Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

The long winter, which had nearly five months, finally ended. When the warm sunshine appeared again over the land of the northern wasteland, it was already March of the following year.

The urgent spring plowing task was immediately placed in front of Harvey and the Territory Town Hall.

They have been fighting everywhere this winter, constantly receiving and absorbing from the south, and the consumption of food and supplies for refugees displaced by war and famine reached an astonishing number.

Due to the rapid population growth and the fact that the materials are only exported but not in, Harvey's pioneering grain reserves have emerged for the first time. Harvey secretly thanked that he cultivated his territory when he annexed the Grizzly Reich last year. The grain seeds were handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture, allowing them to forcefully promote the grizzly bear collars in the south, and harvested a batch of winter wheat before the mid-winter season, which finally temporarily alleviated some of the food shortage. crisis.

The most important thing next is naturally to divide the seeds of crops that have also been demonized and improved into two batches - whether it is Fengyuan City in the south or the eastern basin of the wasteland, they all need to be fully spread.

So Harvey held a territorial agriculture mobilization meeting on the same day that the Magic Power train carried pioneers to the Eastern Basin.

Not only the pioneering department of agriculture, but also the entire Central City Hall, which had just completed the restructuring and upgrading, including the second-level municipal department of the Grizzly Leader, and the Fengyuan City Administration Department who arrived in advance. All relevant senior officials were summoned by him to the Lord's Castle. Come.

Looking at the several long tables sitting under the stairs, Harvey felt that even the noble council of the royal court of St. Valen was almost the same size and posture as before.

Judging from the area of ​​the territory occupied, the size of the priesthood I currently have... It seems that it is indeed about to catch up with one-third of the territory of the Principality of St. Valen. I just don't know that it is still on the border of the Principality of the Principality of St. Valen. His Majesty, who was fighting in the Kingdom of Ershi Wizards, did he respond to him, the wizard lord who had copied his base camp's nest without knowing it.

Putting away his chaotic thoughts, Harvey looked around the hall and then gently tapped the wooden armrests of the seat.

The voice was not very loud. The people who were originally whispering together and suddenly calmed down and all turned their eyes to the lord.

Harvey pointed to the work papers placed in front of everyone and chuckled, "You should all be wondering why spring plowing, which is carried out step by step every year, must be marked with the word mobilization, and the whole group must be convened to discuss. "

Indeed, the lord needs to mobilize foreign wars, because the vassals and nobles and canonized knights are scattered all over the territory, and it takes time to summon them together. Similarly, food, supplies, horses and civilians also need to mobilize them - except for the lord In addition to the food weapons you have reserved, it will take some time and effort to squeeze out the temporary taxes and wheat from the pockets of the recipients.

I have never heard of farming requiring [mobilization]. In order to fill your stomach and support your family, there is no need for aristocrats to urge you. Most of the leaders will take the initiative to farm the fields and produce food.

"I believe many people know very well that I am not a hereditary noble or royal vassal. The initial acquisition of this pioneering territory was just a pioneering order bought with money from the previous Earl of Fagen..." Harvey explained without any concern, "The pioneering leadership has developed to this day because when I recruited refugees in the wasteland, I promised... As long as they worked hard and worked hard for me, they would never be hungry. A day of belly.”

Let the people under their rule have enough food, wear warm clothes, and have a comfortable place to shelter from the wind and rain... is the only way for Harvey to maintain the correctness of his rule, rather than relying on titles and military conquests like other nobles .

"In the past three years, we have basically done this. The pioneering leadership has expanded from a wasteland town outside the border to a jurisdiction area of ​​nearly one third of the principality..." Harvey paused, his tone became It became serious, "But now our grain output cannot keep up with the growth rate of the population! If we don't pay attention to it, once the people go from full meals to hungry, our internal situation will immediately be turbulent!"

He signaled the officials attending the meeting to open the work documents in front of them and explained in a deep voice: "So, I ask everyone to immediately regard agricultural development and food cultivation as the primary matter, and complete it meticulously in accordance with the work regulations before you. This year's spring farming mission! ”

"And starting this year, the agricultural development and grain output of municipal departments in various regions of the territory will be implemented for special assessments. Whether it is the cultivation area, the number of farmers or the land output, it will become my task to assess you, and this will also become a measure of whether you have An important criterion for qualification as a manager of a lower-level municipal department.”

The new Earl of Fagen thundered his heart and immediately lowered his head and began to quickly look through the work document. Not long ago, the Grizzly Corner had just issued the so-called "dividend stocks" in its various manufacturing industries, and he has been a noble since he was a child. The policy of landlords to exchange for land ownership.

Due to the powerful threat of the lord's force, all the little nobles took the initiative to hand over the land under their name, and the entire Grizzly Reich's land has since been taken over to the "public ownership" of the city hall. This burden is equivalent to falling directly into the newly promoted. How could the Grizzly Earl Fagan, who was in charge of the city hall, not let him sweat profusely?

The meaning of the lord himself is very obvious - the title of aristocrat will be just an honorary title from now on. If it does not meet his standards, even if it is the throne of count... it will be in charge of the commander. The city's ruling power is no longer possible.

Although no one in the hall spoke, and they were silently lowering their heads and flipping through the documents, judging from their physical movements and expressions, it was obvious that everyone was nervous.

This is exactly the effect Harvey wants to achieve. Just the title of honor can be inherited, but officials who hold territorial management must not be a lifetime or hereditary system. Only with competitive assessment can the vitality of the power organization be guaranteed. and advanced.

All this starts with the assessment of grain output.

"I didn't set the assessment target for the first year too high, and it also gave you time to adapt and adjust..." Harvey patiently waited for everyone to turn to the end of the document, and then added, "Only in In terms of grain output, I ask you to reach the number marked on the document!”

A sound of gasping in the venue immediately broke out.

"One hundred thousand puddles? Wheat accounts for 40%, barley and other grain crops account for 60%..."

Harvey didn't find it strange at all. After all, according to the normal grain production level in this era, a large city like Grizzly Leadership, with a one-year farming harvest of about 10,000 yuan, and the land is more fertile and abundant. The original city can reach 15,000.

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

The pioneering leadership of "mechanized farming of alchemy beasts" has been basically fully realized. The farming harvest last year reached a terrifying 35,000 puddles, and it can even surplus the old grain from the previous year to feed livestock. At that time, it was simply a matter of It can be regarded as a shocking "great harvest".

Of course, the actual harvests in various places outside the pioneering territory are inseparable from the land area and the number of farmers. It is a fantasy to rely entirely on the primitive manpower in the past to cultivate cattle and horses, and to achieve the task goals set by Harvey, it is a fantasy to do so. .

"Don't worry, the agricultural alchemy beasts and the improved demonized wheat seeds are already ready." Harvey stood up and clapped his hands, letting the Central Town Hall of the territory headed by Reiner take the lead in setting an example. "Central In terms of the city hall, it will directly take half of the tasks from the grain production target of 100,000 Pudou, so Fengyuan City and Grizzly Bear lead the two places... only need to reach 30,000 and 20,000 harvest tasks respectively. ”

As long as we can make a good start in food cultivation this year, Harvey believes that with the full popularity of mechanized planting technology in the territory, agricultural production that needed a large number of people to maintain in the past will release a large amount of labor - the fewer people who work in the farming industry, In the future, the more workers the territorial factories can absorb.