With his free time, Leon walked out of the dimly lit administrative hall and to the top of the castle. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ravenwood has had bad weather recently, and the whole sky is overcast, which is rarely encountered in Snowy City, and it only takes half a day to clear up.

As a child, when Leon was bullied, he always liked to go to the top of the castle, where he would have a panoramic view of the whole city, and the open view always made him feel better.

Leon closed his eyes and thought back to the city he remembered.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the dilapidated town below and remembered the slums of the royal capital, but there was no cross-flowing sewage on the road, and there were no thin old people and children lying on the side of the road, and the town was much better than the slums in comparison.

The boredom was gone, and Leon rubbed his cheeks and went downstairs again.

As soon as I got down the stairs, I saw the Yorkie Knight coming back from outside with a smile on his face.

"Good morning, Your Royal Highness the Prince. York saw him almost trotting past.

I've heard a lot of this sentence today, and although it's almost noon, Leon still nodded: "You're early, too." But if you want money, you can ask for people. "York should have been in the archer camp at this time, and it was impossible for him to come back and say goodbye.

"Oh, really, that's great. Aren't you going to equip your archers with iron arrows, now that they've mastered the basics, they can practice with new weapons. "The Knights of York need money to get new gear.

"So this matter, the funds will be allocated to you tonight. Leon breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he hadn't come to ask for someone to augment the soldiers.

"Your Highness, the archers have changed their equipment twice, and you think the patrol should also be improved. "There were only twenty or so men under York, and the archers had been given custom-made ebony bows last time, and now they had to be equipped with iron arrows, and several of the poor patrolmen still had sticks pinned to their waists. As the person in charge, he cannot favor one and ignore the other.

"Patrol?" Leon didn't answer, but thought.

When he first came to the town, the first thing Leon did was to form a patrol, and he had seen what the slums were like, with robberies and brawls repeated. But later I found out that the town was relatively peaceful, and most of the time it was just some drunkards who were drunk and misbehaved, and the neighbors quarreled with each other.

Since it was established, Leon did not think about removing the manpower. But this is a critical time, and someone has to make sacrifices.

"The patrol stopped patrolling and asked them to help Mr. Morris build the dock. "Leon decided to requisition them to do things.

"What, Your Highness, this is not going to work, what if they leave the security of the town?" of course York would not agree to this, in his heart, safety was much more important than the docks.

"For the time being, let the archers take the place of patrolling. Their responsibility is also to keep the town safe, and familiarizing yourself with the town's chaotic streets will also help you in the future. "Archers can't always stay in the camp to train, and they don't get lost when they are familiar with the terrain outside.

The streets of Ravenwood are completely random, with a left turn and a right turn, but luckily most of the streets don't have names, otherwise each family has an average street. If he could, Leon would like to tear them all down and rebuild them.

Seeing the expression on the Yorkie's knight's face, Leon guessed his thoughts. As the chief knight of the town, there were not many soldiers, and the three archers went to the mountains and forests a few days ago and didn't know when they would be able to return, and now the patrol was sent to build a dock. There are more than 20 people under Tosuo, who farms the land, and he only has nine people to manage now, which makes him feel desolate when he thinks about it.

"Rest assured, they'll be back when they're done. "Leon didn't want to see his chief knight lose his head.

"What I understand is that there are too few people in the town and there is a lot of demand. "The Knights of York know very well the situation in the town, and they will send people wherever they are needed, and when they return, there may be a shortage of people again.

"It would be nice to get a group of people from somewhere. Leon joked and lightened the current atmosphere.

The speaker had no intention of listening to the listener's heart, and York's face showed a look of surprise: "Your Highness, do you want to buy and sell human beings? ”

"No, no, I'm against human trafficking. Leon quickly shook his head, he hadn't thought of it that way.

Many kingdoms on the mainland did not allow the buying and selling of human beings, and only a few city-states near the bay still retained slavery, where slaves could be traded at will. The people in the kingdom were not allowed to trade people into the city-states, nor were they allowed to buy slaves into the country, but this trade was not small, and it was still carried out in secret.

There are many reasons why Leon didn't think about it.

First, the trade in human beings was illegal in the kingdom, and he himself was opposed to it, even if those people were labeled as slaves, and Lyon hated it.

Second, the town was so far away from the city-state, almost half a continent away, that normal trade was almost impossible.

The third is that he has no money. If he could, he was willing to buy slaves and then dismiss them and return to the freedmen. Doing so will only exacerbate the creation of slaves, and if one is bought, the slave traders will catch another one, and eventually more and more people will become slaves. As for how they became slaves, the process is not acceptable to most people, in addition to defeat, there are also stolen children, abducted people, etc.

"Your Highness, in addition to buying and selling people, there are actually other ways to increase the population. York Knight thought for a moment, and an idea came to his mind.

"Do you mean homeless, I've thought about it before, but it's a peaceful time now, and it's hard to recruit homeless. "Leon thought of a way that only works in times of war.

"It's not the homeless, it's the poor in the city. "York Knight corrected it.

The prince had seen the slums, but he knew no about them. York was different, and before he was taken back by his Earl's father, he lived in the outer city, not far from the slums, where some playmates lived.

The poor people in the city did not have a good time, and often fought over a piece of bread, living not in a house, but in a space built of several wooden planks. Hunger and poor conditions can easily make them sick, and the result is only to lie on the side of the road and wait for the end of their lives.

If there was a place to provide food and shelter, most of the poor would be willing to abandon the city. However, the vast majority of lords did not like to recruit poor people into their territory, and the profits brought by them were not much consumed, and they could not do anything that was at a loss in their eyes.

"Then I'll leave it to you. "Lyon knew this important news and certainly did not miss the opportunity to expand the population. At present, the capacity of the town can ensure that at least 400 people can live a life of food and clothing, which means that it is no problem to come another 100 people.