Herty's question was expected by Gawain, and he knew that Hetty knew the answer as well—she had asked it on behalf of the others in the room.

"Every one of us knows the strength of Cecil's collar," Gawain looked around everyone in the conference room, from Norris, the head of agriculture, to Hammer, who was in charge of steel smelting, to the senior clerks and other department heads in the government department, all of these familiar faces are the witnesses and promoters of Cecil's growth to this day, "Then each of us should also know that Cecil's strength is built on' The foundation of the 'Magic Industrialization' and the advanced social system was based on an order that was different from the traditional aristocratic domains.

"Hossman and the rabble of 70,000 he had organized had fallen apart, and all the landed nobles in the south were left except those attached to Cecil, one who had died under fire from the Gravel Ridge and the Whitewater River, one who was being held in the prisoner of war camps in the Horsman region and on the banks of the Whitewater River, and the last one was on the way to exile, and its destruction was only a matter of time. Then after these nobles and their entire army are gone, there will be more than forty empty cities left undefended and unruled throughout the South, and Cecil will take over these lands and re-establish order on the land—in Cecil's way. ”

Gawain wants to establish a new order, and now he is on the key path of unifying the entire southern border, he must extend Cecil's success to the entire southern border, and make the southern border a strong, stable, and integral Duchy of Cecil, instead of letting the more than forty sub-feudal territories continue to operate in the same way as before, otherwise even if the people in those lands are loyal to him, he will only change a set of nobles for the entire southern border, and everything will not change.

In any case, the foundations of the traditional aristocracy of the South – land and population – must be changed at their roots, and this war is the opportunity to change everything.

Gawain had considered two options.

The first plan was to move all the population of the entire southern border to the Cecil region, and eventually form a large-scale densely populated area along the line of the White Water River and the Dark Mountains, and build a powerful industrial empire on this basis, so as to maximize the power of the population in the industrial society, and let Cecil's magic industry develop to the next stage in the shortest possible time, but after a rough estimate of the population of the entire southern border, and the investigation of the distribution of various resources and the geographical location of the city in the south, he abandoned this simple and crude plan.

Because the population of the entire southern region is in the millions (rough estimate, it should actually be more), this number is more than he expected. This is due to the existence of supernatural powers, which makes the food output of this world relatively abundant, and the physical fitness of ordinary people is high, which also leads to the situation that even if the civilian life is difficult, its population is still very high, even in the most desolate and poor and backward southern border of Ansu, the number of people is enough to abort Gawain's simple and rough first plan.

Although Cecil has a relatively advanced social system and a rapidly developing magic industry, it is impossible to complete the migration, resettlement, and transformation of a million-level population in a short period of time, even if the cycle of this plan is extended to three or five years, the huge resources and social pressure generated in the process of this large-scale population migration will also drag Cecil down.

Not to mention that this plan is equivalent to giving up more than 80% of the land in the south in a short period of time - when the population is all concentrated in the Baishui River-Dark Mountain range, what will happen to the resources and farmland reclaimed in the rest of the south? Without those resources and food sources, Cecil's current level of development alone would not be able to support the self-sufficiency of an industrial structure with a population of one million.

Therefore, Gawain had no choice but to choose the second option, which was to simply relocate the population of the southern region, let them establish a new industrial belt in the development area on the north bank of Cecil and the east and west, and at the same time concentrate the population of the other regions in the south, and create several new cities in other regions in the form of second-level government offices, which is quite feasible due to the previous experience of setting up second-level government offices in the Kant region.

Moreover, in this way, Gawain can also ensure control over most of the southern territory, and those resources distributed throughout the southern territory will also be fully exploited and continuously injected into the body of the giant beast of the magic industry.

Of course, the pressure is still high, but Gawain has every reason to do so.

"The migration of the population, the establishment of a magical industrial system similar to Cecil, and the construction of an experienced Cecil administrator - creating a new order and promoting the development of magical industrialization is only one of the purposes, and the other purpose is to destroy the foundation on which the old aristocratic system depended."

Hetty followed Gawain's side and immediately understood what his ancestors meant: "Is it land and population? ”

"That's right," Gawain nodded, "it's not enough to ban or kill this group of landed nobles, as long as their land and population system is still in place, sooner or later new landed nobles will appear, so we must break this system and ensure that the old nobles never return." ”

The old aristocracy ensured the stability of the authority of the aristocratic system by dividing the land, and the land system that existed with the feudal land firmly tied the commoners to those lands, and the commoners could not leave the lord's land at will, or even do anything other than farming.

With the current agricultural model established by Cecil Territory, which relies on large-scale industrial mass production of alchemical potions and concentrated and efficient farming, a considerable number of agricultural populations can be converted, and it is necessary to convert them into industrial populations.

On the one hand, Gawain's population migration was necessary to create a magical industry, because a sufficient population with basic labor freedom was a prerequisite for ensuring productivity, and on the other hand, it was to completely destroy the survival soil of the old aristocracy in the south.

Of course, saving management costs is also one of the reasons, after all, Cecil's administrative power is limited, and the southern border is vast, and Gawain wants to establish the same advanced management system as Cecil in other parts of the southern border, and in order to achieve this level of management in the entire southern border, it is necessary to change the current status quo of vast and sparsely populated settlements and chaotic settlement structure.

