I'm working on infrastructure in Xihuan

Lucien raised a lot of problems for his subordinates to solve.

However, he didn't completely let them play freely, and let his subordinates play with him to guess and guess. After asking questions, Lucien also gave some directions for solving the problems he had thought up, for Lawrence and William to refer to and discuss, and then refine them into A plan that can actually be implemented.

It's the problem-solving direction he provided...

We must first have a basic common sense, that is, the royal family is the world's largest capitalist, a professional who can squeeze and exploit even a layer of oil.

For example, change the original relief method of free food distribution to work-for-work relief. A lot of labor will be required to carry out a lot of projects in the territory this winter. Anyway, everyone is idle at home starving and starving, so it is better to come out and sell your strength Mix it up.

"After all, my food is also bought with money." The lord lord made a skinny voice.

In other words, no matter men, women, old or young, if they want to eat his bowl of rice, they have to work hard for him. No one wants to take the whole family and eat the food he bought with money, and make him want to build roads and bridges to do projects. You have to pay them extra.

Moreover, everyone has to praise the lord for his kindness and generosity. He does not impose forced labor in construction projects, but hires people to work for food and drink, so that everyone can have work and food. Look at Velvet How many nobles can do it, they have to prepare their own dry food even to repair the temple for the church!

With such an operation, the unstable factors of being too hungry to live and being too idle are eliminated in the infancy, and the remaining petty thefts that are really idle and just want to get something for nothing are also easy to control.

Lucien would most like them to do something with itchy hands. What he wants to order for the freedmen on the land of other manor owners is separated from the manor owners. If there is a trade union, then there must be a tripartite meeting with the trade union, but something happened. He dragged the sinners to build roads and bridges to reform through labor. That was just what his lord lord said, and no one could control him.

However, Lucien didn't think he had no conscience at all, and he planned to work with the Church of Light to set up a relief center to receive the homeless, elderly, sick, and widows who couldn't survive.

That's real charity.

Although he immediately emphasized: "The money I pay, cannot let the church pick the fruit!"

It’s fine for the elderly and the seriously ill. Good hospice care is also part of the construction of spiritual civilization. In this regard, the Illuminati Church is professional and they can’t compare with it. But other orphans with labor force, disabled people, homeless widows, etc. Well, none of these good leeks that can be harvested once they are raised are not allowed to be given to the church.

He repeats it again!

Not a single one is allowed!

Lawrence: ...

William: ...

The two of them glanced at each other, what else could they do? They could only nod their heads and swear to the lord whose face was flushed with excitement. Grass, it has to be from the land of the lord.

[On X, X, 579 in the new calendar, the first internal meeting of the Velvet County Government;

Participants: His Excellency Lord Duke Velvet, Lawrence Tosyev, Minister of Civil Affairs and Finance, William Hawke, Minister of Justice and Public Security, etc.

... abbreviated.

At the meeting, the lord, the Duke of Velvet, clarified the scope of functions of various departments of the county government, listened to and guided Velvet County's winter construction relief plan, and pointed out: officials should be oriented by (the lord's) needs and wholeheartedly (for the lord) Lord) do things, do everything well in a down-to-earth manner, and fight for the higher interests of (Lord Lord).

Amid warm applause, Velvet's first internal meeting came to a successful conclusion.

Recorded by: Head Maid Anna Rose (handwritten signature here).

——Excerpt from "Verveld County Conference Minutes-Volume [-]-Volume [-]"]

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The beginning of anything is always the hardest.

Because everything is unknown.

Difficulty and engineering quantity can only be guessed based on past data, and then one can make plans while optimistically looking forward to the ideal state and pessimistically trying to figure out the worst case. Getting Started" seemed extremely difficult.

But it’s good to start, no matter where you start, or the principle of “starting from the basics if you don’t know where to start” that Lucien has always followed, as long as there is the smallest known in the unknown, no matter what happens in the future, it will be all right. It's a "planned" thing.

Lawrence and William finished writing the winter plan and handed it to Lucien within the plan, and then the grain ordered with Mansui was transported into the warehouse within the plan. After persuasion, the handover was quite satisfactory.

At the same time, the craftsmen were convened through the trade union within the plan.These called craftsmen are classified as construction workers, and usually a group of a few to a dozen people undertake business, and building roads, bridges and houses are all within their business scope.

