Chapter 692: Resettlement of Immigrants
After all, Jia Yu once served as a staff member under the command of King Liesu of the Yun Dynasty, and his ability to do things was extremely strong, and in just a few days, the civilians who emigrated from the Principality of Maineke were resettled by him.
A population of 80,000 is not a small number, and the population of the Kingdom of Lorik, with a population of just over 4 million, is completely different from the population of the Rodland Empire.
These 80,000 people were arranged by Jia Yu to a place fifty kilometers south of Denglunburg, where Jia Yu arranged for thousands of staff to give them hierarchical household registration.
William's population in the country is all registered with household registration, and with the help of household registration, it is much easier to pay taxes and maintain law and order.
In the household registration book, the address and means of livelihood of each family will be graded, as well as family members, and the household registration of 80,000 people is not a small job, and it took a full 1,000 staff members two days to complete the boarding.
Fortunately, there are still many literate people in William's domain, and in addition to the free education of soldiers' children, some wealthy families will also pay for their children to be sent to the schools established by William.
After years of construction, there are now more than 50 schools in the counties of Denlenburg and Issamdenburg, and the literacy rate among Wilhelm's residents has reached about 15 percent.
In other words, out of a population of more than one million in the two counties, there are probably less than 200,000 literate.
Such a large number of literate inhabitants is unique in the entire sacred world, and the literacy rate in the sacred religious world is generally about one thousandth, and in some remote areas it can even reach one thousandth.
In addition to the second sons of noble families and knightly families who can enter the monastery to study, some of the lower lower nobles who do not even have titles will also choose to enter the church to study, so in the current holy world, only the nobles and the monks are literate.
This is one of the reasons why the aristocracy has been able to continue, and it is impossible for the great nobles and kings to promote commoners to officials because they are illiterate.
After registering the household registration, Jia Yu asked the 80,000 people to be divided into villages.
The number of villages now at William's command is 3,560, with the population of each village ranging from 500 to 800, and the number of villages in the counties of Issamdenburg and Denlenburg is probably more than 1,000.
Far more than the small villages of one or two hundred or four hundred people in other regions, if the population is counted, the villages in William's direct domain can become towns.
This is due to the fact that William's population has swelled in recent years, and he never needs civilians to join in the war, so that they can have children very quickly.
After all, if the number of children in the family does not reach three or more after five years of marriage, a lot of maternity tax will be charged.
William's desire for population had reached the point of madness, and he had always believed that population was the foundation of a strong country.
The 80,000 people were organized into more than 400 villages, each with about 200 people, and they were allocated arable land.
With this in mind, the residents moved into several royal army camps, as it was winter.
There was snow everywhere that could reach the calf, and it was impossible for them to cultivate and build houses at this time, so they had to live here until the beginning of spring.
Anyway, there are many barracks for the royal army, which are all prepared for them to train in the field, and William has sent so many troops to other places, and a lot of barracks have been vacated, so it is not difficult for these immigrants to live.
However, William did not intend to support these immigrants for free, he asked these residents to find some work in Denlenburg first, and the extra people to help build the construction projects.
They had to work to support themselves and their families, and William didn't want them to think of it as an unearned land.
Of course, it's not just this reason, in addition to this reason, William's finances are really tight, plus he has been fighting some time ago and has helped many displaced residents, so even he has never been short of food and now has not much food in his hands.
The situation is expected to improve only next year, and extensive farmland reclamation is in full swing, with William's newly incorporated arable land already tripled.
By the next year, when the grain production had risen, the inhabitants would be able to repay William's grain and pay another large amount of grain taxes.
At that time, William's infrastructure will be gradually completed, and when the time comes, a large number of businessmen will be attracted to do business here, and commercial taxes, casinos and chicken yards will bring huge profits to William, and from next year, William's dilemma of lack of money and food will be greatly alleviated.
He didn't dare to expand the army, but it was still possible to maintain the country's funds for remakes.
At this time, a middle-aged man dragged his tired body back to the barracks.
He entered the room assigned to his family, which was lit by a burning bonfire, and oatmeal soup was boiling in a hanging clay pot.
Two slices of boiled air-dried meat are exuding a unique salty taste and aroma in the bowl, and a milky aroma wafts through the room, and the boiled oatmeal porridge is cooked in goat's milk, and the goat's milk mixed with the aroma of oats becomes delicious.
A girl who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old got up from the quilt after putting down the basket she was weaving, walked over to the clay pot, filled a large bowl of oatmeal porridge, and handed it to the middle-aged man.
He said: "Father, you are back, this is something sent by His Majesty the King, and the person who sent it said that you worked very hard at the construction site, and His Majesty said that he wanted to improve your food, so he sent these air-dried meat and goat's milk!" ”
"He also said that you should work hard, and after the spring next year, we will really live a good life, Your Majesty will give us cattle, sheep and arable land, although we are still serfs belonging to Your Majesty, but now the entire Kingdom of Lorik is like this, and he also said that we will never go hungry in the future, and we can eat meat every day!"
As she spoke, the girl picked up a bowl of boiled thin-boiled air-dried meat from the ground and handed it to the middle-aged man, and said, "These are sent by Your Majesty!" ”
The girl's heart was full of infinite longing for the future, and at this time, the middle-aged man's wife also stood up and walked in front of the middle-aged man.
This is a middle-aged woman with a slightly thin body and a few wrinkles on her face, the years have shed heavy marks on his face, she is not beautiful, but she is quite attractive, and she is typical of Lourdes.
She was full of gratitude, and said, "Thank you to the Holy Father for allowing us to come from thousands of miles away to the Kingdom of Lorik and become the people of King William, he is so merciful to us, I believe that we will be able to live the life of those we saw on the road!" ”