Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

Since the pioneer territory has a towering wall that is 20 to 30 miles long, the people living here have a real sense of security. The northern wilderness is not only in danger of evil orcs, but also the cold and primitive natural environment and the large number of wild animals will also threaten the lives of human refugees.

In the early winter when the evil orcs may go south at any time, it really makes people feel insecure to venture to reclaim land on the other side of the glacier river far away from the territory.

"I plan to adjust the scale of the army again..." Harvey touched his chin and said, "In the past year, except for an outing against the lone demon army, the Northern Army has almost no overseas combat missions. The daily expenses and military pay of more than 2,000 people in two battalions are an extremely high cost."

Commander Pierce and Battalion Commander Vaughn, who were touched by the lord's words, shuddered secretly and quickly listened carefully.

"The same is true for the defense army. A battalion with more than a thousand people is only responsible for the daily guard work in the territory. The police department also shares the inspection and patrol in the territory with them, which is also a considerable expense..."

A pioneering territory with a scale of 10,000 people, even if there are alchemy beasts and a large number of assembly line factories to provide efficient logistics production and food supply, it is very difficult to feed more than 3,000 soldiers. The private military force of the lord of this scale, in the southern border countries, even exceeds the private armed forces owned by the kings of some small secular principalities and counties.

Pierce said cautiously: "My lord... do you want to lay off the army? If these soldiers lose their military status, how should they be placed?"

Harvey smiled and shook his head, explaining: "No, I don't plan to lay off these soldiers. They are professional soldiers that I have spent a lot of money to train. In a place like the northern wilderness surrounded by foreign enemies, the army is our biggest reliance for survival."

After that, he asked the waiter to distribute the documents prepared in advance one by one, and everyone hurriedly bowed their heads and read them carefully.

The army is stationed in the wasteland... the garrison corps... what does this mean?

Everyone was confused but did not dare to ask Harvey first. They could only exchange doubtful glances or look up and peek at Harvey's face to guess his intentions.

"Don't be so restrained. It's normal that you don't understand." Harvey chuckled and explained slowly, "I plan to transfer 500 people from the Northern Army and the Defense Army, streamline the original 1,000-man battalion to 500 people, form two garrison battalions, and station them in the area on the east bank of the Icefield River for a long time."

"This group of soldiers will not only shoulder the work of defense and vigilance, but also need to be involved in agricultural production in the absence of external threats and emergency wars, and cooperate with the personnel sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to engage in grain planting."

Pierce immediately understood the lord's idea. Isn't this the reverse implementation of the recruitment system of the southern noble lords in the past?

The freemen and tenants in the noble lords' fiefs farmed and grazed when there was no war, and paid taxes for the lords. Once a war broke out, they had to accept the lords' temporary recruitment, put down their farm tools and took up weapons to fight for the lords, which was equivalent to having two duties at the same time: farmers and militiamen.

Harvey now reversed this practice. While ensuring the responsibilities and treatment of professional soldiers, he let them take on the task of farming in their spare time. With the help of improved magic wheat seeds and agricultural alchemy beasts, they could not only feed themselves without any problems, but also have a large amount of surplus food to supply the territory.

Just when the battalion commander Vaughn was secretly thinking about whether letting the soldiers farm could get an extra part-time salary, Lord Harvey mentioned this issue at the right time.

"Of course, we can't just give these soldiers a new task without any reward or benefits. According to the average monthly salary of the grassroots soldiers in the territory army, I think we should give them some subsidies for settling in the wasteland, or the right to purchase scarce luxury living materials..."

The specific content and implementation of this policy order will naturally be left to Reiner and Pierce to discuss when they return, so Harvey is too lazy to elaborate on it.

...

After discussing the food production of the Ministry of Agriculture and the issue of the army's reform of settling in the wasteland, Harvey turned his attention to Asdalen and the young spellcaster Durt sitting below him.

"You two, now it's time to talk about the education issues in the civilian schools and the spellcaster academy."

When the lord called his name, Chief Advisor Asdalen immediately stood up and began to report in an orderly manner, "As of this month, the number of people who have completed literacy education this year is about 730. Including the people who passed the literacy education last year, there are currently about 1,500 civilians in the territory who have completed the literacy course, including all officials working in the city hall and various departments."

The 10% literacy rate of the people is a somewhat incredible scene in any secular country in the southern border. In this world where the extraordinary and ignorance coexist, being able to read and write is a privilege that only spellcasters and nobles have in the eyes of most people.

"Not bad! I am very satisfied with this result." Harvey couldn't help clapping his hands to show encouragement. He knew the importance of universal education better than anyone else present.

Aside from basic education civilians who are better at engaging in complex technical work and administrative management, knowledge itself also brings the chance of achieving class leap and gaining extraordinary powers - yes, people with the talent of spellcasters are not Because blood inheritance or genetic mutations, it is through continuous learning from endless knowledge to stimulate the seeds of wisdom that can step into the path of magic.

This is also why Harvey ordered that all teenagers and children under the age of sixteen in the territory must receive free basic education, and at least complete literacy courses, which can ensure basic literacy and literacy skills.

Of these children, there will naturally be about one percent of the intelligent people selected by experienced Asdarren and Dult, as reserve candidates for magic apprentices, and enter the Spellcaster School to continue their studies.

"The caster school currently accepts apprentices and trainee apprentices in the junior course, with a total of 76 people, and they are allocated to three classes: alchemy, magic and potions. Due to the insufficient staff of magic teachers, Dult and I, Chris and Egno are currently working part-time teaching…”

Asdaren finished the brief report, then bowed slightly to greet Harvey and sat down again.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

"So few? If I remember correctly, among these students, there are more than a dozen magic apprentices brought by Dult, the alchemy apprentices whom Chris worked and half-study, and Egno had just moved some time ago. Are you the young fellows here?”

Harvey frowned slightly and said a little discouraged: "Are there so few children among the indigenous people in the territory who have the talent of a spellcaster?"

The population management work of the city hall, Orange Pi, saw that the lord's face was a little bad, quickly asked for a supplement and said, "Lord, you must know that these children were not even full of food two or three years ago, and they always had to worry that they could not survive in winter. Refugees! It’s already very good to be able to read and write. Besides... even if they don’t have the talent to be a mage, after they graduated from school, they are still being scrambled for technical talents by various departments…”

Harvey sighed and could only comfort himself helplessly: "Okay, although the spell caster cannot be cultivated, fortunately, after these children graduate, the employment rate is at least 100%. There is no terrible problem of unemployment after graduation..."