Hetty's question was expected by Gao Wen, and he knew that Hetty knew that the answer was asked by her instead of the others on the scene.

"Each of us knows the strength of Cecil's leadership," Gowen looked around everyone in the conference room, from Norris, the agricultural director, to Hammer, who was in charge of steel smelting, to the senior clerk and other department heads of the Government Affairs Department, these familiar faces are witnesses and promoters of Cecil's growth to this day. "Then each of us should also know that Cecil's strength is based on the "magic industrialization" and advanced social systems, and is based on an order that is different from traditional aristocratic territories.

"Hosman and the 70,000 rabble he organized have collapsed. All the land nobles in the southern border have only three left, except for those who are attached to Cecil, one is dead in the artillery fire of the gravel ridge and the Baishui River, one is being locked in the Hosman area and the Baishui River, and the last one is on the way to exile. The destruction is only a matter of time before and after these nobles and all their troops disappear, the entire southern border will leave more than forty empty cities without defense and rule. Cecil will accept these lands and rebuild the order on the land in Cecil's way."

Gao Wen wanted to establish a new order. Now he was on the critical road to unify the entire southern border. He had to promote Cecil's success to the entire southern border and make the southern border a powerful, stable, and overall Principality of Cecil, instead of allowing the more than 40 feudal territories to continue to operate in the same way as before. Otherwise, even if those people on the land were loyal to him, he would have just changed a noble team to the entire southern border, and nothing had changed.

In any case, the foundation land and population of the traditional aristocratic system in the southern border must be changed from the root, and this war is the opportunity to change everything.

Gao Wen once considered two plans.

The first plan was to migrate all the population in the southern border to the Cecil area, and eventually form a large population dense area in the line of the Baishui River-Dark Mountains, and build a strong industrial empire on this basis, so that the population can maximize the power of the population in the industrial society and allow Cecil's magic industry to develop to the next stage in the shortest time. However, after roughly estimating the population of the entire southern border and investigating the distribution of various resource resources and urban geographical locations in the southern border, he gave up this simple and crude plan.

Because the population of the entire southern border is as many as millions (rarely estimated, it should actually be more), this number exceeded his expectations. This is because of the existence of extraordinary power, which makes the world's food output relatively abundant, and the high physical fitness of ordinary people also leads to a situation where even if the lives of ordinary people are difficult, the population is still very high. Even in the most desolate, poor and backward southern border in Ansu, the number of people is enough to make Gao Wen's simple and crude first plan aborted.

Although Cecil has a relatively advanced social system and a rapidly developing magic industry, it is impossible to complete the migration, resettlement and transformation of a million-level population in a short period of time. Even if the cycle of this plan is extended to three to five years, the huge resources and social pressure generated during this huge population migration will drag down Cecil.

Not to mention that this plan is equivalent to giving up more than 80% of the land in the southern region in a short period of time. After the population is concentrated in the Baishui River-Dark Mountains, what should I do if the resources and cultivated farmland in other areas of the southern region are? Without those resource output and grain production areas, Cecil's current development level cannot support the self-sufficiency of an industrial structure with a population of millions.

Therefore, Gao Wen could only choose the second plan, which was to only migrate the population of the southern region, so that they could establish new industrial belts in the northern shore development zone of Cecil and the east and west sides, and at the same time concentrate the population in other areas of the southern region nearby. By establishing a second-level government affairs department, several second-level new cities were created in other regions. Since they had previously had experience in establishing a second-level government affairs department in Kant, this plan was quite feasible.

Moreover, in this way, Gao Wen can also ensure control over most areas of the southern border, and the resources distributed in various parts of the southern border will be fully developed and continuously injected into the giant beast of Magic Industry.

Of course, the pressure to face is still great, but Gao Wen has a full reason to do so.

"Population migration and the establishment of a magic industrial system similar to Cecil, the construction of a new order is presided over by experienced Cecil administrative officials, and the promotion of the industrialization of magic is only one of the purposes, and the other is to destroy the foundation on which the old aristocratic system relies on."

Heti followed Gao Wen and immediately understood what his ancestor meant: "Is it the land and population?"

"That's right," Gao Wen nodded, "It is not enough to just ban or kill these land nobles. As long as their land and population system are still there, new land nobles will appear sooner or later, so we must break this system and ensure that the old nobles will never come back."

The old nobles ensured the authority of the aristocratic system by excluding lands, while the land system that existed with the exorcist lands firmly tied the common people to those lands. The common people could not leave the lord's land at will, or even do anything other than farming. When Ansu was not established, this feudal guaranteed the basic order of the entire country, but after the arrival of the magic industry era, this situation of tying people to the land became a shackle.

With the current agricultural model established by Cecil's leadership by mass production of alchemy agents and concentrated and efficient farming, a considerable number of agricultural populations can be converted and necessary to be converted into industrial populations.

On the one hand, Gao Wen's population migration was a necessary means to build a magic industry, because an adequate population with basic freedom of labor was a prerequisite for ensuring productivity, and on the other hand, it was to completely destroy the living soil of the old nobles in the southern border.

