Chapter 23: Manor construction

　　 Back to the new settlement, half a month has passed, Marina manages well, and nearly 400 people are under her command in order.
Spring planting in the new settlements has ended. Irrigation facilities are advancing in accordance with Ace’s design. Diversion canals are being dug and waterwheels are being rebuilt. Slaves are intensively farming on the cultivated land. Some clumsy use of cattle, iron plows and hoe.
　　 The new settlement is now a large construction site, and the master’s residence and slave settlements are being built. Under the design of Ace, the slave residential area is a four-story building. The slaves will compulsorily form a new family. Each 40-square-meter unit building can be built with the current construction technology of the city state.
　　 In the smelting workshop, the slave responsible for the management of all the craftsmen was called Xixi. He was originally a freedman in the city-state. He was unable to repay the debts and eventually repaid his debts by himself. He is a debt slave. He is about forty years old this year and is physically strong.
"Xixi, make a batch of iron plates, round, with holes on the edges, half the size of a thumb. First make 500. This is the identity certificate of the slaves in the manor. The number and name are on the front. Everyone will use string in the future. Get up and wear the iron piece on your neck." Ace said to Sissy.
　　 "Good master, the iron sheet may be finished the day after tomorrow." Xixi actually didn't understand the use of this iron sheet, after all, every slave had a slave brand on him.
Ace did not explain too much. The entire manor was already on track. He planned to promote a group of capable slaves and set up a manor affairs office to handle the daily affairs of the manor. He and Marina were directly responsible for him and Marina. The first thing of the new organization It is to register all slaves, establish files, and issue identification certificates.
　　 The household registration management system is very important. If you have the information of all slaves, it will be easier to manage.
　　 He was going to let Kelsen, a debt slave, be responsible for the establishment of the Manor Affairs Office. Kelsen was from Norton in the northern city of Salia. He was originally a freedman and wrote beautiful bird scripts.
　　 Once served as a clerk of the jury court in Norton, because he accidentally killed a citizen by driving a horse-drawn carriage, he was unable to compensate and was sentenced to sell to a foreign country as a slave.
　　 Kelsen took the initiative to recommend himself when he visited the farmland not long after he returned. He really couldn't stand the hard work of intensive farming. He originally thought that farming was an easy job, slash-and-burn cultivation, and waited for the nature to enjoy the meal and it would be over. He didn't expect to the world and scream.
　　 When he heard the master's patrolling, he sorted it out and came to see Ace at the risk of being beaten with a whip. Seeing that he was organized in speech, thoughtful, and systematically studied the law, Ace saw that he had a rare talent, so he let him serve as a secretary first.
　　 A few weeks later, Kelsen completed the task assigned by Ace beautifully. He didn't make any comments, he was able to execute, he was easy to use, and he knew the law. Ace simply let him be responsible for the establishment of the Manor Affairs Office.
　　 At the same time, he is allowed to freely select personnel and prepare the manor affairs office. If he does well, he will serve as the manor manager after the establishment of the manor administrative office. If he does not do well, he will be sent directly to the farm after the preparation is completed.
　　 Kelsen was trafficked into a foreign country as a slave. At first, he was confused. He thought that he was finished in his life, and it happened to be an easy job to cultivate the land, so he thought of a way to leave it.
　　Who knows that the owner's improved farming method is exhausting every day. Kelsen also saw that this method called intensive farming, cattle farming and iron plows were recorded in some ancient texts, and it should be able to greatly increase yields. He felt that the owner must be an educator who knows agronomy. He is also an educator, and he must be useful to the new owner. After thinking about it, he recommended himself.
　　 After he successfully became the master's secretary, the more things he performed, the more he felt that the master had ideas. He accidentally learned that the master was a well-known scholar in the city-state, and when he looked at the book "Logic", pleading for the master, he was shocked as a god, worthy of the favor of the legendary goddess of wisdom.
　　 Kelsen is also thirty years old this year. It is just when he is in his prime. Even if he becomes a slave, he still has ambitions. Among slaves, he must be below one person and above a hundred.
　　 The establishment of the Manor Affairs Office is his greatest opportunity, and he is very cautious in choosing the preparation staff. At the moment, registering everyone and establishing files is the guarantee of the management plan of Ace Manor, so he can't ignore it. The Manor Affairs Office will be responsible for the operation of the entire manor.
The registration work is in full swing. Kelsen also entered the field of vision of all slaves through the registration work and became a big man in the manor. Seeing that he worked hard and had no obvious selfishness, plus no other people were available, Kelsen was officially The Manor Affairs Office was established, with Kelsen as the interim manager, who was directly responsible to Ace and Marina.
　　 Ace gave Kelsen a large volume of parchment as a future management guide, with the "Ace Manor Five-Year Development Plan" written on it, and asked him to read it within a week and report his future management ideas to himself. Kelsen was holding this parchment every day, and he was shocked.
　　 The master’s package plan is to build a small independent city state behind closed doors, but this is still in line with city-state laws. As long as there is no tax evasion, no more than 3,000 slaves, and no more than 5 meters of city wall, it is completely reasonable.
　　In the plan, the entire manor will eventually be built into a large town with a resident population of close to 3,000, with a wall of no more than 5 meters, and a fishing port at the mouth of the river outside the city.
　　The master intends to let slaves obtain almost all the rights of free people in the manor without changing their personal attachment relationship and being tied to the manor next year, and will require him to formulate the "Ace Manor Law" to confirm.
　　According to the city-state law, the master has the right to manage slaves in any way. This law against slaves is effective.
　　 The outside of the city is divided into a planting area and a livestock area. The planting area is divided into grain crops area and economic crops area ~EbookFREE.me~ Grain crops are the staple food of the city-states, wheat, economic crops are planted with grapes, olive trees and various vegetables, cattle, sheep and horses are grazing in the livestock area, and construction is near the iron mine Mining farm.
　　 Build the master’s residence, public facility area, residential area, industrial area and commercial area in the city.
　　 The public facilities area gathers in the center of the city, with Campo de' Fiori, Manor Affairs Office, hospital, school, and public library.
　　The industrial zone is located in the northeast of the city. There are wheat processing workshops, brewery workshops, smelting workshops, meat pickling and smoking workshops, oil pressing workshops, fur processing workshops, which are managed by the Manor Affairs Office and sold to the city-states for higher returns.
　　The residential area is in the south of the city. In the future, it will be divided into high, middle and low grades. The high grade is villas, the middle grade is garden buildings, and the low grades are low-rent tube houses.
The 　　 business district is located outside the city center, and rich shopping venues will be established in the future.
　　 Kelsen read the plan excitedly. There is a series of coinage words in it. The owner is worthy of being the genius who wrote the "Dictionary". He coined words so accurately. He hardly believes that this is a development plan for a manor, and even if someone uses this plan for the city-state, there is no problem at all.
　　 As long as he builds the manor step by step, he Kelsen will be under one person and over a thousand in this new small manor town, which is still very exciting.
　　 Ace listened to Kelsen’s exquisite words and his understanding of the plan, and thought it was fairly qualified. As a former clerk, Kelsen has exercised his skills and should be able to manage three thousand people.
　　 Ace did not have the Virgin to liberate the slaves, so that not only would he not be grateful, but would destroy his ruling foundation, would be classified as an alien in the city-state, and would lose his authority in the manor.
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