The Knight's Journey to the Empire

September 4877, 4 in the Knight Continent calendar.

Today is an important day for White Bear Leader.

Because today, the first phase of the construction of Barrett's Avenue of Wealth in White Bear Territory was finally completed.

The project started on March 3 and was completed today, taking 15 days, nearly a week ahead of schedule.

The original width of Barrett's Avenue of Wealth was only enough to accommodate a carriage, and the road surface was bumpy, with either mud or puddles. It was a real "cement road".

But after the first phase of construction, the width of the avenue has been widened and can now accommodate two carriages running side by side, with two meters of space left on the roadside.

The entire road has been smooth, flat and wide, so even if a horse-drawn carriage runs on it, although there is still some slight shaking, it is not as "bumpy" as before!

However, the main material of this road is still soil.

Although the people had compacted the soil heavily to lay a good foundation for the road during construction, if it is not maintained in time, it will turn into a "cement road" again!

However, with Lord Sauron around, this situation is unlikely to occur.

According to the territory development plan formulated by the Government Office, the construction of the first phase of Barrett Avenue of Wealth will be stopped here for the time being.

Because next, the people of the territory will need to invest in another major project in the territory.

That is the large-scale wasteland development project in White Bear Territory!

This project is a foundational and basic project for the development of the White Bear Territory, so even Baron Sauron has to take it seriously.

At the mobilization meeting for this project, Baron Sauron attended in person and loudly encouraged his subjects to participate in the land reclamation operation.

In the end, he even made a solemn promise to all the people in the territory in the name of his noble title and surname:

The people of the territory have actively participated in the wasteland development project. After the wasteland is reclaimed, it will be uniformly distributed according to the number of laborers in each household, according to the standard of "10 acres for male adult citizens, 8 acres for female adult citizens, and 5 acres for young people and middle-aged and elderly people"! In addition, during the first ten years of farming, the tax on these newly developed lands will be reduced by another 10%, and the lord's mansion will only collect 30% of it.

You know, in the tradition of the Knight Continent, for a noble with a title, the title is usually the foundation of his rule, and the surname is the inheritance of the noble's bloodline!

Any noble who can use these two things to swear or make a promise means that he is swearing or making a promise to his lord or ancestors.

Therefore, what the nobles said at this time was basically true and could be believed.

So after the first phase of construction of Barrett's Avenue of Wealth was completed, Soran said that he would give the people two more days to rest.

But the people in the territory didn't need that, and the next day they immediately began to work intensively on the land reclamation project in the territory.

Fortunately, the Government Affairs Office had already done a lot of preparatory work for this project, including purchasing some iron farm tools and planning the scope of wasteland reclamation.

The current staff of the Government Affairs Office were all recruited by Adam from the Territory Guard.

These second sons and illegitimate sons were sent to Sauron's team by their fathers because they had received a certain level of training and education, and at least they were literate.

Moreover, through the actual training of the construction project of the first phase of Barrett Avenue of Prosperity, they have also mastered some basic management experience.

So even though the wasteland development project in the territory suddenly started to become a bit hurried and busy, fortunately there were no major mistakes, and the project was finally able to proceed step by step in an orderly manner.

Before Sauron came to the White Bear Territory, due to the high-pressure tax policy, everyone remained in a numb and decadent state, living a life of mediocrity, and basically had no motivation to move forward.

Take the land that the people used to cultivate as an example. After paying taxes, the final harvest of the land cultivated by each household had to be added with some wild vegetables and fruits picked on a daily basis, which was just enough to fill the family's stomach.

Therefore, in the past winters in White Bear Territory, it was extremely common for people to freeze to death or starve to death!

After Baron Soran came to the White Bear Territory, not to mention other things, just the construction of the first phase of Barrett's Avenue of Wealth allowed the people of the territory to have full meals for half a month, and they also saved up seventy or eighty copper coins.

And most importantly, Sauron kept his word and distributed money on time, which made the people trust him to the point of being believed without words.

So when Sauron made an act like "promising in person", you can imagine what would happen!

That will undoubtedly be a great encouragement for the people in the territory to improve their production enthusiasm!

Therefore, in this territory wasteland development project, although Sauron no longer distributed money, he only provided one meal a day.

However, the enthusiasm of the people at work was even higher than when they were carrying out the road construction project. The efficiency of the land reclamation work was more than doubled compared to before!

The original working hours stipulated by the government office were to finish breakfast at around 8 a.m. and then start a full day of work.

But many simple and honest people volunteered to get up at daybreak, work on the land reclamation for a while, come back to have breakfast, and then go to the land reclamation work with the large team.

When Soran heard his men report these situations to him, he himself was shocked!

He also didn't expect that some small things he did on a whim would cause such a big reaction from his subjects!

So from this point of view, the level of support for me among my subjects is surprisingly high!

But that’s all!

Because given the current situation, being able to provide them with a meal is already a very good treatment!

After all, they are now clearing land for themselves!

These reclaimed arable lands were eventually cultivated by themselves.

Moreover, the Baron only collected three-tenths of the taxes in the end, and there were no other exorbitant taxes!

This is already very kind!

And there is no doubt that there are bad people among the masses.

However, some short-sighted people like to take advantage of the situation, be greedy and do all kinds of things!

As the saying goes: Great kindness turns into hatred!

Therefore, if you give too much, it may backfire in the end, leading to some adverse consequences! You may even attract some unnecessary enemies.

So just give enough benefits!

However, Soran also secretly ordered people to record those diligent subjects who volunteered to work overtime to reclaim the wasteland.

He planned to wait until the territory reclamation project was completed, then find a few diligent citizens who had persisted from beginning to end, praise them, and give them some rewards and honors!

because……

The hard-working and silent contributors should not be buried or ignored; they need to be encouraged and honored accordingly!