Chapter 358: There Will Be a Battle
News soon spread in the Sadrand County Mansion that tax exemptions and incentives for spring ploughing were passed down on one by one. On the same day www.biquge.info the county warden also sent the tax commissioner Charles and the deputy commander Alok directly to the nearest town to supervise the execution.
Such a move surprised many people, because in the past, the decrees issued by the county towns to the lower towns were usually issued by people to implement them. There was no precedent for the tax collector of the county town and the deputy commander of the military headquarters to be personally supervised in such a way, which is enough to prove how much the county governor attached great importance to the tax exemption decree!
Such a resolute action naturally made many people have a little more affection for this county prefect, Viscount Sadland. After all, as the county magistrate of a city, there are many affairs that need to be dealt with every day, and it is surprising and happy for many people to be able to pay such attention to people's livelihood and agriculture. Even the invitation banquet of a group of local magnates and wealthy businessmen in the city of Sadland, the county magistrate politely declined one by one, and for a while, it naturally made Jose, the Viscount of Sadland, a little more famous.
Almost as Alok and Charles left the county, Sophia quietly left Sadran with a convoy of hundreds of men, and she was accompanied out of the city by Martin, a young knight who was favored by Gould, and a battalion of soldiers from his garrison.
Martin, as the son of the deputy commander of the county town of Yarok, is naturally a representative of the youth generals in the military camp. This time, he received an order to escort a girl named Sophia to Kannai on an errand, and his calm father warned him very seriously in advance. The girl she escorted is a very unusual character, her identity is very special, and no matter what happens along the way, she must obey this Sophia's arrangement, this is a military order!
With such a serious look and tone, only when fighting against the enemy, my father would probably show such a look, right?
Although he was curious, Martin had grown up in the army since he was a child, and he was led by a calm and serious father like Aloke, and his temperament has always been cautious and steady. It's just that when he saw this girl called "Sophia", he couldn't help but be taken aback:
This guy is really a girl, she looks like she is only in her teens, although she looks beautiful and delicate, but she obviously looks childish, no different from the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls in the town of Sudland...... Such a girl turned out to be a big man with a special identity?
No matter how much he was puzzled and surprised, Martin still suppressed these emotions very well, and after a short hesitation, he quickly came back to his senses, and even gave a military salute to the girl, who looked much younger than himself, and introduced himself.
This girl didn't seem too surprised when she saw herself like this, and her attitude towards herself was still relatively kind. It's just that she is not as shy as those girls of the same age, and she is quite calm and generous in her speech. The girl even expressed some interest after learning about Martin's identity, praising herself as a good soldier!
Hell, how old does the girl in front of her look like! Sixteen, or fourteen?! Such old-fashioned words made Martin feel a little strange when he heard it, but he didn't feel anything wrong with the way she looked.
I don't know what's going on, but the calm appearance of the girl in front of her actually makes Martin feel that she is a little similar to the same young man who is already in the county town of Sadland......
However, Martin naturally only put these words in his heart, since his father had solemnly instructed him before, then the doubts in his heart were only temporarily suppressed in his heart. After a brief questioning of Miss Sophia, Martin learns that this little girl, who looks like she is in her teens, is actually Lord Chase's new staff!
Well, Martin didn't care about such a question anymore, because then, when the young staff lady heard him ask about the whereabouts of this trip, she only smiled faintly, and a strange look seemed to flash in her eyes: "We will go east, out of Moxiguan, to the city of Valen, and I will bring the greetings of Lord Joseph to the governor of the province, Lord Sistine......"
At this moment, in the city of Saddland, Jose and Gould were sitting opposite each other in the county warden's mansion, and the fat man looked at Jose with a puzzled expression, and couldn't help but ask with some surprise: "Boss, you said that you asked Martin to escort that little girl to Valen City?" Although I heard Alok say that the girl named Sophia seems to have some ability, but is it a little inappropriate for you to trust an outsider like this?"
"I know what you're worried about, but fat man, when I went to Master Kant that day, you were also by my side, do you think that guy would deliberately harm me?" Joseph smiled slightly, and shook his head a little carelessly: "To be honest, that Master Kant, I can't understand him." I knew that guy was more than just a learned sage, he knew even more than I thought. And from this Sophia, I see a little bit of the shadow of the Kant master.
But you also have to understand that we don't have any roots in Sadland right now, and the situation in the northwest is far more complicated than we think, so ...... What we can do now is to try to seize every opportunity that can be developed, because what we lack is time.
When it comes to training troops on the battlefield and fighting wars, others are naturally not as good as you Gould, but when it comes to things like taking care of internal affairs and making suggestions, you still need more people and more voices!"
When Gould heard him say this, he just snorted: "Boss Jose, you can rest assured of this, although I don't understand the calculations of those curved roads, but leading troops to fight these things, as long as you say a word, Lao Tzu will definitely not admit it!"
Hmph, it is important to manage power, but here in the northwest, if you want to establish prestige as soon as possible, the best way is to fight. Only after subduing others can we have the confidence to say what we can say to buy people's hearts! Of course, favors cannot be less, but majesty is sometimes more effective than these calculations!"
When Jose heard him say this, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile, and glared at Gould a little helplessly: "You fat man really came out of the army, and you think about things directly." However, there is some truth in what you said, after all, in a place like the northwest, it is not realistic to just want to gain a foothold with these schemes.
Far from it, at least for the past few days, that Gray Commander probably didn't have the heart to come to me for trouble, which can be regarded as saving me some snacks. But you don't have to be anxious, we're always going to have to fight our opponents in the near future!"