In Xia Duo's plan, a relatively concentrated natural village should have at least 100 households, so that after forming a full-time patrol and hunting team, the remaining people can complete the task of cultivating the land in the village during the sowing period.

Forest territories are not safe, or this world, this era is not safe.

With the current population of Great Xia, there will be nearly twenty natural villages!

With the construction of new villages, the population is scattered, and the territorial guard cannot always take care of all the villages.

Therefore, the village also needs to have a certain amount of self-protection armed forces, otherwise a few wandering orcs may wipe out a village.

This will continue for a long time until the surrounding environment has completely stabilized.

……

In the conference room, Xia Duo listened with great interest, but the focus of the discussion soon shifted from the construction of the new village to the timetable for granting fields.

"The current arable land in the territory and the subsequent development speed are not enough to support such a radical land granting plan, I think it can be slowed down a little, and people must not be fooled with the land on paper!"

The person who spoke was Cade, the chief officer of the logistics department, and the first batch of leaders who followed Xia Duolai to open up the Green Bead Forest.

It stands to reason that he also has a share of the quota for the field not long ago, after all, the field only corresponds to the number of people, and it is the same in the morning and evening, but the gold coins may be more in the evening.

However, considering that the arable land in the territory was insufficient, he took the initiative to ask for a late division before Xia Duo proposed a late division for the territorial officials.

Of course, it was only himself, and he did not ask others to be the same.

Now, he is refuting the proposal of Jia Ke, the head of the Consular Resettlement Department, to grant the land on paper to the consuls, and then pay it after the development is completed.

"How is this fooling?"

Hearing Caeder say this, Jaco's dissatisfaction was almost written on his face, and his voice raised slightly, if it weren't for the fact that the lord was also there, he would have even been ready to scold!

"Cade, do you think the territory will not recognize the land granted in advance in the future?"

This was a bit serious, and Cade immediately got up and looked at Xia Duo, "Lord Lord, Cade definitely doesn't have this kind of thought, I have great faith in the territory and the reputation of Lord Lord!" ”

"Then why are you even objecting?" Giacco asked rhetorically.

"I, I-"

Cade was speechless for a moment.

Before coming to the Great Xia Territory, he was just an ordinary farmer in the Savile Territory, while Jia Ke ran a small leather shop, although he later went bankrupt, he could be regarded as having seen the "world", and he was quite sophisticated compared to Cade in all aspects.

But CapitaLand also has an advantage that Giako can't compare, that is, CapitaLand has always put himself in the position of an ordinary farmer, and has not changed because of his current status.

This was what determined that he would speak for the more ordinary people, and although he couldn't refute Giako's rebuttal, he had a vague feeling in his heart that it was inappropriate to do so, and he believed that the lord would support him.

"Layton, what do you think of this situation?" Shado looked at Layton, who was standing below his right-hand side.

Layton thought for a moment and replied, "My lord, the territory does not promise promises that cannot be kept!" ”

So to say that you support Giaco?

Xia Duo was thoughtful, after being together for so long, Leiden was not like at the beginning, he would only simply and rudely carry out instructions, but he had more of his own understanding, and he could not only put forward different opinions, but also deal with problems in a roundabout way.

In a word, Leiden has matured!

It also made Xia Duo trust him even more, but now, Leyton's decision cannot be said to be wrong, but it is somewhat ill-conceived.

At present, the trust of the people in the Great Xia Collar and the Great Xia Order is indeed relatively high, but this trust is more based on the recent action of granting land.

If the undeveloped paper land is granted to the people, although Xia Duo believes that the territory will definitely not be in default, and the people may also trust it, as long as it is not fulfilled for a day, there will always be hesitation in his heart.

Trust wears off!

And if the time to cash out is too long, if something goes wrong in the middle, even if the compensation is doubled in the future, it will be a stain that will be difficult to wash away for a lifetime.

In particular, this kind of dishonesty at the level of official policy is much more serious than the private violation of law and discipline by a certain official!

And on the other hand.

The Great Xia order is the social order, which is affected and restricted by the people's hearts, and if the people's hearts are unstable, the power of order will change, and the cycle of order will also be affected.

Although Xia Duo's current research on the power of order is more of a hobby, in the long run, the study of the power of order may be more important to the development of magical civilization than the study of the plane realm!

After all, Xia Duo's research in the plane field is more about making full use of the space with him, which may be more important for an individual, but not necessarily for the civilization he wants to develop as a whole.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo did not immediately give the final result of this question, but named the name of Jeff, the head of the development department:

"Jeff, at present, how much arable land can the Development Department open up in a month without delaying the opening of the [Great Xia-Savile Passage]?"

The [Daxia-Savile Passage] is only 500 meters wide, and the number of people who can accommodate simultaneous work is limited without considering the construction of multiple sections, which is far lower than the total number of people in the development department, and the rest of the people will of course continue to develop new places!

Hearing the lord call himself, Jeff immediately got up, about this question, he had been prepared before coming, Clark had already calculated it for him, now just do it:

"Lord Lord, at present, there are 243 large and small development groups in the development department, with a total number of more than 3,300 people, and the opening of the [Great Xia-Savile Channel] requires 78 working groups to work fixedly, 25 mobile working groups to work together, and the remaining people are all used for land development, and it is expected that 1,500 new acres of land can be expanded every month without major accidents!"

"1,500 new acres?"

Xia Duo was not much surprised to hear this figure, judging from the work plan and work records submitted by the Development Department in the past, this figure is relatively reasonable.

It seems that thousands of people can only carve out such a little land in a month, but you must know that this is in the forest, not to mention that it takes a lot of labor to remove the roots of trees.

Not to mention, there is also the work of early eviction and clearing of forest organisms, which is a high level of uncertainty.

If you just cut down the trees, it is not unusual for so many people to cut down 1,000 acres a day, the key is arable land!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo envied those who pioneered in the Conch Plain!