Of course, saving management costs is also one reason. After all, Cecil's administrative power is limited and the southern border is vast. In order to establish an advanced management system like Cecil in other areas of the southern border. To achieve this level of management in the entire southern border, it is necessary to change the current situation of wide land and sparsely populated and chaotic settlement structures.

Reasonable concentration of population, reallocate land, and set up more scientific and standardized urban and rural structures are all effective solutions.

Not everyone can fully understand Gao Wen's complete theory, but the people here at least witnessed the process of Cecil's rise and how the new order in the territory came into effect and operated. They understood the necessity of population migration and focused on the specific difficulties faced by this grand plan.

Norris first raised the most realistic question: "What should farmers do if they are unwilling to leave their land?"

In this era, land was a shackle and tool used by the nobles to bind the people, but sadly, most common people did not understand and agree with this. On the contrary, they would agree that this restriction of farmers was unwilling to leave their land. This was almost an inevitable situation in any farming society. The liberated person was unwilling to accept your liberation. This is a problem that Gao Wen had to face.

Even if you take a step back, people in this world do not have much specific idea of ​​"unable to leave their hometown", but rashly forcing so many people to move will inevitably face huge obstacles. Even if according to Gao Wen's second plan, he just lets those people move to the city closest to them, and those civilians who will hardly leave the village in their lifetime will also have great resistance.

Traditional aristocrats probably don't care about the resistance of the people, but Cecil's rules cannot do this. Gao Wen must also consider the social stability issue in population migration.

"First of all, population migration will be a long-term plan. I initially plan to complete it within three to five years, and this time can be extended," Gao Wen explained, "so we can carry out population migration in batches. The experience of Cecil's establishment can be used to first migrate serfs and slaves. More than 80% of the serfs and slaves are the property of lords and knights. Now they have become ownerless people, which is the easiest to migrate;

"Secondly, ensuring land supply can be ensured through land replacement, reclaiming new land, reclaiming old aristocratic farmland real estate and redistribution, ensuring that the migrant population has sufficient arable land acceptance, and ensuring that the overall agricultural production of the entire southern border will not be affected in this process;

"Finally, we should pay attention to rewards and publicity guidance. Everyone in the Government Affairs Department and your clerks should have some experience in this regard. We should not force civilians to leave their hometowns, but prepare them a better new home, and attract them with publicity such as being urban citizens, obtaining land granted by the lords, and redistribution of real estate. Let them think that population migration is an opportunity rather than a mandatory order, which can also make everything go smoothly."

When Gao Wen finished speaking, Norris nodded repeatedly. As a farmer himself, he believed that the plans proposed by Gao Wen were enough to deal with the vast majority of the migrant population.

In fact, even without these plans, the population migration plan must be enforced. The civilians of this era have surprising endurance to the lord's orders and various adversities. Many times, the lord may order people from all over the territory to prohibit going to the mountains or order everyone not to go fishing in the river. If Gao Wen wanted to force population migration, the civilians would probably just think that this was another whim of the new lord, and then gritted their teeth to accept the arrangement. After all, after this war, the Cecil family had actually become the absolute authority of the southern border.

But... Gao Wen didn't want to do this.

During the establishment of the Principality of Cecil, every stain that he produced in everything he did was to be compensated for ten or even hundreds of times in a few years, and he could not even make up for it. He understood the gains and losses in the middle.

According to existing experience, with druid pharmacies produced by alchemy factories and agricultural learning associations, farmers can exchange their respective high-yield skills. In combination with advanced systems, the grain output in various places will be greatly improved. With sufficient grain output, a large number of concentrated free populations can enter the factory, and an important part of magic industrialization will be established.

Heti then raised another question: "Oncestors, it still takes a lot of staff to establish a second-level town hall. Although the Government Affairs Department has been working hard to train various administrative personnel, and can barely collect all kinds of supervisors in the second-level government affairs department, we may have a big gap in the positions of clerks and clerks, and we also have to solve the appeal problem... Although Cecil defeated the coalition forces of more than 40 nobles in the southern border, we have sufficient strength to accept the land of those nobles, but the sent administrative personnel do not have enough appeal in the local area. It is okay to send some soldiers to control order, but it is necessary to establish a unit like the Second-level Government Affairs Department... the locals may not necessarily cooperate."

Then Heti organized some language and added: "And it should be considered that there are still remnants of old lords in some areas waiting for an opportunity to destroy the problem. Although the number may not be large, this kind of damage has a huge impact on social order."

"There will definitely be remnants. There will be troops to guard and clear out in this regard," Gao Wen nodded. "The problem of appeal does exist, so I have asked Byron and Philip to escort the nobles and knight captives in the prisoner-of-war camp first. I will 'talk' with those people. After they 'cooperate', we can recruit intellectuals from all over the place and train them more easily, and the manpower gap can be alleviated."

Gao Wen was destroying the old aristocratic system in the southern border, but as he realized before, whether he wanted to admit it or not, most of the intellectuals and upper-class talents in this era were concentrated among the nobles and their vassals. If he wanted to establish a new order, especially in a short period of time, he still had to find a way to borrow from these people.
Chapter completed!