To settle 300,000 displaced people over the course of a few months was a remarkable feat, and Amy and Eric put a lot of effort into it.

A few years ago, every inch of land near the Lion City was ownery, and there were noble manors everywhere.

But now the area around Lion City and Deer Heart Lake is badly damaged, and the continuous wars and disasters have caused all the noble estates in this area to be empty.

Since Amy's return to the Lion City, she has been working to restore agriculture in the area.

At the beginning, there were also some nobles who ran back without knowing whether they were alive or dead, intending to claim back the land and mansions that originally belonged to them.

But Amy has only one unified reply to this - get out.

Nobles who choose to flee when war comes, and are unable to protect their people, will be deemed to have voluntarily given up their territory. On the contrary, if they die on the battlefield, the House of Lords will help them find an heir, which is the common rule in the Pander Continent.

Amy had done a polite job by telling them to get out, and it was expected that Leon would send the nobles to the village of Yaxing next door to Singar, and provide them with a job that was not easy to lose their jobs, Leon had a large iron ore mine there, and Ramon had contracted the work of mining the ore to the slave traders......

Eric's approach is more low-key - Eric is now the head of the House of Lords, and there are many more nobles who find Eric than Amy.

But for some reason, all the nobles who went to the House of Nobles to find Erick to return to the territory around Lion City and Deer Heart Lake would basically disappear mysteriously within a few days......

Eric lamented this, and he even used the funds of the House of Nobles to open a 'Noble Orphanage', which took in many aristocratic orphans who had been left helpless due to the disappearance of their parents - due to limited funds, only children under the age of five whose parents were dead were temporarily taken in.

Since the orphanage was built, there has been no unobtrusive aristocracy who intends to claim back their original territory.

Therefore, there are very few noble lords in the area of Lion City at present, and only the members of the city guard and their families still retain their territory - these people are the former members of the royal city guards.

Most of the members of the city guard were illegitimate or second sons of small aristocratic families who had no inheritance rights, and although they had families behind them, they did not have much property of their own.

Amy had earned their allegiance by making all of their squad leaders and above official knights.

Now, they are Amy's grassroots staff for managing the homeless, and all of them are the new generation of manor owners.

The manor that Amy assigned to them was actually the original manor farm of those nobles who 'disappeared for no reason'.

This is also an allocation of territories to the knights, but these territories do not belong to the members of the city guards, only the houses belong to them.

- Amy gives the property to the city guards and the fields to the farmers.

The members of the city guard who participated in the resettlement of the displaced people were able to get the real estate of the original noble estates, which was a reward and remuneration for them, and also a strategy to buy the hearts of the soldiers, but they did not get the fields in the estates, but the houses belonged to them.

Nearly a thousand manors, almost just enough points.

The reclaimed fields will belong entirely to the farmer, and there will be many kinds of land, and only one hundred pounds of grain will need to be handed over per acre per harvest season.

Based on these farms, and taking advantage of the easy-to-understand policy of 'the land is owned by the reclaimers after the fields are cleared', Amy has attracted more than 300,000 displaced people from various parts of the Lion Realm, and has cultivated almost 2 million acres of fields around the Lion City.

It's a huge project.

The reason why the tax standard should be set with a fixed amount per mu is to let people grow high-yield crops as much as possible or do their best to open up the land - whether they grow wheat or corn, they will only charge a hundred pounds of tax per mu anyway, and the rest will belong to themselves, and people will naturally settle the accounts and choose according to their actual conditions.

The land around Lion City is fertile, and if you grow high-yielding crops, the grain tax of 100 pounds per acre is actually very low, and everyone will of course try to cultivate as much land as possible.

If it weren't for the fact that there were only more than 2 million acres of land suitable for planting around Lion City and Luxin Lake, they might have been able to cultivate more fields.

If calculated by household, there are nearly 100,000 households of these 300,000 people, and each household has an average of almost 20 acres of land.

Most of these homeless people, who had previously been aristocratic tenant farmers or indentured servants, were now all homeless farmers with property, and of course they were overjoyed, and they also had a heartfelt reverence for Amy.

And the city guards were also full of joy. Of course, the city guards don't know how to farm...... After all, they were the children of the nobility, and they were taught how to fight and how to communicate with people from an early age.

However, the members of the city guard generally have few small families, and the real estate of the noble manors is relatively large, and they cannot use it up. They would renovate their houses, rent the surplus to the farmers, and become landlords to the farmers – a great benefit for them, simple and easy, and completely undisturbed by their jobs.

However, after the harvest the following year, these landlords who have no land have to buy food from the farmers to eat - this is also a kind of mutual constraint.

Amy's methods are very reliable, not only to buy the city guards, but also to buy off the farmers, and to provide enough farmland resources for the whole country.

Speaking of which, these people are now considered to be people with industry, with 20 mu per household, close to 7 mu per capita, and low grain tax, which is certainly enough to live.

But they will indeed be in abject poverty in the short term – although they have land, they will have nothing until the grain is harvested.

In other words, by April next year, they all need to live on Leon's 'agricultural loans'.

