Since the last time he set up a "Hongmen Banquet" to entertain Laheim, this nobleman from Errengrad has settled down a lot. However, Rhodes still has to hurry up and take over the day-to-day management of Blackhammer Castle.

For a whole week, Rhodes spent the whole week in Muros's bedroom, it had been a whole year since he left the Black Hammer Castle, many things were not clear, during the time he was not in the castle, the old butler Mulos could be said to be the leader of the entire Black Hammer Castle, large and small affairs had to pass through his hands, and he knew the situation in the current territory more than anyone else.

According to Muros's thoughts, since there was no threat from the beastmen, civilians have come to settle here one after another, seeking a way to survive. A large number of people have been assigned to work in the mines, which are now saturated with workers and can no longer accommodate new workers.

The scale of the mine has reached its maximum scale through Laheim's investment and expansion, and it is almost impossible to expand the entire mine, if it is forced to expand, according to the engineer, it may damage the rock formation, thus affecting the foundation of Blackhammer Fort. This is absolutely inadmissible. As a result, the development of deep pit mines can be said to have reached a bottleneck period.

Most of the subsequent migrants went to the North Shore docklands, where there are new industries, various freight and transit services.

However, due to the lack of planning, this piece of land, which was supposed to be considered the best, became a clutter, just like the scene that Rhodes saw when he landed on the shore from Kislev City, the streets were narrow and congested, and the barns, warehouses, brothels, wooden houses, hotels, market stalls, and earthen tiled houses were all mixed together in an orderly manner, and although it was not a refugee camp, it looked like a refugee camp.

But this is not surprising, Laheim is a nobleman of Erengrad, he did not come to Blackhammer Fort to settle here for a long time, but to make money, and when the money is enough, he will naturally go back, and Erlengrad will not go back, at least he will return to Kislev City.

Therefore, he naturally didn't care about the entire development plan of Black Hammer Castle, and Muros was just a lord's personal butler before he became the governor, and he didn't have the idea of planning the overall situation, and even if he did, he didn't have the ability to implement it.

After all, what is not profitable, Laheim will also hinder him. At the simplest level, the house is demolished and rebuilt, and trade will be affected in the short term, and Laheim, who is all the nobles for profit, is naturally reluctant to do so. He will do everything he can to obstruct the implementation of the policy. The easiest way to do this is to incite people to rise up in trouble......

For such a developed urban area, Rhodes does not plan to renovate it drastically, because that would inevitably shake the already stable market. In Rhodes's mind, the land on the north shore is the old town.

The new town still needs to be sited, but it won't be expanded anytime soon, because there are still a lot of things to sort out inside. For example, with the expansion of the population, economic development, and the increase in prisoners, whether to consider setting up special prisons and dungeons to hold these people, in the past, there were only a few hundred people in small towns, and there were very few criminals or something, and everyone in the neighborhood knew each other. Now it is different, the increase in the foreign population has brought about the instability of law and order, and these criminals are currently only held in the basement of Blackhammer Castle, and if a special prison is to be built, how will the funds be arranged.

Another example is that because of Laheim's exploitation, many workers in the mine can barely make ends meet, and if they get sick or injured, they can't afford to find a doctor. Being oppressed in this way for a long time can easily lead to large-scale strikes and even riots. This is also a problem. The list goes on and on, and managing a castle is sometimes harder than fighting. Rhodes knew that for a long time to come, he would probably have to sit in the office and deal with all the miscellaneous things. At least until Muros recovers. Three k

The most urgent issue to be addressed at the moment is undoubtedly the flow of refugees. After the end of the Erlengrad Rebellion, a large number of refugees fled to all parts of Kislev, the slightly wealthy fled to the empire or beyond, and the destitute only fled to the city of Kislev or the castles, towns and villages within the territory.

As a result, there was an influx of refugees from the north, and Blackhammer was no exception, and when he entered the city before, Rhodes saw that outside the city, a large number of ragged civilians had gathered around the riverlands, setting up improvised tents, shivering in the cold wind. However, this question has long been thought about and prepared by Rod, and since the news of the massacre of Erlengrad reached Rod's ears, Rhodes began to think about the refugee flow.

After all, a big city of 100,000 people, it is impossible to slaughter the city all at once, there will definitely be people who take advantage of the chaos to escape, and there are many who left before the queen ordered the slaughter of the city, because they were worried about the fate of the city. Others left as early as the time when vampires appeared in the city, like the first refugees received by Blackhammer Castle, and aristocrats like Raheim. And now, the whole north is ushering in a second wave of refugees, the main wave, which far outnumbers the first batch of refugees.

For this reason, Rhodes and the others decided to give the vast land that Caterina had given him to the refugees to cultivate free of charge. Of course, this is a huge project, and it is not a large-scale flood irrigation, but a careful calculation. After all, not everyone in the refugees from the south was farmers, some were small traders and peddlers in the cities, some were workshop workers, some were barbers, blacksmiths, laborers, prostitutes, ruffians, and so on...... These people don't know how to farm, and if they are distributed to the suburbs like ducks on the shelves, they are left to fend for themselves.

So, in order to coordinate the arrangement and distribution, Ruder Finn has set up a refugee working group to register the refugee's information and record their strengths and health. The refugees were then labeled, and the blacksmiths were arranged to go to the blacksmith shops in the city, and the blacksmith bosses hired them at the minimum wage.

Originally a barber and surgeon, he was arranged to be in the castle and set up a group of surgeons, who were responsible for treating all kinds of injuries and illnesses for the residents of the town on weekdays, and went to the front line with the army during the war, treating those soldiers who were injured in the battle at any time.

As for the ruffians and petty traders, there was no job for them, so Rhodes gathered them together and gave them two choices, first, to learn how to cultivate and cultivate from the farmers, and that Blackhammer would provide the most primitive seeds and some necessities of life. As for whether they can survive in the cold wilderness, it is up to them. The second option is to become a member of the logging team, and follow the Blackhammer Logging Team into the Black Forest periodically to log logging, although it will be dangerous, but it is far less dangerous than before.

It turns out that people are far more afraid of the unknown than they are about wealth. Most refugees opt for the latter, following logging teams into the big forests to cut trees for a fixed salary. After all, they had never worked in agriculture and had no idea how many crops could grow from the land.

Those who were farmers were grateful for Rhodes' policy, and they were originally hired by farmers or nobles, and most of the grain they received each year had to be paid. I thought that wandering to a strange place as a refugee would lead to more serious exploitation, but I didn't do it in Black Hammer Fort, where the lord not only did not ask for food, but also provided them with seeds and daily necessities for free. The only condition is that they have to cultivate the farmland themselves. It's a little harder, but it's much better than the previous life, and the key thing is that they see the hope of getting through.

Of course, this tax exemption policy is not continuous, Rhodes's rule is that in the first year the wasteland is reclaimed, so there is no need to hand over any grain, if there is a harvest in the second year, 20% of the grain must be paid, in the third year 30%, in the fourth year 40%, and so on, at most in the fifth year, 50% of the grain is collected, and no more will be added. The actual situation will be fine-tuned when the time comes, for example, if there is a snow disaster, a flood or something in a year, and the grain harvest fails, but you still have to hand over fifty or sixty percent of the grain, it will simply force people to death. Rhodes won't do that. If the people's will is unstable, the rule will not be stable.

It seems that half of the harvest must be handed over, but in fact, in the Middle Ages, such a rule is already considered benevolent. The official rule of the knightly kingdom of Bretonnia was that ninety percent of the peasants' grain harvest must be handed over, and it was even a good year to force rebellion.