Registration is an extremely tedious task. It cannot be completed in a short time by Jilong alone and the unfamiliar clerks he recruited.
The most important thing is that moving to the Eagle Kingdom does not seem to be such a happy thing.
Anyway, after Jilong made the corresponding announcements and processing methods public, not many people took the initiative to apply for settlement.
The most active ones were the security guards and the porters hired by Aiden.
On the first day, they filled up all the dozens of temporary processing windows.
However, after them, only a sparse few people were willing to come and register.
Xu Lai couldn't understand it at first, but later Jilong explained it to Xu Lai, and he understood.
In the final analysis, others still look down on the Eagle Kingdom. Most people think that settling in the Eagle Kingdom is a very shameful thing.
You know, what they originally had was a household registration in the capital of the empire.
As for the Eagle Kingdom, it’s a small country that I don’t know where it came from, and most people have never even heard of its name.
Even ordinary people, few would agree to ask people to give up their registered permanent residence in the capital and transfer to a small country like yours.
Not to mention that Lion Heart City, as the capital of the empire, is not like modern society, where it is easily stacked up to 3 or 40 floors and cannot accommodate many people.
Therefore, the people living in the capital are basically the petty bourgeoisie with some assets.
Families without money cannot stay in villages or towns outside the capital, let alone the capital.
This kind of petty bourgeoisie, when they have some money, face is particularly important, and they cannot accept this gap.
To put it bluntly, the establishment of the Eagle Kingdom was too short, and the reputation of Xu Lai and the Eagle Kingdom had not yet spread.
People who meet Xu Lai can feel his terrifying reputation, but the key is that most of them can't see Xu Lai.
Therefore, reputation is something that still needs someone to spread it for them.
This is mostly the reason why nobles like to hire bards to sing unrealistic stories everywhere.
Xu Lai had neglected this aspect of work before. Of course, even if he had not neglected it, he would not have had the time and energy to do it.
"Well, since they don't want to be members of the Eagle Kingdom, there is no reason to feed them with the food of the Eagle Kingdom!
Please be informed that starting tomorrow, all non-Eagle Kingdom personnel will only receive one-third of the original relief food per day. ”
"Your Majesty, we still need these people very much. You know, what the huge Western Empire lacks most now is population.
Most people can only eat two meals a day. If the food is reduced by another two-thirds, people may starve to death. ”
Xu Lai pondered for a moment. Although he was very dissatisfied, he didn't want to really starve people to death.
Even if you stay to do hard work, you are still contributing to the Eagle Kingdom, and you cannot take advantage of others.
“The elderly and children have little activity and will not starve to death even if their food is reduced to one-third.
If there are those who really can't bear it, just find something for them to do and give them something to eat.
If adults starve to death, they deserve it.
Lionheart City has been destroyed for so long. There are garbage, rubble and corpses everywhere. How can they still starve to death if they do whatever they want? ”
He is a dignified king, and he personally cleans up his temporary camp.
How come those guys can just sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor without doing anything?
Forget about sitting back and enjoying his achievements, Xu Lai originally wanted to clean up the city first, establish a complete administrative system, and then make unified arrangements.
However, those people did not do public things, but had to clean up their private homes overnight.
Previously, he was afraid that they would be in danger, so Xu Lai gathered them in the square and the buildings near the square in the name of distributing food.
But after two days of hard investigation and fighting, I can't say that all the demons have been eliminated. At least the places where they are easy to find are basically invisible.
Therefore, it is time to send them back to their own homes. If they are too lazy to clean up other people's places, they will definitely take care of their own homes.
However, Jilong still raised a question. He was worried that regardless of those people's words, they would take advantage of the period when Lionheart City was severely damaged to expand aggressively.
It would be a good idea to just build your dead neighbor's house into your own house.
Some people want to directly declare that the shops facing the street are their property.
If you ask him for the property rights certificate, he will say that it was burned by a fire. Anyway, the official records were really burned.
"Don't worry about it. Don't worry about how they want to build the house. As long as it doesn't block the road, don't worry about it.
But if there is a dispute, then put both parties to the dispute in the dungeon.
