After lunch in the castle, the goblins take their leave, and Keith, the fat man who guides the way, takes on the task of settling the goblins.

The others dispersed, and Barry and Rowan, two busy men, stayed behind to report to work.

Sitting at the conference table, Barry first reported: "We have recruited more than 500 people, counting the original 300 people, it is more than enough to solve the law and order task at present." ”

"This is still the result of careful selection, and if you let go of recruitment, the number will increase several times. ”

"People are more expensive than they are"

Alan said: "Let's keep these eight hundred people for the time being, well, you train them first, and then continue to recruit them when they are basically qualified." ”

"Still recruiting?"

Barry was a little confused: "But the security task is completely sufficient, and the security is much better now than before." ”

Alan shook his head with a smile and asked, "What do you think of those thousand militiamen?"

Barry thought for a moment, then replied, "It's all great, it's just that the discipline is too bad." ”

As he said, most of the militia in Bay City are very strong individually, and some are not even weaker than the local mercenaries, which is caused by the general environment, not only in Bay City, but also in all cities of Stars.

There are too many crises outside the city, and the city is not very peaceful, most of the civilians of the Star Empire are strong, and there are few who are helpless, and they usually have the habit of exercising every day.

"yes, the discipline is poor. Alan asked rhetorically, "What do you think is the most important thing as a soldier?"

"Discipline!"

"That's right, it's discipline. ”

Allen nodded: "A soldier with discipline, who knows how to cooperate, knows the rules, and knows how to fight as a team, is very important for the army." ”

As he spoke, he shook his head and said, "But an undisciplined soldier is still a soldier?"

Barry weakly replied, "Aren't they militia?" ”

Rowan, who was parked on the side, rolled his eyes, and couldn't help but feel anxious about the emotional intelligence of his colleagues.

In the face of the leader's lecture, you can listen to it, what kind of bar is it to raise blindly.

Alan didn't care about this, he laughed and said, "It's true that they're just militia, but the militia can't perfectly protect my city, so..."

"Forming a regular army?" Rowan's secret guess tended to be in sync with Allen's voice, and then he frowned, and couldn't help but say: "It's good to form an army, but I'm afraid that the financial aspect will not be able to make ends meet." ”

"According to the current point of view, the revenue of the territory is slightly rich, but if it continues to develop like this, I am afraid that taxes can only be balanced with expenditures, and it is impossible to make money from it, if you add the regular army..."

Rowan pursed his lips, and the rest of the words were not spoken.

Alan replied, "I'll figure it out when it comes to money." ”

"Do you want to invest money in the territory again?" Rowan said helplessly: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of Young Master Allen, although I don't know how much money you have, but I think that your private property is not unlimited, if you always invest in the territory, I am afraid it will be exhausted sooner or later." ”

For the loyal advice of his subordinates, Alan just smiled slightly, clubbed his chin with both hands and said: "High investment can have high returns, this is an eternal truth. ”

"Okay. ”

Rowan had nothing more to say.

On the one hand, he felt that Allen's decision was correct, and on the other hand, he felt that Allen was a little eager for quick success. In view of the current situation in Bay City, it can be regarded as a beginning of vigorous development, and he believes that the most important thing at present should be a stable form, not a further change.

The subordinates wanted to say and Alan looked at it, but he didn't mean to explain.

To put it bluntly, he doesn't mean to be drunk, and the development of the territory will eventually pave the way for the charging of the golden finger, but he doesn't really want to farm here honestly.

The current financial situation is indeed tight, Alan himself does not plan to move the tax revenue in the city, he plans to invest all this money in the construction of the city, and his personal treasury is estimated to be able to support the end of this fish-man bounty.

However, Alan is not very worried about the gold coin, with the existence of the last drawing, Alan will not worry about the gold coin at all in the future.

After all, no one in this world knows better than him how crazy women can go for beauty.

In his previous life, the ladies of this world must not let him down.

"How's the fourth newspaper going?"

