The plan Cheng Ying formulated is ten years or even longer, which will be enough to train a whole generation of people to grow up. After a new generation of industrial population with huge knowledge grows up, the development of his territory will be impossible.
blocked.
But before that, he must first solve the problem of too small population in the territory. His current territory was in the past, it was an extremely remote mountainous area, and no one wanted to come. Naturally, there were no people, not even anything.
People want to invade.
Under such circumstances, it is undoubtedly difficult to attract people to come here. However, it is not impossible. In some other villages, not all of them fled after the doomsday came. In fact, there were also some people living in seclusion deep in the mountains.
Those who live in seclusion cannot be called seclusion to be precise. If the nobles say so, these are runaway serfs.
Before the void creatures invaded, relying on the convenient transportation brought by the portal, the nobles could easily control the peasants on their land, or to be precise, they should be serfs.
These people are not allowed to leave the land at will. They have to farm for their lords and do other work for their lords. If there is a war, they also have military obligations, just like during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they needed to follow the carriages of the nobles.
Later, as a disciple.
However, as long as they successfully escape with iron tools, they can reclaim a piece of land of their own in the mountains and be self-sufficient. Iron tools are already relatively common in this era, and with tools of this level,
It is actually not too difficult to cultivate a piece of land by yourself.
In places without portals, the world often appears relatively barren. Even when void creatures are not invading, not many people pay attention to these places. Many people choose to flee after finding an opportunity.
to these remote areas.
After that, they never come out and are completely separated from the outside world. Some of these people don't even know that void creatures have invaded. These are the potential population that can be fought for. The nobles think these people are untouchables and have bad moral character, because they
After escaping, normal serfs must abide by their obligations and farm and work for the nobles, because the nobles protected them and provided them with land. Those who escaped were regarded as white-eyed wolves by the nobles.
If they are found, they will either be completely used as slaves, or they will be killed directly and will not be allowed to live with their serfs.
Because they were worried that once they did this, these runaways would encourage other serfs to run away with them. It was impossible to encourage such a bad trend.
Cheng Ying is not worried about this issue at all. If the management here is not good enough and the farmers under his management run away, it means that it must be his own problem. It is he who needs to reflect on the problems in the local management.
It is not a problem of the farmers themselves.
Moreover, the productivity here is also constantly developing. When the distribution is relatively fair, it is basically impossible for people to starve to death. Just as long as these people can be driven over, they can be guaranteed to stay here. As for the use of
It’s not necessarily a means, it’s not necessarily an aboveboard means.
The first thing is to discover where these people gather. In the wilderness without portals, even on the plains, it is difficult to find their settlements. After all, the earth is too vast, and ordinary people do not have the wings to fly into the sky.
But for Cheng Ying, this aspect is not a problem. Although it is impossible for him to manufacture an airplane in such an era. But if you want to say it, things like hang gliders can also be manufactured. If the structure is reasonable enough,
This thing can fly higher and higher like an airplane. As long as it successfully creates an updraft, it can rise so high. Many birds are like this. They don't need to flap their wings frequently. They just need to feel the flow of gas and constantly
Looking for updrafts will keep you soaring in the air.
A hang glider like this only requires a sophisticated structure and does not require power. However, it requires a certain level of operator skill. Chengying has only found two former knights and trained them so that they have sufficient control.
With the ability of such gliders, the efficiency of reconnaissance in the sky is still a bit low. Even if they can fly to high altitudes to find targets, the scope of their reconnaissance is limited, and sometimes they cannot find enough
Due to the updraft, they will also make an emergency landing in the wilderness.
At that time, they could only send out flares and wait for someone to rescue them. After all, if they wanted to fly into the sky, they couldn't carry too many supplies on them. At most, they could only give them items that were as convenient as lighters to make fire, and the rest were relatively small.
Heavier tools are impossible for them to carry around.
Chengying actually has another method of investigation, sending these people wearing delta wings. The main purpose is to provide a reliable proof for the source of his information, proving that he obtained the information through normal means. As for the real
The method of obtaining the location of the fugitives gathered in the plains or deep mountains is not enough for outsiders.
In fact, the method is very simple, that is, using his non-human characteristics, he is now living in this world in a Zerg-like manner.
Therefore, many of his abilities are beyond the scope of humans. For example, the most typical trick is that he can turn himself into a flying insect.
It is normal for insects to have the ability to fly. It can change into a flying form, and can also control the insects under it and control their vision.
Send them out, fly in all directions, and look down from the sky to observe how those people in this world who fled to areas without portals live? Where do they gather?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! These simple information are easy for bugs to obtain. Even if they do not have the ability to communicate over long distances, they can still write down what they see.
, we will share this part of the memory after we fly back. This is not a difficult thing for Chengdu.
With this information, it will become easier to obtain the population of these areas. The simplest way is to rob, kidnap these people, and then let them work in their own territory, but in that case, it will be detrimental to their own
Character will have a big impact, and the reputation of the lord will drop to a considerable extent.
