Chapter 301 The results of the land distribution movement
The old pope, who had been in office for 52 years, finally died in office.
The uproar caused by his testamentary decree was unknown to Horn, thousands of miles away.
However, this will not have much impact on Horn. After all, it is Prince Condai and Barnifus who are now in charge of the entire Thousand River Valley.
As long as these two people are here, the overall situation of Qianhe River Valley will not change much.
However, the changes in Longsand County are greater than anyone imagined.
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April 15th, Castle Joan of Arc.
The first ray of sunshine in the morning shines softly on the ancient stone streets.
Warm and cool winds blow through the delicate arches and spiers.
The morning light blown by the wind shines on the saints in the wall shrines, as if they are smiling at passers-by.
Walking out of the Duke's villa in the backyard of the city hall, Horn could smell the fresh toast in the air before he even got close.
The sacred and distant bell rang from the church not far away. Within a few seconds of the bell falling, the vendors began to sell loudly.
Several white pigeons flew overhead, I don’t know who they were delivering messages to.
Horn hummed a little tune, entered the hall through the back door, walked up to the second floor, and came to the private room that originally belonged to the Duke.
Before it was ready, Busak next to him handed over a schedule, and Horn quickly scanned it: "Um...oh, has the field allocation been declared completed?"
Duration After one month and five days, the field division team and the survey team finally completed their tasks.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Busak responded in a low voice, "We have put the specific situation in this booklet."
Horn only reacted at this time Coming over, I don’t know when a book suddenly appeared on my desk.
“Is this a specific household register?”
"No, this is just a simplified statistical book calculated based on the household register. There are too many original copies." Busak said, "I took the local low-level priests to reorganize and summarize and compiled this "Statistical Book""
With curiosity, Horn turned to the first page of the preface, which was basically a lot of flattery towards Sheng Sun.
The content is not a household registration list, but the specific data on land allocation and problems encountered in various places.
Opening the land registration statistics book in his hand, Horn took the lead in turning to the summary page, comparing the data with the map.
The total area of Kush is approximately 7,800 square kilometers, and its terrain is dominated by forests, plains, and lakes.
Among them, the cultivated land area is about 1,200 square kilometers, equivalent to 1.8 million acres.
Based on the average output of 90 pounds of rice crackers per mu of land, 81,000 tons of grain can be produced every year, and the average per capita grain is about 820 pounds.
So far, there are more than 198,000 people in Kush Territory, divided into 363 households, totaling nearly 40,000 families.
Among them, the pious special zone has 197 100-household districts, while the jihad special zone has 166 100-household districts.
The number of people in each 100-household district ranges from 400 to 600. Basically, a village or several similar villages are combined into a 100-household district.
If Horn is asked to manage 200,000 people at once, to be honest, he can't do it.
But from managing 200,000 people to managing 363 household heads, or even just 40 roving monks, it has become much simpler.
Horn is very familiar with Baihu District, and he designed its basic structure.
Each hundred-household district has the same configuration, one hundred-household chief, one guard army commander, and three public opinion representatives.
The head of a hundred households is responsible for receiving, conveying and executing the Pope's orders, organizing production, and managing finances. He is usually a prestigious local person.
The Captain of the Skitarii is established in the army and is responsible for public security and management of the Skitarii. He is a retired Black Hat Army veteran.
The public opinion representatives are temporarily elected by each village. They are responsible for the preliminary justice and mediation of conflicts in the Baihu District. They also need to help the heads of the hundreds of households and the captain of the Guard Corps complete their tasks.
Every matter in a hundred-household area is basically decided and executed by these five people.
In a certain sense, this is a grassroots administrative unit that has achieved autonomy. Except for the Skitarii, who holds the gun barrel and needs to be directly appointed by the Salvation Army, the rest are elected by the locals themselves.
This form of autonomy minimizes the chaos during the handover of power and provides farmers with a certain ability to resist risks.
These hundreds of households can continuously provide Horn with food and manpower.
At the same time, Horn can also spare more manpower and focus on the military.
As for these 100-household districts, they are autonomous, but not completely autonomous.
Not to mention the commanders of the Skitarii in each Baihu District, they were basically set up by Horn.
In the pious special zone, there will also be a traveling priest from the Order of the Holy Father for every ten hundred households.
However, unlike the itinerant priests of the church, they are just different in name. The monks of the Order of the Holy Father are truly itinerant.
Visit once a month and patrol for a month at a time.
This activity usually involves monks from the Order of the Holy Father taking turns on odd and even-month tours.
The main functions of itinerant monks are supervision, justice and preaching.
The purpose of supervision and inspection is to prevent these hundreds of households from doing anything wrong.
For example, over-execution, dereliction of duty and corruption.
Itinerant priests will conduct investigations during the missionary process, and even request Cheka assistance.
Once confirmed to be true, the gendarmerie will come to deliver warmth.
The small court composed of three public opinion representatives is used to mediate minor civil conflicts.
Criminal conflicts must be adjudicated by the itinerant monks of the Order of the Holy Father.
If the three public opinion representatives are dissatisfied with the civil judicial judgment made by the three public opinion representatives, whether the head of the household or the Skitarii are dissatisfied, they can request a retrial by the itinerant priests.
If even the traveling priest is unsure, you can still hand it over to Horn.
However, Horn is usually left to professionals like Martial to handle.
The last function is missionary, which is essentially the mouthpiece of the Salvation Army, responsible for publicity and public opinion.
They need to change the ideas and impressions of the villagers little by little, and eliminate their prejudices against magic and witches.
They also want to use this to prevent the heads of households and the captains of the Skitarii from becoming new lords.
Visiting and preaching from door to door may seem like an inefficient approach, but this kind of work is trivial.
Juanno was indispensable for the fact that the Blago Monastery was able to transform from being unknown to becoming the largest force in Caxia County.
The birth of Juano Pie was due to his own pair of iron feet, which allowed him to travel throughout Caxia County.
He helps farmers cut firewood and do farm work, tells stories from the Gospel to children, and uses his status as a monk to help villagers fight for fair treatment.
For more than ten years, it has gradually developed its current prestige.
One of the skills Horn learned from Juanno’s mission was to mediate conflicts while preaching.
When farmers in Caxia County have conflicts, the first thing they do is not go to the manor court or church, but to Juanno for a ruling.
Because Juanno was more just and knew them better, and because of his prestige, the verdict was more easily accepted.
Relying on these basic missionary tasks that were so trivial and annoying that no priest was willing to do them, Juano took the judicial power out of the hands of the church in the Diocese of Cascia.
For the farmers in Caxia County, the Juanoists are the orthodox spiritual leaders.
Horn's Order of the Holy Father will repeat this process in Longsand County.
After flipping through a rough household register, Horn closed it with satisfaction: "How are the two monasteries of Holy Hoe and Holy Sickle currently doing?"
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