Chapter 342 Hope

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The month of recovery has come.

The long and cold winter in the northern part of the continent finally reluctantly left the land, and although its remnants of power are still terrifying, the warmer temperatures and days of sunshine and warmth still make people feel hopeful. Feelings - at least in Cecil's field, the word "hope" is no longer an elegant word for the upper class to express their feelings after a meal, but something that ordinary people can also look forward to.

A baby was born, in the days when the earth was just rejuvenating.

In the "West Side Factory Apartments" just completed this winter, a young new father entertains visiting neighbors and friends in a bit of a hurry, and the small living room is crowded with guests carrying gifts, although they can use There were only some bland tea and rough snacks, but the guests obviously didn't care about it - I'm afraid few people would have thought that these people were a group of homeless and mutual friends just a few months ago. Unfamiliar wilderness refugees.

They wandered in the wilderness, settled in Cecil, they met in the buffer camp, they became acquainted while building houses, and finally became friends in the factory. Saying that one of them became a father in a warm home is a very meaningful thing.

At this moment, someone standing at the door suddenly shouted, "The lord is here!"

People were stunned, but the lord really came—the tall figure soon appeared at the door, and everyone felt familiar with this figure.

Gawain soon saw the young new father in the crowd - that kind of immersed in joy can't be concealed, he quickly stepped forward and reached out his hand to stop the other party who was terrified and wanted to salute: " Today is the day you bring hope to this land, so there is no need to bow. Are mother and child safe?"

"Yes... Yes Lord..." The young man was obviously nervous, but excited by joy. He stammered and rubbed his hands together, "Everything is safe, everything is safe..."

Gao Wen smiled gently: "Can I see that child?"

"Of course, of course..."

The newborn baby and the young mother are in the quiet and undisturbed inner room. Although there are many visitors, only a few people have visited. Gawain should be the most special one of the visitors who arrived today.

Due to the popularity of new magic nets, the use of magic to drive heaters and then heat the entire building through thermal ducts is now standard for new houses on the territory, and this apartment building completed in winter is no exception.

A warm and constant temperature house is the key guarantee for the safety of mother and child - otherwise, winter childbirth will be a life-and-death crisis that most civilian mothers must face.

In the warm inner room, Gawain saw the swaddling baby.

A healthy boy, wrinkled and unable to open his eyes, was sleeping peacefully at the moment.

An apprentice apothecary cares for postpartum women and babies here—not some kind of folk wandering witch or "wandering doctor" who can only fool people, but one of Pittman's own apprentices. Although Pittman's apprentices have not yet appeared true Druids, at least in the fields of pharmacy, medicine and surgery that do not require magical talent, these apprentices are professionals.

Looking at the swaddling baby, Gawain smiled.

This is the first baby born on the territory—almost a year after the territory was built, the first baby was born here, but that's not surprising.

Because the people on this land are either the 800 refugees who survived from the old Cecil territory, or purchased serfs and slaves, or they are refugees gathered from the wilderness. Needless to say, serfs and slaves, Slave traders never sold pregnant women slaves, while refugees and refugees endured the most turbulent ordeal, in which...

It is difficult for any pregnant woman or fetus to survive.

The child in front of him is lucky. If his parents didn't find a place to live in time, it would be difficult for him to be born in this world.

His parents were the first refugees to immigrate here, the young father now works at the Rune Foundry, and his mother is a female worker in a textile mill.

"Does the child have a name?" Gawain turned his head and asked the young father who followed into the house.

"Not yet..." The young father grabbed his hand, looked away from Gawain more than once, and landed on his child's face, he showed a somewhat naive smile, "We originally wanted to give him a random name. Name, but... But I went to school, and I wanted to ask the teachers in the school to help me name my child... A name given by a learned person can make a child smarter, and he will definitely recognize words faster than me in the future..."

Gawain couldn't help laughing, laughing because of the young father's innocent thoughts, but there was also a hint of relief: this person who was originally illiterate, now at least knows that it is good for children to read.

Then he shook his head: "Since that's the case, let me name him 'Ols'."

In the lingua franca of this world, this pronunciation means "hope".

The young father was stunned for a moment before realizing what had happened, and he immediately saluted, "Gan...Thank you for the name you gave this child!"

Then he muttered to himself: "Today... today is a good day, what a good day..."

