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    After getting Wang Shan's consent, the secretary took out a small, thick cylinder from behind.

    Wang Shan is no stranger to this small cylinder. This thing is specially used to hold drawings.

    The secretary opened the lid of the small cylinder, took out a few drawings, laid them flat in front of Wang Shan, and then spread them out.

    Wang Shan took a closer look and cursed in his heart, "Nah!"

    Damn it, he thought these administrators spent a lot of brain cells to come up with this.  He was almost not happy when he saw it, because the so-called "fortress" for defense and residence drawn on the drawing was actually the enclosed house that the Hakka people in modern Guangdong still preserved and lived in.

    Damn it, the plagiarism is actually said to have been done by oneself.

    Wang Shan just felt funny for a while.

    But the European clerk standing opposite him didn't think so. He thought that this enclosed house was very practical, integrating living, living and defense. Not to mention wild beasts, it could even ward off thieves.

    Living in such a fenced house, there is absolutely no need to worry about safety.

    "My Lord Governor, what do you think of this idea?"

    The secretary asked cautiously.

    How about it?

    What else can you do? The practicality of this kind of enclosed house goes without saying.

    You should know that even in modern times, Hakkas in Guangdong and Fujian still live in such enclosed houses.

    And the practicality and defensive properties of this kind of enclosed house have definitely been tested.

    Therefore, what else can Wang Shan say?

    This kind of enclosed house can accommodate about twenty families, about fifty or sixty people.

    There are also warehouses and sewers inside the enclosure. As long as enough food is stored, even if hundreds of bandits attack, the big guys can stay in the enclosure for a long time.

    And if you want to build an enclosed house, it is impossible to build just one, but at least five in the shape of a "field". In this way, it can be as big as a small village.

    ¡°Well, if you live in an enclosed house, you really don¡¯t have to worry about attacks from those wild beasts in the future.

    And with these enclosed houses, people can live on the edge of their own fields.

    good!  good!

    Wang Shan nodded, although he was very noncommittal as to what the clerk said was a drawing created by the administrators' brainstorming.  But he still absolutely supports the construction of enclosed houses.

    Today, the city of San Francisco has not yet been established, but in those good farmlands that have been cultivated, small villages can also start to be established.

    ¡°Well, when the time comes, all small villages will be dominated by this kind of enclosed houses.

    Seven or eight enclosed houses constitute a village.

    This matter went through Wang Shan¡¯s mind, and he soon made a decision.

    "This is good, you can tell them that I approved this proposal. But it is winter now, and if construction is to start, it will at least be in the beginning of spring."

    Wang Shan believes that the construction of enclosed houses must be supported.

    ¡°The place here in San Francisco is huge and there are a lot of wild animals.

    For the sake of the people, everyone also needs to live in a relatively safe place.

    Although the five major tribes in the plains have now been wiped out, there are no enemies in this area.

    But some small tribes that don¡¯t know they exist are also very troublesome.

    ¡°If we encounter harassment from such a small tribe in the future, at least the people can defend themselves in their enclosed houses and wait for rescue.

    Precisely because he knew and understood the function of this kind of enclosure, Wang Shan already agreed in his heart after seeing the drawings.

    The Europeans in the empire did not know the power of this kind of enclosure, but how could Wang Shan, who knew the East, not know it.

    ¡°Okay sir, then I can reply to them.¡±

    The secretary nodded and responded.

    "Is there anything else?" Wang Shan continued to ask.

    Since he is back now, he thinks there is no need to delay any more and simply handle all the squeezed government affairs.

    In this way, when the Chinese New Year comes, he can celebrate the Chinese New Year comfortably, right?

    "Sir, you brought back a large number of prisoners this time. We didn't know where to place them for a while. At the same time, we also need to deploy a large number of manpower to take care of these prisoners, so we are under a lot of pressure."

    When the secretary asked this question, there was an obvious expression on his face.?A sad face appeared.

    Yes, what the clerk said is not wrong at all.

