For Gawain, whether to accept those exiled by the Church of Holy Light is actually a question that does not need to be considered - for the Cecil Territory, which is undergoing rapid development and full of new order from beginning to end, Any group of people in this era must be polished into qualified parts of this industrial machine in the shortest time after being thrown into it. No matter you were a believer, a noble, a businessman, or a slave, the first thing after entering Cecil The thing is to face the buffer camp, then undergo a long period of education and transformation, work in the factory, attend classes in the barracks, and grow into a glorious and qualified Cecil citizen in the territory...
This It was an era in which all means of publicity and education were slow and backward. The impact of Cecil’s industrial system and education system on the aborigines of this era was extremely powerful, and the identities of these aborigines before entering the territory... The land doesn't really matter.
In other words, any aboriginal people in this era are actually unqualified for the magic industrial society - since everyone needs to transform their education before they can be useful, then what is the difference between them? It is limited to the question of how fast or difficult it is to transform.
Of course, accepting those exiled pagan believers may indeed bring some additional troubles, which Gawain has also thought about.
The Holy Light Church may make moves and spread some rumors in areas where they have strong influence, but no matter what, these troubles are within Gawain's acceptance range. The Southern Territory is not ruled by the Church of Holy Light, so the church's slander and restrictions are at most limited to the Holy Spirit Plains. Moreover, in the face of Gawain Cecil's natural prestige, the church's slander and rumors do not dare to be too public. To take a step back - what if those fanatical Holy Light believers really resist the Cecil Territory?
Gawain's future plans are destined to conflict with the stubborn forces in the Holy Spirit Plains area...
Priest Wright left, leaving with the caravan in the territory. , this pastor will return to the place where he started his mission, or where he was first exiled, to witness with his own eyes what the Holy Light Priests want to do.
And more people are pouring into the new land of Cecil Territory.
As the weather continues to get warmer, the water level of the Baishui River rises with the injection of melted snow from the snow-capped mountains. More and more larger merchant ships appear on the river. At the same time, land transportation is gradually becoming active again. Caravans travel continuously along the newly built north-south highway (connecting the main city of Cecil and the Kant area) and the east-west highway (built along the Baishui River, connecting the main city of Cecil and Tanzania). They transport a steady stream of production raw materials. Entering this place, there is a steady stream of people arriving at the same time.
Through explicit or covert methods, Cecil earned a huge amount of wealth from alchemical potions, mining equipment, and magic network technology, and this wealth was consumed at an alarming rate and converted into Production of raw materials and industrial population filled the land. In the beginning, the gold coins earned by the territory every day would be used as a "bigHetty's heart was trembling, and then when she saw the gold coins spent on the territory every day, her heart trembled to the point of suffocation - but after such a long period of training, she was finally able to face these numbers calmly, and recognized the high Wen once said:
Development is change, flowing funds are real wealth, and the gold coins piled up in the castle are just piles of shiny metal.
Traditional nobles are used to accumulating wealth. They use various means to plunder gold and silver and then always pile it up in the castle, or exchange it for more expensive things and pile them up in the treasure house. Hetty once thought that this was how the family accumulated wealth. The right method, but now she finally understands that spending gold coins is sometimes the faster way to increase wealth...
In the dock square, on the tall port watchtower, Gao Wenzheng came to inspect Looking down at a group of people in rags moving slowly on the west side of the square, while Cecil soldiers wearing armor, carrying battle backpacks, and carrying melting swords were controlling order on the side.
An hour ago, an extremely large wooden ship docked, and hundreds of people came out of the cabin. According to intelligence, these people were exiles from the western region. Since last autumn, the town of Tanzania has served as a middleman for mining equipment. After being sold to the aristocratic territories that owned mines in the west, large numbers of mining workers and slave laborers lost their homes. Advanced mining equipment could replace hundreds of thousands of manual laborers, but there were almost no civilians in this era. "Deposits" are mentioned, so wherever the mining equipment is sold, the miners there will collectively go bankrupt in large numbers, and the lords and nobles of this era will not maintain excess population: for their productivity, every People who don't work are just freeloaders. Without a sound industrial system in their own territory, they have no way to turn these surplus people into productive forces, so the only option is to expel the extra people.
