Chapter 556: Branch City: Ironforge
"Establish a branch city." Sunaifa made the decision without any hesitation.
A month or two ago, the matter of "setting up a branch city in Winter's Hammer" seemed like an unsolvable problem for Sunaifa and the entire Zhenbing tribe.
From Phoenix to the station of Winter's Hammer, there is no regular road on the thousands of miles of ice field.
More importantly, there is no fast communication method between the two places.
If Winter's Hammer encounters an unexpected situation, such as artisan rebellion, problems in the workshop, food shortage, etc.
It would take at least five days for the news to reach the main city of Phoenix. By the time the main city sent out support, the day lilies were already cold.
It just so happens that the core values of Winter's Hammer: the leyline fire channels and the forging workshop are the "immovable" foundations.
This means that if the Zhenbing tribe wants to digest the fruits of victory in "Laying the Hammer of Winter", they can only set up a branch city on the same place;
However, without effective control measures, the branch city is likely to become an independent kingdom, which will not only be unable to provide forging support for Phoenix, but may also become a new hidden danger.
After all, the people of Winter's Hammer still have a grudge against Zhen Bing. Once the main city is not well controlled, the dissatisfaction will easily rekindle.
But things are different now.
With the help of Amap, Phoenix has established an Ethernet network.
Just connect the "network cable" on the Winter's Hammer side, and the messages between the two places can be transmitted without delay. Then send a certain number of trustworthy ice mages to the Winter's Hammer side, and conduct remote control command through the Ethernet, and you can take over the Winter's Hammer painlessly, without wasting time waiting for messages to go back and forth.
This is the meaning of communication, it can break geographical barriers.
In other words, Phoenix now fully meets the conditions for establishing a sub-city.
Problems that in the past required a large number of manpower to be stationed can now be easily solved with only an Ethernet system and a small number of trusted stationed mages.
Of course, transportation problems still exist, but when the communication problem has been solved, this is not an insurmountable problem.
In fact, Sunaifa's decision is also the solution that Elsa likes: the Winter's Hammer's workshop is rooted in the earth's fire channel, and the workshop cannot be moved, so it is inevitable to establish a branch city here.
But how to truly integrate this land that once belonged to the "enemy" into the Zhenbing tribe and prevent the Winter's Hammer tribe from becoming disloyal again is also a big problem.
Fortunately, Aisha is quite familiar with this aspect.
She has already worked out a general idea to gradually eliminate the resistance of the Winter's Hammer tribe, so that this branch city can become a stable "Forging City" and "Industrial City" in Phoenix.
After Sunaifa and Aisha inspected the forging workshop, they returned to the tent and finalized the plan for the next branch city establishment overnight.
The first thing is to change the name.
After establishing a branch city here, the original name "Winter's Hammer" will definitely no longer be used.
The four words "Winter's Hammer" are the spiritual totem of the original tribe.
As long as they are still using it, the people of Winter's Hammer will subconsciously remember that they were people of Winter, not people of Phoenix.
Name is the first mark of identity.
In fact, this is what Gaode has been doing.
He has been using a silent method to abandon the name of Zhenbing's old tribe and use the name of Phoenix residents in order to break the tribal rift.
In Winter's Hammer, this is even more true.
It is necessary to change the name to eliminate the mark of Winter's Hammer on the Winter's Hammer tribe.
However, Aisha and Sunaifa reached an agreement on the specific name to be changed, and were ready to leave it to Gothe to decide.
After solving the spiritual imprint of the name, the next step is the more practical and direct material binding.
By controlling the sub-city's survival resources, the sub-city is completely dependent on Phoenix, fundamentally cutting off the possibility of independence.
The method is very simple. The core is six words: "cut off its source and control its flow."
Detaching its source means seizing all of Winter's Hammer's original food acquisition channels and handing them over to Phoenix's hands.
To control its flow, all the food in the branch city will be supplied by Phoenix on a monthly basis.
Although this will increase a lot of transportation costs, it is a necessary control method. The most important thing for northerners is food. As long as they control food, they control the bottom line of survival and eliminate the possibility of rebellion. In the process of Winter's Hammer's incorporation, personnel control will be the top priority in balancing the functions and security risks of the branch city.
If all members of the Winter's Hammer tribe are allowed to stay at their original location, Zhenbing will need to send a large number of mages and managers to stay in order to supervise everything and suppress potential dissent.
This not only consumes resources but also easily intensifies conflicts.
But forcibly moving most of the Winter's Hammer tribe to the main city of Phoenix will not only destroy the forging system of the branch city, but also trigger the resistance of being "forced to leave their hometown".
