For several days in a row, Wu Xin took his cronies to inspect the territory, listen to opinions and supervise the progress.

The port of Tripoli has recently come to life and even the air is full of life and hope.

The well-planned main road has been completed, and where the road radiates, soldiers and refugees work together to dig wells, prepare channels, and subcontract seeds in preparation for spring planting.

The Half-Ogre and the Ottoman captives carried building materials and worked together to build new villages for the settlers, from town halls, patrol shops, and latrines to leather tents for the inhabitants, and of course to level roads and dig wells.

Most of the well water can be carried by manpower, but in some places, the groundwater needs to be transported to the reservoir by camels, and although the quantity is not large, manpower is still squeezed out to build a reservoir for orphans and widows who are not young and middle-aged.

Among the captured camels, some were too old to carry water.

Wu Xin felt satisfied, he really did it, and providing housing for free, although it was only a hut and a tent, was really a very impressive thing.

Although there are still some bachelors and families without children who can only sleep in the open for the time being, other families can have a place to stay.

And because of the conscientious work of Father Erlan, each man was given two acres of irrigated land and two acres of remote and difficult to irrigate dry land, and the adult woman was given only dry land that was difficult to irrigate, and of course the canals and wells had not yet been completed, but they should have been completed before the spring ploughing.

Wu Xin also announced long ago that next year, all the harvest in the land will belong to the people, and only one-tenth of the tax will be collected in the year after next, and it will be restored to one-third in the third year.

Residents do not have to pay taxes on their domestic animals, except for camels and horses, but only one-fifteenth of the price of their domestic animals when they are traded.

Of course, if you want to send livestock into the city, you also have to pay a city tax, but this will not affect most of the residents.

The biggest contradiction is the quality of the distribution of land. This is inevitable, even if the land this time is good land with a relatively high water level on the oasis, there are still many details that determine the quality of the land.

For the most important work of land distribution. Wu Xin and Father Erlan put all their energy into it, and he generally adopted a one-size-fits-all approach of random assignment without asking about details, so as not to give the head of the Knights Hospitaller and the gentry among the immigrants the opportunity to collude with each other and get their hands on it.

He had no confidence in the bureaucracy's discipline. In particular, Wu Xin faced a large ethnic and religious barrier, and a rigid and strict system would be more efficient than a flexible operation method.

Of course, Wu Xin will not completely give up flexibility, he and the Cassano knight and the female knight Deverichy inspect everywhere, fine-tune the allocation of some plots that can indeed be adjusted, and judge whether there are knights and apprentices who are responsible for the distribution, and there is a phenomenon of corruption.

At the same time, the camera undermines the reputation of the leading figures of the refugees, and Wu Xin's main target is the literate class of the refugees, namely teachers, priests, merchants, and all the gentry who can say their grandfather's full name.

During the investigation, it was also a matter of course to verify and deprive the apprentice status, and one of the knights involved paid a high fine to retain his position.

According to the intelligence that Wu Xin had already started reconnaissance. The land near the well, which was easy to irrigate, was roughly allocated to the immigrants who were not very faithful to the belief in the star and moon, and those who always called the officers and soldiers of the Knights Hospitaller "infidels" were assigned to the outer circle away from the well, not only to face more water carrying work, but also to make it difficult for them to connect with each other.

Several large families have also been resolutely broken up, and although it is bound to stir up discontent, this is the best opportunity, and it is even more difficult not to do it now.

A limited number of families were given access to live in the port of Tripoli. They betrayed some of the information that Wu Xin needed, which Wu Xin would soon use.

In this case, of course, the residents of Zuwala are still dissatisfied, because they have lost their citizenship status. They are farmers again, but most of the refugees are not city dwellers, many of whom have fled from the countryside near Zuwara.

They should be quite satisfied with the life provided by Wu Xin, they have never seen land that is so well planned and can be irrigated.

However, unlike the satisfied Wu Xin, the immigrants were not grateful to Dade for this. There was no Xingyue Temple, and some of the vacant tents and huts in the village were said to be reserved for the Austrian immigrants who were about to arrive.

Not to mention the formerly powerful families who were not allowed to move into the cities and were not given privileges in the distribution of land, naturally adopted a non-cooperative attitude at every turn.

