Chapter 52 52 Population Structure

Chapter 52 Population Structure

Many of the freemen in Shanlin Town can trace their origins back to the Wushanling coalition that encircled and suppressed the noble resistance army.

For example, Tom, who surrendered, his father was a professional knight who died in the battle of Shanlin Town;

Another example is the butler Gallen, whose father was a logistics soldier who also died in the war;

Although the political officer Wilson had no relationship with the coalition, he was the servant of the previous baron, a bit like Chahar before he became a butler, so he knew a lot of words and had a clear logic in dealing with things.

At this moment, Wilson was sitting on a chair in the dining room, with a bowl of thick broth in front of him and a piece of white bread in his hand.

"How many years!"

Wilson's heart trembled a little. He hadn't tasted such delicate white bread for many years, and he hadn't drunk such thick broth for a long time.

"Praise the lord!"

He ate a bite and praised it.

Wilson's tired body instantly became full after a day of being able to get the lord to personally order the kitchen to prepare dinner for him.

"Praise the merciful lord!"

Wilson has been wandering in Shanlin Town for half his life and has never found a satisfactory job. He even wanted to serve Princet, but was rejected by the other party.

Princet himself is a political officer, he does not need an assistant.

Now he is fortunate to become Ronin's political officer, and is so valued by the lord. He feels that no matter how busy he is for the lord, it is worth it.

Not long after, Gallon came to the restaurant, "Mr. Wilson, the master is free to see you. If you are ready, you can go with me."

"Okay, I'll come right away!"

Wilson swallowed the last bite of bread, then drank the last mouthful of broth, stood up vigorously, and followed Gallon.

In the study, the political officer saw Ronin and came up with a heartfelt greeting.

Ronin motioned for him to sit on a chair nearby, "You came to see me so late, is it because the census has been completed?"

"Yes, sir, except for you and the people who came with you from Wushan Fort, all the people in Shanlin Town have been registered!"

Wilson took out a large roll of parchment from his arms and respectfully handed it to the desk.

Ronin took the parchment, which clearly recorded everyone's name, gender, age, and occupation in detail by family unit.

He flipped through several pages in a row and found that Wilson's handwriting was very clear and neat, which made people feel not messy.

"You can complete the census in less than two days. Your efficiency makes me look at you with admiration!"

He turned his eyes to Wilson, "It is indeed the right choice to let you serve as my political officer."

Faced with such praise, Wilson was very humble, "Thank you for your trust!"

Ronin clapped his hands and applauded the other party, and the topic returned to the parchment in front of him.

Although the statistics are very detailed, these are only a bunch of raw data. If you want to find useful value from them, you need to process them further.

The processing of these data is naturally handed over to the government officials. Luo Ning can't spend time on this, otherwise why would he spend money to hire people?

"Registering this information is just the first step. Next, I need you to help me organize this information.

Luo Ning said: "For example, divide the age group and then count the number of people in each age group; for example, divide the occupation type and count their number separately; calculate the number of unmarried men and women of marriageable age, etc. "

These divisions are all meaningful.

For example, count the "unmarried men and women of marriageable age". If the ratio of men and women is seriously unbalanced, causing all men of marriageable age in Shanlin Town to be single, then Luo Ning, as the lord, has to consider where to get some women of marriageable age to solve the problem of single people in the territory.

Wilson wrote down all these needs as the content of his subsequent work, and he was a little proud because he did a preliminary screening after registering.

"My lord, please look at the last page. "

"Oh? "

Ronin noticed the "please praise me" look on the face of the government official, and immediately took out the last page of parchment out of curiosity:

[Total population]: 1993 people

[Number of households]: 543

[14 years old and below]: 410 people

[14-20 years old]: 416 people

[20-30 years old]: 505 people

[30-40 years old]: 346 people

[40-50 years old]: 243 people

[Above 50 years old]: 73 people

[Number of serfs]: 1356

[Free tenants]: 609

[Other occupations]: 28

It turned out that Wilson had divided the population according to age groups.

Ronin looked at the government official, and his eyes were naturally full of praise, "You can know my thoughts in advance, Wilson, you did a good job!"

"Your Excellency is too kind!"

Wilson smiled and responded modestly, "I only thought of part of what your Excellency thought, and there are many places that have not been considered. "

"Don't be modest, the completion of this mission has exceeded my expectations!"

If you do not do well, you will be punished, and if you do well, you will be praised. This is Luo Ning's idea. "I believe that the civil servant is just your starting point. If you work hard, you will have the opportunity to become my consultant in the future."

Official positions in this world are not specifically divided into first-grade, second-grade, and third-grade positions, but Luo Ning plans to design a set.

For example, for the civil servants in the territory, he currently only thought of three levels: clerks, political officials, and xx consultants.

Clerks are equivalent to assistants to political officials;

Tax officials, defense officers, etc. are equivalent to the level of political officials;

At the consultant level, there will be similar distinctions.

For Wilson and others, the most intuitive feeling is that they have been promoted and their salaries have increased.

In this way, it is also good to give people hope and motivation to climb up.

As soon as he heard Roning mention the word "consultant", Wilson's eyes lit up.

Although he didn't know what a consultant did, it sounded like he was one level higher than a political official, and there must be benefits.

"My lord, I will work hard!"

"I look forward to it!"

Roning motioned for the other party to sit down, and he himself looked at the data carefully.

First of all, the population size made him very satisfied.

A total of 1993 people, plus the guards, McKen, and Elron he brought with him, the population has reached 2025 people.

The achievement of [Prosperous Population] requires that the registered population of the territory reach 3,000. Although there are still more than 900 short of that, it is not that far-fetched.

In addition, Ronin observed the distribution of age groups. If people aged 15 to 40 are regarded as the prime labor force, there are a total of 1,267 people, accounting for 63% of the total population.

This is a very good ratio!

In addition, there are 410 young people, accounting for 20%, which is also very good.

The only thing that surprised Ronin was the number of people over 50, which almost dropped off a cliff.

This age can actually be regarded as an elderly person.

After all, there is no saying here that "an old man in the family is like a treasure", and the elderly do not have any benefits.

The physical strength and health of these people over 50 will decline rapidly because they have suffered too much when they were young, but under the pressure of survival, they still have to participate in heavy labor.

In this way, the increase in the mortality rate of the elderly is also expected.

Although it is a bit cruel, this is the reality.

Even as a lord, Ronin cannot change this situation in the short term.

"This is a good statistics."

Ronin praised, "Tomorrow I will take the time to dig deeper into these data according to the classification I just mentioned."

Data digging?

Wilson had never heard of such a term, but he could understand it in the context, so he remembered this thing invented by the lord, and he could brag about it to people who didn't understand it in the future.

"In addition, I will go to the horse herding city the day after tomorrow."

Ronin arranged the parchment, "Before I come back, I have one more thing for you to do."