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In the name of the lord of the labyrinth camp, you officially appointed the first candidate to be the village head, and the third to become her deputy. She salutes you gracefully, hands over the follow-up work plan to Hathaway, and withdraws with her new deputy.

Hathaway sighed deeply, but didn't say anything.

Some words are inconvenient to say bluntly - the market in the labyrinth camp is already from the ancient city, and now even the village chief is also from the ancient city, and only the guards are on your side. Yes, the talents provided by Gucheng are indeed excellent and worth having, and that must be on the premise that you maintain a good cooperative relationship with the Gucheng market.

If it doesn't work, remove it and replace it with someone else. After all, there is no sign of turning the other cheek with the ancient city market, and you can't refuse to go out from now on just because it may rain one day.

Compared to these,

Is Hathaway okay?

She actually thinks that the personnel appointments of the realm are more important than the affairs of the guild?

Hathaway looks at you, looks down and explains, "That's normal, right?" Not to mention that the second generation is a merchant, even the first and third generations will operate a side business to support the operation of the adventurer's guild, otherwise the turnover will be very tight by intermediary fees alone, and it will be difficult to protect themselves by relying on the force of the staff and adventurers alone. Unlike the three of them, you are a true nobleman, and your territory is the strongest backing. "At the end of the day, Hathaway's thinking still starts with the guild.

Originally, the most important task on Monday should have been to go to the local council office to apply for financial appropriation and formation, which is necessary to ensure that the adventurer's guild is a legitimate civil organization and not a gang of thieves or smugglers. It must be "local", and it doesn't make sense to find a council hall in your own territory.

But......

The Adventurer's Guild is currently in a state of special event - The Division Lockdown:

Due to the pressure of Viscount Polz and reasonable reasons, the guards of the bay of the five lanes, the council hall and especially the market will cut off any contact with you during this time, which is expected to be about a week, because the lockdown is in the name of epidemic control and will not end forever. During this time, you will not be able to obtain any of the usual forms of commissions, and due to the high risk of not having a valid reason, you will not be able to send adventurers on missions, including missions that can be started in a special way, i.e. forced to close the business. The range of activities of all the guild personnel is limited to Raymond's current expanded sphere of influence = blockade, which is only about two or three streets, and the flight will be shot down, and there is a high risk of stealth access. Viscount Polz has gone through the normal process of reporting the outbreak, so the law enforcement team, the Marquis, the Arcane Society, and even the shipbuilders will cut off all their usual contact with you if they don't want to go to jail.

You're on an island now.

The only exception is the "rainbow shadows", where the squinting priest has the official office of bishop, and the excuse of controlling the epidemic is impossible to restrict the movement of the temple personnel. Assuming you didn't build a teleportation circle in the first place, the temple would be the only breathing hole in the huge sealed cage.

The first thing Raymond and Elizabeth did this morning was to check their surroundings. The market has completely completed the blockade, and not even Leia can fly out. As mentioned earlier, Viscount Polz has done enough political formalities that anyone in the guild who tries to break through the blockade will be convicted of a felony – endangering public safety and attempting to spread the epidemic.

Without water and food for seven days, Viscount Polz is confident that you will be completely killed.

If you look at the follow-up plan for the Labyrinth Camp in your hand, it's no wonder that Hathaway said that you should wait until you have all decided on the personnel appointments.

"Job Application for the Guard"

A, Market Patrol, -4 Weekly Account. At present, the market has a small number of guards of its own, and if you can send more guards to guard the market, it will invisibly squeeze out the market's own guards a little. In the early days, trade will be safer, but its safety factor will be inversely proportional to the degree of collusion between soldiers and bandits. (The next item is expected to be: Square Execution)

B, the city gate inventory check, -4 weekly accounts. Reduce smuggling and sneaking into strange things, some things are easy to get in and hard to get out, such as addictive drugs or scoundrels. Initially, the province will be more stable, but its stability factor will be inversely proportional to the corruption of the guards. (Expected next: Chengtou Ballista)

C, (already in prison) square preaching, -4 weeks' account. You can slowly increase your people's support for you, and you can slowly recruit more guards, but no matter which gathering place is the same, most listeners will think that it is too right, and very few will resist it. In the early days, public opinion will increase, but its support will be inversely proportional to the degree of high-pressure enforcement by the guards. (Expected next: Search warrant)

"Application for Politics and Politics"

D, (existing water supply 1) water supply 2, -6 weekly accounts. The increase in wells, storage towers, and water and sewerage is closely related to the health status of the people.

