Fatty Shi laid down. The Pharmacist Lemmond examined him and reported that he was too tired. Even a 3-star Silver rank Dou Qi couldn't do anything about it. He would need to rest for ten days to half a month before he could recover.
Laurist was ashamed, especially when he saw Jasmine carrying Fatty Shi's son, Shredder Ribit. He regretted giving Fatty Shi too much pressure, causing him to not be able to spend time with his wife and child.
Jasmine found out that she was pregnant last June. Fatty Shi was overjoyed. When the caravan passed by the Andinac Kingdom's capital, which was the former imperial capital, he called Bofinger, Terman, Yuri, and the other old students of Dawn Academy to bring Jasmine and her grandfather to the War God's Temple. Under the blessings of the priests and priests, Fatty Shi and Jasmine officially became husband and wife.
On the 8th of February this year in Kebo City, Jasmine gave birth to a chubby boy in a snowy night.
He remembered that everyone had surrounded Fatty Shi to congratulate him. With a malicious smile on his face, Loriste had suggested that Fatty Shi name his son Snoopy. The onlookers, who didn't know the truth, cheered and thought that it was a great name. However, Fatty Shi rejected Laurist's smile without hesitation. After so many years of friendship, Fatty Shi understood Laurist very well. Every time he smiled like that, he must be up to no good and was preparing a prank. This made Laurist feel very regretful …
Fatty Shi lay on the bed, still worrying about the migration of people, the transfer of resources, the development of the wasteland, and many other matters. Laurist patted his hand and said, "Rest well. I'll take over the outside matters. Rest well. I'll give you a month's vacation. Spend more time with your wife and child …"
It sounded easy, but when Laurist took over all of Fatty Shi's responsibilities, he realized how troublesome it was. He had to report big and small matters to Fatty Shi all at once, and he had to make the final decision on how to deal with them. Laurist was so busy that he had to pull three all-nighters before he could finish.
No, Fatty Shi's exhaustion was purely self-inflicted. He was a living version of Zhuge Liang from another world, handling all the big and small matters at once. It couldn't be helped that he was in charge of everything on the journey north, but now that he was in the family territory, he was asking for trouble.
Laurist understood Fatty Shi's helplessness. He had just arrived and had no time to get used to it. He was too embarrassed to order the elders in the family, so he could only use the carriages to make up the numbers. In the end, he fainted from exhaustion.
As the lord, Laurist didn't have the same concerns as Fatty Shi. He had been busy for three all-nighters, and his eyes were red. He was thinking about how to lighten his burden. He ordered Hansk, Steward Spear, Spear Spear, Boris, Butler, Kemp, and a few managers who were Fatty Shi's assistants to come for a meeting.
Loriste went straight to the point and said to the people attending the meeting, "Today, the Fengle Plain Development Committee has been established. Everyone present is a committee member. Now, a few departments will be established, and I will announce the person-in-charge." As the person in charge of the statistics department, all the allocated materials, personnel, and valuables were reported to him. After verification and approval, they could be moved.
Spear was in charge of all the storage materials and valuables. She was in charge of the storage and distribution of materials and valuables.
Steward Kedan was in charge of the personnel arrangement for each village. In addition, Steward Kedan was in charge of household registration and managing the personnel files.
Butler Boris was in charge of the development of the seven districts in the wasteland. He was in charge of arranging construction, allocating materials, and reclaiming the fields. He was also in charge of the frontline development.
Kemp would represent Laurist to inspect the three stewards and the development of the seven districts. In addition, if there were any crimes during the development process, he would execute them according to the family rules. Other than the death penalty, which had to be reported to Laurist for approval, he would decide on the rest on the spot.
As for the managers who were Fatty Shi's assistants, they were also added to the relevant departments according to their original responsibilities. Laurist only gave them three days to adjust the departments, and then execute according to Fatty Shi's plan for the development of the wasteland.
In the end, Laurist clapped his hands and encouraged everyone to work hard. Once the development of the Plentiful Prairie was completed, everyone would have a bright future. First, the seven districts of the Plentiful Prairie would establish district offices. The district chiefs and other positions would be recommended by the various department heads, and then appointed by Laurist. Secondly, as civil officials, Lollister would bestow the honorary title of Knight upon those who performed outstandingly, allowing them to become members of the noble class. Third, based on the civil officials' performance, Laurist would grade them. At the end of each year, they would receive a year-end bonus based on their points.
Faced with Laurist's three killer weapons, official positions, honor, and bonus, everyone was excited. Everyone in the meeting was excited. They all expressed that they would do their best for the revitalization of the family, and would resolutely complete the development plan of the Plentiful Prairie. If there were difficulties, they would face them. If there weren't, they would create difficulties. Rest assured, Sir Lord. The meeting ended successfully.
Laurist went back to sleep for a day and night. After waking up, he read and drank tea to kill time. In the afternoon, he returned to the office and found another stack of animal skin documents piled up on his desk.
'What's going on? Why are there so many documents? Didn't I distribute the authority? What are those departments up to? ' Laurist gloomily picked up a few documents and looked through them.
