Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

In late autumn in the northern wilderness, Harvey held a high-level meeting of the territory in the conference hall of the castle.

When he first started to build the pioneer territory more than two years ago, Harvey could only rely on two alchemical life forms, a mixed blood clan, and a dozen wilderness refugees rescued from the evil orcs, and most of them, except for Asdalen, were illiterate purebred illiterates.

Now the territory management under him has grown to nearly a hundred people - some of them were apprentice knights abducted by evil orcs, ordinary watchmakers, hunters living in poverty, tax-evading serfs in the southern noble fiefdoms, wilderness refugees, orcs...

Ninety-nine percent of them have kept up with the pace of territory development, successfully completed literacy education and vocational training, and become a qualified "feudal civil servant".

This is a completely advanced configuration in the southern human kingdom of this era, and in a sense, it completely subverts the traditional model of feudal aristocratic lords and kings.

Most nobles who own fiefs usually only hire two or three general managers to coordinate and issue orders to the lord. Under them, they set up tax collectors for different taxes. These middle and lower-level officials are scattered throughout the vast fiefdoms. All daily management work revolves around collecting taxes and accumulating wealth for the lord.

Agricultural taxes, commercial taxes, road tolls, believer taxes collected on behalf of the church, etc. These are relatively common and reasonable taxes.

Slightly more harsh and greedy noble lords will also add more kinds of miscellaneous taxes - the people of the territory need to pay forest land taxes for cutting trees and picking up firewood, grazing taxes for raising poultry and livestock, brewing taxes for privately brewing wine, and mill taxes for going to the mill built by the lord.

Harvey has heard of some more absurd reasons for taxation in the past. Whether the serfs and free farmers under the lord's rule get married, get married, or have funerals, they need to pay a tax to the lord. Even if they want their descendants to inherit the land and inheritance after death, they must first pay an inheritance tax before they are eligible for burial.

The highly concentrated trinity of wealth, land, and power will inevitably hinder the development of the regional economy and population. In the long run, it will breed irreconcilable sharp contradictions between the ruling class and the civilian serfs...

Harvey, a time traveler who has seen enough lessons from history books, has deep feelings and understandings about this.

Thanks to the rapid population accommodation and growth, each administrative management and production manufacturing department of the pioneer territory has gradually taken shape. As the core of the overall coordination of all affairs in the territory, the city hall has finally become the mature and perfect appearance that Harvey expected.

He no longer needs to do everything by himself like at the beginning, and bury himself in the tedious work of studying laws and regulations and formulating development plans all day long. Now Harvey only needs to casually propose a simple idea and thought, and Reiner and Asdalen, who have long cooperated with him tacitly, will immediately understand the key points, and then break down and subdivide the work through the officials of the city hall, and quickly assign it to various departments, basically making sure that tasks and responsibilities are implemented on specific people and quickly and efficiently.

Letting two alchemical beings who can be in the state of "absolute rationality" assist him in managing such a large pioneering territory is the most satisfactory and wise choice Harvey has made. It almost completely eliminates most of the top-down corruption and bureaucratic group problems that may occur, and ensures Harvey's absolute credibility among the people as the supreme ruler of the territory.

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This is the first time that Harvey has held such a formal high-level meeting. Those who were summoned to attend the meeting are the top leaders of various institutions and departments. In addition to Reiner, the general manager of the city hall, and Asdaren, the chief advisor of the lord, there are also military commander Pierce, senior military officers headed by Vaughn and others, Minister of Construction Haru, Deputy General Manager of the City Hall Orange Peel, Chief Superintendent of the Police Department Yurio, Minister of Agriculture, Dean of the Medical Institute and Deputy Minister of Agriculture Egno, Minister of Industry and Deputy Minister and Director of the Alchemical Laboratory Chris, Minister of Education and others.

In addition, the Spellcaster Academy, which was established not long ago and is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, also welcomed its first principal and professor of major theory courses - a young mid-level spellcaster, Durt Holden, who was directly assigned by Harvey.

