Chapter 473: Second Five-Year Plan
Iron has to be hard, and Alterac wants to make his voice heard, and Carlos's aura of war alone can't be relied on.
Therefore, production and construction have become the common goal of new and old Alterac people.
The invasion of the orcs failed to destroy the social order of mankind, but it shook the foundation of the rule of the noble lords.
But Carlos doesn't have the idea of a thousand miles of red flags at all, not at all, in this society where magic is flourishing and the force is high, why should the strong talk about equality with your people, because faith or love?
Therefore, in order to enhance national strength, we cannot rely on the rational distribution of social materials, but only on the innovation of production technology.
Thankfully, the humans of Azeroth were far more receptive to new things than Carlos had expected.
The Construction Corps, which was supposed to cause great turmoil, did not cause much turmoil and backlash.
Because Grand Duke Regent Alex saw it very thoroughly.
Isn't it just a name change?
Turned the Count into a corps commander.
Turned the marquis into a regimental commander.
It's just a military rank to hang up the big and small envelopes, and the soup is not changed.
With the Grand Duke Regent reconciled with it, the old and new nobles of Alterac also found it boring to talk nonsense with His Majesty, the biggest fist, for such a thing. Coupled with the return of the elite of Alterac from the Southern Expedition, everyone understood a little ———— was not convinced and held back.
In addition, the royal family divides the land anyway, and it seems that there is no difference in joining the construction corps.
Before you really suffer, let's do so.
So, because of the entanglement of interests, this matter was actually implemented.
Carlos himself was incredible.
Agricultural reclamation, human beings have been doing it for hundreds of years, and Anhador and Hilbride are indeed good places, filling in swamps, shoveling rocks and leveling mountains, and under the power of collective labor, large tracts of arable land have been reclaimed. At the same time, because of the return of a large number of troops, Carlos could not raise a one-time reward for all the soldiers, so he could only use a lot of wasteland, large medals and a few gold coins to deal with it first.
In order not to let the army idle things, directly pull out and plow the field.
Don't get me wrong, it's not a plough for crops, it's a direct large army to clear out wild monsters and manually set up a safe zone.
This is where Alterac's unique topography comes into play.
Keldaron, the traditional force of the Barov family, everything is calm.
Anhador, after completing the handover of Brill with the Minahir family, already belongs to Carlos, and the lords of Hearthvale have not yet completed their own exploration, and they are even more at peace with Alterac.
Alterac City, highland snowy mountains, primeval forests, nothing else.
The only thing that had something going on was Hillbride.
Alterac now has a population of more than 500,000, of which 200,000 are Hillbride refugees, and how to settle this part is a big problem, plus the nobles of Gilneth, Lordaeron and Riptide Fort are secretly manipulating, the situation is really unstable.
The most troublesome thing is the orcs who are imprisoned.
The people of Hilbride paid the price of blood and tears for the war of resistance, and as the most severely injured area of the war, Hilbride was also a real waste to be rebuilt.
However, the scattered orcs fled to the mountains and forests, and they have not been cleared up so far, is there still news that scattered orcs have attacked the village?
This has led to a large number of people flocking to large towns such as Brenthal and Nanhai Town.
The result is wasteland and wasteland, and what was originally a village and town is overwhelmed.
This is contrary to the development blueprint designed by Carlos.
What is the use of the land that cannot generate income, and how to look good?
That's right, I won't give it to you if you put the long grass on it!
Carlos is not a god, and he doesn't have the superpower to control people's hearts, knowing that someone is behind him, but there is no way.
But I can't eat it, and you don't want to take it!
So the king of Alterac waved his hand and used the reclamation order of the Blue Star Demon, and those who were willing to go to Anhador and Alterac to reclaim the wasteland not only did not collect taxes, but also opened up as much wasteland as the government made up how many gold coins.
The land of Hillbride can be barren, and people cannot be idle, so first divide a part of it.
Then, he manually raised the price of land around Brenthal, released the rumor that Brenthal was going to build a city, and deceived him for a few months.
In the end, the trick of passing slips was used to restrict the movement of people.
Yin me, come, hurt each other!
After the Great War, there must be a wave of baby booms, but babies only eat and do not work, except for the kingdom of Lordaeron, all countries have begun to have a shortage of young labor, Carlos relied on the experience of his predecessors to circle a wave of population, and it is natural that others will calculate it.
Time is the best medicine to solve the problem.
Either problem A is dragged and dragged.
Either problem A dragged on and on was dragged into problem B.
Either problem A dragged on and on was dragged into problem A.
Anyway, the original problem is gone.
And the problem of dealing with orc prisoners of war was dragged from A to A.
The problem is raised.
Half a year has passed, and before I know it, it's almost summer.
With the semi-military management, the vast and sparsely populated area of Alterac was replaced by the backwardness of the productive forces and the huge material needs of the people.
The reclamation continued with great efficiency, and the ruling class of Alterac had a high level of patience with the king.
Expect to be good, what do you like, we listen.
And the crops in the fields and the goods in the market make the people have no idea of making trouble, after all, the war has just passed, and people still have to be content.
Carlos's ambitious plan to transform Alterac was only a third of the way through his success in turning Alterac City into a semi-factory, half-craft manufacturing center.
The cooperation with Eagle's Nest Mountain, the assembly line style of blast furnace ironmaking, greatly stimulated the economy of Alterac.
Dwarves are born blacksmiths, and although they are different from the industry in Carlos's mind, the mode of using blast furnaces to make iron and then forging them by hand still bears the name of an Alterac specialty.
It is precisely because of this that the reclamation of Alterac is going so smoothly.
In addition, the export of a large number of iron tools also greatly alleviated Carlos's shriveled pocket.
Therefore, regarding the king's decision to return to Keldaron for the summer, although the administrative officials looked constipated, no one raised any objections, wasn't the regent archduke not speaking?
In this way, Carlos's mother Janis took her youngest daughter to Alterac City to see her husband, her sister returned to Dalaran to continue her studies, and the two younger brothers were sent to Nanhai Town to learn seafaring trade, and the entire Kelldaron belonged to Carlos and Galia.
Extravagance and lasciviousness, I'm coming!
After working hard for so long, enjoying a king's holiday for the first time, Carlos felt so happy that he flew.
Sometimes, however, three times, sometimes four times, is always short.
Less than two weeks after arriving at the castle in the middle of the lake in Kelldalon, the bald brother appeared with three superstitious letters to Carlos, who was fishing by the lake.
Three major events happened to the Alliance.
First, Tulayan turned to Terenus for help, believing that the time had come for a decisive battle.
The second piece, Gilne's domestic instability, Jean. Greymane and the powerful lords of the country openly tear apart at the banquet.
Third, Terenus is ready to send an invitation to the alliance bosses to hold the conference again.
"Very good, you did a very good job."
After reading it, Carlos couldn't help but praise the bald brother.
Intelligence work is like this, one step ahead, step by step.
Although everyone will know this news in a few days, reactive response and active layout are not the same concept at all.
Carlos felt a little sorry that his rare vacation was going to be wasted.