How to complete the pacification of the internal [residents] as much as possible? The free distribution of land is a necessary tool.

At the beginning, some of Lu Qian's slogans of Manichaeism were used by Lu Yue, what cultivators have their fields, and dwellers have their houses. No one is uneven, no one is not full. The attraction to the Rus' was also very strong.

As mentioned above, the Rus' aristocracy in this era had already switched from collecting real tribute to grabbing peasant land. Although the number of yeoman farmers is still quite large among the people and in the villages, the number of landless peasants is obviously even higher.

In this case, the free acquisition of a large amount of land was evident in its attraction and appeasement to the Rus'. Moreover, Lu Yue has already begun to transfer the nobles of Rus who have submitted to his subordinates, and the nobles of Southern Rus' have been sealed to Northern Rus, and there will be another 'Tui En Order' in the future, which must be very happy.

If so, Southern Rus' would have vacated a large area of land, which in the perception of Western thinking was also the exclusive domain of the king, and how to distribute it and to whom it belonged belonged to the exclusive right of the king. Lu Yue is willing to distribute large tracts of land to the common people, and he is willing, so no one can say a word.

A 'land granting order' is really like a downpour, which has extinguished the anger of many Rus' people.

However, among the 100,000 Rus' people, at least 400,000 were in the territory of the Wu State, distributed to counties and counties, and mixed with the immigrants who moved westward.

Because the agriculture of the Rus people in this period is too touching in the eyes of the Chinese. Its rough business model is too big and too far from the agricultural management mode of the Chinese in the same period, which combined cultivation with fine hoeing and thick manure soil to help the land.

I won't talk about the manure and fertilizer, just talk about the farming tools of the Rus' people, which will make people look down on a hundred.

In view of the natural situation of the vast and sparsely populated land of Rus, Lu Yue has long asked people to go back to the Central Plains to order heavy ploughs, and also made people collect a large number of blacksmiths, many of the agricultural tools of the Rus people are even wood, and it seems that the iron materials have been used by the knights and lords of the principalities. In addition, efforts were made to win over immigrants from Saibei and Hezhong, whether they were Mongols, Uighurs, or Turks, all of whom were good at animal husbandry. The sparsely populated situation of Ross cannot be changed in three or five years, and they are needed to fill the gap!

But it also requires a lot of money, doesn't it? Whether it's recruiting people or improving the level of proficiency in some of Ross' key industries, it requires a lot of capital investment, and it is difficult to achieve immediate results.

also lost a lot of money in Lu Yue's hands before, if he didn't have this money, Xiao Baozhong's head would have to be ten times bigger!

In addition, there is a big problem in front of Lu Yue, that is, the expansion of the army!

With his brothers 'scattered', Lu Yue needed to dominate Nuoda's territory alone. And the territory of his fiefdom was so large, to the west as far as the Polish border, and to the north that it was impossible to suppress the entire kingdom with only two thousand guards under his command and two thousand servant troops who were no longer determined to fight.

In this case, the expansion of the army by land and Vietnam, which is located in the outermost place, has become a necessary choice. And his situation is much better than that of Lu Yu and Lu Yunlai. The weight of more than 2,000 servant troops made Lu Yu and Lu Yun not know how envious they were!

Moreover, Lu Yue's appeal among the nomadic tribes in northern Cyprus is also significantly better than them, whether it is to attract immigrants or fortunately, nomads will be far better than them.

Lu Yue's so-called reorganization of the army was a complete plan. All the armies of Wu are divided into four levels, and the lowest level is the militia, which only exists on the books, which is equivalent to the rabble infantry of the former Rus' principality - the levies.

Those who have received large tracts of land without giving anything are obligated to serve their 'lords'. It's very Western!

Then there were the city guards, who were mainly infantry troops with a small number of cavalry. Both the infantry and cavalry were dressed in armor roughly the same as the previous Rus' army, and the emissaries were about the same weapons, and their numbers were not very large, but they were distributed among all the counties and towns. With the militia that can be recruited at any time, that is the main force of his suppression of the locality.

Put it on the Rus' nobles of Northern Rus, this is equivalent to their close guard. It is the regular army, the main force in the war!

Then there are few people but high salaries, so the elite field army that dares to fight, they will be full-width Han-style equipment. Just like the Northern and Southern Army in the Western Han Dynasty, just like Lu Qi's Five Armies Governor's Mansion, it belongs to the real elite combat power of the kingdom.

And in the end, it was Lu Yue's own protectors. It was the forbidden army directly under the royal family, and it was Lu Qian's imperial secretary.

The number of the whole army exceeds 10,000 people, which is equivalent to expanding the force in Lu Yue's hands several times at once!

Not to mention the armor and firearms, the recruitment and training of personnel and the start-up expenses of the yamen at all levels alone are millions of yuan in expenditure! In the future, these people will have to be paid and paid.

As soon as the money came out, the chief secretary was shy in his pocket, and Lu Yue's 'accumulated savings' were empty. Xiao Baozhong's savings on hand are already less than three million yuan!

This money should not only cover the maintenance of the next capital, the city of Kiev, the establishment and operation of the yamen of officials at all levels, but also set aside a part of it as a special expense to meet possible disasters or wars at any time, and even possible loans from the Rus' nobles. Finances can only be described as stretched.

And it was at this time that the Poles and Hungarians came again to add to the chaos and implement a policy of harassment! Because of the Holy See's declaration again, the world of monotheism and Lu Qi have entered a state of war.

Although the Poles and Hungarians, as well as the Scandinavian Swedes and the Danes, whose strength cannot be underestimated at the moment, are only harassing and fighting, they also make Lu Yue unguarded and annoyed. They all have a Rurik in their hands more or less!

This will not touch the foundation of Lu Yue, but it will slow down his 'construction'. There are also those 'barbarians who do not obey the king' hidden in the jungles of Northern Rus, which is also a big trouble.

"Your Highness......"

Xiao Baozhong walked into the main hall of Lu Yue's dilapidated royal palace, the original Grand Duke's Palace, before the Rus' withdrew from Kiev, not only carried out a devastating ransack, but also tried to set fire to the palace, although it did not succeed, but also ruthlessly destroyed this not very good palace.

The main hall, which was named 'Zichen Palace' by Lu Yue, is not as good as his palace in Jinling.

Lu Yue, who had an unfortunate face, saw Xiao Baozhong come in, and waved his hand to avoid his salute. When he opened his mouth, he asked, "How much money is left in the account?" ”

"Your Highness!" Xiao Baozhong's voice suddenly became sharp.

Lu Yue said helplessly: "Those barbarians in the north have come to lend their hands to borrow money, what can I do?" ”

"Your Highness. Those who are not of my race will have different hearts. Those barbarians spend their money like water, and if they get the money today, they will buy all kinds of miscellaneous goods from the Swedes and Danes tomorrow at ten times the price......"

The long distance hindered the connection between the Central Plains caravans and Rus', and the various goods from China were transported to Rus' very rarely.