Normally, all nobles would have their own team of advisors. Many of them would serve the noble for life, and some would even serve the noble family for generations.
Most of these staffs were trained by the nobles themselves and were highly loyal. Only the nobles had the financial resources and strength to do so. Some other nobles would also form their own staffs, such as the ministers of the King and so on.
Suhlen didn't have such a strong foundation, so he didn't have his own advisors. Therefore, he planned to build one himself. He selected some smart and capable people from the city's management staff to form his personal team of advisors.
Of course, this kind of advisors wouldn't be good. They had no experience in many things, so Suhlen had to solve them. However, they learned quickly. With the help of this advisor team, Suhlen could finally relax a little.
Northern Battlefront City basically didn't have any external threats. After the orcs were defeated, they directly retreated to the north. The human army didn't continue to pursue them. To the humans, it was a thankless task.
In the wasteland outside the Blackstone Fortress, the weather was cold, the land was barren, and there were no roads. If the humans wanted to pursue the orcs, they had to prepare a lot of logistics. Moreover, when they reached the wasteland, the humans had to constantly be on guard against the attacks of other races.
The logistics team needed a lot of manpower to protect, and there were no roads in the wasteland. It wasn't easy to catch up with the orcs. If they chased too fast, they would have to worry about falling into a trap. Even after entering the wasteland, it was easy to be ambushed. Once the supply line was cut off, the army at the front would collapse in a few days.
In history, the human kingdoms had entered the wasteland several times to completely solve the orc problem. Unfortunately, none of them succeeded. Most of the time, the orcs led the human army to run around. At this time, the human army was cut off from their supplies, exhausted, and without logistical support, the strength of the entire army fell. Then, they were besieged by the orcs, and naturally suffered heavy losses. After a few such lessons, very few people would do it now.
Moreover, the humans had suffered heavy losses in this war. The Orcs had invaded at this time, and many cities' food had been plundered. There were also some places that had been plundered, and those that hadn't been plundered in time had been burned to ashes. Now, they still needed help from the Kingdoms, so they naturally didn't want to waste food and continue chasing.
Right now, many territories were organizing large-scale farming. They wanted to harvest a season's worth of autumn food before winter. They didn't want a large number of civilians to freeze or starve to death. Although the nobles didn't care about the casualties of the commoners, once a large number of commoners died, it would definitely affect their rule. After all, a large part of their taxes came from taxes. If all the civilians died, who would they look for to collect taxes?
In order to resume production, many nobles had already purchased grain seeds and farming tools from Northern Town City. There was plenty of grain in Northern Town City. As long as the money was in place, all kinds of supplies would be delivered quickly. Because of the arrival of these caravans, Northern Town City had become even more prosperous.
After the Orc army left, the human side also started to make a post-war summary. All kinds of benefits and factions also started to divide up. Although the death of Marquis Winter severely damaged the strength of the royal family, they still had the upper hand after gaining the support of Suhlen.
Of course, even with Suhlen's support, the royal family couldn't help but give up some things. After all, Suhlen wasn't Winter, who could help the royal family unconditionally. In fact, even the royal family had some concerns about this cooperation.
Lancelot had also successfully completed the king's task, but the royal family and Su Lun had only made a verbal agreement and had not signed a document yet. Therefore, while Lancelot was wrangling with the Aristocratic Parliament, he sent a messenger to the king's city to formally send a messenger to Northern Town City to sign the agreement.
As for the political alliance between the royal family and Suhlen, the Florentine royal family felt that it wasn't reliable. Such agreements had been torn up too many times in history. After knowing that Suhlen wasn't married, they wanted to marry Suhlen. Such political marriages were very common in the continent. The royal family now had several princesses of suitable age. Exchanging a princess for a legendary ally was a good deal.
The nobles in the north had suffered heavy losses in this orc invasion. Some noble families had even disappeared. After these noble families had no heirs, their territories would be taken back by the kingdom. Of course, some nobles who fled before the battle would be arrested and imprisoned. In serious cases, they would even be stripped of their titles.
Now, the nobles were arguing very seriously. After all, those territories had already been developed. As long as they sent people to take over, it would be fine. Both the king and the nobles wanted a piece of this fat meat.
