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Although when Nami Jushi left, he left a development plan for Yu Changnian and several records, but this did not reduce the burden on Yu Changnian, because he was required to supervise the implementation of these plans. As the head of the Administration Department, Yu Changnian was already very busy with his work, and after taking over the work of Nami Jushi, Yu Changnian almost forgot how to write the word "rest".

Liu Xiu's scientific research department is relatively independent, and they deal more with the Ministry of Finance, because the most important thing for scientific research is financial support. Only when the research has results will the administrative department be found, so Liu Xiu's scientific research department did not put much burden on Yu Changnian.

Yu Changnian thought that the return of Nami would make him much more relieved, but the Nami monk who returned to Byron City was pregnant and was about to give birth soon, so in this case, it was impossible for Nami to return to work.

Fortunately, the group of Ilibi teenagers that Meier brought back from Magnich helped him a lot and lightened a lot of burdens for him. These teenagers received elite education and were a natural reserve of officials. However, these teenagers were all running for Myr, not for Myr's kingdom, so they showed little interest in politics, but showed great interest in Sarin's formation of the lord's guard for Mer.

The Lord's Guard is Myer's personal guard, and there will be no musketeers in the army, and the young people in the army are basically from the Letin people of Hope City, and only a few dozen of them are Tairong people from Byron City. The melee combat ability of the Ilibi people is really poor, and if these Ilibi boys are selected into the lord's escort group, there will be no "great victory in the battle of Yaolin City".

Nami now lives in the Bluestone Palace with three other women who are pregnant with Meier's child, and Yu Changnian has a stomach of questions he wants to ask Nami Ju, but he can't enter the side hall where the princesses live, and Nami Jushi doesn't go out. Therefore, Yu Changnian could only go to the main hall to find Maier first, and ask him to relay his problem to the Nami monks, and then he would come again the next day to consult Maier.

“…… Your Majesty, as of February 30, the population of the town of Buta has exceeded 30,000, far exceeding the expected value of the laymen. The town of Buta needs more housing, but our building materials and labour reserves are not enough to build enough housing in the short term. ”

"Aren't we going to be able to import building materials?"

"Your Majesty, we have already imported a large amount of building materials, most of which have been used for the construction of Hope City and Byron City, and there are not many building materials left for Buta Town. If we divert our labor to cut wood and produce our own building materials, we will be severely underemployed. ”

During the year that Mel left Byron City, there was an influx of immigrants from the outside world, most of whom were Tairong people who fled from Xiaohu's home to Liangyue City for refuge. Liangyue City is a semi-fortress town with strong walls and little room for expansion. This made Liangyue City overcrowded, and the residents had great conflicts with the foreign population because of the deterioration of their living environment.

Nami Layman anticipated this change, and she left a special record to solve the problem. She asked Yu Changnian to move the foreign population to Hope City to relieve the population pressure in Liangyue City.

As a result, Hope City has seen an influx of Taerong immigrants who need more housing and more public facilities. The migrant labor force has been fully invested in the construction of Hope City, and due to the large amount of work, Hope City has been unable to spare labor to support other places.

Town-level settlements such as Shangjin County and Twenty-Nine Village are also engaged in development and construction, and their surplus labor force is basically sent to Byrons City to support the development and construction of the capital. Since the last batch of 10,000 recruits trained by the Ministry of Defense was given to the Royal Bank and the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, Maier is ready to train another 10,000 recruits for future wars.

The recruitment of new recruits began in August of the 136th year of the new calendar and ended at the end of October of the same year. The recruits will receive half a year of professional military training under the condition of completely leaving work, which means that the Kingdom of Byron will lose another 10,000 strong laborers, which makes Yu Changnian's hands not rich strong labor become overstretched in an instant.

On the financial side, hybrid crops solved the food problem for the Byronic kingdom and saved a lot of money. The Royal Bank and the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce continued to bring in additional revenue to the Ministry of Finance, and in the first few months, Pershing's face was full of wrinkles. However, the supply capacity of the building materials market in the surrounding areas is limited, and now every city is engaged in development and construction, which requires a large number of building materials. Even if the Kingdom of Byron had money, it would not be able to buy enough building materials in the surrounding area.

