85_85536 Yes, that's it. Father Peter, and John the Merchant. The former has a very good talent in agriculture, organization, and personnel. The latter has experience and good aptitude in economics, business and finance. It can be said that no matter where they go, someone will happily accept them, and then they will be subordinate senior talents. And their current position is not quite in line with their talents. It is not an exaggeration to say that Huai Cai has not met.

It's just that William is still very worried. Worried about whether he could use these two talents. I was even more worried about whether they would do things for him wholeheartedly. Or half-heartedly, stepping on two boats. And then some secrets within their own territory. Especially now that the New Agricultural Deal, which was crucial to the territory, was dispersed.

If this is the case, in a longer or shorter period of time, other territories will carry out more or less agrarian reforms. It would be a great danger to William's plans and ambitions.

A broad-based increase in grain production, as well as an increase in soybean oil production, will lead to lower grain and oilseed prices. The economic backbone of the Duchy of Mystia will be broken. After that, the new army, which is 5,000 expensive and equipped, will not be able to sustain itself.

The Hereford family will lose one of its advantages. From a new member of the mediocre aristocratic world, he can't even do this, but directly ruin miè.

It's terrible just to think about it...... Or rather, it's just too bad. So William didn't dare to bet. At least, he didn't dare to bet until he didn't have that much capital.

Of course, this did not mean that he would forever close the gates of the Duchy of Mystia to Peter and John. Rather, William needed more chips, more chips to balance Father Peter and John the Merchant. Let them do him a favor obediently, be his subordinates, and not disagree—at least not in a certain way.

And this chip is the upcoming SedGreat Borderwar (Second Great Border War).

On this world-class stage, William will gain more – more territory, more power, more fame and more wealth. He was so powerful that the two of them could not reach him, and could only lament - or happily do things for him, and could not have a second heart at all.

In this case, he will be able to use them with peace of mind.

Of course, in addition to Father Peter and John, the merchant, William also saw hope in one person.

That man was Paul. It was on William's last day of recruiting civilian staff that Mao recommended himself as a smart boy.

In the beginning, he was just illiterate, but he had a good talent. But the hairy boy who has not been systematically studied. However, after more than a year of study and practice. This guy is like a polished jade. It exudes a surprising brilliance.

Compare with Father Peter, John the Merchant. Paul, who has an innocent family background and no foundation, is more in line with William's employment psychology. He was proficient in writing and using Gothic and Slavic languages. After the popular double-entry bookkeeping, some knowledge of economics, finance and management, and learning to use the same calculation aids as William's "invented", "abacus", Paul successfully graduated.

William has been following the growth of this group of civilians. In some cases, I even give them lessons in person. Therefore, he knows very well the growth rate of this group of people.

Paul was the most progressive of them.

At least, Paul was the most progressive of this group.

He's a genius, and more importantly, he's a very hard worker.

In only half the allotted time, he became proficient in the three hundred common words he needed. Caught up with the progress of those students who had a certain foundation. After three months of training, Paul was in first place overall.

If there was one of William's subordinates who had the ability to become a middle or high-ranking civil servant, it could only be Paul.

Now, Paul is being assigned by William to be his old job, that is, a shepherd. Of course, compared with Paul's nameless and penniless part-time work for others before, the benefits are all other people's, and the hard work is all his own, and the situation is completely different from the situation where he can't get any benefits.

Now Paul has the status of rancher, the title of senior civil servant, and the high salary of thirty-five silver marks per month. Managing the two experimental pastures that William values the most, and will serve as the main growth point of the Duchy's economy in the new phase. Under his command, there are hundreds of herdsmen, as well as nearly 5,000 goats and sheep of all kinds. At the same time, there are twenty breeding sheep of Romanov sheep introduced by William, and fifty pairs of black and white cows.

Status, status, treatment, power. Much, many things that Paul couldn't even think of before, now he has them all.

And in a few individual interviews, William was also relieved to find that this guy was not a heartless person. He was very grateful to William, who had changed his social status and promoted him. Moreover, this guy didn't get carried away either. Still as careful as ever - or more careful than before.

