Chapter 356: The Winter Snow Melts

For Gawain, whether to accept those exiled by the Church of the Holy Light is actually a question that does not need to be considered at all. For the Cecil Land that is undergoing rapid expansion and is filled with the new order from beginning to end, this era’s Any group of people must be polished into qualified parts of this industrial machine in the shortest time after being put into it. No matter if you were a believer, a noble, a merchant, or a slave, the first thing you do after entering Cecil is to meet. To the buffer camp, and then to undergo long-term education and transformation, work in the factory, take classes in the barracks, and grow into a glorious and qualified Cecil citizen on the territory...

This is an era when all kinds of propaganda and education methods are slow and backward. The impact of the Cecil industrial system and education system on the aborigines of this era is extremely powerful, and the identity of these aborigines before entering the territory... For this It doesn't really matter for a piece of land.

Or in other words, any aborigines in this era are actually unqualified for the magic industry society - since everyone needs to be transformed and educated before they can be used, the difference between everyone is only limited by the speed of transformation. Difficult question.

Of course, accepting those exiled pagans might indeed bring some extra trouble, which Gawain also thought about.

The Church of the Holy Light may make moves and may spread some rumors in areas where they have a strong influence, but in any case, these troubles are within the scope of Gawain's acceptance. The southern border is not the world of the Holy Light Church, so the church's slander and restrictions are at most in the Holy Spirit Plain, and in the face of Gawain Cecil's natural prestige, the church's slander rumors do not dare to be too public. Let's take a step back - what if those fanatical believers of the Holy Light really resist Cecil's leadership?

Gawain's future plans were destined to conflict with the stubborn forces in the Holy Spirit Plains...

Pastor Wright left, and along with the caravan on the territory, the pastor will return to the place where he started his mission—or the place where he was originally exiled, to witness with his own eyes what the priests of the Holy Light want to do.

And more people are pouring into the new land of Cecil.

As the weather keeps getting warmer, the water level of the Baishui River rises as the snow melts into the snow-capped mountains, and more and larger merchant ships appear on the river. The north-south avenue and the east-west avenue are constantly in and out,

They bring a steady stream of production raw materials into this place, along with a steady stream of people.

Through overt or covert methods, Cecil has earned massive wealth in alchemy potions, mining equipment, and magic net technology, and these wealth have been consumed at an astonishing rate, converted into production raw materials and filled with industrial population. this land. In the beginning, the gold coins that the territory earned every day would make Hetty, who is the "big housekeeper", tremble, and then seeing the gold coins that the territory spent every day, her heart trembled even more - but after such a long time After training, she was finally able to face these numbers calmly, and recognized what Gawain said:

Exhibition is change, and the flow of money is the real wealth, and the gold coins piled up in the castle are nothing more than shiny metal piles.

Traditional aristocrats are used to accumulating wealth. They use various means to steal gold and silver, and they always pile it up in the castle, or replace it with more expensive things and accumulate it in the treasure house. Hetty once believed that this is the right way for the family to accumulate wealth. means, but now she finally understands that spending gold coins is sometimes a faster way to grow wealth...

On the dock square, on the high port watchtower, Gao Wen, who came to inspect, was looking down at a group of people in tattered clothes moving slowly on the west side of the square. Searle soldiers were on the sidelines to control the order.

An hour ago, an extraordinarily huge wooden boat docked, and hundreds of people came out of the cabin. According to intelligence, these people were exiles from the western region. Since last fall, Tanzania has been acting as a middleman. After the equipment was sold to the aristocratic territories with mines in the west, a large number of mine laborers and slave laborers lost their place of life. There is no such thing as a “deposit”, so wherever the mining equipment is sold, the miners will go bankrupt in large numbers, and the lords and nobles of this era will not support excess population: for their productivity, every A person who does not work is just a mouth to eat. In the absence of a sound industrial system in their own territory, they have no way to convert these surplus population into productive forces, so the only option is to expel the extra people. .

These people are the "raw materials" for the further expansion of Cecil's magic industry, but before that, Gawain must remind the people around him.

He tilted his head slightly and instructed Hetty, who was standing beside him: "Recently, the security of the buffer camp will be increased, and all the new immigrants will be dispersed and placed in different camps. In addition, a group of people who have already worked in the factory for a period of time will be arranged. The old immigrants of time go to the camp to be 'life tutors', telling new immigrants about the benefits of working in factories and living in the territory. Finally, the territory must be prepared, and the work, residence and education of each immigrant should be arranged in advance."