Since you can't buy it in the surrounding area, you can only buy it in a farther area. The Kingdom of Byron could not afford to bring back the purchased building materials, so it had to ask the seller to ship them back to their home country. In this era, the transportation cost of building materials is very high, so the transaction price of building materials will increase exponentially. The building materials that could have been bought with 1 Tairong money can only be bought with 5 Tairong money in farther areas, and even then the seller still feels at a loss, so most of the time the Byron Kingdom has to pay eight to twelve times the price to buy the building materials back.

When the budget for February 137 was delivered to Pershing, Pershing's heart was almost broken. He took the report to Yu Changnian and asked him what kind of quality wood would be sold for 1 square 30 Tairong money. Yu Changnian is also very wronged, the General Construction Bureau is really short of wood, and the wood obtained from the expansion of Byron City is not enough for them. If it weren't for the fact that some national defense projects urgently needed wood, he would not have let people buy this sky-high price of wood at all.

Now the kingdom of Byron not only has to buy sky-high prices of wood, but also has to import firewood from abroad. Every household has to burn firewood for cooking, and Nami residents do not allow excessive logging of forests, and the amount of firewood produced in various places is limited. The settlements in the former Shangjin County, Twenty-nine Villages, and the area controlled by the Harato Mi Shrine can be self-sufficient, Liangyue City can also be self-sufficient after getting rid of population pressure, and Byron City is built in the mountains, so the population pressure is small, and it has the ability to export firewood to the outside world.

But the firewood output of Byron City is a drop in the bucket in the face of Hope City's huge population base. It is hoped that the city will be built on the plains, and the attached villages can burn crop stalks, and the townspeople can only buy firewood. In order to provide enough firewood for Hope City, Nami encouraged the women of Byron City to work part-time as woodcutters or firewood pickers, and restricted Hope City to cook hot meals in the morning and evening, so as to barely solve the problem of firewood in Hope City.

But as the population of Hope City grew, even if the residents were only allowed to cook hot meals in the evening, the firewood provided by the city would not be enough to feed the entire city's residents. In desperation, Yu Changnian could only use another record of Nami Jushi, let the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce import firewood from abroad, and then sell it to the people of Hope City at a flat price regardless of freight. In this way, the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce made a loss-making deal, that is, it wasted manpower and lost money, but for now, this is the only option for the Kingdom of Byrons.

Some people may ask, is it not possible to recruit all the women of Hope City to be woodcutters or firewood gatherers?

It's a good idea, but they're probably not going to say yes. The people of Byron City can see the forest when they go out, so to speak, chopping and collecting firewood in front of their homes, which is not very dangerous, and there is no need to go far, just a little harder. If the women of Hope City were to go to the mountains to chop and collect firewood, they would set off early in the morning and walk down the mountain until noon. If you want to go home before dark, you can only work for a maximum of two hours, which is very inefficient overall. People work hard all day, and in the end they can only earn two hours of salary, in exchange for you, will you agree?

Some people may ask, is it not okay to pay them according to the day they work?

That's a good idea, but the women of Byron City won't say yes. People also work hard for a day, and the firewood they chop and pick up is enough, but the women of Hope City can earn their wages for a day's work as long as they chop firewood and collect firewood for two hours, is this fair?

Yes, women in Hope City have a long way to go in their jobs, but that doesn't seem to be a reason for women in Byron City at all. It is only natural that you will be paid as much work as you do. If they can earn money by walking, then they can also walk down the mountain, work the same hours, and then get the same salary as the women of Hope City, and then the supply of firewood in Hope City will be reduced.

Some people may also ask, is it not okay to let farmers cut firewood during their leisure time?

