of housewives can improve the survival rate of children.

Salil asked curiously: "These people don't have to work anymore?"

"Yes." Lawrence explained: "The husbands of these housewives are our soldiers. Fighting for us can not only gain honors after death, but also benefits while alive."

All the land in the territory belonged to Lawrence, as did all the store properties and forest and rivers.

"They don't need to farm, they just need to take care of the children and clean the house at home. If they have time, they can even go out for a walk on the street or chat with other women."

"Even if your family has enough money and rewards, you can buy some wine and meat for yourself every day, and you can also buy more eggs for your family members to eat every day."

Salil, Emma and others all showed unhappy expressions.

Sophia even said directly: "Is that better than us? We have to work every day, often for a long time."

What this era needs is a clear class gap. Only in this way can we be willing to work hard.

Lawrence did not transfer the things from Earth here. No matter whether it is advanced or backward, the most important thing is to conform to the current environment.

"How can their money compare to ours?"

Lawrence explained: "Housewife is a preferential treatment for those who fight for us. If you don't want to work, you don't have to work, but is that really good?"

"It's not that they don't work, they just work at home, just like you."

Jade still thinks this is too wasteful, "You can also let them do something. It's not good to just let them idle at home."

Lawrence couldn't change the rigid thinking of these people, so he simply followed their thinking without explaining it.

"That's right. If you don't have children, you have to go out to work if you don't take care of them. We are short of people in many places now."

"The same goes for men. It's not good to drink, sleep, gamble and play cards at home all the time. If our men are willing to help in the lumberyard and blacksmith shop, they can receive some wages. Those soldiers can also go on patrol and stand guard in exchange for extra money. wages."

This time everyone accepted this arrangement.

Lawrence did not improve the treatment of the soldiers, but only gave some rewards.

The current treatment of soldiers is still the same as that established a few years ago.

Male warrior: ten eggs, sixty pounds of firewood, five pounds of wine, twenty pounds of vegetables and one chicken per month.

Female shield maiden: five eggs, fifty pounds of firewood, thirty pounds of vegetables and ten pounds of flour.

These benefits were considered to be extremely high in the year they were enacted, but now they are a bit shabby.

Fortunately, after returning in triumph this time, some rewards were given to the victorious soldiers and the shield maidens who stayed behind.

Lawrence plans to improve everyone's salary next year based on their performance. The current resources are still focused on development, and the priority is to ensure that everyone can have enough to eat.

"In addition to the production and manufacturing of various commodities, our main plan this year is to increase food production and establish a third blacksmith shop."

"The third blacksmith shop is arranged in the cave, so that you can move into the cave to work in the winter."

“We’re moving to Oak City this year.”

Jade has not been to Oak City and has not heard of this, "What is Oak City?"

Sariel explained: "It's a forest full of oak trees. We started building a house last year...it seems like the year before last. We will definitely be able to live in it this year!"

Lawrence suggested: "If you want to move in quickly, go over and help. If you have help, you can move in ten days faster."

"Okay!" Salil agreed generously.

Jade naturally has no objection.

Forget about the others, if Salil and Drenken help, they can quickly finish what others take a day to do.

The newly added jade has no obvious use, but it is not without its uses.

It just so happens that she used to be a female noble. Not only can she speak the languages ​​​​of the three countries, but she also knows a lot of aristocratic art and literature, which can enrich the cultural heritage here.

As long as you are an individual, there will definitely be a place where you can be useful.

Even an ordinary person can work and mine.

If physical strength is not enough, then do things that women can do, such as making hot-selling products such as chamber pots and playing cards, or picking oranges and drying orange peel powder, which even children can do.

If nothing is done, Lawrence will arrange for the whip to be whipped.

Peaceful development, perfectly digesting the results obtained from physics, while improving the quality of the population and attracting outside talents to join, this is Lawrence's general plan.

Currently, there is no need to worry about the retaliation of the Valkyries, nor the retaliation of the Western Kingdom. Even the threats from Telantho City can be relaxed a lot because of the improvement of their own strength.

Lawrence decided to recuperate and build Valkyrie and Feiyu Port. This was the comfort plan all along.

Today's Pumixiu Town is no longer the barbaric period when slaves worshiped the gods. As long as the Vakiri people have been guided for more than ten years, they will also accept the guidance of the civilized world.

"Fries, you are responsible for the security of Pumixiu Town to prevent people from coming to cause trouble."

"Brillelle, you are already very familiar with this town. Let's prepare tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to go to Dumu Port to spread our teachings. Dora will accompany you. She knows the language there."

"Emma is arranging things there in the manor, and Navia continues to teach the children there."

"Saryl, Delenn, and Jade went to Oak City to help."

"Beow takes people to replace the Durila people who helped before. Anyone who replaces them can receive rewards of clothes, shoes and wine money."

"Let Aklim of Dumu Port go back to Feiyu Port and help Seravan build a good port city there."

"Khalan is responsible for cultivating all kinds of seeds brought back this time. Cassandra sent us the seeds of the laurel tree and the pear tree. We can get the cinnamon bark and winter pear to eat, solving the problem of a single fruit."

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Lawrence arranged various tasks and arranged endless work for dozens of people in the conference room.

Now there are more and more people under his command, including those who have followed him from the beginning, international students like Safi who are willing to obey, and a group of people who stand out in war and work.

The craftsmen brought by Catherine when she got married, as well as the craftsmen captured from several plunders, brought together the various craftsmen that she already had, so that the lack of basic knowledge was supplemented.

Although there are not many ten thousand people now, there are all kinds of people inside, and a large number of newborns are growing up slowly.

The majority of the population in the territory is women, and they are all young and middle-aged men and women. Each family will have a child every year.

In the past four years, due to the improvement of living conditions, there have been more and more children in the territory, and it will not take long for them to move to larger houses.

The newly acquired lands in the West were intended for these people.

Five hundred square kilometers of land can accommodate one million people. When the population reaches more than 300,000, expansion can be considered.

In addition to the land to the west, there is also a large area of ​​land to the south of Oak City that can be utilized. Earl Sider gave a territory to the Church of the Stars, and the Valkyries can also accommodate some people.

Now the land is truly vast and sparsely populated!

Lawrence has a large area of ​​land that can be used for construction and farming, but there is a shortage of people.

In order to peacefully solve the population problem, Lawrence quickly released more than fifty southern pirates and allowed these people to return to the Kingdom of Waves.

It is true that the Kingdom of Waves is a pirate, and most people are pirates who focus on robbery, but this country is indeed one of the Western Kingdoms.

Lawrence allowed them to surrender.

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After everything was arranged, Lawrence lay comfortably on the chair next to the bed and basked in the sun.

Sophia was reading and studying next to her while Catherine scrubbed Lawrence's model sailboat.

"Witches are being persecuted in both the South and the West now, and witches are basically female nobles. How many witches will come to us to take refuge in the future?"

Lawrence thinks about witches, who are now being slandered as witches.

This group of witches have no national concept, and they don't like to contribute to the country. Both the witches in the west and the south like to find ways to evade their responsibilities.

This time, the bottom class in the West resisted the rule of the witches, and the country supported it.

The church in the south persecutes those useless witch nobles, and the country also acquiesces.

They either banded together or went into hiding.

If you want to continue to live well, then your first choice must be here.

What do these witches say...

They have no overall concept, love enjoyment, have a high self-esteem, are greedy for life and afraid of death, and have all kinds of strange abilities, making it difficult to unite together.

But if you have a master, you will be very obedient and willing to do something.

Lawrence was a little worried.

Can I stand so many witches?