Bay City shook with a newspaper!

Some rejoice, some are depressed, some are indifferent, and some are angry.

Of course, these people are not because of the newspaper itself, but because of the content of the newspaper.

The new sheriff, Barry, is the perfect executor lord Allen, and the mission in the newspaper is to clear the forces in the city of the Black Pirate Regiment.

Bay City is located on the west side of the Gold Coast, just outside the city with the endless Golden Sea. Due to its location, it has gradually become a supply point for many people on the sea, including pirates, mages, and adventurers.

Mages and adventurers live a low-key life, and the other is very mobile, so entering Bay City is simply not given, but pirates are different, their range of activities is limited to the sea, and they will not hide themselves like mages, naturally, this pirate's supply point has gradually been infiltrated by pirates under long-term contact.

Most of the shops in the commercial area have the shadow of pirates behind them, or they are cooperative, or completely controlled.

That's why when the pirates first came into contact with Allen, it was the merchants who came, not the pirates themselves.

Of course, the power of the pirates does not stop there, and the port area, gangster forces, shipyards, and other trade and power related to the sea in Bay City are basically the "industry" of the pirates.

As one of the more powerful pirates, the Black Hand Pirate Group naturally has a lot of industries in Bay City.

In the commercial district, there are three grain stores, a tavern, a shipyard, and a gang of gangsters.

These are the targets that the new sheriff, Barry, needs to purge out.

His mission is not simple, although the official members of the Black Hand Pirate Regiment have "fled" due to Allen's money offensive, the other pirates will not watch Alan clear those Black Hand peripheral members and then get into "their" territory.

So Barry was always attacked or harassed by various unknown people on the way to the clean-up at first, which was not fatal, but it was enough to be annoying, and then when he arrived at his destination, he often couldn't see the people of the Black Hand Pirate Regiment.

After leaving, those people will return to their original places, and they will be constantly subjected to harassing attacks.

It wasn't until Eren declared that he would only clear the people and not occupy any territory that these obstacles disappeared.

Then Barry's cleanup mission was completed very smoothly. Leaving behind a bunch of ownerless industries, the port area and the commercial district have caused countless chaotic incidents, and there is a great tendency to intensify.

Alan had expected that pirates were not good gentlemen, in the face of a plate of deliciousness, many pirates wanted a piece of the pie, and there was no hegemon-level power among them, so they could not cause oppression to many pirates, and naturally, the pirates would be in turmoil because of the robbery of profits.

However, the turmoil did not affect the lives of ordinary people too much, and Alan had already ordered Barry to stay in that area for a long time, and they would stop any chaos that spread to the living areas of ordinary people.

At first, the pirates didn't pay much attention to this, but after the members were caught one after another, they became much more honest, not because they were afraid of the patrols, but because in this case, no one would give themselves an enemy, and besides, this enemy was still very strong.

Because of the removal of Carter, the city defense officer, so now the armed forces in Bay City basically have the final say, through a combination of grace and power, those militias have no objections, and many militias even welcome Allen, a generous lord.

Now he had at his disposal an armed force of about 1,300 men, a security patrol of 300 men, and a militia of about 1,000 men.

Although there is already a way to solve the next fish-man invasion, Allen has not interrupted the mission of these militias, they basically have to do this kind of work every year, it has become a tradition, and many militias are skeptical that Allen's hired mercenaries can fight against fishmen.

In the face of the danger of their homeland being invaded, no one is not cautious, so Alan doesn't care much about it, and even supports it.

Self-confidence is one thing, but who doesn't want to be extra insured? If Bay City is breached because of his carelessness, then a lot of his efforts will be in vain, and his development plans will be seriously affected.

The patrols were patrolling daily and keeping an eye on pirate unrest, and the militia was busy with the fortifications on all four walls, and now Alan had at his disposal only twenty of his bodyguards and fifty of the castle defenders.

He didn't need to go out for a while, it was only seven days before he was "assassinated", and he was still a "seriously wounded" who couldn't go out.

But even though he can't go out, that doesn't mean he's idle. By distributing wheat, Allen was able to do a census, which needed to be sorted out and archived.

Of course, he didn't organize it himself, he had a subordinate presence, he only needed to customize the format of the document and the filing steps. After all, the advanced concepts of the previous life are not comparable to the current world, and some documents are handled well, which can facilitate people's access and prevent leaks, and Allen still has a lot to say about this.

In addition to this, his main job is to recruit people.

He had brought a lot of soldiers from Reef City, but only fifteen civilians, which was a drop in the bucket for a city.

The political system of this world is very similar to that of the previous medievals, and the officials in the city are basically canonized by the lords, and the officials are all centered on serving the lords.

But Bay City is different, there were no lords here before, naturally, the officials were only responsible for the basic operation of the city, and there was no situation of serving anyone.

Here, the basic functioning of the city requires only three things: taxation, city defense, and law.

The law used to be the responsibility of the former city lord, and now it is Alan's work, but because of his "injury", he is now temporarily handed over to Barry, who manages the law. In the future, he doesn't plan to manage it directly, but to find someone to replace him. With magic, he didn't want to be a judge and be busy working all day.

