Chapter 583 So how much land should be given to Rand?
Soon Ellie returned to her body.
Ellie looked at Rand with an evil smile: "Did you just...?"
Seeing Ellie's expression of watching the fun, Rand nodded helplessly: "Yes."
Ellie leaned forward slightly to Rand's ear: "How is it, is it tight?"
Rand nodded again.
Ellie's smile became more evil.
"My sister is satisfied, but I'm not." Ellie coughed softly, then sat up with her messy pajamas and pressed her legs on Rand's waist.
In the candlelight, the brown-gold hair fell on Rand's face like ears of wheat in the field.
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After early morning it's time to go to work.
There was still a faint smell of burning and blood in the city.
But for Rand and Ellie, who have long been accustomed to this, these cruel scenes will not affect their mood in life.
This time the exchange time was very long, which gave the two of them some time to relax.
Occasionally, one could see confused citizens looking at the Shimotsuki Kingdom soldiers and nobles in the city with somewhat worried eyes.
However, these citizens' concerns are unnecessary.
The great nobles of the Frost Moon Kingdom had long ago discussed and decided not to plunder the citizens of the Kingdom of Borun in the royal city, but to plunder the nobles in the royal city of Borun.
As for why Rand was able to convince these nobles to change their gender, it was naturally because of the distribution of benefits afterwards.
Since the city of Bolen was attacked for a short time, the overall damage was not serious, and the families and a certain degree of personal assets were preserved.
These overall assets can be taken away together when they are distributed in the future, and looting now will only destroy these overall assets.
Therefore, the nobles even distributed relief funds to the citizens of the Royal City of Borun to prevent any citizen from starving to death due to lack of food.
Rand continued to hang out with Ellie on the road.
Since yesterday's wind and rain only lasted for a short time, the roads are now basically dry.
Today is a sunny day, and the warm sun is casting its rays of light, which prevents the cold winter wind from affecting the warm light too much.
When the citizens found that they would not be robbed, some even opened stalls on the roadside.
Rand also ran into Marcus on the side of the road.
Marcus was taking financial officials to count the proceeds from the looting.
Although they did not rob the citizens, the nobles certainly did.
The wealth of the nobles in the city seemed to be much greater than that of the citizens.
Rand had been sleeping all night last night, while the other Frost Moon Kingdom nobles in the city were on a looting spree.
Marcus was responsible for supervision to prevent the city from falling into chaos again due to the private behavior of soldiers or nobles.
The previous photo-drama publicity made the soldiers, remaining nobles and knights in the city relatively believe that they would be treated fairly well after surrendering or being captured.
Rand saw the dark circles under Marcus' eyes, but did not speak to him. He walked forward with his wife Ellie.
Just pretend you don't know him.
And when Rand walked over, Marcus's face darkened even more.
In this kind of situation where a city is breached, it is very difficult for a general to restrain his men from looting the city.
Whether in the history of Rand's previous life or in the present world.
Fortunately, it is not completely impossible.
As long as other things are done well.
Occasionally, knights who had fallen into the habit of pillaging were captured and hanged.
You can also see many people repeatedly warning the soldiers and knights not to plunder, and that they will be given a share of the nobles' wealth that they have robbed.
The order in the city was maintained by combining kindness and force.
I guess it must be very hard for Marcus to do all this.
But what does this have to do with him?
Rand continued walking forward.
The royal capital of the Kingdom of Borun is a humid city, and even some of the pale buildings have salt crystals growing on them.
Some collapsed houses in the city have begun to be rebuilt.
Citizens who had to hide in their houses because of the war also gradually began to move around.
The next stop is the Torch Church Church and the Church of the Goddess of Harvest and Health in the city.
Because on the surface these two churches will not participate in wars between countries, and because they have previously performed well in curing the poison of the dead.
Even if the city is under siege.
The church did not suffer much damage.
It may also be because the siege did not last long and the attack was still fierce, so everyone did not have time to transfer their hatred to the two churches.
All in all, the structure is quite complete and the functions are still usable.
Church staff have now rejoined and are beginning church services.