Using a loan to buy food and seeds from a directly operated grain store in Lion City, and using a loan to lease a house in the hands of the city guards - there is no traditional charity-style charity, because the loan for farmers is interest-free for one year, and this loan itself is the best relief.

Pure charity can only occur at the time of the disaster, and should not be sustained for a long time, as both Amy and Leon are well aware of.

Giving land to the destitute is to give them hope for the future; By giving them loans, they are saving the overall market in the region and driving farmers to continue their efforts.

After all, it is not just for the farmers to take care of the food, but for the farmers to consume, so that the urban residents can live on industry and commerce, and the whole region can operate.

The key to solving the problem of poverty is to revitalize the overall economy.

These 300,000 displaced people lack everything, and if they want to live in the Lion City area, they will have to buy a lot of things - this will create a lot of demand, and they are all rigid needs related to food, clothing, housing and transportation, which can promote the rapid recovery of basic industry and commerce near Lion City.

At the same time, it will also allow a large proportion of nimble minds to stop staring at the land, and people will have the opportunity to choose their lives - to earn money in the way they are good at.

Amy's way of doing business is completely fine, plus the nimble Eric is also in the Lion City, as long as the price of goods can be stabilized, the food supply can be stabilized, and the area around the Lion City will be very different in a year.

But, but.

In order to settle these people and provide seeds, all the food that Leon had brought from Bacchus had been exhausted, and there were only three kinds of food and seeds—wheat, corn, and potatoes.

That is, the types of crops are too concentrated!

This is not a small and medium-scale cultivation, this is two million acres of land, and in some countries the total amount of land in the whole country is not so much!

By next year's harvest season, if all goes well, the entire kingdom of New Pander will have plenty of food, which is indeed beneficial to the country.

But the problem is that because of the single type of crop, everyone who cultivates the land is bound to not make money – the crops are very difficult to sell.

During these months, these 300,000 people will have to rent a house, have to eat, buy the necessary labor tools, and have to leave a season of grain after next year's harvest, pay taxes, and repay agricultural loans......

Farmers should barely be able to sustain themselves until next year's harvest, but by next year's harvest they will still be destitute – they are overdrawn, but even if there is a good harvest next year, they will still have little access to cash to make up for the overdraft.

In fact, this is the biggest dilemma of all farmers throughout the ages - they can't eat enough in disaster years, and the food is cheap in good years......

Even if they receive seeds for other cash crops, it is still difficult to convert them for money because they do not have the capacity to sell and transport them.

Agricultural production is also production, and they can be seen as self-employed production enterprises, and they can only truly escape poverty by monetizing their output.

But the farmers themselves are hardly able to sell any surplus grain, because there is simply not enough market demand in their vicinity – they are surrounded by farmers like themselves, all of whom have land, and who is the grain to sell?

The problem of poverty among the agricultural population is actually at the business level.

In other words, the area around Lion City is actually facing two problems.

First, the whole country has no surplus grain reserves, and it must rely on the land around Lion City next year, which means that these two million acres of land must hold out until next year's harvest, and if there is any accident during this period, the whole country will be ruined.

From December to April next year, there must be no war destroying farmland, no extreme weather, no plague, no internal problems, and stability around the Lion City......

Second, the vast majority of the population in this area is agricultural, and this year's planting is extremely simple, and even if the harvest is successful next year, it will not be realized, which will cause them to remain poor.

Although you will not starve to death, but you will not have anything to eat, which is actually abject poverty......

In order to solve these two problems, Leon has been busy lately.

The first issue is actually stability maintenance.

The Lion City is located in the hinterland, and the risk of war is not high, and there should be no war extending to the Lion City for a few months.

The good news is that the Cato have been trading more and more recently, and their demand for 'longevity ointment' is increasing dramatically.

According to the news from Forsette, it is said that the Gatu people robbed several towns in the eastern part of the Raven Realm, robbed countless sheep, and then immediately rushed to Fletcher to exchange for the ointment......

The supply of lamb will be more and more.

In fact, lamb is certainly not enough to eat, but an adequate supply of meat can greatly reduce the consumption of basic foods—if you eat one pound of meat per week, you can reduce the consumption of staple foods by three to five pounds.

It should not be a big problem to maintain the overall grain reserves until April or May next year.

The big question is how to get these months through smoothly.

Leon's strategy is to ensure stability at home, then let other countries be unstable......

Fields and Raven are already in a civil war, with King Vidis dealing with Lord Haakon's 'Van Skeree Alliance', and Ursula fighting Gregory IV in a tug-of-war, all of which are great opportunities......

Of course, this opportunity does not mean that Leon intends to fight.

Rather, it's intended to make them a little more messy.

Fields was already short of food, and although Leon didn't know that Vidis was about to go bankrupt, he could tell that Fieldsway's overall economy must have collapsed long ago—otherwise there wouldn't be so many Fieldsville people running to Long River City to beg for a living.

So Leon asked Leslie to take the people of the Long River Express to the Fog Cage City.

That's a place that both Leslie and Leon are familiar with.

And Leon asked her to find an acquaintance - the arena owner, Fat Andrew.

Leon is ready to develop Andrew into a franchisee of Maixiang International.

