With the end of the fighting in the southern part of the country, the work after the war began to unfold.

The Horsman POW camp was still the largest POW camp after the war, and tens of thousands of Allied POWs waited for their fate in this camp, but it was a huge waste to let so many people live in the camp for a long time to eat white rice, so after the manpower problem of the escort team was alleviated, Gawain began to order the prisoner of war camp to be sent in batches to the Kant and Cecil regions - the aristocratic coalition army was vast with tens of thousands of horses, but in fact most of them were farmers and hunters recruited from the fields, and these people were completely useless in the war, But they are all good at plowing the fields, and they have no loyalty to their old masters, as long as they are sent to the construction area, with a little training, they are labor.

At the same time, a team of two hundred soldiers, a dozen administrative officers, and several "guides" also marched into the Horsman territory.

The guide of the team was a few of the old Hossman troops who survived the shelling of Gravel Ridge that day (and they may also be the only survivors of the men brought out by Hossman), and under their leadership, the "South Post-War Reconstruction Team" composed of soldiers and political officers made all the way to the castle of Count Hossman, and the soldiers and retainers who stayed behind in the castle had already received the news of the crushing defeat of the noble coalition and the Cecil takeover of the southern border - there was no way not to know, after all, a huge prisoner of war camp was built on the edge of the territory- The men waited tremblingly in the castle for ten days, and when the Cecil appeared, they opened the castle gates with little resistance, and tied the sons and daughters of Count Hossmann to the carriage and sent them to the governor of Cecil.

According to Gawain's orders, the nobles' heirs, family members, and the old knights were taken prisoner and sent to Cecil proper, while the working group took over the Count's castle directly, began to reorganize the castle, issued decrees, and began to establish a second-level government office.

The young political officer, Daedalus, sat in the study that had once belonged to the Earl of Hossmann, and with him several of his colleagues, who had moved into the storehouse the original flashy heavy wood carvings and pewter trellises, and then placed a large table and some chairs in the study and used it as a makeshift office, and in a similar way transformed the adjacent rooms, in which the government officials from Cecil were planning a new order in the land, little by little.

Looking at the scene of his colleagues working at their desks, and looking around at the gorgeous murals and bookshelves that still remain in this study, Deedalus could not help but feel a little emotional.

He's a Horsman – at least he once was.

The son of a merchant under the leadership of Hossman, and the apprentice of a respectable historian, he was the envy of his peers and the hope of his family's rise to the top of society and the nobility, and if it weren't for the fact that his teacher had offended Earl Hossman when he studied the genealogy of the nobility of the South, and that he had run to the castle to defend his mentor due to his youthful impulses, perhaps his fate would have been completely different than it is today.

But he should be thankful for the terrible experiences—though when they happened, he thought it was the worst day of his life—that had led him to leave the Hossman Territory and become a deplorable scribe in Tanzania, and that he had been paid two gold coins to board a merchant ship bound for Cecil, who was still poor at the time, and became one of the first apprentices to be a clerk.

From clerk to clerk, then from clerk to second-level assistant of the department, and then from assistant to official of the government department...... The rapid development of the territory during the Initial Period, along with the rapid development of the territory's management team, the lack of manpower and the strength of its own allowed the young Daedalus to complete these enviable promotions in one year, and in the end, he returned to the Horsman Domain, from an exiled scholar's apprentice to an official in charge of taking over the territory and preparing for the establishment of the second-level government office.

The past year seemed to be living in a dream, and now is the time when the dream is at its deepest.

But returning from the glory does not mean being able to indulge oneself, and Daedalus knows this, Cecil's legal system and the rules and regulations of the administrative department are extremely strict, and this new power organ is not to plunder the wealth of the territory, but to maintain the order of the territory and protect the rights and interests of citizens, and the eloquent lord seems to have considered the corruption of people after gaining power and status at the beginning of the establishment of the government department, and he has set up a strict system of cross-supervision and evaluation at each level of management, Although Daedalus knew that no amount of strict institutions could eradicate the corruption of the powerful, at least he was happy to abide by those institutions that had ensured Cecil's strength, his victory, and ultimately that he and his team of magistrates could sit here and control the land that had once belonged to an earl.

After searching the entire castle and finding Earl Hossmann's former advisers and stewards, the soldiers soon found a dossier recording the affairs of the territory—a dossier, but in fact the things were simple and pitiful, basically just a general cram of the various title deeds and the general situation of each region in a few large books, which were completely different from the clearly classified and convenient archives in Cecil's government office, but they were better than nothing.

On the basis of the rudimentary dossier, and the information gathered along the way after entering the territory, a plan for taking over all the noble estates and fields in the territory was quickly drawn up, and when the population and land statistics were completed, the distribution of land and the movement of the population would begin, and the basic order would be ensured in the process...... The task force had a lot to do, but everything was planned before departure, and with Kant's experience first, Daedalus didn't feel too much pressure.

