Chapter 412 The First Day in Hosman City

With the end of the battle in the southern territory, various work after the war gradually began.

The Hosman prisoner of war camp is still the largest prisoner of war camp after the war. Tens of thousands of coalition prisoners of war are waiting for their fate in this camp, but it is a huge waste to let so many people live in the camp for a long time to eat rice. Therefore, after the manpower problem of the escort team was alleviated, Gawain began to order the prisoners of war camps to be sent to the Kant and Cecil areas in batches. The farmers and hunters recruited from the fields are completely useless in battle, but they are good at ploughing the fields, and they have no loyalty to their old masters at all. As long as they are sent to the construction area, A little training is labor.

At the same time, a team of 200 soldiers, more than a dozen administrative officers and several "guides" also entered the Husman Territory.

The guides of the team were some of the old Hossmans who survived the cannon attack on the gravel ridge that day (and they may also be the only survivors among the troops brought out by Hossman), under their leadership, the soldiers and The "Post-War Reconstruction Working Group" composed of administrative officers came all the way to Earl Hosman's castle. The soldiers who stayed behind the castle and the earl's retainers had already heard the news that the allied forces of nobles had been defeated and the Cecilians had taken over the southern border. I don't know how, after all, a huge prisoner of war camp was built on the edge of the territory - these people waited tremblingly in the castle for more than ten days. After the Cecil appeared, they opened the castle gate with little resistance. And he tied a pair of Earl Hossman's children to a carriage and sent them to the Cecil administrator.

According to the order issued by Gawain, the descendants of the nobles, their family members, and the old knights were all taken as prisoners and sent to the mainland of Cecil, while the working group directly took over the castle of the earl, and began to reorganize the castle order, issue decrees, and The establishment of the second-level government affairs hall was started.

Daedalus, the young magistrate, sat in the study that once belonged to the Earl of Hossman, and in the study were some of his colleagues who had removed the heavy pompous wood carvings and tin flower stands from the study. After entering the warehouse, I placed a large table and some chairs in the study, using it as a temporary office. At the same time, I also remodeled several adjacent rooms with similar techniques. Little by little, government officials in Seoul are planning a new order for the land.

Looking at the scene of his colleagues working at their desks, and looking around at the gorgeous murals and bookshelves still remaining in this study, Daedalus was inevitably a little emotional.

He was a Hosman - at least once was.

He was the son of a Horsman-led merchant and apprentice to a respectable historian, once the envy of his peers, and the hope of his family's rise into the upper classes and connections with the nobility, were it not for him His teacher offended Earl Hossman when he studied the genealogy of the nobles in the South, and he rushed to the castle to defend his mentor because of his youthful impulse. Perhaps his fate will be completely different from today.

But he should be grateful for the bad experiences - although when they happened,

He used to think it was the worst day of his life - those experiences made him leave the Horsman Territory, become a poor scribe in Tanzania Town, and make him in distress because of the loss of two gold coins. The reward boarded the merchant ship to Cecil, and Cecil, who was still poor at the time, became the first batch of clerk apprentices.

From clerks to clerks, from clerks to second-level assistants of departments, and from assistants to officials of the government affairs department... The territory developed rapidly in the initial period, and along with it, the management team of the territory, the lack of manpower and the The strength of the young Daedalus allowed the young Daedalus to complete these enviable promotions within a year, and in the end, he returned to the Horsman Territory, from an exiled scholar apprentice, to being responsible for receiving territories and preparing for construction. Officers of the second-level government office.

The past year seems to be living in a dream, and now is the time when the dream is at its deepest.

But the return of glory does not mean being able to indulge yourself. Daedalus is well aware of this. Cecil’s legal system and the management regulations of the Government Affairs Office are extremely strict. This brand-new authority is not for plundering territorial wealth, but It was established in order to maintain the order of the territory and protect the rights and interests of citizens, and it seems that the lord with great talent and strategy took into account the corruption of people after gaining power and status at the beginning of the establishment of the Government Affairs Office. A strict cross-monitoring and evaluation system has been set up. Although Daedalus knows that no matter how strict the system is, it cannot eradicate the corruption of those in power, but at least he is willing to abide by those systems-it is those systems that ensure Cecil's Powerful, ensured Cecil's victory, and ultimately ensured that he and the group of constables he led could sit here and take control of the land that once belonged to an earl.

After searching the entire castle and finding Earl Hossman's former advisor and housekeeper, the soldiers quickly found a dossier that recorded various affairs of the territory - they were said to be dossiers, in fact, those things were poor and pitiful, basically just The land deeds and the general situation of each region are generally stuffed into a few large books, which is completely different from the clear and detailed archive books in the Cecil Administration Office, but it is better than nothing.

According to the rudimentary dossiers and the information collected along the way after entering the territory, the plan for taking over all the noble manors and fields in the territory was quickly formulated, and after the population and land statistics work was completed, it would start. Land distribution and population migration, and ensuring basic order in the process... The task force of the working group is many, but everything has been planned before departure, and the experience of Kant is first, Daedalus does not feel that there is any Excessive pressure.

