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Chapter 592 Relief for work
The exiles were actually the product of the Bagaudah movement.

The word "Baguardo" means warrior in the Gaul language. But it originally referred to some marginal people. With the development of Rome, the oppression of the nobility, the greed of officials in various places, and the continuous increase of imperial taxes.

As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Roman Empire continued to widen. The number of extremely poor people increased exponentially, and these extremely poor people began to go into exile. Eventually, they gathered together to keep each other warm.

These are the original Bagodas.

Later, these people could not bear the oppression of the empire and started an armed uprising. The Bagaudah Movement began. Among these people were bankrupt farmers, army deserters, criminals, and all kinds of poor people.

They even occupied the Burgundy region and threw the province of Gaul into great chaos, and the empire almost lost control of the province of Gaul.

Under these circumstances, Aetius led his army to suppress the Bagaudas movement. The empire's protector killed tens of thousands of Bagaudas and crucified them.

It was precisely because of its brutal suppression that the Bagauda movement was put out, but the problem was not solved. The Bagauda people simply hid in the mountains and forests.

If Rome did not change its policy these people would grow in number and another uprising would occur.

This time, the Bagaudah movement dealt a greater blow to the Roman Empire than the Spartacus slave uprising.

Richard took control of the province of Gaul, and naturally the first thing he did was to solve the problem of these exiles.

The policies he promoted, such as registering all citizens and reducing taxes, were all aimed at appeasing these people, hoping that these exiles would voluntarily lay down their arms.

Following Richard's order, local administrative offices also began to implement it seriously, and soon some exiles began to walk out of the mountains and forests and were registered as citizens.

As for these exiles, Richard planned to appease and recruit them while suppressing them by force.

First, they appeased those who were willing to go back and live a stable life, and then they used force to strike down those who were still stubborn and prepared to continue to act as bandits.

Use both suppression and appeasement to quickly pacify the entire Gaul region, and then develop vigorously.

The province of Gaul was not safe, as the Germanic barbarians in the north were eyeing it covetously, and the coastal areas were also plundered by Anglo-Saxon pirates.

There is almost no defense.

The British Isles are now the most harassed by Anglo-Saxon pirates. In the future, Anglo-Saxon pirates will become the main population of the British Isles.

These Anglo-Saxon pirates not only plundered Britain, but also killed and plundered Gaul, which was nearby.

Richard had no good way to deal with these pirates. He had too few talents under his command and no navy, so he could not prevent the pirates from plundering and could only passively defend himself.

Fortunately, the main target of these pirates was Britain, and Gaul was only plundered in the direction near the North Sea.

The Visigothic Kingdom temporarily traded with it, and Richard also bought slaves from the Visigoths to increase the population.

There are many problems in Gaul, but once the most important ones are solved, the rest can be dealt with slowly.

After Richard implemented the system of splitting the tribes, the Franks did not resist as imagined. Of course, the tribal leaders were certainly unwilling, but unfortunately, most of them had been sent by Richard to meet their masters.

The remaining tribal leaders were all very honest and did not dare to say much, for fear that they would accidentally follow in the footsteps of those people.

Without these tribal leaders to make trouble, the division of the Franks went smoothly. In many Frank tribes in the past, ordinary Franks had no private property.

This time, Richard distributed the property to them and immediately won the hearts of the Franks. The hearts of the people are sometimes unimportant, but sometimes very important.

Just like now, with the support of these Flan people, Richard quickly split up these Flan tribes, and then divided these Flan people into towns.

And half of the cattle, sheep, and horses of the Franks were given to them.

These cattle, sheep and horses originally belonged to the nobles and chiefs. Ordinary Franks had basically nothing. Now, after Richard's division, these Franks own land, livestock and grain seeds.

Although a large amount of livestock and food were distributed, Richard was still very well-off.

After conquering the Franks, the population under Richard's command had successfully exceeded 800,000 people. Adding the nobles, plantations, slaves, and exiles from the mountains and forests in Gaul, the total population of the Gaul province may be between 1.6 million and 1.8 million.

This population size is not as large as that of Italy, but it should be similar to that of Visigothia, and better than Britain across the sea.

Britain on the other side of the sea was in a miserable situation at this time. The invasion of Anglo-Saxon pirates and the Scottish savages ravaged the British Isles back and forth.

