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 will decree was unknown to Horn, who was thousands of miles away.

However, this has no effect on Horn. After all, it is Prince Conde and Barnifors who are in charge of the entire Thousand River Valley.

As long as these two are here, the overall situation in Qianhe Valley will not change much.

However, the changes in Longsand County are greater than anyone imagined.

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March 4, Chateau Joan of Arc.

The first rays of sunlight in the morning softly shine on the ancient cobblestone streets.

A warm yet cool breeze blew through the delicate arches and spires.

The morning light blown by the wind shines on the saints in the shrines on the wall, 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 scent of fresh baked bread in the air before he even got close.

A sacred and distant bell rang from a church not far away. A few seconds after the bell rang, the vendors began to shout loudly.

A few white doves flew overhead, I wonder who they were delivering messages for.

Horn hummed a little tune as he entered the hall from the back door, went up to the second floor, and came to the private room that originally belonged to the Duke.

Before he was done, Busak next to him handed over a schedule. Horn quickly scanned it and said, "Hmm... Oh, has the land division been declared completed?"

After one month and five days, the land division team and the survey team finally completed their task.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Bousak replied in a low voice, "We have put all the details in this booklet."

Only then did Horn realize that a book had suddenly appeared on his desk.

“Is this a specific household register?”

"No, this is just a brief statistical book calculated based on the household register. There are too many original copies." Busak said, "I led the local low-level priests to reorganize and summarize it, and then compiled this statistical book."

With curiosity, Horn opened the first page of the preface, which was basically a bunch of flattery to the Holy Grandson.

The content is not a household registration list, but the specific data on land distribution in various places and the problems encountered.

Opening the land registration statistics book in his hand, Horn first turned to the summary page, compared it with the map, and calculated the data.

The total area of ​​Kush Territory is approximately 7800 square kilometers, and its terrain is mainly forests, plains and lakes.

Among them, the cultivated land area is about 1200 square kilometers, equivalent to 180 million mu.

Based on an average yield of 90 pounds of rice per acre, 8 tons of grain can be produced each year, or about 1 pounds per person.

So far, there are more than 19 people in Kush Territory, divided into 8 hundred households, totaling nearly 363 families.

Among them, the Pious Special Zone has 197 hundred-household districts, while the Jihad Special Zone has 166 hundred-household districts.

The number of people in each hundred-household district ranges from 400 to 600. Basically, one village or several nearby villages are combined into one hundred-household district.

To be honest, Horn couldn't manage nearly 20 people at once.

But it became much simpler when he changed from managing 20 people to managing 363 centurions, or even just 40 patrolling monks.

Horn was very familiar with the Hundred Households District, as he designed its basic structure.

Each centurion district has the same configuration: a centurion chief, a captain of the religious army, and three representatives of public opinion.

The centurion was responsible for receiving, conveying and executing the Pope's orders, organizing production and managing finances, and was usually a prestigious local person.

The captain of the Skitarii is in the army, responsible for maintaining public order and managing the Skitarii, and is usually a retired Black Hat veteran.

Representatives of public opinion are temporarily elected by each village and are responsible for the initial judicial work and conflict mediation in the hundred-household district. They also help the centurion and the captain of the religious army to complete their tasks.

All matters, big or small, within a hundred-household district are basically decided and executed by these five people.

In a sense, this is a grassroots administrative unit that has achieved autonomy. Except for the Crusaders who hold guns and need to be directly appointed by the Salvation Army, the rest are nominated by the locals themselves.

This form of autonomy minimizes the chaos during the transfer of power and also provides farmers with a certain ability to resist risks.

These hundred-household districts can provide Horn with a steady supply of food and manpower.

At the same time, Horn can also free up more manpower and focus his main energy on military affairs.

As for these hundred-household districts, they were autonomous, but not completely autonomous.

Not to mention the captains of the crusades in each hundred-household district, most of them are Horn's scouts.

In the Pious District, there is also a wandering priest of the Holy Father Society for every ten centuries.

However, the only difference between them and the itinerant priests of the church is the name. The monks of the Congregation of the Holy Fathers are on a real tour.

Patrol once a month, and each patrol lasts for one month.

This job is usually done by the monks of the Holy Fathers, who take turns to go out on field patrols on odd and even months.

The main functions of itinerant friars are supervision, justice and missionary work.

The purpose of supervision and inspection is to prevent these hundred-household districts from doing anything weird.

For example, lip service, excessive execution, dereliction of duty, and corruption.

Itinerant priests would conduct investigations during their missionary work and even request assistance from the Cheka.

Once confirmed to be true, the gendarmerie will come to your door to offer warmth.

The small court composed of three representatives of public opinion is used to mediate minor civil disputes.

Criminal conflicts would be adjudicated by itinerant friars of the Congregation of the Holy Fathers.

If the civil judicial decision made by the three representatives of the people is not satisfactory to either the centurion or the crusader, they can request a retrial by the itinerant priests.

If even the itinerant priests are unsure, they can hand it over to Horn.

However, Horn usually leaves it to professionals like Martial.

The last function is missionary work, which is essentially the mouthpiece of the Salvation Army, responsible for propaganda and public opinion.

They need to change the villagers' concepts and impressions little by little and eliminate their prejudices against magic and witches.

They also want to use this to prevent centurions and captains of the crusades from becoming new lords.

Going door to door to preach may seem an inefficient approach, but this kind of work is trivial.

Juanno played an indispensable role in transforming the Blago Monastery from an unknown place into the largest force in Cassia County.

The birth of the Juano faction was due to his own pair of iron feet, which traveled all over the County of Cassia.

He helped farmers chop wood and do farm work, told children stories from the Gospels, and used his identity as a monk to help villagers fight for fair treatment.

Over the past decade, we have gradually built up our current reputation.

One skill Horn learned from Juanno's mission was to mediate conflicts while preaching.

When the peasants in Cassia County had conflicts, the first thing they did was not to go to the manor court or the church, but to find Juanno for a ruling.

Because Juanno was more fair, understood them better, and because of his prestige, his verdict was more easily accepted.

Relying on these basic missionary work that was so trivial and annoying that no priest was willing to do it, Juanno forcibly took the judicial power away from the church of the Diocese of Cascia.

For the peasants of Casca County, the Juanos are the orthodox spiritual leaders.

The Holy Fathers in Horne will repeat the process in Longsand County.

After flipping through the entire household register, Horn closed it with satisfaction: "How are the two monasteries of Holy Shovel and Holy Scythe doing now?"

(End of this chapter)