After the autumn harvest was completed, it was soon October.

Richard looked at the demographics, and this year through official slave purchases, acceptance of fugitive slaves, private slave purchases, and so on, Haaland's territory increased by 15,000 people.

With fifteen thousand mouths and thousands of families, will these new slaves settle down? Will it be bullied by bureaucrats? Richard was also a little uneasy.

Through what he saw and heard in his previous life, Richard knew in his heart that the bureaucratic system had all kinds of shortcomings, the most common of which was to deceive the superiors and conceal them, create a closed information cocoon for the superiors, and coax the superiors to turn around and limit them to fabricated lies.

In many cases, high-level policies are often closest to the people at the bottom, but in the process of policy transmission and implementation, they are distorted and distorted by bureaucrats, and eventually become a profit-making tool used by some people to prey on the people.

They take advantage of the space at the top level away from the grassroots to conceal many things and not report them, and coerce and induce the lower levels.

Even if the Dawn Plane is a world where the power of power is attributed to itself, this situation will still occur, but it is not as serious as in the previous life.

Because of their own powerful power, the superiors of the Dawn Plane naturally have a far greater deterrent power against the bureaucracy than those who rely on the bureaucracy to hold power.

For example, Richard was able to control the power of Haaland's territory, not only because of the king's appointment and noble blood, but more importantly, he relied on the strength of himself and his family to manage the territory and form an army, and his own strength was the fundamental reason why he controlled the territory. So he doesn't need to compromise with the bureaucracy, and if anyone dislikes him, he can easily overturn the table and replace people or even kill people.

Even so, the deception below is still very serious.

As long as you want to govern the people, you must have a bureaucratic class.

In order to prevent the bureaucrats from making serious things, the easiest thing is to break out of the information cocoon and personally contact the grassroots.

Beginning in October, Richard began to inspect the territory with his own soldiers, and he would personally go to every village, factory and mine, talk to the slaves, see the real situation at the grassroots level, and solve some things for the grassroots as much as he could.

Along the way, Richard was quite satisfied with the current situation.

Last year, Richard was still in the territory, and he could see some old people and children who had frozen to death, abandoned in the woods outside the village, and eaten by wild dogs.

This year, there was a lot of grain stockpiled, and the wool textile in the territory was also on the right track, producing a large number of sweaters and woolen cloth, coupled with the successful development of coal mines, which could provide sufficient fuel for indentured slaves, and no one was seen freezing to death along the way.

All the way down, in late October, Richard came to the brick kiln village.

The brick kiln village is located near the Bobby brick kiln factory, and almost all of the villagers are brick kiln factory workers.

Last year, the brick kiln factory was separated from official management and began to operate in a market-oriented manner.

From last year to this year, because there are still relatively few freedmen who build houses, they mainly rely on official orders to survive.

Of course, official orders will not be given high prices, and sometimes they can't even get cash, so they can only use grain, salt, brown sugar, woolen cloth, steel and other physical items to top the account.

Last year, the Bobby brick kiln factory also made a profit of 500 gold coins.

Rooney, the director of the brick kiln factory, was appointed by Richard as the civil magistrate of Fort Sophia because of his strong management skills. He left the factory line and was promoted to the top of the bureaucracy of the territory.

Bobby, the deputy director of the factory, is not good at managing people, and still serves as the deputy director of production, but he has a 2% dry share dividend of the brick kiln factory. On the contrary, it was Leiden, the director of the factory, who did not play a key role in the development of the brick kiln factory, and did not have a stake in the brick kiln factory.

If Rooney was willing to become the factory director, Richard had promised to give him a 2 percent dry stock dividend. But Rooney gave up the dividends of the brick kiln factory for the sake of his future.

As long as Poppy is alive, he can continue to receive this share, but he cannot inherit it to future generations.

Because the profit of the brick kiln factory is not high, Bobby only got ten gold coins in dividends last year.

Poppy's salary is relatively high, one gold coin and six silver coins a month, counting dividends, bonuses, etc., and he earned more than 30 gold coins last year, which can be compared to the deputy squadron leader of the army.

And his work is easier and more stable than that of an officer. At the very least, he didn't need to go to the front line and fight for his life against the orc army.

In the seven years since joining Haaland's territory, Poppy has not only married a wife, but also raised two lovers, and has lived a very good life.

Compared with before joining Haaland's territory, it can be said that it has achieved a leap forward in class and completely turned over.

Richard came to the brick kiln village, and Leiden and Poppy received the news and rushed into the brick kiln village with the management of the brick kiln factory.

The villagers of the brick kiln village saw the management of Leiden and Bobby with flattering and fearful eyes.

Seeing this scene, Richard sighed in his heart: "Poppy, who was a little cute and bent on improving the brick-burning process, disappeared and became a bureaucrat like Leiden." Time is really a pig-killing knife that has changed countless people. ”

Richard nodded to Layton, Bobby, and the others, and then entered the courtyard of a villager.

The yard is the most standard type of house in Haaland's territory. Twelve meters deep and fifteen meters wide, the three houses sit north and face south, with an area of about 60 square meters.

Seeing Richard coming in with a group of people, the owner of the house was immediately shocked, and when he saw Richard, he was speechless with excitement.

Richard can understand this mentality, when a high-ranking man walks to his side, he will involuntarily give birth to a kind of excitement and worship in his heart, which is an emotion shared by all human beings.

Richard was just as excited when he met the county magistrate.

"Don't get excited, I see that you are a little familiar, you should be the first batch of old people to enter the territory. Is your name Robinson? ”

Since learning magic and greatly improving his mental power, Richard's memory has become very amazing.

Anyone he met a few years ago, he can recall.

Hearing the lord call out his name, Robinson became even more excited, his face turned red, and even a little excited.

When Robinson finally calmed down, Richard asked, "How many people do you have in your family now?" “

"I got married to Celia, she had two children with her, and she had to take care of her parents-in-law, and after we got married, we had three children, and now I have nine people in my family."

"Nine people can divide forty-five acres of land, and they have to go to work in the brick kiln factory, can they be planted by the elderly and children?"

"Last year, some of the crops were not planted and the harvest was not very good. This year, our family bought a mule, and Celia's eldest son, Sola, is sixteen this year, and the second is also fourteen, and her parents-in-law are not too old to grow them. ”

"How is this year's harvest, and will life be able to go on?"

"Thanks to the merciful lords, this year we have three or four gold coins left over in addition to the rations we left behind, the grain we planted, the grain we sold for a meal, and my salary."

"It's snowing these days, do you have enough fuel in reserve?"

"The children have been collecting firewood since the spring, and by the time the winter the firewood is piled high, and the firewood behind the house is mine. In addition, we used two silver coins to buy a thousand catties of coal, which was enough fuel for the winter. ”

Richard went out and looked at the firewood pile, found a big tree, looked down and said to Layton, "Spread more information to the people, don't cut down big trees." If the trees are cut down, there will be no firewood to burn in the future, and it will also bring serious soil erosion. ”

Seeing that Robinson was a little frightened, Richard turned his head and asked with a pleasant face, "What are you going to do with the gold coins you saved?" ”

"Sora is of marriage age, he will have his own family, he can't live with us, and I plan to use this money to build a house for Sora next year."

"Not a bad idea, the goddess of dawn favors the industrious. If you encounter something unfair, you can ask someone to write to me, and I will come to visit you in the brick kiln village next year. ”

(End of chapter)