As long as there is no problem with public security and order is not affected, where are there so many manpower to solve the case for them now? ”
Jilong frowned and said: "But if you don't care, I'm afraid it won't be clear in the future.
Moreover, private construction by ordinary citizens without planning and indiscriminate construction is a huge damage to urban safety and city image. ”
Xu Lai snorted coldly and said: "I can't explain anything. I just want to find something for them to do. I don't want them to come out and cause trouble.
As for the houses they built, they will all be demolished later. We have gathered a lot of people in Graycastle, Little Graycastle.
When Tahan opened the passage on the ground, all those high-ranking people who relied on the empire would be demoted as serfs. ”
Ji Long smiled bitterly and did not continue to refute Xu Lai's opinion.
In fact, as a child of a traditional aristocrat, Ji Long was more receptive to serfs than Xu Lai, and his family kept a lot of them.
And because of his father, the Martell family is one of the few and has a large number of serfs.
Other families, even those who were the first to surrender to Xu Lai, passively dismissed a large number of serfs.
On the one hand, because these serfs were not living a good life, many of them came to Xu here to serve as soldiers, so they could make a difference.
On the other hand, the existence of serfs greatly weakened the enthusiasm for labor.
Therefore, except for the relatively well-paid maids, servants, chefs, grooms, housekeepers, etc., almost all the rest of these families were dismissed passively.
Even the Martell family, while retaining a large number of serfs, must also give them private property.
For example, the laws of the Eagle Empire stipulate that at any time and under any circumstances, the growers of the fields must obtain at least 30% of the income from the land they belong to.
Of course, this grower has certain prerequisites.
If you go to open up wasteland, even if the land does not belong to you, you will get at least 30%.
However, the land has an owner. If you try to grab seeds, it is equivalent to depriving others of their planting rights, which is a different matter.
A detailed analysis of the specific situation shows that Xu Lai was not the framer of the law, he only proposed a general outline.
The implementation methods, implementation standards, reward and punishment measures, and all other details will naturally be studied by the people below, and finally reported to him for approval and verification.
Xu Lai's original intention is good, but the extent to which he can implement it in the future will still be decided by the powerful.
As long as there is no rapid change in productivity, land annexation will never change.
Moreover, the powerful class has extremely high combat effectiveness, and the human sea tactics can never overwhelm them.
Maybe this is why demons and undead are able to invade every thousand years or so. This is probably the natural law of this world, just like the peasant uprising.
These are some of the methods Xu Lai thought of in order to protect the people at the bottom.
But there is a prerequisite, that is, it only applies to the people of the country.
As for those who are not willing to join the Eagle Kingdom, they can do whatever they like, how can they control so much.
"By the way, before the announcement about reducing relief food, let's post a new announcement. I want to improve the citizenship standards of the Eagle Kingdom.
From now on, only the citizens of the Eagle Kingdom in this world are qualified to enjoy the highest treatment. The rest should go to their own countries. ”
Isn’t there a saying that goes like this: If you ignore me today, I will make it impossible for you to reach your level tomorrow.
Xu Lai planned to put these words into action.
The Eagle Kingdom was founded by him, and the feeling was just like that of his own child. There was nothing wrong with it.
These people, if they look down on his Eagle Kingdom today, they will all become inferiors from now on.
"Ah, what kind of standards are they?"
As the specific person in charge of this task, Jilong naturally had to ask clearly.
Xu Lai waved his hand and said: "First of all, it must be a person with no criminal record. The Eagle Kingdom does not accept all garbage.
Secondly, the Eagle Kingdom does not accept slackers, nor does it accept anyone who has no work record during this period.
Finally, there are people with certain skills. No matter what kind of skills, I don’t want to be idle.
In short, it's up to you to decide according to this standard. I need someone who is practical and worthy of training. ”
Ji Long shrugged. According to Xu Lai's standards, among the hundreds of thousands of people left in Lion Heart City, there was no telling how many would be qualified.
But if you only choose one of the three conditions, this requirement is undoubtedly very loose.
If none of the above conditions apply, let alone Xu Cai, even he thinks that the other party can only become a serf.
