As the territory grows larger and the population grows, things get more and more complicated.

Richard is gradually too busy to deal with government affairs, and the affairs of the Baron's Court have been handed over to the butler Bernard Luca.

In addition to taking care of Richard and Wendy, and other members of the Harland family, Bernard is also responsible for managing orc slaves.

The Haraland family now has three butlers, the Grand Butler Gibson Ralph follows William, who is mainly responsible for the Haraland family's communication and manages the mansion at Fort Black River.

Bernard Luca, the second butler, followed Richard and was responsible for managing the orc slaves and the castle lord's mansion at Fort William.

Lady Ola is also accompanied by a housekeeper, Liliana, who takes care of William and Lady Ola's minor children and is involved in part of the Harland family's business activities.

Lady Ola runs the property, which is now mainly run by Liliana and the court lady, Lady Kelly.

Lady Aura is no longer directly involved in the business, her main task is to be a good baroness and communicate with the noble ladies of Black River City.

Part of the Haaland family's intelligence network is also in the hands of Lady Ola.

Richard wanted to get out of the complicated administrative work, and now he urgently needed to find a few assistants in government affairs, and he already had several candidates in mind.

Two cousins, Adrian and Donn, are both candidates.

Richard had already given them some work this spring, and both cousins were doing a decent job, not too good or too incompetent.

Both Adrian and Don were fully educated, which was more than ninety-nine percent of the people in their territory.

If you want to be Richard's assistant, you can't be illiterate at the very least.

There are more than 25,000 people in the territory, and only a few dozen are literate.

The literacy rate on the Dawn Continent is much lower than that of ancient China.

Under the conscious blockade of the aristocracy, there is no such person as Confucius in this world.

Only one out of a few hundred people in the kingdom of Grant will be literate.

The threshold for wanting to study is very high, even if you send it to a church school, you will have to pay a few gold coins every year, and ordinary serfs and citizens cannot afford the cost of studying and going to school at all.

Only high-income earners, such as high-ranking craftsmen, butchers, mercenaries, hunters, soldiers, bounty hunters, can afford to let their children study, study for a year or two, and have the opportunity to change their fate.

In this world, only the aristocracy has the right to be bureaucrats, and ordinary people, even if they read, are of little use in a closed society.

The nobles would only use their own clansmen as bureaucrats, assistants, and even the caravans controlled by the nobles would give priority to the clansmen and then the house slaves.

Even if ordinary people are talented, they can be a small businessman at most, and they can make ends meet.

On the contrary, it is the Church of the Seven Gods, which will cultivate some poor people.

The church school will absorb the bright students, reduce their tuition fees, reduce the burden of going to school, train them to join the church, grow into professionals, and slowly enter the church management.

Because there are gods in this world, although the seven gods are still sleeping, the top of the church are basically people of faith, these people are generally higher in morality than the aristocracy, and relatively speaking, the church priests are more civilized than the feudal aristocracy.

Because it is not cost-effective to invest in children's reading, even high-income people rarely let their children read and write and be literate people.

The scholars in the territory, Richard were basically entrusted with heavy responsibilities, and all of them were freed from manual labor.

Even if they were asked to write calculations, register reports, and count materials, Richard felt that it was more efficient and useful than manual labor.

Adrian Richard was ready to let him manage the health of the territory, in addition to being the head of the hospital, to prevent plagues and study diseases.

Through the sheep-headed man, Richard discovered several herbs for treating diseases, such as rushes for diuretics, yellow penny for malaria, and loquat leaves for coughs, which were also studied to work on humans.

Because there is a magic factor in this world, Richard doesn't know if the theories of Chinese medicine in his previous life are useful.

But with plants, minerals, it is true that diseases can be treated.

Richard arranged for Adrian to summarize the experience of using herbs to cure diseases, hoping to develop a medical theory with wide applicability.

If medical theories are developed, it will benefit the vast majority of ordinary people.

On the Dawn Continent, ordinary people can only fend for themselves when they get sick, unless you are a devout believer and know the pastor of the church, it is possible to obtain magical power healing.

Adrian is in charge of the health care of the territory, while Don is in charge of the cultivation and farming of the territory.

In the future, the territory will reclaim farmland and grow grain, and Richard will not need to do it himself, just let Don keep an eye on it.

The brown sugar tree plantation, which Richard valued most in agriculture, was not handed over to Done, but appointed an old man with rich planting experience, Ihakir.

Ihakir was previously a fruit farmer for the Baron of the Dirham, responsible for managing the orchards for the Baron of the Dirham.

After the fall of Malte Castle, Ihakir was reduced to slavery, but was later rescued by Richard and came to the Harland Territory.

When planting brown sugar trees, Richard hired some people with experience in taking care of the trees to take care of them, and Ikhakir had done a good job for the past two years, and this time Richard took advantage of the situation to make him a free man, and straightened him to become the manager of the brown sugar plantation.

The person who managed government affairs and law for Richard could not be found for a while. Those who can handle government affairs and are proficient in legal provisions are basically aristocrats.

It is still difficult for a baron to get a nobleman to leave the family to assist him.

When it comes to the earl's class, it can really recruit some idle talents.

Richard was going to discuss with Sophia and write a letter to his two brothers-in-law to see if he could let the two brothers-in-law return to northern Xinjiang and share part of the government and legal work for him.

In the territory of more than 20,000 people, when encountering trivial matters, they have to find their own adjudication, how can they do it without a judge?

Richard had just finished a busy day, and suddenly noticed that Sophia's face was a little pale, and he was about to ask a question, when suddenly Sophia bent down and retched.

"How's it going, are you pregnant?"

Richard had experience in his previous life, and when he saw this scene, he was overjoyed and immediately asked Sophia.

"I don't know, I've been feeling a little tired and can't lift my spirits during this time. Whether it is pregnant or not, it will take a while to see the changes in the belly to be sure. ”

There is neither Chinese medicine nor Western medicine in the Dawn Continent, and magicians will not create a magic to detect whether a pregnant woman is pregnant?

In this world, women are pregnant and check whether they are pregnant mainly by experience, and Sophia's mother died at the hands of the orcs, and without her mother's teachings, she did not understand this kind of thing at all.

In the end, it was the belly that gradually showed that I was pregnant with a child.

(End of chapter)