85_85536 is just like William said. The questions raised by Father Peter did not pose a threat to William's plans.

Although William also wanted to be an authoritarian monarch. Showing a brutal and impersonal side to his subordinates, shouting loudly and unjustifiably, like: "I don't want to listen to any excuses! I only care about success or failure!" or "I don't care what way you do it, in short, you have to accomplish the predetermined goal within the predetermined time!"

Yes, perhaps when William's status was raised to a sufficient level, he could say the same to his ministers. But it's clear that now is not the time for him to do such a thing. Because he was only a knight now, and Father Peter and he were only cooperative. If the attitude is bad, then Father Peter will naturally give a backlash, or even a counterattack.

Therefore, everything William did was given when he knew, understood, and prepared. And the reason why William said that there is no need to worry about the affairs of the management is because he already has it. Or that there is about to have a sufficient team of managerial talents to use.

There are three sources for this team. One of them is discovered by local talents.

After last winter's unsuccessful job fair, with only a bunch of illiterate knights signing up, William summed up his experience, and his second job fair was a success—he wasn't recruiting knights. Instead, it goes like this:

"Scribes, scribes, recorders, stewards, bookkeepers, estate stewards, and other skilled men." Yes, that's it, people's propaganda this time is not that Count Circassian needs to recruit knights, but that Count Circassian needs to recruit servants and minions.

While this ingenious "misunderstanding" was resolved, William's other conditions were also very good - of course, this "not bad" was also "relative".

It's like he's dealing with the "reservists" under his command. William didn't give them a big pot of braised pork, white flour steamed buns or anything. It's just that they are given the treatment of "being able to eat".

Of course, with a little more money on hand, there are other reasons. William began to add a small amount of meat to his soldiers, as well as a small amount of vegetables, with liver and carrots being the most important. This was mainly to relieve the soldiers of their night blindness, which was extremely severe.

By the way, William's second goal of preparing for the expansion of the army, that is, nearly two thousand, which were currently used as engineering teams and coolies, were also added to their diets, which would allow them to replenish their nutrition - only two-fifths of the ration of the reserves. In terms of quality, it has also evolved from a simple gruel and multigrain batter to a half-grain cake.

From barely hungry, to half-hungry. William, as always, slammed the door. But for those homeless or refugees who have endured extreme hunger, this kind of life and treatment is enough to satisfy them.

Under these circumstances, William naturally did not give too much and too good treatment to his scribes, bookkeepers, and manor stewards - compared to the average market, William was half a percent better. Other than that, there is nothing else.

That's enough, though.

Working for the lords is the greatest wish of the vast majority of people living in the Chersk region. Maids, servants, or grooms, coachmen. If there is such an opportunity, everyone will try it. Not to mention the work of a scribe, bookkeeper and the like. For the vast majority of people from ordinary civilian families, this is the most decent job they can think of.

So, this time, William's harvest is good. Dozens of young and middle-aged people who could write, read, and were familiar with Gothic accepted his offer. These were either the youngest sons of a squire or a knight's family, who were unable to become warriors because of their physical problems, or some were apprentices to merchants...... The literacy rate in this era is very worrying. William searched almost the entire Chersk county, and this county had a population of 20,000 or 30,000. But in the end, William only found these dozens of literate, or semi-literate.

Yes, only half of these dozens of people are proficient in writing and reading Gothic. The other half only know a few commonly used words, except for their own names. So William felt that they should be called semi-literate.

Naturally, William didn't want to use these guys if he could. But the problem is that William has no choice.

Although Father Peter assured William that he could convince the alchemist faction to which he belonged to mobilize some people to help. But far water can't quench the thirst of the near. At the same time, William was still hesitant and a little wary of them. If he could, he would rather use more of these semi-literates than let the Protestants and Reformer brought in by Father Peter occupy too many places.

In this way, under William's assignment, these new, future administrators will study for a while with the priests of Father Peter. In addition to agricultural knowledge, they also learn management, co-ordination and accounting.

In addition to these people, William received another piece of good news. It was John, the merchant with whom he had made an appointment, with whom William remained in correspondence after he left Chersk.

Upon learning that William needed some clerical staff, merchant John quickly responded positively. He would help William find clerks willing to serve in his domain - in the commercial Polotsk region, there were naturally far more people who could read, count, and settle accounts than in Mazovia.

That's it, in terms of personnel, William won't have many more problems. Moreover, the three different channels of clergy, merchants, and natives were enough to ensure the diversity of William's civil service. There will be no dominance of one family. This made William feel very satisfied. And after that, the matter of external recruitment can come to an end.

Thinking so, William was about to instruct his temporary assistant to take down all the signs announcing the job fair and announce in the territory that the job fair was over. There was another knock on the door of his room.

"Well, the last one. William shook his stiff neck, and then said in a helpless tone.

And just like that, the door was opened. A small, flaxen-haired and freckled young man walked in, holding his hat.

The guy's face was nervous, and he felt a little scared. The movements are also very careful. From these small details, William can conclude that this is a young man from a small portal.

"Good day, Lord William. I'm here to apply for a job at the castle's bookkeeper. The little man bowed to William and said so.

"Please relax. "It's tiring, and I'm a little impatient. But William smiled kindly, and said to him, "You are lucky, sir. In fact, I've just given the order to end this recruitment. You are the last candidate to apply...... Also, could you please give me your name?"

"Ah, yes, Paul, my name is Paul. When the little man heard William say this, he looked even more terrified.

"Then please sit down, and then please answer a few of my questions. Mr. Paul. ”

"Thank you, Lord Knight......"

"Just call me William. William corrected his address: "William, or Mr. William." ”

"Ah, yes, yes, William...... Mr. William. Paul nodded busily.

"So, can you fill this out?" said William, who first lowered a blank form of paper—which he had asked a small bookstore in town to print for this recruitment. It's like the kind of personal information paper that comes to life in the future. It is written with name, gender, place of origin, date of birth, parents, home address, ability, work experience, specialties, etc.

This saved William a lot of time. At the same time, a reasonable personnel file system can also provide sufficient help for the government's work.

Then the young man Paul grabbed the quill and hesitantly wrote his name in the first column of the first line. After that, I was a little overwhelmed......

After waiting for a while, William finally got impatient: "Mr. Paul, please don't waste time, can you?"

After hearing William's words, Paul finally plucked up his courage and told William the truth: "I'm sorry, Mr. Knight. Actually, I can't read ......."