Chapter 118: Lord Myer
The news that Byronsburg had become a legitimate power surprised Meyer. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
How could I, a seventeen-year-old heretical Leiting magician, suddenly become a legitimate lord?
Maier was eager to say to the nobles who made the announcement, you better ask for another master! But the announcement has already been issued, and it is still a posture of "everyone has studied and decided", and Maier does not even have a chance to refuse.
So Meier went from a "commoner" to a "nobleman", and Byronsburg became his legitimate fiefdom.
In just a few days, the resident population of Bairensburg has increased from more than 1,000 people at the beginning to nearly 6,000 today, and the originally relaxed living environment immediately seems a little crowded.
The population of Byronsburg is dominated by the Ira, but Mel, as the lord, is a Leitin. The composition of these 6,000 people is relatively chaotic, including Mai's subordinates, the shrine maidens of Rimi Shrine, the Yu family, the city guards transferred from Liangyue City, the guard cavalry of Yishan, and the personal guard maid of Yuris.
After returning to Byronsburg, Meier wanted to divide the interior of the castle into several blocks, so that people from different factions could live in different blocks. But this idea was opposed by everyone, even Lingyu and Nami laymen.
The population of Fort Byrensis is very disproportionate, except for a few civilians in the Yu family, the rest are warriors. Let the soldiers live in separate camps, and after a long time, it is easy to pull the mountain. As latecomers, Lingyu and Nami Layman like the environment of Byronsburg very much and want to live here for a long time, so they don't want to be unhappy with Maier because of this kind of thing in the future.
At the same time, the proportion of women in Byrensburg is surprisingly high. The Yu family lost a large number of males in the rebellion, with less than 500 men out of a population of 2,000, and more than half of them were old people and children. Yishan only transferred 500 city guards this time, and with her escort cavalry, the Tairong people were only able to provide more than 800 men for Byronsburg.
There are only 1,300 men out of 6,000, and this ratio is so deformed that men are under a lot of pressure in all aspects. For the future development of Byronsburg, a certain number of men and women must give up their warrior status and reproduce in a stable environment.
When Yishan selected the city guards, she deliberately selected those young and strong recruits who had not yet started a family. Although she had promised Meyer that she would withdraw the city guard when the situation in Byronsburg stabilized. But Yishan, who had already elbowed her to Meier's house, still wanted to keep these people in Bairensburg as much as possible for Meier's use.
Although Yishan will explode when she mentions a certain topic, she knows everything she should know. She brought these 500 people with the intention of asking them to add a name to Byrensburg. Therefore, she wanted these five hundred people to be scattered among women, to facilitate the marriage of five hundred pairs as soon as possible, and to use the family as a shackle to tie these people up completely in Byronsburg.
Ulis didn't think much of it, she objected to Mel's idea simply because Byronsburg couldn't accommodate so many people at the moment. These 6,000 people were indeed able to squeeze into Byrensburg, but the result of this was a serious shortage of available space. Before returning to Byronsburg, Ulis calculated that the optimal number of inhabitants here is about 3,000, and the maximum number of inhabitants is about 4,000.
"I feel like we should build a few affiliated villages nearby." "The process of clearing land can be difficult, costing a lot of manpower, material resources and time, but it's the long-term solution. ”
"I agree with Her Royal Highness Princess Ulris's proposal." Nami also spoke, "But we can't blindly cultivate and over-cultivate. Doing so will damage the natural environment and affect future generations of residents. ”
"Ah......h
At this time, Xiaoxiao suddenly raised her hand weakly and said with a bitter face.
"I know we're all excited, but shouldn't we think about the present before we talk about future plans?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and the first person to react was Nami Layman.
"You mean the food problem?"
"That's right. When the Black Shrine was still there, the food consumed by the three or four thousand people who lived here every day was already terrifying. Now we have 6,000 men, and we didn't bring much food with us when we came back, and we had almost enough to eat on the way. Until the land is cleared and the first grain is harvested, we can only live on the grain stored in the warehouse. ”
When Lingyu and the shrinemaidens fled from Mt. Rimi, they took all the important supplies from the shrine with them, but they only brought food for a few days. In the days when the witches were waiting for news from Maier in Liangyuecheng, the food was provided by Liangyuecheng. The situation of the Yu family was similar, because they set off in too much hurry, and they didn't bring much food. The mansion, the territory, and the remaining resources were all sold to the people of Twenty-Nine Village at a very low price.
Clearing the land was a waste of time, and it would take at least three months for Byrensburg to reclaim enough land to feed 6,000 people, and more than a month from sowing to harvesting. And the grain stored in Byronsburg can only be eaten for about a month, which is not enough to support that time.
"We have money, and we can buy food through the Heyan family."
As soon as the words came out, Mel regretted it. His current net worth seems to be a lot, but it is absolutely impossible to feed 6,000 people for three whole months. After Lingyu and Nami saw Maier's embarrassed expression, they glanced at each other and nodded tacitly. Then Lingyu said on behalf of Nanyi Jushi.
"I and Nami can afford part of the money for the purchase of food."
Ling Yu brought out a lot of cash from the Rimi Shrine, and Yu Changnian also had a lot of cash in his hand. If two people were to feed six thousand people alone, it would definitely not be possible. But if the two and Maier each contribute a portion of the money, it will be easy to achieve the goal.
Maier thought the offer was reasonable, and just as he wanted to say yes, he smiled and spoke.
"That's not right."
