I'm working on infrastructure in Xihuan

After Dalton, Lawrence came out again to talk about the work results of their civil construction department and the work arrangement for next year.

Unlike winter, where the main events are road repairs, wharf repairs, and factory repairs, after the New Year’s Eve, the work focus of the civil construction department will be shifted to spring plowing in large numbers. Velvet’s farmland is scarce, and farmers’ food production is low. However, it is not a long-term solution to buy grain from outside.

People depend on food, and food is the capital of development.

Lawrence said: "On the one hand, we have to find ways to increase the yield per unit of farmland. However, I don't think everyone knows much about farming, so we plan to collect farming experience and production-increasing skills from skilled farmers, as well as various The performance and control methods of pests and diseases will require a sum of money as an incentive for experience collection, and it will be difficult to collect too many useful things without actual benefits."

"After the experience and skills are collected, we will compile the information into a booklet and distribute it to the farmers' associations in each village, asking them to organize farmers to learn." Lawrence continued, "I have used this method in the manor before, whether it is for food or The effect of increasing the production of livestock breeding is quite good."

"However, this work requires a lot of manpower to supervise the manor to ensure that the learning can be effectively organized. At that time, it may be necessary to second some people from various departments to support the work."

"On the other hand, we plan to reclaim wasteland." As soon as Lawrence finished speaking, someone raised an objection to this matter: "But we don't have farmers to cultivate."

The food problem is Velvet's chronic illness. The consuls of the past dynasties have also tried to increase the arable land area by reclaiming wasteland. However, after they worked hard to reclaim the land, they found that the real problem was not the lack of land. But the fields could not be planted by anyone, and in the end those fields were either acquired by the manor owners, or turned back to wasteland overgrown with weeds.

This is a problem that is hard to imagine in Lucien's last world, and it's hard to realize it in this world if he hasn't operated land reclamation.

According to the laws of this world, as long as they are not serfs of the manor owner, the civilians living on the manor land are still free. They can choose to live here or there, and the manor owner has no right to interfere with their relocation or require them Serve yourself.

But that's only in theory.

In fact, craftsmen and merchants would move between the manor cities, but it could be said that all the farmers were tied to the manor land.

They live in their own village, live according to the rules of the village, rent the land of the manor owner from their ancestors to cultivate, the foundation and lifeline of the whole family have been deeply connected with the land of the manor, they do not want to leave and cannot leave, there is no place outside Take in "traitors" who leave their land, and if they choose to leave, the relatives they leave behind will be forced to bear the negative impact of their departure.

This is unbearable for people who are used to living in a stable group. They cannot imagine a life in isolation, and cannot imagine how to live "by themselves" without a family, a village, or a peasant union.

Farmers would never consider leaving their village unless they were orphaned or driven away.

Even if you can earn more money and live a better life outside.

"Indeed." Lawrence nodded. As a steward who used to manage the manor, he was naturally very aware of the manor's constraints on the farmers, and from the standpoint of the manor, they would continue to strengthen this constraint to avoid the loss of the manor's labor force.

How to collect the labor force from the manor to work for the county government is a long-term issue, and a lot of work is needed to change the thinking of farmers and weaken the influence of the manor.

"It's only counted as farmers in the manor, that's true." Lawrence emphasized the word "in the manor", and looked at a certain beautiful Hall standing next to Lucien who tried his best to downplay his presence, meaning something Said, "Vilvid has a population of nearly 2."

This population is not considered a small place in the empire. If it weren't for the tradition of this world to play without bringing other races, Velvet would never be so poor as he is now.

Due to factors such as living environment, ethnicity and religion, the Halls own very few fields, and they are basically small areas of Susukida illegally reclaimed in the forest. There is no oil and water, so the county government has been turning a blind eye to it.

The Halls are very aware that they cannot bow down to the manor owner in order to obtain land. The high proportion of their talented people and the good reputation of Hall's mercenaries also make no manor owner have the courage to accept them.

But they also need fields.

Lawrence could clearly see the emotion on Izzy's face when he heard the word "field" - most of the land that Hall's mercenaries could buy through official channels was woodland or saline-alkali land, and they could only raise livestock or do some timber roughing. Not to mention the small market for the sale of alkali, sometimes it is squeezed by both the source of goods from the manor and the purchaser, and the profits that can be earned are very meager.

But they have to do business to make money. The lack of land means that most of the food of the Huor family depends on external purchases. Without money, there is no food.Therefore, if there is a chance to obtain legal farming land, even if it is land that needs to be reclaimed, taxed and supervised, it is a huge temptation for the Huor tribe to spend money and effort to fight for it.

Izzy admitted this, even though he was a mercenary, he couldn't resist the attraction of things like "fields".

Before attending the meeting, he had already made up his mind to follow the principle of "knowing less and living well" and forgetting about the content of the meeting without listening or reading, but at this moment he had to waver.

Well, Issy was forced to attend the meeting by Lucien, "you can learn about policy trends if you can't go to the conference table" (Lucien's words), and since then he has already guessed that Lucien is very likely to do something whats the matter,.

——He couldn't help but be moved by things.

only……

"no!"

Lawrence didn't even say the word "Hall" explicitly, but someone had already stood up to object, "How can you give those alien races—" the person who spoke looked at Issy behind Lucien, and suddenly realized There was still Hall in the conference room, but he still insisted on finishing the second half of the sentence, "We must not give them land!"