"Oh, by the way, forget about the elderly and children who are unable to work."
Jilong bent down and saluted. He had known for a long time that his king was still too kind.
Almost all administrative matters were handed over to Jilong.
Compared with his father, Ji Long is more capable but very young. Anyway, he is much younger than Xu Lai's actual age.
The envoy Ji Long was not only justified, Xu Lai himself did not have much pressure. After all, he had never held any leadership position before.
After getting rid of political pressure, Xu Lai's focus was adjusted to the palace and the old nobles.
After getting rid of political affairs, Yu Lan has fully taken over the palace.
Another deputy sheriff took on the role of patrolling the streets and maintaining law and order. This was actually the original job of the sheriff.
Yu Lan, along with the Pegasus knights and the royal griffins, has fully occupied the palace.
Xu Lai's purpose is to dig out the heart of the castle first.
With the Heart of the Castle, even if the teleportation array still cannot be repaired, Xu Lai can still bring more people in.
Here you need to use the Gate of Time and Space. With his master-level earth magic, he can complete the round trip in one day if he gets enough rest.
But obviously, the excavation work of the Castle Heart was not going well.
Xu Lai trusted the dozen Pegasus knights very much. They were divided into two shifts, day and night, and led people to dig day and night.
But even so, several suspected locations have been dug extremely deep, but nothing has been found.
Not only that, Xu Lai and the others also encountered other troubles in the palace.
The creators of the trouble came from the High King Aled family, the so-called imperial royal family.
When the devil came, these so-called royal children all hid somewhere.
Not to mention stopping the demons from digging, just not providing them with directions and locations is already pretty good.
Of course, they couldn't all be killed with one stick. At that time, there was still a group of brave royal knights who launched a desperate charge towards the devil.
The royal knights are basically composed of children of the nobility, the royal family, and the middle-class children of the imperial capital with innocent wealth.
To be honest, ordinary families cannot afford to support a knight, let alone a royal knight.
"This palace was built by the first Supreme King, His Majesty Aled. You are not qualified to excavate here."
The Supreme King of this generation has no direct bloodline, if not counting his daughter and son-in-law in the Southern Empire.
Therefore, these so-called princes who appeared in front of Xu Lai were actually the nephews of High King Aled.
Some bloodlines are older, but their abilities may still be outstanding and they can still have a place in the palace.
The remaining few have closer bloodlines and may have been groomed as heirs.
Aled's disappearance was too sudden to leave a clear heir.
Without the endorsement of the Supreme King of the previous generation, it would be impossible for these so-called "princes" to become the Supreme King.
Xu Lai and the others dug for three or four days, and then they gathered all the remaining guards in the palace, about a hundred of them.
Coupled with the servants who picked up weapons from nowhere, they were huge and powerful.
Elvi and her angel army were left by Xu Lai in Holy Angel City to guard the treasure house.
The treasure house has actually been moved almost completely, but the priests in Holy Angel City are also extremely valuable assets, and there is no chance of any accidents.
At this time, Xu Lai's side could be said to be the weakest when there were only a hundred sin angels, evil angels, and some royal griffons.
However, when Xu Lai pushed away those evil angels and stood in front of this group of people.
The servants and guards who had finally found them all took a few steps back unconsciously.
Some timid ones even peed directly.
First he was assassinated, and then he was unwilling to join the Eagle Kingdom.
Xu Lai was very angry, and he was worried that he had no place to vent, when this group of people happened to bump into him.
If they didn't come at this time, Xu Lai originally wanted to deal with it with the old nobles.
Over the past two years and through numerous battles, countless demons and orcs died directly at Xu Lai's hands.
He could no longer remember the generals, heroes, and even leaders he had defeated and killed.
This proud record has now turned into his reputation, superimposed on him.
Not to mention that none of the servants were even professionals, even the royal guards felt their hearts beat when they saw the angry Xu Lai.
Relying on the soldiers hiding in the corner to survive, you can have some backbone and morale.
As soon as Xu Lai's murderous eyes glanced over, dozens of soldiers had already dropped their weapons in a hurry. (End of chapter)