Although this young wizard was born in a spellcaster family, he had worked as a clerical worker in the Federation. He was quite talented in educating and training magic apprentices. He had a good grasp of various magic theoretical knowledge and did a very good job in teaching. Even the always picky Asdaren praised him highly.

The temperature in the northern wilderness in late autumn was already very low. Harvey's lord castle had already started using a hot water heating system. The conference hall was replaced with thick animal skin carpets, so that the participants did not feel cold even if they were wearing light clothes.

The meeting was silent, and everyone held their breath and waited quietly for Harvey to read the department work summary in his hand, and prepared to welcome the lord's name and questions.

"Today's meeting will probably last a long time, so each department should just do a year-end summary report in advance... After winter, the evil orcs will come back, and we won't have much free time to hold a meeting then..." Harvey took a sip of the warm fruit tea brought by the waiter, took out a report and casually instructed, "Let's start with the Ministry of Agriculture, which just completed the autumn harvest."

The Ministry of Agriculture was actually managed by Reiner himself. The current minister is just a nominee. Although he was the first group of experienced wasteland farmers who joined the territory and had a lot of experience, he is already a little old. If he persists for a few years, he may have to retire. So this part The work report was naturally replaced by Reiner himself.

Reiner stood up and saluted Harvey. After looking around for a week, he confidently spread out the work manual in front of him, "Sir, the food harvested this fall is about 35,000 puddles. If you don't count the one you just joined the territory. If more than 5,000 new residents are in full, they can fully meet the original food needs of more than 10,000 residents before the fall of the next year."

He paused, gently turned the next page and continued: "In addition, there are still 17,000 dou of aged wheat left in the grain warehouse, and half of it will be used as feed for livestock and livestock as required. Half of them were shipped to the food processing plant for deep processing…”

The "pu Dou" in Reiner's mouth is a commonly used unit of measurement for wheat and wheat in this world. It is a square barrel-shaped container made of wooden boards. Harvey only vaguely understands that apu Dou should be barely equal to one hundred kilograms, but this is not important. Anyway, as long as you know that you can support your own people, you can do it.

In addition to a small amount of the grain harvested every year, it is only for the public to purchase it with limited quantities of ID cards as seeds. This is to prevent it from being sold on the market. People privately hoarded grain and speculated and reselled it, resulting in unstable grain prices in the territory.

This is also why he has always held the power of land and grain cultivation firmly in his own hands, and assigned farmland to the leaders to let them grow on their own. First, it is not conducive to the popularization of alchemy agricultural machinery and has led to low yields. The second is that they are worried that they will resist paying surplus grain to the lords. The frequent civilian riots in the fiefs of nobles in various parts of the southern border were caused by the lord's violent collection of food that was harvested from the hands of serfs and free farmers.

Therefore, the grain planting, production, sales and circulation were forcibly designated by Harvey as a city hall for sale at the beginning. Buyers must purchase in limited quantities according to the rationing system with their own ID documents. The real-name system can completely avoid private hoarding and disrupting market prices.

But the most important problem now is that the more than 5,000 refugees from the southern border who have newly joined the territory will obviously lead to a tight grain reserve in the territory. Before they can get their jobs and salaries one after another, they have to receive a full amount from the city hall for free. A month-long share of relief food.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

Harvey frowned and thought for a moment, then got up and walked to the territory planning map hanging on the wall behind him, and raised his hand to re-surface the unexplored primitive wasteland on the east bank of the Ice Field River.

"Before winter begins, this land must be reclaimed so that we have time to sow cold-resistant barley in the spring of the following year."

Barley is colder than wheat and has a shorter growth cycle. It only takes about 90 days to mature and harvest, making up for the possible food shortage before the arrival of next year's autumn harvest.

Haru, the head of the Ministry of Construction, and Pierce, the army commander, stood up at the same time and said in surprise: "Sir, the east coast is not within the protection of the territory's city wall. Even if the defense forces are sent to garrison for a long time, they cannot withstand the evil of frequent harassment after winter. Orcs!”

"And we really couldn't spare the manpower and energy before winter began, and we would build a city wall to protect farmland on the east bank of the Ice Field River..."