After listening to Zhuo Guo's words, Doc was silent for a long time and then murmured: "This is really incredible."
Balian saw the shocked look on his face and patted his shoulder, "The main reason why I didn't accept you directly is because I don't know you well enough.
You should also know that the Norandenburg area was just a wooden outpost before. There was nothing except forests and grasslands. We have worked hard for more than half a year, under the harassment of wild beasts and bandits, and tried our best to complete the mission.
Save up this little family fortune.
Only we ourselves know the hard work involved. Because of this, although we are very eager to increase the population, we will never dare to let people in who do not know their roots. If I am not careful, this little property and my life will be lost.
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"Sir, I..." Doc wanted to swear his loyalty to Balian again, but Balian directly told him not to say anything.
Balian looked up at the bright moon of the midsummer night and said: "After we arrived in the city of Amundine, I secretly sent people to investigate you and your brothers. As expected, they are all ordinary people, just for conspiracy.
In order to earn a living, he was called into the city militia.
And you were originally a farm owner with two hundred acres of land. In order to prepare a militia group and to provide more pensions to the families of your deceased brothers, you sold not only all your farmland, but also most of the valuable things in your family.
Now your wife and two children can only live frugally in the city. Brother Doc, from this point of view, you are an upright, responsible, and absolutely reliable person."
After listening to Balian's words, Doc's eyes were a little moist, and he said with a bit more swallowing: "Twenty-five good brothers died tragically like this. Many of them were less than twenty years old, and they had not yet married a wife and had children.
I lost my life because of my mistake.
I'm so ashamed of them. These young people trusted me so much, but they ended up like this!" At the end of the sentence, Doc couldn't control his emotions and shed tears.
Balian went over and hugged his shoulders, comforting him and said: "Brother Doc, the matter is over, and people cannot be resurrected after death. They have knowledge in heaven and will not blame you, a good brother like you."
After Doc calmed down, he found that Balian was taking him towards Green Hill Village. He asked curiously: "Sir, if we go further, we will reach Green Hill Village. What are we doing here so late?"
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Balian smiled mysteriously, "I want to give you a surprise today."
Balian brought Doc to a house. Doc opened the door and saw that his wife and children were inside. When they saw Doc coming back, they came over to hug excitedly. Doc held the young boy in his arms.
After kissing his wife and daughter, his son asked curiously: "When did you arrive? How did you get here?"
Seeing her husband's confused look, Doc's wife shed tears and said with some complaint: "We arrived this morning, Lord Balian gave our family a courtyard.
We came here not all because of you. After you sold the farm, we could only rent in the city. You didn't leave much money for our mother. I could only work as a helper in someone else's kitchen and was bullied.
Needless to say, it took a lot of hard work to provide enough food for the two children.
If Lord Balian hadn't sent someone to pick us up, I don't know how long I could have lasted like this."
Hearing what his wife said, Doc felt distressed, but still had a serious look on his face, "Why are you talking about these useless things in front of adults!"
"Hey, Brother Doc, it's wrong for you to say that about your sister-in-law. It's not easy for your sister-in-law to work hard to raise two children for you by herself. You should thank your sister-in-law more and take care of your sister-in-law." Bellion heard this from Doc.
He didn't understand his wife's hard work, so he couldn't help but scold him.
After hearing Balian's words, Doc remained silent, but his wife was still very smart and quickly called Balian and said: "Sir, please sit down quickly and I will get you a glass of water."
"Sorry, sister-in-law." Balian sat down with a smile, and then asked Zhuo Guo to bring up a small rattan box that he had prepared in advance. Balian opened the small box and found a house deed inside.
Balian drew on the appearance of the house book in his previous life and made a house deed of Nolandenburg out of cowhide and parchment. In addition to Balian's coat of arms and imprint, it also stated the specific location, size, construction time, owner and other information of the house.
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Bellian took out the deed of the house and handed it to Doc's wife, "This is the deed of this house. Sister-in-law, please keep it. From now on, Brother Doc will be the deputy company commander of our Norlandenburg militia. From now on, he will be the deputy commander of the Fort Norland militia.
With a salary of three dinars, that’s about one hundred and fifty dinars a year. With this income, it’s absolutely no problem to support your family.”
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Doc's wife didn't dare to answer. She looked at Doc timidly. After Doc pulled his wife aside, he knelt on one knee and said, "Sir, I don't have any merit now, how dare I ask for this house."
