The training of the archers was left entirely to York, and Leon returned to the executive hall and wrote on the parchment: Ten archers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He rubbed his brow, the current situation was too difficult.

The first is that the grain in the warehouse is about to bottom out, and the purchased barley will not arrive for a few days. In order to buy food, there are still two and a half gold coins left in the entire treasury, and his own private treasury has already been emptied, and I am afraid that no one will believe such a tragic scene.

The second is population. A total of eighty men were recruited in the mining area, ten for daily patrols and guards, and ten for archers, and it was impossible to get more armed forces, because Leon sent all the remaining men to clear the wasteland.

If you want to have a good development, the people who work must have a full stomach. Buying food can only solve a temporary predicament, and in the future, you will not be afraid when you have a foundation and encounter problems.

To the east and south of the town are large areas of wasteland, and according to what the townspeople know, except for those near the river, the soil is too poor to yield very little from planting.

The relatively good land around the town has been used, and if you want to expand the grain fields, you can only start from the wasteland.

Leon had actually explored the terrain, and because of his small manpower, he chose to develop the eastern part of the town first, near the Doin River for easy irrigation.

"What does His Royal Highness the Prince want to do, that this wasteland can grow food when it is reclaimed?" said Tosso with some dissatisfaction, stopping the hoe in his hand. He also occasionally went hunting in the woods, but unfortunately he was not selected as a knight of York, and this time he was recruited along with the others to clear the wasteland.

"Who knows what these nobles think, he will reclaim it if he wants to, and it is not for nothing anyway. Ham wiped the sweat from his head and stopped what he was doing, "The prince is the lord of the town, he says east is east, he says west is west, you, just be obedient." ”

"Can he know how to farm better than us farmers?" Toso shook his head, "It's not in vain to work here in the end, and I might as well recruit more people to dig stones in the mines, so that I can earn some money every month." ”

Leon, as a lord, could have requisitioned the townspeople for free to do things for him, but he had an unprecedented employment system, with a salary for logging and a salary for mining, and those who chose the archers a few days ago could actually receive 10 silver coins, and those of them who were not selected could only stare dryly, and there was nowhere else to find that kind of good errand.

Watching the neighbors get paid one after another, Toso was scolded by his wife at home. The reason is that the prince ordered that the mining area needed manpower, and those who were willing to go would be paid.

But Toso thinks this is a lie, and he can still get money for working for the lord? Even if he really pays for the work, he will have a few copper plates at most. Since the prince did not forcibly levy, he directly chose to ignore it, and the neighbors came to persuade him, but he laughed at others for being stupid.

As a result, the neighbor really got the money after a week of work, and Toso realized that the prince was telling the truth, but there was no chance at this time. When the neighbor dangled in front of him with the money, Toso could only hide to the side with his head shut. The archer, who had a glimmer of hope, was also defeated, and his ears were not quiet for several days.

Fortunately, it was not long before the prince announced that he needed people to go outside the town to clear the wasteland, and that the same people would be paid to work, but for less than the miners. Toso went to sign up with a better than no mentality, and he didn't want to be ridiculed by his neighbors anymore.

"You're right, mining is a long-term job, maybe for a lifetime. We'll have nothing to do if we clear the land. Ham also felt sorry for the fact that he was not in town when the miners signed up, and only heard about it when he returned.

"Why don't you have nothing to do? So many people go to mine, and a few powerful people are also dragged to serve as soldiers, isn't there more prey in the forest? When we're done, we'll go together, and maybe we'll be able to hit a big one. Toso's head spun quickly, and when he thought about it, he realized that it was not bad for him.

Toso was not outstanding in hunting, and used to stagger with others when he went out, and when he moved together, he caught very little, almost every time. After staggering the time, he can finally shoot one or two more rabbits, and he can't hunt large prey alone.

According to the prince's plan, the entire wasteland reclamation area is about fifty acres. In addition to them, there was another group of people digging pits on the periphery of the fields.

"What are they digging for?" said Ham, intending to rest for a while, just as he saw a basket of mud brought up by a man digging a hole in the distance. The pits were boxy, surrounded by dirt, and half an adult high.

"Who knows. Tosso shook his head, picked up his hoe and continued his work.

After a few days, he finally knew what it was for.

The prince has a new order, a new regulation called "environmental protection". No one was allowed to dump their manure on the road, and it was all put into buckets and transported to a pit outside the town. Families who do it fully can get a certain amount of rewards every month.

When this rule came out, the townspeople refused at first, and the long-standing habit was to go out and find a place to dump it directly, and who would leave this thing at home and wait for someone to collect it. It's just for the reward, and the townsfolk don't want to have to try it.

Toso felt that the prince really had money and had nowhere to spend it, and that he had to pay for someone to dig a pit, and that he had to pay for hiring someone to transport it, and that he had to pay for the family who did it.

Toso lasted a few days at first, but he didn't wake up one morning, and he threw it out when he went out, and there was no way to do it when the reward was gone. He felt that this could not be done at all, and he would forget it all if he was not careful, and there were many people in the town who did such things.

The prince realized that the reward alone was not good enough, so he added that there would be a penalty for dumping waste, and the reward for the punishment would be received by the person who found it.

This rule came out, and the town became lively. In the early days, you could hear scolding from the streets. This put a lot of pressure on the patrol's work, and the prince's advice to them was not to interfere without fighting.

I don't know if everyone is rushing for rewards, or they are afraid of punishment, or they don't want to give a neighbor a chance to take advantage of it, but the town gradually regains peace. Environmental protection regulations are being implemented smoothly.

It's not because Leon has too much money, everyone knows that he is poor now, and maybe the townspeople don't know it yet, anyway, it's all done for the sake of cultivating the land.

It is said that this is called farmhouse fertilizer, and the waste is poured into the pit, and the weeds harvested during the land are poured into it, and the ashes left over from each household are poured into it, and then placed in the pit for a period of time and then poured on the land, and then poured another layer after a few days.

Leon intends to do so for now, and by the time the next year the seeds are planted, the land will be almost cultivated. As for the effect, of course, it will be known next year.

This regulation can be said to kill two birds with one stone, which can not only provide fertilizer for the land, but also solve the dirty and messy streets. In the years that followed, Leon realized how wise he had been in enacting this rule earlier.