Pioneering

Chapter 60 No One Available
After cheering and cheering, riding horses and performing martial arts, contests, banquets and celebrations, it took a whole day and night to finally end all the procedures.

During the period, there were many noble ladies and noble girls who were secretly flirting with Zhong Ming, trying to have something to do with Zhong Ming after the banquet.

However, Zhong Ming, who was determined to marry the only daughter of Grand Duke Ansos, Morisa, for the sake of his own reputation, justly declined their invitation.

As for the territory coat of arms, family emblem, etc., Zhong Ming thought about it for a long time.

The family emblem simply corresponds to my surname, and it is designed as a golden bell with a purple background. The golden bell is engraved with dragon, phoenix, unicorn, golden crow, white tiger and other animal patterns, and the sun, moon and stars are painted beside the golden bell;

The coat of arms of the territory is designed in the image of black gears on a blue background. Mr. Zhong is going to climb the technology tree, which has a good meaning.

After the coat of arms and family coat of arms of the general's territory were filed in the House of Nobles, Zhong Ming returned to Devonshire the next day, and brought Keshalena and Ange to the core city of Devonshire, where the former Earl of Schuster's castle was located—— Moant City.

Devon County has a total area of ​​more than 4000 square kilometers, [-]% of which are plains, [-]% are hilly basins, and [-]% are mountains. The land is fertile and the climate is distinct.

Apart from not being on the coast, Devon has no obvious disadvantages, and it can be regarded as a high-quality farming treasure.

Moant City is located in the south-central part of Devon County, with an area of ​​about 120 square kilometers, more than ten miles across and twelve miles in length. It is located in a plain, with convenient transportation, a strong city, and a large population.

Therefore, Zhong Ming still intends to use Moant City as the center to strengthen his grasp of the entire Devon County little by little.

As an outsider, a man born from heaven, Zhong Ming realized that what he lacked was not force, but people.

That's right, it's people. Zhong Ming won't be able to find a group of educated people to help him handle government affairs!
After this big cleansing, most of the nobles in Devon County have become the resources of Mr. Zhong's extraordinary path.

This is also something that can’t be helped. The Huster family is deeply rooted in Devon County, with in-laws and offshoots all over Devon County. Without a ruthless hand, mastering Devon County is just empty talk.

It can be said that cleaning is refreshing for a while, and the employer regrets it.

But if it happened again, Zhong Ming might still choose to do this.

If you want to talk about recruiting orders or something, it's a pity that in this magical world, the nobles have a serious monopoly on knowledge. Except for a very few wealthy families, there are almost no ordinary free people who can read.

Among these literate people, if you want to find someone who understands arithmetic and the law, it is as difficult as winning the [-]th Longguo lottery, the one that recorded the lottery.

In the past few days, Zhong Ming himself is a judge, taxation, urban construction, and transportation... This large city with a population of 12 has seriously slowed down Zhong Ming's practice speed, greatly reducing Zhong Ming's energy and time for pursuing power.

This is not acceptable, Zhong Ming's original intention of forming a power was to assist him in his practice, not to enjoy being a nobleman.

Zhong Ming looked at the official documents in front of him that were as high as a hill, one head and two big.

"Lei Wen, Lei Wen!" Zhong Ming called someone loudly to the door in the study of the main building of the castle now named Changle Castle.

"Tap tap~"

After a burst of hasty footsteps, a smooth and sophisticated voice sounded: "Master Earl, are you calling the little one?"

"Don't be naughty, get out of here!"

"Yes Yes Yes."

The visitor gently pushed open the door of the study, and quickly walked in front of Zhong Ming in small steps.

This person is about 1.8 meters tall, and belongs to the lower middle height in the magical world. He has a mustache, gray hair, forehead lines, thin eyes and short eyebrows, long face and wide ears. He is a typical blue star movie. The image of the villain in the play.

Lei Wen is indeed not a good person. He was originally one of the tax officials in Moant City. When Zhong Ming was cleaning the Moant City Hall earlier, this grandson was counting his money from small businessmen. money.

Zhong Ming kept him, largely because Lei Wen was really "sensible"!
Seeing Lei Wen, who was fighting all the way in, he bowed his head and bowed before he started to do it.

Before he could open his mouth to ask, he directly explained the details of the personnel in the city hall and where he was...

In order to save his life, he tried his best to show his value, and revealed some information about Changle Fort, which was still called "Fort Huster" at that time, including the general defense structure and military strength details, and the main members of the Huster family.

As a tax collector in a business district, to have this well-informed news is simply a talent!
And he can read and understand some arithmetic!It can be seen that he is a clever mind.

So Zhong Ming pinched his nose and made do with him.

"Have you posted all the official documents I asked you to post?" Zhong Ming asked bluntly.

Raven nodded and said:

"It's posted, it's all posted.

Lord Earl, I gathered all the literate people left in the city hall, copied more than 700 official documents overnight, and posted them all over the conspicuous places inside and outside the city of Moant. "

This world technology tree is also quite strange, there is soap, glass, and even paper, but there is no printing.

It may be because these are accidental inventions in the experiments of wizards, and the production technology foundation of ordinary people is not high; it may also be that printing has appeared but the nobles have abruptly destroyed it.

Zhong Ming frowned and asked, "Then why is there no movement here?"

Zhong Ming still used the recruiting order.

Although I know it is not very useful, and there are not many people who can read and understand official documents, but I can get one, and I am short of people.

If he couldn't recruit more people, Zhong Ming couldn't even gather the people he sent to various places to collect taxes.

Not to mention, sending someone to control the now empty Devonshire.

"Maybe, maybe those fools can't understand what you mean?" Lei Wen said coyly.

"Speak humanly, otherwise, do you still remember those colleagues who died?" Zhong Ming rubbed his temples and said in a bad tone.

To deal with this kind of smooth and sophisticated villain, using a knife is the most efficient way of communication.

Recalling the tragic scene he saw that day, Lei Wen knew that the person in front of him really did what he said, so he knelt down on the ground with a thud, and said swiftly:
"Lord Earl, calm down. To put it simply, you have given too much. Those foolish people don't believe that your promise can be fulfilled, so they dare not come."

Zhong Ming knew very well that he could not just let the horse run away and not feed the horse, but only rely on the threat of force. It is hard to say whether the remaining [-]% of the city hall officials would dare to escape, but passive strikes and positive obedience and negative violation must be high probability events.

So with a wave of his hand, the salaries of these officials have been tripled, and one person can do the work of the previous three, right?

Then I will triple your salaries, Mr. Zhong has always been reasonable.

According to the current salary standard to recruit literate officials, relying on the average moral level of nobles in the eyes of free people, it is indeed difficult to be convincing.

Not to mention that in Devon County, I can still be regarded as "famous". I have killed batches of nobles and lords by myself. What kind of image do I have in the eyes of the free people?
They probably think that even if the salary standard is really honored, they can't have money to spend their lives!

Things seemed to be at an impasse.

　Thanks, Mengxin is really grateful for the support of the readers. You make me feel that it is meaningful for me not to go home for the New Year this year, and what I write has a little value.Tears~
　　I will keep working hard!

　　
　
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