The smiling words made Nami Jushi tilt his head in confusion and blurted out.
"What's wrong?"
"If you want to pay for food for your own people, then I have no objection. But if you put the money together and buy food for everyone, who will be considered to be the love of the time when the time comes? I think that the food matter should be solved by each family. Your Royal Highness the Princess, Your Excellency the City Lord, what do you think of this proposal? ”
The smile made the two of them look surprised, and after a few seconds of serious thought, they both nodded.
At first glance, it sounds true that each family solves its own food problem, but don't forget that the supplies for Byronsburg are all Meier's. In other words, the people of Lingyu and the people of Nami Lay cannot eat these grains.
Yishan and Ulis are both "his own people" to Myer, and with Myer's temperament, he will definitely not let the two spend money on food. The total number of troops of the three was only 2,000 men, and the food stock in Fort Byron was enough for them to feed for three months, and the three of them made up the shortfall by themselves.
But Lingyu and Nami Jushi were not so easy. They each had two thousand men under their command, and they had no food on hand, and they had to buy it from Mar if they wanted to eat it. With Meier's temperament, it is likely that the two of them will be given some food for free, but Xiaoxiao, Yishan, and Euris will never let him do this.
In the eyes of the trio, Byrensburg belonged to Mel alone, and everything here should belong to him - including themselves. To be precise, all three of them all want to be "possession" of Myer.
But now there are two assets in Byronsburg that do not belong to Meier, which the trio cannot tolerate. It will take time to convert those 4,000 people into your own, and this is not a trick. But if you want to empty the pockets of Ling Yu and Nanyi Jushi, the difficulty is not so high.
Lingyu and Nanyi are both people who have had a territory, how can they not see the intentions of the three of them?
The two had no intention of engaging in factions and fighting for power with Maier, they both wanted to find a good home for their subordinates, and Maier was the most suitable person. So without waiting for Maier to object, they happily handed over the financial power and handed over all the materials to Meier to manage, and Xiaoxiao, Yishan, and Uris vetoed the proposal just now.
Only then did Maier realize that the three of them were working for their own benefit.
Since the wood is already in the boat, Maier can only smile bitterly at this. After this, the people began to plan temporary settlements in and around Byrensburg, delineate the scope of reclamation, determine the number of people to be reclaimed, and who would participate in the reclamation operation.
There were enough logging tools in Byrons Fort, so the logging operation began on the same day. The ladies of the Yu family, Euris's personal maids, and the shrine maidens were assigned to the logistics team, and all the men, the war witches, the maidens and Meier's subordinates were assigned to the logging team.
In order to arouse the enthusiasm of the masses for work, the leadership also went into battle with the whole army. Maier, Xiaoxiao, Nami Jushi, and Yanhe all participated in the logging team, and Yishan, Euris, and Lingyu could only be responsible for overall command because they had never done rough work.
Logging is only the first step in the process of clearing the trees, after which the roots are also removed. The foundation of the land for construction should be laid, the farmland should be turned over, and the roads should be tamped. Due to the lack of tools, the next steps can only be carried out when the tools are delivered by the Heyan family.
The caravan of the Heyan family arrived at Bairensburg under the leadership of He Yan Zhiheng and He Yan Xinye, and it was already September 15. By that time, Mayer had officially become the legal lord of Byronsburg, with the status of a nobleman. But even so, he continued to work with the common people, a practice that quickly earned them respect and support.
In fact, this is not that Maier is diligent and loves the people, he is just addicted to doing rough work. Although Mel had been in the mountains for sixteen years, he had not really done much work other than building a treehouse with Gray. He hadn't done much work since he came down the mountain, so he always felt that doing menial work was a very new thing.
Of course, if that were all there was to it, Maier wouldn't be so hard-working. Further fueling Meier's enthusiasm for labor was Nami Layman, whose slender and short body seemed to contain infinite power, and a large axe was so strong that she could not get tired even if she cut it for a day.
This directly stimulated the self-esteem of the male Meier, and he actually competed with the Nami layman, and had to surpass the other party in physical labor. So as long as Nami is still active in the logging team, Maier will not retire.
However, in the eyes of Nami Layman, Maier was the master of Byronsburg, and as long as he was still in the logging team for a day, he could not be lazy. If it weren't for the arrival of the caravan of the Yan family, the two of them would probably have to work until the end of the reclamation.
While Meier and Nami are working hard, Yanhe is trying to be lazy. Although she came to the lumberyard every day to walk around and cut down a few trees by the way, it was a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of work that Maier and Nami had to do.
These days, as long as Yanhe has time to spare, he runs to the side of the three maids, this is because one of the three maids is Kiki, who was born as a Tairong fairy. Yanhe comes to harass Kiki every day, which makes her very irritable. In the end, she had to go to Maier for help, and Maier asked Nanyi for help, and after being reprimanded by Nanyi, Yanhe relented.
Am I being hated by her?
Yan He reflected on his behavior these days, and did not feel that there was anything wrong.
I just hugged her to my chest every time we met, and rubbed her face with my cheek, and didn't hurt her, so why did she hate me?
Could it be that my breasts are not soft enough?
Yan He grabbed his ** and pinched it, and there was a touch of "poof, puff, puff" from his fingertips.
This can be used as a pillow, which she is not satisfied with?
If Yanhe had tried to bury her face in her chest for three minutes, she would have understood why Kiki hated her so much - the feeling of suffocation was very uncomfortable.