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Chapter 2084 Insidious means

The plan Cheng Ying made is ten years or even longer, which will be enough to train an entire generation to grow up. After a new generation of industrial population with huge knowledge grows up, the development of his territory will be unstoppable.

But before that, he must first solve the problem of too small a population in the territory. His current territory was an extremely remote mountainous area in the past, and no one wanted to come. Naturally, no one wanted to invade it, and no one even wanted to invade it.

It is undoubtedly difficult to attract people under such circumstances. However, there is no way out. In some villages in other places, not all of them fled after the doomsday came. In fact, there were some people living in seclusion in the mountains. To be precise, it cannot be called seclusion. If the nobles are allowed to speak, these are the runaway serfs.

Before the void creatures invaded, relying on the convenient transportation brought by the portal, the nobles could easily control the peasants on their land, or serfs to be precise.

These people are not allowed to leave the land at will. They have to farm for their lords and do other work for their lords. If there is a war, they also have military obligations, just like during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they needed to follow the carriages of the nobles. Later, as a disciple.

However, as long as they have iron tools and successfully escape, they can cultivate a piece of land of their own in the mountains and be self-sufficient. Iron tools are already relatively common in this era, and with tools of this level, it is not too difficult to cultivate a piece of land by yourself.

Where there are no portals, the world often appears relatively barren. Even when void creatures are not invading, not many people pay attention to these places. Many people choose to flee to these remote areas after finding an opportunity.

After that, he never came out and was completely separated from the outside world. Some of these people didn't even know that void creatures had invaded. And these are the potential populations that can be fought for. The nobles believed that these people were untouchables and had bad moral character because they ran away. Normal serfs must abide by their obligations and farm and work for the nobles obligatorily because the nobles protected them and provided them with land. Those who escaped were white-eyed wolves in the eyes of the nobles.

If they are found, they will either be completely used as slaves, or they will be killed directly and will not let them live with their serfs.

Because they feared that if they did so, these escapees would encourage other serfs to escape with them. It is impossible to encourage this bad atmosphere.

Cheng Ying is not worried about this problem at all. If his management here is not good enough and causes the farmers under his management to escape, then it must be his own problem. It is the problem that needs to be reflected on the local management, not the problems of the farmers themselves.

Moreover, the productivity on his side is also constantly developing. When the distribution is relatively fair, it is basically impossible for people to starve to death. It just so happens that as long as these people can be driven over, they can be guaranteed to stay here. As for the means used, it is not necessarily certain, and it may not necessarily be an aboveboard means.

The first is to discover where these people gather. In the wilderness without portals, even on the plains, it is difficult to find their settlement. After all, the earth is too vast, and ordinary people do not have the wings to fly into the sky.

But for Cheng Ying, this aspect is not a problem. Although it is impossible for him to build an airplane in such an era. But to be honest, things like gliders can also be manufactured. If the structure is reasonable enough, this thing can fly higher and higher like an airplane. As long as an updraft is successfully created, it can rise like this. Many birds That's it, you don't need to flap your wings frequently, you just need to feel the flow of gas and constantly look for updrafts, so that you can keep flying in the air.

A hang glider like this. It only requires a sophisticated structure and does not require power. However, it requires a certain level of operator skill. Chengying has only found two former knights and trained them so that they have enough ability to control such a glider. , but the efficiency of just relying on them for reconnaissance in the sky is still a bit low. Even if they can fly to high altitudes to find targets, the range they can detect is limited. Sometimes they can't find enough updrafts, and they will make an emergency landing in the wilderness.

At that time, they could only send out flares and wait for someone to rescue them. After all, if they wanted to fly into the sky, they couldn't carry too many supplies on them. At most, they could only give them items that were as convenient as lighters to make fire, and the rest were relatively Heavier tools are impossible for them to carry around.

Chengying actually has another way to investigate, sending these people wearing delta wings. The main purpose is to provide a reliable proof of the source of his information, to prove that he obtained this information through normal means, as for the real method of obtaining the location of the fugitives gathered in the plains or deep mountains. It is not enough for outsiders.

In fact, the method is very simple, that is, using his non-human characteristics, he is now living in this world in a Zerg-like manner.

Therefore, many of his abilities are beyond the scope of humans. For example, the most typical trick is that he can turn himself into a flying insect.

It is completely normal for insects to have the ability to fly. It can change into a flying form, and can also control the insects under it and control their field of vision.

Send them out, fly in all directions, and look down from the sky to observe how those people in this world who have fled to areas without portals live? Where are they gathering again?
  These simple information are easy for bugs to obtain. Even if they do not have the ability to communicate over long distances, they can still write down what they see and then share this part of the memory after they fly back. This is not a difficult thing for Chengdu.

With this information, it becomes easier to obtain the population of these areas. The simplest way is to rob, kidnap these people, and then let them work in their own territory, but in that case, it will be detrimental to their own Character will have a big impact, and the reputation of the lord will drop to a considerable extent.

