Chapter 225: The People's Heart
It takes wisdom to march with troops. And managing a territory requires more wisdom.
Whether it is on Earth or on the continent of divine grace, when a lord accepts an old land, he will always encounter resistance from the old-school forces, but the challenges encountered by different lords are different at different times, in different places, and different lieges. Alan was well prepared for what would happen in Clemman's territory.
The Clemment family's power in the Golden City has been uprooted, but the descendants in the territory still exist, and the Golden City has not taken any action against the knights in these territories, and such a thing can be left to the new territory owner to do.
Before Allen arrived, there was a rumor circulating in the territory of Clement that there was a dispute between the new lord and Viscount Clément, and after the arrival of the new lord, the cronies of Viscount Clément would be liquidated. And this is one of the reasons why the seven knights in the territory are not obedient.
Regarding this matter, Alan just smiled after hearing this, thinking in his heart that if these seven lords were really loyal to the original Viscount Clem, so they were unwilling to accept their own leadership, then Alan could accept it, and even respect the backbone of these people. However, in this matter, Alan heard another statement from several other knights, and the reason why this group of people disobeyed the order was just to bully Allen for having no foundation and wanting to benefit from it.
When Alan came to the Clément area, he had the intention of developing with the people here, so he took a cautious attitude towards every statement. To this end, Alan sent a few scouts, pretending to be ordinary civilians, to walk around the land of several lords who refused to obey, and found that this group of people was not very good at governing the place, and the bad deeds of these knights were also reported one by one.
While sending out scouts, Alan also privately observed the seven knights, and the result was very regrettable, as it turned out that this group of people really just wanted to give themselves a face and gain benefits from it. These guys are in fact a bunch of temperamental but inactive knights, who have nothing to mention in their territory, and they don't show any loyalty to them.
In such a situation, Alan had some ways to accept it. Although Alan is only in his 20s on the surface, he is not worse than an ordinary century-old mage. On this day, Alan led 9 knight lords and more than 8,700 people to the city of Clement.
Clement City is located in the center of the territory, covering an area of 591 square kilometers, with a population of about 210,000, the city wall is about 50 feet thick and 36 feet high, and there are four gates in the south, east and west. Since the Divine Grace Continent entered a new era thousands of years ago, the urban economy has been extensively developed, and with the rise of the six main cities, various territories have competed to follow suit, and unconsciously, a lot of large cities have been formed on the continent.
As far as Allen knows, on the earth, a city of 591 square kilometers is home to at least five or six hundred thousand people, but Clemon City has only 200,000. As one of the six major cities in the Divine Grace Continent, the Golden City is incredibly large, with dozens of gates on a single city wall, and the length of the city wall is even more invisible. Compared with the bustling city of gold, Clément, a city between black iron and bronze, is much inferior.
As the so-called new official took office with three fires, after Alan came to the city as a new lord, he soon had a lot of moves. First of all, Alan activated the Castle Lord's Mansion, which had been idle since its establishment. The city lord's mansion is built well, covering an area of more than 1,000 acres, the main body is ivory white, and behind the courtyard, there is a large garden.
Since the Viscount of Clément, like most of the landlords, had always lived in the Golden City, for a long time it was just an empty symbol of power in the city. When Alan and his party lived in the City Lord's Mansion with the core members of the Wen Li family, the city's administrative hall and security department were immediately relocated to the vicinity of the City Lord's Mansion.
The materials of countless officials were sent to the City Lord's Mansion at the request of Allen. Alan has the heart to cultivate the descendants of the Wenli maternal family, and after receiving the Wenli people, Alan has always taken them with him, and when these materials were sent, Alan invited several young and promising juniors of the Wenli family to analyze them together.
A few days later, with the help of the Wenli people and the Divine Grace System, Alan had a preliminary grasp of the various situations in the Clemment region over the years. Soon, several powerful and effective orders were issued from the city lord's mansion.
Eren is not a fighter who likes to fight, as a pink new lord, the warlock boy has issued several rules and is not a punishment for disobeying knights, but a matter of people's livelihood.
Allen noticed that in the past ten years, the tax burden in the Clemment area was too heavy for many families to afford, so Allen decisively lowered the tax ratio after making a precise budget. Although this move was opposed by many big knights, Alan was still very determined to push it down.
Then Allen issued a second decree. He announced that he would build infrastructure for several years in the Clément area, including building roads, dredging rivers, building water conservancy, and promoting advanced crop cultivation techniques.
