Perhaps I didn't expect that the so-called punishment would be so light. The hunter brothers and sisters didn't react for a while after hearing Gao Wen's words. It was not until Gao Wen repeated his own question again that Tom with a red nose nodded blankly: "Can... my sister and I can find other settlements."

Homeless refugees will wander around the territory. Usually, their courses of action are not regular. They will die in places that are unknown, but overall, the areas where they can stay have a certain range.

These ranges are usually in the deserted mountains and ridges between the various noble territories, and this large piece of land in the north of the Baishui River, the eastern part of the Tanzanite Mine, and the southern part of the Kantian territory is this kind of place.

A large number of refugees from the Condor, Carroll and many scattered villages and towns in the northwest wandered to this area along the rivers and mountains. They could have migrated to the slightly richer central region, but in the past two years, poor harvests in the central and southern regions of the kingdom have led to insufficient food stocks in various places. Although many places have recovered this year, the nobles from all over the country are still strictly guarding against foreign refugees. The nobles in the central region even look at hungry people from the "poor south" from the perspective of thieves and robbers. Therefore, for these homeless people, all roads to the central region have been blocked, and they can only wander to the mountains and forests in the south.

According to rough information, as many as thousands of hungry homeless people are currently living in this forest and wilderness. Since most refugees have migrated along the same route (even from the same places), the settlements formed by these homeless people have maintained a certain degree of connection. Although this connection is extremely loose, it is like a network. As long as you master one of the nodes, you can keep the entire network in your hands by searching along the line.

Half a month has passed by the Byron Knights in the southern region through his underground channels. Cecil must have some information about collecting refugees. However, these poor people have long lost confidence in the nobles. Before the Frost Moon came, there would be mercenary slave teams sent by the nobles to plunder them almost every few days. So it is almost impossible for these people to believe that there is another noble family in the world who is willing to accept and protect them friendly.

But if there were a group of refugees who could escape with them, and who had lived in the wilderness for several months or even one or two years, traveling between settlements to convey messages, it would be much easier to recruit homeless people.

Gao Wen was planning to select a group of people with more flexible minds, courage and credibility from the dozens of refugees in front of him as guides and messengers, and rely on their persuasion to attract the homeless to settle down in Cecil.

The frost moon is approaching, and winter will officially begin after the fog moon begins. We must complete as many placements as possible before more people die of freezing and starving.

Although the boy with a red nose (maybe he has grown up? But he is too thin) is a little reckless, he is not very brave and his eyes are not as numb as most poor people, so he can serve as such a messenger.

"The Cecil family is reshaping the order of this land. Before the cold moon this year, all the homeless people who wander in this forest and nearby wasteland can report to the Cecil family and become permanent and legal leaders on this land," Gao Wen looked at the young man in front of him, and said to everyone next to him. He deliberately emphasized that all this must be effective before the cold moon arrives, but it is not really necessary to set this restriction, but to make this matter more credible and make these people in front of him feel pressure and urgency. "In order to enable all those in need to receive the news in time, I want you and other capable people to find those refugees who have hidden themselves. I will send soldiers to escort you to ensure that you can complete these tasks alive."

Tom opened his eyes and listened to all this, Gao Wen turned around and turned to those withered and withered expressions except nervousness: "I know that you were all honest and honest people, those who abide by the law and work hard, but your lord abandoned you, and all the nobles of the entire southern border abandoned you, and no family, and any land allows you to stand and survive. You can only wander in the wilderness, relying on grassroots, bark and even moss.

Moss and rats come to fill their stomachs, and even so, the minions of the nobles are still captive, damaging, and even chasing you here! But from today, you stand on the land of the Cecil family, and from today I am your lord! You can survive freely and safely on the land of the Cecil family, and you must tell you who know who suffer in the wilderness, so that they know that there is a place to settle down here!"

A little bit of meager glow finally emerged from those turbid and numb eyes.

After all, they are still human and have a heart.

Gao Wen did not expect these slow hungry people to cheer to respond to him. After saying what he wanted to say, he took a step back. Seeing that Wright had released the holy light treatment for all the wounded, he turned to look at Knight Philip: "Distribute the excess food to these people, otherwise it would be difficult to get to the territory in their state. In addition, send a soldier on a fast horse back and tell Hetty the news and make her ready."