    After the five major tribes were destroyed, Wang Shan brought back a total of more than 200,000 prisoners, except those who died on the battlefield and those who were killed in the retreat.

    ¡°Most of these prisoners are women and children, and there are basically no elderly people.

    The reason why this happened is because the old people were frozen to death by the severe cold during the escort.

    After all, when a large army goes on an expedition, it is impossible to prepare everything.

    Therefore, Wang Shan could only take care of the women and children as much as possible for those prisoners, but there was nothing he could do about the elderly.

    ??????????????????????????????????? And for Wang Shan, the old people brought back are exhausted and unable to do physical labor in the next spring, and he has to provide them with food and housing, which is not worth the gain.

    Therefore, it is normal to use the severe cold to get rid of these burdens on the way to escort.

    Of course, in addition to women and children, there are also many young people.

    Although the five major tribes were destroyed, there were still many men.

    ¡°These men will become the labor force for the construction of San Francisco in the coming year, and Wang Shan will not stop until they are squeezed to death.

    "With the labor force of 200,000, excluding some underage children, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people that can be used to drive."  With a workforce of hundreds of thousands of people, San Francisco's construction will definitely speed up a lot in the coming year.

    However, the arrival of more than 200,000 prisoners also brought great pressure to San Francisco.

    Food, accommodation, and custody all need to be considered.

    If we ignore them, we don¡¯t know how many people will survive in this cold winter.

    You must know that Wang Shan does not want them to die. Dead people are of little use to Wang Shan.

    What is lacking in construction here in San Francisco is labor.

    What labor force could be more valuable than captives?

    They don¡¯t need to rest like free people, and you can drive them hard to make them work.

    After all, prisoners have no status or human rights.

    Wang Shan also knows that doing so is very inhumane and cruel.

    However, the rise of an empire certainly cannot avoid such things.

    It¡¯s all for the empire!

    Wang Shan has been comforting himself like this in his heart and encouraging himself.

    "How much food do we have?"

    ¡°I¡¯ll figure out a solution for the residence.¡±

    Wang Shan said to the secretary.

    At this time, Wang Shan thought of the scene where Song Hu in Ontario City used European prisoners.

    Those prisoners who were bought by the Song Empire at a large price seemed to be housed in the thatched houses where they lived.

    After all, they are just prisoners, and it is impossible for me to give them a very luxurious residence.

    You know, now even Wangshan still lives in a yurt.

    The straw used in the thatched houses of Ontario City prisoners was purchased from the virtual world.

    The price of those straws is very cheap, you can get as much as you want.

    Therefore, judging from the current situation, it is most appropriate to build this kind of thatched house.

    The price-performance ratio is also very high, and the cost is not very high. It is very cost-effective to use it for these captives.

    Hearing this, the secretary replied: "Now the food in our warehouse can only last for another half month."

    After hearing the clerk¡¯s answer, Wang Shan was stunned for a moment.

    What, the food is enough for half a month?  !

    After being stunned, Wang Shan widened his eyes.

    Why did he say this? He clearly remembered that he bought a lot of food.

    Why is this food enough for half a month now?

    After the secretary saw Wang Shan's surprised expression, he quickly explained without waiting for him to ask: "Sir, we have too many people to supply now, so that little food is simply not enough. And you brought it back.  There are more than 200,000 prisoners, and these prisoners also need to eat"

    After the secretary¡¯s explanation, Wang Shan finally understood why there was not enough food.

    ¡°Grandma, originally I didn¡¯t pay much attention to the population issue, but after hearing what the secretary said, he realized that the number of vassal Indians under his command now exceeds 300,000.

      This is a total of 300,000 people, a huge ethnic group composed of hundreds of small tribes, all of whom have taken refuge under the empire.

    Hiss!

    Wang Shan took a breath of air.

    He hasn¡¯t paid much attention to this issue all this time, but now it seems that he made a mistake.

    ¡°A population of three hundred thousand is not a small number.