"Don't forget to register this child as a resident and get an ID card," Gawain smiled and helped the bewildered man up. He had abolished the rule that commoners should prostrate themselves when they saw nobles, but people habitually bowed and even knelt down. But it is not so easy to ban. These can only be taken slowly. "In addition, you can report to the Resident Affairs Department of the Government Affairs Department in three days and receive a daily necessities, including rations and cloths, tonics, and commonly used medicines."

The young father obviously did not expect that the addition to the family would be "rewarded", and hurriedly bowed his thanks: "Thank you for your generous reward!"

"This is not a reward, remember, a reward is not the same as a government subsidy," Gawain emphasized, "This is an administrative system, a law at this stage, and within ten years from today, all families with newborn babies in the territory will be You can get a 'subsidy' from the Council of Ministers, which is to reward your contribution to the population of the territory. And ten years later... the Council of State Council will decide whether to continue this subsidy according to the situation."

The people in the room listened to Gawain's words, and they probably didn't fully understand all the meanings and meanings of this "system", but they could definitely understand the part that was related to their own interests, and that was enough. .

After Gawain returned to the lord's mansion, he immediately called Heidi and asked her to arrange the "newborn rewards and subsidies". After everything was arranged, he sat in his spacious seat and started planning. Territory development route after the end of winter.

The territorial reclamation is smooth, foreign business has also made a lot of wealth, and the military defense is gradually improving. Under the premise of worry-free food and clothing, and worry-free security, the baby boom will soon arrive.

But it takes a long time for a baby to grow into a labor force, so in a short period of time, the population growth of Cecil Land still depends on two parts, one part is to continue to buy slaves and gradually liberate them into free people, and the other part is to continue to gather refugees.

In addition to this, Cecil's current population actually has an additional huge increase - the residents from the Kant Territory, as well as the large number of farms, cultivated villages attached to the Kant Territory, and a large number of idlers in the eastern hills. population.

These populations are now Cecil's legitimate subjects, but they must first be "educated" by Cecil's Law and Order.

Fortunately, "indoctrination" didn't start in the spring.

Over the past winter, Gawain has been subtly influencing the Kant Territory—his substantial rule over the land is not limited to sending soldiers to maintain order, build roads, and occupy it with commerce. Cecil's rules were transferred to the Kant area little by little: at first, the craftsmen who came to Cecil to make a living obeyed the rules of Cecil, and then used these craftsmen as a breakthrough to launch various construction projects in Kant towns, The addition of small factories, shopping streets, refurbished residential blocks gave the Kantians a winter economy and a better standard of living, as well as a new way of life, and then, the deployment of soldiers to police the new neighborhoods , constant publicity, and with the presence of Patrick to "unify the mind" of the more prominent local people...

Today, in the towns that Viscount Kant originally directly controlled, the residents have gradually become accustomed to accepting Cecil's order, but Gawain still has to solve a problem: Kant led the original knight class.

Those who control the surrounding villages, wilderness development points, and garrison points are the old knights of Kant's territory.

These knights, the tail end of the Anzu land nobility system, the far-flung extension of the vassal lords, although they had no legislative power, no independent lord claim, and many of the privileges and glory of the formal aristocracy, they were still the old , an integral part of the Anzu nobility system.

Legally, these knights should be loyal to Gawain Cecil now, but they have not yet sworn allegiance to Gawain Cecil himself, and they have not yet sworn allegiance to Cecil's "order".

As long as they still exist and use the old order to control the land and population in their hands, then the land and population in their hands cannot become part of Cecil's magical industrialization.

"Call Knight Philip," Gawain tilted his head slightly and said to the air beside him, "Go and come back quickly."

A slight fluctuation of breath appeared and disappeared in the air, and the next moment Amber's voice came from outside the window: "Received! I'm here... Oh, why are there mouse traps on the walls of the courtyard!"

Hearing the sound from outside the window, Gao Wen smiled with relief.

Not to mention the courtyard walls, there are mouse traps on top of every street lamp along the road starting from the Lord's Mansion...

It didn't take long for Knight Philip to appear in front of Gawain.

There is also Amber who grinned at Gao Wen with various funny expressions.

Gawain directly ignored the half-elf girl who was making fun of him, and looked at Philip: "It's time for us to think about the old knights in the Kant collar."

As a role model for young knights, the first thing Philip thought of was the process that should be followed at this moment: "Are you calling them to swear allegiance?"

"It's not just an oath of allegiance," Gawain smiled and looked into Philip's eyes. "Actually, I've always been curious about something... How do you feel about the new 'rules' I've enforced."