Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1157 New Village Planning Advance Promise
In Xia Duo's plan, a relatively concentrated natural village must have at least a hundred households, so that after forming a full-time patrol and hunting team, the remaining people can complete the farming task of the whole village during the sowing period.

The forest territory is not safe, or this world, this era is not safe.

Based on the current population of the Great Xia Territory, there will be nearly twenty natural villages!
With the construction of new villages, the population is scattered, and the territorial guards cannot always take care of all the villages.

Therefore, the village also needs to have a certain amount of armed forces for self-protection, otherwise a few wandering orcs may come and wipe out the whole village.

This situation will last for a long time until the surrounding environment is completely stabilized.

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In the conference room, Xia Duo listened to the discussion with great interest, but the focus of the discussion soon shifted from the new village construction to the land grant schedule.

"The current arable land in the territory and the subsequent development speed are not enough to support such an aggressive land grant plan. I think it can be slowed down a little bit. We must not use the land on paper to fool people!"

The person who spoke was Kaide, the chief officer of the logistics department, and he was also the first group of leaders who followed Xia Duolai to open up the Green Pearl Forest.

It stands to reason that he also has a share of the land grant quota not long ago. After all, the land only corresponds to the number of people.

However, considering the lack of arable land in the territory, Xia Duo took the initiative to ask for a late allocation before the territorial officials proposed it.

Of course, only himself, without asking others to be like him.

But now, what he is refuting is the proposal of Jia Ke, the head of the Residential Resettlement Department, to first grant the land on paper to the residents, and wait for the development to be completed in the future before cashing in.

"How is this fooling people?"

Hearing Cade say this about himself, Jacco's dissatisfaction was almost written on his face, and his voice raised slightly. If he hadn't considered that the lord was there, he would even be ready to scold him!

"Kade, do you think that the territory will not recognize the land granted in advance in the future?"

These words were a bit serious, and Kaide immediately got up and looked at Xia Duo, "My lord, Kaide absolutely doesn't have such thoughts. I firmly believe in the reputation of the territory and my lord!"

"Then why do you still object?" Jacco asked back.

"me--"

Cade was speechless for a moment.

Before coming to Great Xia Territory, he was just an ordinary farmer in Savile Territory, while Jaco ran a large leather shop. Compared to Cade, he is quite seasoned.

But Cade also has an advantage that Jacob cannot compare to, that is, Cade always puts himself in the position of an ordinary farmer, and does not change because of his current status.

This is the point that determines that he will speak for the more common citizens. Although he cannot refute Jacco's rebuttal, he has a faint feeling in his heart that doing so is inappropriate, and he believes that the lord will support him of.

"Layton, what do you think of this situation?" Xia Duo looked at Layton who was standing below his right hand.

Layton thought for a while and replied: "My lord, the territory will not promise promises that cannot be fulfilled!"

So you are supporting Jaco?

Xia Duo was thoughtful, getting along with him for so long, Layton was not like at first, he could only execute instructions in a simple and rough way, but had more understanding of his own, he could not only put forward different opinions, but also go round the corner. solving issues.

In a word, Leighton has become mature!

This also made Xia Duo trust him more, but now, Leiden's decision cannot be said to be wrong, but it is somewhat ill-considered.

At present, the people of the land have a relatively high trust in the Daxia leadership and the Daxia order, but this kind of trust is more based on the recent land granting action. It is true that the land is allocated and the gold coins are obtained. Some people believe it!
If the undeveloped paper land is granted to the people, although Xia Duo believes that the land will not violate the contract, the people may trust it, but as long as it is not honored for a day, there will always be hesitation in their hearts.

Trust wears out!
And if it takes too long to cash in, if something goes wrong in the middle, even if the compensation is doubled in the future, it will be a stain that will be difficult to wash away in a lifetime.

In particular, this kind of dishonesty at the official policy level is much more serious than the private violations of law and discipline by some officials!

On the other hand.

The order of the Great Xia is the social order, which is influenced and restricted by people's hearts. If people's hearts are unstable, the power of order will change, and the cycle of order will also be affected.

Although Xia Duo's research on the power of order is more like a hobby now, in the long run, the research on the power of order may be more important to the development of magic civilization than the research on the plane field!

After all, Xia Duo's research on the field of planes is mainly to make full use of the portable space. Personally, it may be more important, but for the civilization he wants to develop as a whole, it may not be so.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo did not immediately give the final result to this question, but named Jeff, the chief officer of the development department:
"Jeff, how much arable land can the development department develop in a month without delaying the opening of the [Great Xia-Saville Passage]?"

[Big Xia-Saville Passage] is only 500 meters wide. Without considering the multi-stage construction, the number of people who can work at the same time is limited, which is far lower than the total number of people in the development department. Of course, the remaining people will continue to open up new places. up!

Hearing the lord calling himself, Jeff got up immediately. Regarding this issue, he had already prepared before coming, and Clark had already calculated it for him. Now just follow the instructions:

"My lord, there are currently 243 large and small development groups in the development department, with a total of more than 3300 people. To open up the [Great Xia-Saville Passage] requires the cooperation of 78 working groups and 25 mobile working groups. It is used for land development, and it is estimated that 1500 new acres of land can be newly developed every month if there are no major accidents!"

"1500 new acres?"

Hearing this number, Xia Duo was not surprised. Judging from the work plans and work records submitted by the Development Department in the past, this number is quite reasonable.

It seems that thousands of people can only open up so much land in a month, but you must know that this is in the forest. Among other things, just removing tree roots requires a lot of labor.

Not to mention, there is also the work of expulsion and cleaning up forest creatures in advance, which has a high uncertainty factor.

If it is just to cut down the trees, it is not uncommon for so many people to cut down 1000 mu a day, the key is the arable land!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo envied those who pioneered in Kangqi Plain again!

(End of this chapter)