But Leon didn't intend to enter the sports industry, he asked Leslie to spend money as an 'investor', and he just wanted Lesley to enter the circle of big businessmen.

Leon asked her to pretend to be a big money in the past, and to make high-profile acquisitions of all the properties she could buy - no matter what the industry, as long as she was willing to sell, she would accept it.

At present, the economy of Wucage City is bleak, and many people are willing to sell the industry, and it is basically a bottom-buying acquisition, which is not complicated to talk about.

Most of the businesses must have some background - either with King Vidis or with some Fields Lord.

But Leon told Leslie not to go to any lords, as long as she continued to buy, and the big merchants who bought Miscage City all revolved around Lesli, the big gold lord.

At present, Leslie is continuing to spend money, and it will take about another ten and a half months to see the effect.

The second question is more complicated.

Before April next year, that is, before the first harvest season, Li Ang plans to build grain purchasing stations in villages and towns, and the state will purchase grain at standard prices as a strategic reserve, so that farmers can smoothly turn their output into cash.

Anyway, there is always too much grain reserves, as long as malicious price suppression can be avoided.

It's a good idea, but it's not the best way.

This is because when the state purchases grain reserves, it must only be able to harvest basic grains such as wheat and corn that can be stored for a long time.

This locks the farmers into these basic crops – if they don't harvest anything else and can't sell it themselves, then they will be next season, and the next season will be ...... Never grow any other crops.

Planting all basic crops will result in a low return for everyone, which will not solve their already overdrawn consumption.

Because the state wants to maintain food prices stably, the purchase price of basic crops cannot be too high.

In addition, not every year can be smooth, and occasionally there will always be natural disasters, even if the per capita land is six or seven acres, it is still impossible to get rid of poverty for many years.

The real way to solve the problem is through commercialization and logistics.

That is, the 'Fortuna Fort' that is being built.

In the vicinity of the core agricultural base, what must not be missing is actually a trading and logistics transfer center.

Many agricultural products are not resistant to storage, and must be able to be quickly realized and transferred, and there will be high returns with less loss.

Farmers don't have the ability to sell and transport, but Leon's Changhe Express does, and Leon's Maixiang International can directly buy a lot of things, and there is no need to find other investors to build the market.

However, the bulk trading and logistics gathering place for the transshipment of agricultural products is not suitable for the Lion City, so Li Ang wanted to build it in the most convenient place near the Lion City.

This is the reason for the construction of the Fortuna Fort on the site of the Seven Forks Fortress.

Fortuna was to be built into a large wholesale market, and a comprehensive wholesale market - Leon wanted merchants to drive the farmers to make money.

Farmers were able to quickly monetize their produce in Fortuna, and then explore business opportunities in Fortuna's integrated market, and use the money they just earned to purchase the means of production and tools they were better at.

- They are homeless, they become farmers in order to survive when they are homeless, and they are not necessarily good at farming; Those who are good at farming do not necessarily have to grow food.

Moreover, merchants will reach out to homesteaders or local managers in order to generate more supply and demand – merchants need raw materials, and they are not just here to sell their products, but they may also persuade farmers to try to grow something else...... For example, fruits or other cash crops with a higher unit price.

After all, every farmer here has land.

The role of the market is not just to buy and sell on the spot, but also to bring opportunities to people who are good at communicating, to find business opportunities for themselves, and also to bring opportunities to those who are not good at selling.

In addition, the agricultural trade and the integrated market will create many new jobs, which will further solve the problem of food and clothing for more people.

When transshipment markets for produce were nearby, and many people began to establish supply and demand relationships with merchants, farmers could grow whatever the continent needed, rather than relying on basic food.

Many of them will start growing cash crops, or even have their families engaged in commerce and transportation, or find tools in the market to start other handicrafts – the overall market environment around the Lion City will become lively, and production and trade will become diversified.

Diversified production and operation will make most people make money.

Everyone has something they are good at, but most people don't have a chance to change careers.

Leon wanted to give them this opportunity, not only to lift people out of poverty, but also to bring wealth to the rulers.

Because of the agricultural base of 300,000 people, this is the ready-made end consumer group that can digest the products of Changhe City, and the merchants of Changhe City trust Li Ang the most, and Li Ang of course wants to let them get rich first - they are the main force to pay taxes.

The construction of Fortuna was entrusted to Charles because he was obedient and reliable.

Leon gave him a plan, and Charles didn't ask anything and started implementing it.

And Leon himself wonders every day where he can work.

When winter arrives, the demand for work decreases, and there are not enough houses in Long River City, and there are many wanderers in the city, and Leon wants to give them something to do.

Now, for example, Leon is taking a group of unemployed people who have not found a job in Long River City to go to Lake Ayrrale in the Noldor Forest to knock on ice and clean up garbage.

It will not only help the Noldors solve the things they are not good at, but also allow the unemployed to earn a living expenses, promote cooperation between humans and the Noldor Elves, and also take the opportunity to popularize the new currency......

Clearing the ice doesn't require much skill, just a willingness to put in the effort, and thin people and even lighter women sometimes have the advantage of being able to stand on thinner ice.

But such a simple job raises a big problem. (End of chapter)