"What about the people who were sent here? Is there a categorization of them? "Roland asked.
"Yes, please look below." The assistant minister pointed to the bottom of the scroll. "At present, a total of 1,100 people have been sent to Border Town. Most of them are serfs and have been placed outside the town according to your request. Thirty-five craftsmen have been assigned to Carr. Their residences are concentrated in the "New Civilization District". "Barov said the awkward term." But Your Highness, is this okay? I remember you originally prepared it for the witches. "
"The guards I sent to spread the news haven't returned yet. The progress is slower than I thought. The houses will be used by the craftsmen and their families first. We can build them later." In Roland's plan, Border Town would be completely renovated. The wooden houses and mud bungalows would be rebuilt into brick houses. At the same time, spacious streets would be left, unlike now, where most of the alleys were only wide enough for two people to pass side by side.
"Yes," Barov nodded. "Your Highness, I heard that cattle and sheep will also be sent over?"
"Yes, but not now. I deliberately asked them to send them a few days later, together with the herders. West of the city wall, between the Impassable Forest and the Impassable Mountain Range, there is a grassland. It should be good to change it into a pasture. First, there will be two holes in the city wall for people to pass through. After all, it will only be useful during the Months of the Demons. "
Now that he had people and money, the bottleneck of the development of Border Town had temporarily disappeared, Roland could finally put his plan into action.
He called the guard outside the door and ordered: "Go find Carr of the Administrative Office. I guess if he is not in the mine, he must be in the wooden shed area outside the town."
Half an hour later, Carr walked into the office and bowed: "Your Highness."
It had been nearly half a year since the first time Roland met this member of the Mason Association. After being recruited into Border Town's City hall, he could be regarded as the busiest official in the past six months. He presided over the construction of the city wall, the residential area of the model houses and the wooden shed area. At the age of thirty-five, there were a few strands of silver hair on his temples, and his skin had become a little darker. However, his appearance was much better than when they first met, and his voice was full of energy.
It was indeed true that the environment could quickly change a person. Half a year ago, he was still a refugee from the Mason Guild who carefully hid himself and changed his appearance. Now, after being a project director and taking charge of the project himself, he already had the demeanor of a leader in his actions. However, what Roland admired the most was his willingness to sacrifice for others.
Roland smiled and nodded. "Come sit at the table." He handed over the few sketches he had just drawn. "Take a look. I need you to build something new. "
"This is a warehouse. Hmm, the bottom is elevated to prevent moisture." Carr quickly scanned through the first sketch. When he flipped to the second sketch, he looked at it for a while. "This … is a furnace?"
"That's right. You'll need to build more than five furnaces on the North Slope Mountain. They'll be used for calcining cement and firing clay bricks. Choose a spacious area and consider the location of the material transportation channel and the storage area. In the future, when the scale of the project increases, you'll need to expand more furnaces."
"Yes." He flipped to the last sketch and frowned. "This … seems to be a ditch? No, there is a roof and a retaining wall above it … Behind it is like a pool. Your Highness, I don't quite understand. "
Roland laughed. "This is a toilet, and it is also your top priority."
"A toilet?" Carr thought for a while. "Your Highness, where are you going to build it? There are toilets in your castle, and the attendants will be responsible for cleaning them regularly. Most of the villagers don't need this kind of thing, and they can solve it directly outside their houses. The same goes for the serfs. They can just discharge into the Redwater River, and the river will take away the filth. "
That was why he smelled a strong stench when he reached the shore today. Roland shook his head and dispelled the unpleasant memory. "That's why we need to change this bad habit."
"Uh … bad habit?" Carr didn't seem to understand.
For the civilians who were used to defecating and urinating anywhere, they naturally wouldn't understand how beautiful a world where they could stroll around without stepping on landmines would be. Roland criticized in his heart. "Anyway, you can build it according to the sketch. I've roughly marked the dimensions, and the length I've determined is the same as before. The location will be near the wooden shed area. Build at least four of them, two by two next to each other. Except for the ditch in the middle, which will be built with bricks, the sheds, roofs, and partitions outside will be built with planks, which will save a lot of cement. "
"Your Highness, you want to gather them together … Well," Carr paused. Obviously, he felt that talking about such filthy things in front of His Highness was an insult to the dignity of the royal family. "But what if they don't go in?"
"I will issue an order for them to follow. You can go and organize people to carry it out. "
"In that case, I will obey your order." He nodded. "Your Highness Roland, I have one more thing to report to you."
"Go ahead."
"After the Mason Guild was forced to disband, many people, like me, chose to leave King's City. I want to write a few letters and recruit the members of the Mason Guild, whose whereabouts I know, to come to Border Town. They have their own strengths, such as the furnace you mentioned, which Losiya is very good at. Your Highness, I don't know … "
"No problem at all," Roland immediately decided. "Recruit all of them and reorganize the Mason Guild. The pay will be calculated according to the Mason Guild's salary. If they are experienced, it won't hurt to bring them into City hall."
"Thank you for your generosity," Carr bowed to show his respect.
After the mason left, he began to write the serf management and disenfranchisement system.
Border Town's population was about to reach a peak. If it continued to rely on food imports, once there was a natural disaster or the trade route was cut off, the town would be in a precarious situation. Therefore, in addition to industry, agriculture must also be developed quickly to achieve self-sufficiency in food production as soon as possible.
The prince believed that as long as he set up a promotion path, these serfs would soon become active farmers. Coupled with Leaf's improved seeds, the farmland next to the Redwater River would become a sea of golden wheat ears in summer.
The requirement to prioritize the construction of toilets was also prepared for the development of agriculture — after having people, land and seeds, the last thing that needed to be supplemented was fertilizer.
Of course, Roland knew that it was very troublesome to use human and animal manure. It needed to be regularly cleaned and manual composted, which was far less convenient than chemical fertilizers. But the chemical industry did not even have a clue, so he had to use this pure natural organic fertilizer — at least human and animal manure had stood the test of time. Until the 20th century, some villages could still see this traditional fertilization method.
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