They would not settle down until the legendary King Arthur appeared. After Richard appeased the people, he began to integrate the refugees. Many of the refugees were almost penniless. Even if Richard allocated land to them, they could not farm. In order to keep them alive, Richard planned to implement the method of work-for-relief.

At the same time, he also planned to repair and rebuild the roads, cities and walls in Gaul.

Since the Gaul region fell into chaos, the Roman roads and cities in Gaul have not been repaired for hundreds of years. Many Roman roads have been abandoned, becoming bumpy and muddy.

The Roman Road was actually a road paved with stones and was also the most advanced road system in Europe at that time.

During the heyday of the Roman Empire, a large number of roads were built throughout the empire. However, since the empire encountered financial difficulties, the repair of these roads has basically stopped, and only the Italian region is still repairing them.

Richard plans to repair the Roman Road in the Gaul province. In addition to the Roman Road, Richard plans to build a city.

There are several relatively large cities in Gaul, but the environment in these cities is worse than the other. For example, Paris is the largest city in Gaul, but the whole city is dirty and messy, just like a slum.

Richard simply couldn't stand the horrible state of his city.

Originally, after the Romans built the city, the environment was still good. The Romans were famous for their cleanliness in Europe. But everything changed when it came to the hands of the Franks.

These Franks didn't care about cleanliness at all. The streets were full of cow and horse feces and sewage. When Richard came to Paris, he didn't even enter the city. Instead, he ordered the army to take control of the city and then sent soldiers from the prisoner camp to clean the streets.

At least you won't step on shit when you step down.

The Paris built by the Romans was not big. After all, hundreds of years ago, Paris was still a border area with a small population. The city size was only a few thousand people. Now the population of Paris has reached 20,000, and there are also a large number of cattle and sheep living there. The environment can be imagined.

The Romans built drainage systems, canals, public baths, etc. here. But after the Romans left, all of these fell into the hands of the Franks.

The Romans loved bathing and hot springs, and a public bath was built in Paris, but it has been abandoned.

The Franks did not like to take baths, and they did not have the technology of the Romans. Public baths were areas where infectious diseases could easily spread. The Franks had suffered losses.

There was a plague in Gaul not long ago, and many people died. After some people carrying the plague took a bath, all those who came to bathe there later were infected with the plague.
This is also the reason why monotheism in the Middle Ages prohibited public baths and people did not take baths.

Because public baths were prone to spreading diseases, many monotheistic priests believed that diseases were spread through water, so they began to ban public baths and preached that water could spread diseases.

Richard ordered people to repair the public baths, and then formulated various regulations. Public baths needed to be disinfected regularly, and people with diseases were not allowed to enter.

Richard promoted work-for-relief, with some people used to repair the Roman roads and others used to build the city. Richard expanded Paris, which was previously too small.

This time when building Paris, Richard directly expanded the area six times, and at the same time redesigned the roads, drainage canals, houses, aqueducts and other areas.

The Roman aqueduct was indeed great and advanced for its time, but the problem was that the Romans loved to use lead to make their pipes.

The Romans liked to use lead pots, lead pipes, etc. They had a special love for lead. Lead always had a sweet taste when used to hold water or wine.

No matter what kind of water it is, after passing through lead, it becomes sweet water.

For people of that era, sweetness was difficult to obtain, so lead, which could directly sweeten water, was naturally sought after by the Romans.

So the Romans all drank the sweet water.

Richard would not use lead to sweeten the water. He simply dismantled the Romans' lead pipes and required that lead no longer be used in all water pipes and objects that came into contact with them.

The toxicity of lead was not discovered until the 19th and 20th centuries, and Americans perfectly inherited the Romans' hobby.

Until the time when Richard traveled through time, there were still many places in America that used lead water pipes. Even American government officials and water company companies did not know how many lead pipes were still in the water network.

In addition to these buildings, the most conspicuous building in Paris is the church. This church is a monotheistic church, and many Franks believe in monotheism.

The church in Paris was actually remodeled from the Pantheon in Rome, which is not very big. The statues of gods inside have long been gone, replaced by various religious symbols of monotheism.

In the last war, Richard killed more than a dozen Paladins and almost wiped out all the Monotheistic people. Now there are only a few cats and cats left in the Paris Church.

It can be said that his vitality was severely damaged.

(End of this chapter)