Section 21 Territory Planning

"Prepare, throw." In a command, several tall soldiers threw out the stones in their hands. This was Schwab's training his own grenade.

"Stone throwing combat is the way for farmers to fight." Coro, who was bored while watching the training, said.

"The master always has many new ideas." The dwarf Rod said dissatisfied with Coro, and the bald Otto, who had long been used to Schwab's new move, also watched with interest.

"Do you all have nothing to do? Then go running with the spearmen." Schwab was so angry that he looked at the guys who were leisurely and leisurely led by Koro.

"I'll go feed the horses right away." The dwarf Rod hurriedly walked towards the stables. Otto, the bald, went to train with the guards. Koro saw that everyone had dispersed and was ready to leave without any interest, but Schwab called him.

"Sir Coro, please wait."

"What's wrong?" Coro asked puzzledly. Although life in Mark had less wandering bumps, it was boring to do nothing and lack of entertainment. Liugudi only had a small ancestral hall.

"I have a horse now, but no one helps me train. I want to ask you to help me train cavalry." Schwab decided to work hard to improve his army, but he couldn't find any time. Sir Koro happened to be very idle, so let him help him train cavalry.

"Of course, but Schwab, how are you going to train?"

"What's the meaning?"

"Are you going to train light cavalry or heavy cavalry?"

“Is there a difference between them?”

"Of course there is a difference. The training of light cavalry is much simpler. The heavy cavalry is borne by the soldiers themselves. At least chain armor, shields, carbines and swords are needed. In this way, at least Wu Bai's silver office is needed. This is a cavalry. Do you think anyone in your territory can afford it?" Koro said, these are common sense for training heavy cavalry. When Schwab heard that it needed so much money, he wanted to pay for it himself to train heavy cavalry, so he had to give it up. After all, the cost was too high.

"Let's do this, you can train the heavy cavalry first, and I will solve the equipment problem."

"Okay, there's nothing to do anyway. I'm going to get moldy if I'm idle like this." Coro selected a few people from the soldiers who were more suitable for riding horses and took them to the plains for training.

"Money, money, money, I have never missed you like now." Schwab shook his head and said worriedly. The cost of various constructions was like flowing water, and the money Schwab earned from Hanruowei was almost the same. This was cheaper for the merchants who lingered in Mark. For this reason, Schwab also built a trading post.

Now those merchants are strolling in front of the castle if they have something to do. Whenever they see Schwab, they will stick it forward. Some merchants simply apply to Schwab to live under the castle. Schwab is happy that the more such things, the better. Let the wealthy merchants live in their own territory, which invisibly increases the prosperity and taxes of their own territory. For this reason, Schwab also specially divided a place under the castle, allowing merchants to build houses here. These merchants are very happy to live under the castle. Although they are not safe in the city wall, they can feel a little safer if they lean on the solid castle.

The merchants wearing round cake headdresses, hat-style decorative sleeves, open-breasted shawls, stockings, boots and shoes were bustling with people, talking to each other about their business practices. Seeing these merchants gathering in the open space, Schwab had an idea why not build a business club where to enjoy services and exchange information.

"Rode goes and find Old Lauke." Schwab immediately said to Rude who was following him at any time.

“Yes, master.”

Old Lauke wrote documents in his room as usual. The dwarf Rude pushed open the goal and pulled Old Lauke to Schwab.

"Master, sir, what are you asking for me?" Old Lauke, panting, was sweating prone on his forehead. He bent down and held his knees with his hands.

"I want to build a business club here." Schwab said, pointing to a piece of land near the south of the castle.

"What?" Lao Lauke said incomprehensible. After all, this is something I have never seen before.

"A business club is a place where business people can rest and make friends."

"What kind of building is that?"

"It's just like ordinary houses but divided into two floors. On the second floor, several separate small rooms need to be built, each room needs to have something like a fireplace."

