Release that Witch Chapter 268: First plenary meeting (on)
Roland held the first high-level plenary meeting of Border Town in the living room of the castle club.
Compared with Barov and his more than a dozen apprentices, City Hall has grown to a huge group of nearly 100 people. Among them are downcast noble, captured Knight and squire, and those who have completed primary education and obtained a diploma. Aboriginal people.
Due to the growth of the population, various departments have also taken shape one after another, so that the City Hall finally has the look of a little prince. He no longer has to do everything himself as before, and now some simple policies and schemes, as long as he explains, this nascent City Hall can dismantle tasks to complete in various departments, which makes Roland feel full Pleased.
The participants of the first high-level meeting were all the heads of the department. They were Minister of Agriculture Seney Darley, Minister of Education Scroll, Ministry of Chemistry person in charge Cam Schuire (temporary), Minister of Construction Karl van Bate, military person in charge Iron Axe and City Hall Prime Minister Barov Mons. The Ministry of Industry is still Roland to manage it personally. After all, no one except him knows what industrialization looks like.
Everyone has a bucket of ice water next to them. The ice cubes placed in the buckets of cold air are passed by Candlelight attachment magic. Soaking in the water can last at least one morning. Even in the fiery sun outside, the cool temperature remained in the castle hall.
"Then each department will report the recent situation," Roland took the kettle out of the bucket and gave himself pour a cup ice water, "Just start with Ministry of Agriculture."
"Yes, Your Royal Highness." Seney stood up and saluted, and then spread out the prepared paper roll. "This time, the amount of grain submitted is about 17,000 dendrobium. This amount alone can meet all the towns. In addition to the food required by the people in the coming summer and summer, Ministry of Agriculture purchases the remaining grain at the market price according to your requirements, but this amount is far less than the surrender ratio. At present, it is only 4,500.
The so-called Dendrobium is a commonly used wheat weighing container, a basket made of bamboo, so this number is also a then it will be alright. He does n’t know how to convert it into kilograms or liters. These are not important. The key is that he knows that the collected food can feed the townspeople.
The key point is the second point. If the calculation is based on the collection of 70% and retention of 30%, the purchased grain should be around Qiqianhu, and the portion reserved for grain and next year's seed will not need so much. In other words, some serfs did not sell the remaining 30% of their food to City Hall, but chose to hoard it in wooden sheds.
Although he had foreseen such an situation in the early days, he actually sighed lightly when it actually happened. The purpose of hoarding grain is obvious. It is intended to speculate on resale. If small town suffers from insufficient food supply or natural disasters, they can sell this batch of grain at a much higher price than the market price, and it is not impossible to increase it by more than ten times.
This is also the reason why Roland has designated the food transaction as a City Hall franchised project, and the purchaser must show his ID. The food issue is related to the most basic stability of Border Town. Under the early situation, where grain was not surplus, if it was opened to restrict sales, it would be easy for people to buy it and hoard it, resulting in rising food prices. The real-name system of purchasing quantitative grain, while prohibiting other sales channels, can maintain the price of grain at a stable level.
"Your Highness, why don't you forcefully buy the wheat in the hands of the serfs?" Seney asked puzzled, "Anyway, the law does not allow them to sell to others."
"Because it is their private property, how to dispose of it is their freedom," Roland replied, "I have not stipulated that serfs should not keep their own food. You can also understand that as long as it is not prohibited in the plaintext, it is allowed. . "
Seney looks a bit confused and doesn't seem to know how to understand this sentence. Not only him, most people frowned, only Barov showed a thoughtful look.
"Are there any other things to report?" Roland drank cold water. The idea of emphasizing rules and procedures in all things only waited for them to slowly comprehend it later, or to understand it, they would be considered as one. New Age Qualified Official. Of course, this set is also easy to go to the other extreme, leading to the emergence of bureaucracy, but bureaucratization is better than chaos or arbitrary behavior.
"Uh ... yes," Seney Darley shook his head. "Now farmland has been harvested. I don't know how to arrange the fallow plan for the next year?"
"No, these lands are not fallow, and wheat will continue to be planted in the coming year," Roland waved his hand. "The manure accumulated on the side of the field is prepared for the fertile land. Next, you instruct the serfs to shovel them into the fields, The soil is fully mixed, and new faeces can be piled up in the vacated positions. "The hot and humid weather in summer only requires two months to rot, and in winter it takes about four months. When the spring starts next year, not only will the soil quality have been improved by the first batch of compost, but he will also have a new batch of compost that can be added as a base fertilizer without the need to fallow.
Not to mention tall fertilizers, the application of human and animal fertilizers to agricultural production is a huge improvement.
"Well, if this is what you asked for." He touched his head. "In addition ... Your Highness, I am afraid that so much wheat cannot be ground by one or two stone mills. I want to apply for construction next to Scarlet Water River. A mill, preferably steam engine powered. "
"Yes," Roland nodded. This is a new breakthrough. In addition to himself, someone finally began to try to use this new power. "You first propose to Barov, and after obtaining funding, work out with Ministry of Construction. Detailed plan. "
"Okay, Your Highness," Seney replied, "The last thing was the promotion of freemen. This time, a total of 516 people were eligible for promotion, because they were divided on the spot according to the amount of wheat turned over, so No one raised an objection, I have submitted the list to the Barov adult. "Then he got up again and saluted," My report is finished. "
"Good job," Roland patted his palm twice as an encouragement. The young Knight of the former Wolf Family now seems to have adapted to the life of small town, and he has done a decent job in City Hall. It is an excellent publicity model with a little packaging. In the future, it can play a role in soliciting stronghold in noble and Knight No small effect.
The second speaker is Scroll. Her long hair is behind her head. She is wearing a clean and tidy white shirt and a pure black dress without any decoration and lace. She looks mature and capable. It is hard to imagine that six months ago, she was still a witch in exile in Tibet in order to avoid Church.
"At present, there are two batches of people who have completed primary education, a total of 85 people, most of whom have studied at school run by Mr. Karl." Her ability is not to forget, so there is no need to do anything when reporting data. Ready, this makes Roland very envious. "Forty-six of them chose to work in City Hall, twenty-one decided to go to Bicycle Factory, and thirteen applied for joining First Army." Speaking of her paused here, "Five people have signed up for chemistry Laboratory posts. "
Five people? Roland couldn't help looking at Cam Schuire, and the latter's face was obviously not very good-looking. It seems that the publicity effect of awarding honours is far less effective than I expected. As a result, some of the three new laboratories will be idle for a period of time.
Fortunately, the employment rate is at least 100%, he comforted himself. (To be continued., Your support is my greatest motivation.)