In this post-war traumatic period, the church's work becomes more difficult.
The Church of the Goddess of Harvest and Health performs some healing-related work, that is, serving as herbalists and doctors to help injured citizens and soldiers.
The Torch Church will also carry out some work such as maintaining order, supervision, and security at this time.
Or help the Church of the Goddess of Harvest and Health to light fires or something, just like using fire to sterilize and disinfect, or using fire to boil water as mentioned in the Harvest and Health scriptures.
Another thing is to distribute some daily necessities together to prevent people from starving to death or freezing to death.
In this post-war traumatic period.
The work of the church is very important, and this is also an important time to spread the doctrine.
However, neither the Torch Church nor the Church of the Goddess of Harvest and Health are cults, and their teachings do not need to be promoted too deliberately.
The Torch Church emphasizes the use of fire to dispel darkness and the use of justice and unity to fight evil. Now it has become a little milder and also emphasizes the use of fire for heating and boiling water.
In Rand's opinion, maybe we can use fire to boil water, make a steam engine, etc. But these things are decades or even hundreds of years away.
However, Rand was still very interested in this development.
As for the goddess of harvest and health, the church emphasizes physical fitness, scientific farming methods, attention to cleanliness, and not drinking raw water.
These are all very conceptual and scientific things, and there is no need to treat them as transactions or deliberately promote them.
In short, the Torch Church is equivalent to a logic of action, and the Church of the Goddess of Harvest and Health is equivalent to some methods of action? In short, the two major orthodox religions in the world are like this.
After passing the church and walking a little further ahead, you will reach the market. There are already a few vendors who are sure they will not be robbed and have started selling things in the market.
Continue forward and you will reach the port.
Because of the appearance of the seven-headed sea serpent, many buildings in the port were damaged and are now under repair.
The new king of the Kingdom of Bollen was not able to take all the ships away when he fled, so a lot of ships were seized, but there were no large ships of high value.
At the port, Rand also met Karin.
Ellie greeted Karin with a smile.
Karin is helping to clean up the bodies in the harbor and deal with some monsters that emerged from the sea.
The seven-headed sea serpent escaped, but it still caused some impact on its way to this port, causing many sea monsters that originally only appeared in the deep ocean to appear near the coast.
So Karin is leading the Torch Church's combat team to deal with these monsters near the coast to avoid encountering danger when going out to sea in the future, or even if sea monsters come ashore.
Using fire to eliminate monsters and protect safety is the job of the Torch Church.
Karin glanced at Ellie, who seemed a little erratic today. She was not surprised by this because Ellie was always changing.
"Come to help?" Karin asked.
Ellie and Rand nodded.
It’s nice to go out and fight monsters near the coast, which can be considered a good entertainment activity.
Rand and Ellie boarded the small boat and cruised along the coast with the people of the Torch Church and the Naga.
Some people in the Kingdom of Borun were very shocked. How could Rand and the people of the Torch Church control the Naga?
What shocked them even more was that these Nagas could actually speak the common language of the continent.
The Naga will observe the underwater situation near the ship. If they find a sea monster that needs to be killed, they will report the location to the people of the Torch Church on the ship, and then the Naga will hide on the ship.
Then, there is the harpoon or spear that is infused with tremendous force.
A high-speed harpoon passing through the ocean current will bring up tiny bubbles, which will rise up as foam on the sea surface.
Then, a faint red color appeared on the sea surface.
If there are sea monsters hiding in the deeper seabed, then you need to take some risks to lure them out.
There are also some sea monsters that boast of their own strength and attack ships unscrupulously.
Then Ellie's magic will work.
Archmage Ellie's magic was so special that it was novel to even these experienced Torch Church fighters.
Brilliant and precise magic strikes the arrogant sea monster.
Suddenly, blood splattered everywhere and broken limbs were scattered everywhere.
Then the sea monster didn't even have the chance to regret and died just like that.
After working on the sea for a while, when it got a little darker, everyone returned.
Since we were working near the coast, the return journey was not too slow and we arrived at the port very quickly.