There are hundreds of builders and apprentices registered in Velveer's Builders' Guild, and it is one of the largest branches of the Craftsman's Guild.After all, the adventurers and merchants who come to the Moon Mountains every year to pan for gold need temporary accommodation that is more stable than camping tents. In addition, the construction workers will also have the daily maintenance of the infrastructure of each manor, the new buildings built by the nobles on a whim, and the regular building maintenance of the temple. Waiting for business, life is relatively easy.

As for why there are so many construction workers in the local area, Lucien was almost thrown out by the broken road when he came... Who told him to take the public road when he came, these are the only ones that connect various manors and Velvet can be called The roads of the "town" are under the management of the Velvet County government, and the former Consul would rather send the money to Viscount Noble's treasury than pay half a penny for these "useless things".

Even these roads were not built, but were stepped on by horses, horses and pedestrians in the wasteland. Strictly speaking, they cannot be regarded as "roads" according to the standard of the empire. Everyone is used to a little rain and snow The rugged path leading to the mud pit, as if the road should be like this.

But Lucien didn't think it would work.

He doesn't have to go out, but the way he goes out has to be a good way.

So Lawrence called the leaders of the construction team together, and everyone sat in a row in the conference room-the foremen were uncomfortable with such seriousness, and their buttocks froze on the cushions and only dared to touch the edge of the chair.

Then Lawrence conveyed the lord's unreasonable request to "pave all the public roads in Velveer within a month and then repair the pier." Before the foremen raised objections, he continued: No matter how unreasonable this request is, they have to find a way to complete it.

No objection, no acceptance of results other than the completion of the task.

"You are all professionals, I believe you can come up with a solution." Lawrence solemnly laid out the paper and pen documents, while the officials next to him moved a thick stack of drawings for records.

Lawrence went on to say, "Just ask me what you need, whether you need people, money or raw materials. Of course, you have to give me a solution first."

The door of the meeting room slammed shut behind them, and the sound of locking was loud and harsh. Lawrence picked up a quill pen and dipped it in ink as if he didn't realize it, and looked at the foreman closest to him, "Let's start with you, what do you think? ?"

Either everyone will starve to death inside together, or give him a solution that everyone can survive.

His master, Duke Velvet, called this method "active death", and he really actively implemented it among his subordinates.

Yes, don’t look at Lawrence’s calm, life-or-death look. The first time he was told by Duke Velvet that “success or die”, he admitted that he was intimidated by the Duke’s beautiful smiling face.

Lawrence was just going to deliver the written winter plan with William that day. He carefully considered every word in the plan. A very perfect plan.

It's a pity that the Duke probably didn't think so. The young man propped his chin with one hand and flipped through the pages. He sighed with the emotion of "baby, Dad is very disappointed in you", and cut down all the construction time they had planned. They halved and then halved, and stared at them for a few seconds when they euphemistically expressed that the time was tight and the mission-heavy concubines could not do it, and then made the following speech:

"If you can't do it, you can die."

The young man's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and the dimples on his cheeks were wrong, and they were still full of strong blood red in a trance.

He is serious.

...because it can be done.

Lucien is not a devil, how could he give his subordinates tasks that he couldn't do.

Lucien flipped through the system page. After he finished his first internal meeting and officially put the matter of winter construction on the agenda, a new subdivision page for the item [work] popped up in the system interface. interface.

[Welcome to the project management page. 】

[You can view the ongoing construction projects on the territory here, and learn about the construction progress, estimated construction time, manpower and consumable requirements, etc. 】

[Please make full use of this function to build territories more efficiently! 】

Currently the only project on the project management page is [Velvid Infrastructure Construction Plan V1.0], under the project name is a progress bar that is about equal to zero.Click the project name to view the project requirements, it says "repair public road 0/127", "repair wharf 0/3" and other content, and double-click the project name will pop up a small window, the contents of the upper, middle and lower lines are respectively written "Raw material xxx/catties", "labor force xxx/person" and "time consumption xxx/hour", each row is followed by a slider, which can be adjusted by sliding the data.

When raw materials and labor are increased, time consumption will be reduced accordingly, and when time consumption is reduced, the demand for raw materials and labor will increase accordingly.

Both labor and raw materials are limited, and the time consumption cannot be reduced to zero. No matter how you drag it, it will be stuck at the limit of 357/hour.

That is to say, after mobilizing the entire Velvet labor force and all available raw materials, and everything is under the most ideal conditions, Velvet's first phase of infrastructure construction plan will only take less than half a month to complete.

And Lucien, on the premise of allowing Lawrence and William to pull his flag and use all his resources as the lord, relaxed the half month to a full month. work.

Well, he doesn't like subordinates who don't work hard.