In the early morning, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the rivers of the Luoshui River slowly became muddy and turbulent. The southern tributaries of the Luoshui River are white sediment along the banks, and once the rainwater body is turbid, it will turn white, so this section of the tributary is called the Bailuoshui River.

Correspondingly, the tributary of the north side of the Luoshui River is called the Heiluoshui River, because there are many aquatic plants on the riverbank and the water body is black. The western tributary flows through a piece of red earth called the Hongluoshui River. The tributaries on the east side flow to the sea and are called the Lanluoshui River.

In the morning, Mei Yi did not ask the cook to deliver the meal, but walked to the restaurant with an umbrella. He fiddled with the omelette and bread slices on his plate with his fork, a little absent-minded. Illya, who was dining at the same table, thought that Mei Yi missed Mei Luke, but only Liulu knew what was going on.

"By the way, my lord, I hired a new clerk last night. She is very knowledgeable and insightful, and can be used to enrich the office of lordship affairs, what do you think? ”

Mei Yi said: "Okay, now is also the time when the mansion is short of people." If you meet the right person, you can recruit it. ”

After breakfast, Mei Yi went to the courtyard of the joint office of the ministers to take a look and found that they were all busy checking the report sorted out by the advance team, preparing to hand it over to Mei Yi for review today.

Mei Yi was indescribably grateful to the Duchess and Liuxi's mother, if they hadn't sent an advance team to take over the mansion in advance, check the accounts, get familiar with the people, understand the people's situation, and contact the lords under their jurisdiction, if they just came over like this, they wouldn't have been able to do anything at all in half a year.

Before lunch, a thick stack of reports was handed over to Mei Yi. He flipped through it briefly, sweat dripping down.

Caterina said, "My lord, some people have been robbed of the wealth in the treasury by getting the news of Christine's failed coup d'état in the royal city in advance. According to the former tax collector of the mansion, the amount of gold coins accumulated in the treasury is not less than 10 million.

Mei Yi exclaimed again: "What? In addition to dozens of baby soldiers and veterans, remnants, and wounded soldiers, there is not a single soldier left in the lord army? In other words, we only have twenty goblin warriors and thirty elven warriors that I brought with us, right? Not to mention a nobleman, even a gang of robbers can wipe us out! ”

Flynn said, "Your Excellency, please read it before commenting." ”

As soon as Evelyn's words fell, Mei Yi said in her heart: "I'll go away, what kind of consular district is this?" It's clearly a robber's den! There are more than a dozen large bandit organizations, with a total number of more than 2,000 people, which is almost half the number of a large lord's standing army! No, my heart hurts. ”

Flynn said: "My lord, Christine originally had a private army of nearly 4,200 people, of which two or three thousand fled after getting the news of Christine's failed coup, and nearly a thousand people simply became robbers, gathering on the outskirts of Sombra City to rob passers-by and caravanserais. Now almost no out-of-town merchants have come in. ”

Mei Yitie blushed and looked at what was written in the report: "Sombra City and the surrounding twenty-one counties have a cumulative population of nearly two million, including nearly 1.8 million elves, 150,000 goblins, and about 30,000 humans. The literacy rate is only 23 per cent, and the ratio of males to females is about the same. ”

"In the counties under the jurisdiction of Sombra City, the vast majority of the people except the nobles can only eat one meal a day, and countless people starve to death in famine years...... In the middle of this year, the lower reaches of the Bailuoshui River flooded, all grain crops were destroyed, the major lords had no intention of providing relief, and the residents starved to death countless ......"

After reading the report, Meiyi felt heavy.

Flynn looked at Mei Yi's sad look and said, "Lord Lord, you don't need to be too frustrated, although we don't have many warriors, we are all carefully selected elites of the hundred battles, and we will definitely be able to protect you and your family." However, the situation in front of him is indeed troublesome, and Madame has long said that if you need it, you can mention it to her again, and she will do her best to meet it. ”

Mei Yi pursed her lips and said, "If I really do that, Serena will have to laugh at me." Besides, Madame is a good man, and has never refused my request. You all have to remember that you must not bully good people and take everything for granted. ”

Flynn said, "But ......"

Mei Yi raised her head and said, "Katarina, fill the one million gold coins I brought into the treasury, and cooperate with the Minister of Agriculture, Walter, to purchase improved seeds and disaster relief materials, and quickly distribute them to various consular districts." Evelyn, immediately send a letter to the major lords in my name, asking them to organize disaster relief immediately, and all violators will be abolished and all property will be confiscated. The letter was sent immediately. ”

Evelyn exclaimed, "My lord, it's better to wait until tomorrow to meet with the major lords before discussing this matter." You've also read the report, none of these big and small lords are easy to mess with, do you think you should wait until tomorrow to meet with the big lords to discuss this matter? Wait, where did you get that million gold coins? ”

Mei Yi said: "I won in the major casinos before I left the True Spirit. I can wait, but the victims can't. Hurry up and do it. ”

Everyone except Illya, the head of the Office of Lords' Affairs, retreated, and Meiyi called Aras, and talked to him in the dim candlelight for nearly half an hour, both of them had their hair burned a lot by the candle, and they emitted a foul smell of burning, until Illya took out the glass lamp, which eliminated this embarrassment.

After Aras took the order, Illya said slowly, "Lord Lord, are you in a hurry? If you are unfamiliar with the situation, understaffed, and have an unstable foothold, you want to take the initiative against the leader under your jurisdiction, which is tantamount to suicide. ”

Mei Yi looked at the lightning outside the house and said, "Lord Bishop, I also know, but time is running out. Although the palace coup failed, it taught me a good lesson, and it is better to build up strength slowly than to strike a sudden blow, but to have a better chance of success. ”

Illya smiled dumbly and said, "The king, queen, and prince know that you have realized such a truth from the coup d'état, and they will definitely immediately issue an order to remove your lordship and tell you to go back quickly." ”

Mei Yi looked at the pouring rain outside the door, and said softly, "If there is really that day, I will go back, return to the original place, and be with Mei Luke." ”

As she spoke, Evelyn took twenty-one letters and signed them for Mei Yi, and after Mei Yi finished signing, Evelyn and the people from the lord's affairs office printed the letters and put them in bamboo tubes and handed them to the twenty-one elf and fairy warriors who had been waiting in the heavy rain for a long time.

Amid the long neighing of the horses, elves and elven warriors galloped away like arrows in the pouring rain.

Illya left the glass lamp for Meiyi and returned to the courtyard where she lived with an umbrella. She washed briefly, lay down under the covers, listened to the gurgling rain outside the window, thought for a long time, sighed long, and thought: It's a big deal to risk my life to help him tomorrow.

After all, although his membership was privately added to him by Loloki using his power, there was no more devout and pure follower of the goddess than he was in terms of what he did.

Even if my life is stopped, the royal family's plot to kill him must not succeed!