From pioneer lord to king

Chapter 41 Killing Intentions

"Well, you did a good job. It seems that choosing you as the city defense officer is a correct decision." Ryan nodded approvingly. Although he was a bit presumptuous, it was indeed a real help to Ryan.

Population is what he values ​​most. Concentrating population protection was originally part of his plan, and now it saves a lot of effort.

Seeing that Ryan didn't plan to pursue it, Hans was relieved. It seems that the baron is still relatively easy to talk to.

"With such a concentrated population, is there enough housing in the city, and is there enough firewood and food?"

In this era, due to the relationship between productivity, the population is often scattered, such as Canaling, with a population of only [-], and the population of any town on Blue Star is more than this number.

However, it is divided into several towns and more than a dozen villages, and the permanent population of Doman City is only five to six thousand.

This is because the land around Doman City is not enough to support such a large population, so it can only be dispersed.

It is winter now, few crops can survive, and there is a huge number of firewood for heating.

Doman City, which originally had a permanent population of 6000 to [-] people, suddenly had twice as many people. Whether it was eating, drinking, or heating, it was a great test.

Hans shook his head with a wry smile and said: "There is no shortage of food and firewood, and Kana has nothing else. These things are not lacking. The main problem is the housing problem. Now the city is full, and many people just build it on the open space. shed.

If it snows this winter, it is estimated that many people will freeze to death. "

"Isn't there any organization to build a house? Even a simple wooden house is better than a shed with air leakage everywhere." Allen was a little puzzled. With so many people and no shortage of wood, how much can be repaired.

"I tried it, but it didn't work well, and it caused a few riots, so I had to stop."

Hans felt bitter, it wasn't that he didn't do anything, it was really impossible!
Ryan understood what was going on as soon as he heard it. They lacked a coordinator. Thousands of people were working together. If there is no competent coordinator, it is normal to cause riots.

Moreover, once people do something collectively, they will feel slack, commonly known as "fishing", and they all want to do less, even if those houses are closely related to them.

"Is the daily food distributed in the city?" Ryan asked suddenly.

"Yes, in order to save time when migrating, they often only brought a few days' rations, but now they have already eaten up, and the rations sent by the Home Knights are distributed every day.

You can rest assured that they will pay back double after next year's harvest. Hans thought it was Ryan who was reluctant to part with the food, so he quickly explained.

Ryan understood in no time. There was another reason behind it. The food was borrowed. Who would go to the trouble of building a house?

After all, their roots are outside the city, and now they are just taking refuge. Who will own the house after it is built?Of course, those aristocratic lords, if this is the case, why bother to build houses, and they are not full of food.

After figuring this out, Ryan has a bottom line in his heart, and the next step plan has been quietly formed.

Unknowingly, a group of people had arrived in front of the former lord's castle under the "welcome" of the people.

Looking at the sturdy and tall castle in front of him, Ryan couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. What happened to the previous lord of such a castle like a tortoise shell?

If the orcs could break into such a castle, the walls of Doman City would not be enough.

After telling Hans about this doubt, the corner of Hans' mouth twitched and told the whole story.

It turned out that the last lord was not killed in the castle, but led the soldiers to take the initiative to attack, but was sent to the Lord of Light with a stick by the orc.

Fortunately, not everyone was stupid with him at the time, and they still repelled the orcs after the lord died in battle.

It's not so much repulsion as it is that the opponent has robbed enough. At that time, Kanna lost 3000 people, and the rest of the property losses were countless.

Many well-trained soldiers were also taken by the stupid pig lord to meet the Lord of the Holy Light. Because of his stupidity, what is left to Ryan is an extremely bad mess.

After listening to Ryan, he wanted to dig his grave and open his head to see what was inside. He actually fought the orcs in the wild, is he out of his mind?

"It's useless to talk about what happened, Knight Hans, let all the officials of the villages, towns, and Dorman City come to the castle to discuss matters at seven o'clock tonight, and don't let the Lord invite them."

Ryan bit the word "all" very hard, and Hans was shocked by the murderous aura, and hurriedly led away.

Entering the castle, I found that it was very clean. It was obvious that someone cleaned it frequently. Ryan winked, and Dreyer immediately led people to conduct a carpet search. 200 people turned the castle upside down in a short period of time.

He quickly reported the details inside to Ryan. The castle has four floors, the area is not large, and there is no moat. After all, it was only a baron who built him, with limited financial and material resources.

The environment inside is a little damp and dark, and the interior is empty and no one lives in it. All the warehouses have a lot of food, firewood and other things piled up like mountains.

There is no trace of treasure, and there are obvious signs of demolition of the decorations. It seems that after the death of the previous stupid pig, someone visited here.

"These people still have a sense of propriety, and they don't live in the castle grandly." Ryan sat down on a chair casually, and said to Allen and the others.

"That's looking for death. Although we only have 200 people, we are not afraid of their crude equipment." De Lai was a little disdainful.

"That Hans is hiding something from us." Allen said in a deep voice.

"What else is there, a baronial land, why can't two junior knights be in charge, someone fled before the battle." Ryan said calmly while closing his eyes and resting his mind.

"Escape, why didn't Hans say it clearly?" Allen suddenly looked disgusted, the word escape had never been in the knight's dictionary.

"Well, I have to ask him. Divide the soldiers into two shifts, take turns to rest, and cook some hot food. Everyone has worked hard during this time." Ryan tapped the handrail silently with his fingers, and said a little tiredly.

"Okay, it's just that the skills of the soldiers are not very good. Let's find some servants tomorrow. This castle also needs to be taken care of." De Lai said with a smile looking at the somewhat empty room.

When Ryan heard the words, he said half-jokingly: "You can look at the arrangements for this matter. Uncle Deman is not here, so you have to be my housekeeper."

"Hahaha, that's my honor." De Lai bowed slightly and replied with a smile.

"Ray, what about the civilians who came back with us?" Allen suddenly remembered that there were twenty or so prisoners rescued by them.

Ryan slapped his forehead, and he forgot about it, and said immediately: "Bring that Hevian, I want to ask, by the way, ask if there is any cook inside, if anyone is willing to stay in the castle to work, stay, If not, send them out."

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(End of this chapter)