Chapter 461: Food Shortage
After dealing with the matter of recruiting and surrendering the rebellion, Luo Ming announced the name of the city, the name of the tower, etc., and then declared it over.
It is precisely because he is not born noble, and for a time on earth he also belonged to the ruled class, and he stood on the playground many times and listened to the smelly and long speeches of some people, until he had murderous intent in his heart.
Therefore, he will not treat his subordinates like this.
If he had to post a longer speech, he would have everyone sit on the floor, and he would have tried to keep the time under control - at least not too much for everyone.
Straight to the point.
Luo Ming named the newly built city Castle of Kalo, and the tower was named the Demon Slaying Tower - because on the day the tower was built, it was attacked by the "demons", and the demons were defeated and subdued.
An avenue (which has just begun to be built) from the town of Carlo Hill to SchΓΆnbrunn outside is named Shannan Avenue β also literally: on the south side of the mountain (actually a little east-south, but not much).
All in all, names that are easy to remember and easy to understand.
On this point, Luo Ming has his own understanding: it is not a bad thing to have a few places with wonderful names and a few beautiful flags once in a while. But as soon as there are too many such things, it will make ordinary people with poor education at the bottom at a loss.
On the contrary, if many place names are relatively simple and easy to understand, or even too popular, although they lack a bit of elegance, as long as they are victors and successes, they will naturally have someone to help whitewash and tout.
In short, it's all minutiae. In the future, when I have a strong territory, I can naturally invite a few literati to think about this every day, but I don't need it now.
Next, everything can be said to be on the right track.
There was no strength in the mountains that could stop his footsteps, and although one of the ancestral spirits escaped, that guy couldn't make much of a storm.
The next step is to stretch out your tentacles to all sides of the mountain, draw maps, repair roads, organize households, and infiltrate the ruling power into every corner that can live on a large scale.
Although these are relatively tedious daily government affairs, there is nothing to let Luo Ming go to a big fight, but it is actually not bad to settle down once in a while and calm down.
What's more, he also has Dakang as a helper, and Ariana and Grant can sometimes help with some things together.
Many things can be handed over to the heads of various departments to do, and they only need to review them...... All in all, this is the benefit of having a system in place in advance, creating a bureaucracy.
Last year, it was a bit redundant, but now, it's just right.
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Before I knew it, it was May 30, and a report was delivered to Luo Ming's desk.
During this time, thirteen tribes, totaling more than 4,200 people, defected to Luo Ming, and two-thirds of them had already accepted Luo Ming's adaptation on their own initiative (or force).
Although this adaptation is still far from perfect, and it will take at least a few more months to fully digest them (just to eliminate the original tribal color), but people from various tribes, including the children of the chief, have joined the production and construction corps here in the city of Kalo, which is considered hostage.
Luo Ming disbanded most of the veterans, but still retained a lean team of 150 people to defend the town of Kalo Mountain, plus the production and construction corps, which was completely able to suppress all disobedience.
And Luo Ming also spilled a lot of food to buy people's hearts - once every ten days, his soldiers and Ariana's assistants delivered food directly from house to house, and although each person did not receive much, it was enough for them to eat at least three full meals.
The point is that in order to receive this food, it is necessary to worship the figurines of the goddess of cleanliness, as well as the portrait of Lomin (which is very crude but highlights a few important points), and a few more words of faithfulness.
Although it seems simple, once every ten days, it will gradually form a habit, and then develop love and awe for both the goddess of cleansing and Luo Ming.
Even if someone really coerced them into rebelling, as soon as Luo Ming released his iconic giant sword and Cang Yan, I am afraid that many people would directly rebel, kneel down or run away.
It can't be helped, after all, people live on food - in areas where food is relatively scarce, often underfed, and occasionally people starve to death, this is indeed true.
However, if the grain is scattered in this way, it will definitely reduce the amount of grain in stock.
According to the statistics of this report, although the grain is fully sufficient to eat the autumn harvest, it is somewhat dangerous after that.
You must know that since entering the mountain, the total number of new people under Luo Ming's command has been nearly 8,000, which is more than the total population before he entered the mountain.
Although he urgently opened up some terraced fields in the mountains, before the end of the spring planting season, only 3,500 acres of fields in the mountains were opened up and sown, which was spread evenly among 8,000 people, and each person had less than half an acre of land -- that is, there would not be enough grain to eat from this year's autumn harvest.
Even with the earth's modern wheat yield per acre, if you only use this little land to feed so many people, it is estimated that you will have to starve to death.
Although Luoming's current agricultural technology is higher than the level of this era, there is a higher rate of cattle and horse farming, a higher rate of iron farming tools, better irrigation and the use of farm fertilizer......
But even compared with the beginning of the founding of New China, there is still a certain gap.
Although the account is not so simple, some mountain people can rely on the original fishing and hunting economy to get some food, and the Meiquan Collar outside the mountain can also squeeze out some food to support the compatriots in the mountains, but in general, there will still be a food shortage.
It's not that this gap can't be plugged, but according to calculations, by the beginning of August next year, the grain stocks will almost bottom out.
The wheat harvest is around mid-to-late July.
In other words, if there is any unexpected need to use grain before next year's autumn harvest, it is likely that the grain will be exhausted before the harvest, and there will be a real shortage of food.
Buying food, or asking allies to borrow food, or talking about frugality, can actually solve this problem.
But rather than doing so, Lomin prefers to dig deeper into his inner potential.
For example, if we stop some of the grain brewing industry and use the fruits of the mountains to make wine, we will not reduce the income of the sake brewing industry, and at the same time save some food.
In addition, he had organized a hunt the other day and harvested a lot of game - unfortunately this kind of thing would damage the ecology if done too often.
It is said that some of the inaccessible depths of the mountain have a denser resource of prey, but that is also far from the water and thirsty.
After thinking about it, he still muttered out one word: "Sick Lake." β