"Maravich Cyrus, Lord of South Anker, Your Excellency. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info "Malavich stood in front of me, respectful, but always a little noble.

"I've inquired about you, you're a baron of the kingdom?" I glanced at him and asked.

"His Majesty has conferred on me the title of Baron, but that's all in the past, my lordship." Malavich nodded slightly, a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes, and the relationship with the kingdom was directly dissolved.

"Mr. Cyrus, you are not as loyal as the city lord who died in the line of duty of Anker, but I must admit that you are well aware of the times." I put down my papers, crossed my legs and stared into his eyes, and he smiled slightly, not looking directly at me.

"And you're very smart, in Anker we found several pounds of these documents in this house, many of which are important military information about the kingdom attacking us." I waved the file in my hand and opened a box next to it, which contained charred documents and ashes. "But in South Anker we only found these ashes, which you are more than a little better than your boss, the city lord." I closed the box and leaned back in my chair to look at him, trying to put a little pressure on him. Although I have been in this world for less than half a year, as the master of the Free Cities Alliance and the commander-in-chief of the army of more than 100,000 people, I have still cultivated some so-called "leadership temperament", which is stronger than those consuls of the Alliance.

"My lord, what do you need me to do? I'll do my best to cooperate. However, Maravich was not affected by my momentum, but asked me a rhetorical question, and I was stunned for a moment. But soon, I reacted back and became more interested in this little city lord.

"You're smart." That's what I say about him. At the same time, I also began to think in my heart that for my next plan, it is also a good way to establish rule in the occupied areas, but for the selection of administrators, I still have to rely on the original officials for the time being, and this Maravich is my first choice. But as I just discovered, this guy is a so-called "smart guy", and the characteristic of this smart guy is that he accepts your rule very quickly, but it is also very easy to betray you, and his position depends entirely on your strength. It stands to reason that as a ruling official, loyalty and ability are the key, and loyalty must be above ability, and if you hand over the captured place to him, you will always feel a little uneasy.

After the evaluation, I thought about it for a while and finally made up my mind.

"What is the number of towns and demographic information between Sellers, Ankel and South Ankle?" I asked, chin crutched.

"There are four towns in South Ankel, with a total of fifteen villages and a total population of more than 37,000 people. Anker had seven towns, twenty-two villages, and a population of almost sixty thousand. Maravich replied without thinking.

"Well, the population and territory are all enough." I got up and glanced at the map of the southern part of the kingdom hanging on the wall, and glanced at the area from South Anker to Anker, where there were nearly 5,000 square kilometers of land and nearly 100,000 people, equivalent to most of the Free Cities Alliance. Judging from our current situation, this is enough to divide an independent administrative region.

"You should know, Mr. Cyrus, that the Free Cities Alliance, while advocating self-reliance, has never publicly declared independence, and that we are still part of the kingdom from a legal point of view, and that we just want to be given the right to be our own masters." I kept talking to him with my eyes open, and he listened with a serious look of approval.

"So, I mean to make South Ankel to Anker a dominion, still part of the kingdom, but in the future I hope that the people of Anker will have more rights and interests in the future, what do you think?" ’

"Very good idea, you are such a benevolent lord." Maravich also said shamelessly.

"But I need someone who can manage this area to help me, and I think you can take on this position as Archon of Anker, would you like it?" I asked with a grin.

"You are the "excellent" lord of the kingdom, and it is an honor for me to serve you. Malavich readily agreed, and treated me with great respect, only one level lower than the courtesy of the king.

"Very well, I will organize the first election of the consuls, you have to participate, and you will definitely be elected." I told him this with a smile.

In this way, I chose the Archon of the Anker region, who would be our spokesman. Of course, on one point, both Meron and Philip disagreed. In fact, with the exception of Zero who always said he didn't care about me, none of the high-ranking officers agreed to Maravich as consul.

"He is a wise man, but it is better to choose such a wise man as consul than a foolish man to govern the newly conquered territory. At least the stupid man can be easily pacified even if he rebels, but let him be the consul once the army is in a disadvantageous situation. He's rebelling against us, and we're going to submit to the kingdom, and we can't even guarantee a retreat! ”

For their doubts, in fact, I agree, and I also know that it is not safe to choose such a person. But as a leader, if you don't know how to hire people and manage your subordinates, you are doomed to be unsuccessful. Even though I have a loyal army, I plan to hone myself in terms of employing people.

They finally agreed to my idea, but to be on the safe side, we dispersed Anker's original troops, defended the city with 10,000 skeletons, 300 barbarians, and 300 regular troops, and wrote a letter to the three cities of the alliance to send troops over in case something happened.

Despite the great victory, our army did not stop and continued to advance northward, attacking cities in the south of the kingdom. But I'm not there to occupy these cities, but to cause more trouble for the kingdom.

The army went on the march, and the question of Ankel was left to the local defenders. Considering that Anker was relatively wealthy and convenient for supply transportation, I placed a large number of skull tombstones and various huts in Anker and began to replenish the lost troops. The local garrison keeps an eye on Maravich and his ruling team, and purgies the smaller lords of the kingdom who have rebelled against us, even if we have indirectly had business dealings with us before.

For the people in the south of the kingdom, the king is very far away, and a large part of the lords in the south are old-fashioned parties, and the methods of oppressing the people are very cruel, even these common people who are oppressed by the nobility on the border of the kingdom are far less energetic than the inhabitants of the alliance (this is the only advantage of the alliance over the kingdom). So when the nobles who rebelled against me were wiped out, and their land was divided among the peasants, we naturally got the support of some of the people, and because the leadership did not change much, and the civilian casualties were very few, the Anker area quickly calmed down and became part of my territory.