    If these people are not handled well, it will be very dangerous for him.

    You know, here in San Francisco, there are less than 40,000 genetic warriors under Wang Shan.

    In other words, the Chinese here are at a numerical disadvantage just like in Manhattan.

    Thinking of this, Wang Shan's face became a little unhappy.

    You know, in the past six months, almost half of his monthly credit limit has been used to cultivate genetic people.  But even so, the population grew very slowly, far less than the Indians who came over.

    Fortunately, these Indians have no bad intentions, otherwise their situation here would be very dangerous.

    "I will prepare a batch of food. I can get it by tomorrow night at the latest. You don't have to worry about this. Let's continue talking about anything else."

    Wang Shan kept the food issue in mind and planned to solve this problem through a virtual trader at night when no one was around.

    After hearing what Wang Shan said, the secretary stopped arguing on this issue.

    "The Governor said it can be solved, so it must be solved, right?"

    "Mr. Governor, because the New Year is coming soon, some soldiers feel that a small market should be built here to add to the New Year atmosphere."

    The secretary took out a small notebook, took a look at it and said to Wang Shan.

    It seems that when Wang Shan led the army to fight outside, he encountered a lot of problems that needed to be solved.

    "Okay, this matter is not a big deal. Just ask the administrators below to pick a place and mark out an area. If anyone likes to set up stalls or something, let them go. The Chinese New Year is a special place.  It¡¯s a big holiday, let¡¯s just let everyone have fun.¡±

    After all, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and Wang Shan will not refuse this proposal.

    ¡°Besides, this is also the wish of the Chinese people, isn¡¯t it?

    Wang Shan was still a little scared at this time.

    Fortunately, he has led his army back. If he had been entangled with the enemy for a little longer, then when the food here ran out, something big might have happened.

    After what happened this time, Wang Shan felt that food should be the focus in the future, and it must be stored enough for half a year's consumption.

    Only in this way will there be no trouble.

    "Sir, because winter has arrived, the gold mines can no longer operate. All the Indian workers have returned, so we have not received much gold from them in the past month or so. You see"

    The several gold veins discovered here in San Francisco are also large exposed gold mines.  Those sparkling gold are already exposed on the surface, so they are very easy to collect.

    However, after half a year of continuous excavation and collection, the gold on the surface has been exhausted.  So if you want to continue to get gold, you have to mine now.

    It¡¯s okay to do this in the summer, but now it¡¯s winter.

    In a season like this, there is simply no way to do anything.

    So, those Indian gold workers all left the gold mine and returned here.

    Therefore, after winter, the income in San Francisco dropped significantly or even stagnated.

    Because there is no trade here in San Francisco, it refers to the income from gold.

    Even the purchase of materials and the cultivation of genetic people from the virtual world are all supported by gold.

    Once gold mining stops, what else can Wang Shan use to feed more than fifty mouths?

    You must know that if more than 500,000 people want to eat, the supplies required are not a small amount.  If there is no income to support getting supplies from the virtual world, then something big will definitely happen.

    After all, San Francisco is not as good as Manhattan and Ontario, because there is nothing here, but construction has just begun.

    ¡° Even the reclaimed land has not been planted with any crops due to seasonal reasons.

    Therefore, during this winter until next autumnWhen the time came, Wang Shan had to get material support from the virtual world.

    But if you want to get supplies from the virtual world, you need banknotes from the virtual world. If you don¡¯t have banknotes, you can¡¯t buy anything.

    Therefore, the gold produced here in San Francisco is very, very important to Wangshan.

    Because this gold can be sold to the virtual world, and then the money from selling the gold can be used to buy food and various supplies, as well as materials needed to build the city of San Francisco.

    Therefore, when Wang Shan heard that gold mining had stopped, his expression suddenly became solemn, and then he ordered the secretary in front of him: "Select a group of people from those prisoners. I don't care about their life or death.  I need them to mine the gold I need this winter!" (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
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