The day after the civil affairs commendation, Yate summoned several chief officials of civil affairs to the official room alone to explain the task.

“...... In particular, the honorable land of officers and soldiers and civil officials at all levels should be honored in a timely manner, and these meritorious lands can be cultivated by peasant households hired by themselves or entrusted to the war slaves and prisoners of the civil affairs faction, but there must be no shortage of escrow fees to be paid. ”

"Cooper, I plan to add a tax officer in the civil administration, who is responsible for the revenue and expenditure of the territory and the management of the treasury, you take the lead in setting up a tax officer, and you will draw up a plan for me as soon as possible on the allocation of personnel, jurisdictional matters, and the appointment of officials."

"In addition, now that the territory is getting bigger and bigger, the scope of civil administration is getting wider and wider, and there are fewer and fewer things that can be seen with your own eyes, such as the private storage of public grain last year, so I want to set up a direct supervision officer (agency) under the jurisdiction of the civil affairs officer, the level is the management level, and three or five people are on the line for the time being. They have only one duty - to investigate and supervise officials at all levels, and to find out those wrongdoers who bend the law for personal gain. The second parish school has ended, and you can choose from the school a few brave and outspoken apprentices who can read and count, and who have no contact with officials at all levels. As for the post of Ombudsman, I intend to let a retired officer fill it, and that guy has a bad temper and is not afraid of offending people. ”

"In addition to the Inspectors, the Inner Government will also calculate the accounts and evaluate the merits of the officials from time to time under the leadership of the Lady."

The civil affairs officer, Cooper, stood up to answer the order, and several civil affairs officials also looked at each other and nodded in response.

Art glanced at a few people, "Don't be surprised, I'm not targeting someone, it's just that a lot of things will inevitably happen in the future, and I set up these institutions to wake everyone up at all times, so that everyone knows the bottom line in everything, so as not to embarrass everyone one day." ”

Several people nodded in agreement, but they all spoke in a low tone.

"Scott and Lawrence have to work harder in terms of tuning and construction, there are more than 2,000 new lords recruited this year, these people are mainly to reclaim and farm, and the cantonment officer should take more pains to distribute these people reasonably, so that each of them can join the task of cultivating and building the territory as soon as possible. Especially in the valley between the valleys, the large area of land from the valley village to the workshop area is only fully cultivated on both sides of the river, and the land a little further away from the river is also very fertile, so you need to ask the new lords to step up the reclamation of the land on both sides......"

"The construction officer also needs to do a good job in the construction of new recruits to settle for the people, there are currently six villages in the valley, and two are being built, and I hope that by the end of this year, the valley will have ten villages......

"Yes, sir!" Scott and Lawrence quickly put down the birch bark and carbon rod in their hands and got up one after another.

"And then there's the matter of the European Comptoir........"

Art talked for a long time, explained a lot of directional questions, and felt that trivial things were almost arranged, so he took a sip of his wine glass, "Okay guys, that's all for today, you guys go and get busy, and then work hard for everyone." ”

Everyone got up to say goodbye to Art and turned to leave.

Art raised his hand, "Salt, you stay first, I still have something to tell you alone." ”

Salter, who had already gotten up, quickly sat back on the simple chair against the wall on the side of the desk, "My lord, what else do you have to do?" ”

"I would like to emphasize one more thing about the European commercial bank, you must act boldly, and the points laid down must be stable, such as the secret arson and burning of my warehouse and shop last year, and the business bank will do it itself if it can, and if you can't do it, report it to me urgently, and I will send someone to do it!" Art said with murderous intent.

"Yes, yes, my lord, I won't be afraid anymore."

"En~ I estimate that the war in the north will not last long, at most a year or as little as a few months, and after the north is a little calmer, our European business house will immediately march to the north, and now my father-in-law is serving as a financial adjutant in the court, which is a great opportunity. The European Comptoir must continue to gain momentum, and now that the supply of goods in the south is sufficient, you must pay close attention to cultivating reliable business talents, and I will give priority to the retired officers and soldiers of the army and the apprentices trained by the parish school, and I will give priority to satisfying the ...... of the European Comptoir Firm."

Salter listened to Yat's arrangement, and a hot current surged in his veins, "My lord, don't worry, in less than two years, I will double the income of all the money and manpower you have invested!" ”

"Good! Good! Very good! That's what I want! Yat said hello three times in a row, and he was also excited.

After the excitement, Art regained his composure, deliberately got up close to Salter, and explained in a low voice, "In addition, the European Continental Trading House already has some forces in the south, and I will give you another task alone." ”

Salter quickly got up and listened.

"The old butler has been with me for seven years, and he has always been alone, and this year he is fifty years old, and he is lonely when he wants to come. His wife and daughter are no longer in this world, but I have heard him inadvertently mention that he still seems to have some relatives in his hometown. However, before the invasion of Provence by the Lombardy, I don't know if those relatives still survived, so you arranged for the people of the European trading houses in Provence to try to inquire in the south, to see if there were any surviving relatives in the old butler's hometown, and if so, to bring them back to the valley. ”

"I remember the old guy said he was from Alfero, and that's where you start. Don't let the old butler know about this for the time being, I plan to give him a gift for his fiftieth birthday......"

............

In mid-March, the military's civil affairs nuclear offensive awards and follow-up matters were completed one after another, and all civil affairs were also carried out in an orderly manner under the operation of the civil affairs system.

Yat sent the adjutant of the Welsh Legion Kazak to lead two flag teams to garrison Tiniez in turn, and then handed over the Wells Legion to Otto and Angus to take the lead in preparing for a new round of recruitment training.

