Warlord: King of All Clans

Seeing Freya running towards the Pegasus and looking back to urge him to catch up, Leo could only encourage the head craftsman and Old Sam, "Good, keep up the good work! When Village No. 7 becomes self-sufficient, I will make you regular employees!"

Old Sam and the chief craftsman replied in unison: "Don't worry, sir! We will definitely work hard!"

After Leo rode away on Pegasus with Freya, the two looked at each other with uncontrollable joy on their faces.

If you become a regular employee, that means you can get a government salary!

Just as the trend among the alien leaders of River Bay is "going to human society to venture out", the human leaders of River Bay are also popularizing the hot word "becoming a regular employee".

This "regularization" does not mean that refugees become formal citizens, but that they become regular members of the lord's mansion from non-staff members!

When Leo was at the river bend, he came up with a bad idea every day, which annoyed his friends.

Obviously everyone can live a prosperous life by following the rules, but the idle little lords always want to come up with some new ideas.

For example, cracking down on public urination and defecation, prohibiting pornography, gambling and drugs, limiting the upper limit of land transactions, cracking down on rural tyrants and urban gangs, constantly adding explicit laws and insisting on reading them out, all of these were of almost no benefit in this era, and even seriously damaged the interests of the lords themselves.

Many knight lords have very average management abilities and can only increase their income through other means, such as selling land and minerals in their territories, and monopolizing casinos and brothels.

There are even those who control gangs to extort money, or directly use the lord's army as mercenaries to do dirty work for others.

These are the most profitable industries after war, and they make money much faster than managing territory.

As for changing policies every day and raising taxes at will, those are just common practices that are not worth mentioning.

Hewan supports thousands of regular troops, as well as so many villages and towns with a large population, and there are fat leeks everywhere, but all these businesses are banned.

For many people, it is simply cutting off their own financial resources.

Not to mention that people outside found it unbelievable, Hewan’s management also had many objections.

For these vested interest groups, the lords overemphasized the rule of law and morality, and imposed greater constraints on them than on the lower-class subjects.

Eighty percent of the means used to get rich by using power will no longer be available all of a sudden.

But as Olivia worked hard to realize Leo's "bad ideas" one by one and showed their power, the social landscape of the entire river bay was unconsciously changed and became completely different from the northern countryside.

The living environment for civilians here is even better than that of Isenbol. Many families of craftsmen and merchants in the town will move to Hewan with their families, allowing technical personnel to move to the countryside on their own.

After completing basic management, Leo began to think about improving the administrative system.

The so-called regularization is also one of the contents of the administrative system that Leo created based on the lord's army.

Following his suggestion, Olivia spent a winter conducting a statistical assessment of the entire River Bay Territory's management team. Like the lord's army, they were incorporated into the full-time staff of the lord's mansion, divided into levels, and established a structure.

However, it is still in the exploratory stage, and only the administrative officials of the towns directly under Olivia, the heads of major departments, and the heads of major artisan teams have been included in this system.

These people, like the members of the lord's army, are completely off-duty and enjoy generous salaries and benefits allocated by the lord's mansion.

However, the people of Hewan prefer to call the regularization "loyalty" and call the regular members of the lord's mansion "retainers".

This is more in line with the saying of this era. The regular members of the lord's mansion are guaranteed an income. If they have work to do, they are management, and if they have nothing to do, they still get a salary. When they go out, everyone has to call them "Sir". Aren't these true noble retainers?

As for village leaders like Old Sam and the head craftsman of a small team of craftsmen, they are still temporary workers. After they finish the projects arranged by the Lord's Mansion, they still have to make a living on their own.

The leaders of the top ten engineering teams in Hewan, such as the Freya Excavation Team, are all regular members. Even after the infrastructure construction is completed, they will still receive a guaranteed salary every month, and will be given priority in new positions.

Leo certainly would not mechanically embed the civil service system of his previous life into Hewan, nor did he have the delusion of extending grassroots governance down to the village level.

Let’s not talk about whether Hewan has so many qualified talents. Even if there are, the lord’s mansion does not have enough financial resources to support too many administrative staff.

He was simply imitating the centralized system of the feudal era, spreading the formal organization to the level of the four towns in the River Bay, and radiating Olivia's effective rule to the four towns in the River Bay, instead of continuing on the old path of enfeoffment of lords.

The entire lord's mansion's administrative system has no more than two hundred official members, all of whom are core members carefully selected by Olivia and Leo and who know them well.

The current River Bend Territory and the United Knights Territory have basically broken the small manor economic system. Except for a few mature manors, most of the land is distributed under the military farming system on the surface and the equal-field system on the inside.

In natural village reclamation areas like Village No. 7, through the cooperation of the Hewan team, the village headman Old Sam took the lead in recruiting refugees to form a militia, leading them to reclaim wasteland in the form of farming, and then distributing the land to each household so that they can be self-sufficient.

This system had long been mature in Hewan. The lord's mansion first provided money and manpower, supplies and farm tools, and used absolutely strong means to recruit a large number of refugees for militarized management and concentrate on reclaiming wasteland.

In this process, unqualified subjects were screened out, and then the land was distributed to each household, completely transforming the refugees into property-owning subjects.

Such people are the foundation of Hewan.

They had received militia training in Hewan, engaged in collective labor, and learned the rules of Hewan.

The land was reclaimed by themselves, and then was awarded to them by the lord. It was also protected by the lord's laws and no one could take it away.

Therefore, the subjects have a strong sense of belonging and are more obedient.

The full-time soldiers of the lord's army selected from them have their families' survival guaranteed, and they themselves receive systematic legion combat training, so their morale is much higher than that of the ordinary lord's army.

Even if they are defeated and scattered on the battlefield, they will spontaneously gather and regroup instead of running away.

In the entire Village No. 7 of Linhai Town, most of the population are still refugees and are working hard to obtain the status of formal citizens. Only Old Sam is relatively concerned about the hot word "regularization".

He was the head of Village No. 7. When little Noyes came to register the people, he was still very wary of the local lords.

But after a winter, and having witnessed so many acts of kindness from the lords, he began to explore how to integrate into the group and realized the opportunity.

When more than 200 refugees arrived at their small village, Old Sam took on the responsibility of village chief without hesitation and cooperated with the River Bend garrison team to properly resettle these refugees.

Such performance was recognized by the person in charge of land reclamation in Linhai Town, so he is now the person in charge of the reclamation area in Village No. 7, assisted by twenty Hewan infantrymen and twenty Hewan craftsmen.

But the title of village chief was never an official status, and he was not like Uliyan, who had enough money and connections to obtain a development certificate signed by the earl.

If he could become a regular servant of the Lord of the River Bay and gain a certain amount of power, Old Sam could truly ensure the survival of his people.