These 50,000 bachelors and 100,000 older women will be assigned to guard the Gaul serfs and become their spouses.
This measure alone made the foreign Gauls endlessly grateful, and in less than a year, working desperately, almost all of them escaped the ranks of slaves and became commoners.
As for the young children who lost their families in the war, Kayal will provide them with free education and food, just like his first batch of students. He will wash away all traces of Scotland from them and make them Camelotians.
In fact, Kayal has never really believed that bloodline is a very important thing. Besides the obvious differences between white, black, and yellow people, even the so-called Gauls, Germans, and Celts are very difficult to distinguish. Russians and Germans both have high noses, while Gauls have high noses with sunken eye sockets. If it weren't for specific racial characteristics, the so-called races are only different due to regional, cultural, and educational differences.
It's like how Chinese and Japanese people are both yellow-skinned. Despite China's vast land, rich resources, and long history, no matter how many times its lineage is broken, as long as Chinese people are on that land, they will always be descendants of Yan and Huang.
And no matter what, as long as Japanese people are born on that depressing island nation, accompanied by the insecurity of typhoons and earthquakes, even if they invade other countries, they will ultimately remain self-deprecating and narrow-minded Japanese.
This is relative.
Just as the German meticulousness is passed down through generations, and the romance of the Gallic rooster is known throughout the world.
Camelot does not want to cultivate enemies who will bear grudges, but rather to assimilate them and turn enemies into friends in the next generation.
That's what Kayal planned. Of course, these people are just an experiment. As a politician, strategist, and theorist, he deeply understands that time is the ultimate test of everything, and if you don't practice, you can't even verify it!
300,000 slave households, 100,000 wives of serfs, 50,000 slaves, 30,000 boys and girls, and the remaining 500,000 are all young, gentle maidens!
Don't be surprised! This is what Kayal specifically left behind. Think about how many people Camelot killed before. First, there were 60,000 elite knight soldiers. Then, another 60,000 were lost by the King of Scotland due to his mistakes. Plus 20,000 elite heavy infantry, a total of 150,000 regular Scottish soldiers were eliminated. Jeanne's side deployed over 100,000 troops, plus her own 20,000 elite infantry, making it approximately 120,000 regular soldiers. Counting the 200,000 old, weak, sick, and disabled, they were all men in the end. (Now you know where all those widows and older women came from, right?)
Together, the two sides accounted for over 500,000. This is also because these young women were unmarried and waiting to be wed, which is also a population ratio, so Camelot suddenly gained 500,000 women.
The last decree was to command all single men in Camelot over twenty years old to come to Camelot Royal City.
Subsequent orders will be issued after all the men have arrived.
The 150,000 women and unattached bachelors will be dispersed and distributed to the Gaul slaves scattered throughout Camelot.
The Gauls will be won over, working wholeheartedly for Camelot. In ten years, there will be no Gaul slaves here... No, there will be new ones, but this generation of Gauls will integrate into Camelot.
The remaining slave households will be broken up and distributed to those with titles of nobility and above as laborers. In fact, anyone who obtains a noble title can have fifty guards. Fifty people are too few to cause trouble, but just right for guards, which is Kayal's psychological bottom line. These fifty people are below the knight class. Now that Kayal has raised the rank of the knight class, very few knights would become private guards for a noble—are you kidding? In the future, if I achieve merit, I'll be of the same rank as you. Why would I lower myself? Am I a masochist?
So now, the guards around nobles are all infantry. Even if they want to train cavalry, very few knights are willing to lead them.
These nobles will not only be able to effectively absorb these slaves but also make them grateful to the King, thereby boosting the entire kingdom's productivity.
In this way, every class in Camelot benefited from this war, and the cohesion of the entire nation grew stronger.
Kayal slowly pondered these matters as he walked, surrounded by a cacophony of sounds.
It was the sound of all the knights being organized to sort out the spoils.
Because most of the able-bodied men had left, the camp had shrunk considerably. A large fire circle was enough to encompass all the young women. And because it was now entirely women, the entire camp felt much more tense. These women were very prone to gossip, and Kayal even heard rumors that he had kept them for the knights' pleasure.
He didn't bother to debunk the rumors. Kayal just shook his head and ordered the knights to intensify their night patrols. It was truly a guard every ten steps, a sentry every five steps, with a decurion-level leader also on patrol, changing shifts every half hour. The main concern was that these young women might escape, and most importantly, to prevent troublemakers and ruffians from sneaking in to do evil.
It should be known that the Royal City was not like Red Leaf Ridge, a place Kayal had built for fifteen years where one didn't pick up lost items from the road. Due to the many nobles and numerous second-generation nobles in the Royal City, these second-generation nobles, possessing vast family resources, did not want to go to the front lines to fight. They merely caused trouble. Kayal hated these people the most, so his suppression of them after coming to power was also the most severe. Although things had been calm recently, Kayal knew that these troublemakers needed to be re-educated... they would certainly not be so easily changed.
What the knights needed to do now was to transport resources from within Scotland back.
How many resources does a country have?
Ores, raw silk, weapons, armor, food, clothing, housing, and transportation—none could be lacking. Scotland was not a nation built on trade; even if there were surpluses, they were stored in the national treasury rather than exchanged for more useful things. The ports were firmly controlled by the Gauls and Camelot, so even if it wanted to sell, it had no routes. This resulted in many things being unused and unsellable, simply stored there.
However... "Kay, why did you come up with such a bad idea to burn the granaries?" Artoria complained to Kayal as she looked at the ledger. Camelot, now with centralized power, already needed a lot of grain for its knights. Now, with an additional million captives and slaves, the grain supply was insufficient. If Red Leaf Ridge hadn't started storing grain early and supported the entire kingdom without reservation, Camelot would have gone bankrupt long ago, let alone fought a war.
But this time, not a single grain was obtained from Scotland because the rangers, in their eagerness to earn merit, had burned most of the grain within Scotland.