The answer is no, because there is no slack period in the New World. The crops are ripe in a month or two, and the farmers have to plant them again, the last crop is wheat, this one is peas, then the next is wheat, and the next one may be vegetables. When they are not farming, the peasants have to tie up the crop poles, handle the harvested grain, or feed the livestock, in short, the peasants do not have a rest all year round, and it is very hard.

So for now, Hope City has to import firewood from abroad. At present, about 15% of the residents of Hope City use imported firewood, and in order to recover more costs, Yu Changnian had to slightly increase the price of firewood in Hope City, which increased the living pressure of Hope City residents.

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, firewood is the same as rice, it is something that is used every day. Even if 1 bundle of firewood only rises by 1 Wentairong, a family of five will have to spend an extra Wentairong every two days, and an additional 180 Wentai every year. The current price of grain in Hope City is 45 kilograms of wheat per 30 kilograms, and if the price of grain remains the same, this money can be worth 120 kilograms of wheat more.

120 kilograms of wheat can grind about 100 kilograms of flour, and a family of five consumes about 5 kilograms of flour per day, and 100 kilograms of flour can feed the family for 20 days. In other words, the price of 1 bundle of firewood increases by 1 Wentairong, and when the price of grain is stable, it is equivalent to depriving a family of five of 20 days of food rations in a year.

Therefore, the increase in the price of firewood has made the residents of Hope City complain, especially those civilians who can only ensure food and clothing, and this price increase has brought a great impact on their lives, and some people even ran to Byron City to complain. In the end, Yu Changnian couldn't withstand the pressure and could only restore the price of firewood to the original level, which calmed the resentment of the residents of Hope City.

At the end of the day, the kingdom of Byron lacked labor. If the Kingdom of Byron had enough labor, they would have more professional woodcutters to provide enough firewood for Hope City. If the Kingdom of Byron had enough labor, they would be able to produce their own building materials instead of having to travel far to buy expensive building materials. If the kingdom of Byron had enough labor, Mel would be able to expand his army without any pressure. However, the kingdom of Byron did not have enough labor, so all sorts of problems followed.

Labor is not a problem that can be solved overnight. Even if fertility is encouraged, the effect will not be felt until twenty or thirty years later. Moreover, an increase in the labor force means an increase in the population, and as the population increases, the housing and public facilities required increase, and the demand for work, building materials, food, and firewood will also increase. If not handled properly, this can turn into a cycle of death that will leave the ruler in pain.

Therefore, from ancient times to the present, smart rulers have not simply increased the number of laborers, but tried to improve production efficiency. If one person can do the work of two, the other person can be freed from the original job to do other things. In this way, the original 2,000 people can be used as 4,000 people, but the consumption is still the consumption of 2,000 people. There is no risk in this development model, and it can also save a lot of energy from the ruler, so that the ruler can do more, so that the country will prosper in the true sense.

Production efficiency is linked to the level of science and technology, and the more developed the technology, the higher the production efficiency. Maier understood this truth, so he followed Liu Xiu's suggestion, set up the scientific research department as one of the four major departments, and asked Pershing to provide them with financial support unconditionally. There is no doubt that Mel made the right choice. The technology of hybrid crops alone has brought great benefits to the Kingdom of Byron for a long time, and although the Ministry of Scientific Research has no other achievements for the time being, Mayer and the cabinet ministers have great confidence and expectations in the Ministry of Scientific Research.

But before the research department presents the next research results, Maier and Yu Changnian must find a way to solve the problem at hand.

When Yu Changnian said that "it is not enough to build enough houses in a short period of time", he does not mean that these houses will take a month or two to be built, but that these works may be delayed until the 138th year of the new calendar. In other words, some of the new residents of Buta will be able to live in tents this year. If the two of them can't solve this problem, the new residents of the tent will be dissatisfied with the fact that "the Kingdom of Byron can't even solve our housing problem", and thus they will not be able to feel a sense of belonging to the kingdom.

In terms of internal affairs, I still have to leave it to Nami to solve......

Mel grinned. He sent Yu Changnian back to the Administration Department, and as soon as Yu Changnian left, he went to the side hall to ask for help from Nami Layman.