The castle lord's mansion in Youlan City is actually a castle, covering an area of about seventeen or eighteen hectares, and the outside is a circle of moats, connected to the outside by a drawbridge.

The ground building of the castle is more than 20 meters high, divided into five floors, all of which are made of one and a half meters of stone, and the castle also has a layer of underground building, which is divided into more than a dozen huge rooms by a heavy stone wall, and the rooms inside are stored in the other rooms except for one wine cellar, which is the wealth that the Baggins family has collected for hundreds of years.

The castle is divided into two parts, the outer perimeter is a circle of two-story houses made of hand, just like the ancient Chinese city wall, the first floor of the house is the warehouse, the second floor is the dormitory of the soldiers guarding the castle, the top floor of the house has a series of female walls, and the surrounding corners are built with four towers twenty meters high.

The main city of the castle is a five-story building, the lowest floor has a floor area of about seven or eight hectares, and the higher you go up, the smaller the building area is, and when you reach the fifth floor, it is only about 500 square meters.

The first floor of the castle has a huge ballroom with three meeting rooms and a fully equipped kitchen, the second floor is where the servants live, the third floor is the master's bedroom and guest rooms, the fourth floor is the master's recreation room, and the fifth floor is a small banquet hall.

There is a large open space between the main city and the periphery of the castle, except for a square in front of the main entrance of the main city, the rest of the place is covered with gardens and lawns, and there is even a one-acre square swimming pool at the back gate of the main city.

After entering the Lord's Palace, Mullen was struck by the grandeur of the building, which he had never seen in the capital and the city of Lot, similar to the castle inhabited by the feudal lords of the European Middle Ages.

In fact, Mullen did not know that in the Kingdom of Chartres and even the entire kingdom of mankind, every nobleman would build a large or small castle in his fiefdom, and there was no huge wall as a barrier in the countryside, which could not only effectively block the attack of thieves and invaders, but also accept refugees and store food with huge space.

There are more than 1,000 servants in the entire castle alone, and there are usually 3,000 soldiers stationed in the castle to protect the safety of the castle owner, but at this time there are no soldiers guarding the castle, and the servants of the castle are running around in panic.

After entering the castle, Mullen first calmed the servants who were scurrying around in fear and asked them to clean up the castle that had been messed up by Gullit, and then Mullen took Anna to inspect the warehouse inside the castle.

The warehouse is the first floor of a square perimeter building with a radius of 16,700 meters, and half of the 400 houses are filled with grain, and the preliminary estimate is that it is not less than 15,600 catties, enough for 50,000 troops to eat for a year, and the other half of the rooms are not empty, most of them are filled with armor worn by soldiers, and these armors are equipped with 30,000 soldiers.

Seeing so many belongings, Ma Lun smiled, but Ma Lun also knew that now was not the time to be happy, the outside form was still very grim, and whether he could successfully take over the government affairs of the entire Youlan City depended on the result of tonight.

That night, after Mullen had rewarded the troops outside the city, he held a huge ball in the city lord's mansion, and an invitation written by Selwyn and the former officers of Youlan City who had surrendered invited almost all the officials of Youlan City.

Thanks to the fact that Gurlitt often held balls in the castle, although in a bit of a hurry, the servants of the Lord's Mansion still managed to make Mullen's balls sound and impressive.

Due to the suddenness of Maren's entry into Youlan City, the officials of Youlan City still knew nothing about the new city lord, but in view of the strong force of the new city lord, none of the officials dared not to give face to the new city lord, including those henchmen of Gullit who did not escape.

Mullen asked Selwin to select 500 men from his original subordinates to guard the gate of the city lord's mansion, and let the officials of the old city lord enter the gate when they encounter it, and arrest Gurlit's henchmen immediately when they enter the door.

Due to the relatively short period of time that Gullitt usurped the throne, he did not completely expel the old city lords militarily and administratively, and the only important officials were Eukins Stoker, the treasurer, and Hornby Bryan, the administrator of government.

