Chapter 44 Recruiting Population

"This is the first Pompeii meeting. I have nothing to say. Because I know that I am not a qualified lord, and I have no idea about how to develop the territory and run the family. Therefore, I will hand over the right to preside over the meeting today to my eldest son, the next generation of knights of the Pompeii family, Luther Pompeii."

At this time, Old Sol spoke.

This contemporary knight of the Pompeii family is very self-aware. He knows that the Pompeii family will have a huge change from now on. Perhaps the Pompeii family will have a town as a fiefdom.

And have more than a dozen knights as combat power.

Among the vassals of the entire Patton family, it will become the leading force.

But the premise of this is to hand over the territory to the eldest son to manage, rather than his father who only has muscles and a little political mind.

So Old Sol faced the knights of the family and simply gave up his rights.

And the knights and scholars did not have any objections. They all cast their eyes on the young man standing behind the lord.

That's right.

Luther is not a young man, but a teenager, at most a teenager.

Among the nobles, especially the real nobles, such a young boy only has one thing in his mind, being a playboy. Playing with women, being jealous and so on.

But this young man did what many people could not do in their lifetime.

Pompeii is very small. The new knights and scholars have been here for a while. They have heard and seen many things.

Using cattle to plow the fields means efficiency.

Cleaning up feces means unprecedented civilization.

Walking on the road without feces is simply a physical and mental comfort.

As for fertilizing the fields with feces, although it seems that wheat is growing much stronger than in previous years, whether this thing is reliable or not depends on this year's harvest.

So they can't judge.

The research on new wine tasting and the production of Pompeii wine are the fundamental reasons for the change of the Pompeii family.

While the heirs of other real nobles are still playing with women and playing playboys, this next generation of knights of Pompeii has begun to manage the territory and brought actual benefits.

The Pompeii family originally had only four knights, but now it has increased to sixteen, which is the proof.

Many wandering knights present returned to their hometowns because of this. It was all thanks to the next generation of Pompeii knights in front of them.

Therefore, it made no sense for the knights to let Old Sol hand over the power to the next generation of Pompeii knights.

In a way, Luther has the same reputation as Old Sol in the entire territory.

And Luther is obviously more important.

Because Old Sol represents the present of Pompeii, and Luther represents the future of Pompeii.

Since the knights and scholars present have signed an agreement with the Pompeii family and become the family servants of the Pompeii family, they will share life and death with Pompeii.

The glory of the master family is their glory.

Luther, Pompeii.

Everyone is willing to bow their heads for this name and let them be sent at will.

Facing the eyes of the vassals of the family, Luther was not afraid of the stage. At least he did not show any fear of the stage, but in fact Luther was still a little nervous in his heart.

The panic was a bit exaggerated, but it was really a bit nervous.

We are doing the work of the mayor now.

Wow, the mayor of our town used to be a big leader in front of us.

Luther laughed a little in his heart, but he was serious on the surface, making the next generation of Pompeii knights look very serious.

Serious men are always attractive.

The knights and scholars present straightened their backs involuntarily and became more serious.

"As we all know, the Pompeii family now relies on the Pompeii wine business, although the wine business should be good for a period of time. But even the best wine will be cracked by people, just like wine. Isn't there wine brewing everywhere now? So, in my opinion, the wine business is still not as important as farming. Don't say I'm a country bumpkin, a local leopard, think about it carefully, only the food grown on the geographical edge is continuous and real. And our Pompeii family's territory is undeveloped wilderness to the south. According to the laws of the kingdom, the knight lord has the right to explore, and the land developed belongs to Pompeii. So the next stage of Pompeii's development is to recruit people. But I can't eat too much in one bite, I plan to recruit about 10,000 people. "

Speaking of this, Luther paused, and then said: "There are two ways to recruit people, buying serfs and recruiting freemen. To buy serfs, you just need to spend money, no plan is needed. As for attracting freemen, the condition I give is that the new fields developed are all owned by the freemen. And tax exemption for one year. I believe that it will attract many freemen without fields. "

"The plan is quite simple, but it requires manpower to execute. I plan to send several knights and scholars to go out to do this. So we need a knight with rich experience outside to lead the team. "

Speaking of this, Luther glanced at Stone Pompeii. In the family, this Stone Knight is his cousin, but here everyone is in a superior-subordinate relationship.

So, Luther said: "Mr. Stone, you select five knights and five scholars, bring gold coins to do this. "

"I am willing to serve. "Stone, Pompeii stood up, put his right hand on his chest, and bowed to Luther.

"That's the plan for now. Do you have anything to add?" Luther asked everyone democratically.

Teacher Qiao Xiu stood up, bowed to Luther, and asked: "Knight Luther, as the tax officer in the territory, I am a little worried about the financial resources of the Pompeii family."

Luther nodded, motioning Teacher Qiao Xiu to continue.

"As everyone knows, the finances of the territory were not abundant before this. This time, the sale of Pompeii wine made a lot of profit, so the knights were recruited. But it takes time to sell the wine, and now you need to buy serfs. And buying serfs and recruiting freemen are not a deal. Because after buying serfs, the territory needs to be responsible for the minimum living materials of the serfs. If the territory is developed next year, it will also be necessary to buy Bass cattle, build plows, and many farm tools. I am a little worried about the family's finances."

Teacher Qiao Xiu said very sincerely.

Teacher Qiao Xiu certainly has feelings for the Pompeii family. After all, he has lived there for more than ten years. If nothing unexpected happens, Teacher Qiao Xiu will still rely on Luther for retirement.

Besides, his son Lelouch is still the mayor of Pompeii.

Because of this, Teacher Qiao Xiu is worried that Luther is taking too big a step. Anyway, the ultimate goal is to develop a town. Is it necessary to take such a big step?

Wait until the profits of wine are collected and the autumn harvest is over. When the family finances are sufficient in winter, it will not be too late to recruit people and buy serfs.

Luther certainly understood the worries of Teacher Qiao Xiu. To use a Chinese saying, this is the words of an old man who is planning for the country.

Safe.

But Luther also has his own considerations. Most people present, including his father, think that he wants to develop the Pompeii family into a large-scale knight lord family.

Only Lelouch knows that he intends to become a real noble with a title.

That is a race against time.

To make money, development must be high-profile.

It is not okay to take steady steps.

And Luther also has a plan for finance. He smiled and said to Teacher Qiao Xiu: "Teacher, don't worry, my father, the leader of the Pompeii family, the Pompeii Knight, has prepared gold coins, whether it is money to buy serfs or money to feed serfs, farm tools, Bass cattle, recruiting 10,000 people, it is not a problem."