The journey of more than 100 miles was dragged by Hudson for half a month before he successfully reached the fiefdom.

The team has grown from more than 600 people at the beginning to more than 3,000 people at the end, and the increase of more than 2,400 people is the harvest of this trip.

It's a pity that there are fewer young and strong, even if you add a teenager of fourteen or fifteen and a middle-aged man under forty, it is only less than eight hundred.

Most of the rest are old and weak women and children who are in good health, and those who are weak in health have either been eliminated in the previous famine or have fallen on the way.

Of course, this definition of "old" is the standard of the Aslant continent, after the age of thirty is considered middle-aged, and in the forties, it is considered an old man.

If you really want to live to be one hundred and eighty years old, you can only live in a noble house. Serfs who live in harsh conditions, who can live past the age of sixty, are comparable to the scales of a dragon.

Humanity is vulnerable in the face of calamity. Even if Hudson deliberately slowed down, there were still many people who failed to keep up.

It's good to be able to save so many people. If Hudson hadn't intervened and waited for the new lords to arrive, I'm afraid that less than half of these people would have survived in the end.

Settling down was very simple, as soon as a piece of land was divided, the serfs would build their own houses. Everyone is very conscious, such a small thing, there is no need for Lord Hudson to worry about it.

After a brief investigation, Hudson planned five settlements in the vicinity, centered on the mine. Basically, it is the original site, and if you divide the refugees, it will be considered a success.

As a price, there is a reduction of forty carts of grain and grass, which is still the result of deliberate restrictions, and if you eat with an open belly, I am afraid that the consumption will be even greater.

I don't have to say it, I have to continue to send people back to Dadir City to transport grain. Otherwise, this little grain in your hands alone will last for twenty days at most.

With more than 3,000 mouths, no matter how much you save, you have to consume at least two or three thousand pounds of food every day.

There was no need to hurry, and there was no heavy labor, and it was enough for an ordinary serf to have five or six points full. If there is not enough food, they will gather wild vegetables, leaves, and grass roots, but the soldiers cannot go hungry.

Hudson didn't want to scrap the veterans he had amassed again because of malnutrition.

What's more, as a hero, you have to give some preferential treatment, right? There is no money to pay the military salary, if you don't even have enough to eat, who will work for Lord Hudson in the future?

Even though he had harvested a lot of food in the war before, Hudson still felt the pressure to supply so many mouths.

After a little calculation, he found that with the grain in his hand, according to the current way of eating, it would support two or three months at most.

What's more, most of the grain is still stored in Dadir City, and a family knight is hired to help watch it, and it is a trouble to transport it.

Due to the number of carriages, at least two trips had to be made. Although the war is over, there are not a few mountain kings who have fallen into the grass. For the sake of safety, it is still indispensable to send military escorts.

"The order goes down that the ration system will be implemented in the future territory, and it must be strictly carried out according to the standard every day. Jill, you're in charge of the daily food distribution, and I'll check it from time to time.

Specific criteria.

Soldier: 1.5 pounds of rye bread with wild herbs/day, 1 pound of oat and bean grains/day, 0.5 pounds of salt per month, 2 pounds of meat per month, and some soup of wild vegetables or dried vegetables. (Note: 1 pound is about 1 catty, and the grain will expand when cooked, which is not equal to the raw grain)

Officers, according to their ranks, on the basis of soldiers, are raised by 15 percent per rank, and wild vegetables may not be added to the bread.

Young people over 16 years old: 0.8 pounds of low-quality rye bread per day, half a pound of oats and legumes and grains per day, 0.3 pounds of salt per month, 0.5 pounds of meat per month, and some vegetable soup.

Healthy women, teenagers over 10 years old, and middle-aged men will all be distributed according to 80% of the ration standard for young and strong; The rest of the old and weak women and children will be distributed according to the standard of 70% of the ration for young and strong.

The food of the army was distributed to the hundreds, and the rations of the serfs were distributed to the families. Thirty soldiers were stationed at each gathering point to maintain order, and those who violated the order were all reduced to slavery. ”

Hudson said solemnly.

The standard can't be lower, in the era when there is no oil and water in the stomach, everyone is a big stomach. They all eat a lot and get hungry quickly.

Before setting the standard, Hudson had studied it in depth. The same rye bread is also divided into three, six, nine and so on.

The best is naturally whole wheat bread; The second is rye bread with wild vegetables, which usually ranges from one to three percent of wild vegetables, and the taste is barely okay.

Again, rye bread with wild vegetables and leaves, usually ranging from three to fifty percent, and the black-hearted ones can even add sawdust, bark, and sand to it.

Commonly known as inferior bread, the principle is that only one person can eat without dying. It can be used as a weapon when held in the hand, and it can hurt the foot if it falls on the ground.

Hudson was naturally not so black-hearted, and sawdust, bark, sand, and the like would definitely not be added, but wild vegetable leaves were indispensable.

They are all forced out by a lack of food, and only by implementing this low standard can the grain in their hands survive for three months.