People who are not of my race... their hearts must be different.

This is true even in the homeland of the Hall tribe.

When she was a fledgling, Yixi would probably be angry because of such a sentence, but after walking outside for so many years, Yixi found that...

He still gets angry about it.

But it was no longer the kind of volcanic eruption of anger, it was more like being bitten by a poisonous snake and injecting violent poison into his heart, causing his entire heart to rot instantly, and the breath of death and filth eroded all the way to his brain.

Yixi glanced at the official indifferently. He knew that his gaze was full of vicious murderous intent, like "I'll kill you when I go out" - the notice letter said so oppressed the atmosphere in the venue to almost freeze in an instant. freezing point.

The expressions on the faces of the others were stiff, and they swallowed back the words from Izzy's sudden outburst. Most of them agreed with their colleagues, even if there was no conflict of interest with the Hall family, it was just a habit, and they subconsciously rejected it." Give Hall the land" thing.

ethnic conflicts...

Or should I say racism...

Lucien looked at the tense atmosphere in the cold scene for a second, neither nervous nor surprised.

When he first took over Velvet, he had already added the labels of "ethnic conflict" and "religious conflict" to this place. The instinct of human beings is to reject aliens. It can engage in all kinds of conflicts and bloody battles, not to mention the unusual to excessively abnormal alien races of the Hall tribe.

There are quite a few alien races similar to the Hall race on the mainland. Lucien thinks that these races can already be expelled from human status in some aspects. Basically, they don't believe in the God of Light, nor do they believe in other mainstream religions in the mainland, but they have their own tribal beliefs. From appearance to religion to talent, they can't make ordinary humans have a "sense of similarity".

Especially in terms of talent, the probability of talents from other races is too high. For example, the Hall tribe has a total population of several thousand, but every Hall is a gifted person, and the only difference is the level of talent.Human beings only have a higher probability of appearing talented people in the middle and upper classes, but even if the bloodline is as excellent as the royal family and the inheritance is as long as the East family, there will still be untalented descendants like Lucien and Dalton.

Therefore, while being unable to produce a sense of similarity, the foreign race makes ordinary people have a "sense of vigilance".

If it weren't for the small enough population of the foreign races, vigilance would not turn into a sense of crisis, otherwise these foreign races might have become the dust of history when Lucien wanted to pass through by himself.

Or the matter of underpopulation...

Who knows if something "no one knows" ever happened.

Lucien ran for two seconds, and the stagnant and frozen atmosphere in the meeting was broken by Lawrence. The SSR-level hexagonal warrior had the courage to break through the conventional thinking. Compared with the alien identity of the Hall tribe, he still felt The land reclamation labor force and grain production increase are more fragrant.

Lawrence admitted that part of his plan was to cater to the lord's attitude towards the Hall clan, but the other part was that he really felt that it would not be a bad thing for the Hall clan to develop and become rich.

The Hall family was born and raised in Velveer. They have been law-abiding and diligent for so many years. They have a deep affection for their hometown and will not easily cause trouble. Judging from the behavior of the Hall mercenaries, they are also very contractual and law-abiding. Use less violence.

Besides, foreign races may do things or something, just like how honest and obedient they are.

Lawrence weighed the pros and cons with his forward thinking of equality, resolutely stood up for the Hall family, and did not lose the wind in the face of a group of officials who opposed him. Several of those people were his own subordinates—anyway, the lord said, Today, everyone spoke freely, and they dared not express their opinions to the lord, but Lawrence, a former housekeeper, did not have that deterrent effect, and many people even tried to refute his idea of ​​expressing himself.

One sentence and one sentence, the meeting room became arguing and chaotic for a while, but Isi, the real Hall family, was forgotten out of the topic.

Yixi suddenly felt that this scene was a bit ridiculous.

The interests of the Hall family need to be fought by outsiders, and he is not even qualified to join the quarrel. When he opens his mouth, he knows that his speech will be interrupted. No, no one will listen to what he said and someone will refute him. He tried to speak up, and everyone rejected him unanimously.

This behavior is even unconscious, including Lawrence, who is on the side of the Hall family.

——Foreigners do not need to speak.

These words were placed in front of Issie so nakedly.

Ridiculous, and disgusting enough to make him want to throw up.

Issie pursed his lips tightly. He couldn't describe the feeling. The emotion in his heart was sometimes scalding to pain and sometimes cold to the bone, so that when he saw Lucian looking at him, he was startled by the sudden surge of malice. Jump.

Lucien seemed completely oblivious to Izzy's flushed eyes and clenched teeth, and only raised his head and gave him a questioning look.

So, what do you think?

Lucien asked him silently.

The young man held the posture of a determined winner, fully confirming that the prey was the only outcome of jumping into the pit by himself.

Issie does...

There is only this one option.

Strangely, the pain biting his heart, the surging malice that wanted to swallow him up, suddenly receded like a tide.

what……

So, I beg you.

Izzy answered silently, stroking the necklace on her neck.

The thin leather straps were softly embedded in the flesh, and he finally bowed his head obediently, letting the straps completely restrain him.

Yes.

I beg you.

Lucien laughed, and the faint smile on the corner of his lips melted into his eyes so clearly and joyfully.

Good boy.