In order to prevent refugees from entering and leaving the factory at will and causing chaos and pollution, Rio divided the cassava flour processing plant into two parts: production area and living area, separated by a wooden fence. Accommodating two thousand people working and living inside has reached the camp's population limit. This is because the refugees do not care about living conditions and are willing to squeeze into a row of wooden houses with eight or ten people and sleep on a large bunk bed. But once the refugee crisis is over, this kind of life will certainly not be able to last long. Young and strong people with families naturally don't want their wives and children to sleep in the same room with strangers. So when the factory is completely completed, Leo will arrange for craftsmen to continue building wooden houses in the living area, which will be allocated to the families of outstanding workers as an incentive. On the other hand, this cassava flour processing plant does not require much labor. Judging from the current situation, even if all the young and strong refugees followed the laborers to engage in construction projects, cut down trees in the western jungles, and dig deer antler cassava, and only one thousand elderly, weak, women and children were left in the factory area, it would be more than enough to maintain the production of cassava flour. With only some woodworking planes, shears, sieves and a few large pots, these old, weak, women and children used up the entire river bay stock and the temporarily collected deer antler cassava in half a month and processed them all into cassava flour. They learn while working, making everything by hand, and combined with the factory assembly line production method, the output is also amazing.
While they were producing cassava flour, the three camps in the entire Hewan area, plus some young and strong refugees in this processing plant, the four settlements with a total of nearly a thousand people, were all looking for and digging up wild antler cassava. Truckload and boatload after truckload of cassava were delivered to the factory without stopping, but they still could not meet the needs of the production workshop. So Leo had to adjust his plan and only left 600 skilled workers in the production area of the factory to process cassava flour. The rest were thrown into the dense forests of the west to reclaim land on the cleared land to grow antler cassava. Although wild cassava is almost everywhere near the Wolf-Qulangyuan, this shrub also needs a certain amount of sunlight to grow. From the dense forests in the west and the pine plains in the north, you can harvest dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of cassava from one tree. But those are all old tree roots that have grown for three, five, or even eight or ten years. The newly grown cassava lacks sunlight and grows slowly. In fact, it does not grow many pounds in a year. It is just beginning to be harvested, so it does not necessarily mean that wild cassava resources are scarce. After two months, when the cassava in the nearby forest farms has been dug up, we will have to look for it in the hunting grounds. There are still many wild animals hiding in the hunting grounds outside the forest farm. It is obviously not worth it for ordinary villagers to go there to look for deer horn cassava. So in the end you still have to grow it yourself. Leo has already given orders that as soon as there is space in the dense forest west of the cassava flour processing plant, antler cassava should be replanted. Cassava is very easy to grow and is much easier to cultivate than to cultivate wheat fields. Although the yield cannot be estimated, it will definitely not be less than the original wild one. On the contrary, in the foothills and gravel hills to the north, wild cassava grows densely and tangled. That place used to be the territory of the wild boar people, who relied on this thing to maintain a tribe of more than 200 people. If it weren't for the constant hunting and weakening by the wild folks all year round, and if it weren't for being too close to the border of the empire, it would have almost developed into the wilderness overlord at the southern end of the Wolf-Driving Plain. While managing the processing plant, formulating systems and optimizing the structure, Rio continued to recruit refugees. The recruited young and strong refugees not only had to participate in production labor in exchange for food, but also had to undergo regular military training, form militia groups, and cooperate with the Hewan infantry to stand guard and patrol. Seeing that the situation had eased, Knight Solovy resumed construction of the hot spring villa. Compared with the bustling construction outside the Western Watchtower, the chaotic scene inside the Western Watchtower is like hell on earth. After driving tens of thousands of refugees to the western suburbs, the Lord's army of Isenbol could not wait to plunge into a killing spree.
In the eyes of many noble lords, refugees who were driven into the wild became savages. Savages have no human rights and their status is lower than that of slaves, but it is not illegal to kill them. If they dare to resist, it would be even better. The barbarians who rebel against the lord's army are equivalent to bandits and robbers. Killing them can demonstrate bravery and gain military merit. Compared to actual bandit suppression, this method of obtaining military merit is safer and more efficient. However, some lords still had a conscience and were unwilling to kill innocent people, so they cooperated with Rigolav's troops to drive the militia groups scattered in the mountains and forests out of the western watchtower. Before this, only the two thousand refugees controlled by Rigolav were driven out of the western outpost intact. Most of the remaining refugees were surrounded and suppressed by the lord's army, and even killed each other for food resources. Eighty percent of them died in just one month. On the contrary, those who colluded with local bandit gangs and became bandits early on survived because of their good fighting ability and hidden nests. There were not many real survivors left. They were all gathered by Rigolav and sent to the outside of the western watchtower, where they were left to fend for themselves. This was the best he could do. This is not the first time that a wave of refugees has been driven into the wilderness. Although the wilderness is full of dangers, humans' ability to survive is equally strong. There will always be some people who will eventually adapt to the wilderness environment and find ways to survive. This is how many wild folk settlements and small natural villages came into being. When these wild settlements and small natural villages grow and become stronger, the noble lords can come and reap the benefits, develop them into their own knight territories, and obtain taxes and land. In contrast, Rigolav would rather all the noble lords choose the latter. Picking peaches is always better than cutting off the roots of the tree. When he came to the western outpost again with twenty carts of food and sent a group of refugees he had found out of the mountain pass, he discovered that not many of the refugees had died. Outside the western watchtower, a small fortress suddenly appeared. The dense crowds of refugees, wielding axes and pulling large saws, cut down all the trees on the north side of the World Tree Avenue. Those who didn't know the details thought it was a legion from somewhere, preparing to attack the western outpost tower. It was not at all the tragic scene he had expected. Rigolav stood high on the western sentry tower, staring at the cassava flour processing factory for a long time. It was not until the sky gradually darkened that he said to his followers, "Send the food over and say it is a tribute from the Petukhov family. I will not go over." He brought twenty carts of food, which he had intended to distribute to the refugees, to encourage them to go into the wilderness and find ways to survive, rather than sitting outside the western watchtower and waiting to die. It seems it's of no use now. Leo stayed in the cassava flour processing factory for another half a month. Only when the influx of refugees had completely subsided and the cassava flour processing factory had entered stable production did he prepare to leave. At this time, there were as many as 3,000 refugees gathered inside and outside the cassava flour processing factory, and the total number was twice that of Hewan Territory. Fortunately, this place is close to the Western Watchtower, and the western dense forest has been cleared by the Ogre Tribe and the River Bay Patrol, so there is no need to worry too much about attacks from bandit groups and alien races. Because it is located at the mouth of a river, many laborers and refugees have begun to call this place Hekou Town.
For most people in the North, a settlement with city walls, watchtowers, and a population of several thousand is already a real small town. Leo himself was bad at naming, so he followed suit after hearing it. Of course, the small factory could not accommodate so many people, so Leo planned to take half of them away.