After completing the drafting of a new document, Daedalus raised his head and moved his slightly stiff neck, and the door of the office was just pushed open. Two soldiers led a tall, thin black-haired man. walked in.

——These soldiers are not only the escorts of the working group and the "bandit-suppressing troops" after receiving the territory, but they are also the administrative executives before the normal operation of the secondary government office. Thanks to the continuous education work in the Cecil area, fighting Every soldier in the Corps has basic reading and writing skills. Although it is not up to the standards of clerks and clerks in the government affairs office, in this era, ordinary Cecil soldiers are already stronger than noble affairs officers in many places— - Most of the latter are illiterate.

"What does this man do?" Daedalus looked curiously at the man brought in by the soldiers. He confirmed that he had never seen him before.

"We found him in a cellar, and he seemed to be planning to leave the castle through the tunnel, but we caught him," a soldier reported. "He said his name was Green, and he was a fur trader on the territory because he couldn't pay the taxes. The lord was caught by the lord, and it was only after hearing that the lord was defeated that he planned to escape in the chaos."

"Green..." Daedalus raised his head and looked at the black-haired, hook-nosed man in front of him, and the other party also showed a smile that looked rather fearful and humble at the right time. He said in a tone: "Sir, I'm just a businessman... I was originally going to do business with Cecil, but you also know that Earl Hossman hates Cecil people and wants to do business in the southeast. Businessmen will be exploited and detained by him in various names, so I..."

"Green Wolf, the intelligence advisor of Earl Hossman, low-level stalker, thirty-two years old, male, thin, black-haired and hooked nose, was a well-known mercenary in the Hossman area in his early years, once He was almost killed by someone for an exploration mission, but while recovering at home, he found a knight's sword sealed in the wall, and used this as an opportunity to enter Earl Hossman's castle..." Daedalus picked up a pile of documents. He took out a card, and raised his eyelids to look at Green while reading, "...on the night that Earl Hossman was defeated, your dinner was lamb stew with potatoes, and you drank two glasses of Carna wine, right? "

All of Green's smiles stiffened on his face, and his eyes slowly opened, full of disbelief.

As an intelligence chief, he knew all too well what the card that the other party took out at random meant.

"Mr. Green, Cecil is everywhere, please keep this in mind," Daedalus returned the card game with the detailed information on Green Wolf to the folder, looked at the other party's eyes and said slowly, "You You shouldn't lie in the first place, it's not good for you to shorten the labor period."

Green Wolf felt his cold sweat begin to seep out, and he subconsciously repeated a certain word in the other party's words: "... labor?"

"Yes, labor, according to the order of Duke Gawain Cecil, all the descendants of the defeated nobles, the retainer knights, and the supernatural beings as vassals should undergo labor reform, Mr. Green, you will realize in the great labor. The honor of being a citizen of Cecil."

The two soldiers took a half step forward and sandwiched Green Wolfe in the middle.

"You should feel fortunate, Mr. Green, Duke Gawain Cecil is merciful and just, and Cecil has strict laws. While punishing you, the law is also protecting you. You only need to work, and you don't have to be like those who suffer. The recalcitrant people are filled in the shell craters," Daedalus said, taking out a pre-printed document, filling in the key information and signing his name, and then handing it to one of the soldiers, " First sent to the prisoner of war camp, and then sent to the North Shore Development Area, where there is a shortage of people. This is his identification and handover documents."

"Wait...wait a minute!" Green Wolf reacted only after realizing it. Cecil's special way of doing things was completely different from what he expected. The ones he had imagined when he was caught were completely different. None of the plans came in handy, which made him very unwilling, and he didn't know what the other party meant by "reform through labor". In the face of something he had never heard of, he was instinctively a little uneasy, "I would like to Allegiance to Duke Cecil - I still have a lot of property hidden in my country estate, I can take it all out, sir, I can redeem myself, I know the rules of ransom... Sir, I have an idea... ... no no no, I have a suggestion..."

"Of course you'll be loyal to Duke Cecil, I'm pretty sure, but that's after you've completed the labor reform," Daedalus interrupted Green Wolfe with a formulaic smile on his face. While speaking, he took the previous documents from the soldiers, "But for your bold ideas, Cecil has a complete set of laws - trying to bribe the officials of the Government Affairs Office, evade labor reform, and propose to extend the labor period for two months. ."

Green Wolf was stunned for a moment, then watched helplessly as the document was handed back to the soldiers after some new entries were added.

"Mr. Green, I wish you a smooth transformation and become a glorious Cecil citizen as soon as possible. Goodbye."

After the soldier left with the former "intelligence consultant", Daedalus couldn't help but shook his head with a smile, and said to his colleagues: "How could they have thought that the technicians who built the magic net and the activities on the territory Are there MIIA operatives among the businessmen?"

"This is still the head of intelligence," an administrative officer also shook his head. "We are better than this kind of person if we just grab a goose."

"Why goose?"

"I don't know, this is what the lord said - he said that the director of the military intelligence bureau is only stronger than the goose."

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