E, (already anti-corruption 1) anti-corruption 2, -6 weekly accounts. Since it is impossible to catch one and kill the other, as with other items, the onset is slow and continuous.

F, (Wild Adventurers have been recruited) commissioned referral, -6 weeks' account. Ask for a commission within the territory.

G, reconstruction of the road within the city walls 1,-4 weeks.

H, service on demand site, -4 weekly account. Inefficient collection of people's demands.

All the work is not done in one step, but will continue forever until it is thoroughly carried out to every corner of the territory, and then maintained, and the benefits and disadvantages will gradually become apparent over time.

You're better off choosing only one option, even if you're rich. Pursuing territorial policies too quickly and too intensively can easily breed corruption, which can lead to negligence or accidents due to hectic work. This is similar to marching and fighting, in a team of only ten people, everyone can see each other clearly, and no one dares to paddle, but in an army of thousands of people, who stops and bends down to touch the corpse, and who shouts to kill and rush, but does not wave the sword at all, no one can pay attention at all.

You find that you don't have a job application in the market.

How?

"Hmm...... Would you like to hear the detailed version or the simple version?" Hathaway explained, holding her chin, "In detail, the ancient city market volunteered to take on the market policy for you, and they were willing to contribute all of them, and they did have a lot of management experience, which we laymen cannot match." In fact, before you were promoted to lord, they were all doing the management planning of the entire camp, very stable, very proper, and couldn't fault anything at all, after all, they were experts and the camp was small. Keep it simple...... They refused to hand over the stewardship and claimed that it was not the original agreement. ”

......

Under Kingdom law, market managers do have the right to operate their own management of the market, although in practice there are not many towns that do so. Strictly speaking, they can indeed do that.

Let's let the ancient city control the market in the labyrinth camp for the time being, and then talk about it later. Anyway, you won't lose a single piece of money.

"And then there'......"

Hathaway noticed that your expression seemed to be surprised that she had worked a lot, and explained, "Monday, after all. Elizabeth, come, will you talk to the president yourself?"

Elizabeth?

Elizabeth walked up to you, and Hathaway stepped aside—a place where you couldn't hear your conversation. Isn't the latter in a bad mood?

"Don't worry about Miss Secretary, the Elder Adult, she's in the middle of her menstrual period and seems to be in the process of introspection. ”

Reflection?

Hathaway will introspect?

"Oh, ask yourself. Elizabeth smiled at you, "I have a business to talk to you about." Actually, I'm just a middleman. ”

"We shapeshifters can send a special kind of voice to each other, you can imagine as a high-frequency canine flute, which even a mage can't capture, and can be used as a means of identification between companions and even an emergency communication signal. First of all, to clarify, if the compatriot in front of me is unwilling to respond to the signal, it will be difficult for me to tell if the other person is a compatriot or not, so don't misunderstand me about the details of last night's defensive battle. Anyway – a while ago, I took the time to meet as many of my compatriots as I could throughout the town of Five Lanes Bay...... To be honest, the number exceeded my expectations. ”

They hide very well from the crowd. In the final analysis, shapeshifters have always been social creatures with a natural order, and if the word evil is not mentioned, they are actually more adapted to human society than elves and dwarves in terms of sociality alone.

What is she doing when she sees so many of her compatriots?

"There is a ten-day covenant between you and me, and in the blink of an eye it is already halfway through, and if I can guess correctly, I can leave at any time. She whispered that she wouldn't be able to stop her even if she left right now, and continued, "At least, you have two qualities as a leader that deserve to be admired by the shapeshifters—the strength of multiracial tolerance, and, strength. Of course, I'm talking about the strength of the commander, don't think too much. Actually, I didn't lobby much, but I objectively stated your situation, some of the shapeshifters said that they could belong to your banner, and the rest have either followed Viscount Polz openly and secretly, or they just feel physically unacceptable to your kind tendencies. ”

The scattered compatriots were all integrated into the squad unit by Elizabeth.

