our family is gone

Chapter 197 Revival Plan
When the first ray of sunlight shone on Hamlet in the morning, the central square was full of people. Most of them were neatly dressed and their faces were not as pale as those of refugees, but their spirits were a little disturbed, and they couldn't help looking away. A man speaking on a high platform built in the middle.

"I am Lord Hamlet..."

Lance has never liked lengthy speeches, no amount of words is as good as the reality in front of him.

But in order to inspire these migratory refugees, he also had to start using rhetoric.

Lance recounted the tragedies he saw along the way, and the painful memories these words brought to those people. Some people in the audience couldn't help crying when they remembered their life back then.

They were oppressed by the empire, the church, and the nobility, and exploited and oppressed by the bad guys among the refugees. No one could understand their pain except themselves.

Emotions are contagious, and soon even the aborigines in the town couldn't help but feel sad as they continued to spread. To some extent, they were not much different from those refugees.

"I have seen everything! I have seen the disaster spreading across the empire, and I have seen the pain on you..."

Lance's voice suddenly became turbulent. In his mouth, his purpose of gathering refugees was no longer to exploit them to strengthen himself, but to choose to do his best to rescue them after seeing this scene.

Lance's voice became more and more passionate, denouncing those man-made disasters, but in that words incited their distrust of the empire and the church.

Some words could not come out of Lance's mouth, but they could say them, and the atmosphere was mobilized under a few leaders.

They vented their emotions towards the empire and the church, seeing more and more chaos, but Lance just sat back and watched, instead, his eyes swept over those who didn't respond properly.

People who really want to be rescued by these two forces will not appear in this place. It can be said that there are no cities and villages along the way willing to accept them, and even send troops to drive and kill them. Otherwise, who would want to travel such a long distance?

So Lance aimed at this survivor bias. He intentionally guided them to vent their emotions on those guys and tried to expand his influence. It was self-evident what the two stepping stones he was stepping on were.

Even if he doesn't know the actual situation, sometimes he doesn't need a brain when his butt sits in this position.

What can these guys do?
At most, there will be two howls, but that's it, even if there are 5000 people here, it is still like a mess.

Lance saw that they were almost venting, and then began the core of today's big drama.

"but!"

This sound touched the hearts of those refugees.

"Just because I saved you doesn't mean you'll be fine, because Hamlet doesn't welcome lazy people, you have to work hard to live on your own, and contribute your strength to Hamlet and me!"

The refugees seemed a little nervous. They had promised to farm for food, but they didn't know what the actual situation was.

Lance could feel their uneasiness, and then introduced to them the pioneering plan, collective farm plan, and town reconstruction plan that he had been planning before.

"For a period of one year, those who work hard and do not violate the rules will be restored to the status of free citizens, with outstanding abilities, or who have made major contributions and can be restored in advance."

For a year, all the labor output of these refugees belonged to Hamlet. They had no wages, but only three meals to fill their stomachs and allocated houses.

That's their value, and that's why Lance spent resources saving them.

As for those who hit the convoy before, they have all been sent to the farm, and they are not even qualified to stand here.

"All the freedmen who officially belong to Hamlet will be allocated land according to the family size, regardless of whether they are male or female, as long as they are ten years old, the land cannot be traded, but they only need to pay [-]% of the tax.

The children of the free people who have reached the age of six will have the opportunity to go to school, and I will subsidize part of the tuition fees, and then subsidize the students' meals..."

Various preferential policies have been proposed, which is something that they have never heard of. They feel that they are not ordinary people, but treated like nobles.

Both the aborigines and the new refugees showed unprecedented excitement, wishing to dig a few acres of land now.

Why did Lance let all the refugees join as slaves?It is to put pressure on them. Being different from the status of free citizens will bring about differences in policy preference, and it will also promote their desire to get rid of this status. Only when they have hope will they work harder and be more diligent.

Then Lance announced another big news, the recruitment of [-] soldiers, and when the conditions were laid out, the refugees were boiling.

