After wiping out the orc rearguard, Suren led the army back to the northern city. By this time, the remaining orcs had basically all evacuated to the northern wilderness. The kingdom's allied army had pursued the orcs for a while and had achieved some results, but the orcs' main force had retreated.
Su Lun originally wanted to see if there was a chance to keep the high priest of the Orcs, but now it seemed impossible. When he left, Su Lun also took the refugees he had gathered in the wild with him. But this time, the number of refugees he gathered was much smaller, only more than 3,000 people in total.
It took Suhlen four days to return to the Northern Town. At this time, the Northern Town had become a large construction site. Because of the skyrocketing population, the Northern Town was now overcrowded. In just two months, Su Lun had immigrated more than 100,000 people from all the provinces in the Northern Region.
The third phase of the Northern Town was currently under construction. According to Suhlen's blueprint, the third phase of the Northern Town's walls would be eight kilometers long. If it was completed, the Northern Town could easily accommodate more than 100,000 people. It would be one of the largest cities in the entire Kingdom of Florence.
It wasn't that Suhlen couldn't build a bigger city. In fact, with the current productivity of society, a city with more than 100,000 people would need other towns to provide for it.
After all, the more people living in the city, the more resources they would need. In this era without fertilizers, the output of the land was limited. It would take a lot of land to provide for a city with 100,000 people. If they kept expanding the land, many farmers would have to live outside the city.
If it were the Kingdom of Florence, this wouldn't be a problem. After all, the land in Florence had been developed for hundreds of years. The number of kobolds and goblins in the wilderness was limited. However, the Northern Town was different. It had only been occupied for a year. Even if the Northern Town's army kept patrolling, the number of monsters in the wilderness would still increase.
It wasn't safe for the farmers to live far away from the city. Therefore, Suhlen wasn't planning to build a big city with too many people. Since the Northern Town had fertilizer and the Harvest Altar, the land here had a lot of production. It wouldn't be difficult to provide for a city with 100,000 people.
However, Suhlen did not plan to build such a large city. He planned to build another city to the west of North Town City. So far, Suhlen's territory had three cities. Aside from North Town City, there was also Mirror Lake City and Centaur City. However, Mirror Lake City and Centaur City did not have a large population.
After several migrations, Mirror Lake City's population had reached ten thousand, while Centaur City's population was even lower, only around four thousand. Su Lun planned to leave 60,000 people in the North Town, 20,000 in the Mirror Lake City, 5,000 in the Centaur City, and the remaining 15,000 in the new city to be built.
More than twenty gathering points of various sizes had been set up outside the Northern Citadel. Each gathering point had two thousand to five thousand people, which added up to more than fifty thousand people. These people were currently working on the construction site. The construction of the Northern Citadel's third phase of construction was prioritized, and it had to be completed before November.
This was because it would start snowing in North Town City in November. If there were no houses by then, these refugees and slaves would freeze to death. It was already August, and there were only three months until November. It was very stressful to complete the construction of the city walls and houses in such a short period of time.
Suhlen's return did not affect the construction of the city. Now, there were many grassroots officials in North Town City. These trained officials could do their jobs. As long as they were given a task, they would do it according to the requirements. Therefore, even though the number of people in North Town City had increased by several times, Suhlen had fewer things to deal with.
In the past, Suhlen had to deal with a lot of trivial matters. Now, the people under him had taken care of everything in an orderly manner. As for corruption, abuse of power, and abuse of power, these problems had not appeared in North Town City yet.
It did not mean that the officials in North Town City had high ideological awareness. In fact, these people also had their own selfish desires. To prevent this from happening, North Town City had set up a special monitoring department. Apart from the monitoring department, the most important thing was the prison in North Town City.
Suhlen had spent a lot of effort to build the prison, and the results were surprisingly good. After the grassroots officials received their training, they had to come to the prison for their last ideological and political lesson. After experiencing the special treatment here, all the grassroots officials became respectful and fearful of this place. They also worked diligently and did not dare to cross the line.
In order to deepen the memory of these grassroots officials, Suhlen had set a rule that every six months, all the officials had to go to the prison for ideological and political re-education. As for the results, it seemed to be quite good so far. As for the jailers and wardens in the prison, because they worked here, the effects here were ineffective unless they were no longer working in the prison.