Rand and Ellie say goodbye to Karin.
The two walked back on the street at dusk.
Elsa appeared beside Rand somewhat abruptly.
Reported some surrounding news.
Then it suddenly disappeared.
As an inspector, security officer and intelligence chief, Elsa's occasion is from dusk to night.
Elsa needs to arrange for some spies who have been working hard to complete their tasks in the city to return to the holiday villa to rest after their tasks are completed.
And Elsa also needs to search the entire city to make sure there are still enemies who are resisting or assassins with ulterior motives in the city.
It was all very hard work, but Elsa insisted on doing it herself.
She was not confident in entrusting this kind of work that would affect Rand's safety to other people.
So even though Rand pushed the work to Marcus, Elsa still took over the security work.
And it has been working till now.
Return to residence.
Olena was already waiting at the residence.
"Any job?" Rand asked.
"It's not urgent. It can be delayed for a few days." Olenna did not mean to force Rand to work overtime. Rand has been very busy during this period. It is only natural for him to spend a few more days with his wife.
Rand leaned over and squeezed Olenna's hand.
Olena withdrew her hand without leaving a trace.
Rand is always like this, he likes to do some small actions when Ellie is still around.
"It's about the distribution of the results of this war." Olenna said, "This will be very troublesome."
"I know." Rand certainly knew why Olenna said that.
Conquering the world is one thing, ruling the world is another.
This problem must be faced no matter what era it is.
Conquering the world is full of difficulties, and ruling the world is also full of difficulties. Neither of them is an easy task.
Now we have to face the first problem of governance: how to distribute the results of victory.
Indeed, this war was almost entirely dominated by Rand, which contributed the largest share of the force.
The weakening of the Kingdom of Bolen and a lot of intelligence support were provided by Rand.
Rand should get the biggest share of the spoils, and the royal family of the Frost Moon Kingdom, His Majesty the King, the great nobles, and the ministers would have no objection to this.
But how to divide it?
Should Rand get a large amount of the land of the Kingdom of Bollen, or the population, wealth, or something else? If the land is really to be divided, Rand should be able to get half of the land of the Kingdom of Bollen, plus a lot of other people, wealth, and other things.
Then another problem arises.
The Kingdom of Borun is not a small country. Its land area is slightly smaller than that of the Kingdom of Frost Moon, but it is also considered a larger country among the kingdoms.
The geographical environment of the Kingdom of Bollen is also very unique, with special lands that are very advantageous.
The Kingdom of Bolun also has a large number of coastal cities, which are important nodes of the marine economy.
If Rand took away half of the land of the Kingdom of Bollen.
In addition, Rand itself has a large amount of land under its jurisdiction and direct rule.
This will directly lead to Rand's control scope surpassing the level of principality and reaching the level of kingdom.
So let Rand rule such a large area of land as a Frostmoon Duke?
That's the trouble and the problem.
The nobles of the Frost Moon Kingdom, Marcus and the ministers would not object to Rand obtaining so much wealth and land.
Rand deserves this.
Even if there were opponents, they could not afford to be hostile to Rand.
Everyone is aware that Rand possesses an extremely formidable military talent.
After Rand really owns so much land, how will everyone get along with him? This is a question that Rand needs to consider in advance, and it is also a question that the people of the Frost Moon Kingdom need to consider in advance.
In fact, there are only a few solutions.
But it won’t be easy.
One way is to allow Rand to retain his status as a duke after acquiring so much land, directly governing only some of the core lands, and distributing the rest of the land to vassals.
Will this method make the Frost Moon Kingdom top-heavy? Because there will be a dukedom within the Frost Moon Kingdom that is nearly a quarter of the area of the Kingdom.
Another way is to let Rand establish a country.
This would also be very difficult to handle, as it would cause some of the nobles within the Frost Moon Kingdom to become Rand's nobles and join Rand's Kingdom.
This can also lead to a very confusing and difficult situation.
"Delay it for a while, I'll go ask Marcus later." Rand rubbed his temples with a headache. This was indeed difficult to deal with.
(End of this chapter)
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