Eugens and Hornby were originally nothing more than broken aristocrats, but they won Gurlitt's appreciation with a little cleverness, and after helping Gurlitt kill his father and seize power, Gurlitt was appointed as the Treasurer and the Administrator of Administration.

These two people relied on Gurlit's favor to be arrogant and domineering, framing their colleagues for their own selfish desires, and they were the initiators of Gurlit's harsh government.

The officials who entered the City Lord's Mansion not only did not feel frightened when they saw these two people being dragged out like dead dogs by the soldiers of the City Lord's Mansion, but felt very happy.

After everyone was invited, Mullen entered the ballroom accompanied by Anna.

This time Anna did not appear as the head of Maren's guards, Anna, who was dressed in an evening dress, held Marlen's arm, and knew at a glance that she was going to be the heroine of this ball.

A black court-style evening dress makes Anna more mysterious, the slender waist shows the perfect curve of the S-shape, and the white back is shown from the backless evening dress, with Anna's glamorous face, it attracts almost everyone's attention as soon as it appears.

Mullen and Anna walked to the podium together, and tapped lightly on the magic megaphone, and as soon as the beeping stopped, the noise in the audience suddenly became quiet.

Obviously satisfied with this effect, Mullen looked at the crowd looking down at him and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, let me introduce myself, I am Maren Buffett, the grandson of Viscount Derack Buffett, the Minister of Etiquette of the Kingdom and the new Grand Duke of Roland. I think everyone has understood what happened today, and from today onwards, Youlan City will be ruled by my Roland Grand Duke Maren Buffett. ”

"You are all important figures in Youlan City, I am holding this ball today just to meet everyone, only when we understand each other can we manage Youlan City better. But I don't have any black sheep here, and I don't welcome treacherous ministers like Eugens and Hornby who only exploit the people and frame their colleagues. Just now, I have seized all the important minions of Gurlit, and I will rehabilitate the officials who were persecuted during the reign of Gurlit, according to their ability, and I will revoke all the tyranny that Gurlitt has established. ”

The faces of the group of people in the audience were happy about Mullen's promise, and it seemed that the tyranny of Gurlitt had caused a lot of harm to the people present, and the tyranny of deposing Gurlitt made the people below obviously relieved, after all, how torturous life was.

Seeing the expressions of the people below, Malen obviously spat out a sentence, and then said: "The business is over, I announce that the dance party will start now." ”

As soon as Mullen's words fell, a piece of music rang out in the hall.

Holding a prom is actually Anna's meaning, she said that this way can better communicate with the officials of Youlan City, but watching Anna shuttle freely at the prom, Malen feels that Anna's biggest purpose in encouraging her to hold a prom may be to have her own dance addiction.

Mullen, whether in his previous life or in this life, knows nine out of ten about ballroom dancing - he doesn't know anything, and he is pulled by Anna to shuttle on the dance floor, usually stepping on Anna's shoes after a few steps, and the angry Anna always says that Mullen is stupid.

However, after all, this dance party is not just for the sake of dancing addiction, Mullen clumsily danced for a while and then took Anna off the dance floor, and under Selwin's introduction, he met with some important ministers of Gloomy City who opposed Gullit's rule in the adjacent conference hall.

The first to meet with the Attorney General, Bradley Nivenas, and his wife, Anna took Bradley's wife to another place to chat, leaving the three big men to discuss things.

After the three of them sat down, Maren said to Bradley straight to the point: "I want to smoothly take over the government affairs of Youlan City, and even I want to unify the entire Lott Plain and restore my principality, so I need your allegiance." ”

Bradley smiled: "Can His Royal Highness tell me what makes you have so much confidence?" ”

Hearing Bradley's slightly mocking questioning, Mullen calmly responded, "With the tens of thousands of Warcraft troops under my command and the tens of thousands of troops outside the city. ”

Bradley sneered and said, "Your Highness's Warcraft army is many, but the level is too low, and it can't reach the tenths of the Warcraft army of His Majesty the genius Druid Mofate Zams. Although the army outside the city gathered the essence of the entire Youlan City, large and small, it was now just a rabble with elite combat skills. ”