Even the people in their own territory will be afraid of their lord. Even if those who were robbed came back and lived a better life, this would still be the case. After all, they were not willing to come over, and there may be casualties in the process. If casualties occur, hatred may arise, which is extremely important for future development. Adverse.

Relatively speaking, it is better to block it than to open it up. It is better to let them come to the territory by themselves. Although the means used were not aboveboard.

In fact, it is very simple, just send the insects over and stage an insect disaster there. For these evolved beings that are much more powerful than insects in nature, it is extremely easy to cause a disaster. A large number of insects are flying in the farmland, eating up the farmland that was finally planted. Fleeing farmers have very low resistance to risks. Even if dozens of people gather together and build a farm, it is as if they are living in a peach blossom garden. But when they faced so many insects like locusts crossing the border and eating up all their food, they had no way to survive the year. Although they also imitated the nobles and built granaries to store the surplus after the harvest. A lot of food is stored, but it is definitely not enough to sustain the food harvest for a whole year. Moreover, those bugs are extremely ferocious. They will not only eat the food in the fields, but also directly attack people. Some people have been bitten by these bugs. The wounds are swollen and itchy. If they continue to live here, they will also be bitten by the bugs. attack.

As a last resort, these people who were originally on the run had to leave the fields they managed with limited food. Some had to become bandits to rob other people's food in order to survive.

Some are like this, begging other villages to take them in, and even willing to sell their labor force, just to survive. It is already autumn. The food harvest was not successful, and last year's food was almost exhausted. In this case, they did not try to sell themselves, and there was no other way. At this time, they only needed to send an army to the territory, and they could receive a large number of refugees here. .

As long as the territory provides enough food and clothing for this group of refugees, it will be enough to make them grateful. Although all this is not so aboveboard. But they were indeed given enough compensation, and they did not need to work much for the extra food. They only need to join the territory and abide by the rules of the territory.

At first, this relatively favorable condition made them a little worried that they were specially fattening them and selling them as slaves. After all, they didn't seem to deserve such treatment at all, but as the people who came before explained to them, these people gradually felt relieved about the rule of the lord here.

Although they do not understand the principle of labor creating wealth, their instinct still tells them that their work creates wealth. The less the nobles take away, the more they keep in their own hands.

According to the descriptions of the people here, the nobles who rule this city have almost no luxurious behavior, and all the taxes collected from them are basically used on themselves.

This is why they are so wealthy. This made the newcomers unable to believe it for a while, but as time went by, they began to realize that they might have met an extremely rare and good lord.

The concepts of people in this era are still very simple. Many times they only judge a person by good or bad. Those who benefit them seem to be good people, but the actual situation is far more complicated. If they know that they have left their hometown, it is because the lord sent bugs If you eat their crops, it will be a completely different mentality.

There are actually many such small villages within hundreds of miles around, and the tools they use for planting are even more backward than those used by the nobles in the past. After all, they have no way to produce iron tools themselves, so they can only secretly try to use them. Money can be exchanged for iron tools, or a certain number of iron tools can be taken away when escaping.

These things will wear out during use, and as time goes by, the tools they can use will become increasingly outdated. The productivity that individuals can bring is actually not as good as when they were serfs.

At that time, although they had little enthusiasm for production and were forced to work, the tools they used were more advanced and the production efficiency was naturally higher if they were organized.

In comparison, today's tools are poor, and even if there is motivation, the output cannot be very high.

Therefore, if you want to further develop their potential, the best way is to gather them together. In this situation where there are fewer people and more land, if they are gathered together for cultivation, the planting efficiency will be higher.

Through this round of operations, the population of the city expanded rapidly. From less than 50,000 people at the beginning, it gradually expanded to the urban area. With the population of the surrounding suburbs exceeding 200,000, this is already a big city.

Even before the invasion of void creatures, in the era of the empire, at least two teleportation gates were needed to build a city with such a huge population. At this time, these people gathered around a teleportation gate. From a previous perspective, all of this is simply an incredible miracle.

As the population increases, productivity also continues to improve. As the population increases, the social division of labor can become more refined, and as the social division of labor becomes more refined, industry can more easily emerge from the handicraft industry.

As the Chuchu Power Factory near the river produced more and more high-quality machine tools, the precision of metal processing also continued to improve during this time.

Nowadays, it is possible to process relatively tight-fitting metal parts, and these parts are assembled together. It often means that the steam age is coming.

There are coal mines in this world, and in this vast territory, there are several coal mines that can be mined. With such things as coal mines, steam engines naturally have their place.

Because I have enough knowledge, the initial design of this machine is the best design under the existing technical conditions. It can be mass produced with almost no modifications required. Although this era was in the transitional stage from handicraft to industry, the cost of producing such a machine was barely acceptable. This kind of machinery can replace cattle and horses when the cattle and horses nearby have not reproduced in large numbers. Undoubtedly able to shine.

[To be continued]

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