The first animal skin document was submitted by Steward Cordan. The document stated that the family did not have enough animal skin paper to create a household register and file for the 500,000 new citizens, and the expenses would be enormous. Thus, one of Steward Cordan's subordinates in the human resources department suggested that they create a batch of thin wooden boards of the same size for registration. When the time came, they would copy the information onto animal skin paper.
In the document, Steward Cordan suggested that the person who came up with this idea should be rewarded with five gold fords. He also included the cost of setting up a processing plant and the number of people who needed carpenters. It was estimated to cost 100 gold fords a year, and submitted it to Steward Hansk's statistics department.
Steward Hansk thought that this was a good suggestion. After verifying the cost, he stamped it. However, he did not dare to make such a decision, and submitted it to Laurist to make the final decision.
There was nothing difficult about this matter. A hundred gold fords a year could only buy five thousand pieces of animal skin paper at most. Setting up a processing plant here could produce fifteen thousand pieces of paper in a month. Of course, he would choose the book and the wooden boards. Lollister signed and stamped the document, and one matter was settled.
The next few documents were all trivial matters to Laurist. Some had already been dealt with, so he brought them over for records. Some were things that the departments in charge could not make up their minds about, so they kicked them over to Laurist. Although it was less than half of what he had received two days ago, Laurist still felt very tired and impatient when dealing with these documents.
"F * ck, why is such an important matter placed at the bottom?" Laurist was furious.
This was a joint report from Ross, Josk, and the others who had been sweeping through the magical beasts in the wasteland. The report stated that they had already swept through the third district and killed many magical beasts. The corpses of the magical beasts were piled up into a mountain, probably close to ten thousand. However, most of them were herbivorous magical beasts such as cows, goats, and antelopes. The report requested for these magical beasts' corpses to be disposed of as soon as possible to prevent them from rotting in the hot weather …
The so-called magical beasts were just wild beasts in Laurist's eyes. Perhaps in the legends they had the ability to breathe fire and create wind, but with the decline of the magic civilization, these magical beasts had lost their magical instincts. After living for thousands of years, they had only become more ferocious, with thicker skin and stronger offensive capabilities.
The reason why they were called magical beasts was because of their aggressive nature. Not to mention those carnivores, even the herbivores such as bison and goats would take the initiative to attack you as long as you got close to their territory. That was why they were called magical beasts.
"Redi, get the three stewards here." Laurist was very angry.
The three stewards quickly arrived at Laurist's office. Laurist threw the report to them and asked, "What's going on? Why hasn't such an important report been dealt with yet?"
"My lord, we haven't seen this report …" The three stewards answered.
"Oh?" Laurist took the report back and looked at the date, only to realize that he had made a mistake. This was three days ago. At that time, the three stewards had not established their respective departments yet, so it was normal that they did not know about this report. He had been busy for three days and had missed it.
"Alright, then how should we deal with this?" Laurist hurriedly answered vaguely.
"My lord, immediately mobilize people with slaughtering skills to the third district to deal with the corpses. Also, transfer women who can tanning fur and make bacon and sausages to deal with the magical beasts' meat. These can be used as our food reserves and supplementary food." Steward Hansk said.
"That's right. The three of you immediately go and deal with this. Gather the manpower and resources and send them to the third district as soon as possible. Let Sedercamp be in charge of this." Laurist nodded.
"My lord, we might not be able to mobilize the family's armed escort …" Steward Kedan said.
"It should be fine. The first, second, and third districts have been mostly swept. There shouldn't be any magical beasts left." Steward Spear said.
"I'm just afraid that there might be fish that slip through the net. These people don't have the guts to face magical beasts. If they really meet one, it'll be a mess."
"Alright, send an order to Bai Sha. Let her bring the female camp guards to escort these people to the third district. Right now, only her female camp is fine. No matter what, she is a 2-star Silver. As long as they don't encounter any magical beasts, there shouldn't be any problems. After dealing with the third district, let them continue to follow up. There are still four districts down there. They are very big, and there are many magical beasts. "Laurist ordered.
"Yes, my lord."
Early the next morning, Laurist arrived at the office. He had just gone through a few documents when Boddinger came knocking on his door.
"My lord …" Boddinger gave a knight's salute.
"Oh, it's Boddinger. Right, have the supplies been transported over there?" Laurist raised his head and was very happy to see that it was Boddinger.
The supplies Laurist was referring to were the miscellaneous items that were still piled up in Spencer's territory. The important rations, resources, and personnel had already entered the family's territory through Monolith Castle.
Although they were called miscellaneous items, many of them were very valuable. For example, the furniture plundered from the Grand Duke's Mansion and the huge bed that could sleep five to six people had been meticulously crafted by a master craftsman. It was just that it was inconvenient to transport them, so they were left for last.
"My lord, it will take another month or so. Right now, there are only two companies with a thousand men and nearly a thousand carriages left. If it's one trip every two days, it will take a dozen trips to transport everything," Boddinger replied.
