At dawn, the city gate opened.
A team of soldiers guarding the city went out of the city to drill in the morning mist, and the marching slogans shouted earth-shaking, and incidentally awakened the city.
Accompanied by the creaking of axles and the neighing of horses, dozens of heavy-duty carriages came from the Black Forest and pulled hundreds of tons of lignite into the city to ensure the fuel needs of nearly 100,000 people in the city.
In addition to coal, goods such as wood, food, cloth, etc. are also transported into the city by carriages. Products from surrounding villages and towns are pulled into the city in exchange for products from workshops.
Although the traffic around Coldwind City is still inconvenient, the regular freight carriages inspire the scattered productivity of the villages and towns. This is how cities gather and supply more resources, creating economies of scale.
The supplies are still in short supply, but at least the problem is solved. There was no such thing in the past.
Of course, the prerequisite for doing these tasks is to have a good manager. Not boasting, Zhou Qingfeng felt that his current management was fairly qualified.
For example, in the past six months, the population of Coldwind City has approached 300,000 from over 200,000.
There are a large number of refugees from the north. In the summer, the carrying capacity in the city is limited, and many refugees can only gather outside the city to build shack and survive the hardship. Let these people stay outside the city in winter, and it won't take long for them to freeze to death.
In order to obtain sufficient labor, the Inspection Office sends people out of the city every day to accommodate the refugees, lest they die. After entering the city, these people were placed in the artisan area-the area that was flooded last year was renovated this summer.
Thanks to the blessing of the hydraulic wood processing plant, the price of building materials in the city has dropped sharply. Rows of simple houses have been built in the artisan area, which are simply built with wood and built on two floors.
There is no furniture in the simple room, and there are not many living facilities. The room of more than ten square meters fortresses four or five people. But compared to the open-air shelter last year, this is a shelter from the wind and rain.
Zhou Qingfeng's mobilization ability is much stronger than last year. There are more than two hundred followers of the'Mother of Disease' who provide medical services to the refugees.
These believers form a medical team, which at any rate can see a disease, dispense a medicine, and control some infectious diseases, even if the body is collected more professionally than ordinary people. It's just that they get a little awkward in their thinking from time to time, and they like to use threats to spread their beliefs.
The advantage of using the above methods in turn is that the death rate of the refugees has dropped significantly. Life is still very bitter, but both the elderly and children can survive.
The resources originally gathered in the hands of the nobles were diluted and fell on the heads of ordinary people like pepper noodles. This is the great kindness.
Early in the morning, the artisan area began to ring the bell. The refugees were grouped out to receive relief.
The so-called'relief' is simply rice porridge with salt, and some physical potions are added to each vat. The containment conditions are better than last year.
The refugees have all received a'stick education' and lined up to receive relief. Zhou Qingfeng came back every three or five days to check whether the relief had been deducted, and from time to time he chopped off a few heads who dared to embezzle.
"It's difficult!"
Zhou Qingfeng stood at the entrance of the artisan district as a lord, and sighed long. The surrounding refugees peeped tremblingly at the earth travel dragon riding on the lord, and lined up to receive breakfast, each with a big bowl.
'Jiying''s nose spewed white steam from time to time, deliberately frightening the refugees in a vicious and evil manner, taking pleasure in seeing the other party fearfully. It turned its head and asked, "Master, you are already the strongest lord in the North, what is so difficult?"
Zhou Qingfeng did not speak, and left after a round of inspections of the craftsmen's area. In terms of strength, he is no longer weak. Through various methods, the average opponent can't beat him at all.
After being promoted to rank ten, the strange maids also soared in combat power. Even the little fairies have evolved acupuncture short bows to deal with miscellaneous soldiers, and other girls have a lot of powerful skills.
But these are not helpful for ruling 300,000 people. Ninety-nine percent of the population in and outside the city is illiterate, and only two to three thousand people can read and write. Most of them are at the elementary school level under emergency education.
It sounds good to say that it has great potential. If it sounds bad, it means that the city is full of waste and problems.
According to the household registration statistics in the first half of the year, the ratio of men to women was two to one, and the number of women was significantly less. The average life expectancy is only thirty years old. Most of the women live less than twenty.
Most of the population formed a family at the age of fifteen, and almost lost their teeth at the age of thirty.
Zhou Qingfeng personally inspected the newly liberated "free people". Most of them were originally slaves, hard labor, prisoners, and tenant farmers. Almost everyone's tooth sockets are smoothed by poor food.
Ask the'freemen' what they usually eat, and what they really eat. It is also a common operation to eat bark when they are hungry.
As for the clothes, the poor have no choice at all, and the blood garments of the dead have to be stripped off.
Many poor ghosts are like carrying a garbage dump, all messy things are wrapped around them, and the stench is unpleasant. When the clothes are taken off, the skinny body is exposed, which can be blown away by a gust of wind.
In the process of liquidating the nobles, mass graves were found in all the manors outside the city. There are as few as dozens of corpses in the pit, and as many as hundreds of corpses. Many corpses were tied up with their hands and feet, pushed directly into the pit and buried alive.
Many of the corpses were young children, and the skeletons were small and poor.
Every time a mass grave was dug, Zhou Qingfeng would go crazy, wishing to catch some shit nobleman out and whip the corpse.
There is no need for complaints at all. If you take the'freedmen' to the mass graves and have a look, they may cry bitterly about their past experience of being bullied.
As for disease, it is even more common. In the past six months, half of the items Zhou Qingfeng has brought from the real world are medicines to deal with many inflammatory skin diseases and parasitic diseases.
Although there is still an extreme shortage of medicines. But just dilute the cheapest oxytetracycline in large quantities with water for everyone in the city to drink. Random checks were conducted one month later, and the incidence of inflammation among residents dropped by more than half.
Many residents’ years of old problems have been effectively alleviated. Combined with drinking boiled water and repairing toilets, minor problems such as dysentery and stomachache have almost disappeared.
According to statistics from the government affairs department, because diseases such as dysentery have been brought under control, the working hours of urban residents have increased by 20%.
Coupled with the provision of night heating and lighting, the artisans in Coldwind City can work 12 to 16 hours a day without paying overtime.
Zhou Qingfeng also forced all pregnant women in the city to go to a fixed hospital for delivery and postpartum care. The neonatal and maternal mortality rate dropped immediately from the terrible 20-30% in the past to 34%.
Irene has specially trained a group of midwives to disinfect them and help pregnant women with dystocia to give birth. Hundreds of lives were snatched back from death in half a year.
The reason why the female population in the city is so small is that most of them died in childbirth. Especially young women with first birth.
Zhou Qingfeng gained a huge amount of power of faith in the real world, and was drawn by various goddesses to give back to the magic. The altar of faith produces a large number of magic gems every day.
A genuine pastor will worry about how to squander these gems and feel that he is incredibly powerful.
But 70% to 80% of these gems have been invested in maintaining urban medical care. In the face of a population of two to three million, hundreds of magic arts every day are not enough.
'Ji Ying' said that Zhou Qingfeng was the strongest lord in the North, and he sneered at this-a strong ghost, the deeper the management, the more problems exposed. Not happy at all.