"Age."

"Twelve."

"Name."

"Ian Krauss"

"Region."

"Xigannon area."

"It's today's food."

The soldier in charge of registration took a piece of hard black bread and gave it to Ian.

"Thank you." Ian nodded and took the bread and turned to leave.

"Next!" The soldier shouted.

Behind Ian was a lot of people, men and women, old men and children.

They were all refugees who had fled from the Wall of Mary into the Wall of Rosé, and they came from all regions.

In this batch, there were about 500 people.

Ian, who had learned the word, looked carefully at the registration forms in the soldiers' hands, which were recorded separately by age.

The soldier first asked for age, twelve-year-old Ian, whose name was filled in the leftmost row, and then divided into three grades with twenty and thirty years old as the threshold, and the woman's name was filled in another form.

In the eyes of the central government, population is just a resource, and in this era when the average age will not exceed fifty years old, people in their thirties have entered the second half of their lives, they eat a lot, and their bodies are not as strong as young people, and they cannot create value.

A few days after the Wall of Mary was breached, the government began to prepare for the future.

If the food crisis cannot be solved by clearing wasteland, I am afraid that people over the age of 30 on the list will be sent to "fight".

Ian had learned that tomorrow would be the day of exile.

The bread in the food warehouse was all distributed, the refugees could no longer get free food, everyone was sent to the wilderness, and the government would provide some seeds and farming tools and ask them to clear their own fields.

Ian has sixty gold coins in his hand, which is his start-up capital.

In order to establish his power in the pioneering areas and gain fame and support, he must first solve the problem of food.

If he could increase food production, he would not have been sent out of the walls by the government, he would save their lives and, most importantly, the support of refugees for the future.

Having worked on the farm for several years, Ian has a clear understanding of the world's agricultural system.

The level of agriculture here was very low, they used windmills and mills to grind wheat into flour, but they did not invent waterwheels to irrigate the fields.

That's why Ian asked Asuka for advice on how to make a waterwheel, and if he could build a waterwheel, the yield of grain would increase by a whole grade, and in addition, there would be farming tools for reclamation.

Farmers here still use hoes and shovels, and their ploughs are very rudimentary, still wooden ploughs, and the heavy and damp soil here is very easy to wear and tear and does not make the soil soft.

The reason for this problem is that their steel smelting technology is not yet mature, and they cannot produce high-quality iron at low cost and use it for arable land.

If you can learn the technology of iron smelting from Asuka and make the iron plow harrow a universal agricultural tool, it will be much easier to cultivate farmland.

The key to everything lies in him, in the application of knowledge!

The first step is the most difficult, and a twelve-year-old child, even with knowledge, is hardly convincing.

He had to find a stand-in to speak for himself, and then find a few carpenters with dexterous hands and feet to popularize the waterwheel.

It is not very difficult to build a waterwheel, but the difficult thing is how to grasp people's hearts.

A stand-in is especially important, as it is desirable that this person has a certain reputation, is familiar with the refugees, and in addition, it needs to be trustworthy and easy to control, after all, Ian will share many secrets with him in the future.

Regarding the selection of the stand-in, he has a character in mind: Hannes.

The man was a soldier in the garrison corps, and he was an old acquaintance with Allen's family, he was a cowardly man, because he was afraid, so he failed to save Allen's mother from the mouth of the giant, but after many years he regained his courage, although he finally died in the mouth of the giant.

Ian thinks that Hannes is a good substitute for him, this man is not scheming, he is a simple-minded drunkard, but in fact he is very kind, even with children, he does not lose his temper, and he is a soldier in the Higanshina region, and there is a part of the reputation among the refugees in that area.

But with such direct contact with Hannes, it was difficult for him to listen to his own words.

Hannes's mind was a little overwhelmed, and he had to be allowed to see the waterwheel in action, and he would probably help him.

Just as Ian was thinking this, there was a sudden commotion behind him.

"You're acting... I haven't seen it yet! ”

"You haven't seen it yet! Giant... How you eat people..."

A small black-haired child yelling at a soldier.

Beside him, there was a blonde child who couldn't tell the difference between male and female, and a little girl with black hair.

The roaring child, who was swept to the ground by the soldiers, his eyes full of anger.

"Alan... Almin and Mikasa—" Ian stood aside, hiding in the shadows to observe the scene.

The combination of these three made him recognize it at once.

Armin stepped in to ease the atmosphere: "I'm sorry, he's hungry and restless, so I'm very sorry to offend all the adults." ”

Armin bowed, a low voice.

The two soldiers looked around, and the refugees looked at them strangely.

The soldier seemed to feel weak: "Thanks to us, you didn't starve to death, be grateful, you know!" ”

They deliberately kept their voices loud to intimidate the other refugees and ran away.

Mikasa helped Eren up and made her way to the hallway next to Ian.

"Who is going to accept handouts from that kind of person." Alan sat on the stone with an indignant expression: "I will go back to the wall of Mary and kill all the giants." ”

"Alan... You're not serious, are you?" Almin, laughing dryly.

"It's serious!" Alan jumped off the stone: "I'm not like those guys who only play prestige in the walls!" ”

"This kind of thing! I don't need to! Alan slammed the black bread in his hand to the ground, and with great force broke Bang Bang's hard bread in half.

"Alan... I'm going to starve—" Armin's expression was worried.

"Don't you feel unwilling!" Allen's anger never seems to stop: "It's because of the alms that people can't beat the giants all day long!" ”

"No! Can't win! We can only live within the walls! Armin argued: "Chaos will only send you death!" Like my mom and dad! ”

"So you're going to keep your voice down to those people? Don't you feel ashamed? ”

"Now... I can't help it now! ”

"No way, just an excuse! Then you will live like a domestic animal forever! Coward! ”

The moment Eren said this, he was beaten to the ground by Mikasa.

Ian watched the scene silently, and suddenly walked over and picked up the cracked bread on the ground.

"This... If you don't want it, can you give it to me? Ian swallowed his saliva, looked longing, and took the bread into his arms.