Chapter 245 (1/2)

Chapter 245 Means of transportation

Roland sat on his office chair, carefully looking over Barov’s report statistics

It took the city hall three full days to sort out all 6000 refugees, coed to pass the audit in the end Of course, this small number was also related to the effort they had put into the verification, after all, this involved the distribution of houses as well as IDs

It was Roland’s vision that from now on, only people in possession of such an ID would be considered official citizens of Border Town Thus he needed to install proper safety measures, while the numbers were still small, which would also help him to better control the his core supporters inside the town Using this, when the population started growing further, he could use the strength of his people to help assi the as the environ, more and more people would eventually come to approve of his ideas Furthermore, he would indeed lead his people into a better life

“The final rooement for the artisans will be done by you, no matter if they are unmarried or have a family to feed, they will at least have their own apartned to them,” Roland commanded

“Yes,” Barov agreed, “May I ask Your Royal Highness, are these houses to be given as a present?

“They will be rented,” he shook his head, “The reason why the native citizens received houses as a gift was because most of them had already owned a house before this, it can be considered as exchanging their forift a house to the new inhabitants, they won’t be motivated to leave their houses and throw themselves into their work Of course, we can still calculate a relatively cheap rent for the as they work hard and save enough gold royals they could always buy their own house in the future”

“I understand”

For a moment Roland was silent, but then he suddenly asked: “After the Award and Honor Ceremony, how many people have fled the town?”

“Up to today, there have been none a the ranks of native civilians, and there were seven within the ranks of the serfs,” Barov paused “However, there were ion, of them a total of one hundred and fifteen has already chosen to leave”

“Is that so?” Roland softly sighed, the moment he had decided to push the witches to the front of the stage, he knew that so like this would happen Therefore, in order to assess the public response and to avoid any accidents fro, Roland had especially stationed a firearm teams several miles away from the town There they could te away and at the sa people, this way they could hold a survey on the general level of the acceptance of witches

Even though the result wasn’t perfect, it was excellent that at least the Border Town’s natives had ulti which was along his prediction The number of serfs who have fled was less than that he had expected, showing that the effect of the theater perforees froions who had openly accepted the treatment from the witches and were moreover also in a desperate situation – with their houses destroyed and no homeland for them to return to – had more than a hundred people who had chosen to leave, which came as a bit of a surprise to Roland

“Your Royal Highness, I suggest that we sentence all of these people who have tried to flee to death,” Barov said cal their situation, they must be people who have been deeply affected by the Church So, for the foreseeable future, they will never choose to side with Your Highness In all likelihood they will become firm believers of the Church, for people like them, there is no need to show any kindness”

“This is not necessarily the case… the truly devoted believers of the Church should be those three hundred people who decided to not leave King’s City and instead face the demonic disease” The Prince closed his eyes, “Perhaps these people are just unable to change theirthat the witches are evil and this made them want to flee”

“Even if that’s the case, they are still your potential enemies,” Barov insisted

In fact, if he roup of people on the battlefield, Roland would defeat them without any hesitation, but that didn’t , wantonly swinging the butcher’s knife to kill a group of civilians Soainst his ethical belief So after a short hesitation, he finally rejected the suggestion, “I will let Nightingale go and interrogate the runaways, in case there is a hidden spy or scout in their ranks, they will be seized and hanged, all the others will be expelled from the Western Territory”