On the 9th, in the southernmost city of the Northwest Earls, Pete Maned Wolf entered the castle of the local nobleman Viscount Whitetree in a gorgeous dress.

It is said that the city was once the capital of the Southwest Earls of the Kingdom, but it was attacked by the Fallen Demons 300 years ago, and after the war, the Dragon Kingdom merged the original 5 marquisates in the south, and the White Tree City was divided into the Northwest Earls.

9 years ago, there was a palace coup d'état in the Dragon Emperor, and the Viscount of Baishu at that time saw the opportunity and took refuge in the Southwest Blue Lion family, although Baishuling was still considered the defense area of the Southwest Earl, but the Viscount of the White Tree only owed allegiance to the Southwest Earl Ente Blue Lion.

Seeing Pete being greeted into the castle by a group of beautiful women of warblers and swallows, Jim, a member of the auxiliary army who came with him, frowned, they had been in White Tree City for 7 or 8 days, and they had originally heard that this place was close to the Great Southern Forest, and some were cheap demonless slaves.

However, after I came, I heard that in the past two months, a half-orc gang has sprung up in the Great Forest of the South, and the price of slaves in the entire market has more than doubled, not only that, but there are no more than 3,000 slaves for sale in the entire city, which is too far from the 50,000 people that Rand hoped.

Originally, the situation was unfavorable, which was enough to give Jim a headache, but at this time, the leader of the entire team, the mid-level knight Pete Maned Wolf, was completely immersed in drunkenness.

The 2,000 gold coins that Rand gave before they came actually spent most of them in less than 10 days, and thousands of gold coins, not to mention slaves, can be bought back by magic goblins.

"Let's go back, young man!" Next to Jim, an old man in his 50s said.

"Yes, Knight Dutov." Jim nodded.

This Dutov Manitov knight is the "slave" that Pete bought.

To be precise, it was Pete who bought Dutov's family for another 100 gold coins yesterday: Dutof, an intermediate knight, two junior knights' sons, a demon charmer's daughter, and a junior knight's family scholar.

However, for Jim, although this knight is only the "slave" of the lord, and he is the administrator of the territorial auxiliary army appointed by Rand himself, Jim is still very weak when it comes to facing him.

Dutov glanced at Jim and knew what he was worried about, and relieved, "I know you don't understand Knight Pete right now, but I think he's trying to get his job done." ”

"Hmm!" Jim nodded with difficulty, but it was difficult to associate the spending and drinking with the completion of the lord's task.

In the afternoon, Jim saw two more knights from Nightqi City in the inn where they were staying, and they gave Jim a ring and left.

"If White Tree City is managed well, it will definitely become an earl city in the future, but it's a pity that the current Viscount White Tree has no vision and wasted such a city with a teleportation hall." Looking at the backs of the knights leaving, Dutov said with regret.

In the evening, a rather luxurious carriage finally stopped at the door of the inn, and several rather slender girls sent the drunk Pete into the room, and the girls did not return to the carriage, but closed the door and waited for Pete to rest.

Jim, who was responsible for the future of the auxiliary, couldn't sit still, and he decided to contact Knight Dannico directly, the captain of the auxiliary, and ask Dannico to report to Lord Rand.

……

At night, in the small town of Iowa, at the door of the Knights' stables, the cardinal was giving him a briefing on the day.

"Northern Neil and River Clan representative Lennikova Finless Porpoise concluded negotiations,

Neil said that if Renikova had been more serious, the negotiations would have gone much smoother," said Cardinal, who almost laughed as she looked at the briefing.

"In addition, there is a walrus archmage Jumis Long Fang on his way to Night Qi City, saying that he was sent by His Excellency Xiu Ming."

"Hmm"

Rand nodded, Gu Leiya had already said hello, Xiu Ming was very interested in the sea god's insect eggs, and specially looked for a water mage to come over, at that time Rand didn't know where to find a mage from Honglongyan, and now it seems that it was the sea beast clan who followed Jinghe out of the ocean back then.

After reading the happy thing, Cardinal's face became serious: "My lord, there is one more thing, Knight Danico would like you to meet Jim, he is in Whitetree City, he said that Captain Pete Mane Wolf is wasting your gold coins." ”

"Oh?" Rand found it interesting, and not only agreed to Danico's proposal, but also contacted Jim directly, and called Lenya.

"My lord, I must say in advance that according to the statistics team, Pete Mane Wolf purchased at least 1,000 gold items from Sally Wyvern's shop, almost entirely on credit."

Before the magic mirror could connect Jim, Cardinal began to complain: "In addition, he is also reselling all kinds of specialties of the territory in the south, I am afraid that he has earned hundreds of gold coins for nothing!" ”

Rand glanced at Lannia beside him, only showing a playful look, and didn't say much about it, until Jim went online, he began to complain about Pete's eating, drinking, and drunkenness.

When Jim was finished, Rand looked at Lenya again, waiting for her evaluation.

"My lord, I suggest that Pete explain himself, I think even if he is not a qualified knight, he is a relatively qualified vassal, and he will not waste your trust at will." Lannia didn't argue too much about Pete, and she didn't fall into the trap.

Randa looked at the sky and said to the Magic Mirror, "That makes sense, Jim, if Pete is still awake, let him tell me!" ”

It didn't take long for Pete Mane Wolf to appear on the other side of the magic mirror, and at this moment he was still flushed, and it looked like he had drunk too much potions.

"My lord, tomorrow we will move out and get 20,000 slaves!" This was the first thing Pete said when he saw Lanter, "At least 4,000 more will arrive in the next two days, but the slaves are in a camp outside the city, and it's not very safe there, I hope you can send some more!" ”

"yes, okay." Rand nodded, his eyes full of relief, "Jim told me just now that there are very few slaves in White Tree City, can you tell me where you got such people?" ”

"My lord, there are three kinds of slaves in White Tree City," Pete smiled as soon as he said this, he spent all his time drinking and drinking to do this these days, "One is the slaves who go into the southern lizard forest to catch, there is a bandit gang in the forest recently, and there are many fewer such slave hunters."

The second is the slaves sold by the nobles in other places, and most of these slaves are scapegoats for the great nobles, just like the people who used to be in the salt and iron mines.

The Baron Dutov, which I bought two days ago, was originally a vassal of the family of Count Kirislav Lalzan, who had been running the Earl's city for generations, as if he had become a scapegoat because of an accident with one of the Grand Knight of the King's Order. ”

Speaking of this, Pete hurriedly flattered: "He has been managing Earl City for more than 20 years, and he is very experienced in the management of the city. ”

"Well, you're doing a great job!" Rand also admits that the current management talent is what he lacks the most.

(End of chapter)