After finishing the drafting of a new document, Deedalus raised his head, moving his slightly stiff neck, and the office door was pushed open, and two soldiers walked in with a tall, thin black-haired man.

These soldiers were not only the escorts of the working group and the "bandit suppression force" after taking over the territory, but they were also the administrative executives before the normal operation of the second-level government office, thanks to the continuous education work in the Cecil region, every soldier in the combat corps had basic literacy skills, although not up to the standard of clerks and clerks of the government department, but in this era, the ordinary Cecil soldiers were already better than the noble affairs officers in many places - most of the latter were illiterate.

"What does this man do?" Deedalus looked curiously at the man the soldier had brought in, and he confirmed that he had not seen each other before.

"We found him in a cellar and he seemed to be intending to leave the castle through the tunnels, but we caught him," one soldier reported, "and he said that his name was Green, that he was a fur merchant in the territory, that he had been arrested by his lord because he could not pay his taxes, and that he was ready to flee when he heard that the lord had been defeated. ”

"Green......" Deedalus raised his head and looked at the black-haired hook-nosed man in front of him, and the other party also showed a smile that looked quite fearful and humble, and bent down and said in the least hostile tone: "Sir, I am just a businessman...... I was going to do business with Cecil, but as you know, Count Hossmann hated Cecil, and merchants who wanted to go to the southeast to do business would be seized by him under various names, so I ......"

"Green?? Wolfe, Count Hossman's intelligence advisor, low-level stalker, thirty-two years old, male, emaciated, black-haired hooked nose, was a well-known mercenary in the Hossman region in his early years, he was almost killed for competing with others for an exploration mission, but found a knight's sword sealed in the wall while recuperating from his injuries, and used this as an opportunity to enter Earl Hossman's castle......" Deedalus casually pulled out a card from a pile of papers, and raised his eyelids to look at Green as he read it, "...... On the night of Count Hossmann's defeat, your dinner was potato stew and two glasses of Karna wine, right? ”

All of Green's smiles stiffened on his face, and his eyes slowly widened in disbelief.

As an intelligence chief, he knew too well what the card that the other party had drawn out casually meant.

"Mr. Greene, Cecil is everywhere, please keep that in mind," Deedalus put on Green?? Wolfe's detailed information card match returned to the folder, looked into the other party's eyes and said slowly, "You shouldn't lie in the first place, it's not conducive to shortening your labor period." ”

Green?? Wolf felt his cold sweat begin to seep out, and he subconsciously repeated a certain word in the other party's words: "...... Labor? ”

"Yes, labor, according to Gawain?? By the orders of the Duke of Cecil, all the sons and relatives of the defeated nobles, the retainers and knights, and the transcendents who were vassals should be reformed through labor, and you will realize the glory of being a citizen of Cecil in the great labor, Mr. Green. ”

Two soldiers stepped forward and put Green?? Wolf was caught in the middle.

"You should feel lucky, Mr. Green, Gawain?? The Duke of Cecil is merciful and just, and Cecil has strict laws, the law punishes you and protects you, you only need to work, and you don't have to be filled in shell craters like those who resist stubbornly," said Deedalus, taking out a pre-printed document, filling in the key information and signing it, and then handing it to one of the soldiers, "first to the prisoner of war camp, and then to the North Shore Frontier Zone, where there is a shortage of men." Here are his identification and handover documents. ”

"Wait...... Wait a minute! "Green?? It was only then that Wolf realized that the special methods of the Cecil were completely different from what he had expected, and that none of the schemes he had conceived when he was captured had come in use, which made him very unwilling, and he did not know what the other party meant by "labor reform", and he instinctively felt a little uneasy in the presence of such unheard things, "I am willing to swear allegiance to the Duke of Cecil—I still have many possessions, all hidden in my country estate, and I can take them all, sir, I can redeem myself, I know the rules of ransom...... Sir, I have an idea...... No, no, no, I have a suggestion......"

"Of course you'll be loyal to Duke Cecil, I'm pretty sure of that, but that's after you've finished your labor reform," Deedalus interrupted Green?? Wolf's words, with a formulaic smile on his face, said as he took the previous documents from the soldier's hand, "But in response to your bold idea, Cecil has a whole set of laws - trying to bribe the officials of the government department to evade the labor reform, and propose to extend the labor period by two months. ”

Green?? Wolf was stunned for a moment, then watched as the document was returned to the soldier after some new entries had been added.

"Mr. Greene, I wish you all the best in your transformation and an early and glorious citizen of Cecil. Good bye. ”

After the soldier left with the former "intelligence consultant", Deedalus couldn't help but smile and shook his head, and said to his colleagues beside him, "How could they have thought that the technicians who built their magic network and the businessmen operating in the territory have military intelligence agents? ”

"That's it, the intelligence chief," one of the administrative officials shook his head, "it's better to catch a goose than this kind of person over there." ”

"Why geese?"

"I don't know, this is what the lord said - he said that the director of the military intelligence bureau is stronger than the goose."

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