Gwen had no way to explain his plans and his foresight to others. Even to Rebecca and Heti, the most trustworthy people, he could not explain clearly what he was thinking. So all he could do was to break down his plans into stages and details, and then slowly build them up.
What he did today could be said to be the most basic part of it, and even the construction of the territory was just the foundation.
For Rebecca and Heti, Gwen showed them the incredible side of the civilians and serfs.
They had never seen civilians and serfs work with such high enthusiasm, and they were able to finish the work that they had never done well in the past.
They thought that Gwen's promise of "meat at night" was motivating these people, and it was indeed so.
It was still too early to build the so-called people's self-confidence and the enthusiasm of labor. Using a meal of meat to stimulate the enthusiasm of the labor force was the simplest and most effective way.
Back in the tent in the center of the camp, Gwen found a pen and paper and began to record something. At the same time, he ordered Byron and Knight, who followed him in, "Send two people to take out the meat and cook it. Prepare enough for ten people. In addition, as long as they participate in labor, they will be provided with vegetable soup and black bread. We still have a lot of food. In the early days of the territory construction, no one can fall ill because of cold or hunger. "
"You really want to prepare enough meat for ten people?" Byron asked, a little surprised.
Gwen answered matter-of-factly, "Of course, I have to fulfill my promise. Is there a problem? "
"I thought you just wanted to boil a pot of meat soup," Byron explained, "Just a few walnut-sized pieces of meat, plus vegetables, stewing a big pot of soup, and those people will be grateful."
"Do as I say," Gwen waved his hand, "I will not allow the slightest discount on my promise. By the way, let the cooks set up a big pot in the most eye-catching place in the camp. I want everyone to see the scene of the meat stewing. At the same time, let the soldiers maintain order on the side. No one is allowed to rob. "
Knight Byron bowed with a strange expression on his face and left after receiving the order.
Gwen noticed someone staring at him from the side. He turned his head and found Amber staring at him without blinking.
"What are you looking at?" He moved his neck uncomfortably. "Is there something on my face?"
"I wonder if you were possessed by something that affected your mind when you were in the treasury, but it doesn't look like it," Amber said with a serious face. "I've never heard of a noble who would voluntarily reduce their wealth …"
Gwen found it a little funny. "You think my actions are to reduce my wealth?"
"What else?" Amber spread out her hands. "Turning the serfs into freemen means that in the future, they only need to give you a portion of the food they grow. You still have to pay the freemen wages. This is like taking money from your own pocket... Can a noble do this?"
"If I ask you to help me paint the walls, how much can you do in a day without paying?"
Amber thought for a moment. "I'll steal a few coins from your pocket and hire a boy from the chores room to do it for me. I'll use the rest of the money to buy wine!"
Gwen: "... I don't have anything better to do than to reason with you, the shame of all things!"
Amber: "How am I the shame of all things?!"
At this time, Heti walked into the tent and interrupted Amber's outburst. The lady still had an incredulous expression on her face. "Ancestors, it's incredible. They've never worked so hard before. Especially those serfs, they can finish their work without a supervisor..."
"Because they were only working for the lord before, but now their work is closely related to their meals." Gwen said without surprise. "This is just the first step. You can already see that compared to the food and wages we have to pay, we get much more."
"I've thought of using incentives to make them work, but I didn't do it to this extent." Heti shook her head. "I don't dare to imagine what the future of the fief will be like if this system continues."
Gwen laughed. "It will definitely develop in a good direction. You just have to believe me. And what I did today is just the first step. Come and take a look at these... "
Gwen had been writing and drawing on a few pieces of paper since the beginning. Amber had come over to take a look and found it boring. But now, Heti heard Gwen's order and immediately came over obediently. "What... is this?"
There were some sentences on the paper that she could not understand. It looked more like a pile of strange nouns, such as working group, competition and contracting, assessment methods and efficiency statistics. On the other few pieces of paper were the words of medium-term plan, general education, magic talent survey, talent introduction and so on. It looked even more puzzling.
"I came up with these recently, but it was not the right time to implement them. Now that the construction of the fief has begun, it's time to put some things on the agenda." Gwen pointed to the top piece of paper. "I'm afraid these things are difficult for many civilians and serfs to understand, so I'll explain it to you first. Then you can explain it to Byron, Knight and the supervisor, and repeat it to everyone. By the way, where's Rebecca?"
