Your Majesty, the Spectacle Has Missed the Country!

Chapter 63 Planning for the beginning of the year

Bruno naturally saw the strange expressions on the faces of everyone present.

but……

Just wait to be slapped in the face!

Potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes are both food crops with extremely high yields. Coupled with the blessing of chemical fertilizers, four thousand gold coins are considered to be too little!

Bruno looked at Old Ford and said, "Let me briefly explain the results of the census to you here."

Old Ford nodded and said: "The current total population of Idar Territory is about 11,300 people, more than half of whom are serfs. According to the census statistics, the total number of civilians in Idar Territory is only There are 4,563 people, which is far less than the number of serfs in Idar.”

"Currently, in order to open the road connecting Mann Fortress and Idar City as soon as possible and complete the construction of Namur Fortress, Idar Territory has mobilized more than 2,000 serfs and civilians, accounting for five percent of the total population of Idar Territory. One percent."

"How come there are so many?" Luobida asked in surprise.

"In addition to the workers directly involved in the construction, we also recruited a large number of people to transport grain and grass supplies and construction materials." White Barrell explained.

"This reflects the most serious problem currently facing Idar Territory, which is that the population is too small!" Bruno concluded: "Therefore, this year we need to do everything we can to increase the population of Idar Territory."

"You can buy serfs! Slave traders are almost everywhere in the western part of the empire!" Arnel Blood from the western part of the empire suggested.

"A serf costs at least six or seven gold coins. If we buy serfs to gather the manpower needed by the Idar Territory, even if we spend all the income of the Idar Territory for a year on it, it won't be enough! Can you give me the money? Money?" Bruno said with a dark face.

"Actually, Master, the manpower needed in Idar Territory may not be that exaggerated. After the construction of Namur Fortress is completed, won't those serfs be free?" Old Ford said.

"This is what I was about to say. Starting from this year, Idar will set aside a budget sufficient to build a large-scale project every year!" Bruno said with a smile.

"Per year?"

After hearing Bruno's words, everyone present suddenly widened their eyes.

Isn't it? Still coming?

First it was the Hanging Garden, and then it was the Namur Fortress, but now, my Lord Count actually said that he would set aside a budget for the construction of such a project every year...

What kind of joke is this?

"master……"

Old Ford was so excited that he almost cried...

"Okay, okay, I just want you to set aside enough budget, and it doesn't necessarily mean you will build it every year, so why worry..." Bruno could only comfort him.

After all, Bruno doesn't know what kind of tasks the wonder construction system will give him next, so it is safer to set aside enough manpower and budget in advance.

Besides, after the construction of Namur Fortress is completed, isn’t there still an Alhambra waiting for me?

"So... we have to take a long-term view, and don't focus on the serfs as soon as we say we need manpower... For example, we can try to attract some civilians to settle in Idar." Bruno suggested.

"But... Master, you know that the eastern part of the empire is almost synonymous with poverty. Even if we hope that civilians will settle in Idar, why do they have to travel across mountains and rivers to come to us?"

"Barren? Desolate? Who do you think this label was placed on?"

"Wha...what?"

"For the nobles, the mild and rainy western part of the empire is naturally rich, because most of the empire's big cities are concentrated in the central and western regions. However, what do you think this has to do with the common people?"

Bruno then asked: "Sam Layton, you personally escorted the gangsters to Bethlehem. What do you think of the life of the civilians in the interior? Compared with the Idar territory?"

"They are almost the same, and some are not even as good as those in Idar..."

"This is inevitable. Even I know that the practice of forcibly detaining civilians as serfs is extremely common in the western part of the empire. How can civilians live a good life!" Bruno laughed.

"But what about Idarland? In Idarland, the price of a quarter of salt is only two silver shillings, but in the central and western parts, the price of a quarter of salt can even reach three or four silver shillings. Here. , civilians and serfs earned enough to support their families by building hanging gardens, and sometimes they could even buy some sea fish for dinner!”

"The reason why the serfs gathered in the central and western parts of the empire is simply because it was the foundation of the Norman Empire and was developed much earlier than the eastern part of the empire. As for the civilians there..."

"I'm afraid they can't even tell the difference between east, west, north and south. Maybe they have never left their own aristocratic territory in their lives!"

"In this case... then we will bring them out and let them know that it is easier to make a living in the east of the empire than in the west... What do you think of the condition that every civilian who comes to Idar can get enough land to support his family? Sample?"

As a border noble, UU reads www. uukanshu.net The territory owned by the Idar Territory is much larger than the nobles gathered in the central and western regions, so the Idar Territory still has a large amount of uncultivated land.

"But that's all land you own!" Old Ford said quickly, "Do you really want to give it to those civilians for free?"

"Anyway, no one is cultivating those lands, so it's better to use those lands to attract refugees. Besides, propaganda is propaganda. Anyway, every inch of land in Idar territory belongs to me, and I will just let them use it for free. , when those civilians drag their families and their families across more than half of the Norman Empire to the Idar Territory, will they be able to go back through all the hardships?"

"Your Excellency is wise! But...according to your statement, how should we 'bring' these civilians here?"

"Send out all the spies who were originally used to keep an eye on the Sauron Territory, and let them take the money to go to taverns and slums across the empire to find those bards who have nothing to do all day long. In short, let the lowest common people know , it is easier to make a living in the eastern part of the empire than in the western part of the empire.”

"But will they believe it?" Old Ford asked doubtfully.

"Normally, ordinary people will not take risks because of a few unfounded words, but for those civilians who have become desperate, it should not be difficult to choose between going to the east of the empire to seek hope, or selling themselves to the nobles and their descendants will be slaves forever, right?"

"The master is really a man of great wisdom!" At this moment, Shabi, who had been silent all this time, suddenly appeared and boasted with a smile.

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