In fact, this is only a theoretical state. Now it is possible to enforce low standards, and that is because the serfs did not engage in high-intensity labor, and the energy consumption was not large.

As soon as production resumes, food consumption increases dramatically. The miners must be full, otherwise they will not have the strength to work. Neither can the women and children who are cultivating the land go hungry.

"Yes, sir!"

Jill replied calmly.

No one objected, they were all cronies who followed Lord Hudson, and they just listened to the command. Anyway, as long as you don't get starved, it doesn't matter what the standard is.

Baron Redman promised to send their family over, but that was for the coming year.

If you don't settle down the territory, build the infrastructure, and send people over in advance, you are adding to the chaos.

After a pause, Hudson suddenly remembered his own livestock. Although many were slaughtered in Dadir City to reward heroes, hold banquets, and still leave a lot.

Because the horses were more expensive, except for the eight horses that were kept for his own use, the rest were traded by Hudson.

Including in the city of Dadir, the knight of the family who helped to take care of the grain and grass was hired by Hudson at the high price of a war horse.

On the way to the territory, three sheep were injured, and Hudson had to save them.

Up to now, there are 28 cattle, 167 sheep and 187 horses left from the captured livestock.

The horse was able to escape, in addition to being able to pull the cart, the most important thing was that the meat was not delicious, so it was lucky to escape.

They can't be slaughtered any longer, and most of the remaining cattle and sheep are females, and they have to keep their calves.

In fact, being able to keep so many cattle and sheep is actually the credit of the cubs. Under the concept that less meat can be eaten and no milk can be weaned, the bear cub successfully rescued its own milk source from Hudson's butcher's knife.

Voluntarily lowering food standards is not a breach of Hudson's promises.

Since then, the cub's diet has been reduced from a sheep and 30 pounds of beef a day to a meat equal to Hudson's, and they have lived a miserable life of relying on grains to feed their stomachs.

Fortunately, the Earth Bear is an omnivorous monster, not to mention grains, even if it eats bamboo and Ken leaves, it can live well. If you raise a dragon with a bigger appetite, you can probably eat Hudson and ruin Hudson.

"Tom, you're in charge of organizing the young men to build the animal shed. The action has to be fast, and it has to be done before the rainy season comes.

Let the serfs who have experience in raising livestock sign up themselves, take care of the animals, and raise the ration to eighty percent of the soldiers. ”

Livestock is more expensive than people, and this is not a joke. Needless to say, the price of that thing has always been high.

As the existence of beef in the banquet, second only to the meat of the monster, the price is also not low. Depending on the variety and weight, it basically ranges from three to seven gold coins.

This is also due to the fact that the Alpha Kingdom is not popular for cattle farming, preferring to use horses to plough the land, otherwise the price of cattle will go further.

And the price of a sturdy adult man in the slave market is only five to six gold coins, which is less than a fine ox.

The price for a child is only about one-third of that of an adult man. The old and weak are even less valuable, and basically no one cares about them.

The price of a woman is very magical, mainly depending on her appearance and talent, you can buy it for two or three gold coins cheaply, and even sell thousands of gold coins at auction.

Of course, there are exceptions to the blessing of special status. For example: Elf women, basically start with four figures, five figures is the norm, and it is not impossible to get higher.

Special races among orcs can often be sold for a high price, but not as exaggerated as elves.

The main reason is that things are scarce and expensive, and the elves are not easy to mess with, and they live in the elven forest, and the slaves are compensated for their lives before they are caught.

In comparison, orcs are still easier to catch. Earl Pierce had an orc, fox woman, catwoman...... Composed of dancing girls.

The damage was mutual, and the orcs often harassed the northern frontier. Human slave hunters also often go deep into the orc kingdom to capture some special races with higher prices as slaves.

As a large mine owner, he was destined to deal with slaves. Especially in the case of labor shortages, slaves are the main force of mining.

Looking at Hudson's disbandment of the army, you can see that this is a decision to be an unscrupulous mine owner.

"Master, directly hand over the livestock to them for management, in case of an accident, it will be a big loss.

Either we let the soldiers who take care of the cattle watch over them first, and if they take care of them well, then leave it to them completely. ”

Tom suggested with a slight trepidation.

In the continent of Aslanth, the status gap between the nobility and the serfs was so great that it was almost an unbridgeable chasm.

According to convention, it has always been the nobles who ordered, and the serfs were responsible for carrying it out, and it was never the turn of the serfs to oppose it.

If it weren't for Hudson's constant encouragement to give their opinions, they would not have been punished even if they were wrong, and Tom would not have dared to speak.

"Hmm!"

"You really should be careful, just do what you say."

Hudson said with a smile.

It's rare that someone under his command is willing to use his brain, and the suggestions put forward are passable, so it is natural to encourage them at this time.

has a certain foundation, started to innovate, and encountered so many difficulties. If he had started from scratch, Hudson had a strong suspicion that he would have collapsed before he had even stepped out of the novice village.

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