Chapter 340 Changes in Blood Harbor
"Gwen, have your people discovered anything lately?"
Josh came up to Gwen with a hood on, his eyes full of seriousness.
When he first took in these homeless children, he didn't actually care much about them.
Although being able to survive in Blood Harbor is a remarkable thing, this is probably their limit. After all, they are just a bunch of children.
Expect them to gather intelligence? Don't be ridiculous. If adults can't do it, what use can children have?
I agreed to let them join just because I felt sorry for them. The so-called mission was just talk, just an excuse for my kindness.
In Blood Harbor, kindness is a very luxurious thing, and Josh must carefully hide it under his hood, which is one of the reasons why he established the cult.
If he behaves kindly, people will expect him to remain kind.
So even though Josh was very interested in Gwen, he didn't have much expectations.
All of this is different now.
During the previous rebellion of the Church of the Mother of Life, it was this little girl with white hair who was the first to issue a warning, even before her mother-in-law came to the door.
Actually, Josh was a little surprised. He thought his friends would choose to leave. On one side was the chaotic and dangerous Blood Harbor, and on the other side was Castel who had left for a long time. There was no comparison at all.
But everyone stayed here in the end.
In fact, they didn't think so much at the beginning. It was just a momentary impulse of young people. But when they saw the determined eyes of the believers, they could no longer say the words of regret.
And it feels good this way.
Ever since the Mother Goddess's followers captured the Upper City, the environment in Blood Harbor has inexplicably improved a lot.
In the past, there were always many complicated gangs in the port area, and they were supported by various nobles, but now they have all scattered.
Of course, there were still many remnants, which were easily dealt with by the believers of the Steam and Deep Sea Secret Order.
The organization levels of the two sides are completely not on the same level.
As for the Church of the Mother Goddess of Life, it has completely taken control of the bottom layer of the port. Although the people in the Blood Harbor don't live very well now, at least they won't starve to death anymore.
In other inconspicuous places, many changes are also happening quietly.
For example, some professions that were originally controlled by the nobles gradually relaxed restrictions on common people.
For example, the officers of the Harbor Guard. Ever since Rad was killed in the barracks by the prince, the prince no longer selected officers from the nobles, but instead directly came up with a complete promotion system.
If someone were to study it carefully, they would find that these systems were inexplicably similar to the recruitment system of the Royal Army - but no one doubted that the prince was a major threat to the empire and the leader of the rebels.
After the nobles in the upper city were massacred, the senior officials in the entire Blood Harbor were almost completely cleared out. Most of the nobles were local lords, which also means the highest officials. They held most of the local power.
In other words, the prince was almost left alone.
But to everyone's surprise, the order of Blood Harbor and even the Principality of Tis did not collapse, and the prince's decree was successfully issued and executed.
At this time, people noticed one thing.
The prince's territory implements the thirteen-level civil service system promulgated by the Queen. This system, which has always been criticized as redundant and inefficient, has shown amazing resilience at this moment.
Among the thirteen ranks of civil servants, ranks eight to thirteen are low-level sequences, and one can get promoted simply by accumulating seniority. They are mainly selected from civilians and basically have little power.
The seventh to fourth ranks will be granted noble titles, but of course they can forget about fiefdoms. Alexi is a seventh-rank civil servant. This class is nominally open to commoners, but only extremely outstanding people have the opportunity to be promoted here.
They are the real managers in the territory and are responsible for taking care of certain aspects of the affairs.
The first three ranks were held by powerful nobles, who were the real high-ranking officials. Most of those killed by the cultists were nobles from this class.
It is obvious that there is an insurmountable gap between the eighth and seventh rank civil servants, and there is not even any promotion relationship between the fourth and third ranks.
And now, these gaps and barriers are being quietly broken.
In the name of "emergency", the prince gave a large number of civil servants of commoner origin the real power to temporarily take charge of the work. Although they were still low-level civil servants in name, they were gradually infiltrating the upper class of the Principality of Tis.
Their original vacancies were quickly filled by newly recruited civil servants - during the period of external expansion, the empire continued to build orphanages to provide them with educational opportunities.
Alexei was born in an orphanage in the north, and the young people who came out of the orphanage at the same time as him are now gradually filling up the civil service system.
Although the prince expelled the Candlelight Society, the state religion of the empire, under the banner of opposing the empire, these systems were retained intact.
All these factors combined have led to the strange situation in Blood Harbor today: although the city has just been through rebellion and war, it is gradually becoming full of vitality.
But this is just an appearance.
Only a few people, like Gwen, can feel the undercurrent beneath the peace.
When the cultists of the Mother Goddess of Life launched a rebellion, she did not stay in the tightly guarded territory of the secret order, but sneaked away.
Of course, under the protection of her [friends].
And under the guidance of these friends, she discovered more interesting things.
For example, Miss Zoe, who was older than Gwen and had beautiful brown hair, was very popular with Gwen.
She had beautiful silk threads on her body, which floated into the sky, and no one knew where they went.
For example, the prince seemed to have two souls squeezed in his body, which was really strange.
But if you talk about weirdness, it's still not as weird as Tommy. That young man had four souls stuffed into his body. Gwen was shocked when she saw it just now.
But he died soon after, well, should I consider him dead?
After all, he was torn into pieces and swallowed bite by bite by the monster in Mira's body.
"Gwen?"
Gwen suddenly came back to her senses and noticed that Josh was still looking at her. This high priest of the Steam and Deep Sea Secret Order, the famous cult leader in Blood Harbor, seemed to be one of the few normal people.
He has a weak body, a weak soul, and absolutely no extraordinary powers.
But he has a good heart and will cook delicious hot porridge for everyone.
"Master Priest, what did you just say? I was distracted."
"I'm asking if there's anything unusual in Blood Harbor recently, and if there's anything discovered."
Gwen blinked.
"No, everything is fine. There are just some minor problems. I will solve them for you."
(End of this chapter)
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