For some reason, Allen found that after he sent out the invitation to Jamila, he no longer had any free time.
Every morning, Manid would line up at the door with a large number of young officials carrying stacks of documents to report the year's income to Allen.
This includes the toll tax paid by passing caravans, the main source of which is the revenue from the high pass and the old dense forest road.
Secondly, there are various shops in the town, as well as the income generated from selling honey candies, various dairy products, and fruit wine.
Looking at the thick account books, Allen suddenly had a headache. It didn't mean that he couldn't understand. It was not difficult for Allen to sort out the numbers in front of him.
After all, he has received a relatively complete education and has been hanging around in the office for several years.
And after a short period of adaptation, he was able to figure out the ins and outs of it, and discussed some plans for next year with Manid.
For example, the tax on certain goods is increased, and the tax on some goods is reduced accordingly, allowing business activities to maintain a relatively stable state in this territory with tens of thousands of people.
Of course, Allen is not the kind of lord who keeps an eye on gold and silver. He still has some understanding of the importance and role of taxation.
However, what troubles His Majesty the King is that such work is too boring. He has not experienced this kind of thing for almost ten years.
For a moment, Allen suddenly realized that being the king didn't seem to be much different from how he felt at work.
As for the situation of various incomes, it would naturally be endless to discuss in a whole morning.
Manid, with a face full of excitement, left Wendry Castle with his men, and said that he would come back tomorrow morning.
In fact, this former businessman who was obsessed with making money and the current Finance Minister of Rovanian always felt that he had learned something new from his king this morning.
At the same time, he is also happy for himself, because the boss he is loyal to is not the kind of lord who is determined to make money.
After Allen had a simple lunch, old Karl, who was already old but still energetic, brought several elderly people of similar age to Allen to discuss next year's planting plan.
Rovanian, who is still relying on self-sown for his own use, must not be careless about such things, and what he grows varies depending on the location.
Starting from Feslet, the temperature will be higher as you go south. Most farms not only grow wheat and grains, but also grow various seasonal vegetables.
For example, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, onions, mushrooms, etc. Most of these increasingly abundant vegetable types were introduced from the Shire.
At the same time, there is also a proverb spread from the Shire, which is related to potatoes. The original saying is this: Unless it is under forced circumstances, no hobbit will use potatoes as a staple food, because it will affect the health of the people.
How you feel when you eat your next meal.
Allen, who heard this sentence, certainly knew why, because eating too many potatoes will cause indigestion, affect appetite, and also cause symptoms of excessive farting.
This is of course intolerable for a hobbit who needs to eat seven meals a day.
Going north from Feslet, the temperature will drop rapidly, and most of the land there is used to grow flax, corn, and beans, and there are also large tracts of pasture used to develop animal husbandry.
Most of the sheep and horses under Allen's name are in the north.
When winter comes and there is no work time in the fields, most of the cattle will be taken to the land in the north, where it will be more convenient to take care of them.
Landforms such as hills and mountains have gradually been turned into orchards by hard-working people over the years, planting apples, pears, hawthorns, red dates and other fruit trees.
In most cases, these fruit trees do not require too many people to serve, because the status of fruits in Roannian is just a condiment in daily life and will not be regarded as a staple food.
Moreover, the humans of Rovanion are also willing to share these fruits with the small animals in the forest, as long as there are no pests or diseases.
Of course, most of the fruit trees have not yet entered their peak fruiting period. The output of these fruit trees, which are only a few years old, is limited each autumn.
It is only at this mature time that cabinet officials are needed to organize some personnel to complete the harvest work.
In fact, in this era, most of the ownership rights of mountains, hills, and even orchards belong to the king.
In the mountain valleys where the river flows, there are also people who are good at taking care of plants. They will select some fine and expensive fruits and plant them on the sunny slopes.
For example, strawberries, cherries, grapes.
And just understanding these things took Allen almost an entire afternoon.
Because Allen really didn't know much about this aspect of things. Although he had experienced the pastoral scenery of the countryside when he was young, when it came to farming, he really didn't know much.
During the intermission, Allen also took the time to deal with a dispute, that is, two male owners of the farm had a dispute over the water source, and the two sides ended up with a bloody blow.
This was considered a vicious incident in Rovanian, and the ingredients were complicated. There were elements of fighting, and at the same time, it was related to the decree issued by the cabinet "On Encouraging Residents to Go Out to Establish Farms."
The official in charge of this incident, while feeling a little embarrassed, could only bring these two people to Allen.
While surprised that such an incident required the Prime Minister's attention, Allen fined the two men for the fight.
At the same time, he also told the two of them that he would send people to check the local situation and see if some canals could be repaired so that they could meet the needs of the two farms at the same time.
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After casually asking an attendant, he knew that Jamila had already led people to Yin Ouweiya. At this time of year, which was approaching the end of the year, the officials there also needed to report the situation of the entire village to the cabinet.
As for why those officials didn't come to Fishlett, it's of course because seeing is believing.
After all, Yin Ouweiya is the territory directly under the royal family, and it is not far from Feslite. If you take a carriage, Jamila will be able to return in three to five days.
Most of the people who are looking for Allen now are actually the work that Jamila needs to complete after returning, and now they are all pushed to His Majesty the King.
