"What's going on?" Johnson looked at the other soldiers in shock. Other than the barbarians who were still standing beside him, the other human soldiers were all lying on the ground, soaking wet as if they had just been fished out of the water. They were gasping for air.
Sheriff Harrison's eyes widened, and he said, "Are the new recruits now so smart?"
He and Ayton had been the new recruits' instructors, and these new recruits were trained by him in the beginning. When they first joined, they were the kind of guys who had to be beaten, scolded, and whipped to train obediently. If he wasn't careful, they would slack off. Why did they all change and work so hard today? Could it be because of the Lord?
Good, you shameless bastards. You haven't even finished the new recruit training, and you've already learned how to suck up to the Lord. Harrison's eyes scanned back and forth. If he was half as smart as these soldiers, he wouldn't have been kicked out of the Silver Eagle Legion. It seemed that he had to learn from them in the future to suck up to the Lord and get himself a noble title.
"Arrange for someone to remind them during training in the future so that they don't get hurt," Suhlen said with a guilty conscience. "Get someone to carry them to the barracks."
Suhlen had already seen the barracks in the army after they were built. They had a few attributes such as recovery of stamina, cleanliness, and sleeping peacefully. There were no weird attributes such as surging homosexual feelings.
Training addiction alone might cause those soldiers to get hurt, but with the barracks' attributes, the two complemented each other perfectly. In the future, he wouldn't have to worry about the soldiers slacking off during training.
A group of exhausted soldiers fell asleep quickly after being carried to the barracks. When they woke up, they were more or less recovered. After upgrading the barracks and the training ground, Suhlen planned to upgrade his training ground as well.
His training ground was specifically for training the dodging talent. After such a long time of training, he had mastered a roll dodging ability. As for the other dodging abilities, he only had some ideas. If he wanted to master them, he would have to continue training for a long time.
Suhlen brought the craftsmen to his training ground and began to upgrade it. The structure of this training ground was complex, so upgrading it was a bit slow. It would take at least two days to complete the upgrade. Suhlen left after looking at it for a while. He didn't plan to wait here forever.
When Suhlen left, the population of Northern Battlefront City had already exceeded fifteen thousand people. Later, three thousand people were moved to Mirror Lake City. However, after the caravan manager, Gene, spent a lot of money to recruit people, the population of Northern Battlefront City did not decrease. Instead, it increased quite a bit.
Now, the small feudal lords in the northern provinces had already regarded Zeon as the God of Fortune. After all, in the eyes of those feudal lords, sending away the refugees who were affecting the stability and harmony of their territories could make a lot of money while they were at it. Why not?
During this period of time, the population of Northern Battlefront City had already reached seventeen thousand people. The streets of Northern Battlefront City were being built as fast as possible. It could be said that in the entire Northern Battlefront City, other than Suhlen, no one was idle. Even those who violated the city's sanitation regulations would not be thrown into jail. Instead, they would be chained up and forced to work.
The housing problem of the refugees was very easy to solve. If it really didn't work, they would first build some shared dormitories. The men and women would be managed separately. Food was also quite abundant in Northern Battlefront City. With housing and food to eat, the refugees would quickly settle down. After settling down, the refugees would be assigned to various construction sites to work. Right now, Northern Battlefront City lacked basic level officials.
Although basic level officials didn't have high positions, they still had to carry out many policies in Northern Battlefront City. They still had a lot of power, so it was inevitable that some of them would abuse their power and accept bribes. Some of the basic level officials had too little professional knowledge, so they could only make do with it.
Although Northern Battlefront City had a basic academy to train officials, it still took some time to train a basic level official. There were just too many illiterates in this era. The growth of the basic level officials couldn't keep up with the growth of the population.
It was very difficult to supervise the basic level officials. In ancient China, there was a saying that the royal power was not allowed in the countryside. It meant that the power of the dynasty could only reach the county level. The basic level officials were all local gentry, clans, and elders. There were still many remnants of this situation even in modern times.
Suhlen grew up in the countryside in his previous life. He had seen the basic level officials. To put it bluntly, two thousand years ago in the countryside, basic level officials were almost the same as the underworld. Later on, when information technology became more advanced and the supervision became stricter, things slowly improved.
Suhlen couldn't do anything about this for now. It was useless to build more schools if there weren't enough teachers. However, Suhlen still had a lot of ways to deal with abuse of power, corruption, and accepting bribes.