Balian quickly pulled him up and said, "Brother Doc, you don't have to do this. If I give it to you, you can take it." After saying that, he thrust the house deed into Doc's hand without rejection, and then continued: "From now on, you just need to be loyal to me.
, help me train the militia well, and be willing to work hard when fighting."
Doc held the house deed in his hand and nodded excitedly, "Don't worry, sir. The red-haired lion Doc swore to the God of Fire that if he betrays you, he will fall into hell and be burned by poisonous fire."
"I also swear like the God of Fire that as long as anyone is loyal to me, I will treat him unfavorably!" After saying that, Balian and Doc hugged cordially.
After subduing Doc with gentle means, Balian explained his plan for dealing with the twenty-five city militiamen under his command. Most of the remaining urban militiamen under Doc were trained and experienced in combat.
People, but not all of them are suitable to join the Nolandenburg Infantry Regiment.
Balian's plan is that these twenty-five people can go to the recruitment office and accept the selection of Eomer and Bess. The selected ones will naturally join the Norlandenburg Infantry Regiment, and the unsuccessful ones can choose to join the Norandenburg Militia Regiment.
Or you can become a farmer in Norlandenburg, or engage in other professions, even if you want to leave Norlandenburg and find a better future.
After hearing the plan proposed by Balian, Doc had no objections. For Doc, this was already the best solution, and he himself couldn't think of a better solution.
Seeing that Doc agreed, Balian asked him to tell his brothers tomorrow, and he would be fully responsible for this matter.
The next day, after Doc told these city militiamen, only half of them chose to go to the recruitment office of Fort Norlandenburg to continue joining the army. The remaining half learned about Fort Norlandenburg after living in Fort Norlandenburg for a few days.
Following the policy of land reclamation, he actually chose to be a farmer in Norlandenburg, hoping to own his own farmland.
That's fine. They are now farmers and members of the militia, so Doc will not have no familiar people available to him.
Civil affairs, workshops, construction, and the army are all on the right track. Mark and the others also announced the newly formulated policies to the people of Fort Nolandenburg, including the installment purchase of houses and land distribution policies, so that these serfs and refugees can
People were very happy and more energetic, and the entire Norlandenburg was running quickly like a machine.
Many times, things are like this. If you solve an important problem, it means you have solved all problems. This is the mystery of life. Moving forward does have endless charm and endless charm.
The days passed day by day, and it soon entered September. This is the harvest season. From 3,000 acres of cultivated land, a total of 300 Schaeffers were harvested, which is 600,000 pounds of soybeans, with an average of 200 pounds per acre.
Soybeans.
This is because it is newly reclaimed farmland with relatively high fertility, and with the addition of farmyard manure, it produces more food. However, if the soil is not cherished, within three years at most, these lands will become the same as those of most lords' farms.
The field yields about a hundred pounds of grain, and probably less.
Fortunately, Balian had foreseen this problem a long time ago. In his previous life, he was a child from a rural area. He did a lot of farm work before going to college. His experience in farming still surpassed most farmers in this time and space.
As early as when he took over Norlandenburg, Balian stipulated that everyone must relieve themselves in a fixed place. While maintaining hygiene, he also accumulated raw materials for retting farmyard manure.
In order to make the people in the territory better accept the use of farmyard manure, Balian spent two bottles of Valenti wine and asked Father Dunhill to explain it to the people.
This Father Dunhill is also very good at deceiving people, because the method of retting farmyard manure that Balian gave everyone uses a lot of plant ash. He said that it uses the power of fire and can get the blessing of the God of Fire, which will definitely increase production.
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When these people heard what the priest said, they believed it in confusion. In order to make them believe even more, Bellian asked Mark to organize sowing. In addition to the 3,000 acres of cultivated land for soybeans, he also used 100 acres of cultivated land to plant soybeans.
Comparing soybeans with these 3,000 acres of cultivated land that has been fertilized with farmyard manure, the results are obvious. There is no need to promote it in the future, and everyone will know what to do.
Facts are more valid than all truths. Balian knows this truth very well, especially when facing farmers. Having grown up in the countryside in his previous life, he understands that there are countless facts that prove that farmers are the most realistic and the most suspicious.
If you have real benefits, they won't easily believe you.
After harvesting so many soybeans, plus the grain that was snatched and bought before, Nolan
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The grain storage of Denburg has reached more than 400 Schaefer. According to an adult eating one pound of grain per day, since there are also meat, vegetables and other foods, the food of Nolandburg now is enough to feed more than 2,000 people.
year.
