Warlord: King of All Clans

Looking at the two large baskets of fragrant wheat cakes held by the girl, the deputy captain next to little Noyce poked the captain's back inconspicuously.

According to the military regulations of River Bend, soldiers cannot directly eat food from strangers to prevent any accidents.

Although the girl's behavior seemed harmless, who knew if she had other ideas and wanted to give the cavalry of River Bay a surprise?

Little Noyce stared at the girl's expectant eyes, and watched her courage run out and she shyly lowered her head, and finally chose to believe.

He picked up a wheat cake, took a bite, and immediately showed surprise in his eyes. He couldn't help asking: "What did you put in this wheat cake?"

The girl's courage had been exhausted. She lowered her head and answered in panic, "Sir Knight, it's just, just a few common herbs."

"Very good, it tastes great." Little Noyce stood up. "If you have more cooking skills, I can hire you as a cook on the construction site. You will be paid, uh, ten copper coins a day, and meals will be provided."

Noyce didn't dare to say too much to prevent the villagers from losing control due to huge interests and causing neighborhood disputes.

But this was still a lot. The girl was so happy that she wanted to kneel down and worship him. She kept saying, "Yes! Yes! The thick soup I make is also delicious! I can also bake bread and roast meat!"

Finally, she asked hesitantly, "Sir Knight! Can you exchange the copper coins for food directly?"

The purchasing power of the empire's copper coins is not low, and they are even circulated among the wild people and foreign races. However, this place is twenty or thirty miles away from the nearest Linhai Town, and on the way, you have to pass through some refugee camps scattered in the wilderness. Obviously, food is more cost-effective.

"Of course, you can just call me Noyce." Little Noyce nodded. "By the way, what's your name?"

"Sir Knight Noyes, my name is Bessie."

Little Noyes looked at the small village not far away and smiled, "You are really lucky. According to the latest regulations of the Lord's Mansion, if the population of your village is less than 50 people, you will be forced to relocate and merge into Village No. 6 in the south, and redistribute the land for reclamation."

"The headman of your village has good vision. This valley was a wolf den last year. We hunted at least sixty wolves here, and even three wargs."

"If I can feed so many wild beasts, I can also feed you."

"If we hadn't been here before, no one would have noticed your presence for a year or so."

Young Bessie looked at the tall and strong young knight, blushed and lowered her head, "Yes, Sir Knight, we are so lucky."

While young Noyce and Beshi were talking, similar things were happening in countless corners of the nearly 4,000 square kilometers of land in the northwest region of Isenpol.

During this year, in order to cope with the influx of refugees from Frovald, Riverbend Town had Village No. 5, Rivermouth Town had Village No. 12, Gravelburg had Village No. 6, and Linhai Town had Village No. 7.

Except for a few formal development camps led by the Hewan government, most of them were small natural villages spontaneously formed by refugees. With the first census in Hewan, all of them were registered as citizens and included in the category of Hewan citizens, and protected by Hewan’s army and laws.

Residuary camps with less than 50 people, or whose locations do not conform to the planning, or which have land conflicts with the indigenous people, will be forcibly relocated and arranged to more suitable places to form new villages.

Originally, Leo was going to let them continue to grow wildly for a while and had no intention of reorganizing them so soon.

But after taking over Isenbol, with the support of the lord's mansion's industry, the development progress of the river bay can be slightly accelerated.

Simply waiting for the subjects to reproduce naturally would not be able to keep up with the speed of Hewan's development. If one wanted to achieve population growth in a short period of time, the only way was to resettle a large number of propertyless refugees and transform them into property-owning subjects.

If one wants to build a regular army, recruiting refugees as soldiers is the worst choice. No matter in terms of physical or mental quality, they are not as good as the wealthy landlords who have fields and families.

Moreover, he used to be very fond of business simulation games, so the location of the branch city could not be wrong in any grid. The four towns of River Bay, River Mouth, Gravel, and Forest were all the most unique locations for building cities in the southern part of the Wolf-Quking Plain.

Now that we have some free time, we can’t just leave the surrounding small villages alone, we have to intervene and make some adjustments!

After the new population data came out, the population of the entire Hewan Territory exceeded 15,000.

What’s outrageous is that the town’s population is close to 10,000!

After all, in order to protect themselves, the city walls of the four towns in Hewan were built very solidly in the beginning.

A large number of subjects were settled in the town and worked in the workshops and industries of the lord's mansion.

The earliest batch of subjects have all been promoted to the artisan class, and their children, through family education, no longer focus on the fields.

Even those workers on plantations and logging camps near the town would return to their homes after get off work in the evening and work with their family members to do some side jobs to supplement their family income.

Planting vegetables and fruits, cutting arrow shafts, spinning hemp thread, weaving hemp ropes...

The cram schools opened in the four towns of Hewan teach not only literacy and arithmetic, but also various basic life skills!

Those with strong learning ability can learn any skills and be promoted from low-level employees to junior craftsmen in the blink of an eye.

The remaining 5,000 people were not so lucky. They were newly incorporated into the natural village population and could only barely fill their stomachs by gathering and planting.

These people had just fled here and had settled down, so their productivity was extremely low.

Not to mention collecting taxes, even if we recruit a few soldiers, the remaining people will not be able to survive.

Although they no longer had to worry about invasions from surrounding tribes and oppression from their lords, their weak military force and pitiful fences could not even defend against brown bears and tigers, let alone the hordes of refugees.

This obviously did not meet the needs of Hewan, so a large number of Hewan engineering teams and patrol cavalry were scattered throughout the wilderness to "fertilize" and "weed" these small natural villages.

Most of the natural villages were grateful for the arrival of the River Bay Patrol Cavalry and the engineering team, and were also excited about becoming official subjects.

In the feudal era, it was not shameful to rely on a powerful country. On the contrary, the barbarians who pursued freedom too much would not be able to grow and develop.

Among the thirty-five small natural villages in the river bend, there are only three authentic wild folk villages. Apart from the most populous Great Waterfall Tribe, there are two newly joined wild folk tribes in the Gravel Hills.

On the contrary, the Wolf Fang Tribe, which was the first to surrender, has a population of one thousand by constantly absorbing savages, accounting for one-third of the population in River Bay Town. Their Basaka archers have always been the main projectile force in the River Bay Lord's army.

The wild people who became the town population no longer made a living by hunting, but began to switch to professional soldiers. The Basaka longbowmen who were not absorbed by the lord's army even began to form mercenary groups and registered them in Isenpol.

However, some villagers in small natural villages felt that they could protect their homes from oppression by the lords, so they chose to resist appropriately.

They would find ways to disrupt the progress of the engineering teams, destroy the mills and canals built by the engineering teams, and prevent the land they had worked so hard to develop from becoming the property of local lords.

The lord of the river bend was not tolerant of this at all. Those who needed to move were moved away, and those who needed to do labor were forced to do labor. He first gave them a few sticks and then sweet dates.

In the face of the general trend, the resistance of a small number of people is like the waves of a river, fleeting.