He built a prison in the past. It was quite effective, but he didn't use it on the basic level officials. However, after this kind of illegal behavior happened again, he planned to make visiting the prison as the first stop for the officials. In order to enhance the effect, Suhlen also planned to upgrade the prison. Although the prison in the past was effective, wouldn't it be better to enhance the effect?
Since he had already thought of it, he would do it. Early the next morning, Suhlen put down Kris and Hathaway who were wrapped around his body. He walked past Angela and Annie who were sleeping soundly beside him and swung a pendulum to the bathroom at the side to wash up.
After a simple breakfast, Suhlen found a group of craftsmen to bring him to the prison. There weren't many people in the prison in Northern Battlefront City at the moment. Most of them had been brought out to do voluntary labor. The prison wouldn't keep idle people. Not only did you have to earn money to pay for your meals, you also had to pay for your room in the prison.
When they arrived at the prison, the warden appointed by Suhlen, Abeyo, quickly greeted them.
"How many prisoners are there in the prison?" Suhlen asked directly.
"Sir, there are 53 people in the prison. There are 11 serious criminals and 42 light criminals," Abeyo said respectfully.
"What kind of crimes did the serious criminals commit?"
"Robbery, murder, and violent resistance."
"Send them to the mines to work for 20 years. If they survive, let them go." Suhlen directly decided the future of those people. "Send the rest of the light criminals to the construction site to work."
"During this period, I will upgrade the prison. The prison staff will guard the criminals and empty the prison."
"Yes, sir." Abeyo nodded and immediately asked the prison guards to bring all the prisoners out.
After everyone left, Suhlen began to upgrade the prison. Suhlen combined the myths of his previous life with some legends about the River Styx, the God of Death, and the Abyss in this world. He began to add some elements to the prison.
For example, the main gate of the prison was built like the Gates of Hell. All kinds of legendary monsters were carved inside the prison. They looked ferocious and terrifying. At the same time, the corridor leading to the prison was specially painted with scenes of the God of Death judging souls. The innocent could continue to live in the city of the dead, but the guilty would be sent to various places to be tortured.
The style of the prison was dark and gloomy. Suhlen also showed the various kinds of torture in his previous life in pictures. Skinning, dismembering, cutting at the waist, and so on were all routine operations. There were also hot chains, deep fryers, mountains of knives and seas of fire, iron brushes, and so on. Each one looked more horrifying than the last.
The artists hired by Suhlen were terrified when they heard the descriptions, especially when they were in such a gloomy and depressing environment like the prison. At Suhlen's request, the artists even drew the details of the torture as if they were alive.
Statues of ferocious beasts were carved at regular intervals. At the same time, with the help of the light effect, these ferocious beasts looked ferocious and terrifying. The transformation of the entire prison took five days. When the prison was completed, it looked ferocious and terrifying just from the outside. It made people subconsciously want to escape.
[Excellent Prison: This is an eerie and terrifying prison. Anyone who commits a crime will receive double the punishment here. Gloomy Terror + 32, Extreme Sturdiness + 36, Suppression + 34, Imprison Criminals + 32, Repentance + 33, Reformation + 35, Psychological Intimidation + 33, City Security + 26, People's Sentiment + 20, Prosperity -3]
Suhlen looked at the prison he had built under his guidance with satisfaction. Judging by the number of buffs, the prison was even stronger than Suhlen's Castellan Palace. It was the highest level building in the Northern Citadel.
"Is this a prison?" asked the workers who were staring at the prison with lingering fear.
"Of course it's a prison. Do you want to experience it for yourself?" said Suhlen to the workers with an evil grin.
"No!" The workers immediately shook their heads in rejection after hearing Suhlen's words.
Suhlen ignored them. He waved at the guards beside him and said, "Bring the officials here in batches."
"Yes, Sir!" The guard bowed respectfully and left in a hurry. After waiting for about 15 minutes, the guard brought a dozen or so officials to the prison gate.
"My Lord!" the officials saluted Suhlen.
"Alright, get up. There's only one thing I called you here today. All the officials in the Northern Citadel have to go through an ideological education course. Only by passing this course can you continue to be an official in the Northern Citadel," said Suhlen as he walked up to them.
"Ideological education course?" Everyone looked at each other.
"Yes, ideological education course." Suhlen nodded. He pointed at the prison and said, "The course is simple. Come with me and the guards to visit the prison later. It won't take long."
Suhlen glanced at everyone calmly and said, "Let's begin."
Then, a guard led Suhlen and the officials into the prison.
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