In the past, the city defense included the militia regiment and the security patrol, but now Allen classifies the security patrol as the law, the militia group does not have a reliable manpower management at present, and it is relatively chaotic, but the militia are all locals, and now there is a fish-man invasion at the moment, and there will be no chaos.

Only the tax system keeps him at ease.

The city's taxation system is very large, divided into three departments: investigation, accounting, and collection, with a total number of no less than 100 people.

Now that the treasurer Keith has been removed by him, he can put his hand in it, but because of the lack of manpower, the tax system left behind cannot be moved at all, and it is basically left as it is. Allen's envisioned tax system needs to be replaced by all people, otherwise the officials and petty officials who have been corrupted by money will not be able to reassure him at all.

Look at his census this time, 23,000 people, this is not the entire population, but check the previous residence tax records, the most one is only more than 18,000 people poll tax, where is the rest?

This is only the basic residence tax, and the business tax, which is the largest part of the tax, is even more flawed.

He must change the tax system, but there are not so many people who can use it at the moment, so the current situation is still maintained.

However, he did not do nothing, the fifteen civil servants he brought were previously scattered in the two places of taxation and the Seagull Newspaper, and now they are all placed in the tax system by him, correspondingly, some literate former tax officers have entered the Seagull Newspaper, compared to the fat difference of the tax officer, they are naturally very reluctant, but in the face of the order of Allen, the new lord, no one dares to blatantly disobey, at least they don't dare.

The heads of the nearly 100 gangsters in the port area are still stuck on the pole for people to "see".

However, using those people is only a temporary measure, and after a while, many people with poor character will definitely be eliminated; as the vanguard officer of his six-pointed star charge, Alan is very concerned about the newspaper.

There is a shortage of people for the reform of the tax system, for the expansion of the patrol, for the operation of the Seagull Newspaper, and for the neighborhood committee he founded on a whim.

After taking initial control of Bay City, Alan has fallen into a whirlwind of massive shortages, but he believes it won't be long before he can get rid of it.

The world is not as diverse as it was in the past, and the countless gangs and beggars in the city can attest to how difficult it is to have a job here.

Not to mention jobs that can make money.

And in the recruitment information released by Allen, whether it is a military or a clerical position, it is the kind of job that is not only decent, but also profitable.

So a lot of people in Bay City have been excited about it lately.

The civilian job is still poor, the stars are generally illiterate, and the remote town of Bay City is even more so, there are very few literate and hyphenated people, since the recruitment information came out, there are less than ten civilian personnel who have gone to Rowwanna to apply.

Martial arts applicants are different, hundreds of people go to the interview every day, because of the need to screen qualified people, so the specific number of hires has not been determined, but Allen believes that the shortage of people in the martial arts has basically been solved.

The clerical aspect is difficult to handle, but he has already sent people to Reef City and surrounding cities to recruit, and the conditions given by Allen are very good, and I believe that the results will be seen soon.

Everything is thriving in Bay City, and as an obstacle to the city's development, the pirates are currently mostly on the sidelines, except for the power left behind by the black hand. With the experience of the black hand, although many pirates are resentful of the lord of Allen, they do not dare to act rashly.

Yes, resentment.

The Black Hand Pirate Regiment is just a reckless and a rising bird, and the merchants who gave Alan money in the first place were not just the members of the Black Hand Pirate Corps, but all the merchants united, that is, all the pirates sent money to Allen.

However, at Alan's behest, Barry never stopped catching some troublesome pirates in the city during this time, and he didn't give them face at all.

This is as disgusting and irritating as eating flies for the murderous pirates.

After receiving their money, he kept arresting people without being merciful, and if he replaced Allen, he would probably be angry.

So Alan understands them very well.

However, understanding is understanding, and what should be grasped is still grasped.

Who asked them to send money without saying it explicitly, they didn't say who knows what it means to send me money.

If I knew what they meant, I wouldn't want the money.

These are the messages that the pirates have heard from the castle of Pochi, and it is said that it is the words of the young lord.

Of course, this is what Alan deliberately released, for those pirate forces in Bay City, Alan will have to clean up sooner or later, but the current conditions do not allow it, so he can't act rashly.

But until then, it's okay to be disgusting and disgusting, and it's boring to stay in the castle anyway.

Because there was no advanced meditation technique, Allen's magic cultivation had reached a bottleneck.

His magic advisor, Mr. Raphael, couldn't teach Eren the advanced meditation techniques that were unique to the Water Tower because of the rules of the Water Tower, and he couldn't do anything else.

And the dwarf Oliver, who was busy making the wind elemental staff, was happy to make a deal with Allen, but unfortunately, the dwarf mage's meditation technique was different from that of humans, and Alan couldn't use it at all.

As a result, Eren has set out to build up energy clusters to see if the White Gift can solve his current predicament.

However, this accumulation did not take long before it came to an abrupt end, and the arrival of a letter changed the situation.