Chapter 246

The first stream reservoir led by Randall is located in the low-lying area in the south of the territory. It used to be a dense purple sugarcane forest. Since the ant army ate all the purple sugarcane, the fertile land is full of Wild Alfalfa and has become a natural pasture.

Thousands of cattle and sheep are leisurely eating fat and tender alfalfa. Abundant food makes them fat and strong one by one. Some picky and clever guys even climb to the mound to look for more delicious tender leaves.

Herdsmen will not catch these naughty and bold cattle and sheep. Smart shepherds will drive them down before dark. It doesn't matter if some fish slip through the net. There are no dangerous beasts here. There is no difference between livestock spending the night on the hills and on the grass.

Victor didn't care how many cattle and sheep he had. He was attracted by the bright lake.

The artificially excavated lake has an area of 45 mu, which is larger than the four football fields combined. The lake is sparkling and cool water vapor comes to his face, which dispels the heat of the fire season. Victor couldn't help praising: "it's so beautiful!"

"Is it beautiful?"

Lilia looked at the mud piled by the lake and the messy huts, blinking in confusion. Victor laughed, took Lilia into his arms in full view of the public, and kissed her tender little face.

"I mean, you did a good job!"

The blushing Lilia whispered, "Victor, I'm sorry. The castle hasn't been built yet. I let you down."

Two days ago, Victor returned to Renma hill. Instead of rushing back to Pinghu Town, he went to see Nicole first.

Nicole is Victor's true lover and the woman who loves him most in the world. Victor always feels that he owes her a lot.

Although their territory is close together, their time together is very limited. Nicole wants to monitor the movement at the entrance of the Everglades. If she leaves the Baron for a long time, more than 10000 workers will be worried. The Randall family is also in the stage of rapid development. The territorial administrative system is not perfect, and Victor needs to do many things himself.

Therefore, Victor chose to visit Nicole at the first time, not only to tell each other, but also the main canal connecting Jinshui River is the core interest of Randall's collar, and more than 10000 workers can't have trouble. Both public and private, Victor must be concerned about the progress of the project.

The Baron's development was better than victor expected. In the past seven months, the York family has sent another 3000 people, and the number of young people has increased to 11000. The main canal has been built for three kilometers, and the reservoir can be connected in three or four months.

In terms of agriculture and animal husbandry, the Baron led the planting of 10000 mu of sweet potatoes, opened seven pig farms, kept more than 3000 pigs and more than 1000 cattle, sheep and livestock, which greatly alleviated the logistics pressure of the York family, and Victor also benefited from it. The expenditure of the Randall family for the relief of labor families was reduced from 900 gold sol to 600 gold sol per month.

Victor stayed with Nicole all day. Lilia came to meet him with the top of the family. After parting with Nicole, Victor embarked on the journey of returning to Pinghu Town. On the way, he saw the first stream reservoir.

From Lilia's mouth, Randall has led the excavation of four stream reservoirs in 272 days, and the fifth reservoir is being excavated, of which the first reservoir and the second reservoir have been filled with water. After the arrival of the land season, Nicole transferred 10000 young people in batches and asked them to go back to build the main canal. Therefore, the fifth reservoir was built independently by Randall family and is still being excavated.

Before leaving, Victor asked Lilia to repair five River reservoirs and build a castle. However, due to the shortage of manpower, the castle in Pinghu Town will take another two months to complete. Lilia blamed herself for not having a task.

"Dear Lilia, you did a good job! I didn't think too thoroughly." Victor gently hugged Lilia, turned around and said to the village chiefs and Nelson and his wife: "everyone has worked hard, and I am very satisfied with your results!"

Farmers in different countries are generally strong and powerful. They can carry hundreds of pounds of burden and walk like flying, but the reservoir project is not as simple as tens of thousands of people digging and transporting mud together. Arrangements should be made for the dispatch and coordination, logistical supplies, clothing, food, housing and transportation of more than 10000 young people, as well as work-related injury pensions and medical and health care.

Lilia's achievements have proved her ability, but her responsibility and pressure are difficult for ordinary people to understand. Victor could imagine Lilia directing the project and resettling the people in the cold and rain. Only by looking at the heartfelt respect of the village heads, we can know that Lilia has surpassed Nelson and become the No. 2 figure in the family.

Now, Lilia's body always shows a quiet and noble temperament. Even if her appearance is not as good as that of the Elena sisters, they still unconsciously keep looking up in front of Lilia.

