Roland leaned back on the office chair and carefully checked the statistical report made by Barov.
It took three days for the city hall to sort out all the more than 6,000 refugees. Among them, the proportion of craftsmen was relatively low, and only 186 people finally passed the review. Of course, this is also related to the strength of this review because it involves the distribution of housing and the issuance of ID cards.
In Roland's consideration, in the future, only a resident with an ID card can be counted as his official resident, so he has to keep a firm check, and cultivate the core supporters of the town when the number of people is small in the early stage and it is easier to control, After the population grows, use the power of the people to assimilate other new entrants. After all, people are social animals. As long as the environment is like this, more and more people will agree with his ideas, and he can indeed. Bring the people a better life.
"Then the room for these craftsmen will be arranged by you. Whether you are single or with a family, at least one independent suite will be allocated." Roland ordered.
"Yes," Barov replied, "Excuse me, Your Highness, are these houses distributed as gifts?"
"In terms of rental," he shook his head, "the aboriginal people get new houses in the community for free because most of them have old houses, which can be regarded as replacing old houses with new ones, and if these people also give houses, it is not conducive to letting them go out of their homes and actively devote themselves to Work. Of course, the rent can be calculated at a lower grade, and tell them that as long as they work hard and save enough golden dragons, they can directly buy the house.”
"I understand."
After a moment of silence, Roland suddenly asked, "How many fugitives appeared after the award ceremony?"
"As of today, there are none among the aborigines, and there are seven serfs," Barov paused. "There are more refugees from the east border who choose to leave, a total of 115 people."
"Really," he sighed softly, and the moment he decided to push the witch to the front of the stage, he knew this would happen. In order to assess the public's reaction and avoid accidents, Roland also specially arranged for a musket team to be temporarily stationed a few miles away from the town, intercepting these fleeing people and counting the number of people to see how much everyone accepted witches.
And this answer is not perfect, at least it is very good. The aborigines have completely accepted witches, which is close to what he expected; the number of serfs fleeing is less than expected, which seems to be close to the drama of the bottom life. The performance was excellent; it was the refugees from the East, who had been treated by witches, and were in a situation where their homes were destroyed and desperate, and hundreds of people chose to leave, which made Roland a little surprised.
"His Royal Highness, I suggest that they all be executed," Barov said calmly. "Those who can decide to leave under such circumstances must be those who are deeply influenced by the church. For the foreseeable future, they will not stand On the king's side, there is no need to show any kindness to them, because nine out of ten will be converted into believers of the church."
"It's not necessarily so... The people who are truly devout to the church should be more than 300 refugees who are unwilling to leave the capital in the face of the evil epidemic." The prince closed his eyes and said, "These people may just be unable to change their ideas and stubbornly Think witches are evil and want to escape from here."
"Even so, they are your potential enemies," Barov insisted.
If he met this group of people on the battlefield, Roland would defeat them without hesitation, but because of backward thinking and inconsistent ideas, he would wantonly wield a butcher knife to kill a group of civilians, which was a huge psychological obstacle for him. After hesitating for a moment, he finally rejected the proposal, "I will let Nightingale go to interrogate these escapees. If there are spies or spies lurking in them, they will be caught and hanged, and the others will be expelled from the West."
Barov lowered his head with flickering eyes, before answering slowly, "Yes, Your Highness."
"Anything else to report?"
"No more for the time being, Your Highness," he coughed twice, "I'll deal with housing assignments now."
"Don't worry, you can take your time with these troubles," Roland opened his eyes, stood up and said, "Follow me to take a few photos and relax."
"Photo... A photo?" Barov was stunned.
"You'll know right away," the prince laughed.
In the forecourt of the castle, he called Carter, Iron Axe and Soraya together. I saw a few wooden boards four or five meters long and wide in a corner of the garden, and a canvas was covered on the ground.
"Border Town is not very big at the moment. When the land in the south is developed and then connected to Changsong Fortress, the scale will be dozens of times larger than it is now. If you just walk, it will take a day or two to go from east to west. , so there must be something that can quickly travel between places. The cost of raising horses is high, and it is impossible for every territory to spend a lot of time learning how to ride a horse." Roland said as he opened the canvas, "I I intend to promote this kind of transportation tool in the small town, which is easy to use, and the price is much lower than that of a horse."
"What is this...?" Carter was immediately attracted by the novelty in front of him. "Two wheels, an iron frame, is it a cart?"
"With two wheels side by side, even a cart is difficult to balance," Barrow shook his head. "I don't see how it can replace a horse."
Only Iron Axe remained silent, waiting for the prince to explain.
Roland smiled, "This thing is called a bicycle, I'll show it to you and you'll know." He stood with his feet on the pedals, took a standard starting position, pedaled with one foot, and rode the bike on the garden stone road Wander around.
With Anna's finishing and Soraya's coating technology, it is not difficult to make a bicycle by hand. Its principle and structure are not difficult. The parts that need rubber are replaced by coatings, such as inner tubes. It was drawn directly on a roll of paper tube, and Roland also specially made a simple pump for this purpose. The tires and brakes are coated with higher hardness cowhide, the frame is a hollow iron tube, and the brake wire is made of rust-proof copper wire. The only trouble is the chain, which can only be cut and shaped by Anna section by section. Connect long strings. As for the kind of classical bike with the pedals directly on the wheel, he doesn't like it at all.
After riding off in a lap, Roland pressed the brakes, rolled over and jumped off easily, looking at the row of dumbfounded men, and couldn't help feeling very proud. This is the excellent mount that a traveler should have. Compared with horses that need to be tamed and fed, bicycles are much more refreshing.
"I plan to open a new bicycle factory in the industrial area to produce this kind of transportation tool. Not only do I need to recruit workers, but I also need to do a good job of publicity, and try to promote it to the whole territory as soon as possible," Roland explained briefly, "This is the The reason I called you here. You must learn how to ride a bicycle first, and then ask Miss Soraya to draw the image of you riding on a wooden board. I want all the residents to see it, just spend one or two gold dragons , you can have the same mounts as the lord, the commander of the First Army, the chief knight, and the chief of the town hall.".
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