These people are the "raw materials" for the further expansion of Cecil's magic industry, but before that, Gawain must remind the people around him
He is slightly biased. He raised his head and ordered Hetty, who was standing next to him: "Recently, the security of the buffer camp has been increased, and all the new immigrants will be dispersed and placed in different camps. In addition, a group of old people who have been working in the factory for a period of time will be arranged. Immigrants go to the camp to serve as 'life mentors', explaining to new immigrants the benefits of working in factories and living in the territory. Finally, the territory must be prepared to arrange work, residence, and education for each immigrant in advance. "
"Yes," Hetty nodded in response, but then asked, "Are you worried that so many people will cause trouble? "
"The large number of people is not the important reason. The important reason is that they have just lost their jobs," Gawain said with a serious expression. "Unlike the refugees accepted in the past, most of the people who have come to the territory recently are Jobs lost to 'machines'. "
"...They come with hatred? Hetty was very smart and reacted quickly, "They will hate Sisi."Do you accept it? "
"No, according to the knowledge and courage of most civilians in this era, they will never and dare not hate the lord and the lord's land, but they will hate the machines that cause them to lose their jobs. This kind of hatred is very blind, but it is the only direction they can think of to vent," Gawain explained. "These people don't understand Cecil Territory. They came to this land to find a way to survive, but they certainly didn't think about it. Since we have to deal with machines, we must provide guidance in advance. "
"Yes, I understand," Hetty lowered her head slightly, "But is this kind of guidance enough? ”
“That’s enough. These people are not mobs. After all, they came to this land just to survive. As long as survival is guaranteed, the hatred for machines will be easily eliminated," Gawain said lightly, "But in other places... The situation is different for places that only know how to introduce mining equipment but have not thought about the follow-up issues. ”
Hetty suddenly fell into deep thought due to Gawain’s words, while Gawain raised his head and looked at the window of the observation deck.
A figure emerged from the air, and Turning into a petite girl, Amber crossed the window sill like a dexterous swallow, landed lightly in front of Gawain, raised her hand and handed over a small scroll: "Information! "
Gawain took what Amber handed over and looked at the window sill behind him. In the end, he couldn't hold it in anymore: "You even opened the windows of the watchtower!" Don't you find it difficult to climb such a high wall? ! ”
Hu Huo’s face was filled with not shame but pride: “For a shadow master like me, as long as there is a shadow in the cracks of the bricks outside your tower, I can climb up along the cracks~~ ”
Gawain ignored this guy and just opened the scroll casually, and the content on it came into his sight:
Duke Laurent of the Eastern Territory recalled more than half of the territory High-level knights... There are messengers from the direction of Winter Wolf Castle entering Ansu territory...
This is a piece of intelligence from the East, as Cecil's alchemy potion merchant group finally extended its channels into After the Eastern Territory, the latest news obtained by the military intelligence agents stationed in the Eastern Territory with the merchant group
Gawain rubbed his hands, and the note immediately turned into ashes in his hands, drifting in the wind. Floating away.
"It seems that the kings and emperors on both sides have taken care of their domestic affairs..."
Hetty also saw the contents of the note just now, and endured it. I kept asking: “Is the negotiation finally going to start? "
"Yes, but this will not affect the Cecil Territory," Gawain nodded, and then smiled faintly, "Whether it is our king or the emperor of Typhon, it should not I hope there is an ancestor who can guide me in such a negotiation - it's not that I don't have a say in the issues of these two countries, it's that my voice is too big, and I am qualified to speak more than them. So let them figure it out on their own, and let us develop ours. ”
The east border of Ansu, the place guarded by the Luolun family, Changfeng Fortress.
p>Silas Lauren, Duke of the East, stood on the high city wall, looking at the vast plains east of the city wall.
The snow has melted for more than ten days, and there are still bits of white dotted on the great plains, and some new greenery is another embellishment besides white, which is about to melt. White snow and growing green grass appear together on this yellow-brown land, like the transition between cold winter and warm spring.
This made Duke Silas Loren couldn't help but think of what was about to happen on this plain - in a sense, the two countries ended their century-long tense confrontation and re-signed peace. Agreement, this can be regarded as a kind of handover from winter to spring.
With this thought in mind, Duke Laurent cast his sight into the distance. Far away, he could vaguely see a city wall being built.
That is the place prepared for negotiations - the buffer area located on the border, the "balance point" where the border fortresses of both countries can directly look after, directly attack, and directly protect, the extraordinary people and craftsmen of the two countries In the next half month, they will build a "Treaty Fort" there regardless of cost to serve as a negotiation venue for the leaders of the two countries and to remain as a symbol of peace between the two countries for a long time.
Obviously, the two countries jointly built a new castle instead of negotiating in any of the existing fortresses. This seemed to symbolize peace on the surface, but in fact it was a sign of lack of trust.
But it doesn’t matter, the negotiation is a foregone conclusion.