There are also many dissatisfactions with being asked to reclaim the land, although most of the people go to reclaim because of the fear of hunger, but there are always some people who spread all kinds of dissatisfaction everywhere, as if Wu Xin is more hateful than Ah Ming, a brain drinker.

In addition, Wu Xin announced that all male residents who accepted his land had the obligation to serve him in the military, and that men who had reached adulthood after this year would only receive land after military service, and that women's dry land would only be allocated when they got married, and that they could only have this right when they married men who had served in the military.

This obligation was of course owed to the monarch by all subjects, but in the past it was not a problem for the locals, because the grassroots of the Sultanate of Tunisia had long since collapsed, and the war was fought by mercenaries.

Wu Xin, on the other hand, carried out a serious population registration, something that the Sultanate of Tunisia did not have, which made the residents uneasy.

Wu Xin was asked by the immigrants countless times during his rounds to give them free food, build the Xingyue Temple, and further exempt them from military service, and for these people, Wu Xin not only smiled and said that he would seriously consider their demands, but also wrote down their names in a small notebook that he could use immediately.

The Hospitallers also tried their best to make friends with the refugees according to Wu Xin's instructions, and at the same time tested them, although there were inevitably omissions, but on the whole, the group of people who were most dissatisfied with Wu Xin's rule had been recorded.

The list is not short.

Another problem is the rise in food prices, which involves too many warehouses and personnel that cannot always be kept secret, and the shortage of food in the port of Tripoli is obvious.

Since Wu Xin wore the hat of the Knights Hospitaller, he naturally could not trade with the Ottoman Empire on a large scale, and since those merchants from Egypt and Syria committed the crime of smuggling, they would naturally demand relatively high profits, and Wu Xin's purchasing power could only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.

In the migrant villages, Wu Xin also arranged for free food supplies, and he hoped that the large families who had moved in with a large amount of property would also be able to support a little, but except for a few wealthy people who had been granted residency rights in the port of Tripoli. The other families were resolutely opposed, so the food supply that Wu Xin could support was, of course, just gruel, and the women and children barely survived on it. So that the men who cleared the land could buy a little more expensive flour and eat a little more.

However, Wu Xin did not go to inspect today, but waited on the dock with the old Deverich.

He watched from the docks as he sent away an emotional clan elder. He came to ask for the construction of the Xingyue Temple again, this

At one time, they had already raised their own money, and a widow who did not need the land handed over the land that had just been allotted to her.

In all the immigrant villages, such a situation has arisen, every village can find such widows, every village can raise money to buy building materials, and labor is not a problem, and those strong men who complain about clearing wasteland and clearing ditches will voluntarily go to build temples. Even a hungry woman is willing to work.

Of course, Wu Xin was angry at this kind of behavior in his heart, but on the surface, he could only do things perfunctory, and he couldn't even perfunctory recently.

Seeing the grain boat docking, he gave the clan elder a guarantee before letting him leave temporarily.

"A decision must be made, Your Excellency, there are already signs of concatenation among several clan elders who have always been at odds with each other." The female knight Deverich has just joined the intelligence work, and her ability is extremely limited, but the anti-reconnaissance awareness of those clan elders is too low. So much so that she and her few apprentices and servants could discover their plan to "petition" Wu Xin together.

In fact, they were so openly visiting each other that they didn't think about hiding anything.

"Has there been any progress on the issue of advising locals to come to the courts in Tripoli to resolve the conflict?" Wu Xin closed his eyes. There was no answer.

The old Knight De Vellich had been officially appointed to the high office of judge, but he was still in charge of building houses for Austrian immigrants, and there was little judicial work to do.

The female knight of Devreich lowered her head, this job was the focus of Wu Xin's arrangement, she thought it would be much easier to do than spying on intelligence,

She also knew how brutal and backward the local justice system was. In comparison, the Knights Hospitaller's past trial full of arrogance and ** has also become pleasing to the eye.

But I didn't expect that things didn't progress at all, and it was much more difficult than spying on intelligence.