Alan changed the subject.

Rowan replied, "It's already on the way." ”

After speaking, he couldn't help but add: "It's just that I'm afraid the newspaper will be closed next month, and the monsters outside the city are too crazy during the starry period, and we can't continue to transport them at all." ”

"Expected. ”

Alan sighed: "After the stars are over, the matter of building a printing house will be on the agenda. ”

"Okay. Rowan nodded earnestly.

Bay City really needs a local printing house, otherwise it would be too inconvenient to go to Reef City to print, and the three days back and forth is too long, not to mention, the road is not smooth. At the beginning of the month, they were lucky that nothing went wrong, but that's all there is to say.

Rowan suddenly remembered something and said, "Speaking of newspapers, many of our clerical staff have recently taken part-time job as storytellers, and it is said that they have also made a lot of money. ”

This proves that there is too much illiteracy in the city. ”

Alan said half-jokingly: "I have plans to build a school in the city to educate the citizens, so that when we recruit, more people can sign up, and the province will always recruit people from other places." ”

Luo Wen wanted to speak and stopped: "Well, this matter is good, but it needs a lot of gold coins..."

Alan said funny: "Don't worry, it's not now." By the way, how are you doing with meditation?"

Compared to the mages in this world, Alan didn't have the idea of sealing himself up, so after obtaining the primary meditation technique and feeling that it had an effect, he handed it over to Luo Wen, who was already under him at the time, and basically started cultivating together.

As for Barry, after coming to Bay City, Alan felt that he was still good, so he handed it to him by the way.

Faced with Allen's question, the two looked different.

Rowan replied with a little excitement: "It's slowly growing." ”

Barry said sullenly: "It's still the same, it has no effect except for being more energetic." ”

Alan analyzed: "Luo Wen, your situation is normal, after all, it has only been more than half a year and less than a year, and I was like this before. When it stops growing, it's time to face a bottleneck. ”

"As for you. Alan looked at Barry: "Although I haven't been cultivating for a long time, it won't always be ineffective, um..."

"I don't think I'm well suited to this. Barry said a little depressedly, "I can't do it if I don't move and think about it." ”

Alan couldn't understand why the effect of each person's cultivation would be different for that kind of simple thing, and in the end, he could only say with a smile: "Maybe this still requires a little talent." ”

Barry became even more frustrated when he heard this, and Alan couldn't help but comfort him when he saw this: "Don't worry, since you can't practice meditation, I'll see if I can get a copy of the Free Federation's Warrior Secret Technique from Mr. Bauer in a few days, he mentioned this thing before, I think it should be fine." ”

"Really?" Barry swept away his previous frustration as soon as he heard the secret technique of the Warrior, and said happily, "That's really good!"

But in the end, he suddenly hesitated a little: "It's just... Didn't His Majesty the Emperor say that the people of the Imperials were forbidden to practice the secret art of the Free Federation? ”

Luo Wen asked disdainfully on the side, "Have you seen what His Majesty the Emperor looks like?"

"No," Barry replied honestly.

"Then why did you listen to him? He didn't even give you a copper coin. ”

"But—" Barry opened his mouth, only to find that he had nothing to refute.

Alan added, "As long as you don't tell yourself, no one will know that you practice secret arts." ”

Barry smiled and nodded.

Looking at the reaction of the two subordinates to this problem, Alan couldn't help but sigh.

Allen's previous life was an equal society, and there were no emperors, kings, nobles or anything like that.

Rowan has been following him for a long time, and some concepts have been influenced by him unconsciously, and his reverence for royal power is basically gone.

Barry, on the other hand, has a little shorter time and has to continue to adapt...

"Is there any movement at sea lately?" Alan suddenly looked at Rowan.

"Not yet. Rowan replied: "But it should be soon, I estimate that it will only be these two days." ”

"Yes. Alan was slightly distracted, and then smiled at the two: "I've been waiting for this day for a long time. ”