White Eagle Territory, Pompeii.

Although the city hall has financial resources and manpower, and there are developers such as the Morgan family, the Habsburg family, Miss Alice, and six families, a large group of people are working hard to develop real estate in Pompeii.

Moreover, the house does not need to be beautiful. It can be built with wood and does not need to be painted or carved with patterns. It can be delivered directly.

However, due to time constraints, the progress of house construction is still very slow. Currently, only half of the area within the city walls of Pompeii has houses and buildings.

Elsewhere, there are still tents.

Many nobles lived in tents, which were neither dignified nor very cold.

But the nobles had no complaints.

You have to know that the whole kingdom is now at war, and in Orange, there are only three places left where the nobles can find a place to stay.

The Earldom of Libya, the Dukedom of Ferge, and the White Eagle Territory where they are.

Many nobles were killed, and even their entire families were wiped out. Just having a place to stay and a cup of hot soup to drink was enough for them.

Besides, the house will be built if we just wait a little while.

Especially when the nobles looked up at the sky, they felt more at ease.

It was midwinter and very cold. The sky over Pompeii was filled with strong winds, but they were too high to affect the city.

And the range is limited to the sky above Pompeii.

The howling wind made a harsh sound.

That is the magic of the Eagle King.

But it gave the nobles an extremely reassuring feeling, as the White Eagle Territory was so powerful.

"Firewood for sale, firewood for sale. Does anyone want to buy firewood?" Between the tents, there were many vendors pushing carts selling firewood.

Living in a tent is very cold, and burning a fire is a good way to keep warm, and it can also be used to heat up soup.

The nobles were rich and were willing to spend money even if they didn't have firewood. The common people had the physical strength and connections to collect the leftover wood scraps from the construction of the villas and sell them.

The supply and demand relationship is very good.

The nobles got warmth and the common people got money.

In short, Pompeii now is a place where the nobles and the people can get what they need, and it is very, very stable and beautiful.

town Hall.

This town hall will soon be demolished, and after that, villas will be built and then sold.

Because it was too crowded and could not keep up with the development of Pompeii, the new town hall would be located near the new lord's castle and would be a large building.

But at this moment, this old town hall is still in use. People come and go in the town hall, including nobles and commoners. The same thing is that they are all here to do business.

The officials who received them were also very kind, which was what distinguished Pompeii from many aristocratic territories.

Many officials in the territories are arrogant.

Pompey's officials were all very kind, which also won Pompey a lot of popularity.

On the second floor, inside the mayor's office.

Mayor Lelouch-san talks to one of his officials.

The mayor has always been very graceful. In order to match his status, he even grew a big mustache. Luther once made fun of the mayor for pretending to be mature.

But in such cold weather, the mayor lost his composure and wrapped himself up like a dumpling, looking chubby.

But the mayor still felt cold, and he shivered from time to time even though he was holding a cup of hot tea in his hand.

I thought. "I'm going to make Luther fulfill his promise and buy me a potion to make me a knight."

Last time, Luther had promised to provide Lelouch with a potion that would turn him into a knight.

This is mayor welfare.

Although he was distracted for a moment, the mayor did not forget what he had to do. He looked up and said to the official in front of him, "Have you arranged all the personnel?"

the officer replied.

Promoting the agricultural concept of Pompeii Territory to the entire White Eagle Territory was a goal that Luther had set before, and now Lulu is correcting it and is in the process of implementing it.

"Mr. Mayor, if we promote Pompeii's agricultural concepts, we will face many social problems next year," the official continued.

"I know."

Lelouch smiled and nodded, then stood up from his chair, stretched his cold legs, and said, "With the increase in food production, the farmers will have enough to eat, but the price of food will also drop, and the farmers will not be able to make money. In that case, the number of agricultural workers will decrease, while the number of migrant workers will increase. Currently, there are not many factories in the White Eagle Territory, so it will cause some confusion. But it doesn't matter, our governor is very rich, he will open a factory, utilize these manpower, and make money. If there are business opportunities, a large number of businessmen will also flock to the White Eagle Territory to set up factories. This will solve the problem of supply and demand."

"There will be some social chaos, but it will eventually become stable. By then, the White Eagle Territory will be even more beautiful."

"And the second problem is that serfs will be worthless."

"But there is no need to worry. Our Governor has plenty of money and will eat up as many serfs as he wants."

It was a period of great turmoil in the entire Kingdom of Prussia. The nobles and wealthy landowners employed serfs to cultivate the fields and make money for themselves.

In the areas occupied by the New Party, the New Party had already begun to liberate the serfs. They liberated the serfs very brutally and issued laws to turn the serfs into freemen.

Anyone who employed serfs would be put to death.

This is different from what Luther did at the beginning. Luther liberated his own serfs but did not ask everyone to liberate the serfs together.

Therefore, it will not cause social conflicts.

The New Party's actions only aggravated the conflict with the nobles.

In short, these are two forces that cannot possibly merge.

That's going too far.

The current situation in the White Eagle Territory is that with the influx of a large number of people, the entire territory needs a large amount of food, so the White Eagle Territory needs to have a good harvest next year.

But with the promotion of Pompeii's agricultural concepts, next year will be an especially bumper harvest.

Even with the current population of White Eagle Territory, it is still unable to digest all the food. The drop in food prices will not only make civilians unwilling to farm, but also choose to work.

It will also cause those nobles, businessmen, and landlords who own land to fail to make money. They may abandon their land or sell it to free up money to do other business.

In this way, their serfs would be useless, and if a large number of serfs were put on the market, the price of serfs would plummet.

Luther could buy these serfs, and they would be of great use to them, whether they were used to organize farming or to turn them into workers.

All in all, these two are social problems, but as long as Luther has money, he can solve the whole problem.

Therefore, working under a wealthy lord is also a happy thing.

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In addition, this chapter also explains the issue of serfs. Many people think that the author has a mental problem and wants to liberate the serfs.

I have repeatedly explained in previous chapters that serfs have low production efficiency and need supervisors. Although the serfs were liberated and became free people, Luther seemed to have lost a lot of money all of a sudden, but after a few years of taxation, he could get back what he lost.

Moreover, Luther sold his own serfs, and did not ask the nobles to do the same.

The son does not feel bad when selling his father's land. Luther liberated his own property, so why did other nobles care about it? The nobles at most thought that Luther was just a prodigal.

Besides, I have always believed that land is the least valuable. If we open factories and turn serfs into workers to make money, we can only make more.

So why should we let a group of serfs who are hungry, cold, and living a life worse than death enjoy a comfortable life? 　　What are so many slaves for? 　　Also, although this looks like a medieval template, the hierarchy of the nobility is set by myself. It is copied from our Zhou Dynasty. At that time, all the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty were independent.

But the titles are different. During the Spring and Autumn Period, wasn't it normal for Bo to kill Hou? 　　The earliest title of the state of Chu, one of the seven major powers in the Warring States Period, was Zi.

All in all, this book is my own setting.

(End of this chapter)