Valley Wooden Castle, second floor of the lord's residence.
At is holding his son, Little George, who has just turned one year old. Little George is wearing a set of underwear sewn by his grandmother out of raw silk and satin, and a brocade satin hat on his head. His outfit is enough to support ordinary citizens for a year.
Little George can already babbling, but he stares at Art nervously with his big round eyes, and his mouth becomes more and more deflated. It is obvious that he is not very close to the strange man in front of him. Zhi didn't smile, and Art was a little frustrated, and the smile on his face was a little stiff. Since his son was born, he has basically been away fighting, and he didn't spend much time at home with his child. Although everyone around him, including his wife Lottie, thought it was understandable, Art himself still felt differently.
Lottie took little George from Art and handed it to Camille, "Camille, take the young master to the castle, not to the river."
Camille took the smiling little George and walked out of the room.
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"I know your plan, but will this arouse their resentment? After all, you have granted the land to them, but they have no actual jurisdiction."
"They are the most core officers under me. If they want to enjoy the power of sealing borders and tearing apart lands now, there is no need to continue to follow me. They are not fools, and they know where the treasury is."
"Sir, everyone from the civil affairs department is here." Ron knocked on the door to remind Art.
"I'll be down soon." Art jumped up from the chair, took off the belt on the hanger and tied it, then walked out of the door...
In the lord's hall on the first floor of the mansion, all the officials above the adjutant level and a few stewards in the civil affairs system returned to the wooden castle to accept the awards.
There are now more than 30 officials in the civil affairs system (only the management, not including craftsmen and handymen in the workshop area). The civil affairs officer has five categories of chief officers: commerce, village affairs, construction, workshop, and judge and security. The chief officer has one or two lieutenants, and then there are stewards, deputy stewards, and clerks. In addition, there are two institutions directly under the civil affairs officer: the hospital and the school.
Yat has been busy with the war in recent years, and his energy has basically been devoted to military construction, and he has paid little attention to civil affairs. Fortunately, after the establishment of the framework of the civil affairs system, the officials are working in an orderly manner under the supervision of Old Cooper. In addition, civil affairs are not military affairs, so as long as the environment is stable, there will be no major problems.
The left and right sides of the long table in the hall were filled with civil affairs officials. Close to the left and right sides of the main table were the civil affairs officer Cooper and the magistrate and judge (newly adjusted) Bass. Bass was special. His main position was the commander of the Valley Guard Corps, which was subordinate to the military. Although he has a military position in the garrison, the peasants and soldiers of the garrison under his command are recruited from the people of the territory, and several officers and adjutants in the civil affairs system hold some concurrent positions in the garrison. More importantly, Bas is also the valley sheriff and judge, so he is also a civil affairs official.
In the civil affairs system, Bass ranks behind Commercial Officer Salt and Settlement Officer Scott. However, since Bass has been promoted to a fief knight, everyone is polite and allows him to sit on the right side of the main seat.
Behind the left and right sides of the main seat are Commercial Officer Salt, Residential Assistant Scott, Construction Officer Lawrence, Works Adjutant Bud, Chief Physician Thomas, Construction Assistant Geer, Residential Adjutant Linn, Commercial Steward Manidd, and Commercial Steward Lavin. , the parish school steward Guy, the valley doctor Farnaz, the chief craftsman Dim...
While Att had not yet come down, all the civil affairs officials were whispering among themselves and discussing the upcoming rewards and promotions.
The results of the military awards and canonizations have already reached the ears of the people in the civil affairs. They know that their status and achievements can never be compared with those officers and soldiers in the army who are fighting for their lives. However, Art has let Cooper out. He is very satisfied with the work of the people in the civil affairs and intends to reward them generously.
While whispering to each other, Art, who was dressed in casual clothes, had already gone down the stairs to the first floor. Everyone immediately stood up (taking off their hats) to salute Art.
Matt smiled and waved affectionately, then came to the main seat and sat down gently.
"How's it going? You can't wait any longer, can you?" Art looked around and joked.
