Half a month has passed since I returned to Blackhammer Fort. However, many things have not been dealt with. The resettlement of refugees alone will take a long time to complete. Registration, distribution, and distribution of tools and food are not short-term tasks.
It can be processed within time.
At least every time when food is distributed, Rhodes must send his own Norsca Guard as a security team to maintain order on the scene...Refugees are not good people. They will queue up according to the rules. Even if they are good people originally, after experiencing
After experiencing a series of refugees and famines, they have long since become a mob. They will do anything for food and water.
Therefore, even if it is just a simple queue to receive grain seeds and daily necessities, it must be treated with caution, otherwise it is likely to turn into a riot.
And those Norscan tough guys are undoubtedly the best order group. They are tall and strong, holding large shotguns. Their aura alone is enough to intimidate this group of refugees.
Before spring started, Rhodes established an agricultural training department. To put it simply, it was to bring together the farming experts in the territory to form an exchange and learning organization.
Members of the organization communicate with each other every day and learn about their farming experience. Then, the clerk records these experiences, excerpts them into a book, and puts them in the archives. For this purpose, Rhodes specially set aside a room in Blackhammer Castle.
, used to store this precious knowledge, is equivalent to a library. However, it cannot be regarded as a library now. At most, it is a small library. If the number of books and files increases in the future, Rhodes plans to build a library specifically for storage.
In these books, it is said that knowledge is power, and a sharpened sword will not waste time in chopping wood, but this concept has not yet been developed for people in this world.
Of course, it doesn't end like this after the books are put into storage. From the end of winter to the beginning of spring, those farmers who were assigned land must go to the Agricultural Training Department for training every week.
They are similar, but not exactly the same. Different soils require different things to pay attention to when farming. Here, farmers can learn systematically.
In fact, Rhodes' request is that during the farmland reclamation after spring, those experienced farmers must patrol various places and guide others in farming. Agriculture is different from other industries. Practice is the most important. Some things were talked about for a long time.
Talking without actual practice is useless.
At the same time, some information about farming and animal husbandry management, taxation, agricultural product prices, etc. are also issued from here. In other words, the training department of this organization will be the Ministry of Agriculture of Blackhammer Castle in the future. And those civilians who were selected at the beginning
The farmer is the main person in charge of this department. There are not many people, but at least it gives the people at the bottom a channel and opportunity for promotion and allows them to see hope. This is the most important thing.
Of course, this decision was made due to the special geography of Blackhammer Castle. It is located in the northernmost part of Kislev, has a cold climate, is a war frontier, and is a remote and remote area. No nobles from the kingdom are willing to take the initiative to immigrate here unless they want to
Doing business and pursuing profits, people like Laheim...
Therefore, from the very beginning of formulating the development strategy, Rhodes did not intend to allow a large number of nobles to move in, because this was simply unrealistic. Therefore, using civilians was one of the "national policies". After breaking class solidification, it can also mobilize the enthusiasm of the people to the maximum extent.
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Rhodes knew that at this moment, the establishment of the Agricultural Training Department must have been ridiculed by the outside world. Farmers still need to learn? It must be a bad idea to call a bunch of rough guys who only work hard in the fields to learn and train in the classroom.
Only then did I come up with this idea...
But regardless of Rhodes, he would always face all kinds of doubts, speculations, slanders and ridicules at the beginning of the reform. Fortunately, he was a lord, had a large number of troops, and had absolute right to speak. Even the largest noble in the territory did not dare to oppose him.
No one else dares to laugh. Just let them laugh, and what needs to be done will be done.
After solving the problem of farmers, the group with the largest population base, Rhodes worked non-stop to deal with the other refugees - fishermen.
Erengrad is a city with strong domestic demand. The daily consumption of one hundred thousand residents is huge, so all kinds of food will continue to flow into the city. Cereals, vegetables, and fruits are part of it. In addition, fish and meat are also a part.
Big chunks.
Erengrad is located on the seaside, and the fishery is very developed, so fishermen are also another large group. Rhodes, a fisherman who wandered to Blackhammer Castle, asked his men to count the number of people, and they found that there were more than a hundred people. Their situation was very serious.
Obviously - very miserable. There are not even boats... During the Battle of Erengrad, all the fishermen's boats were requisitioned. The rebels' desperate decisive battle failed to save the defeat, so most of the fishing boats were used as cannon fodder.
, buried in the sea.
Can fishermen without fishing boats still be called fishermen? Rhodes saw that all of them were in ragged clothes and looked hungry. He really doubted whether these people still had the strength to go out to sea to fish...
Of course, their promise to Rhodes is that as long as they give them a boat, they can still fish, and they only need 20% of the fish they catch, and the rest will be turned over... There is no doubt that after seeing Rhodes' new policy
, this group of people also hope that like farmers, they can be allocated their own property. Even if it is just the right to use it.
Rhodes agreed to them again "kindly and generously". Just like settling farmers, Rhodes promised them and got them ten boats, allowing them to work in groups of ten and use the boats freely. These fishing boats were very useful to them.
There is only the right to use, not the right to possess.
In other words, the boat is not theirs, it is only temporarily lent to them, and a certain amount of rent must be paid every month. Like farmers, the first month is free of rent...the second month is charged a small amount of rent, and the third month is increased.
A little, and a little more in the fourth month... The rent is determined by Rod, and is collected on the premise of retaining the fishermen's necessary living expenses. Rent collection will be stopped for one month in winter, because in the coldest month of winter, the entire winter
The Quan River was frozen, and there was no place for fishermen to fish. If they were to go out to sea, such a small fishing boat would not be able to withstand the strong winds and waves of the Claw Sea. Therefore, Rhodes considered all factors as much as possible.
"Sir...I have a question..."
After all the requirements and contracts were discussed, the voluntarily elected representatives of the fishermen still stood up uneasily and raised their concerns with Rhodes.
"explain."
"Sir, if we don't catch any fish for a whole month, or the fish we catch cannot be sold at a good price and are not enough to pay the rent, then..."
The tall and thin old fisherman asked cautiously. He thought Rhodes would get furious, but no, Rhodes sat down and answered them very calmly——
"That's your business. If you go bankrupt, just wait to work hard in my mine to pay off your debts. Look, I'm already kind enough. You have nothing, so you can't let me support you all the time.
When spring comes, go to work. If you want more income, you have to work more. I know that luck is very important in fishing, so I can postpone the rent collection and you can give me two months' rent together.
.But it cannot be extended any further.”
Rhodes rubbed his temples and then said——
"You must know how to manage money. For example, when the harvest is good, save money for emergencies. Don't use all your money to buy wine and visit brothels as soon as the harvest is good. I won't care where you go.
, I just hope to see you all again in a year, so that everyone can live a prosperous life, truly integrate here, and become a member of Blackhammer Castle."