Chapter 302: Territory

At this point, Li Ran breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at the village chief Morga smiled slightly, took out a storage bag from his waist and handed it to him, this is all the materials he collected this time, the total value is about 100,000 yuan. Originally, it was just in case of emergency, but I didn't expect it to really come in handy.

As a former adventurer, the old village chief is naturally no stranger to this simple space prop, he glanced at Li Ran and stretched out his hand to take it, opened it with a move in his heart, and carefully observed the materials piled up inside, and the old village chief Morga came back to his senses for a while.

Stretched out his hand to call a housekeeper behind him, and the village chief bowed his head to him and said a few words, and the man turned and left. After a while, the man who returned again held a sheepskin scroll in his hand, and handed it to the village chief Morga with a solemn expression.

"This is the territorial contract of our village, with the recognition of the royal family of the Khan Rock Empire, as the current village head, I now entrust it to you with my power, and what you have to pay is your promise to lead us villagers against the invasion of wild beasts and foreign plunder!" I saw the old village chief Moore holding this sheepskin scroll in both hands and sending it to Li Ran, and said in a serious tone.

"As you wish!" Reaching out and taking the parchment roll, Li Ran whispered softly, but his tone was extremely affirmative.

Looking at the sheepskin scroll handed over to his left hand, Li Ran's calm heart couldn't help but have a ripple, as soon as he entered the battle map, he encountered a pursuit, he thought that this time it was nine deaths, and the escape was just holding a spirit of unwilling to admit defeat and resisting desperately. I didn't expect feng shui to take turns and have my own territory so quickly. Although this is only a badly damaged village, it will take a lot of money to repair. But in a conversation with the village chief last night, he found that the location of this place should be not bad.

This point is extremely important to Li Ran, because he knows in his heart that only by footsteps can he talk about development, and for him, who does not have many troops on the battle map for the first time, there is nothing more important than stability.

Next up in this dilapidated village, in front of the central village center. The old village chief, Morga, summoned all the remaining villagers and reiterated his decision to them. And when they heard that the old village chief had handed over the leadership position to someone else, the villagers who received the news were naturally in an uproar. But Li Ran, who appeared next, alleviated their concerns with firm language, and as the new leader, Li Ran was even more cheerful to pay out of his own pocket and give each villager two gold coins as the cost of rebuilding the house. In this way, the resistance of the villagers was also eased slightly.

Looking at the hundreds of gold coins missing in his pocket, Li Ran couldn't help but smile bitterly, although he had temporarily obtained a piece of territory on the campaign map, such an investment was really distressing. Since he has just come to the village, although he is already their lord in name, after all, he is not familiar with the place, and many things still have to be counted on them, if these villagers really want to resist or are unwilling to contribute, there is really no way to carry it out, so they have to use simple interests to buy for the time being.

And the first thing he did as the lord and current village chief was to solve the problem of eating the whole village. Because the area is not rich in products, there has not been much surplus food in the village, and now that the village is suffering from this catastrophe, the only dozens of adult men in the village are busy rebuilding their homes, so eating has become the biggest thing.

So Li Ran, with the help of the old village chief Morga, first counted the population of the village. It was found that there were only about 280 people left in the village, including about half of the old, young, women and children.

Although Li Ran had prepared a lot of dry food in the storage space when he came to the battle map, Li Ran still frowned in the face of so many people's diets at the same time.

"How much food is left in the village?" Glancing at the villagers who were happily returning with gold coins, Li Ran turned around and walked into the village hall, and asked in a low voice

As the original leader, the old village chief Morga frowned slightly, but it was the person who was assigned by the housekeeper just now who replied for him: "According to normal calculations, the food prepared in the village is enough for the whole village to use for a week, but now that so many people have died, it should be enough to deal with it for about ten days!" ”

"Did yesterday's fighting have any impact on grain storage?" Li Ran continued to ask without looking back

"I saw it yesterday, no!" The man replied quickly

With a sigh, Li Ran sat down on the chair in the center of the village hall, glanced back at the old village chief Morga, and finally turned his gaze to the person who was the butler. I saw that this person was about forty years old, thin in stature, wearing a set of hemp gray short shirts, and his appearance was quite gentle, giving people a sense of simplicity and neatness.

Seeing Li Ran staring at this person, the old village chief Morga hurriedly stepped forward and introduced: "This is Chekhov Doryk, my friend for many years, and also a recorder from the Empire!" If it weren't for his help over the years, we would have paid a lot less taxes, and I'm afraid that our small village would be even poorer! ”

And with the two nodding to each other, through Morga's introduction, Li Ran also initially understood the origin of the position of recorder, because the territory of the Khan Lock Empire is too large, in addition to the large and small cities, small villages like Li Ran are even more dense, in order to have a connection with each other, and in order to get more benefits, the royal family of the Khan Lock Empire has set up one or several recorders in each city and town to record the characters there. In addition, it is necessary to urge all localities to pay the corresponding taxes on a regular basis every year.

"Then I have to trouble you to handle my letter of attorney for me!" After learning the identity of the other party, Li Ran said very politely, although in this world, in addition to having absolute control over the main city to which it belongs, the word empire is very loose in the management of other places, and it is even useless. But the lord of either side does not want to be an enemy easily, and in addition to paying a certain amount of taxes every year, the necessary passing scene still has to be taken a while.

Just as Li Ran has now been appointed as the leader by the old village chief Morga, even if this village was originally Morga's private territory, it is still necessary to symbolically let the empire give instructions first, and it is this recorder who transmits this information and commission. Only then will Li Ran's identity as a lord be confirmed, and he will also have more guards of his own!

Bending slightly towards Li Ran, the forty-year-old recorder did not put on a show because he was sent by the Empire, but replied respectfully: "It is my honor to serve you, not to mention that this is also one of my duties, I will convey it to the Imperial Council as soon as possible, I believe there will be good news soon!" ”

As a senior professional, Li Ran understood in his heart the importance of this seemingly random approval to him, in this crisis-ridden world, the more troops in his hand would be more safe, so Li Ran smiled and sent a money bag: "This is a little bit of my personal heart, and it can be regarded as a blessing to the empire." I hope you will help me pass it on to the council and show me my loyalty! ”

The forty-year-old recorder Doric looked at Li Ran meaningfully, and couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, the person in front of him dared to fight with the brute bull yesterday with only a few guards to try to save the village, although his courage was commendable, but he didn't care too much about seeing too many such bloody warriors. But then his old friend Morga suddenly decided to give up the position of leader to this person, which made him pay attention to Li Ran.

As a friend of the old village chief Morga for many years, through more than ten years of getting along, he knows that although the latter is a little timid in doing things, his vision has always been good. He never believed that Morga would casually hand over power to a stranger just for the sake of that material. At the moment, this person is resolute and soft, and he is really not an ordinary person. Thinking of this, Doric couldn't help but be more respectful to Li Ran, and in his heart he also decided to complete the first thing that Li Ran had given him just now.

Although he didn't know the changes in Doric's heart, Li Ran still expressed his gratitude tactfully, and then said to the old village chief Morga: "I also want to trouble you to make arrangements, let the villagers set up a few outposts first, so that there is a preliminary defense." I'm going to have to take a look around the neighborhood and reconfirm the location of the walls to see if I can get some more vantage points! ”