Since the reorganization of the Aert army was not yet mature, the army remained as it was for the time being, and those recruits who came from the Northland were temporarily trained for a month and placed under the jurisdiction of the garrison corps recruit corps (trained by recruit instructors and junior officers who were transferred).

At the end of March, the second phase of the Welsh Corps Officer Academy was opened, and the location was still in the stone house hall of the Beiguan Military Fort, and the second phase of the officer academy was divided into two levels - the senior officer academy and the low-level commander academy.

The high-level officer academy is open for officers above the flag captain level (a small number of specially recruited low-level young officers), with a number of 17 people, and the teachers are Yat, Otto, Angus, Bass, and Kazak (who occasionally come back to teach), and they mainly teach more macro military topics such as war situation research and judgment, battlefield selection, application of tactics, army formation command, and supply of baggage equipment;

The low-level commander's academy consists of squadron leaders, squad leaders, outstanding soldiers with military merits and a small number of standing peasant soldiers, numbering 56 people, mainly those flag captains with rich combat experience, and high-ranking commanders such as Odogus Angus will also occasionally teach, and they mainly learn practical content such as marching operations, military formations, battle command, military law enforcement, medical treatment, baggage rationing, and how to recruit and train soldiers, and familiarity with the "Legion Decree".

The military academy will last for three months, and those who pass the examination will be appointed to all levels after three months.

While the army was being reorganized and trained, there was a special contingent that had already begun to be rebuilt and expanded, and that was a task force under the command of the Guard Officer, and Ron and his men rushed back to the valley after establishing an intelligence network in the Northlands with Besançon as the core.

The task force played a lot of roles in the Northland war, and Art paid more and more attention to the construction of this special team, and after the general affairs were settled, Art personally presided over the expansion of the task force. The level of the contingent has not changed for the time being, but the number of personnel has been increased to 30, and in addition, the contingent has been granted independent application for military expenses and the right to recruit non-personnel members, which are two great powers, and they are enough to show the importance and devotion that Yate attaches to the contingent.

Under Art's personal control, the expansion of the task force took less than a week to complete, and then Art ordered the task force to immediately send ears and eyes to the western frontier that was temporarily out of reach of the intelligence network......

Art wanted to rest and relax while the fighting subsided, but he had to sleep with his eyes open......

Almost at the same time as the Military Academy, the third batch of apprentices of the Parish Academy was held.

More than a dozen apprentices in the first phase of the parish school have been in the civil affairs system for more than a year, and the best ones have become deputy administrators of civil affairs;

At the end of last year, the second group also entered the civil affairs to study, and many of them entered the European business house, starting as apprentices;

The third batch of apprentices is a special training apprentice, mainly recruiting people between the ages of eighteen and thirty who have a certain foundation in writing or arithmetic (merchant apprentices, church studies, or the second sons and attendants of the low-ranking minor nobles of the declining and fleeing squires), including fifteen selected from all over the territory of Tinets County, a total of 32 people, with a six-month study period, mainly to learn the territorial code and various governance skills of the valley, and after completing the study, the county officials and elders at all levels will be urgently dispatched to take over or assist the civil administration of the county officials and elders at all levels in the county to be appointed. These apprentices will belong to the civil administration, and will be treated as officials and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the civil administration, and these people will essentially be pawns in various parts of the county scattered by the art.

At the beginning of April, the breeze blows, the weather warms up, the green leaves are bustling, the streams are trickling, and the valley is full of spring.

In the southern part of the valley, Art, accompanied by the old carpenter Bard, the lieutenant of the craftsman, inspected the workshop area, and after secretly arranging several core stewards in the textile workshop, he went straight to the weapons workshop, because just yesterday the first set of Milanese plate armor replicating the southern continent of the valley weapons workshop was assembled together.

This set of full-body plate armor was made by a weapon master named Glorent and his three assistants for a full thirty days, this guy who has just been promoted to weapon master is the craftsman who was sent by Yat to the southern continent Lombard last year to steal the craft, after spending a huge "apprenticeship fee" of nearly 10,000 pfennig, Glorent finally mastered the essence of Lombard Milanese plate armor, although this set of plate armor is very expensive, but it can indeed catch up with the excellent plate armor given by the Viscount of Berion.

Art was not in a hurry to let Glorent make a new type of full-body plate armor, but secretly ordered him to record the process of making plate armor and study, and asked him to teach five more apprentices, each of whom would be rewarded with 500 pfennigs.

It stands to reason that the skill of plate armor making belongs to the skill of a craftsman, and it is impossible to pass it on easily, but Glorent's ability to learn the process of plate armor making is all up to Art, so he gladly obeys......

Inspecting the completion workshop, Art took Ron to climb the construction site of Willsburg, where a construction adjutant and three officials and a team of peasants carried nearly 100 war slaves (slaves) to build the foundation.

However, Yate also repeatedly emphasized the need to build a fortified city in the valley, so he also urged the construction period, but only encouraged everyone to work steadfastly......

Standing on the top of the mountain, looking at this valley, Yate suddenly felt a wave of emotion in his heart.

Six years ago, around this time, Art took Ron to the top of this hill to watch the future;

Six years later, the north side of the hill has become a fertile paradise with fertile soil and spring wheat waves, and the village roads are dotted with roads and craftsmen come and go.

"It's time to go south~" Art muttered in a low voice, looking up at the south of the valley.

"What did you say, sir? Where to go? ”

Ron looked in the direction of Art's finger, "You're going to the south of the valley?" Those places are not easy to walk. ”

Ron had led people to the south a year earlier.

"Ron, when I go back, pick out three smarter guards, prepare horse supplies and a few sets of clothes for the caravan guards, I'm going to see it myself......"