With the end of the fighting in the southern territory, various post-war work has gradually begun.
The Hossman 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 next fate in this camp, but it is a huge waste for so many people to live in the camp for a long time. Therefore, after the manpower problem of the escort team was alleviated, Gao Wen began to order the people in the prisoner-of-war camp to be sent to Kant and Cecil in batches. The farmers and hunters recruited from the land, these people are completely useless in war, but they are good at farming and work, 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, a dozen political officials, and several "guides" also marched into Hosman's territory.
The guides of the team were several old Hossmans who survived the bombardment of Gravel Ridge that day (and they may also be the only survivors among the men brought out by Hossmans). The "Southern Post-War Reconstruction Working Group" composed of political officials came all the way to Earl Horsman's castle. The soldiers who stayed in the castle and the earl's retainers had already received the news that the nobles' coalition had suffered a disastrous defeat and the Cecils had taken over the southern border. I know, after all, a huge prisoner-of-war camp was built on the edge of the territory. These people waited in the castle for more than ten days in fear. After the Cecils appeared, they opened the gate of the castle with little resistance, and took Howth A pair of Earl Mann's sons and daughters were tied up in a carriage and sent to the Cecil Administrative Officer.
According to Gawain's order, the noble heirs, family members, and the entrusted old knights were all taken as captives and sent to Cecil's mainland, while the working group took over the earl's castle directly, and began to reorganize the order of the castle, issue decrees, and Started to establish a secondary government affairs office.
Daedalus, the young political officer, was sitting in the study that once belonged to Earl Hossman. Sitting in the study together were several of his colleagues. Warehouse, then put a large table and some chairs in the study, used it as a temporary office, and similarly transformed several adjacent rooms. In these transformed rooms, from Cecil Little by little, government officials are planning a new order for the land.
Looking at the scenes of his colleagues working at their desks, and looking around at the gorgeous murals and bookshelves that still remained in this study, Daedalus couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional.
He was a Housman, at least he had been.
The son of a merchant in Hosmanland and apprentice to a respectable historian, he had been the envy of his peers and the hope of his family in high society and ties to the aristocracy, if not for his His teacher offended Earl Hossman when he was studying the genealogy of the nobles in the southern border, and he ran to the castle to defend his mentor because of his youthful impulsiveness. Perhaps his fate will be completely different from today.
But he should be thankful for the bad experiences, even though when they happened, he thought they were the worst days of his life. Those experiences made him leave the Housmanland and live in Tanzanian Township as a down-and-out scribe. , It also made him board the merchant ship to Cecil because of the reward of two gold coins in distress. Cecil, who was still poor at the time, became the first batch of clerk apprentices.
From clerks to clerks, then from clerks to second-level department assistants, and then from assistants to officials of the government affairs department... The territory developed rapidly during the initial period, and the management team of the territory developed rapidly along with it, the lack of manpower and its own The strength 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 and apprentice to being in charge of receiving the territory and preparing to build the second officials of the government affairs department.
The past year seemed to be living in a dream, and now is the time when the dream is the deepest.
But returning to glory does not mean being able to indulge oneself. Daedalus is well aware of this. Cecil's legal system and the management regulations of the Office of Government Affairs are extremely strict. It was really established to maintain the order of the territory and protect the rights and interests of citizens. Moreover, that talented lord seems to have considered the corruption of people after gaining power and status at the beginning of the establishment of the Government Office. A strict cross-monitoring and evaluation system has been set up. Although Daedalus knows that no strict system can eradicate the corruption of those in power, at least he himself is willing to abide by those systems. It is those systems that ensure Cecil's strength. Secured Cecil's victory, and finally ensured that he and his group of constables could sit here and take control of lands that had once belonged to an earl.
After searching the entire castle and finding the former advisor and steward of Earl Hossman, the soldiers quickly found the files that recorded various affairs in the territory. The local land deeds and the general situation of each region are generally stuffed in a few big books, which are completely different from those in the Cecil Administration Office that are clearly and detailedly classified and easy to consult, but they are better than nothing.
According to those crude files, coupled with the information collected along the way after entering the territory, a plan for taking over all noble manors and fields in the territory was quickly formulated, and it will start after the population and land statistics are completed. Land distribution and population relocation, and ensuring basic order in the process... The working group has many tasks, but everything has been prepared before departure, and there is Kant Land's experience first, Daedalus doesn't feel like it has happened huge 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, and two soldiers led a tall, thin, black-haired man walked in.
