Roland held the first high-level plenary meeting of the border town in the living room of the castle.

Compared with the original scene of Barov and his more than a dozen apprentices, the town hall has now grown to a large group of nearly 100 people - among them the aristocracy, the captured knights and the captives, and the indigenous people who have completed primary education and obtained the diploma.

Thanks to the growth of the population, various departments have also formed, so that the town hall finally has a little look to the prince.He no longer had to do everything himself as before, and now some simple policies and programs, as long as he explained it, this first-of-its-kind town hall can disassemble the task to the various departments to complete, which makes Roland full of comfort.

The participants of the first high-level meeting were all the top heads of the department, namely, the Minister of Agriculture, Seni Dali, the Secretary of Education, the head of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, Kemo Squeir (provisional), the Minister of Construction, Karl Liberté, the head of the army, the iron axe, and the head of the town hall, Barov Mons.The Ministry of Industry is still Roland to manage, after all, no one but him knows what industrialization really looks like.

There is a bucket of ice water around everyone, and there is a cold atmosphere - the ice in the barrel is possessed by candles, soaked in water for at least one morning.Even if the sun is shining outside, the cool temperature is still maintained in the castle hall.

"Then the departments reported the recent situation," Roland took the kettle from the barrel and poured himself a glass of ice water, "start with the Ministry of Agriculture."

“Yes, Your Highness.”Seni got up and made a gift, then spread out the paper rolls prepared in advance, "this time the grain handed over is about 17 thousand, and this amount alone can meet the food needs of all the townspeople in the coming season and summer, in addition to the Ministry of Agriculture, at your request, the purchase of surplus grain at market prices, but this amount is far less than the proportion of the turn, and currently only 4,500."

The so-called "bead" is a commonly used wheat weighing container, a bamboo flakes made of a flap, so this number is also to listen to it, he simply does not know how to convert it into kilograms or liters - good in these is not important, the key is that he knows that the collected food can feed the town people enough.

The key is the second point, if the collection of 70% of the self-retention way to calculate, the acquisition of food should be about seven thousand, left for food and the next year's seeds will not be so much.In other words, some serfs did not sell the remaining 30% of the grain to the town hall, but chose to hoard it in the wooden shed.

Although this situation was foreseen early in the morning, it actually made him sigh gently when it happened.The purpose of the grain is obvious, that is, to speculate and sell - if there is insufficient food supply in the town, or natural and man-made disasters, their food can be sold at a much higher price than the market price, and it is not impossible to turn it over ten times.

This is why Roland has designated the grain deal as a city hall franchise, and buyers must show their ID cards.Food issues are related to the most basic stability of border towns, in the early food is not surplus, if the open restrictions on sales, it is easy to be bought and hoarded, and finally caused the price of food to rise.Real-name system to buy quantitative food, while banning other sales channels, in order to maintain food prices on a stable line.

“Your Highness, why don’t you force the purchase of wheat from the serfs?”Seni asked doubtfully, "The law does not allow them to be sold to others anyway."

"Because it is their private property, and how to dispose of it is their freedom," replied Roland, "I have not stipulated that the serfs must keep their own food."You can also understand that it is permissible as long as it is expressly not prohibited.”

Seneney looked puzzled and didn’t seem to know how to understand the words.Most people frowned, and only Barov showed a thoughtful look.

“Is there anything else to report?”Roland took a sip of ice water, and this idea of everything that emphasized regulations and procedures was only when they slowly understood it later, or that they understood it, they could be considered a qualified official in the new era.Of course, this set is also easy to go to the other extreme, leading to the emergence of bureaucracy, but bureaucratization is better than chaos or wantonness.

“Uh . . yes,” Seni Dali thumped, “now the fields have been harvested, and I don’t know what to do next year’s fallow plans?”

"No, these lands are not fir, and wheat will continue to be planted in the coming year," Roland waved, "and the feces piled up on the fields are prepared for fertile land."Next, you instruct the serfs to shovel them into the field, mix them fully with the soil, and continue to pile up the new manure in the vacated position.”The hot and humid weather in summer takes only two months to make it ripe, while in winter it takes about four months.By the spring of the next year, not only the soil quality has been improved by the first batch of compost, but he also has a new batch of compost that can be added as base fertilizer, and there is no need for fallow.

Not to mention the tall fertilizers, the use of human and animal fertilizers in agricultural production has been greatly improved.

"Well, if that's what you ask for."He touched his head, “Also... your Highness, so much wheat probably won’t be able to run through one or two stones, and I would like to apply for the construction of a mill by the Redwater River, preferably steam engine-powered.”

“Okay,” Roland nodded, and this was a new breakthrough—except for himself, someone finally began to try to use this new impetus, “you first proposed to Barov, and then you made a detailed plan with the Ministry of Construction.”

"Well, your Highness," said Sene Nee, "the last thing is the promotion of the free people, and this time a total of 516 people have been qualified for promotion, because it is strictly divided on the spot according to the amount of wheat that was handed over, so there is no objection, and I have reported the list to Monseigneur Barov."Then he got up again and saluted, "My report is over."

“Well done,” Roland patted his hands twice as an encouragement.The young knight who was a wolf family now seems to have adapted to the life of the town, and still has a model in the town hall, which is a good propaganda example under a little packaging, and can play a small role in attracting the aristocracy and knights of the fortress in the future.

The second to report was the scroll, her long hair plate in the back of her head, wearing a clean and tidy white shirt, with a pure black dress without any decorations and lace, appeared mature and competent.It is hard to imagine that six months ago, she was an exiled witch who had to hide from the church.

“There are currently two groups of 85 persons who have completed primary education, most of whom have studied at the Academy run by Mr. Carr.”Her ability was unforgettable, so she did not need to prepare any money when reporting the data, which made Roland very envious, "of which 46 chose to go to the town hall to work, 21 people decided to go to the bicycle factory, 13 people applied to join the First Army," said she did, "and five people signed up for chemical laboratory positions."

Five people?Roland could not help looking at Kemo Squeer, whose face was evidently not very good-looking.It seems that the publicity effect of the award ceremony is far less good than I expected, so that some of the three new laboratories may be idle for a period of time.

Fortunately, the employment rate is at least 100%, he consoled himself.(Unfinished.)