Regarding Bradley's disdain, Malen said noncommittally and lightly: "The level problem of Warcraft can increase with my level, and the problem of the army can be solved by those officers who have defected to me, so these are not problems." My biggest problem is that I don't have the skills to govern the land I have cultivated, which is a constraint on my development, and His Excellency Bradley, who has been working to restore the glory of the Nevinas, is exactly what I need, so I met with him first. ”

Hearing Mullen's words, Bradley was moved, and Mullen's words revealed the deepest thoughts in his heart.

The ancestor of the Nevinas family was one of the generals who followed Leighton Chartres to fight the world, and was named an earl for his merits, and the country was about two or three hundred miles within a radius of two or three hundred miles from Youlan City, and Youlan City was built by the Nevinas family.

However, the Nevinas family has never had any outstanding characters since then, and the family has gradually declined, and when the kingdom's army withdrew from the Lott Plain, the Nevinas family, which had never relied on it, was gradually replaced by the emerging Baggins family, and even the title was deprived because of the loss of the fiefdom.

Compared with other declining families, the Nevinas family is still relatively lucky, because they voluntarily withdrew from Youlan City, they were not completely wiped out by the Baggins family, and they can save the continuation of the entire family.

Bradley, the current patriarch of the Nevinas family, is the wisest person of the Nevinas family since the first patriarch, and he is not willing to accept the decline of his family and still embark on a career with the hat of a declining nobleman.

Starting as a petty official, Bradley became the justice commissioner of Orchid City for twenty years through his own painstaking management and the respect of the late old city lord Viscount Bilbo Baggins, and became one of the most powerful people in Orchid City.

However, since Gurlitt killed his father, he has always wanted to change the position of the attorney general to his own person, and Bradley's prestige and connections in the judiciary have not directly removed him from his position, but the suppression of Bradley has been continuous, so Bradley's life has not been easy.

Bradley is actually very interested in Mullen's olive branch, but out of the pretending behavior of talented people, the more you want me, the more I hold it.

Thinking that Uncle Liu Huang still had a model of three visits to the thatched house, he was only questioned a little bit and compared to the ability to subdue this internal affairs was just a drizzle, so Mullen didn't take Bradley's disrespect to heart.

Mullen had been observing Bradley's reaction, and when he saw Bradley's intentional statement, he struck while the iron was hot and said: "I am the Grand Duke of Roland in the Lotte Plains, so I have an innate advantage in righteousness; I'm the grandson of Derack Buffett, the Minister of Etiquette, in the capital, so I still have the upper hand in the court. As long as you can be loyal to me, I will introduce you as a minister of the humerus, and you can also put your talents on a bigger stage, so as not to insult your ability to govern the world. ”

After all, Mullen is the superior, although Bradley is a veteran of the sea, and his blood is surging, and compared with the previous situation of being harassed by Gurlit, he immediately stood up from his chair and bowed his head: "Minister Bradley is willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, and swear to follow His Royal Highness the Grand Duke." ”

Seeing Bradley like this, Mullen knew that his goal had been achieved, and immediately stood up and helped Bradley to appease him in every possible way, and everyone was happy.

In view of the bitter theory that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, Mullen reinstated the former finance director of Glolan City, Quintus Carrirus, who was deposed by Gullit, and the former governor of Orchid City, Apredo Lex, on the second day after the ball.

At the same time, Mullen freed the prisoners who had been imprisoned for their rebellion against Gullit's tyranny, and took some of the food from the granary of the city lord's mansion to support their future survival.

Mullen's benevolent government was supported by the people of Youlan City, and the situation in Youlan City gradually quieted down, and those adventurers who left due to Gullit's rampant conquest also returned to Youlan City, so the shops that had been bleak for several months in Youlan City became prosperous, and the streets of Youlan City also bustled.

For the next month, Mullen practiced fighting and druids while handling government affairs and training troops outside the city. (To be continued.) )