Chapter 1173: I Want Them All
"I only mention the framework and basic requirements here, and how to implement them is up to you to negotiate and deploy them, and the general person in charge is Barov Mons. ”
"Yes. The manager hurriedly stroked his chest.
Roland nodded in satisfaction, after years of training, Barov had developed the habit of giving orders, no matter how unreasonable they sounded, but as long as he made up his mind, he would respond and do his best to carry them out.
The interconnected structure of the Office of Administration is sufficient to support the resources needed to "focus on the big things".
"Then listen up. Roland motioned for the Nightingale to paste the pre-prepared white cloth onto the blackboard, "First of all, for the reciprocal migration ...... within the Greycastle Kingdom."
"Oh......" Seeing the contents of the cloth, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up.
I saw that the white cloth explained several characteristics of the policy in the form of pictures and texts, concise and concise, clear priorities, and it can be called clear at a glance - this is the original manual version of the PPT presentation, and it is Soloya who provides technical support. As a drawing dog who has been mixed in the design institute, doing PPT to fool Party A is just a basic skill. This way of explaining is obviously more attractive than boring empty talk that is easy to lose key information.
The population distribution of the Grey Fort is distinctly characteristic of the times, with the great nobles gradually building a city after becoming lords, while the surrounding lands are divided among the lower nobles, and so on. As the population grows and wealth accumulates, the consumption of large cities will become so high that they can no longer afford to sustain their own supplies, thus passing this burden on to the surrounding villages and towns, eventually creating a situation where the majority of the population supports a small number of people.
This situation not only limited the size of the city, but also allowed class mobility to be largely solidified. The big cities seem to be populous and lively, but they are just compared to the individual small towns. In fact, the total population of the surrounding towns and villages is much larger than the cities it supports.
However, Roland also knows that this backwardness has nothing to do with right or wrong, and is purely caused by low productivity. When the level of production did not meet the requirements of change, the vast majority of the labor force was firmly bound to the land, and could only enjoy a small part of its own output throughout its life, and the rest of the harvest was handed over to the nobles to maintain their decent living in fresh clothes and angry horses.
In the past few years, when recruiting displaced people, the Executive Office had also paid attention to the local population changes, and made a rough estimate, and finally came to the conclusion that the population of the Gray Castle should be between two million and four million—during this period, the conquest between the second prince and the third princess, and the plague put by the church, caused about five or six hundred thousand people to be lost, and also reduced the Eagle City in the south and the Golden Spike City in the east to ruins. Even so, there are still a large number of people scattered throughout the Grey Keep, and only a small handful have flowed into the West.
And he wasn't going to let that go any longer.
The distribution and planting of the Golden No. 2 wheat seed will bear fruit in another month, or a bumper harvest can now be predicted. High-yielding cotton is also in full swing in Bishui Harbor, and it won't be long before enough cloth can be delivered to all parts of the kingdom. Big cities no longer need ten times their own population to supply supplies, and now the output of one person is enough to cover the hard work of ten or even twenty people in the past.
In addition, the Grey Fort was nominally unified, and the power of the regions returned to the center, and the fiefdom was no longer the lord's state, but was subordinate to his subordinate administrative bodies.
Now that the hardware and software for the forced migration are in place, it is the best time to implement it.
The so-called reciprocal reciprocal relocation simply means that migrants are given equal conditions to reduce the dissatisfaction caused by forced eviction.
For example, if the relocated person has a residence in the village, two acres of land, then after coming to Neverwinter, the Administration Department will also divide the same resources among him in the newly opened territory. This can not only speed up the development of the northwest plain, but also effectively alleviate the shortage of manpower in Wudong.
Of course, no matter how nice it sounds, Roland knows that "coercion" is its true face - whether you want to or not, you must leave your familiar homeland and go to a strange city with confusion and anxiety, and this process is not destined to be so gentle.
Driving people out of the land and letting them go into the cities and factories is not as simple as "freeing them from bondage". This period of history has been nothing short of bloody, first by repossessing, encroaching and evicting the land cultivated by the villagers, leaving them with nothing but themselves, and then restricting their whereabouts with whips and regulations. Some countries have even issued decrees allowing the execution of displaced people who have not worked for long periods of time in order to force them to join mass production.
Although Roland asked himself that he could not do this, and he intended to compensate him after the relocation, the original intention of coercion would not change because of this.
He knows exactly what he's doing.
As for the second cross-border call-up, it is an exotic version of forced migration.
Unlike Dawn, which was the least affected, both Eternal Winter and Wolfheart fell during the sweep of the Church, and lost their de jure rulers one after another. According to the information gathered by Hill, the two kingdoms have not yet returned to normal, and there are many princes in various places, but all the great lords with some strength claim that they have found the illegitimate bloodline left by the previous king, and it seems that no one is subordinate to the other.
In this way, it is clear that a surrogate king scheme like Dawn will not work.
"What do you mean...... Dispatch the First Army?" saw the newly replaced white cloth, Barov was slightly stunned.
"Do you think those nobles will sit idly by and watch us 'take' their property?" Roland said as he took a sip of his tea, "I don't think they will care anything but power, wealth, and the wider realm—whether it's the devil or the war of divine will." Of course, the truth still has to be taught, and whether they listen or not is another matter. ”
"I'll let them listen, Your Majesty. "The iron axe is a serious way.
There is no doubt that cross-border conscription will be much more bare than domestic migration – without the Golden No. 2 guarantee of food production, and the urban ecosystem will collapse due to insufficient supplies when large numbers of people from the outside are relocated. This behavior is no different from war, with the only difference that the cost of plunder is much smaller than that of occupation.
The First Army is the most powerful guarantee for the implementation of the plan.
The combined population of Eternal Winter and Wolfheart is about three million, and excluding those unfortunate enough to die in the Church Wars, it can at least inject at least one and a half million fresh laborers into Neverwinter. This great migration, which may take years to complete, is the most direct part of the ascension, and it is precisely because he has the spare time to reach out abroad that he will set a goal for Barov to double in a year, or even half a year.
"Your Majesty, do you have any specific requirements for these people to be recruited?" asked the Governor, "such as craftsmen, farmers, or literate people......
There had been similar screenings before, but it was a desperate move, and now the situation is very different.
"No," Roland stretched out his palm and clenched into a fist, "I'll take it all." ”
"I ...... I see. Barov wiped the fine sweat from his forehead.
"Next is the last item," he said, asking Nightingale to put on the last white cloth PPT, "the Executive Office should encourage the people to have children through publicity, tax cuts, incentives, etc." Although it is difficult to see results in the short term compared to the first two policies, it is the most important part of the overall plan. ”
At this point, he paused, smiled and looked at everyone, "On this point, I hope that everyone here can start with themselves. ”