Chapter 35: Territorial Arrangements (52/96)
The division of the Duke of Dragon's domain into the following administrative units is very simple, whether it is a village, a dock, a mine or a ranch, their management is all village heads.
The two towns were headed by administrators, and there were three administrators each in charge of the three villages, one administrator in charge of all the docks, and two administrators in charge of each of the three mines.
It can be said that the task of the administrator is to communicate with Duke Long, pay taxes, transport materials and so on, and the village chief should not have access to Duke Long's level.
This time, the corpse soul Naga didn't know anything, so he directly called the administrator and the village chief over.
This also made Liu Zhi notice that in the village chief, there were nails lurking in other forces.
I don't know what they think, Duke Long hasn't jumped around for more than three thousand years, and they are still not at ease.
While listening to the explanations of the administrator and the village chief, Ryuji was constructing the corresponding data in his mind.
The territory of the Duke of Dragon is mountainous, only by the river there is a good plain, six of the eleven villages are in the mountains, hunting and planting for a living, each village can provide Duke Long with 500 units of grain and 100 units of animal skins per year.
The five villages located in the plains are relatively better, each village can provide 2,000 units of grain per year, and are the main source of food for Duke Long.
In the other six mines, there are no great mines, two coal mines, two iron mines, one stone mine and one lumberyard.
Each place can provide 500-700 units of mineral resources to the Dragon Duke per year, which is the real reason why the Dragon Duke has the courage to continue crafting weapons and armor, and they are self-sufficient in materials.
The wharf is the kind that Liu Zhi has encountered before, one is for transportation, for foreign exchanges and transactions, it can provide 1000 gold coins and some foreign goods every year, and the other is for fishing, which can provide 300 units of fish every year.
The ranch belongs directly to Duke Long, and provides corresponding meat and horses for Duke Long's side, but the number is not very large, and there is no way for Duke Long to organize a cavalry team on his side.
Finally, there are two towns, which are the most populous places on the Dragon Duke's side, and each town can provide the Dragon Duke with a militia of 300 people when necessary, in addition, they will pay a tax of 3,000 gold coins to the Dragon Duke every year.
These incomes, coupled with some of the income in Duke Long's castle, are considered to be Duke Long's strength on the surface.
Listening to the information reported, Liu Zhi almost knew the situation in Duke Long's territory in his heart, and he pointed to the administrator who died on the ground.
"Which piece is he responsible for?"
"The management of the village, the three of them plus one more village are all managed by him, the location is in a relatively mountainous place, and the production is not much, so it can only be filled with animal skins."
As soon as Yanagi heard this, he understood that among the three administrators who managed the village, the other two occupied several plains, and only this one was the only one who had all the villages in the mountains, which was why the werewolf could lurk without being discovered.
After thinking about this, Liu Zhi didn't ask anything more, and he directly set his own rules.
"In the future, I will be the master here, for the requirements in the territory, what I want is safety and stability, I won't say much about the rest, the taxes to be paid every year, in addition to ore, grain and gold coins, can be handed over at a 20% discount, but there is one point, in this territory, all the corpses are mine."
Hearing Ryuji's words, everyone was taken aback, and an administrator looked at the fishmen and corpse soul Naga behind Ryuji, and said something tremblingly.
"Undead."
"Yes, I don't care how you live, I don't have much requirements for those gold coins or anything, but the corpse, you must send it to me, don't say that this is unconventional or anything like that, I know that the blood duke in the south also wants corpses."
When Liu Zhi said this, all the administrators had no excuses, and Liu Zhi said the name of the Blood Duke, which showed that Liu Zhi was quite aware of the situation in Da Izu, and they really had no reason to say that the body could not be taken away.
So the magistrates finally agreed.
Then Liuzhi put forward his own request, although the right was given to the administrator and the village chief, but every six months Liuzhi would send people to inspect the territory, and if a new mine or new farmland was found in the territory, Liuzhi would make some adjustments.
Speaking of which, Liu Zhinian addressed these administrators.
"I know what you're worried about, but you don't have to worry about it now, the old one doesn't work with me, the people I sent out are all undead, they don't need to eat and drink, they only obey my orders, so if you have something to hide from Duke Long before, it's best to spit it out to me honestly.
Before I send someone down, you should report the latest development, and I will let it go, or even if you die, I can make you vomit your stuff. ”
Knowing that necromancers can even grab souls, these administrators are too scared to do anything.
It can be seen that they have already planned to wait for the time to go back, and then they will plug the privately opened mine hole, or send things to Liu Zhi.
After talking about the inspection team, Ryuji talked about the defense in the territory again.
As the lord Liu Zhi must take over the defense of the territory, and Liu Zhi's subordinates are mostly undead, so the border defense issue does not need to be considered by these administrators.
The soldiers who were originally arranged under them, as well as the 300 militiamen in the two towns, also had no need to fight, and Liu Zhi simply used these troops as village guards, used to guard the roads in the territory, clean up the wild beasts in the mountains and forests, guard the mines, and so on.
Regarding Liu Zhi's arrangement, the administrator didn't dare to say anything.
In fact, they are also afraid, for fear that Liu Zhi will arrange a group of undead to guard various villages or mines.
If that's the case, I believe it won't be long before the morale of the people in each village will drop to an extreme, and it won't be long before the people run out.
Ryuji didn't care what the administrators thought, and after he arranged everything, he let them go.
Of course, when these administrators left, Liu Zhi still paid attention to the situation of those village chiefs, and Liu Zhi found that in addition to the werewolves who were killed before, there were also two transcendents who were hidden deeply, and he didn't know what they were.