"What way?" said Mr. Merkel, who was visibly interested. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Donner does have a vague idea, but it's still very immature.

In all parts of Middle-earth, feudal lordship similar to that of the earth was practiced, that is, serfdom. If Downer now wants to carry out an industrial revolution in the three northern provinces, he must emancipate these serfs from the land. His idea has always been to first improve the level of industry, and then use industrial large-scale production to feed back the efficiency of agricultural production, and naturally turn these serfs into free laborers.

Recently, however, he has come to realize the limitations of his thinking -- perhaps, in addition to industry to promote agriculture, he can also use the method of changing land ownership to mobilize agricultural production and improve agricultural efficiency one step ahead.

Of course, even if he had enough power now, he would not rush into a full-scale privatization of the three northern provinces, which would not be in line with the level of productivity, and that too rapid social change could lead to other unintended and disastrous consequences.

Therefore, his plan is to promote privatization on a small scale experimentally, even if it is not fully rolled out now, so as to accumulate experience in advance for the changes that will inevitably be made in the future.

Still, the Downer's modest steps toward reform really took Merkel by surprise.

"You mean, give those lands to the farmers?" Merkel didn't realize that her voice was a little loud until she finished speaking, and quickly whispered again: "But what if those farmers are lazy after they have no burden?"

Downer explained with a smile: "It's not a gift, we still have to collect taxes, in fact, there is only so much food that a person can eat, and their food reserves can't be eaten, so we can pay for it, so it mobilizes enthusiasm," he paused, and then smiled: "I'm not short of money." ”

In fact, Downer made a more important point, that once his factories were operational, within twenty years there would be a rudimentary system of industrial production in the three northern provinces, when the commodities could be exchanged for food from the farmers, and that idle farmers would be converted from agricultural to industrial - but the latter process would need to be handled with great care to avoid large-scale "sheep cannibalism" cases.

"I always felt like there was something wrong with that. Mr. Merkel's brow furrowed.

"It's okay, anyway, we're only experimenting on a small piece of land - by the way, it's near Misty Town, it's far away from Santan City, and the influence is a little smaller, even if something goes wrong, it's too late to contain it in time. ”

"Hmm...... It's good to try it out first. Merkel nodded slowly.

"Let's start this month, I'll let Wesley help you, he should have some time. Downer said: "Oh yes, there is one more thing, I want to divide the administrative regions in the three provinces, and this matter is probably also a big project." ”

At that moment, Donner explained to Mr. Merkel the administrative divisions of counties, counties, townships, and villages.

Then for ease of management, Downer gave Mr. Merkel a guiding principle:

Because most of the territory is desert or highland and sparsely populated without temporary irrigation, the administrative divisions are not divided according to the area, but according to the cultivated land and population: no matter how large the counties, counties, and townships are, in the end it is necessary to ensure that each village has about 200 people -- that is, according to the total population of the three northern provinces of 400,000, a total of 2,000 villages should be divided in the end. Then, according to the calculation of a total population of 400,000 in the three provinces, it is almost five counties in each province, five counties in each county, five townships in each county, and five villages in each township.

In fact, before Donner came to the three northern provinces, there were naturally large and small baronies, viscounts, and so on from the fiefdom aristocracy. In that case, there is no need for detailed administrative divisions.

After Downer monopolized the land of the three provinces, because there was no detailed administrative division, there was a large number of power vacuums, which caused a lot of inconvenience to Merkel's management, and was one of the reasons for the chaos in the management of the three northern provinces today. So, when hearing Donner's proposal, Merkel readily agreed to the decision.

On that day, Donner stayed with Merkel late to analyze the various possible situations encountered in the land privatization pilot and arrange countermeasures one by one.

Then the two of them drew on the map for a long time against the three provinces, and decided on a draft of administrative divisions.

Donner just roughly divided a total of fifteen counties according to the terrain in his memory, and then named them one by one.

When he did this, he felt a little bit of feudal imperial satisfaction in his heart, after all, with the stroke of his pen, these places had a new name.

However, after writing down all the names, he was a little panicked and felt that he was too child's play.

After pondering for a moment, he erased all the names one by one, shook his head, and said, "Mr. Merkel, the specific name should be investigated in the local area, and determined according to local customs or existing place names...... Even if the village is small, it must be divided according to geographical conditions, and don't make the strange thing that the same village is separated by a river and never comes and goes. ”

"Well, I'll let the most reliable people do it. Mr. Merkel nodded.

"Don't be in a hurry, just divide the administrative areas of Santan Province clearly by November. Downer reminded, "That's five months." ”

He made sense to say this point in time. The time given by the old dwarf craftsman Bruno was also half a year, and after half a year, he began to promote simple windmills one after another. In fact, the reason why Downer asked Merkel to divide the administrative districts at this point in time was precisely for the sake of promoting windmills.

In Downer's plan, windmills would be built at a density of one per village - if he divided, there would be about 2,000 villages within the three provinces, that is, 2,000 windmills would be needed, and even if they were to be rolled out at a rate of ten a month, it would take more than ten years to complete.

It seemed like a long process, but Donner had no choice but to do it until he found another way.

He reassured himself that even if this technology would become obsolete in the future, wind energy would not be polluted and would not have any fatal consequences, and he imagined that in a decade, the three northern provinces might be like the Netherlands, famous for their windmills.

By the way, in addition to windmills, there are also clockwork - the thought of building an industrial empire powered by clockwork, combined with the idyllic countryside full of windmills, makes him laugh dumbly: this is really environmentally friendly and magical.

(Ask for a monthly pass!Ask for a recommended ticket!) (To be continued.) )