Today was the 26th of July. Boddinger meant that he would only be able to settle everything outside the family's territory by the end of August. It was hard for him to travel both ways. Currently, most of Boddinger's heavy armor division's attention was on maintaining the order and security of the huge immigrant camp behind Monolith Castle. Although they had already sent nearly a hundred thousand people to the developing wasteland, there were still about four hundred thousand immigrants left, which put a lot of pressure on the heavy armor division that had less than ten thousand people.
"Did something happen?" Laurist asked.
"Oh, no, my lord. The immigrant camp and the transportation of supplies are all going well. I'm here to ask how we should deal with the nobles and knights that we captured in the last battle." Boddinger placed a stack of documents on the table.
"My god, so many documents again …" Laurist sighed. He flipped open the top one, and a familiar name appeared before him. Earl Spencer.
"Right, Boddinger, what's up with this old man? Why is he suddenly going against the Norton Family? Have you interrogated him? "Laurist asked.
"Yes, my lord. This old earl said that he responded to the Grand Duke of the North's call for justice and the honor of the nobles. He even volunteered to be the first to attack our Monolith Castle, and lost about four hundred of his men. After that, he became a toothless tiger and was bullied by the Overlord's Alliance. In the end, he couldn't stand the humiliation and brought his men back to his territory. In the end, we killed him all at once," Boddinger replied.
"For the honor and justice of the nobles? Only a fool would believe that! "Laurist said disdainfully.
Boddinger also laughed. "In the end, his butler told the truth. Did you hang a baron called Farad for murdering our messenger?"
Laurist nodded. "Yes, that's true."
"The butler said that Baron Farad had always been respectful to Earl Spencer. The old earl even wanted to marry his widowed daughter to Baron Farad. In the end, Baron Farad was hanged by you, my lord. Earl Spencer was very angry. He thought that you had no right to hang a noble of the same rank as you. It was just a few messengers who died. If not for the fact that he was no match for the troops sent by Lord Spencer, the old earl would have sent his troops to attack you. "
"So when he received Duke Lujins' call, Earl Spencer was the first to respond. He overestimated himself and hit his head at the foot of the Monolith Castle. My lord, how should we deal with this earl? He's been locked up for two months. Previously, the family was busy, and no one had time to care about him. Now that the transportation of supplies has come to an end, we have to make a decision, "Boddinger said.
"How many people are here?" Laurist flipped through the stack of documents like he was flipping cards in his previous life.
"Sixteen territorial nobles and 123 knights."
"Where is Earl Spencer's family?"
"They're locked up with him. The old earl has two wives, a daughter and a son. The daughter is a widow, 25 years old. The son is from his second wife, 14 years old. One of his family's knights died at the foot of the Monolith Castle. "Boddinger explained in detail.
"How do you know so much?" Laurist was curious.
Boddinger's face reddened, "His daughter is very sensible. Even when she was imprisoned, she still tried her best to take care of her parents and younger brother. I saw it when I went there …"
"Oh …" Laurist came to a sudden realization, and a smile appeared on his face.
Laurist pulled the summoning bell by the wall, and Reidi came in.
"Reidi, go and find Manager Cordan. I have something for him to do."
Cordan quickly appeared in front of Laurist.
"Manager Cordan, I'll leave this matter to you." Laurist passed a stack of documents to him, and picked up Earl Spencer's document: "Go and ask this old man's daughter. If she's willing to be Knight Boddinger's maid, I can release her parents and brother and let them go home …"
Steward Cordan smiled as well, "Congratulations, Knight Bofinger. “
Boddinger was sweating profusely, and thanked him in embarrassment, "Thank you, my lord. However, the old Earl and the others can't go home because we've torn down the walls of his castle and town. Everything has been moved away, and the citizens have been taken away … "
"What? Why did we tear down his castle and walls? Who did it? " Laurist could understand if you said that everything was moved away and the citizens were taken away, but tearing down the castle and walls shocked him.
"It was Söderkamp. He said that my lord wants to build seven towns, and needs a lot of standard ashlar. He saw that the soldiers stationed in the Earl's territory had nothing to do anyway, so he ordered them to tear down the castle and walls and bring the stone back … Now it's all flat." Boddinger was embarrassed. He also felt that this matter was not handled properly.
F * ck, Söderkamp is even worse than Fatty Shi now!
"Forget it, Manager Cordan. Go and tell the old Earl's daughter that if she's willing, we can provide her family with a house in Monolith Castle. We'll also give the old Earl's family an annual income of 100 gold fords as compensation. When we have the means in the future, we'll build new castles for them or transfer them to a richer territory. That's all. "Laurist changed his conditions.
"My lord, there are still a few lords whose territories were destroyed by our carriages …" Boddinger reminded him.
"Just let these poor bastards get lost. Are we wasting food by locking them up? Let them pay their own ransom. If they don't have money, they can use resources too. Let's settle this as soon as possible. Boddinger, go with Manager Cordan. Don't get the wrong person, "Laurist said with a smile.
"My lord …" Boddinger blushed again.
"Yes, my lord." Cordan bowed respectfully and left.
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