"If the locals have any conflict that is difficult to self-determine, they let the two remaining Star and Moon Priests decide, although one of them does not even have the rank of priest, but before the former old priest was eaten by Amin, even if he was appointed as the heir, they recognized him." The female knight of Deverrich had absolutely no understanding of what culture and tradition were, and the power of these two things. "Otherwise, I'll kill them, these lackeys of the Star and Moon Great Demon are all demons."

"Execution without trial is a last resort, and such a crime cannot be committed for the sake of trivial matters." Wu Xin vetoed the female knight's proposal, and then gently admonished her, "Those who fight against evil spirits day and night should be careful that they also become evil spirits." ”

Then he whispered his plan, and the female knight opposed it at first, until Wu Xin repeatedly insisted that she reluctantly accepted it.

Then she left Wu Xin before the guests got off the boat, and her appearance was not ugly now, but her gray skin did not look like a human in any way.

"Hey, Sherlock! My old man. Then he greeted Shylock, who had disembarked from the ship with a calm face, and the former Venetian merchant and the secret envoy of the Austrian regent, and a follower of Jecob, the Lord of the End of All Things, like Bursa, still looked so fat.

It seems that a few days of captivity did not make him lose much weight, but when he looked closely, he could still feel the joy of the rest of his life.

Even a wealthy businessman with a great government background would lose two hundred-ton merchant ships, which would be a big loss to the bones.

"Lord Sherlock, long time no see. I hope you have brought me good news of Austrian immigrants, in addition to food. Wu Xin didn't tell Sherlock about rescuing him and Bursha, or even about food, and immediately asked about the emigration.

Shylock understood this, too, and he had encountered this convoy at sea: "The emigrant convoy consisted of an Austrian ship and four large ships of the Ligurian Republic hired by His Royal Highness the Regent of Austria, and if nothing else, they should be there tomorrow." ”

Although there will still be a slight shortage of food due to the arrival of Austrian immigrants, with limited rations, reduced waste, and reliance on fish, Tripoli will be able to survive next autumn's harvest.

Wu Xin was very relieved about the ability of Austrian immigrants to work, and Germans, like the Chinese, were known for their diligence and patience.

"Your Excellency Sherlock, you are really my timely rain, if this batch of food does not come, I really don't know how to feed the new 1,500 German immigrants." Wu Xin was indeed very happy, and although there was a slight delay and the portion was reduced by half, his grain still arrived smoothly.

Shylock's fleet departed from the port of Venice and was laden with basic strategic supplies such as food and cloth, all of which were urgently needed in the port of Tripoli, where 1,500 local refugees had just received 1,500 local refugees and were looking forward to 1,500 Austrian immigrants.

"I am ashamed of you to say that, Siber." Sherlock was not as happy as Wu Xin, if it weren't for Wu Xin, he would be finished this time. "This time, it's all up to you to save me, you are my timely rain, I hope you can accept this batch of food and other supplies as a token of my gratitude."

Wu Xin didn't mention it, Sherlock was not a person who didn't know the rules, although he was still confused about the details of his escape, but the situation was obvious, it was Wu Xin who exerted influence on his fate.

"Is this helping each other, I need you and your supplies, especially in the coming months, I still need food." Although the harvest should theoretically be available next year, the natural conditions of the Tripoli oasis are capable of establishing a stable agriculture that can not only feed these thousands of inhabitants, but also obtain a surplus, but the establishment of food supply channels is still Wu Xin's primary concern.

Twenty thousand thalers were indeed a lot of supplies, but compared to the two large ships worth 40,000 thalers, the lives of more than thirty sailors, and his own ransom, Sherlock's reward was reasonable.

But this was not what Wu Xin needed most, what Wu Xin needed was a faithful and reliable merchant to continue transporting Europa supplies for himself in the face of the fiercest war.

When Sherlock signed the agreement with him, the situation was far less dangerous, although it was foreshadowed.

But he still kept his contract and ventured south.

"Oh, I am very grateful for your help, but I am afraid that in recent months you will not be able to expect any large merchant fleet south to the port of Tripoli, and the insurance market of the Republic of Venice has announced that the insurance premiums for all merchant ships going south to the southern shore of the Mediterranean will be tripled."

But next time it's hard to say.

This is the news that Wu Xin had predicted a long time ago, but did not want to be confirmed. (To be continued.) )