The Knight's Journey to the Empire

"Now, let's discuss the fourth issue: resettling the territory's inhabitants and planning new settlements." Soran spoke.

The meeting then entered the next phase.

"What do you think about this issue? Please share your thoughts!"

Seeing this, Javier stood up and explained: "The people who need to be resettled this time are mainly the slaves and refugee followers we brought from Connacht."

"They now live in the lord's mansion and the mayor's mansion next door. They have nothing to do and rely on the young master's support every day."

"Moreover, the composition of those refugee followers is diverse and mixed, making management extremely chaotic and troublesome."

"If we can't resettle them in time, it will seriously affect the young master's daily life and quality of life, and may even disrupt the public security of the entire territory."

"So, the difficulty we are facing now is how to settle them down and give them jobs or farm the land so that they can support themselves and settle down in White Bear Territory?"

Soran just finished listening, so he directly expressed his idea of ​​resettlement: "As for the arrangement of these people, my idea is to resettle them separately."

"First, as for the slaves, I plan to place them in Flanders Town and let them live in the backyard of the lord's mansion temporarily."

"Javier, select two smart or prestigious slaves from among those slaves and let them be the managers of the slaves to manage all the slaves well."

"If possible, you can also select a few smarter ones from among them and add them to the servant team of the lord's mansion."

Slaves were the private property of the lord and were considered one of his own people.

So of course Soran would keep it by his side so that he could use it at any time.

Moreover, these slaves were easier and more convenient to manage than their refugee followers.

After all, slaves were the ones who were managed, and they had been working on Sir Lipton's family estate for some time.

Therefore, their recognition of Sauron is also relatively high.

At the same time, people are selected from among them as servants in the mansion, and there is a certain degree of loyalty guarantee.

Also, it has only been three days since Soran and his party arrived in Flanders Town.

Despite the previous events that established the lord's prestige.

But in fact, they are not very familiar with the local residents. After all, they are still outsiders and have not integrated into this land.

If Soran relocated all of these one hundred or so followers out of Flanders, he would leave his brothers here.

That's really like walking yourself into a jar!

If something really happens, we will be isolated and powerless!

Soran didn't dare to put his life on trust in others.

People’s hearts are evil and fickle; this is the hardest thing to see through.

"As for the refugees who followed me all the way, I plan to build a new village in the territory and relocate them and some of the people in Flanders Town there."

Holding together for warmth is one of the basic ways of survival for the lower-class people in this world.

Therefore, in Soran's mind, he must migrate some of the locals and live together with those refugee followers.

Otherwise, if these two groups of people live separately and cannot integrate with each other, it will easily lead to regional discrimination or group confrontation.

Moreover, these refugee followers, who were originally selected by Sauron, were all young and middle-aged male laborers.

Therefore, it is best if the families who migrated with them were those registered as "special families", such as widows' families...

Only by helping each other in this way can the refugee followers better adapt to the living environment of the territory.

At the same time, it can also improve the quality of life of those "special families" to a certain extent.

Of course, the most important thing is to enable them to find a partner to live with.

Otherwise, what future can a territory where most of the people are bachelors have!

Soran thought: I have to find a way to make it easier for them to become a family!

"Finally, there are the second sons or illegitimate children of the nobles. You can pick the ones that need to be taken away and train the ones that need to be trained. As for the rest, put them in the territory guard team and make specific arrangements based on how they develop in the future."

These second sons or illegitimate children of nobles were sent to Soran, which obviously showed that their fathers paid relatively much attention to them and provided them with a certain level of training.

Therefore, compared with those refugee followers or ordinary citizens of the White Bear Territory, they can still be regarded as elite talents of the society.

Therefore, in Sauron's plan, he was going to train them to become the management level of the territory.

Of course, the final result depends on their own luck.

There will definitely be many opportunities in the development and construction of new territories. Whether they can seize them depends on their own decisions.

"Do you think this is feasible?" Soran asked for everyone's opinions after he finished speaking.

"Master, where are you going to locate this new village?" Gubellini asked his doubts immediately.

"The location I am considering now is to build a new village in the middle of the road connecting Flanders Town to County Avenue!" Soran said.

This road stretches for more than ten kilometers and is all part of Soran's hereditary territory.

Moreover, there are flat plains on both sides. Once they are developed, they will become large tracts of fertile farmland.

So, if we don’t build a new village in the middle, it will be very troublesome for the residents of Flanders Town to walk more than ten kilometers every day to farm the land!

Not only this village, when Wolfe brings his men back from the west, Sauron also plans to settle them next to this road and build a village.

"Master, there is actually a more suitable place to accommodate them." Gubellini said confidently.

"Oh, where is it?" Soran asked.

"The new quarry that is about to be opened!" Gubellini said firmly.

"Those refugee followers are all young and strong."

"If we place them in newly opened quarries and let them work as miners, it will provide them with a stable job and allow them to gain a foothold in the new environment."

This is indeed a very good suggestion!

Resettlement of people is not just about moving them out, but also about providing them with jobs or other means of production so that they can support themselves.

The housing problem is easy to solve, you can just build a shack and drink, but it is difficult to have three meals a day and keep yourself warm!

The reason why relocation of rural areas is so difficult is nothing more than this, in addition to the greed of some families.

If farmers leave the land they have cultivated for generations, they will lose their hopes and roots and become wanderers and rootless duckweed.

Although they are also very tired of this life of "facing the earth and back to the sky".

Because there is no real farmer who truly wants to be a farmer.

Who doesn’t yearn for a beautiful and warm world? Who doesn’t yearn for a life without worries about food and clothing!

Farmers are bound to this land out of necessity, they become farmers in order to survive and live!

This has gone a bit off topic, let’s get back to the point!

This resettlement site at the mine can indeed solve their employment problems.

but……