The arrival of the mermaid did not disturb Murphy''s pace of life.
He still gets up at 7 a.m. every day, then makes a tour of the territory, and then starts to arrange many buildings that are not included in the auxiliary system of total war and are not counted. Recently, for example, the first quarry within the city of Athens has been built.
Because of the low level of science and technology in this era, the efficiency of quarry is a bit slow, and it also needs to consume a lot of labor.
It is said that the dwarves who are good at mining have invented the original gunpowder, but it seems that it is not black gunpowder, and it is another kind of gunpowder made from the world''s material.
If you can, Murphy would like to find a way to study it.
His knowledge of physics is limited, but he knows a little about history.
It took more than 1500 years from the appearance of gunpowder to the appearance of firearms. The rise of science and technology is the accumulation of time and history. It is impossible to directly leap thousands of years. Nothing else, but for the moment, the territory can''t even make a decent spring. Before the emergence of industrial machine tools, many modern things that seem very simple are extremely difficult to do.
It''s far away, but it''s just like the bed frame when Murphy was studying.
That shelf is a good steel knife from ancient times!
This is the deposit of thousands of years of time and history.
It''s not the credit of a day.
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From autumn to winter, the number of fine slaves in the territory suddenly increased.
For these less civilized intelligent creatures, winter will be the most difficult time of the year. Intelligent creatures who are not good at growing crops will face the dilemma of food and cold in winter. This is often the time when the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled of an ethnic group die on a large scale. After a winter snow, only those species that are strong enough can survive.
It''s not a joke.
No warm clothes, no shelter, no bonfire, no food.
After the heavy snow falls, it will only take two or three days at most, and many species with relatively primitive civilization will die in large numbers.
And this time, it is also the most aggressive time for many species that can''t survive the winter!
In the cold winter, even if mankind has entered the city-state era, there will be some poor serfs frozen to death in the wind and snow.
Since the appearance of a goblin inferior citizen in the territory, the goblin slaves in the territory were eager. In just three or five months, these intelligent creatures learned some simple human language and began to understand that as long as they worked hard, they would have food. And if the great lord defeats the enemy, they can get some extra meat.
These goblins help Murphy solve many enemy bodies, and then work hard for him.
With the goblin Lord''s entourage, the efficiency of general Marcus Kane''s capture of goblin slaves was greatly improved. And since it was getting colder and colder, some small-scale Goblins who could not survive the winter even took the initiative to send them to him.
So now, the number of goblin laborers in the territory has reached nearly 30000.
It''s a pretty large number.
Because of the sharp increase in the number of goblin labors, the consumption of food in Athens also increased. In order to save food, Murphy had to grind the hulls of wheat, which are commonly known as "chaff", and mix them with food. In addition to bran, other things such as rods and roots are also included in the recipe of goblin drudgery.
In the winter, at least until the territory has a large surplus of food, Murphy is not going to eat them too well.
All he had to do was make sure the little ones didn''t starve to death.
Moreover, because the territory needs to clean up the scattered jackals, they can still eat a little meat every once in a while.
In addition to the increase of goblin slaves, the lower class population in Murphy also soared during this period.
In the course of the invasion of the southern plains by the jackals, some of the human beings were captured by the jackals and eventually became food rations. However, a considerable number of the lower class of the poor fled to the rear of the southern plains, or fled to the mountains and forests for temporary refuge. After the human city-state defeated the jackal, the poor people who fled from their hometown returned to their original hometown.
Among these Aboriginal people, a large part of the poor were serfs of the Lords.
That is to say, there is not much personal freedom for people who can only barely live a full life without starving to death. For these people, it doesn''t matter who their Lord is. The important thing is that they have land and work, and then they can have a bite to eat.
Winter is coming.
These poor people who fled to the rear of the southern plain had no food or clothes. The great nobles in the rear absorbed a group of refugees, but there were too many refugees. They can''t consume so many people at all. Moreover, if they let these refugees into the city, the public security problems in the cities and towns are quite serious. So these refugees were banished to the wild, only to provide them with a little food on a regular basis.
Under the attack of jackals, humans lost three large cities, more than ten small and medium-sized towns, and the lower class poor with more than 80000 people became homeless refugees.
After the jackals were defeated, the refugees began to organize and return home.
For a time, whether it is Murphy''s territory or the territory recovered by Lady Elizabeth, there are a large number of refugees.
They knelt outside the town and asked the noble Lord to take them in.
Otherwise, when winter comes, they will freeze to death in the cold wind and snow.
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Population has always been something Murphy urgently needs. Although these Aboriginal humans are too thin to be good fighters, they are still much better as labor force than goblins. After roughly calculating the reserves, Murphy decided to take in all the refugees.
It''s not clear how many refugees Murphy has absorbed into Lady Elizabeth''s territory.
However, there were more than 10000 refugees who came to Murphy territory to ask for shelter. They were yellow, skinny and naked. Some of the old and weak had been killed in the process of fleeing. Although the rest were very weak, both men and women could use them as labor force.
At present, the total population of Athens is close to 60000.
Among them, the number of citizens is about 8000 (including the aborigines who were initially accepted), the number of poor people is about 14000, and the number of goblin laborers is more than 30000.
The goblin slaves could live in shacks and feed like cattle, but the refugees couldn''t.
So Murphy had to speed up the construction of three other small and medium-sized towns in order to accommodate the refugees before winter. As long as we can stick to the harvest until the spring of next year, then the strength of the territory will grow up all at once!
Because all of a sudden the population has doubled!
Murphy, who always had plenty of food, had a headache for his winter food.
There is only one year''s food in the territory. That''s right, but it''s for about 8000 people. Now there are more than 10000 refugees, plus goblin slaves and so on. These food will only last until the spring of next year.
It takes three or four months from the beginning of spring to the harvest of wheat. Murphy had to find a way to get more food to support the winter wheat harvest.
After fighting with the jackals for two years, the food supply of the human city-state was also a little tight.
It was not a problem to buy a small amount of food from them, but now that the war with the jackals is over, it is not so easy to buy food from the aristocratic Council. As a last resort, Murphy had to make two preparations: one was to send merchants to buy grain at a high price to the middle and small nobles and merchants in the southern plain, and the other was to send a fleet to contact the semi elves living in the rear of the southern plain.
If we can trade with those semi elves, then the problem of food should be solved.
To this end, Murphy even sent tobayes, the only diplomat in the territory.
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In the evening.
After resettling the refugees in a simple shelter, Murphy, tired, rushed back to Athens.
It is impossible for these refugees to absorb them all at once.
In order to reduce unnecessary trouble, Murphy must first disrupt them, reorganize them according to the army, and then select the leader and assign the army supervision. He doesn''t want a riot or anything. Therefore, in order to suppress and deter the refugees, Murphy left behind eight Greek heavy infantry units with a total of 640 men.
General riodari was also left there to manage the refugees.
As long as these refugees can be reasonably digested, the civil class in the territory will undoubtedly be able to get rid of the tedious manual labor.
They are actively trained in a semi professional military way similar to Spartans.
There is no doubt that the main fighting force of the territory in the future depends on the civil class of these cities.
Into the governor''s house, in the maid''s service, Murphy changed his clothes.
While it was still early, Murphy went to see the mermaid now living in his backyard pool.
But as soon as he went in today, he was shocked.
Because he saw the fountain!
yes.
A fountain made of marble, shells and complicated runes with some special power!
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