Rational concentration of population, redistribution of land, and establishment of a more scientific and standardized structure of towns and villages are all effective solutions.

Not everyone could fully understand Gawain's full theory, but those here at least witnessed Cecil's rise and how the new order in their realm came into effect and worked, and they understood the necessity of population migration, and turned their attention to the specific difficulties that this grand plan would face.

Norris begins by asking the most realistic question: "What if farmers are unwilling to leave their land?" ”

In this era, land is a shackle and tool used by the nobility to bind the people, but sadly most commoners do not understand and agree with this, on the contrary, they will agree with this bondage - the peasants are unwilling to leave their land, this is almost the inevitable situation of any agrarian society, and the liberated are unwilling to accept your liberation, which is a problem that Gawain must face.

Even if we take a step back, the people of this world don't have many specific ideas of "hard to leave their homeland", but rashly forcing so many people to move will inevitably face huge resistance, even if according to Gawain's second plan, he just let those people move to the vicinity of the nearest city, and those civilians who will hardly leave the village in their lives will have great resistance.

The traditional aristocracy probably didn't care about popular resistance, but Cecil's rules didn't do that—Gawain had to take into account the issue of social stability in the context of migration.

"First of all, migration will be a long-term plan, and I initially intend to complete it in three to five years, and this time can be extended," Gawain explained, "so we can do it in batches." The experience of Cecil's establishment can be used - first the serfs and slaves were relocated, more than eighty percent of the serfs and slaves were the property of lords and knights, and now they have become ownerless, which is the easiest to move;

"Secondly, to ensure the supply of land, by means of land exchange, the reclamation of new land, the repossession and redistribution of the old aristocratic grange estates, to ensure that there is sufficient arable land for the displaced population, and that agricultural production in general will not be affected in the process throughout the south;

"Finally, pay attention to rewards and propaganda guidance, which everyone in the government department and your clerks should have some experience, we are not trying to force civilians to leave their homes, but to prepare them with a better new home, and to attract them with propaganda such as being able to become citizens of the city, to get land from the lords, and to redistribute real estate, so that they can think that migration is an opportunity rather than a mandate, which will also make everything go smoothly."

When Gawain finished speaking, Norris nodded repeatedly, as a man who was born as a farmer himself, he thought that the plans proposed by Gawain were enough to deal with the vast majority of the migrant population.

In fact, even without these plans, it is possible to enforce the population relocation plan - the commoners of this era have a surprising tolerance for the orders of the lord and all kinds of adversity, and many times, the lord may order the people of the entire territory to be banned from entering the mountains or order everyone not to go to the river to fish just because of the good mood of the moment, if Gawain wants to force the population to move, the civilians will most likely only think that this is another whim of the new lord, and then grit their teeth and accept the arrangement, after all, after this war, The Cecil family has gone from being de facto to absolute authority in the South.

Merely...... Gawain was reluctant to do that.

In the establishment of the Duchy of Cecil, every stain caused by everything he did had to be remedied at ten times or even a hundred times the cost after a few years, or even impossible to make up, and he knew very well the gains and losses in between.

According to the existing experience, with the druid potions produced in the alchemy factory, with the agricultural study meeting to allow the farmers to exchange their high-yield skills, and with the advanced system, the grain output in various places will be greatly increased, and in the case of sufficient food production, a large number of free people can enter the factory, and an important part of the magic industrialization will be there.

Hetty then asked another question: "Ancestor, the establishment of the second-level city hall still needs a lot of manpower, although the government department has been making every effort to train all kinds of administrative personnel, and can barely get enough people needed for all kinds of supervisors in the second-level government office, but in the more basic clerk and clerk positions, we are afraid that there will be a big gap, and we still have to solve the problem of appeal...... Although Cecil defeated the coalition of more than forty nobles in the south, and we have enough strength to take over the land of those nobles, but the administrators sent there do not have enough appeal in the local area...... Locals won't necessarily cooperate. ”

Hetty then organized the language and added: "And it is also necessary to consider that in some areas there are still remnants of the old lords who are waiting to destroy it—although the number may not be large, but the impact of this destruction on the social order is enormous. ”

"There will definitely be remnants of the rebels, and there will be troops to protect and clean them up in this area," Gawain nodded, "The problem of appeal does exist, so I have asked Byron and Philip to escort back the nobles and knight captives from the prisoner of war camp first, and I will have a good 'talk' with those people, and after they 'cooperate', we can also more easily recruit and train intellectuals from all over the country, and the shortage of manpower can be alleviated." ”

Gawain was destroying the old aristocracy in the South, but as he had already realized, whether he wanted to admit it or not, the vast majority of intellectuals and elites in this era were concentrated among the nobility and their vassals, and if he wanted to establish a new order, especially in a short period of time, he still had to find a way to borrow from these people.

So he wants to destroy the old aristocratic system, but he has to keep - at least keep a part of the nobles and their vassals who are willing to cooperate and accept the transformation, so that the resources at their disposal can be put to use.

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