However, Balian feels that the current world is not peaceful, and a turbulent era may be coming. Chaos is coming, and it is important to have enough food in hand.
When Liano was building the castle on Fengyunding, he accidentally discovered a secret passage that led directly to a cave inside Fengyunding. This was an arsenal carved out by craftsmen during the empire. Balian asked Liano to take it.
This closed cave was converted into a grain warehouse, and the secret passage directly connected to the warehouse in the castle.
This warehouse is very large, and the grain currently in Nolandenburg only accounts for less than one-twentieth of it. Balian asked Mark to send a message to the grain merchants in Yangweixiao City, Alpine Castle, Amundine and other places. Nolandenburg
Landenburg was willing to subsidize grain at a price of ten dinars per Schaefer, based on the average market price.
The goal that Balian set for Mark was to purchase at least 200,000 pounds of wheat to ensure that Fort Nolandenburg's food reserves were safe enough. After all, eating was a big deal.
However, it is now the autumn harvest season, and the price of food is generally cheap. Lords like Balian who are willing to subsidize the purchase of food have been laughed at by people after word spread that they are stupid and have too much money. But Balian thinks it doesn't matter, he has gained real benefits
The benefits are the most important.
In addition to dealing with these civil affairs matters, Balian spent most of the rest of his time with the army. While supervising their training, he also used some of the experiences he learned in the army in his previous life through communication with Eomer, Bess, and Barrett.
The way Doc and others discussed it was to describe these as their own ideas and tell them to him.
Many things were actually just a layer of window paper. Balian pierced it. Soldiers like Eomer and others who were restricted by the times understood what was going on and quickly applied these good methods to Nolandon.
During the training of the Fort Infantry Regiment and Militia Regiment.
The changes in the soldiers' organization, discipline, physical fitness and other aspects are very significant, especially the recruits selected in the summer, their rapid progress is even more visible to the naked eye.
In order to celebrate the territory's soybean harvest and the smooth military training, Balian decided to hold a harvest festival in early September while the weather was still hot, and celebrate it with sumptuous food and wine.
At the Harvest Festival dinner, everyone did not eat bean soup. What they ate was the tofu, tofu skin, dried tofu and other bean products made by Balian's teaching to his own cook, who then taught it to others.
Soybeans can not only be used as a staple food, but also have high nutritional value. They are good foods. However, in today's world, in Bellion's memory, people would only put beans and other things together to make soup, and would not do anything else, which led to people's
People who eat soy are not keen on it.
After the soybeans were turned into tofu and other soy products, the taste changed, and the cooking methods became much richer. Sure enough, at the harvest banquet, everyone praised tofu, and soy products officially became a regular meal for the people of Norlandenburg.
On the night of the harvest feast, Balian took advantage of the drunkenness and sang a few songs to everyone. Of course, they were all adapted from the songs he had learned in his previous life. Among them, the song "The Last Farewell" won everyone's unanimous approval.
It was well received, and Mark flattered him and said: "Master, this song is really good, the lyrics are beautiful, and the singing voice is ethereal and beautiful."
In fact, this song is the ending theme of "The Hobbit", one of Balian's favorite movies in his previous life. The lyrics are: I see the sky fade away, I hear the sigh in the wind, when the snowflakes cover my fall.
I will only say goodbye for the last time to my brother.
Night is falling, the day is coming to an end, the journey is calling, I must leave. Climbing over mountains and ridges, crossing the continent of eternal night, and walking by the sparkling river.
Under the clouds, under the stars, in the snow with the cold wind whispering, I finally set foot on the road back home, although I don't know where this road leads.
We have come all the way, and there is still this day when I have to say goodbye to you. I have been to many places, and I have experienced a lot of sadness, but I have never regretted it, nor will I forget all the people who have traveled with me. Night is falling
Come, this day has come to an end, the journey is calling, I must leave, go over mountains and ridges, cross the continent of eternal night, walk along the sparkling river and reach the sea.
I will move forward with these memories and your blessings. I will eventually set foot on the road back home, although I don’t know where this road will lead.
We have come all the way, but there is still a day when we have to say goodbye to you. I want to say goodbye to you sincerely.
Balian brought this song to the world, and because of everyone's love, this song later became a must-sing song during the graduation season of Castle Greyhawk School. This was something Balian never expected.