Chapter 2542: High-Level Pursuits, Bringing Home Appliances to the Countryside

Linshui Village, inside the study of the Lord's Villa.

Xia Duo continued to review the territory's household registration statistics report. Aside from the residents who had already been granted land, the majority of official residents who had not yet received land were concentrated in the Development Department, with some in other departments of the territory.

Generally speaking, for an ordinary person without any skills, the place in the territory where it is easiest to accumulate merit at present is the Development Department. As long as one is willing to work, one can accumulate merit, and the base merit is slightly higher than in other departments.

Of course, if one has a specialized skill or even the ability to make an outstanding contribution, then one is not limited to the Development Department. Currently, after several years of development and refinement, it is basically unlikely for the Territory Development Department to produce any outstanding contributions.

Here, there is only the most stable base merit.

Those who have specialized skills, such as stonemasons, carpenters, masons, or even breeders, seedling specialists, and Magic Technicians who have undergone territory training and changed professions, are more likely to obtain merit beyond the base amount.

Or perhaps the children in the family are promising and achieve excellent results in the Tower of Time's apprentice weekly and monthly exams, which can also increase merit for the family.

Land grants are not based on individuals, but on families. Of course, the specific amount of land allocated is still related to the number of family members at the time the land grant ceremony is held.

Basically, as long as two people in a family participate in development, it is enough to qualify for a land grant, and merit corresponds to the extra Gold Coin rewards that can be obtained at the land grant ceremony.

Currently, the family in the territory that has received the most extra Gold Coin rewards has over nine thousand Gold Coins, which is more than double the second-place amount. The reason is that the family has nine members: the couple and seven children, two of whom are already adults and have taken wives.

Although the small amount is not yet usable, the crop stalks harvested every year are not a small amount, which can basically cover the daily needs of every household.

Within a year, one can collect a certain amount of vegetables and meat every day with a voucher, without needing to spend money.

"No wonder it is still pending!" But if there is no difference, how can the preciousness of the early Pioneers' contributions be reflected?

Other families are generally around one thousand to two thousand; only a small portion with extra merit can break through three thousand or four thousand, and there is only that one family above five thousand.

But the magic stove is different; not only is the price high, but there is also no demand as strong as for the Magic Lamp. At present, the vast majority of residents do not yet have a formal stove, and with the Territory Canteen open twenty-four hours a day, many residents do not cook at home at all.

It is not a necessity; who would dare to spend money recklessly? Even if one has money, it is not meant to be squandered like that.

At present, there is still a large amount of unexploited ownerless land around the Great Xia Territory. Xia Duo does not want to stop the land grant process for the time being. In his simple understanding, those with fixed property have perseverance, and there is no fixed property greater than land.

Magic Lamps have already been popularized, so there is naturally no obstacle to the research and development of magic stoves. Although the difficulty of developing a magic stove is higher than that of a Magic Lamp, with a standard Activator, it is nothing more than a cost issue.

The residents who have been granted land have money in their hands, but the vast majority of them have come from hard days. Buying a Magic Lamp can still be justified as being for evening study and lighting, but what about a magic stove?

For those who are content to lie flat, Xia Duo will not complain about anything; he will only feel sorry for them, as they have missed the best development opportunity in the best of times.

Compared to the resident household registration statistics report, Xia Duo is more concerned about the progress of the territory's Magic Civilianization. He specially used a row of bookshelves to store the documents and materials for this part.

Of course, as long as one becomes an official resident, the basic benefits are not lacking at all, such as compulsory education, territory training programs, joining the Government Hall, the Security Office, the Territory Guard, and so on.

Theoretically, all official residents can be granted land, but in actual operation, it still requires completing a certain amount of merit. After all, the first group of people to be granted land were the veterans who followed Xia Duo to develop from nothing for two or three years.

Although the development progress of latecomers has been continuously improving with the increase in the number of residents, even now, for the 100,000 new residents who joined early this year and the more than 200,000 new residents who are about to join, the territory has the ability to provide them with the land needed for land grants, even if they participate in development.

The cheapest basic magic stove is 200 Gold Coins per unit, while the cost of purchasing ingredients for a family to cook for themselves exceeds 200 Gold Coins per year. In fact, it is equivalent to the Government Hall spending money to give away magic stoves.

The Magic Lamp is priced at 10 Gold Coins, and there is still a profit after deducting labor costs, but the Magic Lamp is more inclined toward public facilities. Even if residents buy and use them themselves, they are actually more inclined toward the attributes of basic infrastructure.

At the very least, others have a family fortune several thousand Gold Coins larger than yours, plus ten New Mu of land per person.

After Xia Duo looked through the other summary materials, he moved to that row of bookshelves and picked up a document from the top row, only to see the title written—

Granting land without conditions would chill the hearts of the veterans who followed Xia Duo early on, and it would also overturn the past order of development and land grants. This is the most direct and simplest reason, so even for official residents, there must be a threshold to receive land.

The three younger ones entered the Tower of Time one after another, and two of them became Official Mages within two years, with the remaining one expected to be not far behind.

This approach might produce many people within the civilization who are content to lie flat, or in other words, parasites or Fallen Ones, but as the saying goes, as long as these people do not violate the laws, Xia Duo can be tolerant, and the civilization is tolerant enough.

Not to mention that the territory is currently developing at high speed, and the timber cannot be used up at all. Most of the main trunks are stored, and just those miscellaneous branches are enough to burn for a long time, not to mention that Xia Duo had long ago made preparations by planning fast-growing forests in the new villages.

Such a family can almost be called a legendary family, which is why they could have the exaggerated result of over nine thousand Gold Coins in extra rewards during the land grant.

If we say that official residents at least have a choice, then the prospective residents, including those who joined the territory and became official residents after Nese Li 839 Nian, basically have no choice.

Under such circumstances, the difficulty of promoting magic stoves can be imagined.

"Government Hall's Ten Measures to Encourage and Support Residents in Purchasing Magic Stoves (Pending)"!

As the territory's population gradually increases and the manpower in various departments becomes sufficient, the opportunities for adding new people are becoming fewer and fewer. Basically, only the Development Department is still absorbing new people without restrictions.

Of course, if even the basic living supplies for everyone cannot be provided, Xia Duo would have no face to talk about territory development, and even less face to talk about gathering the Wisdom of civilization.

As for the two children who could not enter the Tower of Time, one of their wives switched to the territory's weaving craft, and the other was selected for the territory's seedling specialist training program and is currently learning (magic and agriculture) from the Elder Druid Yatewude.

And official residents, although named official, have no difference in all rights, but as long as they have not been granted land, it is impossible for them to be the same as those who have been granted land.

As long as there are conditions, he will provide every resident with enough land to support themselves, relieving the residents of their survival worries. In the future, even if land cannot be provided, basic living supplies will be provided, so that residents do not have to be trapped by survival and have the energy to pursue higher-level development.

The ten measures in the Government Hall document are mostly indirect guidance; only one is a direct subsidy, and the method is simple and crude—with the magic stove purchase receipt, one can obtain an annual pass for the corresponding family size at the vegetable market under the Territory Logistics Department.