Chapter 59: City Building

With the autumn harvest, the prestige of Luther and Pompeii has risen again. To be frank, Luther's prestige in the territory has surpassed that of his father's generation of Pompeii knights, Old Sol.

Even Luther's prestige is higher than that of Pompeii knights of all generations.

Among the Pompeii knights of all generations, there are also excellent knights, but they are all knights with very strong combat power, on the contrary, there are very few lord-type knights.

Otherwise, the Pompeii family would not have been like this for hundreds of years.

Those Pompeii knights with strong combat power will of course be sung by people, but for the people of the territory, although romantic, they have no practical significance.

But Luther is different. He has improved the quality of life of the free people in Pompeii territory.

Moreover, Luther is also eliminating another class, the slave class.

Of course, those slaves who are controlled by whips, walking like zombies, and like livestock, cannot feel the friendliness of Luther and Pompeii at present.

They are all numb guys.

Because they have been controlled for too long, the children of these serfs, the next generation of teenagers, and children, will feel the kindness of Luther Pompey when they grow up, and will be sincerely grateful.

Of course, this must be guided, and this is also one of Luther's future work. As a qualified lord, Luther must unite people's hearts.

The core of uniting people's hearts is two words, kindness.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it.

In short, Luther's road to becoming a lord is still very long, especially if he is determined to become a great noble.

The joy of harvest is everywhere in the territory. Not only the seventh village, but also the first to ninth villages, plus the iron horse village.

There are countless people like Asma, and they are caught in a carnival everywhere. While each village is working hard to harvest food, they choose to hold a banquet at night.

Although the dishes are not rich, the most precious ones are sausages, bacon, and Pompeii wine, but they also make the people extremely happy and intoxicated.

After the wheat was harvested, it was roughly processed and transported to the wheat flour processing plant in the territory, and finally turned into white wheat flour.

The wheat flour was divided into three parts by the farmers, one part for tax, one part for their own consumption, and the uneaten part was sold to the lord in exchange for coins, and finally turned into various daily necessities.

The Pompeii family would transport the purchased wheat flour to Kaiyue City for sale, and also earn some coins.

This was also one of the important incomes of the Pompeii family in the past, and it will still be one of the important incomes after the territory expanded and the farmland area increased.

The Pompeii family used to rack their brains to create income and maintain the survival of the family by purchasing wheat flour, operating the blacksmith shop and grocery store exclusively, but the result was still very bumpy. It was not until old Sol married Mrs. Sophie that the situation improved slightly.

Luther's Pompeii wine and agricultural transformation plan brought major changes.

The life of the Pompeii family is much better now.

The joyful atmosphere of the great harvest in autumn is still continuing, and this atmosphere may continue until next spring, or even the whole year of next year.

It can be imagined that in the next year, the free people will have money to drink and spend, and the economic level in the territory will rise.

This is the people's business, a happy thing.

As the lord, Luther, the Pompeii Knight, put away his mood from the joy of this year's autumn harvest and began to look forward to the future.

According to the plan, Luther began to build the city.

The city construction plan has been brewing for several months, and even the location of the city wall has been marked. It is only waiting to buy stones from Kaiyue City and recruit craftsmen for construction.

But there are still some things that need to be sorted out, so a meeting was held in the Pompeii City Hall.

The location is in the meeting room in the Pompeii City Hall. The person in charge of presiding over the meeting is Lelouch, the mayor of Pompeii. The officials of Pompeii City attended the meeting, most of whom are scholars recruited together with the knights.

In addition, as the former tax officer of the territory, Mr. Qiao Xiu also attended the meeting.

Old Sol did not come, and Luther, as the next generation of Pompeii Knight, was responsible for listening.

After several months of training, Lelouch looked more capable. He even grew a beard, like the big double mustache that was popular in Europe.

Luther thought it was funny to have such an old-fashioned beard at such a young age. But Lelouch felt good about himself and was very energetic, so Luther couldn't say it directly.

Sorry.

Anyway, Lelouch took the position of mayor and showed a very strong aura.

"After calculation, compared with last year's output, this year's autumn harvest is 35% more than last year's. According to past practice, the excess grain in the hands of farmers is purchased by the family and then sold in Kaiyue City. However, because this year's recruitment plan requires a large amount of grain reserves, this batch of grain will not be sold, and a granary will be built in the city for reserve."

"According to the plan, our city is circular with four gates. The gate area is set up as a military area, guarded by guards and knights. In this way, the granary can be built in the military area, which can be directly provided to the army and have the power to defend the granary."

"The migration plan for serfs will also be launched."

"In addition..."

Lelouch raised various details and made plans one by one. Finally, Lelouch asked Luther: "Knight Luther, this is the plan for building the city next. Do you have anything to add?"

Privately, Lelouch called Luther Luther, but in formal occasions, Lelouch always respected Luther and called him Knight Luther.

"The gentlemen present are all very good, I trust you." Luther's opening remarks were this, and the effect was very good.

Not only the officials of the city hall, but even Lelouch straightened his chest a little, feeling very useful. After the opening remarks, Luther said again: "There is nothing else to add, just one point. In addition to the basic survival supplies given to the original family serfs by the family as usual, I want to give them more supplies to supplement their nutrition and increase their motivation. You discuss it and list it out."

The officials were not surprised by Luther's addition.

Luther, Pompeii.

This lord is recognized as a benevolent acting lord.

Even the free people gave Luther a nickname.

Just like the nickname "Executioner" given to the cruel Marquis Parker, it is very much in the style of this world.

Called "Merciful".

Why not called the Merciful Lord, the Merciful Knight.

Calling it the Merciful, in Luther's opinion, is a very strange nickname.

But since everyone thinks this nickname is a good word, and Luther is embarrassed to order a change, so it is confirmed.

The Merciful.

Luther, Pompeii.

The meeting ended quickly, and the construction of the city was no longer a plan, but a task to be carried out. The Pompeii family took another important step.

Building a city.