"She... is helping to burn the weeds and bushes on the south side of the river," Heti said. "This is one of the ways she usually practices magic."
Gwen's mouth twitched. "Let her come over. It doesn't matter when she practices Big Fireball."
Soon, Rebecca was called in. The viscount's face was black, and her body smelled of smoke. Rather than saying that she had gone to practice magic, it was more like she had just come out of the kitchen. No wonder she only knew one spell, Fireball.
"Let me tell you about the work schedule in the camp." Gwen spread out his plan and explained in detail. "First of all, the working group. I want all the workers to be divided into groups of five to ten people. Each group will be assigned work tasks and work shifts.
"All the groups will report to the supervisor before they start work. When they finish work, they will also report to the supervisor. The supervisor will be responsible for calculating the work of each group. In addition, each group will have a team leader, who will be responsible for assigning work within the group.
"Let them choose the team leaders themselves. Also, tell them that the team leaders are not fixed. If a team leader affects the work efficiency or deceives the supervisor and the lord, he will be replaced immediately.
"The performance of the work will be assessed according to the group. The group will be rewarded and punished. I will talk about the reward and punishment system and the competition mechanism later.
"As for the scoring system I mentioned earlier, considering that most people can't read or count, Heti, you will be responsible for recording the completion of each group. We will talk about the specific contribution count later.
"In addition, we will also discuss the way to record the tools received and returned by each group."
Gwen said a lot in one breath. Not only Rebecca, but even Heti was dizzy. The latter looked at Gwen in a daze as he continued to write and draw on the paper. Soon, there were some scribbled shorthand notes under the items that only had nouns before. She could not help but feel a little confused. "Ancestor, if you make a simple work so complicated, won't it reduce the efficiency?"
"These systems only look complicated, but at the end of the system, that is to say, the commoners and serfs only need to work fast and well to get benefits. After they taste the benefits, they will naturally follow the rules seriously. When they start to follow the rules, you will see an even more amazing efficiency than when setting up the tents today. Of course, it may be difficult to implement at the beginning. That's why you have to constantly preach and explain them. In addition, it must be enforced and promoted forcibly. There is no why. Just tell them that this is the new law of Cecil Hill. "
At this time, Gwen could not help but feel a little grateful for this backward era. The wisdom of the people was not developed. Whether it was the free people or the slaves, they took obeying orders as a matter of course. The words of the lord were absolute, and the so-called "untouchables" had no room to resist. In this case, many of his ideas could be implemented without much explanation.
However, this was not the situation Gwen wanted. His purpose was to break this environment, so that every "untouchable" in Cecil Hill was no longer an untouchable, but a living person.
He needed people, a lot of people.
Because what he wanted to do, it was impossible for him to do it alone.
That was why he asked Heti to constantly preach these systems to the people while promoting them forcibly. It did not matter if the civilians did not understand now, they would understand one day.
Heidi was not stupid. She was intelligent enough, and her understanding was far ahead of the current nobles. Therefore, after hearing Gawain's explanation and thinking about it for a while, she vaguely understood the significance of doing so. She nodded and agreed.
"What about me?" Rebecca saw that Aunt Heti had a task, so she could not help but come up excitedly. "What do I do?"
The viscount's daughter, who was the lord of Cecil Hill not long ago, had completely put herself in the position of Gwen's assistant.
"Tomorrow, you take some people to survey the soil and confirm the difficulty of the reclamation and the scope of the initial reclamation. Don't go too far. "
As Gwen spoke, he quickly sketched a rough map on a piece of white paper. It was a large area with the river as the center, and he also marked the distance of each place. Although it was not even a rough outline, it still made Rebecca stare blankly.
"You just follow this area. Don't worry about the places outside the area."
Rebecca took the "map" in a daze. "Oh … Oh …"
Amber next to her looked at Gwen as if she was looking at a monster. "You … Were the guys who did the second reclamation all monsters?"
Thinking for a moment, Gawain felt that the other old guys from seven hundred years ago would not jump out of their graves and beat him up. So, he made up a story. "That's right. Drawing a topographic map of half a kingdom with one's eyes closed was the standard of our generation."
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