Especially the people in Totnes, they know that the lord will do what he says, and they were not selected before, so they have to fight no matter what this time.

And those camp guards who were disbanded also knew that they had to re-enter and could not be brushed down. They wanted to fight beside that man.

Lance looked at their fanatical emotions, that is, the 5000 people he had selected could bear his "military" conscription.

You must know that there are only [-] or [-] sheriffs in an ordinary small town with a thousand people, and any accidents are caused by the formation of temporary militias.

Why?Don't they want greater force?

The real reason is money.

The cost of a full-time soldier is expensive, not to mention the treatment he gives. At the same time, one out of ten is a very exaggerated ratio, because it is difficult to support and it will easily cause economic collapse.

But he doesn't care about money. In this chaotic world, money is useless. Only force can make him feel at ease.

However, before the speech was over, Lance let the ten soldiers who had accompanied the team come on stage, and rewarded them with real gold and silver. At the same time, they were awarded military exploits. At the same time, the identity of soldiers was further strengthened, giving them glory.

Then he made a lot of publicity about the guard who died in battle, and directly invited the family members of the deceased to praise him, and read out the promise again.

If you die, you will get subsidies, and your children will study for free.

Empty words are useless, and no amount of words can compare to this move. Those soldiers wished to die for the lord, and those people in the audience wished to become soldiers in the next second.

Whether for the benefit, or for the honor.

But at this time Lance made another very strange request.

"In the afternoon, I will personally hold the body burning ceremony and send the ashes to the Heroes Cemetery. All those who died for Hamlet will have their names engraved on the stone tablet and become Hamlet's eternal heroes."

This sentence caused a lot of riots, although Lance had instilled in them various rules of Hamlet before, and all those who died in Hamlet had to burn their bodies and then bury them in a specific cemetery.

It's just that in order to reduce resistance, he adopted a more tricky statement, saying that burying a person after death will cause the body to rot, which is equivalent to a sacrilege ritual, and only after being purified by flames can one rest in peace.

But how can his one or two words compare to the brainwashing of the church for thousands of years. People are always greedy, and they want more after gaining stability. after the world.

It's just that Lance doesn't care, there are refugees everywhere, the empire lacks everything, but there is no shortage of people, if you don't do it, people will do it.

Before that, we must teach them a lesson

"Sam!" Lance yelled suddenly. He set his sights on the inconspicuous middle-aged man in the crowd, and asked, "Why are you obstructing the construction? You want to restore the church?"

"I..." Sam didn't expect that the lord would suddenly mention himself, and he was even more at a loss when he was asked later.

He is a devout believer, and his family has been for generations.

When the bandits arrived, their family was lucky not to be selected to serve as militiamen. Later, they also managed to escape because of working in the fields. Even the house was not affected by the gunfire. The only loss was the two chickens they raised.

Afterwards, he waited in a daze until the arrival of the new lord. He attributed everything he had to the shining of the Holy Light, and thus escaped all dangers. Even if he was about to starve to death, someone would eat it to his mouth.

At first, he was so hungry that he felt dizzy and felt nothing, and he was also afraid of the authority of the lord, but seeing the church being rebuilt now is more serious than moving his own father's grave!
So they obstructed the construction, and even provoked those former believers to do it together.

Didn't the steward named Barton just leave honestly in front of him, and he managed to protect the church, presumably the Holy Light will give him something better at that time.

"Because of disrupting the construction, insulting and threatening to beat the construction workers, and endangering the security of Hamlet, I now announce that you will cancel the rights of your free people and exile to the wilderness."

Now that the labor force is sufficient, he no longer cares about one or two people. Rather than leaving it behind for transformation, it is better to use it to scare chickens and monkeys.

He needs to give these troublemakers a little shock~
"Oh~ my holy light...no..." Sam couldn't believe it, shouldn't he invite himself up to reward him?why?Isn't exile in the wilderness the same as death?
"Take it!" Lance waved his hand with a grim expression.

You'd better hope the Light actually works.

Immediately, someone came to take the crying, unbelievable Sam away.