Everyone laughed a few times.
"According to convention, before each civil affairs discussion, an overview of the valley must be reported. Civil affairs is not an army, and your contributions are all in the figures of these overviews. Cooper." Art motioned to the civil affairs officer to report an overview of the valley.
Cooper's beard and hair became grayer, but his eyes became more and more energetic. He picked up a few pieces of birch bark and Cooper began to speak: "Master, gentlemen, let me briefly introduce the situation in the valley in several large parts."
“In terms of land and population: At present, the territories under actual control under your command include Beiguan Army Fort, Wooden Castle, and six villages in the valley (two are newly built, and two more are planned to be built), the border outpost, the Boulder Town garrison camp, Lane Manor, Wincheston Manor, and Southwest Farm. There are 13 direct territories, large and small, and 19,880 acres of land. One hundred and sixty acres, with 932 households and 3,292 people, excluding the army. This is the number calculated at the end of last year. Since the beginning of the year, several groups of citizens have been recruited, especially the large-scale recruitment last month. The number of citizens now exceeds 5,000, but these newly recruited citizens still need to consume food..."
"In terms of grain reserves: the Civil Affairs Bureau has never stopped purchasing and storing grain in the past two years. Now the people in the sub-districts have achieved self-sufficiency in food. The Civil Affairs Bureau has built five large granaries in Mubao, storing 200,000 pounds of grain. The villages in Gujiandi have stored 100,000 pounds of grain. The border outposts, Beiguan Army Fort, and Jushi Town Garrison Barracks have stored more than 200,000 pounds of grain. The rest of the villages and manors have also stored grain, especially the southwest farmers. The farm, Wincheston Manor and Lane Manor each reserve 100,000 pounds of grain. These nearly one million pounds of grain are used as war rations in accordance with the Lord's request. This grain will not be used without the Lord's order, and one-third of the old grain will be replaced with new harvested grain every two years. Half of the nearly one million pounds of grain is collected from the war harvest and the taxes paid by the territory (the three estates), and the remaining half is purchased from the civil administration."
“In terms of workshop craftsmanship: At present, the valley workshops are concentrated in the workshop area under Wellsburg (not yet built) in the valley. They are still textile workshops, breweries, woodworking workshops, and weapons (ironware) workshops. There are currently three master craftsmen, 27 craftsmen, 46 crafts apprentices, and 78 handymen in the workshop area. The weaving workshop spins 220 pieces of woolen cloth, linen and cotton cloth every month, and the brewery brews 500 barrels of beer (30-pound barrels) and 200 barrels of wine (30-pound barrels) every month. At present, the wine is mainly used for external sales by European trading houses. The beer production is not high, and the current internal consumption of the woodworking workshop owners is not enough. If we provide accessories for the brewery and weapon workshop; the weapon workshop can currently produce fifteen sets of half-body plate armor, one set of full-body plate armor, and fifty sets of weapons and shields (including spears, shields, swords, axes, bows, etc.) every month. The weapons workshop is currently completely consumed, and the profits earned by the brewery and textile workshop are not enough to produce weapons and helmets. For the consumption of armor, we can only allocate money from the civil treasury to supply consumption, and this money is temporarily counted as military expenditure. What the weapons workshop is most lacking now is high-quality iron materials. After the war in the north, we can no longer purchase high-quality iron materials from the north, and the caravans can only buy slightly inferior iron materials from Provence. "
"In terms of commerce: There is chaos in the Northland this year, and the situation of the Continental Commercial Bank is not optimistic. We allocated 200,000 pfennigs last year to expand the Continental Commercial Bank, and now we have not even recovered the principal of 200,000 pfennigs. After the war in the Northland, the sales channels of southern goods for the Continental Commercial Bank were cut off, and they relied on the Western Route to sell to the King of France. The income from smuggling Swabia through the country and the east can only barely maintain the operation of the European Commercial Bank itself. However, the European Commercial Bank has also successfully deployed in the past year. At present, we have established seven transit points in Provence based on cities, namely Verno, the southern border of Provence, and the southern city of Oss. There are five points in the tower, the northern border town of Kitzby, the central town of Liteon, the northwest border in Roanne, and two points in the Burgundy County border outpost and the city of Graru. Each transfer point has one or two small local caravans that purchase southern goods from nearby for us, and then our own caravans transport the goods. Transport away. The Continental Trading Company currently has 30 carriage caravans under its control, 87 caravan members, 35 company managers, and 10 large-scale caravans. According to estimates by Salter and others, the annual profit of the Continental Trading Company will not be less than 600,000 pfennigs."