Distributing food after inspiring speeches is always the most effective way, especially in this era.

When the "Lord" ordered people to take out the food, these people would truly feel that they had returned to the "human society" and be sure that their new "Lord" would indeed fill their stomachs, and they would obey orders for this and maintain the most basic loyalty. The civilian thinking of this era was so simple and direct, which can be said to be the only kindness that Gao Wen felt in this malicious world.

At this time, the black-haired girl who had just received Wright's treatment suddenly came over. She grabbed her clothes in a hurry and nervously, as if she had something to say. Gao Wen took the initiative to speak up: "Do you have something to ask me?"

"Yes...yes, lord... lord," the black-haired girl seemed a little stumbling when she said the word "lord", but she still said it smoothly, "Are you all said just now?"

"Of course it's true," Gao Wen laughed, "Is it necessary for me to lie to you?"

But what the nobles said was never true.

Qiong only dared to think about this sentence in her heart, but what she said was: "Can I go to other settlements with my younger brother? He has difficulty in legs and feet and needs someone to take care of him."

"If necessary, I will arrange a horse or a car for him," Gao Wen had just noticed the problem on the boy's legs and feet, but he still nodded, "Of course, you can still act with him."

The girl lowered her head deeply: "Thank you very much for your kindness."

One day later, Gao Wen and Amber led half of the soldiers and escorted the two mercenaries who were captured alive and returned to the territory first.

The Philip Knights led the remaining half of the soldiers to escort dozens of "new population" behind them. Because the refugees were weak in physique and many of them had chronic diseases, Wright also stayed behind to take care of them.

That Holy Light Priest can also match the combat power of a berserker...

Gao Wen was in a very happy mood. Although he only brought back dozens of new populations during this trip, and it was not even as large as a slave ship from Tanzan Town, he successfully established contact with refugees in the wilderness of the northern Baishui River. His initial trust would be developed based on these dozens of people. He was extremely happy when he thought of how many labor force that was urgently needed in this vast barren land gathered in this vast barren land.

Not to mention that most of these refugees are free people with some skills or at least some knowledge. Their basic qualities are higher than those of the slaves they bought, which will reduce a lot of costs in later education.

It is difficult for serfs to become refugees because they are tied to death on the land. When the famine comes, local nobles will gather their serfs and feed them at the lowest cost until the famine is over to resume production. The serfs who try to escape will be captured and executed. On the contrary, the liberals with slightly higher status will lose all their support in this situation and have to leave their hometowns to flee.

So sometimes someone would tease me that on the land of some nobles, the cost of freedom is more expensive than becoming a serf.

But Hedy, who was in charge of the territory's internal affairs, seemed a little worried. She found Gao Wen: "Ancestor, are you really going to collect all the homeless people in the wilderness on the north bank of the Baishui River before the cold moon arrives?"

Gao Wen had already expected that Hetty would come to find him, and he smiled: "Is there pressure on food?"

"If the information is true, the whole wilderness is full of refugees now, we will support about 4,000 people to spend this winter. After this period of population expansion in the territory, there will be only 2,000 people. We are equivalent to providing refugees who are twice as many as our current population at once. And this is just a secondary problem. After all, food can be bought with money. Tanzan Town is rich and willing to sell us food at a low price. This is a good solution. The real trouble is how to maintain order so many people at once. We finally digest and absorb the purchased serfs and slave workers into rule-performing and law-abiding people. At this time, four thousand people will come rashly. I am very worried that the results I have achieved before will be destroyed even if those refugees are not intentionally destroyed."

"We have increased the eight hundred to two thousand, and the population has more than doubled, but the order has not collapsed," Gao Wen looked at Hetty with a smile, "So what's there to worry about?"

"That's because the increased population has arrived before the warm weather, and there are plenty of jobs for those people. They can follow the people to open up land, log wood, and build houses. According to you, there is transformation when there is labor. Sufficient jobs will be the best way to digest and absorb the new population. But now it is late in the frost moon, and it will soon enter the snowy fog moon, and then the cold moon dripping into ice. At this time, we have no jobs..."
Chapter completed!