To this end, Aisha has further refined the plans of "classified retention" and "gradient integration" around the three dimensions of "forging needs", "personnel attributes" and "integration progress".
The so-called classified retention and relocation is actually to allow "key craftsmen to stay" and "non-core personnel to relocate" to ensure the operation of the sub-city and spread risks.
The core value of Winter's Hammer lies in the forging system. Personnel regulation needs to serve the purpose of retaining the "forging function" and avoid workshop shutdowns due to personnel turnover.
For this reason, the tribesmen of Winter's Hammer are divided into two categories according to their necessity for the forging system, and differentiated retention and relocation strategies are formulated.
Including alchemists, apprentices, and auxiliary workshop craftsmen, they are the core of Winter's Hammer forging system. If they leave, the workshops in the branch city will be paralyzed, and their skills are deeply bound to Winter's Hammer's workshops and forging facilities.
Here, they are talents, but once they move to Phoenix, they will not be able to display their value.
Hence, all these personnel must stay in the branch city and be bound to the branch city function.
But precisely because these people are the core personnel of the branch city, and they are all from Winter's Hammer, if certain measures are not taken to check and balance, it is inevitable that there will be clumsiness and rebellion.
Hence Aisha's idea is quite simple and crude. One is that the family members of these core personnel, especially the underage children, need to be moved to Phoenix.
However, the explanation would be much nicer - moving to Phoenix to receive compulsory education.
This is the basic policy of Phoenix. All children of school age must enter school to receive education.
From this point of view, this move belongs to the implementation of Phoenix’s education policy, and no one can find any fault with it.
Also allowing the children of craftsmen to receive Phoenix cultural education from an early age is also a flexible check and balance.
At the same time, a certain number of people from Phoenix who are interested in forging will be selected to enter the branch city workshop and learn forging skills from the craftsmen of Winter's Hammer.
Of course, in addition to being learners, they will also be supervisors.
Another type of non-core group that does not directly participate in forging adopts the policy of staying in three places and moving in seven.
That is, 30% of the personnel will stay in the branch city, mixed with the management personnel who will be sent from Phoenix.
Responsible for the daily operation of the branch and the auxiliary work of the workshop, to avoid the functional disconnection of the branch due to excessive migration of personnel, and to eliminate silos in daily interactions.
70% of non-core personnel will be moved to the main city of Phoenix in batches to avoid chaos caused by a one-time move.
They are the main mobile group for personnel control.
Before relocation, the main city will match positions in advance based on their skills.
And personnel regulation is not achieved in one go, but needs to be carried out step by step in three stages: "initial, mid-term, and late stages" to avoid a backlash caused by one step.
This idea originated from Gaode's special instructions before sending troops - he had anticipated this situation in advance.
First of all, in the early stage, that is, in the first three months, rigid control must be carried out and the situation must be quickly stabilized through physical isolation.
Personnel exchanges between branch cities and the main city will be managed through "passport vouchers".
The tribesmen left behind in the Winter's Hammer must obtain approval to leave the branch city, to avoid core craftsmen leaving without permission or the disorderly movement of non-core personnel;
Personnel dispatched from the main city to the branch city need to live concentratedly in the "Zhenbing Resident Area", keeping a certain distance from the residential area of the Winter's tribe to reduce initial friction.
The collaboration between core craftsmen, Zhenbing apprentices and auxiliary staff must be strictly carried out in accordance with "job responsibilities".
Daily work content and material use must be recorded and reviewed by Zhenbing’s resident mage to ensure that the forging process is transparent and controllable;
Personnel who move to the main city need to complete training and job adaptation in the "transitional resettlement area". Only after passing the assessment can they enter the core area of the main city to work.
In the mid-term stage, flexible interaction and interest binding can be carried out, and silos can be gradually eliminated.
In the later stage, at least half a year later, the "passage voucher" system between the branch city and the main city will be cancelled.
Members of the clan can travel freely according to work needs and personal wishes.
The physical separation between the Zhenbing resident area and the Lindong people's residential area has been demolished. People from the two areas can live together and participate in the construction of the sub-city.
If core craftsmen want to go to the main city to teach their skills, they can apply for "cross-city teaching".
If tribesmen who have moved to the main city want to return to the branch city, they can also apply to return to work in the branch city workshop without additional approval.
At this time, personnel mobility is no longer a need for management and control, but a personal development choice.
The people of Winter's Hammer will change from passive acceptance of fusion to active participation in fusion.
Phoenix, City Hall.
A silvery-white figure passed over the central square and landed accurately on the window sill of Gaode's office, making a short chirp to remind Gaode.