Because he cherishes this qiē that he has now, and he is very afraid of losing it.

Of course, this does not mean that he has lost his enterprising spirit. On the contrary, he is more interested in continuing to climb the ladder and gain more power, status and wealth. After William vaguely promised him that he would canonize him at the right time and make him his courtier, or even a nobleman. The glint of ecstasy in Paul's eyes almost startled William.

It was precisely because of this that William was convinced that he had mastered this talented and promising young man thoroughly.

It's just a pity that Paul just had the talent, the potential, and the go-ahead attitude to become a high-ranking civilian official. Now he lacks experience, and he also lacks prestige and qualifications. In any case, William could not have been so irresponsible to promote him to become his deputy, or to obtain another position. In the final analysis, he was just a poor country boy with no name, a shepherd who didn't even have a surname. If it's too good for him, it's not good for William, it's not good for him.

That's it, that's it. Fortunately, the Duchy of Mystia is not very large now, and the government of the Duchy is not very large. Therefore, although he only formed a very general civil service framework, and did not have middle and senior administrative talents to help him solve problems, William was still able to barely lead the whole principality to function.

It was precisely this that made William feel a little reassured that even if some of the New Deal policies were leaked, his potential enemies and opponents, that is, other countries, other families and forces, would not be able to promote the agricultural revolution and increase food production in a short period of time.

At the very least, they could not implement the reform on a large scale, as William did, in a principality of hundreds of thousands of people in five counties.

Because, as far as William knows, the government organizations of most countries and regions in the human world today are very primitive. There are even traces of family and feudal remnants.

First, they don't have a civilian civil service that spans the grassroots.

Second, many primitive countries do not have a modern civil service system. They still maintained a very small number of officials with positions, as well as a large number of primitive medieval court systems where courtiers were sent to work after temporary assignments.

Thirdly, the local gentry, the petty aristocracy, and the ecclesiastical power were intertwined, and regarded the domain and the ecclesiastical domain as private property. This feudal state, in which the local power was huge and the country within the country was fragmented, also made it extremely difficult or even impossible to implement the decree.

Thinking of this, William felt a little comforted:

"There is a lack of sufficient manpower, a centralized central government, and a bureaucracy capable of deploying, dispatching and enforcing government decrees...... Ha...... What was I thinking? Even if these little secrets of mine leak out a little bit, one or two. Probably won't be a problem......

Of course, only for the general, for the vast majority of countries. But for some of the stronger ...... Well, not for very strong nations - states are like individuals of intelligent beings. There are always some countries in the world that are one step ahead of others, a little stronger, and a little smarter.

Luckily, the location of Mystia is remote and dangerous. The powerful countries don't pay enough attention to it. Thanks to the speed of information circulation in this era, unlike the Internet age, the president of a certain country on the other side of the world can know about the divorce or something in the next second. Therefore, for now, at least for now, William and his Duchy of Mystia, which seems to be strong, but in fact is not strong enough at all, can survive in peace and not be disturbed. ”

"Of course, that doesn't mean I don't have anything to do. William continued to think so.

From the very beginning, William was aware of the problem of secrecy. It's just a pity that at that time, he didn't have the strength to establish a professional spy organization to escort his development. In this case, he can only use some more primitive ways to keep it secret.

The first is the distribution of personnel. As I said before, there are four sources of his civil servants. One is self-made civilians, apprentices, and more self-motivated young people. This kind of person has the highest loyalty to William and is also reliable.

The second were the gentry and small landowners throughout the Duchy of Mystia, the children of non-aristocratic propertied people. They are slightly less loyal. But in a sense they were better than the commoners, because their families, clans, and possessions were all located in the territory of Mystia. With the Hereford family still in control of the Duchy of Mystia, they will have practical concerns and scruples about betrayal and betrayal. This scruple is a little better than that of civilians who rely more on moral restraint.

The third and fourth, on the other hand, can be introduced in combination - the merchant employees from Polotsk, and the priests and priests introduced by Father Peter