Chapter 114: Changes in Pompeii

However, both of them tacitly stopped talking about this topic. Luther pulled out a chair from under the desk and sat down, then asked, "What is the situation in Pompeii now?"

"Can't you see the situation in Pompeii? Look at how many pedestrians there are on the street?" Lelouch couldn't help rolling his eyes.

This is the biggest and most fundamental reason.

There are no residents.

You are blind.

As close friends, only a few people like Lelouch would say this to Luther.

"Of course I can see it." Luther also rolled his eyes, and then said, "But I want to understand the work of the city hall in detail."

Lelouch sighed and sat back in his mayor's seat. With his hands crossed on the desk, he said in a helpless tone: "I have also done a lot of work to recruit residents. For example, Pompeii's low housing prices are used to attract residents to move in. It doesn't matter if the house is sold at a low price. As long as residents are attracted to live here, we can make money back through taxation. But the problem is that in the past few months, we have only recruited a dozen households, and most of the residents are unwilling to come."

Luther generally understood and guessed the original reason why the residents were unwilling to come, but still asked, "Why no one came."

"One." Lelouch stretched out a finger and said, "Pompeii is a knight territory, which will be questioned by residents. What's more, Pompeii is close to the forest and faces the threat of monsters. How much power does a knight lord have to defend the territory? Residents question whether their property and lives will be threatened."

Luther nodded. This is indeed a fatal flaw.

Knight lords are generally weak.

And this is different from Luther's attraction of farmers. The farmers in the Marquis Parker's territory have lost their land and are homeless. They can only take risks.

And the residents are obviously unwilling to take risks.

"Two." At this time, Lelouch stretched out two fingers and said, "Pompeii is a newly built city. There is no other output in the territory except agriculture. And the residents obviously need to work, textiles, logging, mining, and even catering. What do the residents do after they come? This is also what they are confused about."

Luther also sighed. The first is the reputation problem, and the second is a very helpless reason. A newly built city has a small industry around this city.

How to attract residents?

It is obviously not enough to use low housing prices as a bargaining chip.

A city requires many, many jobs.

For example, a family has parents, wives, and children.

The father can be an intellectual, working in a school in the city and earning public money.

The mother can be a craftsman, doing some work within her ability.

The wife can be hired to help clean.

He can be a senior manager of a factory or workshop. Sons and children are still in school.

For residents, Pompeii must first provide these jobs.

At present, the public positions in Pompeii are all monopolized by the knights and scholars recruited by Luther. As for schools, there is no sign of them.

There are various factories, such as Pompeii wine estates, ranches, etc., but they are not large in scale and are currently recruited from the natives of Pompeii.

What will the residents do when they come?

"The second question is very complicated. I will come up with some ideas, but it will take time. Let's solve the first problem first."

Luther rubbed his temples and said helplessly.

"I think so too." Lelouch showed a mysterious smile on his face, then pulled out several documents on the desk, took out one of them and handed it to Luther, saying: "I think our ideas should be the same."

Luther took the document and looked at it, and was immediately happy.

The two people's ideas are indeed the same.

This document records the list of bandits, robbers, and thieves currently active in the entire Orange Province.

This world is very complicated, and the Kingdom of Prussia is not stable.

First, there are the court nobles centered on the King of Prussia, and the nominal vassals of the king centered on the nobles with real titles. These are two forces that are in a subtle confrontation.

Among them, there is also the "New Party" that advocates that the people enjoy rights and hopes to overthrow the rule of the nobles. The power of the New Party cannot be ignored.

Although Orange is relatively stable now, the power of the New Party may have infiltrated many places, such as recruiting knights and disguising as thieves.

What's more, there are already many thieves in Orange.

This is the reason why there are 20 to 30 hereditary lords and nobles in a province. Although each lord has his own weapons, there will be places where there is no one in their jurisdiction.

These places are prone to breed bandits and bandits.

These bandits and bandits, the milder ones will rely on collecting protection fees from passing caravans for a living. The worse ones will rob caravans or even attack towns.

The places where they are entrenched are often very dangerous places and are not easy to capture. And the lords don't want to consume their knights to deal with these bandits and bandits.

This leads to the rampant crime.

Some bandit groups are on the wanted list in Orange Province, and they are extremely vicious.

Not to mention the lone thieves, Kurd, a thief from Pompeii, is one of the best. There are really many such thieves in the whole Orange.

The purpose of Luther and Lelouch is to take action against these mountain bandits and lone bandits. Show their military strength.

Since the residents are afraid that Pompeii is too weak to protect their property and life safety, then show military strength to reassure the residents.

Moreover, after killing the bandits, you can also go to the governor of the province, the Count of Libya to receive the reward, which is more cost-effective than buying and selling.

"Pah." Lelouch patted his palms, then a happy smile appeared on his face, and said: "The problem now is that except for the lone thief, none of these mountain bandits can be dealt with by us."

Luther looked at the list on the document, shrugged, and then threw it on the table.

It is just as Lelouch said, those powerful bandit groups are not something Luther can deal with.

Damn it.

The scale of these bandit groups is very large. Not counting Xiaoluo Luo, there are at least 30 or 40 light knights, and the proportion of intermediate and even advanced knights is not low.

There is no way. If it were not for their outstanding combat power, these bandit groups would have been wiped out by the lords long ago. Those who survived are all strong.

And they will become stronger and stronger.

Just like the lords managing their territories, the bandits rely on robbery to not only survive, but occasionally make a lot of money to buy potions to improve their strength. Isn’t it fun?

Robbery is also a very promising career.

Demonstrate your military power by destroying these bandit groups. Maybe these bandit groups will teach you how to be a human being every minute and every second.

It’s sad!