"What about the people who sent it, is there a breakdown?" asked Roland.

"Yes, please look below," the assistant minister pointed to the bottom of the volume, "and a total of one thousand and one hundred people have been sent to the border towns so far. Most of them were serfs and had been placed outside the town at your request. Thirty-five craftsmen have been assigned to Karl's command, and their dwellings are concentrated in the "New District of Civilization," Barov said with the awkward term, "but is that good, Your Highness? ”

"The guards I sent out to spread the gossip have not yet returned, and this is going more slowly than I thought, so let's give the houses to the craftsmen and their families first, and then build them later," said Roland's plan, which meant that the frontier town was to be completely renovated, and the wooden and mud-made bungalows were to be converted into brick houses, leaving wide streets, instead of the current one, where most of the alleys were only large enough for two people to pass side by side.

"Yes," Barov nodded, "Your Highness, I heard that there will be cattle and sheep over there?"

"Well, but not now, I deliberately asked them to send it a few days later, with the herdsmen. To the west of the city wall, isn't there a grassland between the Desperate Forest and the Desperate Mountains, and it should be good to change it to pasture. Two gaps were blown into the walls to make it passable, as it was only useful during the Demon Moon. ”

Now that there are people and money, the bottleneck to curb the development of border towns has disappeared for the time being, and Roland can finally let it go.

He called the guards outside the door, and ordered, "Go and get Carl from the administrative hall, I guess if he is not in the mine, he must be in the wooden shed area outside the town." ”

Half an hour later, Carl walked into the office, bent down and saluted, "Your Highness." ”

It has been nearly half a year since he first met this member of the Masonry Society, and after being recruited into the city hall of the border town, he can be regarded as the busiest official in the past six months, presiding over the construction of the city wall, the model house community and the temporary residence area of the wooden shed. At the age of thirty-five, his temples now show a few strands of silver, and his skin has darkened a little, but his mental outlook is much stronger than when he first met, and his voice is full of energy.

It is true that the environment can change quickly, half a year ago he was a stonemason who carefully hid himself and changed his face, but now after experiencing project command and taking charge of the project himself, he has the demeanor of a superior person. But what Roland admires most is his willingness to give to others.

Roland smiled and nodded, "Sit down at the table." He handed the few sketches he had just drawn to the other side, "Look at it." I need you to build something new. ”

"This is a warehouse, well, the bottom is overhead to keep out moisture," Karl quickly swept over the first sketch and looked at it for a while as he flipped to the second, "this ...... Is it a stove?"

"That's right, you need to build more than five kilns on the north slope of the hill to calcine cement and fire clay bricks, find a location in an open area, consider the location of the material transport channel and the storage yard, and then expand more kilns when the scale is larger. ”

"Yes. He flipped to the last sketch and frowned, "This...... It seems to be a ditch? No, there is a roof and a retaining wall on it...... The back is like a pool. Your Highness, I don't quite understand. ”

Roland smiled, "This is the toilet, and it is also your highest priority project." ”

"Toilets?" Karl pondered, "Your Highness, where are you going to build it? Your castle has commode barrels, and the squires are responsible for disposing of them on a regular basis. And most of the villagers don't need this kind of thing, they can solve it directly outside the house. The same is true of the serfs, who can be discharged into the Chishui River, and the water will carry away the filth. ”

That's why we only smell a strong stench when we dock today, Roland shook his head and dispelled the unpleasant memories, "That's why we need to change this bad habit." ”

"Uh...... Bad habits?" Karl didn't seem to understand.

For civilians who are accustomed to open defecation, they naturally do not understand how wonderful a world can be in a world where they can wander around and not step on mines, Roland said in his heart. "Anyway, you can do it according to the sketch, I have already marked the approximate size, and I use the length that I determined before. The location was chosen near the wooden shed area, and at least four were built, two or two next to each other. In addition to the middle ditch is made of bricks, the outer sheds, roofs, and partitions are all built with wooden boards, which can save a lot of cement. ”

"Your Highness, you want to gather them together...... That," Karca paused, apparently thinking it was an insult to royal dignity to talk about such filthy things in front of His Highness, "but what if they don't go in?"

"I'll issue orders for them to comply. You can organize the people to do it. ”

"In that case, I will do your bidding," he nodded, "Your Highness, I have one more thing to report to you. ”

"You say. ”

"After the stonemasons were forced to disband, many people, like me, chose to leave the royal capital. I'd like to write a few letters to bring the members of the Masonry Guild who I know where to go to the Frontier Town. They all have their own strengths, such as the furnace you mentioned, and Losia is very good at it. Your Highness, I don't know ......"

"No problem at all," Roland said immediately, "It is okay to recruit all of them to reorganize the Masons Guild, and the remuneration will be calculated according to the time of the Masons Guild, and it will not hurt to be included in the city hall if they are experienced." ”

"Thank you for your generosity," Carl bowed.

After the stonemason left, he began to write about the administration of serfs and the system of expulsion.

The population of the border towns is about to reach a peak of growth, and if they have been dependent on food imports, they will be in a precarious situation in the event of a natural disaster or the cutting off of trade routes. Therefore, in addition to industry, agriculture must also develop rapidly and achieve self-sufficiency in food production as soon as possible.

The prince believed that with a path to promotion, the serfs would soon be transformed into active farmers, and with the seeds of improved leaves, the farmland along the Chishui River would be transformed into a sea of golden ears of wheat by summer.

The requirement to prioritize the construction of latrines is also prepared to support agricultural development - once you have people, land and seeds, the last thing that needs to be added is fertilizer.

Of course, Roland knew that human and animal fertilizer was very troublesome to use, and it was necessary to clean the storage ponds regularly, and it also had to rely on manual composting, which was far less convenient than chemical fertilizer. But the chemical industry now has no clue, so he has to replace it with this all-natural organic fertilizer - at least human and animal fertilizer has stood the test of time for a long time, and until the twentieth century, this traditional method of fertilization can still be seen in some rural areas.

People in different worlds know very little about fertilizer, and the vast majority of people think that feces is a filthy thing, except for being used to disgust others, never thinking that it is actually useful. Therefore, in the annual cultivation, farmers still adopt a three-round farming system, dividing a piece of cultivated land into three parts, which are used for spring sowing, autumn sowing and fallow in turn, so as to avoid continuous cultivation depleting soil fertility. (To be continued.) )