In the face of Luo Ming's suggestion, the nobles had nothing to say for a while.

Reclaiming wasteland is indeed a mutually beneficial thing, although they can survive this war, but if a large number of people starve to death, they will not be able to recover for a long time, so it is almost imperative.

But Luo Ming's benefits are much greater than them - after all, after the fields are opened up, they are all in Luo Ming's territory, and it is impossible to fly away on long feet, and a large amount of grain will grow every year in the future, which will enter Luo Ming's treasury, so that he can have more food to reproduce the population and feed more troops.

Now, Luo Mingdu has called himself the "Northwest Guardian General", after solving the food problem, what if he really starts to send troops to protect the entire "Northwest" in the next step?

Not to mention the other counties, at least after the defeat of the Berans, the county of Van Shee will probably fall into his hands, and these nobles will live in his shadow from now on.

This is at least equivalent to the birth of a new county warden, and perhaps even the birth of a large cross-county power, and these nobles cannot hesitate.

"Actually, I have done a lot of work for Princess Victoria, and she even wrote a letter to thank me. ”

Luo Ming suddenly spoke: "And the Earl of Conlehill is also old, and he is worried about whether he will survive this war, and even sent his grandson-in-law's family and two grandsons to my side for refuge. ”

The nobles couldn't help but open their mouths wide, this is simply what Tuo Gu meant, and it can also be said that they completely admit defeat to Luo Ming.

Baron Durand's face was complicated, and he walked into the room with a young man who looked almost twenty years old and a boy who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, took a deep breath, and then spoke: "I testify for His Excellency the General. ”

"Uh...... You're really here. A baron who had wanted to question Luo Ming couldn't help but sneer.

Since he brought the earl's two grandsons to testify, everyone naturally could only choose to believe it, on the one hand, they silently lamented that the old earl was declining, and on the other hand, they had seen the unstoppable rise of Luo Ming, and immediately changed their thinking and began to think about how to make more profits from it.

They quickly reassured, whether they were driven to the shelves by Luo Ming, or forced to take out benefits, but they were indeed the first people to help Luo Ming.

As long as Luo Ming wants to continue to develop, he will have to show kindness to his first supporters and act in a way that gives high returns in order to gain more support and followers.

And no matter how you look at it, Luo Ming is definitely a smart person and will not do unwise behavior.

"Of course, I'm not going to let your people work for nothing. General Ben is not short of hungry soldiers!"

Seeing that everyone had already moved, Luo Ming opened his mouth and added a little bargaining chip: "I will sign a contract with you, and for this labor dispatch, I will pay the honorarium mainly according to the number of people, supplemented by the actual work effect."

Of course, a certain percentage of it will be paid directly to you as a commission, what do you think?"

"Well, Your Excellency Luo Ming is indeed generous. The aristocrats applauded.

Although Luo Ming could also let them do day labor, and only give them a part of the food so that they would not starve to death to the people, even then they would probably agree.

But then it becomes a typical example of talking about money and hurting feelings. From the perspective of long-term cooperation, Luo Ming still decided to pay the remuneration.

And he also had the intention of making these nobles accept such a new thing as "labor dispatch", and find the benefits in it, and become more and more enthusiastic about it.

Luo Ming has a fatal weakness, that is, the population - even if you add the mountain people of Carlo Mountain, the population under his direct command is less than 20,000, even if these 20,000 people become young and middle-aged overnight, and there is food from the sky to replenish them, then they can only form an army of 20,000 people, and there is a lack of reserve troops to replenish it.

In reality, there is naturally no such good thing, his current army of 3,000 has almost exhausted all the strong men in the territory, and if he wants to expand the army even a little, it will affect the production of industry and agriculture.

No matter how much he expands his territory in the future, he will inevitably rely on the most loyal old Schönbrunn people as the mainstay to achieve a stable rule, and only 3,000 people will be sprinkled in the entire Vanchy County, and it is really a drop in the bucket to expand outward.

But if these nobles could find it profitable to send labor, and send many people to work in Lockin, it would be completely different.

They would be able to join many of Lormin's workshops, and they would even be able to use that manpower to open some new ones, and then Lormine would be able to free up some of the old Schönbrunn people to take care of other things.

Rather than preparing to create a stubborn and loyal privileged class, on the contrary, he prefers "assimilation".

As long as you come under his rule, obey the laws he enacted, and try to conform to the mainstream culture and religion of Schönbrunn, almost anyone can become a Schönbrunn person.

Maybe in the future, I won't be called Schönbrunn, but I will change to a more universal and atmospheric name, but that's for later.

In the next meeting, there will be some detailed discussions, and Luo Ming will be distracted to manipulate the clone in the city of Carlo Mountain.

The city of Mount Carlo now belongs to the Great Rear, where many preparations for the production and logistics of the military industry are carried out.

And Luo Ming's doppelganger came directly to the factory where the cannon was founded.

Casting cannons is naturally one of the core secrets in Luo Ming's territory, Luo Ming has set up a number of isolation measures including trenches, fences, access control, hunting dogs, etc., and also added an anti-reconnaissance spell by the way, and the staff have at least signed a confidentiality agreement, and the most core technicians directly let the goddess of cleansing make a witness, ensuring that once they leak the secret, they will die of pain for three days and three nights, and their souls will be tortured after death.

In this regard, Luo Ming could not be unscrupulous, but most people had no complaints, they were paid a lot of money for this project, and it was still an iron job that would never be fired, and there was nothing unintelligible about being tightly disciplined - some of the guilds in some cities would even keep an eye on the craftsmen for the sake of technical secrecy, and would even hire people to assassinate those who tried to leak secrets.

In this factory, Luo Ming saw Pelodiana resting next to him, and Lauder was grabbing an iron rod, exuding fighting spirit, and some workers were also doing something around this iron rod, and there were two people next to them with big fans to fan them.

Seeing Luo Ming come in, everyone stopped working temporarily, not because they wanted to be lazy, but because the work requirements were relatively delicate and could not be distracted.

"How's the progress?" Luo Ming asked directly.

While moving his slightly sore waist, Lauder replied directly: "I have already drilled one in the morning, and now this one, I estimate that it will be over in less than an hour." ”