Roland has been in a happy mood recently.
Even when sitting alone in the office, he hums a couple of ditties from time to time, reminiscing about the good times in the hot air balloon gondola.
The way Anna closed her eyes and asked for a kiss was so cute, just thinking about it could make the corners of his mouth twitch up. And the most important thing is the meaning of her words, which has already revealed her hot emotions.
The only thing he could do at the time was to respond more enthusiastically to her.
So much so that Roland felt a slight pain in his lips when he landed.
Maybe the long kiss made her breathless and used her teeth when she panicked
In any case, he hadn't experienced this feeling for a long time.
When his life was approaching a quarter, the skills from TV movies and comics finally came into use, and the target was such a beautiful and moving Miss Anna. Roland felt that he had finally taken the first step to become a winner in life. .
Taking a deep breath, he reached into the drawer, trying to chew some snacks to calm his joy, but he felt empty. These jerky were obviously put in yesterday.
Roland looked back at Nightingale, who was lying by the window. The latter whistled and pretended to look at the scenery casually. She deliberately replaced the dried fish with beef jerky, just to prevent Nightingale from stealing it. Did not expect that she would also refuse beef jerky
Just then, footsteps sounded outside the door.
"His Royal Highness, Sir Barov asks to see you."
"Let him in."
Nightingale did not hide her figure as before, but pulled down her hood and returned to the reclining chair by the wall to sit down.
The assistant minister pushed in the door, saw other people in the office, and was stunned for a while, but soon returned to normal.
"Your Highness, the demographics for this month have been made." He handed a roll of parchment.
"So fast?"
"With the registration file of the territorial people, it is much more convenient to count it now," the assistant minister said with a smile. "Your previous decision was really a wise move."
Well, I'm starting to flatter myself now... Roland spread out the scroll, and saw that the number of items was arranged in different categories according to the different occupations of the people in Border Town, which looked clear at a glance. Compared with the report that did not even divide paragraphs when he first crossed over, Barov's ability has really improved a lot.
The first row is also the group with the largest number of people, serfs, with a total of 3,628 people (including family members). There is also a line of remarks at the bottom: The number of serfs engaged in farming is 1,500.
"His Royal Highness, is the population of farming too small?" Barov pointed to the first item and said, "According to the estimation of Seni Eri of the Ministry of Agriculture, if we want to stop the town from importing grain, I am afraid that we have to add new ones. Only twice as much farmland and manpower can meet the food needs of the border town."
Roland had some impressions of the name Sene, it should be a knight who went to the wolf family. The 1,500 people engaged in farming were the first batch of serfs sent in. The subsequent batches were all transferred by Roland to the mine or Carl's construction team. They also received the same guarantee that as long as they worked for a long time, can be promoted to freemen.
"I didn't plan to be self-sufficient in food this year. There is still a lot of wheat stored in the castle warehouse, enough for two or three months. Moreover, the newly planted wheat this year is not very different."
"Not the same?" Barov was stunned.
"Well, you'll know then," Roland smiled. That is the golden No. 1 of leaf improvement. The yield per plant is at least three times higher than that of ordinary wheat, and it will definitely surprise everyone when it comes to a bumper harvest. That's why he doesn't want to put too much of the population into agriculture. With the magically modified crops of leaves, in the future, only a few farmers can feed most of the residents, thus saving precious human resources and investing them in industrial development and urban construction.
He continued to look down.
The second row of the parchment is the construction staff, and the following remarks are very complicated, including masons, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, handymen and so on. There were more than 1,100 people in total, most of whom were serfs as handymen. It is precisely because of the participation of these new forces that Border Town can quickly build batches of residential areas and workshops. The building is templated, batched, and programmed, which is an important means to speed up the construction progress. Although in Roland's eyes, this speed is still not enough, but for the locals, it is already shocking.
The third row is the miners.
Similar to the construction industry above, the number of local residents in Border Town has dropped to 25, mainly responsible for steam engine operation, mine registration and management. The remaining 1,600 people were all outsiders, including the mercenaries captured in the Battle of Longsong Fortress and the serfs sent in one after another.
"There have been several fighting incidents in the mining area recently," Barov said. "The main one is the conflict between mercenaries and serfs. This is a hidden danger, Your Highness. There are too many of them. Managers have no control at all. I recommend putting the First Army in charge of assisting the guards."
"Well..." Roland thought about it for a moment, "Let's do it this way. There is no way to form a police team because of the shortage of manpower. I will tell Iron Axe that a musket team of about fifty people should be enough."
"The police... what are they?"
"You can understand it as a patrol, but the scope of its jurisdiction is much larger, and they are basically responsible for internal security." In this era, there is no distinction between internal violence and external violence, so letting the military take over the security will not into its own dark history. Before solving the huge enemy of the church, he did not intend to spread his manpower to form a second set of violent machines.
In fourth place is the First Army of Border Town.
After the Battle of the Fortress, the reputation of the First Army reverberated throughout the Western Region. Three hundred people defeated the Duke coalition of 1,500 people at a very small price, which made the fortress nobles lose their courage to resist. After the merit award, Roland doubled the size of the First Army to 600 people. As soon as the recruitment list was issued this time, the entire square was crowded with the names of the towns who were eager to sign up. Roland still followed the idea that the people's army is composed of the people, and selected 300 aborigines with good qualities and no criminal records to join the first army.
The rest are all kinds of technicians.
For example, in the smelting and firing industries, the number of people has increased significantly in the past month, from more than 20 people at the beginning to about 400 people. Thanks to the kiln expert Losia, the North Slope kiln complex can not only produce red bricks, but also fire cement and glass. At the same time, three shaft furnaces are being built. Soon, the ore placed in the yard can be smelted for the first time through the shaft furnace, and then transported to the place where it is needed.
As for education, chemistry, industry, and animal husbandry, there are less than 50 people combined, so from the perspective of demographics alone, Border Town still has a long way to go. However, the town that originally consisted of hunters and miners as the main population could become like this in half a year.
Now hunters have basically disappeared, and hunting has changed from survival to hobby. Excluding those who joined the First Army or the smelting industry, there are still nearly a thousand people in the town who are unemployed. When the literacy part of the universal education was completed, Roland decided to pull all these subjects into the factory and start the prelude to industrial production. (. If you like this work, you are welcome to come and vote, your support is my biggest motivation. Please come.)