These soldiers are not only the guards of the working group and the "bandit suppression troops" after taking over the territory, but also the executive staff of the second-level government affairs office before the normal operation. Thanks to the continuous education work carried out in the Cecil area, the combat corps' Every soldier has basic reading and writing skills. Although it is still not up to the standards of government affairs office clerks and clerks, in this era, ordinary Cecil soldiers are already better than noble affairs officers in many places. Most of them are illiterate.
"What does this man do?" Daedalus looked curiously at the man brought in by the soldiers, and he confirmed that he had never seen him before.
"We found him in a cellar. He seemed to be trying to leave the castle through the tunnel, but we caught him," reported a soldier. Qian was arrested by the lord, and when he heard that the lord was defeated, he prepared to take advantage of the chaos and escape."
"Green..." Daedalus raised his head and looked at the black-haired, hook-nosed man in front of him, who also showed a fearful and humble smile at the right time, bent over and spoke in the least hostile tone Said: "Sir, I'm just a businessman... I was originally going to Cecil to do business, but you also know that Earl Hosman hates Cecil, and merchants who want to do business in the southeast are He will be exploited and detained by him in various names, so I... "
"Green Wolfe, Earl Hussman's intelligence advisor, low-level stalker, thirty-two years old, male, thin, with black hair and hooked nose, was a well-known mercenary in the Hussman area in his early years, He was almost beaten to death because he fought with others for an exploration mission, but when he was recuperating 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 casually picked up a pile of documents He pulled out a card from the inside, and raised his eyelids to look at Green while reading, "... On the night of Earl Hosman's defeat, your dinner was lamb stew with potatoes and two glasses of Karna wine, right?"
All of Green's smiles were stiff on his face, and his eyes slowly widened, full of disbelief.
As an intelligence leader, he really knows what the card the other party draws out means.
"Mr. Green, Cecil is everywhere, please keep this in mind," Daedalus put the card with detailed information on Green Wolfe back into the folder, and looked into the other's eyes and said slowly, " You shouldn't have lied in the first place, it's not in your favor to shorten your labor period."
Green? Wolfe felt his cold sweat begin to ooze 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, relatives, retainers, knights, and extraordinary people who are vassals should accept labor reform, Mr. Green, you will realize in the great labor to the honor of being a citizen of Cecil."
The two soldiers took half a step forward, sandwiching Green Wolfe in the middle.
"You should feel lucky, Mr. Green, Duke Gawain Cecil is kind and just, and Cecil's laws are strict. While punishing you, the law is also protecting you. You only need to work, and you don't have to be like those Those who resisted were filled in the shell crater," Daedalus said while taking out a pre-printed document, filling in the key information and signing it, and then handing it to one of the soldiers. "Send it to the prisoner-of-war camp first, and then send it to the North Shore Development Zone. There is a shortage of people there. This is his identification and handover documents."
"Wait... wait a minute!" Glenn Wolf reacted belatedly at this time, the Cecil's special way of doing things was completely different from what he expected, what he had imagined when he was caught None of the plans came into use, which made him very unwilling, and he didn't know what the other party meant by "reform through labor". In front of this kind of thing he had never heard of, he instinctively felt a little uneasy, "I would like to Allegiance to Duke Cecil I still have a lot of property, all hidden in my manor in the country, I can give it all, 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 will be loyal to Duke Cecil, I am very sure of this, but that is after you have completed labor reform," Daedalus interrupted Green Wolf, with a formulaic smile on his face , While talking, he took the previous document from the soldier, "But for your bold idea, Cecil has a complete set of laws to try to bribe government officials, evade labor reform, and propose to extend the labor period for two months. "
Green? Wolf was stunned for a moment, and then watched helplessly as the document was handed back to the soldier after some new entries were added.
"Mr. Green, I wish you a successful transformation and become a glorious Cecil citizen soon. Goodbye."
After the soldier left with the former "intelligence adviser", 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 There are military intelligence officers among the merchants?"
"He's still the head of intelligence," a political official also shook his head, "It's better for us to catch a goose casually than this kind of person."
"Why a goose?"
"I don't know, this is what the lord said. He said that the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau is better than the goose."
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