589, Agriculture and Education (Thanks 2017...8102 for the June pass
Before I knew it, 8 days had passed.
During these eight days, nothing major happened under Sean's rule. The main thing was to recuperate and digest and absorb the territory that had been gained.
But things are not peaceful in the north. Ryan's army has arrived at Wind's End City and launched a relentless attack on Wind's End City. Sean's attention has also been attracted there.
Khadgar once again transformed into a "battlefield reporter" and stayed on the front lines to bring Sean the latest reports.
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In addition to paying attention to the battle ahead, Sean was also busy.
In these eight days, Sean took Anduin, Isabel and an elite cavalry unit to travel through all other territories in the Yonn region.
But after arriving in these territories, Sean found that these territories were also severely damaged.
Needless to say, the territories of non-water nobles were almost in ruins after being beaten by the coalition of water nobles, especially Watchtown, which was almost reduced to ruins;
The territory of the water nobles is not much better. Their elite troops were all forcibly recruited by Lucas to attack Riverside Town, and now only the old, weak, sick and disabled are left.
Moreover, the lords of various major territories were all killed and injured by the Marquis of River's poisonous wine, leaving them leaderless.
Therefore, Sean did not encounter any resistance wherever he went, and local nobles greeted him with smiling faces.
Sean was too lazy to talk nonsense with them and implemented the same reforms as John City in various major territories.
The nobles of these territories are willing to hand over their land and accept reforms like the nobles of Yoen City. Sean welcomes it and is willing to cooperate with them;
If they were unwilling to accept the reform, or were trying to take advantage of the loopholes, Sean would simply confiscate their home and demote them into slaves without further explanation.
After confiscating several houses, the other nobles no longer dared to think too carefully and either stayed or left.
After the completion of the reform, there was a power vacuum in various major territories. Anduin temporarily promoted a group of more prestigious people from various villages and towns and appointed them as grassroots officials to help him manage these towns.
In this way, the entire Yohn area came completely under Sean's rule.
Sean completed his unification in the Jorn area.
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Of course, Sean's series of operations also have drawbacks.
For example, these officials who are temporarily appointed have no ability to govern and can easily breed corruption after gaining power quickly.
So after gaining control of the major territories, Sean focused on solving this problem.
There is currently no solution to the problem of governing ability. We can only establish some schools in the future to specifically train officials;
The problem of corruption is relatively easy to solve.
Anduin perfected the reporting system in various cities and villages, telling all residents in villages and towns through loudspeakers.
Once residents of villages and towns find that officials are involved in corruption or there are random rebellion cases in the circuit court, they can go to Yoon City to report the matter through a real-name system.
At that time, Anduin will ask these officials to come to Yoon City. If it is found that he is really corrupt and decides the case at will, he will be sentenced according to the seriousness of his crime and the villagers who organized the event will be given heavy rewards!
Of course, in order to prevent malicious reporting, if the reported official is found to have no problems, the whistleblower will be punished.
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After setting up the reporting system, Sean and his team left the subordinate territory and returned to Yoen City.
At the beginning, officials in each subordinate territory were very cautious and did not dare to engage in corruption. The small local courts that helped residents resolve disputes were also cautious.
However, as time went on, many local officials became more greedy and began to become corrupt and oppress good people.
After receiving the report, Anduin used [Thought Stealing] to collect evidence of guilt on these officials, and finally eliminated a batch of them, and the grassroots management immediately became much better.
Although there is still a long way to go before efficient government rule, it is already much better than the backward lord-slavery society.
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In addition to gaining political control over subordinate territories, Sean also did his best in agriculture.
After Sean finished eating potato stew, roasted sweet potatoes, and boiled corn with "tears in his eyes," he immediately began to promote high-yielding crops in Hetan Town, Shuipong Town, the Yoon City Direct Area, and Rhode Island.
However, many problems arose during the promotion process.
Farmers are unwilling to give up wheat and plant other crops. After all, they have grown wheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn all their lives and they don't know them, so they are certainly not willing to take risks.
And they can't afford the risk. If these high-yielding crops don't produce high yields, or no one is willing to buy them (no one dares to eat them), their whole family will go hungry.
On the one hand, Sean taught the farmers about the benefits of high-yielding crops, and at the same time, he also told them that these were "sacred crops" given by the God of Light, and they were top-notch delicacies that could only be enjoyed by gods in the divine world.
On the other hand, Sean also gave the farmers high subsidies and provided them with high subsidies. As long as they farmed the fields steadily, they would not go hungry even if there was no harvest.
With the government's endorsement and the admiration and trust in the lord, many farmers in the Youne area decided to start planting these new crops.
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After solving the problem of farmers' reluctance to plant new crops, Sean discovered that two new problems arose.
The first problem is that there are not enough seeds.
In order to solve this problem, Sean teleported to Rhode Island, expanded the number of elves from 20 to 200, and tried his best to stimulate the seedlings to fill the seed gap.
Secondly, many farmers do not know how to grow these crops. Except for Hetan Town, farmers in other areas do not even know how to use fertilizers.
In desperation, Sean began to write an agricultural manual and formulate agricultural planting standards. He also invited some farmers in Hetan Town who were already skilled in using fertilizers and hired them as agricultural technical officers.
After providing simple training to these agricultural technical officers, Sean sent them to various villages and towns to serve as village officials to guide other farmers in farming.
Moreover, there was a great demand for "agricultural officials" in the territory, so under the leadership of Sean, the first university, Yohn Agricultural University, was officially established in Yohn City!
Because Sean is currently in short supply of talents, as long as he enters the Agricultural University, he can almost 100% get a position as a village official, so the powerful people in Yoen City who come to apply are flocking to him.
Sean doesn't mind if the powerful get these quotas. After all, now is the time to employ people. The nobles are all literate, so training is easier.
The most important thing is that the fees can also be charged more harshly...
Anyway, these nobles still have oil and water, and if they don't squeeze it, it will be useless.
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It didn’t take long before the Yohn City Agricultural University had replaced the Yohn City Etiquette College and became the school of choice for the nobles in the city.
Sean also did not forget to leave promotion channels for civilians. He established a large number of schools in the city of Yohn to popularize education for children of appropriate age. The main education focused on writing and mathematics.
Chapter completed!