This is the dignity and confidence that power and success bring to Lilia. The 21-year-old mercenary girl has become Victor's right-hand man.

"Now is the season of fire, and there is no sign of the reservoir drying up." Victor nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile, "relying on this stream reservoir, we can reclaim 15000 mu of cultivated land, resettle 1000 people and help me control 400 square kilometers of territory. If the canals are connected, the population and cultivated land area will double. It seems that I need more village heads!"

The village heads nodded again and again. The village head of the first village, Maureen, smiled and said, "Sir, you are so wise that we can't be busy."

"You are too busy. Don't I even have time to rest?" Victor shook his head and laughed.

Randall's business is not only the internal affairs and reservoir project. The hammer mercenary regiment of the hammer has returned, and the mercury Barol has also returned. The consular situation of Buryat needs to be implemented. The smuggling caravan in Songlin town needs to be arranged, and the problem of repairing the alchemy tower needs to be solved. Sylvia is still waiting for a meeting, and raven town in the North has to intervene. Victor must be busy rolling all over the ground.

"Let's go! Go back to Pinghu Town first, and then tell me all the problems you encounter." Victor took a deep breath and boarded the carriage in high spirits.

When he arrived at Pinghu Town, Victor saw many people busy building the castle. He didn't care to ask the supervisor about the progress and went directly to the municipal office.

Victor glanced at the number of people attending the meeting. There were still 14, including Lilia, guard captain Nelson, Sheriff Linda, military instructor Barrett, village head Morin of the first village, George of the second village, Dean of brick kiln village, fero of the third village, Haig of the fourth village, Kent of the Fifth Village, Benson of the sixth village, and Butz and old ham of Raven town, But with Elena and Alice.

At present, the backbone of Randall family is just a dozen people. Compared with all kinds of stewards of other lords, Victor's men can only be described as thin.

For example, the Duke of Wellington has housekeepers, home affairs officers, clerks, urban defense officers, magistrates, military officers, staff groups, guard captains, personal guard captains, heralds, as for caravan captains, hunting captains, farming and animal husbandry captains, workshop captains, as well as groom captains, mill captains, town captains and village captains of all sizes. In this regard, victor in addition to envy or envy.

However, even Victor himself, the Lord, rushed the ducks to the shelves. He could only lead the ducks to try to make a world.

"Let's go."

Lilia nodded, took out a sheepskin scroll and read, "at present, we have 1925 cows..."

"Wait." Victor raised his hand and motioned Lilia to stop. "I know there are more and more cattle and sheep in the family, so save the surprise for me at the harvest celebration. Today, I want to know the problems and difficulties faced by the family."

"Understaffed." Lilia sighed, put down the scroll and said: "During this period, more than 3000 refugees have entered Randall's territory. We now control more than 12000 people. Although we are enough to accommodate more people, these people have also brought many management problems. Those latecomers began to make trouble and commotion, plead with father Miller and ask for processing money because they were not assigned to private plots."

Victor narrowed his eyes. "What's father Miller's attitude?"

"Father Miller advised them to behave themselves."

Victor showed a relaxed smile: "go on."

"Those who took the lead in making trouble were punished by me for two years of hard labor and sent to dig canals. Some people found that there was no private land to share here and they didn't get enough money, so they left. In the end, more than 2100 people stayed, but they didn't necessarily want to join landlink. Some of them were passive, lazy, didn't pay attention to hygiene, and even hunted privately."

"Those who drive those people out of the territory and stay will be punished with two years of hard labor!" Said Victor in a cold voice.

"That's what I did. But it doesn't seem to work." Lilia said with a bitter smile, "the people behind have the same problem."

Victor blinked and asked, "what do you think?"

"I need more people to manage the refugees." Lilia hesitated and said, "I've appointed many female dependents of work point system members, but I still don't have enough manpower..."

Nelson raised his hand and said, "Sir, I don't have enough manpower. 250 guards and 50... Militias can't control the boundary of the territory. People go to Randall's collar to steal and hunt every day. We escort and drive them away, and we have to maintain sentry and patrol..... Sir, I want more manpower."

Victor rubbed his forehead. There were nearly 1000 members of the work point system, divided into more than 280 families. Nelson recruited 250 young guards, plus 50 alchemy militia, which was the limit of the territory. Nelson's so-called increase in manpower was by no means recruiting guards among the free people. He was thinking of alchemy militia. But Victor had only 1000 alchemy militia, and they had to control the vast territory In mountainous areas, few people can be transferred at all, and the use of alchemical militia as guards can only temporarily relieve the pressure and can not fundamentally solve the problem.

