Chapter 500: Annual Summary (II)

In addition to what he had said publicly, Grant had previously privately submitted a report on the formation of the Guard.

The Guards are the Sovereign's henchmen, and for the time being, there is no need to explain it to his vassals.

In short, now the Guards have only set up a shelf, and Luo Ming's own strength is outstanding, so he is not in a hurry to come.

Finally, Ariana also reported on the state of religious affairs so far:

In this year, two shrines and five altars were built in the outer realms, as well as three altars to the goddess of agriculture.

Three shrines and seven altars were built in the mountain, as well as a shrine to the goddess of agriculture, two altars, and a shrine to the goddess of springs.

These temples and altars were subject to a religious subsidy from Lomin, and were subject to the orders and mobilization of Lomin and Schönbrunn governments, similar to landless wage knights.

If ordered, each temple may produce at least one junior priest and one apprentice aco-priest, and each altar may produce one aco-priest, with the exception of the temple of the goddess of springs.

Ariana said that she didn't want the goddess of spring water to really interfere here, so she used the statement that "the goddess of cleansing is the slave god of the goddess of spring", and she didn't know what means she had done, and she herself temporarily presided over the temple of the goddess of spring, so this temple could not send anyone, after all, it had no one.

In short, if you calculate it this way, Luo Ming already has at least seven junior priests and twenty-five apprentice assistants in his hands, which is not a small priest group, and the head of the priest group is Yaliana, who is Aya's doppelganger.

And he also has a total of five mages under him during this time, although all of them are outer rings, but they can also help a lot.

Three of them were recruited by him one after another, and the remaining two were quietly sent by Archmage Gandhi.

Luo Ming met the archmage's clone when he was a mercenary, and later hooked up with his main body in Brandon.

The archmage's body has been almost irreversibly damaged, obviously talented, but there is no chance of further promotion, seeing that his life is about to run out, the archmage naturally refuses to give up just like that, and secretly finds some ways to be reborn and heal the injury.

But that method can't be disturbed, otherwise if you are not careful, you will not heal your own injury, but will be in ashes.

So the archmage secretly befriended Luo Ming, a genius swordsman, and generously gave him a lot of assistance, asking for nothing more than two possibilities - when Luo Ming is strong, protect the Dharma for the archmage when he heals his injuries, or make big news to attract the attention of some people, so that the archmage secretly Chen Cang.

Of course, Archmage Gandhi himself actually has stronger mages under him, for example, there are two Central mages among his disciples, but they serve in the mage group of the principality, and they are also watched by many people, so it is not easy to find an opportunity to come to Luo Ming.

Luo Ming also has a conjecture, that is, in fact, Archmage Gandhi is not necessarily at ease with his disciples - if he dies, the disciples can receive his inheritance, maybe they will be bribed by the archmage's enemies for the inheritance, interfere with the treatment of injuries, or sell this information directly.

Therefore, only these two outer ring mages who were also peripheral among the disciples were sent, and they did not tell them the inside story, only told them to obey Luo Ming's arrangement.

At this point, the report meeting is almost over.

Next, everyone went to the next lounge to rest for a while, drink some health medicine or something, and then have a second meeting.

Even Luo Ming would feel tired if he held two meetings in a row, so he simply put the beginning of the second meeting in the afternoon, and the second half of the meeting will be held tomorrow.

Although Luo Ming will feel very tired after such a set, and other people such as Dakang will have to rest for a whole day to relieve themselves, but this will be worth it, or have to hold such a meeting, at most, it is to learn a lesson this time, improve it next time, and increase the rest link.

After all, this is the meeting that summarizes the implementation of one year's plan and formulates the next year's plan, in a sense, determines the future direction of the entire Schönbrunn Territory, and every word can change the fate of hundreds of people.

To be honest, Luo Ming is not very familiar with politics.

No matter how he touches the bypass, he is not a political science major, and the process of his practice as a lord has only been two years, and his level can only be regarded as average, if it weren't for the fact that he gained the prestige of a great man from heaven by various means as a traverser, and he has extraordinary strength to suppress the overall situation, and with the help of Aya, a god-level consultant, something would definitely go wrong.

But he has at least a normal understanding of politics in the 21st century, and it is natural to say that he has learned a lot of dragon slaying skills, but it is okay to say that he understands a little.

Therefore, he knew that in the history of the earth, "planning" was a method that had many ills, but was effective in speeding up development and concentrating efforts, and that the practice in many countries has been proven to accelerate industrialization.

Different from the earth, Luo Ming also has an advantage - whether it is a certain Celestial Dynasty or a certain Red Dynasty, when it was engaged in planned economy and industrialization at the beginning, it was not too rich in food.

And the grain produced in Luo Ming's current territory can not only feed all the people, but also have a lot of surplus that can be used to raise a large number of chickens and make wine.

Of course, this kind of good life cannot last, since there is a surplus of food, the people will definitely have a higher willingness to have children, and then the population will enter a period of rapid growth, squeezing out most of the surplus food.

But as long as it takes effect in the past few years, after these few years have passed, Luo Ming will be able to eat the demographic dividend of industrialization, even if it is a simple industrialization, there is no problem in feeding this person.

Of course, if he could occupy a larger area, he would be able to introduce new agricultural techniques on more arable land, increase production, and produce a lot of surplus grain, but that would be for later.

Now that the duchy has returned to a state of peace, Luo Ming has little chance to casually encroach on the existing farmland of other people's families, and if he reclaims the wasteland himself, the agricultural population under his command is limited, and it will take some time for many mountain people who do not know how to farm to get used to agricultural production.

After a three-hour break, the people gathered around the table for the next round of meetings.

Little did they know that the plan they had painstakingly developed at the meeting would be wasted just a month later.