After dinner, Green and his party returned to their rooms.

In the room, Epova is making her bed, and Green is holding a box containing a communication crystal, through which she is listening to a report from China.

“…… There was a tsunami accident on the east coast, and a large number of monsters were lost in the monster lair on the border, and several border lords you arranged on the east coast some time ago were all missing. ”

In the communication crystal, the winged maid Ashin is reporting to Green on the situation in the territory. Hearing Felix's report, Green frowned slightly.

Tsunami on the East Coast? It should have been caused by the dragon tortoise. But that dragon turtle must have been tortured to the point of losing its spirit, right? Why is there a tsunami?

Green touched his palm.

Through the succubus's real name, Green was able to determine that the succubus lurking on the dragon turtle was not dead, which was good news, but how did the turtle suddenly become so spiritual? Could it be that the succubus did something?

"Master, do you need to arrange for someone to find them?" As-Yin asked.

Through the connection between the bloodlines, Green carefully sensed it and judged the location of the demons under his command.

Looking at the location information of the demons on the map, Green couldn't help but frown slightly.

"If you have the spare strength, send someone to find it, and forget it if you don't have it, after all, it's just some idle chess. Everything remains with the training of trainee maids as the highest priority! By the time these trainee maids grow up, the shortage of manpower should be alleviated a lot. Grim paused, "By the way, how are your trainee maids doing?" ”

As the commander of the military region in the territory, Ah Siyin is also responsible for the martial arts and actual combat training of the trainee maids, and there are a group of trainee combat maids in practice.

"Very bad!" Asine commented without hesitation, "Although those trainee maids have a certain talent in combat, they are seriously lacking in skills, and in several combat internships, if I hadn't been watching, I would have died long ago." I think they should be thrown directly into the battlefield and let them grow up in blood and killing! ”

“…… Orcs are a rare resource. Let's cultivate it a little. At least you can't die worthless. ”

Just as Green and Ace were communicating, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Knock knock~"

Green glanced at the door and said to the communication stone, "If there is nothing else, let's stop here." ”

"Yes, master."

Green turned off the Communication Stone and placed it in the box.

"Go open the door." Green commanded the cow maid in the room.

"Yes, master." The girl walked over and opened the door.

Outside the door, Maester Harry was standing outside.

"Good evening, sir." Maester Harry nodded to the maid who opened the door and walked in.

"It's so late, what's the matter?"

"My lord, did you really plan to hire that merchant before?" Maester Harry asked.

"Of course it's true. At present, there is a serious shortage of manpower in the territory, and it stands to reason that I don't need to intervene for such a trivial matter as buying Adamantite, but in fact I can't find a suitable person to complete this task. Grimm paused, "Felix has excellent abilities, but she is not suitable for trade with humans, and the management of the maid academy is also very important; Beladona is human, but I'm not very confident in her abilities, and the realm's finances must be overseen. If the merchant can stay and help, I can leave this task to him. ”

"In that case, why not just arrest him and force him to work for us?" Maester Harry made a suggestion.

"Forcing is prone to backlash. Merchants operate alone, without supervision, and we have no way of knowing that they are secretly colluding with humans. ”

"You can send several businessmen at the same time and let them supervise each other."

"That's a good idea, but too little loyalty is also a big problem." Green paused, "And I'm recruiting people with money now, can't I find a few businessmen who are willing to take the initiative to surrender?" Why bother arresting a subordinate who might rebel? ”

Queen Rhea hasn't succumbed since she fell into the hands of Grimm! With Queen Rhea's precedent there, Green didn't like to use coercion to recruit his men - he preferred to use profit to drive them away.

Driven by profit, knotted by righteousness, pushed by grace, and powered by law, team management is nothing more than this.

Hearing Green's words, Master Harry was silent for a moment: "Although it may be a rebellion, aren't we understaffed now?" Extraordinary times naturally use extraordinary means, and we can use coercive means to get through this period of understaffing. ”

"Hmm...... It seems to make some sense. Green touched his chin, thought for a moment, and looked at Maester Harry suspiciously, "Why did you suddenly remember to tell me this?" In Green's opinion, Master Harry's work enthusiasm is not very high, and he will only complete the tasks assigned to him at a minimum, and rarely take the initiative to give advice.

Hearing Green's words, a hint of embarrassment appeared on Master Harry's face. But after a while, Maester Harry mustered up the courage to speak, "My lord, I would like to be able to make an advance. ”

"How much do you want to advance?"

"It may take ten thousand gold coins."

"So much?" Green's eyes widened, "What do you want to do?" ”

According to Green's estimate, the value of a pound of pure gold is only 10,000 gold coins, which is almost half of the total funds that Green carried when he went out this time!

"I'd like to buy a magic item that will prevent detection so that my wife's family can't find it."

"Ten thousand gold coins...... It's not worth spending so much money on such a magic item. You might as well hire a bunch of guards. And, why should you choose to buy? If you can find someone selling this magic item, why not consider outright robbery? 10,000 gold coins, use it to contact a large number of robbers and mercenaries, even a small principality can be defeated. "Green thinks it's stupid to spend so much money on such a magic item!

"Prevention and Detection" can not only prevent detection spells, but also isolate the induction between bloodlines, so that Green cannot directly control the demons under his command through the connection between bloodlines. Because of this, although Green had a magic item that he had stolen from Queen Rhea, he had no intention of lending it to Master Harry.

As for the option of "spending money to buy", it was not in Green's consideration from beginning to end - it was expensive, had limited uses, and could shield the Demon King's ability to control his subordinates, so Green would spend a lot of money to equip his subordinates with this kind of thing.

Green did not hesitate to refuse Maester Harry's request, but Maester Harry did not give up.

"Robbery?" Master Harry looked down and thought for a moment, then looked up at Green, "My lord, would you be willing to rob if you could?" ”

"Hmm," Green thought for a moment, "yes...... you can think about it." It would be great if you could grab a pound of adamantite by the way. ”

Looting a pound of Adamantite is not an easy task - it is usually impossible to have such a large stock of Adamantite as it only takes a few grams of Adamantite to craft a Adamantite weapon.

"I see." Master Harry thought for a moment, "My lord, can you advance me a hundred gold coins?" I'd like to investigate the intelligence. ”

"Yes." Green turned his head to look at the maid next to him, "Bring the box." ”

"It's the master." Epova brought the large box over.

After opening the box, what appeared in front of Green was a neatly arranged magic crystal.

Green took out a few magic crystals and handed them to Master Harry.

"Give. This is about the equivalent of a hundred gold coins, how much is not less. ”

"Yes, sir." Maester Harry took the Magic Crystal.

After sending Master Harry away, Green couldn't help but think about Master Harry's previous proposal - to recruit some people through coercion to solve the problem of manpower shortage in the early stage of the territory.

Most nobles have the habit of recruiting talents, and it is difficult to recruit excellent talents in the opposition through recruitment, so "kidnapping talents" directly from the nobles is undoubtedly a good icebreaker. It's just that there is a lot of risk in it, after all, the loyalty of the kidnapped person is a big problem, and if there is a traitor, it is likely to cause all kinds of bad consequences. Therefore, the kidnapped person must not be sent abroad, but he can stay in the royal city as a helper - such as arresting the tutor of the maid academy.

Green couldn't help but think of Alice, the acting lord of Miluo Harbor that he had heard about on the road. She is a woman, and she seems to be very capable of governing, and she is also fully educated.

"Looks like I really should go meet the legendary Acting Lord."