"Sir, this requires a lot of money." Old Lauke couldn't understand at first. Is it to live for the merchant or to prepare to entertain the king.

"Go, do as I said, spend some money." Schwab knew that this was a waste of time and could not let the child fall into trouble. After establishing a business club, he asked every merchant who wanted to use to spend money to buy membership qualifications. These businessmen without social status would definitely be willing to spend a lot of money to enjoy this honor.

"It's an adult, I'll find someone to do it immediately."

Schwab hoped to build his territory in an orderly manner. In order to divide the territory into regular areas, he wore a chain armor and a sharp sword to the protective tower of the city wall, and from here he could see his territory.

The young servant William brought paper and quills for Schwab. Schwab dipped in ink to draw a picture of the area on it. Although it was rough, it was enough. Schwab roughly divided the territory into residential areas, farming areas, industrial areas, and places where you have money in the future to prepare for building a cathedral.

When Schwab was in Han Ruowei, he found that Han Ruowei's layout was very chaotic and there was almost no plan. People just built houses around well water and spring water according to their habits. This is a backward tribal and ethnic custom. It doesn't matter when the population is small, but it definitely cannot afford the use of a city. Schwab tried to plan his own territory based on the advanced urban planning schemes of later generations.

"There is also an arena here, which can be used for rugby competitions and martial arts competitions." Schwab drew a vacant land near the forest in the residential area. "The sewage drainage ditches must be built below the city, so use the back of the Japanese to cut them (in fact, it is to build a drainage ditches at the back of the house). The water source for drinking water must be strictly separated from the sewage."

When Schwab finished drawing the territory planning, he found that his originally empty territory had become a little crowded. It seemed that he still had too little land. Then I would think of a way.

Schwab rolled up the drawings and suddenly remembered that he should have a library. After all, his current specialty is paper. It is definitely a symbol of identity and culture when he said that having a library in this era is definitely a symbol of identity and culture. Usually, a book made of painted parchment can be easily sold at the price of thousands of silver offices. Just think about it and let Schwab drool and let the books made by Mark paper bring endless wealth to himself.

Schwab looked up at his territory and the most important part of the hydraulic mill being built to the east was about to be completed. The families who had oxen in the village of Mark had already started sowing and farming. The land of the empire was relatively poor. Farmers usually had to work together to maximize their productivity through collective labor. Usually, after everyone helped the family complete the farming, and then the next family, this extremely inefficient farming method was no wonder that the population was borne very limited, and famine would cause the escape of serfs.

But now after Schwab bought oxen, he granted these oxen to young and strong laborers to join the army. The families with animal power have got rid of the backward collective labor method and can cultivate in their own land. Schwab's practice of not treating oxen as his own property, but distributing it to serfs to hide rich people, which has increased the morale and loyalty of the soldiers in the army, and has allowed the agriculture in his territory to develop.

"Sir, your territory has developed very well." After praying, Liugudi saw Schwab who was patrolling the territory and took the initiative to come forward to say hello.

"No, there are too many things to build." Schwab said modestly.

"Some aristocrats pay so much attention to the construction of their own territory. It is much easier for them to use conspiracies and tricks to embezzle other people's land than to build them." Liugudi saw the filth among the nobles and had a good impression of Schwab, who was focused on building his own territory.

"This is a kind of robber logic." Schwab thought to himself, no wonder Europeans in later generations like to plunder everywhere. It turns out that these are all social and historical roots.

"Yes, the Lord teaches us to treat our neighbors peacefully and kindly, rather than cutting our neighbor's throats with a sword and occupying the land of those who are also Catholics." Liugudi said devoutly, scribbling a cross on his chest. The diocese knight in a chain armored cloak depicting an iron cross robe always put religion first.

"Can you kill him if you are not a Catholic?" Schwab smiled and looked at Liugudi, then said.

"This, pagans are not protected by God." Liugudi did not seem to consider this issue, but the Bible seems to treat pagans harshly.
Chapter completed!