Lord Harland.

Chapter 198 Patrol the Territory
After the autumn harvest is completed, it will soon enter October.

Richard looked at the population statistics. This year, through the official purchase of slaves, acceptance of escaped slaves, private purchase of slaves, etc., Harland's territory has increased by 5000 people.

With [-] more mouths and thousands of families, can these newly joined slaves settle down?Will it be bullied by bureaucrats?Li Cha was also a little worried.

Through the experience of his previous life, Li Cha knew in his heart that the bureaucratic system has various drawbacks, the most common one is to deceive the superiors and the inferiors, creating a closed information cocoon for the superiors, coaxing the superiors around and confining them to fabricated lies.

In many cases, high-level policies are often closest to the people at the bottom, but in the process of policy communication and implementation, they are distorted and distorted by bureaucrats, and eventually become profit-making tools in the hands of some people to exploit the people.

They take advantage of the high-level space away from the grass-roots level to conceal many things, and threaten and lure the bottom.

Even if the Dawn Plane is a world where Weili belongs to himself, this situation will still occur, but it is not as serious as in the previous life.

Because the superiors on the Dawn plane possess powerful power, their deterrent power against the bureaucracy is naturally far greater than those who rely on the bureaucracy to hold power.

For example, Richard was able to control the power of Harland's territory not only because of the king's appointment and noble blood, but more importantly, relying on the strength of himself and his family to manage the territory and form an army. His own strength is the reason why he controls the territory. root cause.So he doesn't need to compromise with the bureaucrats. If anyone makes him dissatisfied, he can easily overturn the table and replace people or even kill people.

Even so, the deception below is still very serious.

As long as you want to govern the people, you must have a class of bureaucrats.

In order to prevent the bureaucrats from doing serious things, the easiest way is to break out of the information cocoon and get in touch with the grassroots in person.

Starting from October, Li Cha led his soldiers to inspect the territory. He would go to every village, factory and mine in person, talk to the slaves, see the real situation at the grassroots level, and solve some problems for the grassroots as much as he could.

Along the way, Li Cha is quite satisfied with the current situation.

Last year, when Li Cha was still in the territory, he could see some old people and children who had frozen to death, abandoned in the woods outside the village and eaten by wild dogs.

There is a lot of grain stored this year, and the wool textile industry in the territory is also on the right track, producing a large amount of sweaters and woolen cloth. Coupled with the successful development of the coal mine, it can provide sufficient fuel for the indentured slaves, and no one was seen freezing to death along the way.

After walking all the way, in late October, Li Cha came to Zhuanyao Village.

The brick kiln village is located near the Bobi brick kiln factory, and almost all the villagers are workers of the brick kiln factory.

The brick kiln factory was separated from official management last year and started market-oriented operation.

From last year to this year, because there are still relatively few free people building houses, they mainly rely on official orders to survive.

Of course, the official order will not give a high price, and sometimes you can’t even get cash, and you can only use grain, salt, brown sugar, woolen cloth, steel and other real goods to pay for it.

For the whole of last year, Bobby Brick Kiln Factory only made a profit of [-] gold coins.

Because of his strong management ability, Rooney, the director of the brick kiln factory, was appointed by Richard as the civil affairs officer of Fort Sophia.Leaving the factory line, he was promoted to the top of the territorial bureaucracy.

Bobby, the deputy factory director, is not good at managing people. He still serves as the deputy factory director of production, but he has [-]% of the dry shares of the brick kiln factory as dividends.On the contrary, it is the director of the factory, Layton, who has no shares in the brick kiln factory because he did not play a key role in the development of the brick kiln factory.

If Rooney is willing to be the director of the factory, Li Cha once promised to give him a [-]% dry stock dividend.But Rooney gave up the dividends of the brick kiln factory for the sake of his future.

As long as Bobby is alive, this dry stock can be kept forever, but it cannot be inherited to future generations.

Because the profit of the brick kiln factory is not high, Bobby only received ten gold coins as a dividend last year.

Bobby's salary is relatively high, one gold coin and six silver coins a month, including dividends, bonuses, etc., last year he earned more than [-] gold coins, comparable to the deputy squadron leader of the army.

And his job is easier and more secure than that of an officer.At least he didn't need to go to the front line to fight the orc army.

During the seven years since he joined Harland's territory, Bobby not only married his wife, but also raised two lovers, and lived a very good life.

Compared with before joining Harland's territory, it can be said that he has achieved a class leap and completely turned over.

When Richard came to Brick Kiln Village, Layton and Bobby rushed into Brick Kiln Village with the management of Brick Kiln Factory after receiving the news.

When the villagers of Brick Kiln Village saw the managers like Layton and Bobby, they had flattering and fearful eyes.

Seeing this scene, Li Cha sighed in his heart: "That Bobby, who was a little cute back then, who devoted himself to improving the brick-making process, disappeared and became a bureaucrat like Layton. Time is really a **** knife, changing countless things. people."

Li Cha nodded to Layton, Bobby and the others, and then entered the courtyard of a villager.

The yard is the most standard house type in the Harland territory. 12 meters deep and 15 meters wide, the three houses face south, with an area of ​​about [-] square meters.

Seeing Li Cha bring a group of people in, the owner of the house was shocked. Seeing Li Cha, he was so excited that he couldn't speak.

Li Cha can understand this kind of mentality. When a high-ranking and important figure walks by his side, he will involuntarily feel a kind of excitement and a kind of admiration in his heart. This is an emotion shared by all human beings.

When Li Cha met the county magistrate, he was equally excited.

"Don't get excited. I see that you look familiar. You should be the first group of old people to enter the territory. Is your name Robinson?"

Since learning magic and greatly improving his mental power, Li Cha's memory has become very amazing.

He can recall anyone he met a few years ago.

Hearing the lord call out his name, Robinson became even more excited, his face turned red, and he was even a little excited.

When Robinson finally calmed down, Li Cha asked, "How many people are there in your family now?"

"I married Celia. When we got married, she had two children and took care of her parents-in-law. After we got married, we had three children. Now there are nine people in my family."

"Nine people can share 45 mu of land. You have to go to work in a brick kiln factory. Can the elderly and children grow it?"

"Last year, we couldn't grow enough, and the harvest was not very good. This year our family bought a mule. Celia's eldest son Sola is [-] years old this year, and her second child is [-] years old. Her parents-in-law are not too old. It can be planted."

"How is the harvest this year, and can life survive?"

"Thanks to the benevolent lord, this year we can save three to four gold coins in addition to the rations we left behind, the food we grew, and the food we sold for a meal, plus my salary."

"It's going to snow these days, do you have enough fuel?"

"The children have been collecting firewood since spring, and the firewood has been piled up very high in winter. The firewood behind the house belongs to my family. In addition, we also used two silver coins to buy a thousand catties of coal for the winter. There is enough fuel."

Li Cha went out to look at the pile of firewood and found a big tree. He lowered his head and said to Layton, "Show more to the people in the community and don't cut down the big tree. Not only will there be no firewood in the future after the big tree is cut down, but it will also bring Serious soil erosion."

Seeing that Robinson was a little panicked, Li Cha turned his head and asked pleasantly, "What are you going to do with the gold coins you saved?"

"Sola has reached the age of marriage. He will have his own family and cannot live with us. I plan to use the money to build a house for Sola next year."

"It's a good idea. The Goddess of Dawn favors hardworking people. If you encounter unfair things, you can ask someone to write to me. I will come to Brick Kiln Village to visit you next year."

(End of this chapter)