In this case, it will also free up a lot of time for the Prime Minister's trip in half a month.
This was Jamila's plan, and when she left in the morning, she just smiled playfully at Allen without telling her lover about it.
Allen, who was thinking about other things at the time, thought Jamila was just going to inspect some work.
Of course, these tasks are certainly not difficult for Allen, and there are quite a few things that a lord must understand.
It's just that Allen has been busy fighting before, and Jamila is the one who solves and makes decisions on all such things.
Of course, during this ten-year period, the cabinet also trained many young officials to help the increasingly busy prime minister.
What about Allen? Most of his main energy is spent on military affairs, either preparing for war or leading troops to fight.
Even without these two things, Allen's thoughts are all related to the military.
For example, what he has been thinking about recently is how to arrange the vast land east of the Black Forest.
Before heading to Gondor, Allen once arranged a very important task for the second lord under his command, his former squire, and the current master of Heidelberg, Alleyne.
That is to constantly monitor those Dongyi people who are still active in Rovanian.
However, as Allen went south, the Dongyi people living in Rovanian also followed Ashur's son back to Rune under the cover of heavy snow, leaving only a land full of messes.
After Allen came back, he immediately learned this information from Allen's report.
You must know that the land abandoned by the Dongyi people was tens of thousands of square kilometers, almost equivalent to half the size of South Korea. Even if we do not consider the slightly barren land in the north, it is just the fertile land near the rushing river waters.
That's enough to feed many people.
But occupying that land also poses a more troublesome problem for Allen, and that is distance.
The nearly 300-kilometer-wide black forest separates Rovanian into east and west parts. Relying on the convenience of transportation, Allen can barely control Changhu Town.
But there are still some problems if you want to control Eastern Rovanian, which is further away.
In this regard, Allen could only consider the method commonly used by medieval kings, the enfeoffment system.
Of course, whether it is Gondor or Rohan, they are also using this method of rule, and compared to his allies, Allen's methods may be quite clever.
At least when he was building his team, he trained quite a few officials to help him control large areas of directly-administered territory.
In addition, Allen also has the help of a simulator, which can ensure the loyalty of his vassals to a certain extent.
However, this does not include Bard's family, but Allen has never doubted the lords of River Valley City. Their character has withstood the test of time in another trajectory.
Now, Allen still has some trump cards in his hand, which are suitable to be played at this time.
The first card is naturally the more than 300 heavy cavalry who have followed him all the way south and have fought so far. Their main members are a small number of Swadia knights and a large number of Kugit cavalry.
As a king, Allen can completely trust the loyalty of these people, and at the same time, they have enough merit to obtain their own fiefdom.
Therefore, Allen plans to canonize all more than 300 people as knights, and then allocate 20 prisoners of war to each of them to go to Eastern Rovanian to develop land. This can also help Feslite solve the problem of too many prisoners of war.
Because there are indeed too many, these prisoners of war often crowd out the jobs that originally belonged to citizens, which is not a good thing for Rovanian, who is in the rising period.
As for the land on the Eastern Rovanian side, there is actually nothing to develop, because the Dongyi people had already cultivated a large area of cultivated land there in the first year before they left.
In fact, there is plenty of ready-made land there, it just needs people to take care of it and cultivate it.
In addition to allocating prisoners of war, Allen has another card in his hand, which is also very suitable to play at this time.
Before the war with the Dongyi people began, Allen had organized thousands of knight apprentices. After three or four years, most of these children had graduated, and it was time to find them a knight apprentice.
The teacher has started his internship.
This also coincides with Allen's current idea. Isn't it a good thing for a newly canonized knight to bring several apprentices who have just graduated?
What is this called? This is called job assignment after graduation.
At the same time, there were also some northern humans who had to stay in the river valley to take refuge during the war.
Some of them are subjects that Allen adopted from the canyon, and many of them are slaves rescued from the hands of the Dongyi people.
These people have not opened up their own land near the town in just one or two years, and now they only rely on doing some part-time jobs to support themselves and their families.
And there are a lot of these people, probably in the thousands.
If they are willing to return to their homeland, Allen also plans to hand over these northern humans to his knights for management.
This can also make the gradually overcrowded river valley more relaxed again. Otherwise, Allen will have to plan his journey north in advance, learn from the Yin Oshiod people of the past, and let some of the people go to live near Huixiangshui.
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It is very close to the Gray Mountains and is a very suitable place for the development of animal husbandry. Allen's original plan was to have Tuoju take the people from the Horse Wrangling Village there.
But there is no need to be so anxious now.
If the entire plan follows Allen's arrangement, each knight can basically have two to three attendants, about 20 citizens, plus 20 prisoners of war who have to work hard in order to atone for their sins, which can be regarded as
about there.
Although the number of people is much smaller than that of some normal knights, it is not without its good sides.
Because the weapons and equipment used by these knights in battle, and even the horses, were Allen's responsibility, which even included repairs after damage.
Compared with ordinary feudal knights, their pressure can be said to be much less.
The main task Allen gave them was to occupy the land there for himself and to prepare for the Dongyi raids as soon as possible.
This requires an experienced and combat-savvy general to take charge of the entire plan.