For the nobles, death wasn't the harshest punishment. The heaviest punishment was stripping them of their noble status. Sometimes, a noble status required the efforts of several generations. Once they lost this status, those people would fall from the clouds and the whole family would struggle to move forward. Of course, this punishment was rarely used unless a serious mistake was made.
During the orc invasion, almost all the nobles in the north had participated in the battle. At the same time, almost a quarter of the population of the northern provinces had been recruited as soldiers, totaling more than 400,000 people.
These soldiers would quickly leave after the battle. At the same time, the orc invasion had caused a lot of casualties. Suhlen had also migrated more than 100,000 people from the northern provinces. Not only were the northern provinces short of food, but they were also short of population. Now that the northern provinces were quickly recovering their production, Suhlen wouldn't be able to migrate a large number of people from the northern provinces in the next few years.
If they wanted to increase their population quickly, they would have to buy from other countries.
Suhlen was also preparing to establish a duchy. Now that the northern city had a population of more than 100,000 people, a powerful army, and rich resources, it wouldn't be difficult to establish a duchy with enough military power and economic wealth.
And this time, due to the invasion of the Orcs, although the Kingdom of Florence had repelled the Orcs, its strength was severely weakened and it needed time to recuperate. Moreover, Suren had signed a political alliance agreement with the royal family of Florence. It could be said that the obstacles to the establishment of a principality had been reduced to the lowest level.
If the northern city wasn't still under construction, Suhlen would have already announced the establishment of a duchy. But now, he could only wait until the northern city was completed. He couldn't rush to announce the establishment of a duchy before the capital was built.
When the time came, a large group of refugees would live in the camps, and the capital's city walls wouldn't be completed. It wouldn't look good on Suhlen. According to tradition, the establishment of a duchy needed to invite some countries to observe the ceremony. At the same time, they would also act as witnesses. They couldn't wait until the ambassadors of the surrounding countries arrived and found out that the northern city was still a big construction site.
Suhlen couldn't afford to lose face, so the establishment of a duchy could only wait until the third phase of the northern city was almost completed.
In fact, on the system panel of Suhlen, the conditions to upgrade a duchy had already been met. The population of the northern city was more than 100,000 people. After the city's upgrade was completed, Suhlen could announce the establishment of a duchy.
Several countries that had trade relations with the northern city, such as Florence, the Southern States Alliance, the Desert Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Lorenza, had all expressed that they would send ambassadors to observe the ceremony.
After the establishment of a duchy, Suhlen could be considered as one of the forces on the continent, although it was only the lowest duchy among the many countries on the continent.
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Hathaway was very busy now. In addition to repairing the secret realm every day, she had to plant all kinds of magical plants. At the same time, she had to take care of the wizard tower's construction. Fortunately, she had Karina, Grace, and Alex to help her. Karina and Grace now had level-three access to the secret realm.
Suhlen still thought it was funny how Karina and Grace were stunned when they saw the secret realm for the first time. They used to be the leaders of the drows and half-elves, respectively. They had always been calm in front of Suhlen. That time, they had seriously lost their composure.
Karina and Grace were pleasantly surprised when they found out that Northtown City had such a huge secret dimension. As Fourth-level Spell Casters, they were very clear about the function of a secret dimension. Such a huge secret dimension could easily supply the needs of a Wizard organization.
Suhlen divided an area from the secret realm and gave it to the two of them. The land could be used to plant magical plants and also be used for breeding.
When Suhlen came to the secret realm again, the two areas had been planted with all kinds of magical plants. Karina was planting bloody datura, weeping grass, shadow flower, and so on. Grace was planting golden oak, sunflower, exploding pepper, Moore coffee, thorn vine, and so on.
Su Lun also planted these materials in the Secret Realm. He kept some for himself, and he planned to sell the rest. After all, there weren't many wizards in Northern Town City, and they didn't need so many magic materials.
There were still many places in the secret realm that had not been planted. Although he wanted to plant all of them, there were too few people, so he could only leave them empty for now.
Sometimes, Suhlen wanted to catch some fairies and make them his slaves. Fairies were not big creatures, only a dozen centimeters tall. They were beautiful and ugly, but they were born smart. However, they were not very powerful. They could help wizards grow magical plants. Unfortunately, due to many reasons, there were very few fairies left. These fairies were now hiding in some dangerous areas and rarely appeared in the outside world.
Some large wizard organizations even had fairies living in them. Suhlen planned to trade with those organizations when he had the chance.
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