At dawn, the gates opened.

A group of soldiers defending the city went out of the city to practice in the morning mist, and the slogans of the march were earth-shattering, waking up the city by the way.

With the creak of axles and the neighing of horses, dozens of heavy-duty wagons arrived from the Black Forest and pulled hundreds of tons of lignite into the city to feed the city's nearly 100,000 people.

In addition to coal, goods such as timber, food, and cloth were also brought into the city by horse-drawn carts. Products from the surrounding villages and towns were pulled into the city in exchange for the products of the workshops.

Although the transportation around Coldwind City is still inconvenient, the regular freight carriages stimulate the scattered productivity of the villages and towns. This is how cities gather and supply more resources, generating economies of scale.

Materials are still in short supply, but at least the problem has been solved. Not in the past.

Of course, the premise of doing this well is to have a good manager. is not boasting, Zhou Qingfeng feels that his current management is quite qualified.

For example, in the past six months, the population of Cold Wind City has approached 300,000 from more than 200,000.

There was a large influx of displaced people from the Northland. In summer, the carrying capacity of the city is limited, and many displaced people can only gather outside the city to build shacks and struggle to survive. If you let these people stay outside the city in winter, it won't be long before they all freeze to death.

In order to obtain sufficient labor, the inspection department sent people outside the city every day to shelter the displaced people, so that they would not die. Once in the city, the men were housed in the Artisan District, an area that was flooded last year and renovated this summer.

Thanks to the water-powered wood processing plant, the price of building materials in the city has dropped sharply. In the artisan area, rows of simple houses were built, which were simply built of wood and built with two floors.

There is no furniture in the simple room, and there are not too many living facilities, and the room of more than ten square meters is for four or five people. But compared to last year's open-air camp, this is a sheltered place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Zhou Qingfeng's mobilization ability is much stronger than last year's. There are more than 200 followers of the 'Mother of Plagues' who provide medical care to the displaced people alone.

These believers form a medical team, so that they can see a doctor, dispense medicine, control some infectious diseases, and even collect corpses more professionally than ordinary people. It's just that they make a little awkward in their minds from time to time, and they like to use intimidation to spread their faith.

The benefit of the above measures is that the mortality rate of displaced people has been greatly reduced. Life is still hard, but both the elderly and children can survive.

The resources that had been gathered in the hands of the aristocracy were diluted and fell on the heads of ordinary people like pepper noodles. This is great kindness.

Early in the morning, the bell rings in the artisan area. The displaced people came out in groups to receive relief.

The so-called 'relief' is simply porridge with salt, and some physical potions are added to each large vat. Better than last year's containment conditions.

The displaced people have been 'educated with sticks' and queue up to receive handouts. Zhou Qingfeng came back every three or five days to check whether the relief had been deducted, and from time to time he cut off a few heads who dared to embezzle.

"It's hard!"

Zhou Qingfeng stood at the entrance of the artisan district as a lord and let out a long sigh. The surrounding homeless people trembled and peeked at the earth dragon ridden by the lord, and lined up to receive breakfast in an orderly manner, with a big bowl per person.

From time to time, white steam erupted from the nose of the 'Shadow', deliberately scaring the homeless people in a vicious manner, so as to watch the other party tremble. It turned its head and asked, "Master, you are already the strongest lord in the Northlands, what's so difficult?" ”

Zhou Qingfeng didn't speak, and left after inspecting the craftsman area. In terms of strength, he is no longer a weakling. In various ways, ordinary opponents can't beat him at all.

After the strange maids were promoted to level ten, their combat power also skyrocketed. Even the goblins have evolved a needle-piercing short bow to deal with miscellaneous soldiers, and the other girls have a lot of powerful skills.

But these are of little help to rule over 300,000 people. Ninety-nine percent of the population inside and outside the city is illiterate, and only two or three thousand can read and write. Most of them are still at the primary school level under emergency education.

If it sounds good, it has great potential, and if it doesn't sound good, it is a waste of waste all over the city, and there are problems everywhere.

In the first half of the year, the ratio of men to women was two to one, and the number of women was significantly smaller. The average life expectancy is only 30 years. Most of them did not live to be twenty.

The majority of the population starts a family at the age of fifteen, and at the age of thirty a full mouth of teeth is about to be lost.

Zhou Qingfeng personally inspected the newly liberated 'free people'. Originally, most of them were slaves, slaves, prisoners, and sharecroppers. Basically everyone's tooth sockets are smoothed out by poor food.

Ask the 'free people' what they usually eat, and it is really what they eat, and it is also common to gnaw on the bark of trees when they are hungry.

As for the clothing, the poor have nothing to pick at all, and the bloody clothes of the dead must be stripped off.

Many poor ghosts are like carrying a garbage dump, and all kinds of messy things are wrapped around their bodies, and the stench is terrible. When the clothes are taken off, the bony body is revealed, and a gust of wind can blow it away.

In the process of liquidating the nobility, mass graves were found in all out-of-town estates. There were dozens or hundreds of corpses in the pit. Many of the corpses were tied hand and foot and pushed directly into the pit to be buried alive.

Many of the corpses were still young children, and the skeletons were pitifully small.

Every time a mass grave is dug up, Zhou Qingfeng will be mad with anger, and he can't wait to catch some bullshit nobles and whip the corpse.

There is no need for a grievance meeting, but if you take the 'free people' to the mass graves and look at them, they may cry bitterly about their past experiences of being bullied.

As for disease, it is even more common. In the past six months, half of the items Zhou Qingfeng brought from the real world were medicines, just to deal with many inflammatory skin diseases and parasitic diseases.

Although there is still an extreme shortage of medicines. But only the cheapest oxytetracycline was diluted in large quantities and drunk by everyone in the city. A month later, the incidence of inflammation among residents dropped by more than half.

Many residents have been effectively alleviating their long-standing problems. Combined with drinking boiled water and repairing toilets, minor problems such as dysentery and diarrhea have almost disappeared.

According to government statistics, the control of diseases such as dysentery has increased the working hours of urban residents by 20 percent.

Coupled with the provision of nighttime heating and lighting, the craftsmen of Coldwind can work twelve to sixteen hours a day without having to pay overtime.

Zhou Qingfeng also forced all mothers in the city to go to a fixed hospital for delivery and postpartum care. The neonatal and maternal mortality rates were immediately reduced from the terrible 20 to 3 to 3 or 4 percent.

Erin has specially trained a group of midwives to do a good job of disinfection and help pregnant women with difficult births. Snatched hundreds of lives from the hands of death in half a year.

The reason for the low number of women in the city is that most of them die in childbirth. This is especially true for young women who have had their first child.

Zhou Qingfeng gained a huge amount of faith power in the real world, and was extracted by various goddesses to give back to the divine arts. The Altar of Faith produces a large number of magic gems every day.

Changing priests will be troubled by how to squander these gems, and they will feel incredibly powerful.

But seventy or eighty percent of these gems are invested in maintaining the city's medical care. In the face of a population of two or three hundred thousand, a few hundred magic spells a day are simply not enough.

'Swift Shadow' said that Zhou Qingfeng was the strongest lord in the Northland, and he scoffed at this - a strong ghost, the more in-depth the management, the more problems were exposed. Not happy at all.