Chapter 12: Chapter 12: After Half a Year

Goode looked at the residents of Melo Town who were surrounded by cheers, and he was a little dazed.

This lord is really completely different from the previous lords.

Although there are more than 500 people in the entire town of Melo, there are actually less than 60 households. Before there were no fields to divide, many families lived together in groups for warmth. This has resulted in family power over time. Now there are fields to divide, Many families started to become independent, just to get an extra mu of land.

In the end, eighty households were divided, except for a few bachelors, widows, or lonely old people who were united in one farm by Aslan and worked as tenants collectively. A thousand catties of grain.

With this set of measures, in the small town of Melo, as long as they are not lazy and hopeless, they will definitely not starve to death.

Although Aslan kept the land tax to a minimum, it aroused the enthusiasm of the people for farming.

The registered land in the entire Melo town is more than 150 mu. After a rough calculation, when the next grain harvest comes, at least 1.72 million catties of grain will be received in a year. The town can receive two million catties of grain a year.

In the past, the annual land tax revenue of Merlot town had never exceeded 200,000 catties.

In just half a month after Aslan took over the small town of Melo, it has doubled tenfold.

Wilson and Essien looked at Aslan with respect.

In the final analysis, those lords are all serious nobles, and their five fingers are not touched by Yang Chunshui. They only know how to let farmers farm the land to collect taxes, but they don't know how to adapt measures to local conditions and grow food according to the kingdom's tradition, so the output will naturally not increase.

The next day, Aslan asked someone to post a notice.

Living in the Merlot area, if you really can’t survive, you can come to the town of Merlot to work on the lord’s private farm, including food and housing, and you can get a thousand catties of grain at the end of the year, as long as you stay in the town of Merlot One year, with the guarantor of the residents of Melo Town, one can become a glorious member of Melo Town.

As soon as this announcement came out, many families hiding in the deep mountains and old forests tentatively sent representatives into Aslan's lord's farm.

Many civilians hiding in the deep mountains and old forests cannot survive in the city, and they cannot pay the poll tax, so they can only hide and become black households. If possible, who would like to be black households and live a life of savages in the mountains.

The entire town of Merlot has entered a stage of rapid development.

Time flies, half a year has passed.

The town of Merlo has grown to a population of more than 2,000, and has become a veritable big town in the Merlo area, including Wood Village. The original site of Wood Village was used as a resettlement site for refugees.

The reason why Aslan arranged this way is because soon in Lixia next year, the nine great lords of the kingdom will jointly rebel and drag the whole kingdom into the flames of war. The last piece of paradise in the flames of war.

In his previous life, Aslan used this flame of war to develop the town of Melo, but this time, Aslan not only wanted to develop it, but also integrated the entire Melo area in one go.

At the former site of Wood Village, Aslan led a small group of swordsmen into it, and began to point and point.

"There are arrow towers here and there..." Aslan planned to transform the entire Wood Village into a military fortress, with the small towns of Melo forming horns.

As the future head of Fort Wood, Gut accepted Aslan's order very respectfully and humbly.

Half a year is enough for Aslan to establish absolute authority in the small town of Melo.

In the small town of Melo with a population of over 2,000, the town guard has more than 320 people, and it is the veritable number one force in the town of Melo with a radius of tens of miles.

According to his memory, the military training in this world is still very old. It is just some simple weapon battles. Once a war breaks out, the two sides will rely on the number of formations to fight each other.

There are no tactics at all. Except for the kingdom's regular army, which looks decent during the war, most of the other lords recruit some farmers randomly, train them and send them to the battlefield.

What Aslan wants to train is a powerful army. He knows very well that an army with clear discipline and orders and prohibitions is what he really wants, so he is going to use the military training methods of his previous life first. Use it.

"One more thing. You will issue a recruitment order tomorrow. All young men between the ages of eighteen and forty can sign up to join our newly formed Merlot Army. They can get five silver coins a month, and Provide three meals a day! The number of troops should be set at around 100 for the time being!" Aslan said.

Wilson exclaimed: "My lord, is five silver coins a month too much? Generally, two or three silver coins are enough to recruit soldiers, and they also provide three meals a day!"

Aslan said: "The fighters I want to train are real fighters, not militias like the town guard. They are not required to be able to fight ten against one, but they must obey military orders and be absolutely loyal. And these We must at least provide them with a remuneration that is sufficient for peace of mind, and they will fight for us."

Wilson said, "That's all up to you."

Gut next to him was excited when he heard it.

Now the entire Melo Town army is divided into three echelons. The direct descendants of the troops are Aslan's lord guards. There are not many of them, only 20 people, but the worst of these 20 people are junior knights, three intermediate knights, one A senior knight.

After stabilizing, Aslan taught everyone in the lord's guard a set of top fighting spirit training methods obtained in his previous life. Arthur also used this to break through the high-level knights, Lancelot also reached the middle-level knights, and the other two middle-level knights were also A knight who came with Aslan. The remaining junior knights were promoted by Arthur himself, and they were absolutely loyal to Aslan.

The second echelon of the army is the Melo army that is about to be established. Professional soldiers, except for training and fighting, will not have other tasks in their daily lives. They will be the main force in the future war in Melo town.

The third echelon is the Town Guard. Most of them are less talented or older. Most of them are equivalent to engineers in the army. They have less training, but they have to work.

The only thing that gave Aslan a headache was the serious shortage of iron ore in the warehouse. He could barely change the entire knight guard. As for the town guard, the weapons in their hands were uneven, messy and ugly, not to mention the armor.

The environment and land in the Melo area is poor, the main reason is that there are rich mineral deposits underground, but now Aslan dare not mine, the reason is very simple, the wealth is not revealed.

The Kingdom of Cleveland controls the salt and iron trade in the entire country, and the salt and iron business is nationalized. No matter how big the noble lord is, if he is found to be mining salt and iron without permission, it will be a capital offense.