Of course, there was also a monitoring system for the prison staff. Suhlen had hired a sculptor to carve two statues of mythical creatures according to the myths and legends in his previous life. These two statues had no other functions.
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With these, the governance of North Town City had reached a level that was unattainable even in his previous life. Of course, Suhlen still had a lot of benefits for the officials. In addition to the basic salary, there were extra benefits every month. It could be said that the living standards of the grassroots officials were quite good.
Suhlen did not calculate the salaries of the officials accurately like Zhu Hongwu did. The salaries were so low that the officials could barely feed their families. Although Suhlen did not advocate high salaries for honest people, it was unacceptable to let the horses run and not eat grass. How could there be such a good thing in the world? After all, there were only a few people like Hai Rui in the entire Ming Dynasty.
The benefits of the grassroots officials in North Town City were quite good. Although they could not be rich, they could still live without worrying about food and clothing. Moreover, Suhlen promised them that when schools were built in North Town City, their children would be able to enroll directly.
Although Suhlen had less work, the number of grassroots officials was starting to decrease. Suhlen did not have a good solution at the moment. He could only choose some refugees from the slaves. When these people were transported to North Town City, all of them were divided into small teams. Some of the grassroots officials were selected from these people.
Those who did a good job and cooperated well during the migration were all promoted to grassroots officials. They were then allowed to learn from the previous grassroots officials for a period of time. Once they learned enough, those who passed the internship were sent to the grassroots officials training base in batches. Those who did not pass the assessment were sent back directly.
Suhlen used this method to train a group of grassroots officials quickly.
The arrival of a large number of people not only made North Town City crowded, but also brought a lot of problems such as security and hygiene. The main problem was that there were only 300 people in the city guard. Relying on 300 people to manage a city of 100,000 people was a serious lack of manpower.
When the army from North Town City returned, Suhlen temporarily transferred 1,000 spearmen to serve as the security force. At the same time, the military camp began to recruit new soldiers. Some of these new soldiers were to serve as the security force, while the others were to serve as spearmen and archers.
Suhlen wanted to build the Formation Breaker and Archer Battalion, so he needed a large number of Spear Guards and Sharpshooters. Due to the probability of advancement, these two special forces would not be full for a long time.
The third phase of North Town City's city wall was 15 meters tall and 8 kilometers long. The top was 5 meters wide, and the bottom was 6.5 meters wide. It could be said that this part of the city wall was the largest construction apart from the Wonder Building. To build this wall, North Town City used 60,000 people to work. Among them, 30,000 were human slaves, and the rest were kobolds, gnomes, and gnolls.
The 60,000 people were assigned to the construction site that was 8 kilometers long. The brick kiln factory in North Town City also began to produce bricks in large quantities. Because the residential buildings were also being built, the demand for bricks in North Town City skyrocketed. There was already a lack of supply.
Suhlen allowed the brick kiln factory to expand production while transporting rocks from the quarry. Even so, the supply of bricks was still tight. Faced with this situation, Suhlen had to use the previous method of building houses, which was to use mud and straw to build houses.
Although this kind of house was not beautiful, and the lighting was bad, and it was easy to get wet on rainy days, it was good at keeping warm. These houses only needed to survive the winter. When the supply of bricks was enough, the houses could be rebuilt.
The large number of people coming in made North Town City's daily necessities very tight. There was no shortage of food in North Town City, and there were enough potatoes. However, the supply of meat was tight. The human body needed to eat a lot of meat, so Suhlen used a large number of fish as a substitute. Everyone was given a bowl of fish soup every day.
As for beef and mutton, it was better not to think about it. North Town City was severely lacking in beef and mutton. Suhlen had ordered to stop the slaughter of beef and mutton. The livestock raised by the centaurs had not been sold yet, so Suhlen was buying beef and mutton from the caravans.
The soldiers in North Town City were strong, loyal, and disciplined. However, they also had a weakness, which was that they consumed a lot of meat. After all, a knight had to eat at least half a kilogram of meat a day. Their strong bodies required a lot of meat to provide energy.
The army in the North Town could be said to be all gluttons. The amount of meat they consumed every day made Su Lun's liver ache. A meal would consume at least dozens of cows and hundreds of sheep. Now, there were only some cattle and sheep left in the farms in the North Town.
Just for meat, Suhlen spent nearly 10,000 Kinnar every month.
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