"I have negotiated the "conditions" with my compatriots. Elizabeth held out four fingers:

"The first group of compatriots has nothing to do with Viscount Polz, and it can even be said that they cannot agree with his ruling philosophy, and want to belong to your banner. There are six of them, with an average level of 7, and they are willing to serve as your handmaidens and personal guards, with a total salary of 21 gold coins per week. Needless to say, you can understand that they don't want to be replaced by someone else, otherwise they won't come to work with you. ”

"The second group of compatriots is willing to be hired by you to replace the seven evil forces except for the Hedavir Arcane Association and the Haiqiang Sect. You only need to pay a lump sum of 50 gold, and the whole illegal force belongs to you. Of course, you need to take care of them, and it's easy to stealthily take power, but they can't do it alone. If the pirate group is replaced, they will not be able to blow up and sink their main ship and will not persuade their men to destroy themselves en masse, which means that the commission from the shipbuilder will directly lead to failure. ”

"The third group of compatriots is hesitant to come to you. If you can pay 500 gold, they promise to come to you with one of the seven factions. We shapeshifters are more trustworthy. ”

"5,000 will buy the last team of compatriots I can convince. Same return, different price, just because this set doesn't interest you at the moment and needs a little bit of exciting gizmos. I know it's a loss-making business, but it's extremely difficult to completely destroy an underworld force, and even if they are defeated, they can still hide, change leaders, and continue to recruit men. The hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen. ”

What are you going to do?

1. Only the first group will be accepted

2. Accept two groups

3. Pay 550 gold and 21 weekly accounts, and collect three groups

4. Take them all, which means your wallet will take a heavy hit.

5. No need

As always, no matter what you decide, Elizabeth doesn't immediately notice a difference in attitude. After a long time, you learned that Elizabeth just felt that she had been cared for by you during this time, and wanted to do something for you before the end of the ten-day covenant. Whether you hire it or not, how many teams you hire, it doesn't really matter to her.

Hathaway sat behind the counter with her stomach clutched, frowning, and when she found that Elizabeth had finished talking to you about a secret deal, she got up and walked to the inside of the guild. Soon, she respectfully led a ...... Savages?

It was probably a cloak, all made of leaves, and it wrapped the white-haired human male in his fifties and sixties. Wearing an eagle hat on his head, Ding Lingdang hung a cloak full of strange ornaments such as fruits, fangs, and feathers, holding a wooden staff in his hand, and a magical dagger with a powerful aura hanging from his waist...... Definitely not made of metal.

Who is this?

"President, this is ......"

"Hello, boy, I'm a pen pal of a retired bishop. ”

Before Hathaway could finish speaking, the white-haired weirdo began to introduce himself: "There's a club of retirees around the town called "Cold Hugs", and I am friends with that rigid old fellow. I, a level 17 druid, used to be the leader of the druids in the forest, but now I have given the sage to the more capable young people. Yesterday, I heard the old guy talk about the dungeon and the energy of the xenoplane, and immediately flew over. I've already seen the land that sits right above the dungeon, and it's quite interesting. ”

"With my mana, I can easily form a large area of grass or dirt slope on that land, altering the natural environment, and according to the prediction, they will come together to form a more vibrant area. ”

"It's not your territory, but it's near your doorstep. I've said hello to you. I'm going to do my own thing, so it should have nothing to do with you, probably. With that, the Great Druid turned and walked away.

He...... What are you here for?

Perhaps contrary to most people's beliefs, the kingdom's land fiefdom is limited to settlements, not to a town and its surrounding areas, i.e., beyond the walls of the labyrinth camp and the surrounding farmland, and is no longer under your jurisdiction. This law helped to raise more new settlements, basically, whoever built a new town was the head of the local area, and eighty percent would also be crowned a minor noble. Strictly speaking, you don't care what the Grand Druid does in the wilderness across your realm.

But it's not completely unrelated to you, because it's so close.

Hathaway propped her forehead: "I'll try to negotiate with that big druid, and I hope he can at least tell us where and what kind of environment is formed." ”

Speaking of which,

She pressed the shoulders of the half-sheep girl with both hands and pushed it in front of you: "Please deal with this thing, pestering me every day to make sure if I will be eaten, I am annoyed." ”

The half-sheep man looked up at you with shivering watery eyes, biting his lip, and unable to say a word, probably because he was uneasy about his inaction here.

What are you going to do?

1. Let her take over the position of receptionist in Fiertin.

Second, she seems to be able to play Pai Xiao and hire her as a musician.

3. Isn't it good to be anxious, and deliberately let her be idle.

Fourth, try to be a maid?

5. Ask Julian if she needs a minor injury treatment for the practice object, just pay the salary (choose carefully)