There are more and more people joining Randall's exile Association. Even if Victor takes all the alchemy militia out to control the situation, how long can he support it? Now there are more than 10000 people, and the population reaches 20000. According to Victor's plan, the territory will accommodate more than 40000 people. What will happen then?

The current predicament of Randall family belongs to congenital deficiency - too few loyal and capable ministers!

Victor sighed and said listlessly, "tell me what else you have!"

Linda hurriedly said, "my Lord, there have been hundreds of fights, 34 thefts, 11 murders, 18 people have died, 7 bodies have been buried and dug out by us. I also need hands!"

Victor noticed that Linda's abdomen was as round as a drum, so he smiled and said, "Nelson, Linda, you're going to be parents soon. I haven't congratulated you yet."

After hearing this, Linda was a little pinched, while Nelson said with a smile: "there are still two months left, father Miller said they were twins... Hehe" he was quietly pinched by Linda.

Lilia interrupted, "Victor, there are more than 1000 pregnant women in the territory. Father Miller is too busy. I organized a medical team according to your instructions, but there are only 74 people. Other women have to be busy cooking for the young."

"I know you are short of people. Will you let me solve the problem of public security first?" Victor shook his head and asked Linda, "have you caught all the murderers?"

"All in dungeons."

Randall led an alchemical crow circling in the air during the day and an alchemical war mastiff patrolling the field at night. These killers thought they could kill and bury the corpse without being aware of it. That's really the wrong place!

Victor smiled and said, "do you want to be a mother and become softhearted? Where did Lin, who cut the villain with the sword, go?"

Linda blushed and said bitterly, "I'd like to cut off those villains' heads... But it's your right! And... You need father Miller's consent."

"If only you could think so!" Victor was silent for a moment and said faintly, "I will sign the death penalty order. I will try my best to convince father Miller that these villains who dare to challenge me must be executed in public!"

"Maureen, what problems have you village chiefs encountered?"

Several village heads looked at each other, and Maureen stood up and replied, "Sir, the village is pretty good. There's no problem."

"Pretty good?" Victor sneered and said, "Lilia has encountered so many problems, but your village has no problems? I think you have compromised with outsiders!"

The village heads stood up one after another and said in panic, "please punish me!"

Victor waved to them to sit down. If there are fewer police, public security will be chaotic, and if there are fewer soldiers, the country will be turbulent. This is because the lack of power to maintain order will lead to the establishment of a new order. People are socialized animals. Everyone wants to occupy a higher position in the group. When they find that Randall's sheriff and escort are understaffed, they are inevitably ready to move. They established their position through private struggle, and then managed to squeeze into the middle-level led by Randall. Murders, fights, poaching, and series cajoling all come from this.

The power in the hands of the village head is relatively weak. He is unable to suppress the struggle of the refugees. On the contrary, he will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. When there are strong people among the refugees, he will win over them as his minions. As for the Lord, he doesn't care how the village head manages the village, as long as they pay their sacrifices on time.

The village heads under the enfeoffment system were all considered earth emperors.

Although these people were promoted by Victor, they are indigenous after all and only manage the village according to the rules of the village head. If Victor is really an indigenous Lord, they have no problem doing so, but Victor doesn't see the inefficient enfeoffment system. He should fully control the human and material resources in the territory. No matter whether Randall owns 10000 or 100000 people, he should live and multiply under the rules formulated by him.

Lilia and Nelson may not understand much, but they faithfully implement Victor's will. In this process, the War Bear mercenaries are changing little by little, moving closer to victor, and one day they will get a higher position in the new order.

However, far water can't save near fire. Before the War Bear mercenaries grew, Victor still faced the dilemma of manpower shortage. For the moment, Victor wants to kill all these up and down refugees. However, the Lord's violence can not solve all the problems, because he is not strong enough. With Victor's current strength, he can't establish a new order. If he kills the villain's head, Lilia will have to visit him in the monastery before long.

Victor could only solve the problem within the framework of the glorious code, but he thought of the alchemy tower, which was enough to overthrow the glorious code.

"Put the problem on hold. Let's go back to work." Said Victor, with a faint interest.

When everyone left the meeting room, Victor stopped Lilia.

"Honey, you wait for me at the silver moon manor. I'll go to the hill camp first."