Lord Harland.

After the autumn harvest is completed, October quickly enters.

Richard looked at the population statistics. This year, through official purchases of slaves, reception of escaped slaves, private purchase of slaves, etc., the number of people in the Harland Territory increased by 15,000.

With more mouths and thousands of families, can these newly joined slaves settle down?Will it be bullied by bureaucrats?Li Cha was also a little worried.

Through the experience of his previous life, Li Cha knew in his heart that the bureaucratic system has various drawbacks, the most common one is to deceive the superiors and the inferiors, creating a closed information cocoon for the superiors, coaxing the superiors around and confining them to fabricated lies.

In many cases, high-level policies are often closest to the people at the bottom, but in the process of policy communication and implementation, they are distorted and distorted by bureaucrats, and eventually become profit-making tools in the hands of some people to exploit the people.

They take advantage of the high-level space away from the grass-roots level to conceal many things, and threaten and lure the bottom.

Even if the Dawn Plane is a world where Weili belongs to himself, this situation will still occur, but it is not as serious as in the previous life.

Because the superiors on the Dawn plane possess powerful power, their deterrent power against the bureaucracy is naturally far greater than those who rely on the bureaucracy to hold power.

For example, Richard was able to control the power of Harland's territory not only because of the king's appointment and noble blood, but more importantly, relying on the strength of himself and his family to manage the territory and form an army. His own strength is the reason why he controls the territory. root cause.So he doesn't need to compromise with the bureaucrats. If anyone makes him dissatisfied, he can easily overturn the table and replace people or even kill people.

Even so, the bullying below is still very serious.

As long as you want to govern the people, you must have the bureaucratic class.

In order to prevent bureaucrats from causing serious problems, the easiest thing is to break out of the information cocoon and personally contact the grassroots.

Starting from October, Li Cha led his soldiers to inspect the territory. He would go to every village, factory and mine in person, talk to the slaves, see the real situation at the grassroots level, and solve some problems for the grassroots as much as he could.

Along the way, Li Cha is quite satisfied with the current situation.

Last year, when Li Cha was still in the territory, he could see some old people and children who had frozen to death, abandoned in the woods outside the village and eaten by wild dogs.

There is a lot of food stored this year, and the wool spinning in the territory is on the right track, producing a large amount of sweaters and woolen cloth. Coupled with the successful development of the coal mine, it can provide sufficient fuel for the indentured servants, and no one has been seen freezing to death along the way.

After walking all the way, in late October, Richard came to Zhuanyao Village.

The brick kiln village is located near the Bobi brick kiln factory, and almost all the villagers are workers of the brick kiln factory.

The brick kiln factory was separated from official management last year and started market-oriented operation.

From last year to this year, because there are still relatively few free people building houses, they mainly rely on official orders to survive.

Of course, official orders will not be given high prices, and sometimes they cannot even get cash, so they can only pay in kind such as grain, salt, brown sugar, woolen cloth, steel, etc.

For the whole of last year, Bobby Brick Kiln Factory only made a profit of gold coins.

Because of his strong management ability, Rooney, the director of the brick kiln factory, was appointed by Richard as the civil affairs officer of Fort Sophia.Leaving the factory line, he was promoted to the top of the territorial bureaucracy.

The deputy director, Bobby, is not good at managing people. He still serves as the deputy director of production, but he gets a 2% dividend from the brick kiln factory. On the contrary, the director of the factory, Layton, did not play a key role in the development of the brick kiln factory and did not have any shares in the brick kiln factory.

If Rooney is willing to be the director of the factory, Li Cha once promised to give him a % dry stock dividend.But Rooney gave up the dividends of the brick kiln factory for the sake of his future.

As long as Bobby lives, he can continue to receive this share of stock, but he cannot inherit it to future generations.

Because the profit of the brick kiln factory is not high, Bobby only received ten gold coins as a dividend last year.

Bobby's salary is relatively high, one gold coin and six silver coins a month, including dividends, bonuses, etc., last year he earned more than gold coins, comparable to the deputy squadron leader of the army.

And his job is easier and more stable than that of an officer. At least he didn't need to go to the front line in person to fight for his life against the orc army.

During the seven years since he joined Harland's territory, Bobby not only married his wife, but also raised two lovers, and lived a very good life.

Compared with before joining Harland's territory, it can be said that he has achieved a class leap and completely turned over.

When Richard came to Brick Kiln Village, Layton and Bobby received the news and rushed into Brick Kiln Village with the management of the brick kiln factory.

The villagers of Zhuanyao Village looked at the management with flattering and frightened eyes when they saw Layton and Bobby.

Seeing this scene, Richard sighed in his heart: "The cute Bobby back then who was dedicated to improving the brick-making process has disappeared and turned into a bureaucrat like Leiden. Time is really a butcher's knife, and it has changed countless things. people."

Li Cha nodded to Layton, Bobby and the others, and then entered the courtyard of a villager.

The courtyard is the most standard house type in Harland territory. It is twelve meters deep and fifteen meters wide. The three houses face north and south, with an area of ​​about 60 square meters.

Seeing Richard coming in with a group of people, the owner of the house was immediately shocked. Seeing Richard, he was so excited that he couldn't speak.

Li Cha can understand this kind of mentality. When a high-ranking and important figure walks by his side, he will involuntarily feel a kind of excitement and a kind of admiration in his heart. This is an emotion shared by all human beings.

When Li Cha met the county magistrate, he was equally excited.

"Don't get excited. I see that you look familiar. You should be the first group of old people to enter the territory. Is your name Robinson?"

Since learning magic and greatly improving his mental power, Richard's memory has become very amazing.

He can recall anyone he met a few years ago.

Hearing the lord call his name, Robinson became even more excited, his face turned red, and he was even a little excited.

When Robinson finally calmed down, Li Cha asked, "How many people are there in your family now?"

"I married Celia. When we got married, she had two children and took care of her parents-in-law. After we got married, we had three children. Now I have nine people in my family."

"Nine people can be allocated 45 acres of land. If you want to work in a brick kiln, can the elderly and children manage it?"

"Last year, we couldn't grow enough, and the harvest was not very good. This year our family bought a mule. Celia's eldest son Sola is years old this year, and her second child is years old. Her parents-in-law are not too old. It can be planted."

"How is the harvest this year, and can life survive?"

"Thanks to the benevolent lord, this year we can save three to four gold coins in addition to the rations we left behind, the food we grew, and the food we sold for a meal, plus my salary."

"It's going to snow these days. Do you have enough fuel in reserve?"

"The children have been collecting firewood since spring. By winter, the firewood has been piled very high. The firewood behind the house belongs to my family. In addition, we also spent two silver coins to buy a thousand kilograms of coal for the winter. There is enough fuel.”

Li Cha went out to look at the pile of firewood and found a big tree. He lowered his head and said to Layton, "Show more to the people in the community and don't cut down the big tree. Not only will there be no firewood in the future after the big tree is cut down, but it will also bring Serious soil erosion."

Seeing that Robinson was a little panicked, Li Cha turned his head and asked pleasantly, "What are you going to do with the gold coins you saved?"

"Sola has reached the age of marriage. He will have his own family and will no longer be able to live with us. I plan to use this money to build a house for Sora next year."

"It's a good idea. The Goddess of Dawn favors hardworking people. If you encounter unfair things, you can ask someone to write to me. I will come to Brick Kiln Village to visit you next year."