"Yes," Heidi nodded in response, but then asked, "Are you worried that so many people will cause trouble?"

"The number of people is not the important reason, the important reason is that they have just lost their jobs," Gawain said with a serious expression, "Unlike the refugees accepted in the past, most of the people who came to the territory recently lost their jobs because of 'machines' ."

"...They came with hatred?" Heidi was very smart and quickly reacted, "Will they hate Cecil Leader?"

"No, according to the knowledge and courage of most commoners in this era, they would never, and dare not, hate lords and their lands, but they would hate machines that caused them to lose their jobs. This hatred is blind, but it is The only way they can think of venting," Gawain explained, "These people don't know about Cecil's territory. They came to this land to find a way to survive, but they definitely didn't think that they wanted to deal with machines. We must Just do the guidance in advance.”

"Yes, I understand," Heidi lowered her head slightly, "but is this kind of guidance enough?"

"Enough. These people are not mobs. They came to this land just to survive. As long as survival is guaranteed, the hatred for machines will easily disappear," Gawain said lightly. The situation is different for those places that only know the introduction of mining equipment, but have not thought about the follow-up problems.”

Heidi fell into deep thought because of Gawain's words, while Gawain raised his head and looked at the window of the observation deck.

A figure emerged from the air and turned into a petite girl - Amber crossed the window sill like a dexterous swallow, landed lightly in front of Gawain, raised her hand and handed over a small scroll: "Information!"

Gawain took the things that Amber handed over and looked at the window sill behind him, but in the end he didn't hold back: "You are turning over the windows of the watchtower! Don't you think it's hard to climb up such a high wall?!"

Amber's face is not ashamed but proud: "For a shadow master like me, if there is a shadow in the cracks of the bricks outside your tower, I can climb up along the cracks~~"

However, Gawain no longer paid attention to this guy, just opened the scroll, and the content on it entered his line of sight:

The Duke of Loren in the east has recalled more than half of the high-level knights in the territory... A messenger entered Ansu from the direction of Winter Wolf Castle...

This is a piece of information from the Eastern Territory. It is the latest news from the military intelligence bureau spies who entered the Eastern Territory with the merchant group after Cecil's alchemy and pharmacy trade group finally extended their channels into the Eastern Territory.

Gawain rubbed his hands together, and the note immediately turned to ashes in his hands and blown away in the wind.

"It seems that the kings and emperors on both sides have already dealt with their respective domestic stalls..."

Hetty also saw the contents of the note just now, and couldn't help asking: "The negotiation is finally about to start?"

"That's right, but it won't affect Cecil's territory," Gawain nodded, and then smiled lightly, "Neither our king nor Typhon's emperor should want to have a negotiation like this. An old ancestor is guiding by the side - it's not that I don't have a say in the issues of these two countries, but my say is too big, bigger than they are qualified to speak. So let them toss it by themselves, We just show what we do."

Ansu Eastern Territory, where the Loren family guards, Changfeng Fortress.

Silas Loren, Duke of the Eastern Realm, stood on the high city wall, overlooking the vast plain east of the city wall.

The snow has melted for more than ten days, and there are still some remaining white dots on the Great Plains, while some new greenery is another kind of embellishment besides white. The melting snow and the green grass are together. Appearing on this yellow-brown land, it seems like the handover of cold winter and warm spring.

This made Duke Silas Laurent think of what was about to happen on this plain. In a sense, the two countries ended the century-long tense confrontation and re-signed a peace agreement. This is also a kind of winter. Let's go to the handover of spring.

With this thought in mind, Duke Rollan cast his eyes into the distance, and in the distance, he could vaguely see a fortress that was being built.

That is the place prepared for negotiation - located in the buffer area of ​​the border line, the "balance point" where the border fortresses of the two countries can be directly looked after, directly attacked, and directly protected. Within this month, a "covenant fort" will be built there regardless of cost to serve as a negotiating venue for the leaders of the two countries, and will remain as a symbol of peace between the two countries for a long time.

Apparently, the two countries are building a new castle together, rather than negotiating in any of their existing fortresses, which on the surface seems to symbolize peace, but is actually a lack of trust.

But it doesn't matter, the negotiation is a foregone conclusion.

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