The Extraordinary Earl

However, the two of them stopped this topic in a tacit understanding. Luther pulled out a chair from under the desk and sat down, then asked: "How is the situation in Pompeii now?"

"Can't you see the situation in Pompeii? How many pedestrians are there on the street?" Lelouch couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

This is the biggest and most fundamental reason.

There are no residents.

You are blind.

As close friends, only a few people such as Lelouch would be so critical of Luther now.

"Of course I can see it." Luther also rolled his eyes, and then said: "But I want to understand the work of the city hall in detail."

Lelouch sighed and took his seat as mayor again. He crossed his hands on the desk and said in a helpless tone: "I have also done a lot of work to recruit residents. For example, using Pompeii's low housing prices to attract residents to move in. It doesn't matter if the house is sold at a low price, as long as By attracting residents to live there, we can make money through taxes. But the problem is that we have only recruited a dozen households in the past few months, and most residents are unwilling to come.”

Luther generally understood and guessed the reason why the residents were unwilling to come, but he still asked, "Why no one came."

"One." Lelouch stretched out a finger and said: "Pompei is a knightly territory, and it will be questioned by the residents. What's more, Pompeii is close to the forest and faces the threat of monsters. A knight lord, How much power is there to defend the territory? Residents question whether their property and lives will be threatened.”

Luther nodded, this is indeed a Achilles heel.

Lord Knight is generally equal to weak.

And this is different from Luther's attraction of farmers. The farmers in the Marquis of Parker's territory have lost their land and are homeless. They can only take risks.

And residents are clearly not willing to take any chances.

"Two." Lelouch held out two fingers at this time, and then said: "Pompei is a newly built city. There is no other output in the territory except agriculture. And the residents obviously need to work, weaving, Logging, mining, even catering, etc. What do the residents do when they come? This is what they are confused about.”

Luther also sighed. The first was a matter of prestige, and the second was a very helpless reason. In a newly built city, the industry surrounding the city was small.

How to attract residents?

Using low housing prices as a bargaining chip is obviously not enough.

A city requires many, many positions.

For example, a family has parents, wife, and children.

The father can be an intellectual, work in a school in the city, and earn public money.

The mother can be a handicraftsman and do some work within her ability.

The wife can be employed and help with cleaning.

You can be a senior manager of a factory or workshop. My son, my children are still in school.

For its inhabitants, Pompeii primarily provided these jobs.

At present, the public positions in Pompeii are monopolized by the knights and scholars recruited by Luther. As for the school, there is no sign of it.

There are various factories, such as Pompeii wine estates, ranches, etc., but they are not large in scale and are currently recruited from the Pompeii aborigines.

What do the residents do when they come?

"The second problem is very complicated. I'll come up with some ideas, but it will take time. Let's solve the first problem first."

Luther rubbed his temples and said helplessly.

"I think so too." A mysterious smile appeared on Lelouch's face, and then he took out a few documents on the desk, took out one and handed it to Luther, and said, "I think our The idea should be the same."

Luther took the document and looked at it, and he was immediately happy.

The two people really had the same idea.

This document records the list of bandits and bandits currently active throughout the Orange Province.

The world is very complicated, and the Kingdom of Prussia is not stable.

First of all, there are the palace nobles with the King of Prussia as the core, and the king's vassals in name, with the real nobles with titles as the core. These are two forces that are vaguely confronting each other.

Among them, there is also the "New Party" that advocates for the people to enjoy rights and hopes to overthrow the aristocratic rule. The power of the New Party cannot be ignored.

Although Orange is still relatively stable now, perhaps the power of the new party has penetrated into many places, such as recruiting knights and disguising themselves as thieves.

What's more, there are many thieves in Orange.

This is the reason why there are twenty or thirty hereditary lords and nobles in a province. Although each lord has his own armed forces, there will be areas under his jurisdiction where he does not care.

These places are prone to breed bandits and bandits.

These bandits, the milder ones, make a living by collecting protection fees from passing caravans. The worse ones would rob caravans or even attack towns.

The places they occupy are often very dangerous places that are not easy to capture. And the lords did not want to waste their knight power in order to deal with these bandits.

This leads to the proliferation of evil.

Some thieves are on the wanted list in the Orange Province and are very vicious.

Not to mention lone thieves, Kurd, the thief from Pompeii, is one of the best. There are really many such thieves throughout Orange.

Luther and Lelouch's purpose was to attack these bandits and lone thieves. Show your strength.

Since the residents were afraid that Pompeii was too weak to protect their property and life, they showed force to reassure the residents.

Moreover, after killing the bandits and bandits, you can also go to the provincial consul and the Libyan earl to receive the reward, which is more cost-effective than trading.

"Pa." Lelouch clapped his palms, and then said with a happy smile on his face: "The problem now is that except for the lone bandit, none of these bandits can be dealt with by us."

Luther looked at the list on the document, shrugged, and then put it on the table.

It was exactly as Lelouch said, those powerful thieves groups were not something Luther could deal with.

Damn it.

The size of these thieves groups is very large. Not counting Little Luoluo, there are at least thirty or forty light knights, and the proportion of intermediate knights and even senior knights is not low.

no way. If it weren't for their outstanding combat prowess, these bandits would have been wiped out by the lords long ago. Those who survive are the strong ones.

And it will get stronger and stronger.

Just like lords running their territories, thieves rely on robbery not only to survive, but also to occasionally steal countless gold coins and buy magic potions to improve their strength. Isn't that fun?

Robbery is also a promising career.

By wiping out these gangs of thieves to show off your force, these gangs of thieves may teach you how to behave in seconds.

Sad!