The work of deslavery did not go very smoothly.
The grace period is the king's mercy. It's just that these scumbags in Red Rock City don't cooperate. They all want to delay it until the deadline, but there are not so many registration personnel to accompany them to play this trick.
Fortunately, Red Rock City was not far from the Royal City, and the response there was quick. On the tenth day after the announcement was posted, a newly recruited city defense force arrived at Red Rock City.
There are 1,500 people, plus the city defense army and the city management team of more than 1,000 people who stayed here before, it has exceeded one-tenth of the remaining citizens who have not fled.
In the past, most of the people who stayed behind had to protect slaves, social workers and teachers, and the power to patrol the streets was relatively limited.
Now more than a thousand people are directly put into the streets. In the city that originally had more than 30,000 people, there are a total of 190 street patrol teams in groups of ten, divided into two shifts, so that there are two teams on every street.
It looks like the streets are full of soldiers!
This obviously worked. The next day, many more people came to register slaves for release and employment changes.
With someone taking the lead, there will be an endless stream of people following.
There were only 4,000 victims of slavery originally registered in the Eucalyptus. Most of them were rescued by His Royal Highness the Special Envoy during the suppression of rebellion in the city. About a quarter were those who escaped and came back to the outpost for help due to lack of ability to survive. The few remaining smart people secretly surrendered to the army for help while most of the people were outside the city.
And now, it has increased to 20,000 in a few days!
This means that there are not many free people in Red Rock City at all.
The society was unable to allocate enough teachers for a while, and had to rely on orders from above.
Work-for-relief is used, and those who cannot be scheduled to study courses are first allowed to build new cities.
Red Stone City relies on Red Stone Castle to exist. In fact, it is not a suitable location for building a city. The terrain in the city is relatively rugged, and the water source is not sufficient to allow the city to continue to expand. In the future, the railway will not be convenient for the distribution of goods. The previous People may gradually form such cities because of refuge or personal attachment.
The new city is located about ten kilometers due north of Hongshi City.
The area around Red Rock City used to grow hot wind fruits has a maximum temperature of over 70 degrees and is mainly located to the north and northwest.
The commercial road is an area with lower temperatures, but the temperature is also fatal to ordinary humans. The temperature range is between 40 and 55 degrees.
The location of the new city was inspected after the red stone city was laid. In a little over a month, the average temperature measured by an alcohol thermometer held by a dedicated person was 43 degrees. No wind gusts with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees were found on the surface... which was also fatal enough. The temperature measured with a long pole was twenty meters above the surface, with an occasional wind of 55 to 60 degrees.
However, Red Rock City is not much better. Its average temperature is 39 degrees and the maximum temperature is 46 degrees.
Fortunately, there are basically no purebred humans in the entire Red Rock City. Although being in your early forties is uncomfortable, it can be tolerated.
Compared with the original Red Stone City, the new city has several major advantages.
First, the terrain here is relatively flat, and the whole area is located in a small basin. The area of the basin is smaller than the ultra-flat area of the Royal City, less than three square kilometers, and it can barely accommodate tens of thousands of people.
Second, there are two sources of cold and warm water in the new city, which is very counter-intuitive. The warm spring is on the east side where the temperature is slightly lower by one or two degrees. The cold spring is the groundwater that gushes out of the mountains on the southwest side. The water volume is relatively large and is on the west side of the basin. A small lake of twenty hectares was formed, which should also be connected to the underground water system.
Third, due to the temperature and water source, there is a certain vegetation coverage here. There was originally a big monster that was entrenched and was killed by His Highness the Special Envoy when he passed by. The forest land is in a developable state.
Finally, the location of the basin over the low mountain in the south is very suitable as a pass, and it can also be forcibly entered from other directions, but the routes outside the small basin are not suitable for large-scale marches. Red Rock City can be bypassed from the east.
There is another important point that city administrators and soldiers do not need to understand, that is, the Night Clan and the Blade are also new arrivals. They have just built a new city. The victims of slavery now live in no fixed place, just like when everyone first arrived in the super flat area. Building a new city is of great significance to the two ethnic groups.
It is a more skillful thing than managing Red Stone City.
There will be no royal city trees here, only outposts will be built, one in the south and one in the northwest, serving as the pass to the royal city and responsible for the early supply of local sugar water.
To build a city, outposts must go first, otherwise there will be problems with food supply.
Akeem returned to the royal city with the seeds from the Red Rock City outpost, and soon brought the seeds back and planted them at the predetermined pass in the new city.