Even the people in their own territory will be afraid of their lords. This is true even if those who were robbed and returned are better off. After all, they are not willing to come over, and there may be casualties in the process.
When casualties occur, hatred may arise, which is extremely detrimental to future development.
Relatively speaking, it is better to block it than to open it up. It is better to let them come to the territory by themselves. Although the method used is not aboveboard.
In fact, it is very simple, just send the bugs over there, and then stage an insect disaster there. For these evolved beings that are much more powerful than the bugs in nature, it is extremely easy to create a disaster. On the farmland
A large number of insects were flying in the air, eating away the farmland that was finally planted. The fleeing farmers have very low resistance to risks. Even if dozens of people gather together and build a farm, it is like living in a peach blossom garden.
Average.
But when they faced so many insects like locusts crossing the border and eating up all their food, they had no way to survive the year. Although they also imitated the nobles and built granaries to store the surplus after the harvest.
The grain is stored, but it is definitely not enough to sustain the food harvest for a whole year. Moreover, those bugs are extremely ferocious. They will not only eat the food in the fields, but also directly attack people. Some people have been bitten by these bugs.
There are wounds one after another, the wounds are swollen, and the itching is unbearable. If you continue to live here, you will be attacked by insects.
As a last resort, these people who were originally on the run had to leave the fields they managed with limited food. Some had to become bandits to rob other people's food in order to survive.
Some are like this, praying to other villages to take them in, or even willing to sell their labor force, just to survive. It is already autumn. The food harvest has not been successful, and last year's food is almost eaten. In this case
If they don't try to sell themselves, they have no other choice. At this time, they only need to send an army to the territory to receive a large number of refugees.
As long as the territory provides enough food and clothing for this group of refugees, it is enough to make them grateful. Although all this is not so upright, it does give them enough compensation, and they do not need to pay for the extra food.
No matter how much work they put in, they just need to join the territory and abide by the rules of the territory.
At first, this relatively favorable condition made them a little worried that they were specially fattening them and selling them as slaves. After all, they seemed not worthy of such treatment at all, but as the people who came before explained to them, here
These people gradually felt relieved by the lord's rule.
Although they do not understand the principle of labor creating wealth, their instinct still tells them that their work creates wealth. The less the nobles take away, the more they keep in their own hands.
According to the descriptions of people here, the nobles who rule this city hardly engage in any luxurious behavior, and all the taxes collected from them are basically used on themselves.
This is also the reason why they are so wealthy. This makes the newcomers unable to believe it for a while, but as time goes by, they also begin to realize that they may have met an extremely rare and good lord.
The concepts of people in this era are still very simple. Many times they only judge a person by good or bad. Those who give them benefits seem to be good people, but the actual situation is far more complicated. If they know that they have left their hometown, it is because the lord sent bugs
If you eat their crops, I'm afraid it will be a completely different state of mind.
There are actually many such small villages within hundreds of miles around, and the tools they use for planting are even more backward than those used by the nobles in the past. After all, they have no way to produce iron tools themselves, so they can only secretly try to use them.
You can exchange money for iron tools or take a certain amount of iron tools with you when you escape.
These things will wear out during use, and as time goes by, the tools they can use will become more and more outdated. The productivity that individuals can bring is actually not as good as when they were still serfs.
At that time, although they had little enthusiasm for production and were forced to work, the tools they used were more advanced and the production efficiency was naturally higher if they were organized.
In comparison, the current tools are very poor, and even if there is enthusiasm, the output cannot be very high.
Therefore, if you want to further develop their potential, the best way is to gather them together. In this situation where there are fewer people and more land, if you gather them together for cultivation, the planting efficiency will be higher.
Through this round of operations, the population of the city expanded rapidly. From less than 50,000 people at the beginning, it gradually expanded to the urban area. With the population of the surrounding suburbs exceeding 200,000, this is already a big city.
Even before the invasion of void creatures, in the era of the empire, at least two teleportation gates were needed to build a city with such a huge population. At this time, these people gathered around a teleportation gate.
From a previous perspective, all of this is simply an incredible miracle.
As the population increases, productivity is also constantly improving. When the population increases, the social division of labor can be more refined. When the social division of labor is more refined, industry can more easily emerge from the handicraft industry.
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As the Chuchu Power Factory near the river produced more and more high-quality machine tools, the precision of metal processing also continued to improve during this time.
Nowadays, it is possible to process relatively tight-fitting metal parts, and the collection of these parts often means that the steam age is coming.
There are coal mines in this world, and in this vast territory, there are several coal mines that can be mined. With such things as coal mines, steam engines naturally have their place.
Because I have enough knowledge, the initial design of this machine was the best design under the existing technical conditions. It can be mass produced without making any changes. Although this era is in the handicraft industry.
The industry is in the transitional stage, but the cost of producing such a machine is barely acceptable. When the nearby cattle and horses have not yet multiplied in large numbers, this kind of machine that can replace cattle and horses will undoubtedly shine.