As a crusader, Leonard didn't feel much about this scene. He had believed in the Holy Light for so many years, and had been unlucky for so many years. If he didn't believe it, it was only a month. He found his wife and children and was promoted and raised.

Or as the lord said well, some of them are based on material foundations.

Lance scanned a few of them. He knew that there were a few accomplices back then, but he was useful to those people, so he didn't continue.

But the trial has only just begun.

"Weber! Why do you embezzle the property of the territory?"

"Paul! Why are you deducting workers' wages for no reason?"

"..."

Those who were shouted by him were either killed or injured, and all kinds of problems, big and small, were all cleaned up by him in front of everyone.

When this grassroots team was set up, Lance expected that many people would take advantage of the imperfect system.

But I didn't expect there to be so many. You have to know that he has only been away for a month, and someone fabricated the data to pay the price difference. The house search found that there were already more than ten gold coins.

It doesn't look like much, but if it's converted into a salary of only three copper coins a day, the average person doesn't have ten gold coins for a year.

No wonder those ancient and modern regimes, no matter how powerful they were at the beginning, will soon be dragged down by moths.

But Lance doesn't care, he will shoot.

Depending on whether your neck is stiff or the knife in his hand is stiff, he will spit out as much as he eats.

"All the family members cancel their benefits and put them into farm transformation. Their children are not allowed to go to school or be officially hired."

How good the policy was just now is how strong the deterrence is now.

Now all Hamlet belongs to the public, once he doesn't want you, let alone food, you don't even have the right to drink water.

The majesty is reinforced, reminding these guys.

Who is the master of Hamlet.

…………

"I have been to Totnes, and I have to say that the degree of urbanization is very deep, and the commercial atmosphere is strong. There are some things we can learn from, but the first and clear point is that we do not have that kind of commercial conditions, and agriculture is our foundation. .

So now the town's top priority is to reclaim enough fields. Only with more land can more people be settled. Even if it is a little rough, these people must have a place to live as soon as possible so that they can work.

At the same time, we also need to prepare for urban transformation, I plan to build the pier-square-town gate, the main commercial street..."

In front of Lance is a schematic diagram of Hamlet and its surroundings, and around him are several responsible persons in the town.

It's not Disma and the others, but someone who has been relatively productive in presiding over the work during this period. Although his previous bold and eclectic appointment was a helpless move, he was still able to discover some administrative talents.

Several of them are locals who are familiar with the surroundings of Hamlet, and they need their help to determine the location of the collective farm.

Now, three farms have been planned. Because of the uncertainty in the north, it is not easy for Lance to let people get close to them, so they choose three directions in the south, southwest and west of Hamlet.

These thousand-person-planned farms, together with the land around Hamlet, are enough to digest 5000 people and at the same time build a large granary.

And Hamlet itself gathers those craftsmen, handicraftsmen, and technical personnel to set up workshops and workshops, and is responsible for finishing the resources produced by the farm, such as making salt, weaving cloth, making clothes, and blacksmithing.

Replacing food with work, further promoting the urban transformation plan, consuming those output resources, as well as human resources, so that people can have work to do.

At the same time, develop the entertainment industry to recover part of the money from the workers, regulate the old casinos, brothels and pubs, and develop new entertainment methods, such as theaters, libraries, bathhouses...

At that time, with this as the foundation, you can go north to become the ancestors, go east to enter the sea, and expand outward to recover the territory.

Isn't it happy!

One matter was listed and then assigned to different people. At the same time, Lance streamlined the chaotic personnel system and let talented people go up.

For example, Susan, who was originally in charge of bookkeeping, directly transferred the relevant work to Tiffany, and she will be responsible for sorting out expenses and income in the future.

At the same time, let a person who performed well during the Totnes camp take over Walter's farm management position.

Free Barton from the task of construction and hand it over to an excellent construction craftsman born out of engineering...

He rearranged the positions, and everything was arranged by him in one sentence, but the treatment of those people had unprecedented changes.

"That's what I said, what's your opinion?"

(End of this chapter)