There is very little volcanic ash here, but the temperature in the small basin gradually normalizes to the south, and it is mostly covered with topsoil. The topsoil on the low hills is not thick enough, and with the help of human transportation, it is barely enough to grow one tree.
The pass will be jointly managed with the Red Rock City outpost and serve as the royal city's external transportation line and defense line.
The seeds of the new city pass were planted, but before the new citizens arrived, the first to arrive were Forestry Bureau personnel escorted by a group of city guards.
The Forestry Bureau was established because Your Majesty wanted to artificially plant ice trees. It was established not long ago, and it took only a few months to figure out how to make the ice tree seeds germinate.
This time I was ordered to plant this thing.
Ice trees will condense air moisture and increase the amount of water in the area. When they form a certain scale, they can also help cool down the new city.
It's just that Cheng Lin was too squeamish before. After several months of hard work, he discovered that the seedlings of the ice tree do not actually release cold air, and if it is too hot, they will be killed by the heat!
If it is a seedling, it cannot be planted north of the new city at first. It can only be planted in small quantities near the pass, and it is very difficult to take care of it.
For this transformation, hundreds of people were hired to help transport the half-grown ice trees.
Of course, it was not planted from seedlings by the Forestry Bureau, but small fallen trees found on the edge of the Ice Forest, and a piece of land was opened between the Royal City and South Town to rescue them. Only dozens of them were rescued in the past few months.
Plant these dozens of small trees somewhere on a commercial road less than one kilometer away from the Xincheng Basin. This group can barely produce some frost when there is no wind. It is of little use. It is mainly to provide a development environment for the seeds.
I don’t know how long it will take to grow the forest. Anyway, we will plant it first and mark out a no-logging area. Later, the northwest outpost of the new city will be responsible for guarding it, and the Forestry Bureau will also send people to be stationed here permanently.
The carts and some iron tools brought by the sapling transporters from the royal city were directly transferred to the pass for public use by the new citizens.
Just as the transport team returned, another batch came again, this time bringing several tons of wrought iron.
The wrought iron was not given directly to the new city, but was used to trade with the "big men" who had lost their slaves in Red Rock City, mainly in exchange for seeds and livestock.
This business is easy to do, because the big shots have lost their slaves, and at most they only have about twenty people who have been converted to employment. There is a shortage of people. The livestock in the city don't even have grass, and they are all eating straw stocks. There are already people there. Apply for permission to transport livestock and sell them.
There is no money to be made from simply selling livestock. Normally, livestock are sold at one to two years of age. If uu reads, the animals are not fully grown, they can be sold at a lower price. Unless the farming is busy and the sales area is relatively wealthy, old animals will be sold. It is difficult to sell, so the price can only be reduced.
Now that I have the opportunity to exchange livestock for mature iron, and even make a profit, there's nothing I wouldn't like about it.
The remaining people in Red Rock City all have family wealth and did not push for Phoenix coins. The Administration Department still urged them to carry out trading activities in accordance with the instructions from the superiors. The exchange of wrought iron for livestock was proposed by the Administration Department.
According to calculations based on the currency exchange tables already in circulation within the Administration Department and the Finance Department, the ancient silver coins circulating in Red Rock City, converted into Phoenix coins, are only one-eighth of the Fatel gold coins.
The price of wrought iron is composed of ex-factory price, freight, and labor fees. The railway has just begun to be laid, and there are still some little monsters running around on the road that need to be exterminated. It is still early to set the freight. The transfer price for shipment to Red Rock City is one yuan and fifty cents per kilogram, because According to regulations, the government cannot do business. This work was entrusted by the iron factory to the Logistics Department of the Railway Bureau.
The animals obtained for this project nominally belong to the iron factory, but what does the iron factory want them for?
...Well, it might have been useful before. Now there is a section of railway under construction directly from the south gate of the iron factory that leads out of the city and will soon lead directly to Nanzhen. By then, the role of livestock will not be as good as the fixed hanger.
Therefore, it is still handled by the Logistics Department. Some of the small animals are transported back to the Royal City and sold to the private sector. Two-thirds of the money received is returned to the iron factory, and the excess of one yuan per kilogram is used as labor fees for the Logistics Department.
Only small animals will be kept, because most of the nutrients in the royal city must be supplied to the royal city trees, so it is not suitable to raise too many large animals. Of course, the private sector will not stop them if they manage to buy them. Anyway, official affiliated companies will not introduce large animals to the royal city.
The feed conditions in Xincheng are better, and the big animals will stay here. I don't know how the finance is handled. Anyway, the logistics department donated it directly to Xincheng in the name of the iron factory as required.
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