This move was immediately sought after by the knights, and in order to get the construction project, many of the great knights even ran to the city lord's palace every day, waiting for the latest news - it is said that the new lord brought a million gold coins to build here, and the people of the Clément region were high. Even those knights who disobeyed their orders were also moved at the moment. It's just that the lord has not been heard from since he issued a summoning order. The crowd didn't know what to do for a while.
After releasing these two pieces of news, Alan immediately sent people to investigate the situation in various parts of the territory and prepare for the construction of the territory. At this moment, there are only about six months left before the Abyss Invasion, and next spring, the entire Divine Grace Continent will be plunged into chaos.
Despite this, Alan did not relax his pace at all, because he knew that the battle for the plane was a protracted war, and the infrastructure in the territory would definitely have to be built repeatedly before it could meet the needs of long-term warfare. If water conservancy is not built, after the war lasts for two years, it will not be possible to provide food after the battlefield, so how can this war be fought?
In addition to sorting out the problems of people's livelihood, Eren also faced the problem of 7 knight lords refusing to obey the call. Right now, with Allen's personal strength, there are naturally many ways to make this group of knights obediently submit, but Allen didn't do it. But through their own effective measures one after another, they continue to improve the people's morale.
When the people in the land of the seven lords couldn't sit still, Alan did not hide his decisive nature at all, and quickly took down all the people in this group, and arranged for the knight lord to lead it. As the saying goes, whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, in this way, in a short period of time, Allen completely mastered the Clemment region from three aspects: military, political, and economic.
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And just when Alan himself entered the Clemon area and carried out the preliminary construction planning of the territory in full swing, the Ash Assassin and Shirley and others traveled along the Raspar River for about 10 days, and gradually saw the boundless fog that permeated the banks of the river.
In addition, along the way, Allen's clone also calculated one thing, it would take 11 days to go all the way south from the Giant Mountain Range to the northwest entrance of White Fog Lake, and judging from the map, as long as Allen can open up several key roads on land, then the Grenor Territory, the Morel Territory and the Clemand Region can be connected together, and they can go back and forth to the three parties in a few days.
For this reason, Alan came up with a kind of tunnel construction project, which is a great project created by players in the later stages of the plane war, using the knowledge of the earth and combining the goblin technology of the Divine Grace Continent. This technology can excavate tunnels between mountains and mountains, and the structure is strong and highly concealed.
It's just that to dig a tunnel, I'm afraid it can't be done without a considerable level of technology, not to mention that Alan doesn't have the most money to support the research and development of this project. But no matter what, Alan still kept this matter in mind, looking at the goblin badge on his body, thinking about the goblin city that Master Sochi said, Alan secretly decided that in a few days, he must go to the goblin city to see.
At dawn on this day, with a few exclamations, Allen and the others entered the White Fog Lake area.
It is said that in the middle of the deep lake of the White Fog Lake, there is a huge stone formed by the condensation of the fog, and the huge stone seems to have fallen from the sky tens of thousands of years ago, and since then, the white fog has not dispersed all year round, forming a wonder.
Alan and the others woke up and saw the scene outside the cabin, and they all exclaimed. Alan stood on the deck of the black iron ship, as if soaked in milk, and when he reached out and touched it, the mist was as thick as a cloud.
On the first night of entering the White Mist Lake, Alan and the others rested in the first town in the northernmost part of the Three Towns of the White Mist, and the great knight of the town personally visited Allen.
At this time, Eren was appearing as an Ember Assassin, but the Grand Knight Mayor did not slack off at all, because Mr. Mayor heard that this hideous Mr. Assassin was a legendary powerhouse.
The first town to the north of the White Mist Lake was called Inari Town, and the mayor looked like he was in his 50s, very thin, very tall, and very white-skinned, and his name was Ansef. For the arrival of Alan and others, Mr. Mayor expressed a great welcome. That night, Alan and the others stayed in the mayor's mansion built in the middle of the river, and Anseff lit a bonfire in the room restaurant along the lake, burned the boiler, and entertained the guests with a white mist cod feast.
The surface of this white mist cod is silver, the skin is full of tension, and after being cut, the flesh is red and chewy. Mayor Ansef served everyone a large plate of cod meat and vegetable salad, venison and a plate of fried cod. Everyone sat in the room, the window open, and the fog outside the window kept drifting into the room.
In the middle of the room, there is a bonfire, on which fish soup is being cooked with deer milk, and the room is full of aroma.
ps, the first update is finished. (To be continued.) )