However, the two of them tacitly stopped the topic. Luther pulled out a chair from under the desk and sat down, then asked, "What is the situation in Pompeii now?"

"Can't you see the situation in Pompeii? Look how many pedestrians are on the street?" Lelouch couldn't help rolling his eyes.

This is the biggest and most fundamental reason.

There are no residents.

You are blind.

As close friends, only a few people like Lelouch would talk to Luther like this.

"Of course I can see it." Luther rolled his eyes, and then said, "But I want to understand the work of the City Hall in detail."

Lelouch sighed and sat back in his mayor's seat. He crossed his hands on the desk and said helplessly, "I have also done a lot of work to recruit residents. For example, I used the low housing prices in Pompeii to attract residents to move in. It doesn't matter if the houses are sold at a low price. As long as we attract residents to live here, we can make money back through taxation. But the problem is that in the past few months, we have only recruited a dozen households, and most of the residents are unwilling to come."

Luther roughly understood and guessed the reason why the residents were reluctant to come, but he still asked, "Why didn't anyone come?"

"One." Lelouch held up a finger and said, "Pompeii is a knight territory, so it is bound to be questioned by the residents. Moreover, Pompeii is close to the forest and faces the threat of monsters. How much power does a knight lord have to defend the territory? The residents are questioning whether their property and lives will be threatened."

Luther nodded. This was indeed a fatal flaw.

Knight Lords are generally equal to weak.

And this is different from how Luther attracted farmers. The farmers in the Marquisate of Parker have lost their land and are homeless, so they can only take risks.

And the residents are clearly unwilling to take risks.

"Two." Lelouch held up two fingers at this time, and then said: "Pompeii is a newly built city. There is no other output in the territory except agriculture. And the residents obviously need to work, textiles, logging, mining, and even catering. What do the residents do after they come? This is also what they are confused about."

Luther also sighed. The first reason was a reputation issue, and the second was a helpless reason: it was a newly built city and the industries surrounding it were small.

How to attract residents?

Using low housing prices as a bargaining chip is obviously not enough.

A city requires many, many jobs.

For example, a family consists of parents, wife, and children.

The father can be an intellectual, working in a school in the city and earning public money.

A mother can be a craftsman and do some work within her ability.

The wife can be hired to help with cleaning.

I can be a senior manager of a factory or workshop. My son and daughter are still in school.

For its residents, Pompeii primarily provides these jobs.

At present, all public positions in Pompeii are monopolized by knights and scholars recruited by Luther, and there is no sign of schools.

There are various factories, such as Pompeii wine estate, ranch, etc., but they are all small in scale and currently recruit people from the natives of Pompeii.

What will the residents do when they arrive? "The second question is very complicated. I'll come up with some ideas, but it will take time. Let's solve the first question first."

Luther rubbed his temple and said helplessly.

"I thought so too." Lelouch showed a mysterious smile on his face, then pulled out several documents on the desk, took out one of them and handed it to Luther, saying: "I think we should have the same idea."

The two people's ideas were indeed the same.

This document contains a list of bandits, robbers and thieves currently active throughout the Orange Province.

The world is a very complex one, and the Kingdom of Prussia is not stable either.

First, there are the court nobles centered around the King of Prussia, and then there are the nominal vassals of the king centered around the nobles with real titles. These are two forces in hidden confrontation.

Among them is the "New Party" which advocates that the people should enjoy rights and hopes to overthrow the rule of the aristocracy. The power of the New Party cannot be ignored.

Even though Orange is relatively stable now, the power of the New Party may have infiltrated many places, such as recruiting knights and disguising themselves as thieves.

What's more, there are already many thieves in Orange.

This is the reason why there are 20 to 30 hereditary lords and nobles in a province. Although each lord has his own armed forces, there are areas where there is no law in their jurisdiction.

These places are prone to breeding bandits and robbers.

The milder ones would make a living by collecting protection fees from passing caravans, while the more vicious ones would rob caravans or even attack towns.

The places where they were stationed were often very dangerous and difficult to capture, and the lords did not want to consume their knights' strength to deal with these bandits.

This leads to the rampant crime.

Some of the bandit gangs were on the wanted list within the Orange Province and were extremely vicious.

Not to mention the lone thieves, Kurd, a thief from Pompey, is one of the best. There are really many such thieves in the whole of Orange.

The purpose of Luther and Lelouch is to attack these mountain bandits and lone thieves to show their military strength.

Since the residents were afraid that Pompeii was too weak to protect their property and lives, he had to show force to reassure the residents.

Moreover, after killing the bandits and robbers, you can go to the provincial governor and the Count of Libya to collect the reward, which is much more cost-effective than buying and selling.

"Pah." Lelouch clapped his hands, then a happy smile appeared on his face. He said, "The problem now is that except for the lone thief, none of these bandits are something we can deal with."

Luther looked at the list on the document, shrugged, and threw it on the table.

It is indeed just as Lelouch said, those powerful thieves groups are not something Luther can deal with.

Damn it.

The scale of these bandit gangs is very large. Not counting Xiao Luoluo, there are at least thirty or forty light knights, and the proportion of intermediate and even high-level knights is not low.

There is no other way. If it were not for their outstanding combat power, these bandit groups would have been wiped out by the lords long ago. Those who survived are all strong.

And it will become stronger and stronger.

Just like the lords managing their territories, thieves rely on robbery to not only survive, but also occasionally make a lot of money by robbing, and buy potions to improve their strength. Isn't it fun? Robbery is also a very promising career.

You can demonstrate your military power by destroying these bandit gangs, and maybe these bandit gangs will teach you a lesson every second.

So sad!

(End of this chapter)