"In terms of legal and public security: Since the establishment of territorial judges and magistrates, the valley has executed three people, imprisoned seven people, punished 15 people as slaves, deported seven people, and confiscated property of 1,300 pfennigs." 32,800 pfennigs were paid for the salary of political officials, 145,300 pfennigs were allocated for recruitment and resettlement of the people, reclamation of wasteland, etc., 98,600 pfennigs were allocated for the workshop area, 30,000 pfennigs were allocated for the Wellsburg infrastructure construction site, and the two new buildings Twenty-three thousand pfennigs were allocated for the construction of villages and 91,000 pfennigs for the purchase of grain reserves. Overall, the civil administration owed a total of 138,500 pfennigs last year. These are only the consumption of the civil administration system, and military expenditures have to be calculated separately."
As soon as Cooper's last set of data came out, the joy of the expanding territory and the increasing number of citizens gradually faded away. The losses after a hard year were so huge, which made everyone feel heavier, especially several officials of the Continental Commercial Bank. They had really struggled in the past year. They traveled in Provence for a year to get to the current situation, but a war in the North paralyzed the Continental Commercial Bank. Although these were all expected things, the morale of the Continental Commercial Bank was still low.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit gloomy, Art patted the table lightly, "Everyone, I have mentioned the matter of the European Commercial Bank more than once. During the war period, it is already very difficult for the European Commercial Bank to establish a foothold and maintain operations in the southern supply area. This is a great achievement in itself. As for the loss of civil affairs in the valley, this is also a long-term investment. The civil affairs and the military are not Similarly, the army spends more money quickly, but the money spent on civil affairs comes back slowly, and this is a spring of water that is endless. During the Northern Expedition, our army captured a lot of money and materials, which is enough to maintain the operation of the army and civil affairs this year. "
"So don't be depressed, everyone, raise your heads." Art raised his voice.
"Before I commend all the meritorious officials, I will arrange a few things first."
“First, the Civil Affairs Bureau should arrange officials to go to various parts of Tyniec County to verify the situation of the county as soon as possible. I feel that the situation in various places reported to me by the lords and squires is unreliable. Scott will take the lead in this matter, and the other officials will cooperate.”
"Second, the civil administration should go to the fiefs that have been entrusted to several knights in the army as soon as possible to select reliable people to manage the fiefs, and then select officials from the civil administration to take over. Cooper will be personally responsible for this matter."
"Third, after you go down, think about how to govern Tyniec County, including settlement, government, taxation, officials, laws, etc. I will convene you to discuss it later, and Cooper will take the lead."
Fourth, let the workshop send people to search for mineral deposits in and around Tyniec, especially iron ore, and Dim will arrange this."
"Yes, we have recorded it." Several civil affairs officials said in unison.
"Okay, now let's start commending the civil affairs."
"Cub, the civil affairs officer, will confer two acres of land, a reward of one thousand pfennigs, and a mansion, and the construction officer will be responsible for the construction."
Sart, the commercial officer, will be rewarded with four thousand pfennigs and a mansion."
Scott, the governor, will be granted one acre of land and be given a reward of fifteen hundred pfennigs."
"Lawrence, the builder, conferred an acre of land, a reward of one thousand pfennigs, and a homestead (not a house)."
"Bud, the adjutant, received a reward of one thousand pfennigs."
"Thomas, the chief physician, received a reward of two thousand five hundred pfennigs, and a mansion."
"The adjutant of the settlement..."