Gothe put down the quill in his hand, stood up, walked to the window, and took off the letter tied to his feet.
It contains battle reports from the Winter's Hammer frontline, a summary of the Winter's Hammer situation, and the sub-city establishment plan finalized by Sunaifa and Aisha.
The Ethernet has not yet been established at Winter's Hammer, so communication can only be carried out through Sunaifa's magical falcon Wolf.
"Yarna has been executed, and her body is sealed in perfect ice; the Winter's Hammer tribe has no resistance, and the great elder Qiaolan leads his tribe to surrender... The workshop and the underground fire canal are intact, and all the core craftsmen are willing to stay·
The battle report and summary of the situation were very different from Gaode's expectations.
After all, the difference in strength was such that it was Sunaifa who led the team himself, so it was rare for an accident to happen.
The only thing Gothe didn't expect was that Jolan, the great elder of "Winter's Hammer", would be so aware of current affairs and decisively chose to surrender after Sunaifa killed Yarna.
This actually saved some trouble and made this expedition truly injury-free.
Hence, no wonder people say “development is the last word”.
If Gaode chooses to unify first and then develop, after becoming the King of Zhenbing, he will command Master Zhenbing to conquer the north and south and unify the northern territory.
Just the matter of sending troops to Winter's Hammer, in the novel, it would take at least twenty chapters to start with:
The recruitment and preparation for war, the collection of food and grass, the twists and turns on the march, the several encounters with Winter's Hammer, the dangers in the decisive battle, and finally the recruitment after the tragic victory...\n
In addition, none of the problems faced by the collection can be solved: without Ethernet and sufficient food, it is impossible to establish and control sub-cities.
Now, after two years of development, the powerful Phoenix once again launched Winter's Hammer, which was once as famous as itself, but it was a flat push without even a decent tough battle, and it was lackluster.
As for the sub-city establishment plan finalized by the two, Gaode thinks it is quite thorough.
Every step has taken into account the particularity of the North and the tribal attributes of Winter's Hammer, and there is basically nothing that can be improved.
After all, in this field, Sunaifa and Aisha are actually the professionals.
One person is familiar with the survival logic of the northern tribes, and the other is good at overall management and detail control, but he is a layman.
At best, it can be said that relying on the experience of the previous life can provide some ideas that the two of them could not think of at the moment.
But to perfect the ideas and implement them according to local conditions, they still have to rely on their own talents.
The whole process of incorporating Winter's Hammer went smoothly, and in the end, the only thing left to do in Gothe's hands was to name the branch city.
This feeling of "hands-off the shopkeeper" made him chuckle.
The name of a branch city.
Gaud thought for a while, and soon came up with an idea. He reached for a piece of parchment and wrote a reply:
Ironforge.
Not only to add something familiar to the world when it is difficult to go back, but also to express his high hopes for this branch city.
After all, in the previous life, Ironforge was the benchmark for industrial city-states.
Gothe hopes that Ironforge in this world will be the same and become a benchmark industrial city in the North and even the Norland continent.
Sent Cang Lan off and glanced at the population relocation plan on the table, Gaode suddenly realized something:
The northern border may seem backward, but it hides a natural "urbanization dividend."
There are no constraints of farming civilization, no farmers’ obsession with land, and there is almost no resistance to the urbanization process.
In a farming society, the most difficult aspect of urbanization is the unbundling of land.
Farmers have relied on the land for their survival for generations. Even if there are better opportunities in the city, they are not willing to leave easily.
But the north is different. The weather here is cold and freezing, and it is not suitable for farming at all. The people in the north have made a living from the beginning by hunting, gathering, and blacksmithing. They live a nomadic life without the concept of land as their root.
This means that when Phoenix promotes urbanization, there is no need to "abolish the well-field system" or "land reform" as in previous lives.
There is no need to face resistance and resistance from farmers.
As long as they are provided with stable jobs, sufficient food, and safe shelter, northerners will actively gather in the city.
"After reunification, the development speed of the Northern Territory will be faster than I imagined." Gothe couldn't help but sigh.
Northerners themselves live a life of "living for resources". As long as the city can provide a stable life, they will naturally "vote with their feet" and actively integrate into the city.
What’s more important is that the “agriculture-free” nature of the North allows Phoenix to build farms according to “industrial standards” from the beginning without having to transform traditional agriculture.
· When Gaode first planned to build the farm, he did not follow the old path of "small farmer economy", but directly introduced the concept of "large-scale planting"
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This is also an important pillar of urbanization, and urbanization is the basis of industrialization.
Industrialization can trigger the rapid development of cities.
The two complement each other.