Chapter 713 Chapter 713: Center Scheduling

"Now our primary goal is to enable farmers to resume production as soon as possible, and strive to catch up with this year's autumn harvest."

Wilson stood up straight away and shouted loudly.

Aslan rubbed his temples. Now he was outside the main city of Cliff, the manor of a certain grand duke, which had become Aslan's headquarters in the Cleveland province.

Because of the fast round trip of the Gwen, Wilson and Essien and other administrative officials were brought here.

To occupy so much territory at once, civil servants alone are not enough to support such a huge territory.

In this regard, we have to recruit educated people from the local area to help.

The first task now is to restore the grain production in the northern provinces. Only when the people who have obtained the land have a real bumper harvest will the people let go of their guard and truly love Aslan.

After all, in the past few years, the noble council has tormented the people badly.

"Okay, Wilson will be fully responsible for this matter, and Duke Durandal will fully cooperate." Aslan said weakly.

Duke Durandal opened his mouth subconsciously. He really wanted to refuse, but he couldn't find a reason to refuse.

During this period of time, he also visited many ordinary villages, and only then did he realize how much harm their rule has caused to ordinary people over the years.

As the saying goes, there is no comparison, no harm.

This was the case in all the villages in the aristocratic territories in the past. Naturally, they didn't feel that they existed there, but after comparing the Melox province, they realized how miserable the life of the people of the Commonwealth of Cleveland was.

"Marquis Aslan, I am already eighty-three years old, so you are not afraid that I will die from exhaustion." Duke Durandal joked.

Aslan said with a bitter face: "You should work harder when you are old. I am afraid that I will die young."

For a moment, the entire meeting room was immersed in laughter.

Artoria and Nuomiri took another look at Aslan. In the past week, Aslan had never had an intimate relationship with anyone. He was either at work or on his way to work.

The degree of corruption in the northern provinces far exceeded the expectations of the officials of the Melox province. To completely reverse this situation, Aslan had to personally sit in the Cleveland province and mediate.

Aslan only rested for less than four hours a day. Fortunately, he was a dragon slayer and a mentor-level powerhouse. If he was an ordinary person, he would probably be exhausted.

However, Aslan's current situation is not very good, his face is full of emaciation, his eyes are darkened, whenever he has free time, Aslan can take a nap while sitting.

Arturia has now completely taken over Aslan's military affairs, and is cooperating with Cromwell to speed up the reorganization of the garrison and the unified army. Among them, the most talented soldiers of the garrison have been sent back to Baxia City to accept super Soldiers are trained to prepare for future transfer to the United Army.

All the garrison troops who had stayed in Melox Province were also transferred out, and they were disrupted and reorganized with the newly incorporated garrison troops.

The reorganized First Army and Second Army of the United Army have marched to the border of Buyik Province, confronting the noble private army who had just fled there.

Compared with the people in the northern provinces, they still have a little affection for the royal family. The southern provinces don't have that kind of thinking at all, they completely follow the lead of their respective lords.

If it weren't for being too close to the Kingdom of Cleveland, the grand dukes of the southern provinces would have become independent long ago.

Because the southern provinces have long had a sense of independence, their attitude towards the people is much better than that of the nobles in the northern provinces. Moreover, the southern provinces have always been a land of fish and rice. Even after the drought, the loss is not as great as that of the northern provinces. big.

So they still have the strength to fight, but they still have a fatal flaw, that is, the industry is backward. Compared with the northern nobles who can already produce their own rifles, the southern nobles buy more than 70% of their rifles from the Maxim Chamber of Commerce.

So Aslan was not so eager to launch an attack on the southern provinces.

In fact, there is nothing he can do. When he digests the northern provinces, relying on the huge population base of the northern provinces, I believe it will be enough to train a large number of grassroots officials.

"With the assistance of the army, we have completed the census of the northern provinces. The current population is only 237.857467 people." Essien said with a serious face.

"Is this impossible?" The first person to make a sound was actually the Duke of Durandal, an old man who always wanted to retire.

He is well aware of the intensity of the census in the province of Melox, and even dispatched two aviation magician brigades, the purpose of which is to register the people who have hidden in the deep mountains and wild forests.

What really astounded him was the reduced population of the northern provinces.

In fact, during the period of the Kingdom of Cleveland, the population of the northern provinces was simply registered, mainly the population of the main city and subordinate towns and villages. As for the people who hid in the deep mountains and old forests, they did not bother to register.

But at that time, the population of their northern provinces was more than 300 million, which was also the key reason why the northern provinces overwhelmed the southern provinces.

Huge population base.

But how long has passed, and the population has been reduced so much that the Duke of Durandal, who has long regarded human life as worthless, can't help but tremble.

That's not millions of people, but the disappearance of hundreds of millions of people.

"When the locust plague appeared, many people in various places could not pay the food tax and dragged their families away. During this period, many people died of starvation. In addition, when the drought broke out, more people died. At this time, the nobles from the north and the south broke out. A large-scale war." Essien didn't say what he said later, and Duke Durandal could understand it.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters cannot be avoided, coupled with continuous wars, it is unknown how many people were killed.

The Duke of Durandal was completely in a state of trance, and he did not expect that in just a few years, hundreds of millions of people would be gone just like that.

"How is the population migration in the main city of Cliff going?" Aslan said, rubbing his temples, not in the mood to care about Duke Durandal's situation.

"The two million immigrants in the early stage have already left the province of Cleveland and are rushing to the city of Dylan to take the train back to the province of Melox." Essien replied.

Aslan nodded, and suddenly felt a sense of comfort from his temples. Originally, Aslan thought it was Nomiri, but seeing the strange eyes of everyone, Aslan slowly raised his head, just in line with the delicate and charming Duke of Medea. Face to face.

"I can't help you with military affairs and government affairs. I can only do small things within my power." Duke Medea's voice sounded in the meeting room, and everyone who looked at her and Aslan quickly lowered their heads, not daring to talk to her. look at each other.

"Why didn't you call Vatini and Genarido over to help you?" Duke Medea asked puzzled.