Chapter 12: The Poor Lord

After dealing with the three magicians and the Giggs father and son, Rhodes was obviously convinced by Caesar, and when he heard that Caesar wanted to see the various data rooms in Atlanta, he immediately asked people to prepare!

When Rhodes took two muscular men, pulled a large wooden cart, and placed a large pile of ledgers in front of Lord Caesar, Caesar's eyes widened!

Perhaps because Caesar had changed from an idiot to a normal person, Rod's battle-hardened face softened a lot, and there was a hint of warmth in his tone, and he said slowly: "The accounts and books of the income and expenditure of the territory and the property have been sorted out. When are you going to start watching these things?"

"There are so many?" Caesar frowned and smiled bitterly, if it weren't for believing Rod, he would probably have wondered if this Rod wanted to do something wrong with himself.

"My lord, it's all of that. Rod pointed to the account books and replied very seriously: "The information here includes the affairs of the entire Atlanta, including the measured area of land in the territory, the area of cultivated land, and the various financial revenues and expenditures, the logistics supply expenditures of the territory army, military salaries, supplies, and the consumption of weapons, etc. In addition, there is the budget for the grain harvest and some new buildings to be built this year. In addition, I have made some budgets for next year, but I have not finished them yet because of the rush of time. ”

Rod touched his nose and said with a slight embarrassment, "And these are only part of it...... And some of your father's plans for the year have not yet been brought up, if you add those...... I reckon you may need to look at it for a week. ”

Caesar smiled helplessly, and said in his heart: It seems that it is not easy to be a lord!

Doesn't it mean that crossing will only marry Bai Fumei and reach the pinnacle of life!

Sure enough, novels are all lies!

"My lord, do you need me to explain it to you?" Rod asked, picking up the ledger.

Caesar waved his hand gently: "These accounts ......" casually opened a few pages, glanced at them cursoly, and then said softly: "I'll read it myself first, if there is anything I don't understand, I'll call you again, so that I can deepen my understanding!"

Rhodes nodded and said respectfully, "Obey! Lord Lord!"

"Uncle Rod, in the future, when it is just the two of us, you can just call me Caesar, don't be so restrained!" Caesar smiled, for this captain Rhodes who has been guarding Atlanta, Caesar respects him from the bottom of his heart.

Rod didn't speak, watching Caesar's eyes change and change, he wanted to say something, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed again, seeing that Caesar had already begun to look at himself, Rod didn't bother Caesar, and left the castle with two soldiers, letting the two guard the door, forbidding others to enter, so as not to disturb Caesar.

When you put your heart and soul into something, time passes quickly.

Rod came three times, once at noon, Rod brought Caesar a meal, but seeing that Caesar was still seriously flipping through the ledger, he didn't bother him too much, and gently put it down and left.

The second time was in the evening, when Rhodes came to deliver food and light an oil lamp for Caesar that had been useless for a long time.

Originally, Rod felt that Caesar should not be able to read these ledgers, after all, people who have not specifically studied this aspect of knowledge, just looking at the ledgers, will find that there are many that they can't understand, the numbers are only ten, but there are countless possibilities for combination. But Caesar's frowning look didn't look like he was pretending, but like he had found some clues in the ledger.

And the third time, when Rod was trying to fall asleep, Caesar ordered him to pass.

When Rhodes came to the castle for the third time, he found that not only Caesar was in the castle, but also the future lord's wife Adele was sitting next to Caesar, who was eating noodles with a hearty meal.

The ledgers on the table have all been neatly arranged, and the various ledgers of the military, agriculture, commerce, humanities, architecture, and so on are all clearly separated, and on Caesar's desk is a large stack of papers.

Beautiful Miss Adele was looking at the papers with a look of astonishment.

Seeing Rod's arrival, Caesar shouted: "Yo, Uncle Rhodes is here! I'm sorry, I asked you to come over so late, do you want to eat something?"

Caesar spent a day, but he didn't really look at the boring numbers, he didn't need to look at the numbers at all, because he believed that Rod wouldn't lie to himself, and he couldn't see anything at all.

No one says that a ledger must be only bookkeeping!

With the help of the Great Lord System and the knowledge he had learned in his previous life, Caesar understood a lot of things from these ledgers!

From the names and contents of the various items in these accounts, Caesar would have at once had a full grasp of the extent to which the territory of Atlanta had been mastered.

This is the territory of an autonomous system, without a country as its superior, and there are hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the human world, so it has considerable autonomy.

The fiscal and tax powers here belong to Caesar. Even the tax rate levied can be modified, reduced or increased at Caesar's own discretion.

Of course, military power is indispensable.

Basically, from the breakdown of some of the military uses in these accounts, it seems that since there is no pressure from above, all military strength is carried out on the basis of the development of the territory itself.

In the morning, it was said that the actual number of people fighting was about 400, and 400 people to protect the territory of 5,000 people may be barely enough, but it is just to guard, and if you want to attack, it will not work at all.

Then why don't you recruit more soldiers, in the final analysis, it is because of insufficient military funds and insufficient military salaries, so even if someone wants to join the military, Rhodes has no money to give!

But the military has no money, and there is also some money for internal affairs, so many people will go to Giggs, and under the management of Giggs, the sheriff, the number of members of the security team once reached 200 to 300, which is almost comparable to Rhodes's military.

And all this through these accounts, Caesar easily grasped the current situation of the whole of Atlanta in the economic, political, and military fields!

Economic freedom, political freedom, and military freedom, the formation of these three has shown that Atlanta is actually equivalent to a country!

Although it is only a small country, Caesar believes that all this can be vigorously developed.